A slow 1st movement this week. Probably gonna expand on this / add more movements.

A good friend recommended a post where the main chords you should use for making a track were Em, C, G, D so I tried to use mostly those for this piece :)

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Had a lot of fun with this one! A random Mick Gordon clip sparked a little riff in my head, so I set out to build a guitar-like sound on the M8. NXT works perfect for writing doubled guitars, with left and right parts neatly sync'ed, while also having their respective pitch and character slightly randomised. Most of the track came together around the main riff. Aimed for that modern metal sound and arrangement in drums and bass. The rest of the track naturally grew from there.

Kick, snare, crashes and a riser are from Oversampled Cyberpack 2077. All other sounds were tailor made from scratch on M8. Little bit of extra sausage mastering in Logic as usual.

Dig into the M8 bundle

To all the commenters: my apologies for being so quiet this week. Work and life stuff had me swamped. I read your kind words and I feel bad that I haven't had time to listen to more WB submissions this past week. <3

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Wrote some wacky intro really late one night this week and rolled with it. :)

Hoping to absolutely roast your subwoofer. My JBL LSR305 monitors lack the bass range to reproduce like 75% of the bassline here so I had to mix all the bass on my Portapros, lol. Hopefully it turned out OK.

My favourite part is the little 2-second segue at 1:07. Enjoy! :)

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a quick nl2 hard techno jam

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Well, this officially feels like Weekly Beats again... because I finally had a bunch of time, and so I got this whole big idea, and then 4 hours before the deadline I realized I was never going to finish what I was doing in time... and so I present to you a patented Napear last minute panic induce granular synth based pivot ┐(~ー~;)┌

This week was less garbage than the week before... still reeling a bit.  I survived layoffs at my company, but there's the whole survivors guilt part, the watching friends and peers get fired part, and the now there are fewer people to do the same amount of work part... but again over employed is a better problem to have than unemployed.  Life never seems to get less complicated. 

At any rate, I hope this finds you well, or well enough. I have lots of listening and commenting to catch up on... so fingers crossed I will have time this week to do that... but I will do my best.  ღゝ◡╹ )ノ♡

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Ok, so this sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is.  I'm leaning pretty hard on a bunch of NI VSTs that are made for media composition (which are kind of built specifically for fast turn arounds).  So there's really only 6 tracks in this project, and 2 of them are the the Vir2 Phoenix plugin.   

The core arps are a preset in the Claire piano library, with a bunch of TAIP and ReplicaXT on it.  Then the second arp (the xylophone and marimbas) is Mallet Flux, with a little bit of MTremoloMB.  The pad, and kind of vocaly higher melodic sound is Ashilight... some TAIP, and some compression, but not really much else.  And the drums are Session Percussionist, using the Drum n Space preset, and again pretty much just TAIP.  All the risers are Vir2 Phoenix.  Like, really the plugins are doing the heavy lifting here... I was moving super fast.  I'm not stoked about the mix, but I only had about an hour to dial everything in... I would like to say that I'll come back to it and clean it up... but... who knows.

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getting kicked out of my flat tomorrow, wasn't a lot of time. all i could really manage after like 10 hours of packing and taking furniture to pieces today.

purple heather tattoo

burns a hole in my wrist

always my second wish

pray for the gunman to miss

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This one came out weird and insisted on being a bit of a struggle. Based around a sample of my dryer, which has always insisted on its rhythmic qualities, but I was having some trouble figuring out what to work around it. Ended up being a fairly minimal setup: Digitakt with the sample in various permutations and sequencing arpeggios on the Prophet 6 and Alpha Juno, the latter going through Kinotone Ribbons and Butterfly Effects Dobbo (just recently acquired).

This was probably my third attempt at figuring out how to use the sample, and probably my fourth attempt at putting all the bits together (there were successive attempts, less successful). Not really satisfied, but not sure where I am going with it. I feel like it is eliciting bubbles at a weird carnival.

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I did something I've done before and ask a streamer what sort of music I should make this week. They suggested Happy Hardcore and they would be interested to see how it meshes with chipmetal.

This is very outside our wheelhouse. We know nothing about the dance music genres. At all. It's probably not something to go back to by most of us, it's just not quite our thing.

Still, it came together pretty well. Perhaps more as a metal song than a dance one. Maybe someday we'll make a real one, but we just like metal better.

- Spider

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This week's piece was more about some basic sound design and arrangement.

I started with a chord progression, that I then built a pad with. Afterwards, I used this same progression to create tracks for a bassline and a couple of pluck elements. Each of these I started with an initialized patch and built out a sound that I thought would work. After I wrote the MIDI tracks using some arpeggiators, I started to arrange the track using Reason's Block feature.

Once I had the arrangement settled, I decided to add a noise sound for a windy percussion element that would play randomly.

After some automation, I EQ'd and mixed the track. For mastering, this time, I built out my own Mastering chain featuring the Analog Heat

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