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zero time for music making this week, so sat down at the prophet and looped this up. TEO-5 doing a pedal steel impression. DBA Rooms. pace is glacial, settle in.

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speedtrash for the morning

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More Pulsar-23 learnings, a bit of a rush at the end as I had to record my guitar differently than I usually do and lining up unsynchronised tracks is a pain of "almost right?" and I ran out of time. Still not entirely sure that it's quite right in place.

Digitakt and Pulsar for the drums, Pulsar for the bass, Prophet 6 for the other synth bleeps, guitar for the guitar with some Count to 5 sparklies and Etterslep spaceys.

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14kb of code including synth, DSP, note data and master EQ.  It self generates about 30mb of wave data which then syncs to a PC demo in realtime.   Created for our 64kb demo at Revision this year which ended up at 51kb.  We got 5th place out of 14 demos that played (which were pre-selected from more AFAIK) so pretty happy :-)

Demo is here if you want to download it (RTX3070ti minimum... fixed )

Orrr you can watch a hardware capture off a 3090ti ;-)

 

It's all a bit sound-designy... but if you watch the video it'll make more sense.

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### Lore

Robots need time off too, you know? Whenever they need to blow off some steam they'll come up to the surface and travel to the tiny little village nearby. The village's most popular attraction is, by far, the large fishing lake. From what robots told me, it's less about the fishing and more about the ability to sit quietly and peacefully in a boat with nothing disturbing you. I don't think they can even eat the fish they catch!

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Well howdy, friends!

I started taking piano lessons recently, starting at the very very VERY beginning, and this week we finally started talking a little bit about keys, scales, and chords. These are things I kind of had a vague idea of, especially composing on the M8 for so long, but some things just felt like they were fuzzy and kind of missing for me.

In this song, I attempted to be a little more intentional with the chords, so I started in the C Major scale and started adding a few chords and shifting them around. After arriving at something that sounded passable, I started adding the other elements. While this is super raw and simple, my favorite piece, by far, is the percussion. I'm just a huge sucker for that ratcheting percussion thing (the sample is called FISH.wav, if you look in the bundle).

Anyways, stoked to explore this stuff a bit more intentionally. Also, HOLY SHIT is reading sheet music difficult! Hahahahaha... When I'm practicing on my own, I feel like I kind of got the hang of it, but then I get to my lesson I feel like a total moron and can barely read a single thing properly! Takes me four or five whole seconds to just read one note and it's still wrong, lol... It'll get easier with practice, I know, but it's tough to confront how not good I am at this thing I care a lot about. But I know it won't be forever. I'll be less not good by just working at it.

Anyways, I hope y'all enjoy this relaxing little ditty.

Cheers, homies!

Link to M8 Bundle

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Sometimes it’s better to forget.

Let the noise fade.

Let the weight dissolve.

Not everything needs to stay.

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press start to lose

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Started this one with the drums, which is unusual for me. Even though I wasn't so inspired when I started working on this track it turned out quite fun :)

Lyrics:

I've got a problem and sometimes I just can't resist

It's in my veins it's all I ever need to live

even though I went here to connect with my friends

I hear the beat and I need to d-d-d-dance

getting lost on the floor

you can't find me no more

believe me I don't try to slip through

I just got better things to do

(that's why)

once again I'm dancing alone (3x)

once-a once-a, gotcha gotcha

I'm in heat and I need more room

to show my moves but not to you

It's my little secret something I don't share

even though there are people everywhere

please believe me it is true

I want to dance with

me

once again I'm dancing alone (3x)

once-a once-a, gotcha gotcha

once again I'm dancing alone (3x)

once-a once-a, gotcha gotcha

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Hi!

Struggling to find the time for the WB practice.

This week I've only got a jam on an old project I found.

First take was the most genuine, so here it is in all its glory and with all its flaws.

Enjoy!

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A slightly truncated version of my very truncated version of about 3-ish hours of patching with my newest noise maker, the Vhikk X. The longer version has a few more snippets, but I think this more than demonstrates the mood of those 3 hours. I ran the selection through a little bit of CXM 1978 to give them even more breathing room and glue the fade-in-out together more, and I used Soothe and Ozone 9 to tame the more unruly outbursts somewhat.

Patch consists of Vhikk X as sole sound generator. ER-301 being used merely for a limiter ahead of my audio interface (recorded these sessions at my gaming desk with the TX-6 as interface and Audacity as recording tool). Pam's New Workout is handling most external LFO duties, and imparts a certain cyclical quality that I think can be identified across most examples as I rarely changed the relationship of the lfo speeds used, and barely changed which things they were modulating. Where ADSR was required, I ran a pulse from Pam's to an Ornament & Crime on the 4 EG generator app. On one patch, the Intellijel Steppy was used to trigger the EG on O&C where I was playing with rhythm a little more. And as mentioned, Soothe, CXM 1978, and Ozone 9 (in that order) for taming and a little glue.

A birthday acquisition on my birthday trip to Scotland, thanks to the folks at Signal Sounds having exactly one Vhikk X in stock. And under mysterious conditions no less! it's like it was there waiting for me to arrive and ask about it, wasn't even properly in the inventory system because it was lacking a logo the box typically had? I don't know the exact circumstances, but it was very clearly brand new (tissue paper wrapping the module was conformed perfectly to the backside of the module where through-hole legs neatly and lightly perforated the tissue, and the panel was spotless), and very much the synth I wanted all too badly. I had been longing for this little device since last year and even asked after it at Elevator Sound in Barcelona, but since it wasn't in stock there I went with my other choice at that time, the Solar 42f, which is magical but definitely fits a different form at least for me.

Anyway, I accidentally somehow hit the "Submit" button midway through writing this, and can't even remember if I properly uploaded the track, so here's hoping. I do believe the form would've errored out if I hadn't even uploaded an mp3 at all, so it's probably fine. I'm only just now seeing how very close to deadline this came. Lol, lmao.

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