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no turning back

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another week, another attempt :)

Lyrics:

Komm wieder zu mir

was ich wirklich brauch

ist dein Spiegel vor mir

ohne den ich glaub

dass ich mich verlier'

wir uns verlier'n

Lyrics translation:

come back to me

what I really need

is your mirror in front of me

without which I believe

that I’ll lose myself

that we’ll lose each other

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Hi hi, thanks for stopping by!

It's been another busy week, and I'm continuing to prep for my live M8 set next weekend. This track was based on an 8-bar loop from last week and put together in a couple of hours on Sunday :).

› Production notes‹ Production notes

The core of this track is the PETAL_173 break from the excellent Fayt Kit.  It's got a really nice build throughout where the drums become more high-pitched and tinny over time. In week 13, I stretched it down to 124bpm on the m8 via the REP. BPM play mode and thought it sounded pretty fun with some pads. This week, I rendered the stretched break to a new sample and then sliced it into 64 equal parts that I could use for different drums. I sampled drums from the start of the break for a more thumpy bass sound and drums from later parts of the break for a higher-energy sound. Prior to this track I haven't really thought a ton about sampling breaks, so it was fun to play around and learn some new things.

A few more straightforward elements:

- Reese bass

- pads are Macrosynth's WAV PARPHONIC mode with a bunch of effects

- sometimes I layer the break drums with non-sampled/hand-programmed drum pattern

- the title is "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" because that's what it feels like to use a good breakbeat :)

Hope everyone's weeklybeats is going well! You're all killing it, and I'm digging all the music that I get to listen to every week <3

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Presented without comment. 😏

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beta testing new gba groovebox software

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This week I decided to lean into the atonal chaos a bit. The image I started to see after working away on my loop for the week was of an automated factory far in the future, built to build robots, which in turn build more factories. I imagine after the humans are gone our production chain would optimise away any function beyond that needed to expand endlessly.

A mixture of sounds I synthesised myself and samples from freesounds.org

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all m8 synthesis, no sampling.

it started with 24edo noodling on my hexboard controller (janko layout).  (24 steps per octave, like an extra note between each normal semitone).  a melody that suggests an interesting scale.  i didn't actually think about specific scales, just chose steps that sounded good, and "fit" against some constant bass note.  so that's where the bass """tonic""" comes from.  not the most obvious """tonic""" given the melody so it adds to the interesting tonality.

i was vaguely thinking about PEdestrian Tactics vibe.  didn't really get there, but it drove how i was thinking about sound design.

i spent a ton of time crafting wonky lead synths.  the last one i settled on is an A>B+C+D FM patch that by default only sounds the A>B part, but TICFF table action "flicks" left/right with the C/D operators for some stereo weirdness.  the other doubling lead, i forget exactly, just some general glitchyness.

the bass came together a bit faster.  an FM patch with big ol overtones.  but it didn't impact enough for a groove.  so every bar hits with a wavsynth bass patch.  it's a fairly low SIZE, and WARP modulation with a touch of MUL, that makes a scratchy snarl.  then loads of phrase commands for variations everywhere.

the chords were similarly noodled on the hexboard.  again, fairly impromptu, just seeing what sounded interesting.  24EDO is weird.  the only real intent behind it was the Eb shared tone through most of the chords, and some parallel/contrary motion in some voices.  it doesn't scream 24EDO which is nice (even though it is).  unfortunately it doesn't fit the bass """tonic""" so the transitions are iffy lol.

then the drums.  quite happy with them.  i forget anything about how i approached the snare.  the kick, i started with 2 operators that aren't nice ratios, with the modulator level controlled with an envelope.  dialing this in just right makes a "whump" kind of hit.  then the other two operators involve a noise "waveform" to get a more acoustic sound.

the "hats" had the interesting property of transforming sound when I pushed transpose too far, and the synth engine wraps/aliases frequency.  some free variety in percussion.

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A moody, ambient track this week. G Minor. Lots of noises. The bass is played live, I seem to get better at playing ad-hoc.

› Lyrics‹ Lyrics

In the beginning

there was no word

only shapes and numbers and sounds

Many a shape

they collapsed

into clouds and orbits and meaning

Meaning is far

and wide, universal

The flood of time through the gate of life (2x)

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Prrrobably should cut some of this, but couldn't decide on what to cut.

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Very late and last minute!!!

No time to write a description!

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