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The Song

This week I wrote a song about how God has revealed himself to everyone through everything that he's made in creation (Romans 1:20). Everything in nature that's beautiful and amazing and intriguing and terrifying was made by him and so were we, as humans. But unlike the rest of creation, humans were made in his image. We were designed to have a perfect, intimate relationship with him - that's what we were meant for. Our sin has ruined and severed that relationship, but through Jesus he's calling us back...

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I'm still experimenting with breakbeats. My 14 year old son says all my music sounds the same and has too much going on. I don't really care - I'm enjoying the learning process. :]

This was the closest I've come to not finishing anything for Weekly Beats. Despite it being Easter and having time off from work, I still had pretty much just a loop by Sunday afternoon. But for better or worse I was determined to try to turn it into a song. I don't want to leave things so late again or put so much pressure on myself. It wasn't fun for my family, either! I had to throw the lyrics together and record vocals pretty quickly and it came down to the wire, but I got there in the end. Happy listening!

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verse 1

See the stars

The universe

Oceans too vast

To fathom

And though He knows

My every thought

He still stoops down

To save me

chorus

God's calling you to be more human

He's calling you to lift your head

You're a masterpiece, a poem

He designed your heart to follow

And He's calling you to live for Him

verse 2

Amidst the wind

The breath of life

A still small voice

Beside you

Within the ache

For something more

He'll give you rest

And hold you

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A lost soundtrack to a forgotten Donkey Kong Country level. Hope you dig it and thanks for listening!

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Didn't have time to really flesh this one out.

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thought I'd have more time for music over the easter holidays but it didn't work out that way.. dug out a goofy WIP from earlier this year and gave it a little polish. M8, old guitar samples with a ton of minidisc self noise, lossy, some seagulls

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Synthwave this week. Definitely inspired by the fact that I played a Dark/Synthwave show in Phoenix last night. Bit outside my normal key and even song style, which I like.

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Whisper my name

Feel me close

Come inside and lose control

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Well, couldn't get the sampler thing to work (and I'm unfamiliar with LMMS), so I'll try re-sampling my songs in the future... Maybe.

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ok so I really need to get a proper piece together next week.  again day-to-day life seemed to sap up anytime I had for wb.

spent the weekend without internet so spent the time looking at aum on my iPhone.  been meaning to try and figure it out for a while.  and I came up with this random noise loop.  dark park, fugue, vhs synth, koala and a piano.

it's out of time but I'm happy I got the jam to even work in the first place!

I promise I'll have a full song next week.  with y'know, like, a guitar and a melody and silly effects pedals and stuff.  and probably my gen loss.  most definitely my gen loss.

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Not much privacy or "me" time this week, since I'm at work. At least now it is socially accepted to be into yout phone (like many of my workmates do) so I silently watch Revision 2026.

Extra love for the Demoscene. They showed me what a tracker was, back in the 90s, and I'll be eternally grateful for that :)

I was really fortunate to find two completely independent projects from 2025 that somewhat matched together (do they?): one Cardinal synth loop and some beats constructed from the forgotten Yamaha A3000 factory CD library. Both were created on Renoise 3.1.1, and mastered in Ableton Live Lite 10.

I didn't had my usual mastering chain available, so I had to build some sort of compressor/limiter using 2 instances of Ableton's compressor.

Is it just me or Native Instruments plugins are somewhat overated? (their "transient" family left me with somewhat of a "meh" feeling)

Enough rant. Just 4 more days on duty and I'll return home.

Be happy and well, WB friends !!!

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I’ve never really understood wavetable synthesis. I mean, I get the concept. I just don’t know how to use it to great (or even good) effect.

When wavetables came to the Tonverk, I thought “Now’s the time to dive in.” Predictable results.

I must have remade the lead in this 20 times. With all their harmonics, I just don’t have an intuition for designing wavetables to fit in a mix like I do with regular subtractive, FM, or even additive. And as a result this is kind of a mess. I spend so much time just wrestling with sound that I didn’t have time to take another few passes on the temp melody I wrote in back on monday.

To be clear, I’m not complaining. *I* learned a bunch about wavetables. *And* about the Tonverk. And had a great time doing it. It’s y’all that are stuck listening to a kind of shrieky song. And for that I apologize :-)

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