An experiment trying to do a trip hop track. I had to ditch a whole sax section that just sounded clunky. I love the idea of sax but struggle to do it with synth sax libraries, even good ones. Need to study that more.
The vocals were made on vocaloid.
nice vibe. seems to work without the sax. i suppose i could imagine a sax solo where this track ends in some form. i liked the drums and ambiences. if im trying to think of something more critical/negative... i wasnt sure the bassline always fit with the track. i felt like maybe something about the bass pattern/s could have been changed a tiny bit in some places maybe? something about the stutteryness of the bass notes in some places maybe? the piano was really cool. howd you get those piano notes in? what about the drums? do they have velocity info on all the drum hits? maybe one more instrument could have been added in the background... it sounds very barebones to me... piano drums bassline... i dont know what instrument could have worked in the background? rhythm guitar? but maybe if the bassline was stronger it wouldnt need this background element as well so idk. maybe the bass was a little loud or not eq'd to my taste. saxaphone wouldnt work as background element very well would it... these are all pretty minor/uncertain criticisms overall i thought the vibe was good. your drums always seem pretty good and that piano was really nice. i guess i havent mentioned the vocal... i thought the vocal worked well throughout the track...
Last track of the year! I went back to good old breakbeats and glitch!
For those who join on Weekly Beats 2024, see you there! :)
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The title is from reading Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe. Where science is more mind blowing than the wildest SF.
Not unhappy about this track, which goes into weird wild directions.
I am changing a bit my workflow to reignite inspiration. I decided to start finding some riff on guitar and build from there. I kinda like the result, and I like that it was a fresh approach for me.
By the way, unfortunately, no - large sauropods could not whip their tail at supersonic speed, even though some paper of 1997 claimed they could. This is fortunate, as the aforementioned tail would have snapped. Have no doubt though that a good tail whip could still hurt unreasonably well.
I was pretty good this week at finding good excuses not to work on a track. I spent a grand 44 minutes on this one, and it does feel like it. Ok, especially for the upcoming Weekly Beats 2024, I need to get back to start a track early in the week, put more love and inspiration in it rather than a quickly produced simple track.
This started as a music about mazes, then kinda went into trip-hop territory before going back synthwave. A dog cannot be a cat, however hard they try.
A baroque vibe for this track inspired by Castlevania. I ran out of time and could not really clean up this track. The structure and the mixes are pretty raw. It's missing some frequencies here and there, some transitions are abrupt. But hey, time's up for me this week.
Synthwave + electric guitars + fx samples! Kinda inspired by the anime Akira, but not really at the same time.
I had to scratch that metal itch.
An Halloween themed track for this week.
A rather lazy track but at least thematically appropriate for the season.
Ok back on my feet and with my DAW. I worked on this track this Saturday mainly. It would fare better with a few more hours of work. I think it's like 70% done of where I'd like a track to be, but i kinda already enjoy it more than a lot of tracks i have done over the past few months.
This is only a recording of ambient sound. Last week, my father passed away. I recorded quickly the Silence track of last week, before going to take my plane to bury him.
One week later, the aftermath. Time to go back home. I am sitting a last time in the calm aftermath recording the sound of that final night, as life seems to continue, even though the silence now sounds a bit different. Time to go home.
I started the track on Saturday morning. I wanted to first try out making a set of percussions using FPC, and setting a wide panning of the different instruments. The percussions ended up being a set of traditional sounds, so it felt appropriate to dig into my Native Instruments library for a set of traditional instruments. I went for the middle eastern package, and used the Oud (a guitar like instrument) and the Zurna (a type of flute). I have a great love for the complex harmonies and rhythms of middle eastern music! This started reminding me of the band Secret Chiefs 3, so I went in and dug some electronic samples and arps to get into that. Some additional vocal samples, shake it, 30 minutes in the oven, and here you go.
Back on my computer, for a nostalgic and moody track. Not very happy with the violin part (it's off here and there) and this track would benefit from some additional work
I am at an airport waiting for my plane so I recorded this filler of a track, using a drum, simple synth and a recording of the waves on the Mediterranean Sea.
This week I was in a hurry so I gave myself a hard constraint - 45 minutes to start a track from scratch and upload it. This was a fun experiment. No time to think, embracing absolute randomness.
AND I MEAN ABSOLUTE RANDOMNESS.
More a teaser, or a sketch of an idea. There could be something interesting there if I dedicated more time to it.
I was out on vacation in Hokkaido. No computer, just my phone with GarageBand (which I really cannot use yet) - doing lots of field recordings and using that. Not a great track musically, it’s more like a blurry Polaroid of a brief instant.
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@Rain25 Thank you for the comment. Yeah, this is definitely barebone. I have been struggling this year to put more meat on my tracks. They are all at the bare minimum.
For the drums, I have an easy way to do it - i cheat. I rely 99% of the time on drums samples from Splice. They are great, have exceptional sound, are more alive than anything I could program. I choose my battles. :)
The piano is programmed - i make sure to not be aligned to the grid and to adjust the velocity of each note, to try to make it sound really human. I also use a good piano library (Noir, from Native Instruments), that helps.
Yep that bass was a bit raw. I kinda like its vibe but I should have recorded a few more variations. Also maybe changing the sound to a standup bass. More experiments for the future!