I’m not ready to relinquish that amount of control yet 
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Today I realized that I can go a more techno route with my dubstep since I’m not very good at melodies yet.
can’t wait
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Atonal 4 Jesus.
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Changed my music production name to Sleeps.
Old Shock sounded a bit harsh for the kind of textured vibe I like to go for.
Keeping Old Shock for my artwork.
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Is it more fulfilling to create a wobble bass from scratch or use a preset sound and mold it into a wobble bass?
If I’m doing a 1 or 2 note bassline, I use a sample of a sine wave and chop it into 8th or 16ths of w/e
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Create all from scratch, buy a Zoom and record your own samples.
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Process, print, repeat.
Thanks for the update!
for me the most filling is when I shove the entire thing up my arse
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No worries m8. Anything else you need to know just ask.
baybee minor
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Managed to associate all of my old MadTracker 2 project files with MT2 again, instead of OpenMPT. Since the code handling pitch bend/portamento/vibrato is different in OpenMPT, all those tracker commands wonked out and made the old projects sound like shit because everything became detuned in weird ways.
I’ve since long lost the login and license for MT2, so can only export the .mt2 files in .ogg format, but those can be converted later. The .xm (extended mod) format ones can’t be exported from MT2 at all, but should be fine to open in any .xm-compatible tracker.
Gonna go through the projects and fix the levels (most of them are extremely badly mixed), export, then prolly put them on my chiptune/tracker Youtube channel.
Here’s an old song (in .xm format) I don’t even remember making.
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This is awesome. Amazigh drums, chants, dancing (Maghrebi stuff)
Anyone else on here interested in ethnomusicology at all?
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Oh yeah. I’m into all kinds of stuff.
You might dig this too:
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Man this is fuxking insane!
I don’t really like listening to sample/beatzzz music but I find it fun making it
This app makes me wanna get a lil hardware sampler
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@butter_man To elaborate a bit on how I made it.
The “hard” part of it is to come up with the actual melodies and harmonies etc. When working with tracker software, it’s good to have an idea or plan, like a theme or melody line to get you started. Most of the harmony regarding the arp melody + bass in the beginning of that song is pretty simple; I’ve just outlined some chords that sounds good with the bassline I made up. As you can probably hear, there’s a few notes in that melody that are included in almost all of those (arped) chords in the progression, which keeps it a bit uniform, but still with a sense of progression. You don’t have to change too much between each section, but since you can really only see one pattern at a time, it really forces you to think about the forward momentum too.
Not looking at how many bars after each other you got, but instead just listen to how it sounds, is one of the things I like with trackers; making music is not really visual. It’s easier to make creative decisions with your ears than your eyes innit?
The technical aspects of tracker software also gives me a different sense of commitment, compared to working in a DAW, since it’s more about programming sequences that sound good, than it is about advanced sound design. You also have much deeper control over each single note in the sequences, with a number of pitch commands that can be utilised; pitch bend up/down with a speed setting, portamento from just one note to another, also with a speed setting, and vibrato with depth and speed. Those are the effects I use the most, but you also have things like arpeggio and note repeat effects, each with their own settings. I used the arpeggio effect for the part about 1 minute into the song; just triggering the note + 2 other intervals that you can choose. With this, you can kinda fake the sound of chords within a single track, instead of actually using several tracks polyphonically. I try to keep the number of tracks below 8, usually. The .xm file for Morad’s Theme 1 is 53 kB in size and uses 8 tracks.
You can kinda think of these per-note effects as parameter locks on Elektron sequencers. In general, it forces you to think more about how to make your melodic parts more expressive.
Here’s another one, theme no. 2, using the same sounds as the first one. It’s pretty similar in style and tonality.
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Cool little tweak for ableton
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