"Weeklybeats is a 52 week long music project in which artists compose and publicly release 1 song a week for the entire year. Starting January 1st 2024 GMT each participant will have one week to upload one finished composition. Any style of music or selection of instruments are welcomed and encouraged."
Thanks @scy for the pointer! Until Friday I procrastinated this and thought I wouldn’t manage to find the time anyway, but after spending Saturday evening in the photo darkroom with creative people, I was inspired and I hacked together a shitty little track for this week to have something at all. 🦾
And now I’m prepared. Next week is going to be even more fun.
I own several pieces of expensive music gear and never really did much with it. I want to make music, but I don't actually do it, because "I don't have the time" and "other things are more important".
Well, fuck that shit.
I'll be joining #WeeklyBeats2024 both as a learning journey and to have some outside pressure to produce something.
If you see yourself in this post, feel free to join me. Minimum track length per week is just one minute.
Actually producing a real, full "song" on the #Deluge, instead of just a simple beat, and thus the first time using arranger mode. The UX is pretty clever and mostly intuitive.
But I'd love to be able to record automation into it, for filter cutoffs etc., without having to either store that automation in a song mode clip or creating an arranger-only "variation" of the clip.
Like, I want an effects automation overlay of sorts that doesn't modify my clips.
Installed the Deluge community firmware, hoping that its new Automation View will alleviate this at least to a degree.
Also, reminder that if you'd like to join #WeeklyBeats2024 and have a full "streak" throughout the whole year (not that it's required or anything), today is the last day where you can join. You've got a little less than 12 hours to finish your track.
(This also means that I have a little less than 12 hours to finish my track. 😬)
Also, lesson learned: Listen to your fucking track on decent speakers and on headphones before Sunday. Shit. I'll have to rescue some of it from being a total mess.
@scy Nice stereo effects even on my small monitor speakers at my desk.
Now cut the last 3 seconds and run gapless into a full blast synth organ chord track in week 2.
I set out to make a track about the cold weather outside and accidentally ended up making it about climate change. 🤷♂️ (In my head at least, and you can interpret the sounds accordingly, but it's not like it has any lyrics or something.)
Fun fact: The speakers on my smartphone are completely unable to play the #Booj sounds in the song 😂 It's as if they aren't there.
This is yet another standalone #Deluge track. It's being carried almost exclusively by #Freesound samples, but after browsing samples for half a day I have to say that sample selection is work, too.
It also made me appreciate commercial sample collections more, because the quality at Freesound is mostly … mediocre.
Definitely getting more confident with the #M8Tracker. I love some of the possibilities it brings to the table, especially when it comes to complex sequencing, but on the other hand I find it so tedious to enter notes, even when using MIDI. Let's see whether I find a good way to combine it with the #Deluge and get the best of both worlds.
Liquid is one of my favorite genres, and it was fun to produce this one, walking around with the #SynthstromDeluge playing in my bag, walking in tempo. :)
With a bit more time, this would've been a better (and longer) track, but this is the time I had, and it's the track I got.
Doing #WeeklyBeats for a quarter of a year now. What started as a way to force myself to actually do something with the music gear I have on a regular basis, to try to learn it and get into it has achieved just that: I'm learning by doing, getting faster and more experienced.
This week I made my first track longer than 5 minutes. Is it #synthwave? Not sure. At least it starts like it. 🤷♂️
Okay yeah, as expected, the mastering on #WeeklyBeats#15 is a mess. There was some clipping in the exported song, but I had run out of time to fix it.
I'm nevertheless quite satisfied with the track, even though it's darker than what I usually create or enjoy.
If you listen to it, I highly recommend real speakers or headphones, no tinny laptop or smartphone speakers, because the mix only sounds worse on them.
Liquid is one of my favorite genres, and it was fun to produce this one, walking around with the #SynthstromDeluge playing in my bag, walking in tempo. :)
@scy I get that the slow intro is to build tension, but honestly, I just got impatient. Otherwise nice track. I would change just one little thing: Replace the shattering glass sample with something shorter, simpler, that doesn't end on a falling note... Maybe just a small "klink"?
Regarding genre... Dunno, but the soundscape reminded me of Das Muster (RIP): https://dasmuster.bandcamp.com/track/bed-rfnisse-erwecken
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