The no listen challenge: create a track without ever listening to it prior to publishing.
I thought of a trance melody idea and wrote it down in E minor. Hopefully I stayed in key throughout and didn't miss any notes.
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Some mixing and sound design methods used:
Mixed with visual mixer levels, hoping that my prior experience with bass and lead synth levels would pay off.
Used samples and synths that I knew the sounds to.
Because visual mixer levels are slow to release, I had to use some other visual method when timing was crucial. I used timeline bounce to preview the waveform of a section to make sure that there were gaps in the gated lead synth, to determine the end of the reverse cymbal, and to check the length of the 909 open hat.
To check that the filter cutoff frequency of Heisenberg/Pulverisateur was sufficiently low, I used a Slope bandpass filter, set to desired frequency and high resonance, and lowered synth filter until the level appeared to dip.
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Let's see how this goes. Could be decent or could be a complete disaster.
Those bells were lucky. @bitch2point0 did FM synthesis and hoped for the best, using Audacity to look at the waveform and do spectrum analysis to make sure that the bells weren't too bright, but they were still too bright.
Jul 21, 15
the bells are rly damn good, the reverbs on the bell too damn
Jul 21, 15
Can't believe this is so good...
Jul 20, 15
I'm just going to go slam my head against a wall a few times cause this isn't even remotely fair.
Jul 20, 15
So you're telling me that you didn't listen to this? I can't do better when i listen ;.;
Jul 18, 15
i was deaf until i finished. i did a lot of playing sounds in my head, though, to find a usable melody.
Jul 18, 15
So your tellin me...
that you never listened to this?
Jul 17, 15
didn't listen to it.
still better than what i've made.
Jul 17, 15
kek detune everything so it blands out so much
Jul 17, 15
forgot detune on big synth lel
Jul 17, 15
You Bitch
Me Bitch
Lets Collaborate Bitch
Jul 17, 15
lel and the patterns at the end were mixed up; kick and some drums are missing
Those bells were lucky. @bitch2point0 did FM synthesis and hoped for the best, using Audacity to look at the waveform and do spectrum analysis to make sure that the bells weren't too bright, but they were still too bright.
the bells are rly damn good, the reverbs on the bell too damn
Can't believe this is so good...
I'm just going to go slam my head against a wall a few times cause this isn't even remotely fair.
So you're telling me that you didn't listen to this? I can't do better when i listen ;.;
i was deaf until i finished. i did a lot of playing sounds in my head, though, to find a usable melody.
So your tellin me... that you never listened to this?
didn't listen to it. still better than what i've made.
kek detune everything so it blands out so much
forgot detune on big synth lel
You Bitch Me Bitch Lets Collaborate Bitch
lel and the patterns at the end were mixed up; kick and some drums are missing
pluck is too loud
demn, I had wanted the big synth to be fatter.
VII is major
fuk did I mess up?
lel still haven't heard it yet
Inavon confirmed
artistic choice
That last chord should be minor, not major, no?