BB 113 - Nihonium

#41

I’ve been working on mine for a few days. Sounds are as done as they’re going to be and I’ve sketched out a 3-ish minute structure. Done most of the musical writing, started mixdown. Need to do automation to sell the different sections as different. Hopefully I can finish before my ears tire out tomorrow.

#42

Looking forward to hearing it.

The struggle is real, good luck!

#43

3 DAYS PEOPLE LET’S GET SOME MORE ENTRIES!!! (Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?)

#44

Well, here’s what I came up with…

Ended up being a nice excuse to learn Logic’s new sampler synths - this basically ended up devolving into a bunch of wavetable/granular synth sounds using the samples as sources. In retrospect, would have liked to keep one or two more recognizable samples. Also hoped to tighten a few more things and add more automation, but I got a work deadline that I need to get back to, so I think this is where I put my pencil down. Enjoy!

First two chords are a Bb maj9 and Eb maj7.

#45

Glad to see you had time to work up a submission! :slight_smile:

A lot of really nice melodic and harmonic stuff going on here. Cool to hear an entry that really focuses on that sort of sound. :slight_smile:

Your drums turned out nice and crisp too. Good work there.

It’s heckin lit fam. haha!

#46

As a friend of mine would say… It’s good enough for the girls we roll with. haha!

#47

The content AI bots are getting too smart for their own good!

#48

Nice!! A good track on time is better than better track late! lol Your submission is most welcome!

I’m liking the odd drums and bits, reminds me of more quirky/funky electronica like Mouse on Mars or Plaid. Cool exploring tools in Logic. Dig the track!

#49

Lol so far only 7asid has been able to correctly identify their key

#50

I honestly guessed at the scale, but you’re saying it’s not A#? That’s the key-iest key I felt, and I checked it with a synth. I had some minor thirds in there, so I guessed A# minor is it not A#?!?

#51

In my defense, I’m a sample masher not a composer.

#52

Hmm… if you’re checking that stuff out and feel like you’ve found discrepancies, you should at least let us know how you know and why.

(edit) I went back and checked the song… I think you’re right, So I’m going to try again. I’m not offended either, but I am bummed out that I missed the mark the first time.

I think maybe is in F#min. I’m fairly certain that is the base chord, not what I had described in my original post. I haven’t studied any theory for many years (i think about 15), so I don’t remember if other chords are going to affect the key of a composition. Let me know.

#53

I mean, I’m not offended or anything lol chord and harmonic arrangement are nowhere in my mind when i’m making a track. if anything, it’s something i have to go back and try to determine from all the notes that ended up in the track. i try to listen for offnotes or weird changes, but generally i’m not thinking about notes beyond how they sound together lol.

#54

It doesn’t really matter if the key you say is correct or not, doesn’t disqualify you. I am hearing plenty of 7 and 9 chords so the challenge is met for everyone so far.

IO is in the key of Gmin, makeuswhole is in the keys of C#min and then Bmin (nice 9 chords yo) and Faintbrush is in the key of G#maj, first two chords are some sort of Cmin+6+7 and C#maj. 7asid is in fact Fmaj7 and then it also goes into Fmaj7/A# (read as “F major 7 over A sharp”) which is super cool.

The method I used is I just play the chords I’m hearing with an instrument that is definitely in tune with A440.

#55

idk man, i’m feeling an A# more than a G.

I mean, G minor and A# minor will have a bit of overlap, so it’s not too far off, but going off what I’d hear as a bass note I’d think A#/Bb.

#56

Here’s my track. It didn’t end up great IMO. I just don’t have the dynamic control I want given the sample material for my bass sound, and something about the timing just feels janky. IDK what it is, there’s a nice amount of humanization in the parts that feel jankiest. I even played in the rhythm to get it right where I wanted, and still it just feels off. The kick is pretty dope though, proud of that.

Every individual sound was done in it’s own instance of Iris, except the hats where I did velocity to envelope amount to control the open/closed hats. I did a vamp between a d# major and minor 9th, and did some inversions with that. Not sure what key the song is in, but I used almost every black key, so it definitely isn’t C Major.

#57

dang nice work everyone. Just realized i need to finish mine. derp.

#58

Hey Tsachi, thanks for keeping us honest!

I’m sure it was Bb and Eb in my sequencer, but you are totaly right, my samples are all like a step and half flat. I guess I didn’t check the tuning when I was setting up the samples - just sorta plugged plugged bits in and made sure the layers were (mostly) in tune with the each other.

#59

Thanks! I definitely love me some Plaid, but I had to look up Mouse on Mars, man they’ve got some cool stuff!

#60

Yeah, they have some interesting and catchy stuff. I saw them live in Denver once! Personal fav albums are Idiology and Parastrophics.