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Old synthwave-y space ambient track I made and did nothing with. You can have it if you want!

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hi hello everybody here have a song

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so i've been rlly burnt out on composing and covers for a bit bc of college applications and other general life stuff, and this is sort of the only thing i've managed to cobble together in like, months. granted, i have been putting a lot of pressure on myself to try composing a musical idea away from my piano (i usually just mess around on my piano until i find a cool idea and go from there, and that works, sure, but it's rlly annoying how dependent on luck the whole thing can feel sometimes + i end up constantly repeating the musical idea i got from my piano and my songs sound sort of boring as a result.) it's definitely not done yet, since i'm still sort of stuck on how i want to order sections (also, i'm still sticking to one musical idea!!! i have to do a bridge section with a rhythm and progression that isn't just a minor adjustment to the main idea or i swear to god i will perish from this earth), so i figured that i may as well post what i have right now for tumblr (unfortunately bluesky is kind of finnicky with just audio files so i would have to do some very basic cover art to post it to there, and i'm saving youtube for the finished song.)

anyways, talking about the song itself now: i've been listening to authentic sky from tekken 4 recently (i've never played tekken 4, i literally only know about this song bc of the deltarune ribbit mod, which is amazing and awesome and which you should play!!! if you want!!), and i found the repetitive piano section very pleasing to listen to. it sort of reminded me that i haven't done a lot of layered piano stuff like that in, ever maybe (the half-baked christmas song i have on my youtube maybe counts? but i've gotten better since then and want to make something complete), so why not do it now?? so i just put together a 3 voice piano thing + some very basic kicks.

the issue at the beginning was that i just didn't like the texture of the whole thing very much. like, the piano harmonies that i settled on were *good*, sure, but the piano instrument that i had was sort of bad (hence why i was looking for a bunch of soundfonts recently, bc garageband instruments can be so constricting like this.) everything was either meh or way too muted to sound good in the sort of song i wanted to make. so, to fix this, i figured that maybe i should use some plugins, and i eventually settled on bitcrushing everything a fair bit!

the piano bit seemed good then, but i felt that a lot of the actual movement of the song wouldn't be carried by the piano since it's supposed to be somewhat repetitive and trance-like, so i mainly built the rest of the sections through percussion (moved kicks to a later section for emphasis and replaced the beginning with hi-hats and shakers, some drum layers with a specific electronic kit bc that one has a cool sfx that, when bitcrushed, makes a sort of crackly sound that feels pleasant and cool to listen to, etc.) then i made a very meh melody line (i wanted to use a zunpet for the melody since it seems fun, but i think that would be better suited to the bridge section since zunpets always map in my brain to tension, so it's not here right now and instead i just have the piano carrying the melody in an octave harmony and a bell instrument for emphasis.)

also i made a bass section that im personally very proud of, since i never get to do cool bass sections in my covers (aside from the bass in from now on, that was a good one). like maybe it's a bit too active for the laid back nature of the whole thing, but man,,,, it sounds cool to me and that's all i need. doing the bass sections also forced my hand for some pitch bends, so i could then take that to the main piano bit and have it pitch bend when transitioning between sections, which was way more convenient than getting a reverse cymbal to do it (i have to set up a new drum track and put the cymbal there and measure how long the sound lasts and then i have to merge that part with itself to even get it as an audio file and then i have to reverse it and cut bits/do some volume automation shenanigans to even get it to actually fit the measures i want it to stick with and,,, yeah you prolly get why i dont wanna do that)

anyways that's rlly all i have to say! i'll have the finished track on youtube in like a month or two since i have finals and stuff, and hopefully i'll have actually figured out a creative bridge (and title) by then.

#original music #bitcrush #bitcrush is an actual tag??#not just like me typing random stuff?#like an actual honest to god tag??#alright then ig.