As you know, I'm starting a Retrofy Overwatch series! (RetrOverwatch, I guess ;)) So here's the first one! Mercy. I tried to stay close to the silhouette but add embellishments so that it would still read. I hope you like her! Next in the line is Mei, and you can see the WIP sketches with images of fashion inspo and the inked version all on my Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/SavannahAlexandra
And if there's enough of a want for these, I can list them as prints on my Etsy. :)
The idea for the echoed cello arpeggiation for Retrofy came to me early one morning. The tune uses the same cello sample as that used for A Father’s Lament on Reinvention but applies a stereo delay synced to the tempo. The cello part was recorded on track 1. All tracks were recorded on the Korg M3 (version 1.2). No Karma software was used, the arpeggiation was played by hand and saved as patterns. The tune is recorded at 105BPM and the duration is 2:51.
The effects chain consists of Stereo Parametric EQ->Sequence BPM Delay->Reverb->Stereo Chorus
The drums were recorded on track 2 using Pgm I-A068 Tricky Kit and using chopped portions of Tricky Kit patterns P425 through P435. The rhythmic complexity comes from the fact that the measures for these patterns are normally 4/4 but since the song is recorded in 3/4 time the last beat of each measure is truncated. The signal sent to the reverb stage.
Tracks 3 and 4 use the Filstrng program ported from the Prophet VS to the Korg M3. Oscillators AC are panned to the left on track 3 and sent to the Sequence BPM Delay stage. Oscillators BD are panned to the right on track 4 and sent to the reverb stage. This was done to broaden the stereo field.
Track 7 uses Pgm I-A109 Raunchy Bass to record the baseline. The signal is sent to the stereo chorus.
The In-Track Sampling function of the M3 was used to combine the tracks into a single stereo wav file.
