So I was cutting boards in the basement and had some Deadmau5 song in my head,
or at least something that seemed like it would be a Deadmau5 song,
and I was like "That's simple enough, I could make that!"
And here you are.
Upon listening to it on headphones,
I realize the general panning on 'Samwise' is maybe too extreme,
and I should center it more for the next version.
The part where it briefly oscillates on 16th notes is cool. Keep that.
One thing I did while making this song was pick out presets for the Operator
and then mess with them, rather than always starting from scratch.
Also I was liberal with the 'duplicate track' button,
notably in places where the music changes and I wanted a track
to fade into the alternate version of itself.
Could mess with MIDI notes, but better to duplicate because
then the settings can be different, etc.
Different song part, different instrument!
So, things to fix:
- Excessive normal-mode panning
- Bass drum is MUDDY AF - even compared to Mau5tek 2001 ac
- Is the bass out of tune in parts of the first third??
- Melodic parts all kind of fade in together at the beginning and that sounds like a mess
- Have one clea, strong one come in at first, maybe before the hihats change
- Generate spectrographs of the percussion parts of this track,
some Deamau5 tracks, tracks from Way Out West - Intensify (e.g. Ub Devoid)
- That simple up-down part around 6:00 might sound cooler
if the delay was an even number of beats idk lol