Honey Wizard - Snoot (M8 Tracker)
Channel: Look I Made A Thing
Date: 2021-12-19

So this vid's in black and white because I found the color video distracting. You can see a reflection of the left-channel audio cable that was plugged into my interface on the M8 screen, and it was bright-blue. 

A song I did on the M8 tracker from Dirtywave. Audio's going straight out from the tracker into a 1st-gen Focusrite 2i4. Other than volume normalization (+8.07 db), there was no post-processing. My audio interface hisses at high gain, so I couldn't turn the line-in volume up to the level I wanted, and going higher than E9 for the line-out volume on the M8 sounded less dynamic. My workaround was to switch from "line" to "instrument" on my interface, which I think gave it a bit of saturation. 

As for the song, I had a lot of fun with this. Lots of adjustments to timbre and degrade via free-running triangle LFOs, several instances of panning changes and phrase transposing. Also decent use of the bandstop filter while using Env2 to adjust cutoff for some of the more sci-fi warbly bits. The kick is a preset (Kick - Hard, which uses the macrosynth), but I dedicated one track solely to adding a click to the kick drum to give it punch. It's the macrosynth again on "Struck Bell", timbre of 40, color of FF, highpass cutoff at 6F with res at 80, chorus at 70 and dry at C0, Post for limiter, amp at 64. Envelope 1 volume amount is FF, but attack and hold are at 00 with decay at 02. To me it sounds like an electrical zap, which blends pretty well with the hi-hats that use the same 8th-note pattern.