Week 19 - Dustsucker - Silver Spork

..can I ask you kind of a weird question? › Production brmpdfpm‹ Production brmpdfpmAnother track started with a crunchy OP1-F drum loop. Through messing with the option to add pauses in the sequencer it turned into this strange 7/4 groove that felt pretty interesting. Sampled it in M8 in two different keys, then went to work layering a bunch of synths on top. Usually I do bespoke sounddesign on M8, but this time I mostly went with a cool preset pack recently released by fellow Weekly Beats user Joshua Morgan on the M8 discord, which features remakes of their favorite Hydrasynth sounds. I did mess with their settings a bit and added in a sneaky Hypersynth of my own, among some other small additions. The initial loop proved difficult to get out of when I layed down the initial beat. I took another jab at it in the train when I went into the city to meet my mom today, then added all of the leads and a bunch of other stuff when I got back home in the evening. The 7/4 groove makes this one kind of panicky, especially combined with the overload of hi-end crunchiness. I have no idea what is going on with the harmony. A lot of the lead noodling is super janky, cause it's hard to pin the exact tuning on the root note. Even with a bunch of tweaking I couldn't find a stable tuning. Ended up pitching all synths up by an 8th step, no idea if that really fixed it. Some additional mastering in Logic, fancy plugin version. For those interested the chain is Pro-Q4, UAD Verve, Gullfoss, True Iron, Sausage Fattner, Pro-DS, JST Clip, Pro-L2. Download the M8 bundle 2026 CC Attribution Noncommercial (BY-NC)