New track featuring trance-inducing keys. As I was making this track I found myself getting lost in the keys. They just transported me to a headspace. What kind of genre is this? Well it reminds me of the dub techno stuff I used to hear in the mid to late 00’s shared by some of the great folks at the defunct Elektron Users forum. But this track is a little too active for your average dub techno. It’s also got my signature house vibe.
Put it all together and maybe it’s deep dub techno trance house. You heard it here first 🙂 Hope you get lost in the vibe as well. Enjoy.
For your streaming enjoyment. I’ve recently posted a mix of some of my deeper, vibier tracks. This one covers both some very recent tracks as well as some of my classic tracks. Sit back and enjoy the grooves. I rarely post mixes so this is a rare one from me. Let me know if you enjoy it and would like me to post some more.
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Behind the scenes – I usually make tracks in an environment called Reaper. But for this one I got out my classic copy of Ableton Live. I got my set list together and then pulled all the tracks into Ableton. Then I started thinking about set tempo. I usually produce tracks in the 120-125 BPM range, but here I thought I would go for 120 BPM so the vibe would be a bit more laid back. Next up I worked on track transitions. Once I had everything the way I liked it, I bounced it all out for sharing.
I am so elated to share Midnight Hearts is coming out on June 26! Featuring the chillest deep house groove I’ve ever made at 120 bpm. Fast or slow, listen and decide for yourself! This track started out with an electric piano portion that was so tasty. I added a bass line that drew a lot on my bass guitar playing days. The vocal was a great addition, and my favorite is the harmony parts at the end. I almost didn’t have these but it just kind of came to me. It’s kind of like a harmony but also like an echo. You’ll know what I mean when you hear it. I also really like this vibe-y quiet part of vocals and electric piano that I put after the middle.
Of course, drums and this was coming along well for the most part. But there was a problem, the kick was a little off. I made some social media posts about this kick — it had a phasing issue. I thought I fixed it but… it always kept nagging me a little bit. Finally, late in the game, I was still messing it with so I got an even better kick that really shone. That meant some other adjustments which called for a drum reset. but it all turned out! Head to my Spotify playlist and follow so you’re all set on release day. Thanks so much for your support!
Back in 2013 I was thinking about the synthesizer concept of pulse-width modulation. Synth lovers know this makes a unique pleasant sound out of the brash square wave. I thought about applying this idea to sine waves because I didn’t know what it would sound like and at the time I couldn’t find any examples. I made a video about it (see below). I’ve since learned that this concept is related to some other concepts that synth lovers know about. See the video’s comments for more info. If you’d like to use these WAV files, here they are for you to enjoy. You will find a ZIP file and the WAV files are in there. I can’t quite remember why I named the WAV files this way, but I was calculating something and it made sense at the time. One of them is a pure sine wave at 200 hertz and the rest have some alterations of the sine width but are also 200 hertz.
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I hope you enjoy these and that you make some music or some sound discoveries with them. If you’ve enjoyed these, feel free to drop me a comment on YouTube with any tunes, sound discoveries or thoughts. I used them in the Monomachine but they should work in just about any sampler or synth that loads waveforms. I consider them Public Domain for free usage. Here they are.
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