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It's still a wild mystery to me which tracks people end up finding randomly on here, but whatever magic is behind it all, I'm glad you found this one! Thank you a ton for listening!

What a fantastic comment! Thank you so kindly for listening and I'm very happy you liked it! Great analogy to "amour courtois" literary style. I feel like you perfectly understood all the intentions behind this long and strange song, from the themes to the aesthetics, and I really appreciate the listen very much!

@@Eddie_CYH thank you! Yeah no kidding, that's by far the synth from which I've gotten the most bang for my buck. I've used it on at least 30 tracks I've put up. As a work horse romplers and polyphonic sequencer, it's absolutely indispensable to me at this point. Paired with the sp404 those are my two desert island pieces of gear. That being said, I still find myself drawn to other gear for the tactility that the mc101 kinda lacks. But if I'm looking for a very specific sound, I feel like I can find it on this little box. I'm sure you've done this already, but I don't think it was available when I made this jam, please for the love of Sauron and all the children of Mordor, update to the latest firmware so you can fully edit the oscillators and establishment unlock all parameters for every voice. That was a game changer I didn't have for many of my early tracks on the mc101

@@GeorgeL909 WOW! I'll learn more and try more in the future. I've already started to upload videos on RUclips to record how I learn MC 101 and likewise record all my works. Wish I could be an expert as you do as soon as possible.

Thank you very kindly!!! I'm so glad you liked it. It was actually a combination of your jams with Vermis sitting in frame along with @josuakarlson 's vermis stuff that inspired me to lean a little harder into the dungeon synth for this one. No idea what's coming next, but I know if I'm running out of inspiration I can always pop by one of your perFourMer x digitakt mega jams and start mining 💎 ⛏️💀

@@GeorgeL909 Much appreciated!! Not that it sounds convincing coming off recording a 6 minute ambient jam but your stuff definitely influences me a lot as well. So does that mean that you are, at the end of the cycle, influencing yourself? 🤔🤔🤔

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it *casts "aura of appreciation" spell*

Thank you very kindly!!! That means a lot to me. This track will eventually end up on both Bandcamp and here for free as part of the full album. Just gotta work on the rest of the album first, but if I ever need inspiration, I definitely know where to look 😉

Thank you very kindly! Welcome to the channel too! No idea how you found me with my very high stealth skill, but I'm glad you did! More music to come *disappears into the algorithm shadows*

@@irradix213 unfortunately I'm still a little too small scale to do physical releases. The cassette covers are just for fun and wishful thinking. But the new albums are available for free on Bandcamp, so you're more than welcome to download them for free and make your own cassettes, hopefully the j-card is sized right. One day I'll probably have the means to do physical releases, but until then it's a very sleepy one man show, so any free moment I'll probably spend on making more tracks. I have to reach 1000 tracks, then I'll evolve into my final form. I hope I have wings. And night vision.

Fun fact the "record label" in Japanese on the cards translates to Mishima Zaibatsu records. As in Tekken. Don't tell bandai-namco 😅. I'm not actually part of a real record label. Just a dude dressed as a dude playing another dude.

@@GeorgeL909 ok gotcha, thank you, that's beautiful

I've set my Bandcamp to free as well, but I'm still just making my John Carpenter and Claudio Simonetti dolls kiss and haven't found my new groove yet

@@irradix213 I mean... You could've picked way worse dolls 🤣

@@irradix213 thank you! The resampling on the 404 is what gives it its power, being able to endlessly bake in effects until the final sound is unrecognizable. I've been using the Liven Mega Synthesis a lot, and dry it sounds like a Sega Genesis, but with the resampling, baking in chorus, delay, distortion, reverb, it brings it to life way beyond chip tunes. Highly recommended. If you don't like the Force's chopping workflow, try to just record loops in like... 8-bar segments. That way you only really have to chop the end once per loop. On the 404 in this track I don't even bother chopping the end, I just place the loop on a pattern set to 8 bars and when I switch patterns it automatically cuts off perfectly. The only thing is the tail gets lost, but if I really want a tail, it's ready to add to the first step of the next pattern.

@@GeorgeL909 nice, I record and cut everything in a 25yr old editor I was raised on first, and load back from stick, I use the FX suite in the Force live when I'm not just running 8 synths off it, and hadn't thought of resampling since the Zoom ST224

And FM seems a good way to go for plenty of things like ours now, I follow a guy who writes pieces for parts of Vermis on Digitone, I just use the old TX81z, volca FM and FM2, and the 2 op in the CS Reface between 2 analog monos and 2 ROMplers

@@irradix213 @JosuaKarlson ? The man the myth the legend, I follow him too. Very good stuff. 100% agree, FM gets you some delicious sounds, and I'm a fan of romplers and pcm synths too, the JD08 being my recent weapon of choice for nostalgic PlayStation esque synth sounds, but it definitely has controls like it's a subtractive synth so it feels almost in between.

@@GeorgeL909exactly, his name had slipped my mind, I still want theJV-880 and another Proteus1 is on its way now,btw this is what I come from, so long ago, first ritual jam then 2 real songs, ruclips.net/video/X793BCZb48E/видео.htmlsi=Fugh17NOPlAYQxWA

@@irradix213 woo! Thank you very kindly!

Woo! Thank you very kindly! Glad you managed to find it and give it a listen.

@hexwavemusic thank you very kindly! I'm so glad that I managed to get a track to stick in your head! That's the best complement. Donkey Kong country vibe is frighteningly accurate. I am a huge alien guy. I have at least a half dozen tracks inspired by alien and one rap verse about Sigourney Weaver's butt, so I guess that makes me a true fan. I'm on media blackout on Alien Romulus, but going to watch it maybe this coming Sunday. I remember when I watched Prometheus, I was in New York, and my nerd ass was standing on a crowded sidewalk in Manhattan having a full volume argument with my friend about what the hell that movie was actually about. Like practically yelling in the streets like we were about to throw down, but really we were just passionate about the series. I will maintain that that movie had enormous potential but was carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey for reasons we will probably never know...

@@GeorgeL909 Lmao I did also more or less get that takeaway from Prometheus, very cool movie visually and some neat ideas but definitely with problems (but I would love a flute operated computer, thank you). I am a murderer of spoilers so you do not have to worry from me, but I hope you enjoy it!

Dude I adore the adore doom, especially Plutonia experiment purely out of nostalgia. Highly highly recommend Romero's Sigil 1 and 2 which should be downloadable within the new client, but for those two you gotta listen to the built in OST, cause it is a masterclass in midi based heavy metal/industrial. While we're at it, nightdive made a phenomenal Quake port with new expansions, and it will never get uninstalled from my steam deck. Don't get me started on THAT soundtrack.

Also thank you kindly! I always appreciate your comments. (Before I get distracted on another long comment tangent)

@@GeorgeL909 Yeah it's super cool that they bundled all those campaigns officially in the game and gave it as a free update. Nightdive does the lords work on these old games I tell you. I started Legacy of Rust and oh boy it ramps up quick.

Thank you very kindly! That's one hell of a comparison. I'll be honest, I hadn't heard much of Velvet Acid Christ before, but checking out neuroblastoma, you're absolutely right! There's a lot of influence from that time period. It's crazy how that happens sometimes kinda by accident. I've definitely heard similar bands to them over the years, so there's no doubt I was influenced by the countless wax trax and ebm bands of the 90s. One other example, only a few months ago I was flipping through a RUclips playlist and I heard GGFH for the first time ever (specifically the album "disease") and I was like "wow it sounds like I've been ripping this band off for years" 🤣. I swear, it was uncanny. Anyways... Definitely adding Velvet Acid Christ to the listening mix. Great recommendation. Thanks again for all the listens over the years btw.

@@GeorgeL909 You're welcome. I love listening older music from the past as it's always fun to discover bands you never knew about. Be sure to check out the other albums by, VAC their a lot good stuff from that band.

Thank you super kindly!

@@ElectricMe woo! Thank you very kindly!

​​​@@hexwavemusic I'd like to leave things mysterious. Are these just incoherent ramblings or deep lore to be adapted by HBO starring Timothee Chalamet? Only time will tell. Maybe I've been Timothee Chalamet this whole time! Anything's possible! I'm glad to invoke image of Mortal Kombat at any possible opportunity, and that makes sense, since big beat was a genre that was only really popular in the mid 90s at the height of mortal Kombat's popularity. The soundtrack to the first movie actually changed my life musically. What a freaking amazing soundtrack to hear as a kid, from Lords of Acid to kmfdm, Rammstein, fear factory, Megadeth, type o negative, it was all over the place in the best ways. And finally, the acoustic version of this would basically just be me breathing heavily while featuring ASMR sounds of my fingers tapping 404 pads and midi controller keys, since I don't own any acoustic instruments. That's an idea though...

@@GeorgeL909 Okay so acoustic version confirmed as this sounds like a platinum record in the making. Also this isn't the first time you've claimed to possibly be T Chal (you don't mind if I call you that do you) so I'm starting to think where there's smoke there's fire 🤔 I knew someone who used to exclusively work out to the mortal Kombat movie soundtrack, but I can't remember who it was.

@@hexwavemusic they probably got so buff that they became unrecognizable. I just recently learned that Tom Hardy actually raps under the pseudonym Frank Pulitzer aka facepuller. He's on several tracks from Czarface with a former member of Wu Tang. So stuff like this does really happen! I did not make this up, this is a tiny rabbit hole gift for you to dive into 😉

@@hexwavemusic yup! The eyes of the Swamp King grant improved vision when traversing the poison mists. In case you were wondering...

@@GeorgeL909 I wasn't, I promise I'm not collecting artifacts, you don't have to worry about me 😶‍🌫️

Thank you! The instrumental is recorded entirely from the sp404 played in pattern mode, manually changing patterns. I'll break it down for you. So, all drums were assembled on the sp404 using one shots and breakbeat chops played into pattern mode, then resampled with effects. All the basses, leads, pads and solos were sampled into pads on the sp404 from live playing using a keyboard attached to the JD08, but recorded in 8 bar segments. Then after effects were added, the drums and synth sounds were layered on top of each other in TR-rec mode in separate 8 bar patterns. Finally all those patterns were recorded in one sitting in sequence into a DAW by chaining the patterns manually. No stems, just one chunky wav file committed to audio. Only thing added after that is a little compression. But, the vocals were done all in the DAW over that wave file. That keeps this from being a "dawless" jam, but that's fine. It saves me a ton of headache trying to mess with vocal timing on the sp404. I suppose it's possible, but it saves me time to see the waveform over the whole song in the DAW. So it's neither truly live nor dawless, but some horrible abomination in between 😉

​@@GeorgeL909human animal hybrids breeding human animal hybrids

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@ryankim3299 thank you very kindly and welcome to the channel! Hey I've been using the 404 for a hot minute as the centerpiece of my setup for the past 20 something tracks, so if you have any questions about it or how I make this stuff, lmk 🍻

You're a legend man, 🍻

@@hexwavemusic your comments make me happy, and that strengthens me. Not like in a spiritual way, like wellness or wholeness, but more like an 80s cartoon or Sega Genesis game way where I actually become physically more buff, and my muscles enlarge and my clothes rip, I probably get hairier and my eyes glow. Thanks for listening and assisting me in getting closer to my final form 👌👍

@@GeorgeL909 That's great to hear, so I guess reading my comments makes people more like me, being a buff video game protagonist as I am. Great 😃

@@cchampion6176 thank you very kindly! I'm really glad you liked this one 👽

@@cvrsesynth thank you kindly!!!

That's really kind of you! Thank you. I'm glad you dig this stuff. Despite pretending otherwise, this whole thing is a very small scale music project, but to see it get anyone excited means a lot to me.

Thank you extremely kindly! All your comments are fantastic! Ok so the chord melody struck my nostalgia gland too. My guess is unintentionally, it sounds like the Konami intro music. It's almost the same notes, I think. The synth is also similar, but Konami probably used vocal pcm samples, likely from the D50 or the Korg M1. There's a ton of cross pollination with these 90s digital synths. The JD-800 is a nostalgia factory, I'm pretty sure I heard it going off in Star Trek, the next generation the other day, I'm like "what was that sparkly sound??" I love those sounds very much cause they're all over the PlayStation and CD era game soundtracks. They usually used the JV-1080 or 2080, and the D50, and Spectrasonics sample packs during that era. I have been mining the sample packs, but I got the JD08 because it replicated the jd800 "close enough", and contains almost the same sounds as those other boxes. The big difference: the jd800 has a TON of sliders and physical controls, where the other three are all menu based digital VCR-like interfaces, especially the JV series, and only have mostly buttons. Like changing the settings on your old TV. It's no fun except for selecting a preset and running with it. The JD was in response to backlash people had where there like "why can't we have more controls like the old analog stuff, instead of these menus. I wanna make my own stuff! It's 1989 damnit, we should be able to have individual controls for the envelopes on this bitch." At least that's how I imagine it went down 😅. Anyways. Thank you again for listening. I love it with you dig one of my tracks.

​@@GeorgeL909 Hah okay maybe maybe.. Yeah probably kind of just a combination of sounds that it has the vibe of plus it being a machine emulating the older hardware. I love the sound of it too, even though the PS stuff was a miss for me, I still heard it all the time. And yeah, I guess it's hard for these companies to figure out if they should go more manual controls or more compact and sleek looking.. Seems like both schools are still heavily represented at least in some ways. I'm just glad we're still steadily getting nice shiny new pieces of sick synth hardware, I hope it's a world that keeps on spinning for a long time. Anyway, great stuff. I typed this comment over like three chunks throughout the afternoon as I kept forgetting to finish typing it when I got interrupted so it probably makes no sense.

@@asylumbeat4162 Alesis SR-16 or SR-18. They're crazy cheap in the u.s., but they're very old. In my opinion no modern drum machine can beat a hardware sampler for this kind of sound , so I highly recommend the teenage engineering KO-II, the Sonicware Sample trek or Lofi 12XT, or if you can shell out a little more, the sp404 mk2. Then you can load them up with samples of the Alesis of literally hundreds of other drum machines, but still tweak and edit the individual hits... Especially with the sp404 mk2, which has an assortment of EQ, reverb, and compressors that really add a ton of character to the drums. These options run you $200-450 new depending. If you're really tight on a budget: koala sampler will give you most of the functionality of an sp404 without the hardware component on your phone or tablet, combined with a sample pack for old Alesis or Roland R8 samples, your basically set for drums. Maybe 10$ plus whatever device you're using.

@GeorgeL909 thank you for your answers! I already have an SP 404 SX, I pre-ordered the Liven Ambient 0, and I'll maybe take a used Yamaha F51.. afterward as a reverb pedal I don't really know, I have a mooer echo verb

@@asylumbeat4162 so I do have music on SoundCloud, however they have a 3 hour limit before they start charging money for uploads. I probably have about 30+ hours of music on here, real talk, so for every album I upload, I have to remove another to make space, or pay them gross human money so I don't upload there often. But if you really prefer SoundCloud, you can find me here: m.soundcloud.com/georgel909 However, if you wanna listen for free without ads, I highly recommend Bandcamp instead georgel909.bandcamp.com/ Ever 6 tracks or so gets uploaded as an album, free to listen, ad free, and they don't restrict the amount of music I can upload 😉. Hell you can even download the new stuff for free too, make a cassette tape out of it, and throw it at zombies as a projectile!

@@GeorgeL909 super merci 🫡

@@kilgore-recordings woo! Thank you!

I really appreciate that! Fever dream is a wonderful description and exactly what I am always going for. I also enjoy comparisons to actual bands that make music as I'm a bedroom producer in the most literal sense, often under my bed, with a goblin mask on, hissing at people who enter my lair.

@hexwavemusic thank you so much! I always like hearing if you dig a track. Means a lot to me. So all the pads basses and leads were the JD08 played into the sp404. But the bloops were a mix of random 2600, Syntakt, and a combo of Relics and Fractal Bits softsynths, depending on what I was near at the time. I actually did a lot of the texture recording while watching shows. Me and the crew were watching breaking bad and better call Saul for the first time, so there were a LOT of episodes. Plenty of time to multitask and record bloops with headphones on. The 404 fx make them sound a little more spacious and stereo too. I also sample random things I find from movie clips and Internet stuff too. I know it's kinda naughty, but Idc that much. It's usually something random or obscure and hopefully transformative enough to not get scolded over. I sampled a random episode the TV show Charmed once I think. That's the one with Alyssa Milano? I needed an attractive female voice talking about witchcraft to pitch down and add reverb to. Sorry Alyssa Milano. If you're reading this, message me and I'll take it down. Also while I have your attention, do you like Mexican food? There's this place nearby, they make killer enchiladas and they have a great spicy house tequila, they even give you a blood orange coated in sugar to bite into when you take a shot. We should go sometime. Anyways... What was I talking about?

@@GeorgeL909 Gotta shoot your shot my friend 😂 Btw both breaking bad and BCS are great, glad you're watching those 👌

@@hexwavemusic yeah! One of those shows everyone told me to watch back in the day but I never got around to. Finished all of it after a massive binge with the homies. Now my next fixation is going to be 2024 released Nicholas Cage horror movies.

I appreciate you so much man. Too kind, always 😁

Woo! Thank you very kindly!

Hah I wish. My music is forever cursed to the dark corners of RUclips 😅 but I really appreciate the listen. Thank you very kindly!

@@Dude1923Dumby thank you very kindly! Really glad you liked it. All the melodic synths in this one are from JD08 except for maybe 1 or 2 solo sounds in the heavy section. I'm loving the JD08 so far, it has a ton of character and sounds I'm very nostalgic for.

@@Flixtrix466 thank you! You found one of my first ever tracks on RUclips! This was made on Orion, a very old saw DAW from synapse audio. I was still in highschool at the time so I couldn't afford hardware synths, but I got by with that DAW for years because it was cheap, flexible, and very easy to use. It had a built in synth called WASP which was actually modeled after the real life EDP WASP. I had no idea what that was at the time, but years later I learned it was a very edgy synth from the late 70s with some harsh and interesting tones that really colored my style of music going forward. It also has a built in tr-909 clone. Probably where I got the 909 in my username since that was the first virtual machine I ever used.

Thank you! Each cover is a little different. I used to do a lot of photo collage stuff, mixing movie stills with drawn things. When stable diffusion and a.i. came out I started incorporating some of that into the artwork. Recently people expressed a bit of dislike for a.i. art, so I went back to some of the old ways of making the covers. This one in particular has 3 images: the background was a big cyclops octopus I drew with pen and paper, then I took a picture of it with an iPad and loaded that into Procreate. In Procreate, I traced over the image adding in shadows and shading and stuff. Then the final image went straight into GIMP and hit with a few "Posterize" filters and color reduction to give it a "clean" look. The second image was a hallway filled with water. It was actually a screenshot from a game on Steam called Pools. It's a weird little game about... Well... Pools. I took the screenshot, boosted the contrast all the way up and drew over it in Procreate. The little octopus monster in the back was drawn in just with procreate. The female figure was done the same way as the background octopus, but I had to use a stock photo reference to get the shadows right. It was a much bigger image originally so I could zoom in, and the poster filter did a lot of the work for me. In the the end everything was pasted together in GIMP and extra stuff like the texts, stickers, lines, and colors were added with just regular Photoshop style editing. I'm glad you liked the artwork, but it's never really been the focus of these tracks. I just like to put *something* to look at instead of a black screen while listening to the music. While some of my past artworks had a.i. elements, I don't think I'll be using any going forward. That means the track art will take a little longer to make, but it should still have the same effect.

@@GeorgeL909 wow, thank you so much for your detailed and thoughtful response. It always great to hear someone passionate about their art. Hope you have a great day/night whereever you are!

​@@GeorgeL909Very cool to hear more details about your process! I know it's not your thing but it would be cool to see like a walkthrough somehow of you making one of these, but like, that would probably be a nightmare to record and edit 🤷

@@hexwavemusic maybe I could take some pictures and do a community post.

Thank you SO much man! I found I kept gravitating towards the Korg iM1 sounds in many of my previous tracks because of how deeply nostalgic they were to me and I thought "man I really wish there was a hardware M1 with knobs or sliders so I could edit the presets more easily." Turns out that basically was what the jd-800 was in the late 80s (more like a Roland D-50 with sliders). But since I don't have space and repair expertise to invest in a massive JD800 I got the boutique version, the JD-08 and I am in love with it, even with the tiny sliders. A lot of this track was just performing with the "classic" factory patches with tweaks, but the heavier parts had custom patches. I swear this synth must have been used in a ton of 90s PlayStation and computer games since I hear so many familiar sounds. Also I didn't record anything to midi in this track so it was all played in live chunks recorded into the 404 (except the chopped up drums obviously, this) which kicked my butt a little performance wise. Ok. That was me busting out the excitement for the new synth. So glad you liked it though.

@@GeorgeL909 Oh sick I didn't realize you had a new machine, definitely sounding great then! Just looked it up and looks very cool. Enjoy it 😃

As soon as this hit bandcamp I will buy it

@@summerlaverdure thank you kindly! I'm glad you liked it. It's up on Bandcamp as part of the album Existential, but real talk, you don't have to buy it, you can just download it for free if you want, it's more than enough for me that you listened and dug it 😉

@@GeorgeL909 i bought it! I'm hipsterpap on bandcamp! (i just buy music i dont make music on there yet) it so good, thanks again for all your awesome music <3

@@GeorgeL909 it’s a banger! What’s your bandcamp? If you make cassettes I will buy!

@@sooperheep thank you very kindly. Bandcamp is georgel909.bandcamp.com/ I am still a little too small scale for physical releases, and the fake cassette art is just wishful thinking, but I encourage you to download the music for free and record it to whatever media you like. Maybe one day I'll have the means to get some cool custom cassette production going with all the art in a little booklet. P.s. hang tight cause I got another album coming later this month once I finish this last track 😉

I linked here from a SMT video lol

Thank you very kindly! I'll be honest that's a game series I've always known about and been interested in but never played through. I got a few hours into Revelations: Persona on the original PlayStation, and I tried to get through a Japanese rom of the original Shin Megami Tensei, but I couldn't get far because I don't know Japanese. The first persona though, it was literally decades ago but I remember wandering through a highschool in grid based first person and being accosted by strange creatures and getting yelled at by schoolgirls. Good times. Confusing times.

Absolutely!

Dude alien crush is the coolest looking pinball game I've ever seen. I never even heard of it before. My turbografix PC engine knowledge is limited mostly to random RUclips videos. That being said I have an "emulator" machine and I went ham for a while on scrolling shooters. Turns out they are actually pretty fun when you have unlimited continues o.o Thank you for listening to this and comparing it to actual music from professional game designers. It won't be much of a surprise but, while I did grow up in the 16 but era, it was the PlayStation 1 that truly blew my mind music wise.Tracks that heavily heavily influenced my music style were the "menu music" from legend of dragoon and two tracks from blood omen: The Mausoleum and On the Road to Vengeance. If you listen to those you'll have a "yup. I know where he got that from" moment.

@@GeorgeL909 I never had any PlayStation except briefly PS4, but I have also acquired like, all the psx games and have been looking forward to diving into that world with random games for short bursts.. I'll check those out.

​@@hexwavemusic dude you're in for a treat. The PlayStation 1 is a clunky mess, but it's also got an unmistakeable vibe, this dark dream-like quality to it, and amazing music due to early CD-ROMs Japanese romplers and digital synths. With save states and emulators you can overcome the things biggest weaknesses; load times and save points. Even if you never play the games, I'd highly recommend you watch someone play silent Hill 1, preferably a blind playthrough by a streamer you like. That game is an industrial horror nightmare some personified into a game, and has one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. Side note, you might enjoy majuular's "kings field" retrospective as well. Kings Field is near unplayable these days, but it captures a bizarre pixilated world that only the PS1 could render. It's probably the basis for the dark souls aesthetic. I could go on for hours about this and I often do to random folks on the street. "Sir... Do you have a moment to discuss silent Hill and the golden age of survival horror? SIR... don't walk away! Sir!"