After 36 DAYS of production, fighting producer's block, chord and note fixes, balancing, mastering, and synthesizing I present to you "D E Z".
This has a pretty interesting story. The title of the song is actually referring to a joke in one of my video games. The joke happens when the tutorial robot introduces itself to you.
He says this exact line, "I'm a Digital Easy Help Sentury, DEHS. It's pronounced 'Dez' but the creator is not the best when it comes to naming including abbreviations."
The song uses the first melody I've ever created in my whole lifetime. It plays at 0:30. Everything else was created as the song progressed.
I just want to make one thing clear, I DO NOT USE VST's. The program I use is not compatible with plugins like Sylenth1 and Nexus. So I have to create the instruments myself. The siren that plays in the second verse is an example of an instrument I had to make, I actually posted a video showing the before and after of the sound once everything was fixed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbYY7CrUGuc
Here's the process in for the Siren effect
- I had to first create the sound on a Groove Machine Synthesizer
- Record the LFO and export it as a .wav
- Slice the audio to make a single note
- Lower the pitch and frequency
- Add a slight fade into the sample
- Export and import the sample into FL Studio Mobile
- Turn the new audio sample into a DirectWave instrument
- Fix the frequency one last time
- Finally, I had to fine tune the instrument
The robot in the cover is the tutorial robot I was talking about, it took a while to design and add lighting.
Although this whole thing was a process and took a really long time, I think it was worth it in the end.
I hope you like the song and be sure to leave any feedback so I can improve in the future.
Until the next song :)!
Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/phantoms-ghost/d-e-z
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*Please contact me if you would like to use this in a commercial project. We can discuss the details.