Making some short loops for games with my tape rig.
HD download https://midnightsocean.bandcamp.com/track/old-school-mellow-rough
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Made this with my fantom x6, novation circuit, pulsar drum and roots kalimba through DOD analog delay and immerse reverb. Recorded on an old school portastudio 488 tape deck.
Oooooooo you have some 90's house synths. Korg Wavestation/legacy cell?
Ok, it's a bit washy, low mid dominant. Some of your kicks are off beat. There's some signature tones in use. There's potential for a track here, thinking breaks. But it would require significant work to get your synth choice to engage due to their cliche'd tone.
Tape is lovely, drive it bro. Pay attention to the upper end though.
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Hey thanks the feedback.
Only synth I used for this is the roland fantom x6. It's a smattering of all kinds of stuff. Some of it crap some of it very nice. The kicks only appear off beat when the hats are muted, so I'm thinking I'll make a more straight forward kick beat for the muted parts. That or just add something else to keep the time while I have the hats muted.
Not sure what I could do about the synth. That's just the nature of the patch, those cliche house chords. I personally like them but I'm sure people are sick to death of them. gota remember, the x6 is from like 2004. a LOT of the patches are really cliche lol. If I could find a NEW synth that actually had on board micro tuning, I'd consider swapping. This caught my eye: http://www.ashunsoundmachines.com but I don't see anywhere about it having micro-tuning. It's really not a thing designers seem to care about. where as, ironically, most digital synths from the 90s have on board micro tuning.
Yeah I'm so used to digital's tendency to be too bright. I gota remember tape is the total opposite. Gota really fill the treble bands up. Get a nice balance.
I think I will add more to my sequences and re-record the entire thing when I can. : )
Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.
Midnights-Ocean 
