"Brainwave 90s" by 909 County Fair [ downtempo industrial ]

[mjolnir]

https://soundcloud.com/909countyfair/brainwave-90s

(FREE download)

size: ~52 MiB
type: 24-bit FLAC
rate: 48 kHz
bpm: 90

i upgraded the sound file.

[mjolnir]

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[mjolnir]

I made some improvements to the main version and included just a few (not too many) accents.
Here's the final version: (keeping the original name)
https://soundcloud.com/909countyfair/brainwave-90s

[Hezekiel]

Very nice grooves. The crunchy lead sound was cool

[mjolnir]

Very nice grooves. The crunchy lead sound was cool

thanks for listening to the tune and for commenting.

i have designed some sounds like that in the past, but to be honest, i got the lead loopy synth and one of the pads from a royalty-free, free sample site as 2 downloads, but i decided to go with that because i needed to focus on other elements more than the struggle to make those types of synth sounds. i used https://noiiz.com which has a search engine.

it feels slightly cheap to do that, but A LOT of earthshattering breakbeat music over of the years, maybe even all of it is dependent upon sampling and phrase sampling. i dare say breakbeat can't exist without sampling. but hopefully i added enough of my own flavours to make the track exciting and interesting.

it's a wierd way to work, but it did actually work, and the efficiency of tunemaking was there. i was able to focus more on edits and the mix and i did overdub a variety of other things and also did use other samples too.

if i can, i'm going to try and migrate to 100% VSTi use for certain synths like layered pads, but try to use one-shot samples for everything else. that's not how i've been working over the months for most of my tunes, but i need to make progress. i feel that might be the right way. i program too many of the same VSTi sounds over and over again or reuse too many presets. these days there's so many free downloads, including some royalty free oneshots that i need to just go with that flow and make music instead of huge struggles.

most of my favorite tunes of the 80s and 90s had a lot of sampling activity and i'm rediscovering that as i go along. of course there are exceptions, and those are wonderful too. the only thing that kicks my *** is that i can't use some of the classic samples of course because that era is gone (meaning the lawyers kicked in during the 1990s). despite the musical success of countless acts (mis-)using classic breaks. of course i don't want legal hassles so i have to learn better how to use all the tools, including the legal download samples. after all these years of using freebie VST instruments, i'm starting to burn out and need to go a different direction, hence going to some mainstream free WAV sites now.

i'm still happy with the tune. i hope it isn't disappointing.

on a different note, the digital voice is actually performed(?) and rendered by AnalogX SayIt freeware.
At first I was going to include more words, but they tend to have poor enunciation and too much bass. LOL

i did overdub a filtered supersaw VSTi synth from Pterosaur freeware and that was the final enhancement, which turned out well. That's how I got that stereo bass "heartbeat" type of synth bass sound on top of the wormy download.
the glossy chopped up pad was deliberately placed to be jarring and somewhat out of sync and just barely in pitch.

i was going for a Meat Beat Manifesto / Nitzer Ebb type of a sound, overall.
Of course I'm not them, but I love their styles.

ah, i just remembered, i also used I think it was "Add'It" freeware VSTi synth for the pitched bing sounds.
and it was probably ZynAddSubFX that I played in for the performed pads. "EVM Grand Piano" VSTi freeware for the reversed piano sound; i remember that too.

there were other sounds and tools used, but it starts to be a long list and i don't want to deconstruct the whole tune. but i just recently downloaded "Chimera" VSTi freeware for the tuned noise accents and that is important, because I like getting semi-pro sounds from old 32-bit freewares.