Tag: 120bpm

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120bpm – one of those loops I can listen to over and over – A hypnotic tune made with FL Studio Mobile on iPhone. I started this a couple years ago playing around getting used to the app again after utilizing it in my early music journals What journal (3) and especially What journal (2nd wave) and then left the piece to work on other things. Today I revisited it and decided to make a recording, so people can listen to it.

Uses the in-app instruments GMSynth (Electric preset), MiniSynth (Science preset), DW Sampler (DX10 FM Key preset in 2 instances, one pitched up an octave), and drums. I copy/pasted 3 repetitions and added a simplified ending.

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120bpm – A walking soft brassy part, low frequency filter, delay, starts things off, forms the basis – this is a sound-designed preset of my own in Lagrange (based on Daiba). A cello-ish long-held melody played in Continua (Baroque Sonal System (Lead)) is added underneath. Then a melody which sounds like something I can’t quite remember from the 80’s, Lagrange again with Bleass granulizer Reverse Beats.

Continua provides a dreamy, sweeping pad (Fresher Pad by Red Sky Lullaby), a pulse short note sound-designed synth is added as a second melody. Then comes a highlight/lead calling over the pads (Injection Pad Red Sky Lullaby).

As the song nears its end we raise the frequency of the filter on the walking base melody until you can distinguish the saw oscillators. Everything but this and the long melody from the beginning – which you now realize you missed hearing – ring out until it stops.