u/Finlaylefox

This is the same track I posted last week, but I’ve gone back in and added some automation & subtle movement across the arrangement, which is something I am still getting used to.

I made small changes in the drums, bass, textures and little incidentals, just to give it a more human feel and stop things sounding too stiff. I feel like the whole track breathes a lot more now.

The full track was made on the OPXY. I also tried to show a few of the individual tracks whilst it's playing to show what is actually happening under the hood, especially the LFO movement and modulation shaping different elements over time.

Pretty happy with where it is now, and I’d class this one as finished.

Would love to hear people’s thoughts, feedback, or answer any questions on how certain sounds or movements were made.

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Sorry, it’s been a while since my last upload. I’ve got a lot of bits I’m working on and finishing up, will post them soon.

I made this track pretty quickly, just over a few hours really, mainly to test myself creatively and technically.

The vocals are samples from Splice. The basses are all built from sine wave LFOs on the OPXY, and the drums, pads and incidentals are a mix of UK Garage one shot packs and some of the general OPXY drum hits.

I’m starting to get much deeper into sound design now. Things like using transpose octaves in the M2 menu to slightly shift different bass sine waves against each other gives some really wide sounding low end. Also using chorus, reverb, EQ and panning much more intentionally now to make everything sit together better in the mix.

There are honestly so many hidden options in the menus that can completely change your sound outside of the obvious FX units. Transpose is a massive one for me at the moment. Pushing sounds up or down a few octaves creates these weird parallel bass textures that sound really dutty layered together. Width is another one, especially on hats and percussion. Also making sure bass and drums etc are set to MONO rather than seemingly, the default which is legato.

The main thing missing in this track is automation. I still tend to build the full track first and automate later, but on the OPXY that can get messy once loads of scenes already exist. Sometimes automation seems to affect other scenes in weird ghost ways, or you get strange pops and transitions between scenes where parameters connect awkwardly this should be addressed by TE, among a (few) other things...

Feels like the best workflow is probably automating as you build, rather than trying to do it all at the end.

Anyway, starting to get some pretty heavy low end out of this thing now. If you’ve got a proper sub setup you’ll probably hear what I mean.

Let me know what you think as always.

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