Snack Master music feedback thread

hey everyone, i have a more relaxed track for y'all today:

it's got a similar vibe to aphex's "ibiza spliff".

may as well share this one too:

the drums could use some more work, but i'm pretty happy with the melody, especially towards the end.

i've been riding a productive kick over the past few days, so here's another new track:

i may continue to edit the first part and add on to the end, but i'm pretty happy with this

back with an ambient jam.  jambient

  On 7/9/2019 at 2:36 AM, snack master said:

 

pretty straightforward dnb track here.  i've been working on taking my drum work to the next level while also trying to avoid compositional habits i sometimes fall into, and this is one of the first tracks to come out of it.  i hope y'all enjoy

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Hardly straight forward dnb lol. Really feeling this one. Very nice cut ups. Kept me focused through out. Nice one.

  On 7/17/2019 at 2:16 AM, snack master said:

although i wouldn't say this is done, i was eager to get it online, so this is kind of a rough sketch of what will come in the end.  it's a kind of an exploration of some melodies on top of break beats with some acid elements throughout. 

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Very musical!! Only criticism would be that as others have mentioned the beats themselves seem to lack a bit punch / bottom end. 

  On 7/31/2019 at 10:05 PM, snack master said:

i've been riding a productive kick over the past few days, so here's another new track:

 

 

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Nice - enjoyable listen!!

I'm trying to break into the YouTube game

good idea, thanks

cool! a great acid line comes in at 3.08, sounds like a modulating FM sound or something... aphexy. what box is that coming out of, is it the DSI Evolver? and how are you modulating it?

that kind of hard-modulating afx acid sound is difficult to reproduce, i've been trying for a while. you are pretty close there.

good sounds, there is too much on-the-one changes (like on the first beat of the bar) which makes it too predictable in places, so just bringing in some synthlines or basslines on off beats or a beat or two early or late would make it sound even better i think.

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a great acid line comes in at 3.08, sounds like a modulating FM sound or something... aphexy. what box is that coming out of, is it the DSI Evolver? and how are you modulating it?

yeah, that's the evolver.  the evolver has four oscillators, two analog, two digital.  this patch is pretty simple--a single oscillator, high resonance, a bit of filter envelope action, but most of the sound comes from the digital waveform (which was apparently sampled from the prophet VS).

thanks for the feedback regarding introducing elements on the one beat, that's a bit of interesting feedback.

  On 10/27/2019 at 4:12 PM, snack master said:

yeah, that's the evolver.  the evolver has four oscillators, two analog, two digital.  this patch is pretty simple--a single oscillator, high resonance, a bit of filter envelope action, but most of the sound comes from the digital waveform (which was apparently sampled from the prophet VS).

thanks for the feedback regarding introducing elements on the one beat, that's a bit of interesting feedback.

cool thanks for the info, sounds like a really interesting synth. no worries! look forward to hearing more

another jam:

I'm not a drum n bass fan, but I liked the drums, choir, and where everything drops and the song goes mad, it was really great, I think you have a unique style, don't lose this, other than that chords could be more on the foreground.

Hey, I like Inside a lot the kicks are catchy, I would like to hear them more amplified though because when the melody gets in they are standing in the background, and only in the ending I felt a little bit confused with the sounds, in outro I didn't know what to listen, I like the intro though it really picks you up and make you want to listen the rest of the song.

this track builds up real nice. Really dig the paintings at the beginning too. 

I was going to suggest getting away from the Rhodes Piano samples, but then the poppy arp came in and I was a fan.  The wormy synths underneath are there and fill nicely, but are not in line with the chords on the electric piano, so I would revisit.  I bet it could sound better.  I sounds fine as is, but could be better I think. Or it might make it worse, who knows!  lol.  Music is toiugh and that the art, am I right?!

this is still kinda rough in how fleshed out the overall ideas are and the arrangement in general, but i'm happy with a lot of what i have going on here, especially regarding the drum patterns

this is a more refined edit of something i posted here a few months ago

i made a relaxed little acid tune.

i made a weird sort of techno