Adrift

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Adrift

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Hello everyone! Today is a very special day for me, and that's because today my first submission ever turned 6 years old! Wow, time flies when you are having fun!

This is the perfect track to submit on this special day. It's a display of all the skills I developed over the past 6 years, put into one song and produced to death! The fact this track took 28 hours (4 more than 'Adamance') should already say a lot by itself. I technically finished this track weeks ago, but I just felt like waiting until today before I could submit it, so don't worry, I wasn't being a disorganized idiot like last time I submitted something here.

Anyways, I don't have much else to say about this track, so enjoy!

Here is a screenshot of the FLP for anyone who's interested!

PLUGINS:

Serum (Lead, Supersaw, Layers, Basses, Sub-Bass, Arp)

sforzando (Outro Music Box)

LABS (Tape Piano)

3x Osc (White Noise)

LENGTH: 4 minutes, 55 seconds.

BPM: 138 beats per minute.

SCALE: C Major / A Minor.

TIME SIGNATURE: 4/4

PROGRAM: FL Studio 21

TIME SPENT ON PRODUCTION: ~28 hours (throughout 1 month)

NOW AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD!

https://soundcloud.com/speedrhythmics/adrift-original-mix

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Scpaul871

2024-08-02 07:29:27

Just EVERYTHING in this track ist good LOVE IT

SpeedoRH responds:

Thank you so much man! <3

G2961

2024-01-17 16:47:44

This is very amazing work. Still wait new song

SpeedoRH responds:

Haha thank you! I might release something for Pixel Day, but can't say for sure. You'll know if it comes out :D

2456D8

2023-12-11 09:19:09

this sounds like an intro lol

SpeedoRH responds:

lol, hope you still liked it haha

Dart-Music

2023-11-26 07:43:52

Really like the atmosphere in this one!

One small thing I would have done on this one is rise the volume of the synths in the intro, middle section and end a little to match the loudness of the drop a little more, but other than that there's not much I can say as advices go.

Once again a really solid track! I liked those little fake-outs for the drops, especially the second one. The mix and master once again feel really good too, so I can say with confidence you got the hang of that step!

Keep it up!!

SpeedoRH responds:

Thank you very much again! I am happy you are having a fun time looking through everything.

That's true, some parts are too quiet for their own good. Maybe one day when I release my tracks on Spotify, I may fix that.

Fake-ins and outs are kinda my thing now haha. There are quite a few tracks where I did that (like Ensom and Adamance). Glad you enjoyed that creative touch! I am quite insecure about the mixing, but if you say it's good I will believe you :-)

I will! Thank you so much!

OVERSCORE

2023-07-27 13:07:00

Forgot to leave review 😖 what have I done

This is a beautiful piece! The emotional parts are clean, and the drums are so crisp. That bass is subtle, but really adds a lot to the song, and that piano is amazing, idk where you got that piano but it is super good, keep using it :D
The drops are awesome! Those massive future bass chords are done really well, and the melody is good as well. I really love that E major chord especially, it really sticks out in a good way.
Really good stuff man!

EDIT: oh. I’ve been playing piano for almost 7 years now, theory comes pretty naturally from me now. But I also have perfect pitch, which helps a lot

SpeedoRH responds:

Haha, don't worry I am not offended! You still managed to eventually review so it's fine.

I spent so long making this track, so I am so glad to hear that you think it's beautiful! Thing is, since around Quantum Future's release, I have tried my best to work on ambience and stuff. I guess the hard work and learning time has paid off here! I appreciate you noticing the drums; I try my best to make them snappy and tight as heck.

I am pretty sure the basses I used were a reese bass and a basic saw dist bass (it is just a saw wave with white noise layered on top, then distorted to shreds). It is really simple to make, not sure how you could reproduce that on SunVox :/

The piano is from a Spitfire LABS library called "Tape Piano", which I will likely keep using because it took so long for me to find it (I heard it on the outro for Exyl's "Ping 2", and it took several months for me to find it by chance). If you wanna know what I used for which instruments, you will always find it on the song description ;)

To be honest, the huge chords are actually very simple. I don't know how they ended up sounding huge like that, but I assure you, all it was was like a supersaw with white noise and that is it. Glad you liked it! Also, you must be studying some crazy music theory because I didn't fully realise that I had used an E major chord in my progression until I checked the project again. Thank you for making me aware of my strange music theory techniques!

Thanks for reviewing again! Sorry if I gave you too much to read this time.