'Cinemats' - New Original Music - Trying to Use ROLI Sounds I've Never Explored Before - Electronic/Instrumental + Walkthrough

a bunch of sounds from ROLI that I haven't ever tried, maybe never even listened to. Whenever I use ROLI instruments, I tend to stick to the same sounds, so it was fun to check out all the other stuff. I started with Track 3, which uses one of the synths from the Cinematica pack. I added some automation to two of the settings, which adds and removes various harmonics and spacey wooshes and such. Track 2 was a Gamelan, which has a modulation setting called 'Weirdness', which I swelled in at the beginning of each hit, which gives it a much more digital quality. This accents some of the chord changes, and a few other hits. Track 1 is a spacey pad sound, which is a little weird, as you won't hear the sound unless you hold the note down for quite a long time. I don't think it really does much here, as I cut back the length of the notes, so maybe I'll replace it if I decide to work on this.

plays the line pictured to the left here. It has the Valhalla Supermassive reverb/delay, and is only used at two spots. I tried to sort of stagger the various tracks, so that no part was repeating anything that happened before, outside of Track 3, which continues underneath everything. Track 5 uses the 'Running Icycles' synth, and just plays a little 3 note line, 2x over each 12 bar section where it's used. Tracks 6 and 7 are both drum tracks, from ROLI's Cinematic Impact pack, which provide the sort of distorted timpani sound, and hi-hat/bell sound, though the timpani wound up being less bassy than I intended, so I'll play around with that if I keep up with this idea. Finally, we have Track 8 is a spacey, plucky synth sound, which mostly plays chord tones, but has a weird little chromatic part, moving from Eb to Db to D, which I didn't even know was there (it was supposed to be F to D to C), but wound up sort of fitting. If you focus on it, you can hear the dissonance, but in the background it just sort of adds a temporary tension, then breaks it.