Dailies 0x0A.12: Copy and paste (3:18)

This is a song about program features. It is somewhat wistful. It's also more than a bit repetetive; i'm too tired to track any good ideas today. It builds off a quadraSID riff that augments into a fatter and fuller sound courtesy of a few extra SQ8Ls and Wavestations doubling the original riff. An Oatmeal provides the main melodic interest, starting off with a simple riff that widens into five-part harmony.

This tune would have been headache-inducing to write in Buzz. It was in fact written on the latest Buze alpha (0.4.6). Buze has a really nice feature that allows you to copy and paste entire machines, allowing things like note doubling in a few keystrokes. It also lets you track multiple channels of harmony very easily - every time you enter a note it sounds all the notes on the same tick in that pattern. Such a godsend for doing complicated melodies. So this song is about the usefulness of those two features in particular.

Also this is the first time i've put the tune into set-and-forget mastering instead of bothering to master it precisely. We'll see how it sounds on the Mackies tomorrow i think.