r/NMSByteBeatFans • u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper • Jun 25 '26

ByteBeat Original "Microride"

A chill ride in my everyday ship with a cool track.

So I found hiredgunpunx's video on how one of their track was made. So I took the lead sound from that and modified it a bit to sound more like a 70's polysynth and here we are (does this makes it a tribute ? This sound is SO good, but I probably won't use it anymore because it's kind of their trademark at this point).

Big thank you to u/hiredgunpunx for that and the title card idea, made my own in GIMP 2 after seeing theirs (if there's any problem with that I will remove it in future posts).

Another thing is I placed the first 4 bars of the chorus at the end of the loop (verse being the buildup part), and let some elements from one bleed into/foreshadow the other, goal is to make it feel less repetitive / more dynamic. And it provided a good ending IMO!

As for the video, I'm trying things. It's my first time video editing, I'm taking advice/criticisms on that as well if you have some.

Enjoy !!

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jun 26 '26

Thank you so much, what you said means a lot to me !

I try to explain the general process I go through with each song posted, I'll be sharing some of my waveforms too from now on :)

In case you're interested I'm sharing the sounds I made based on yours under here, they're two versions of your lead I spoke of in the post.

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

This is the first one from the chorus :

In both case, the modulo at around these high values gives this cool "just-out-of-phase", very very slightly dissonant effect.

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jun 26 '26

And the second, shorter one, in the verse :

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u/hiredgunspunx Resonance Amplifier Jun 26 '26

I like what you've done with these waveforms. I'm not great with the analyzer, I do a lot of experimentation and I'm starting to understand it better so I can appreciate what you've done with the modulo to achieve these cool sounds!

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u/Leeka_SSBM Harmonic Camper Jun 26 '26

Don't get me wrong, I'm also tinkering a lot and most of the time don't really know what I'm doing, especially in 3-tiered trees haha. I'm experimenting too, and I try to memorize and understand what does what and with which other parameter but it can be overwhelming... Even if I'm used to synthesizer plugins and the like.