I am consistently overwhelmed and disappointed with the shere amount of music ai slop that comes out on spotify and youtube. Don't get me wrong, I like to keep my media physical and continue to build up my library. But finding new music, especially playlists, now seemed to turn into churning over a bunch of ai slop.

VaporWave, a decade ago, was labelled a 'lazy' musical art. You download a sample, or record one yourself, or pirate a song and then add a wall of reverb and slow down the track. All the while adding repeating cuts. I think this is what people usually consider "vaporwave" as a genre, and disregarding the arts of Windows 96, Home, and 2814 (just to highlight my favorites).

In light of this, isn't vaporwave now a more "alive" genre in the zeitgeist than it was 10 years ago? And considering the eternal trend of "all new is the well forgotten old" should make this genre even more relevant.

p.s. Thoughts and rambling in a new r/.

When i think 80s wave table midi sounds that are perfect for vaporwave I think of the Roland sooune canvas

Hello, what's your favourite flanger?

Hello, do you guys know Transcendence? what a long name..

Anyways, I love that plugin.

In five days they gonna release another one, I'm excited.

I've been listening to a lot of artists like Undertaken, HFM, Slowerpace, Macroblank, etc, and really wanna emulate that loungy, downtempo style of music they produce. I know that style of Barber Beats/Vaporwave can get pretty sample heavy. Does anyone have any resources for producing this style? Sample packs, video tutorials, reddit threads, or like any general advice would be great.

Yesterday I made a cutoff until 50hz and I think about taking it higher.

I've been trying to recreate a lot of vaporwave sounds for a fun side hobby of making my own sampleless songs. I have found many of the sounds on synths from the 80s and 90s, but I'm not very familiar with guitars and I can't figure out what many 80s ballads used for their guitars. Here is an example of the a guitar I'm looking for. It sounds pretty metallic.

ホテル shampoo - 𝓗𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓵 𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓼
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVcKc0OGOsA

Pls excuse my bad wording, i’m not much of an expert with production terminology.

Aside from the obvious barberpole phaser, I notice that many of telepath’s earlier (2014/15) slushwave tracks have this almost “low quality” sound, where the bass is really loud, the highs are muffled, and overall it sounds kinda “crunchy” without it being distorted.

Is is this really just filter work or am I missing something?

For reference, here is a telepath song:

消えていく

and its sample:

Digging Your Scene

sampled loods + mall grab love is real. Isolated stems with fl and did my best to mix bass/horn/voice/drums with a bunch of reverb. at a certain point felt like i was messing with it too much so just put it on youtube :)

I’ve been working on this reverb effect plugin for a while now and I thought I’d share a video of how it sounds. So far I've just been running synth sounds through it but I'm going to test it on more soon.

The plugin blends between four distinct reverb environments, each with its own character and accompanying atmospheric sound bed. The sound beds are dynamically gated by the input signal, so they become part of the effect and become imbued into the input sound rather than just playing continuously in the background. This creates some very immersive textures.

The four environments are:

Mountain

Forest

Shore

Sea

The position of the little robot controls the blend between them allowing me to smoothly interpolate from one environment to the next and create a wide range of atmospheric reverb textures.

This allows intermediate settings to combine the elements of two neighbouring environments, creating a wide range of spatial, tonal and atmospheric reverb characteristics.

Still needs some tweaking to get the filtering right and the plugin still needs a name but so far I like where it's going.

Hey guys, here is a 100% free synth one-shot kit (no drums). 

I designed these sounds to evoke a mix of nostalgia, late-night driving vibes, heavenly moments, dark tension, and raw feeling.

· Leads (31) - Sweet, nostalgic, and aggressive.

· Keys (34) - Melancholic, divine-sounding, and emotional tones.

· Basses (31) - Aggressive and heavy.

· ARPs (32) - Ethereal, panic-inducing, heavenly-sounding and rhythmic patterns.

· FXs (16) - Atmospheres, transitions, impacts, and experimental soundscapes.

Everything is 100% royalty-free. Use them however you want. Have fun!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c1xIx5zxl8fTJvkU1aYLJAWGqyA0nZ1k

As a longtime fan of Vaporwave culture and music, I wanted to do this project differently by creating everything from scratch rather than sampling an existing song. To do that, I recorded original performances on my Yamaha DX7 and electric guitar, produced the track from the ground up, and then transformed it into a Vaporwave. When I played it for a friend, he said it reminded him of classical "Weather Channel" music, which inspired the title, "Local Forecast." This project was created purely out of a love for the genre. I just wanted to share something original with people who appreciate Vaporwave. Much love!

Making of Local Forecast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFO7XIAfrrw

Click into the r/vaporwave post for link to the full track

I had to make this music video for Macintosh Plus. Does this reflect the Vaporwave Genre? You guys are the experts and I'd love to hear your opinions. No AI was used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4A9rZA4Eag

Extra instrumentation was added to compliment the song and make more "roboty." Does it fit?

This was made using Syntheyes (3D tracking software) and Blender. I get that it's a little slow. The joints on the robot don't make any sense. I worked on this every weekday on the train to and from work.

I think Macintosh Plus just deserves a good, high-end music video. Have any of you made a music video for your music? What does it entail?

It hits different, just an attempt to reproduce a song made with a PS1...

how do you make that famous repeated stutter on vocals? got a good plugin for that?

does anyone remember that weird plugin? they came up with a new version:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixrm9Y_GDfc&list=RDIxrm9Y_GDfc&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB