Synthwave with Maschine

Hi,
here is a track I entirely composed, arranged & mixed through Maschine + Komplete 10 + KK 61.
For the 80s lovers
What do you think?

 

Really good stuff bro! I produce vaporwave, kinda similar but worse quality and way slower Really nice to see someone doing something different here <3

What synths did you use? I do most of my stuff in Massive and Ableton's Analog plus a lot of filters and downsampling. I went crazy when I saw that retro maschines mk2 is included in Maschine but was kinda disappointed, the synths in there sounded too good :/

 

just one:
lovely!

I´m also interested in what Synths you used - Komplet10 is so fullpacked

like to hear more stuff like this, so go and produce ´em

 

Thank you guys !
I'm using Massive for the bass ("Bubblegum" preset, comes from Neon Drive expansion. I love this preset), rest of them are from Retro Machines actually. It really mimics this 80 sounds I like. I recently purchased Arturia V Collection with the NI NKS offer they did a few weeks ago. And since then, I've been moving to Jupiter 8 as my main synth. It sounds great and gives more options compared to Retro Machines which are sampled instruments.

Here is the very last track I produced. But it's not something I came up with Maschine because now I'm trying to directly use Ableton. I find it hard to mix my tracks in Maschine, especially because EQ capabilities are very poor in my opinion (unless you rely on ext. EQ) + I like the return tracks in Ableton, it really gives more options. I also tried to compose with Maschine then mix inside of Ableton but that's painful. Exporting audio prevents you from further editions but using Maschine as a VST is CPU expensive in my setup... and I'm not even talking about automations
Anyway, here it is.

 

Man you're so right about the returns, I usually have 3-5 but in my vapor tracks it's easily adding up to 10 + external effects routed through some guitar pedals. And yes it's painful to make that kinda thing in Maschine, Ableton=master race.

Bro you should text the producers of Kung Fury if they wanted to use one of your tracks (best promo I guess). I listen to synthwave a lot and I think this is some real quality material you got there, keep it up!

Just one thing: maybe you want to make some synth a bit more "muddy", they sound quite sharp I think. I am always going for that cassette-atmosphere (ofc not really comparable to synthwave) but maybe a tiny little bit

 

You're absolutely right about adding muddiness, I'll try it on future tracks. I'm still in progress, thank you

 

And by the way, do you have a soundcloud / youtube @alecman ?

 

Haven't finished much yet, planning to release some stuff in 2016 (probably it's become mainstream then lol). But I will defo hit you up as soon as I uploaded something. Maybe we can collab on something as the genres are somewhat related.

Looking forward to hearing more good tracks from you bro!

 

cool electro tune !! nice mixing, clean and loud mix. what do you use for mixing and mastering?