Track Breakdown: Viridian Dream
Here is our first track deconstruction video! Up first is the frequently requested 'Viridian Dream'.
If you have any feedback or suggestions feel free to leave a comment below.
00:00 - Intro
05:01 - Arpeggiated Percussion
09:46 - Bass
16:48 - Drums & Foley
24:55 - Melodic Layers
34:34 - Mixing
42:56 - Arrangement
BONUS: We're giving away an earlier version of the track, download below :)
Comments (34)
🙏 Learned quite a bit from this
The bass fx chain is one of the most insane I have ever seen 😵💫
bro what are the specs on that computer lmao
If this is "not to many tracks" or "less is more", I can't even imagine what a project that you would say has a lot going on looks like.
Thank you for deconstructing this.. My favorite track to date to Flow and vibe too.
It would be epic to have a breakdown of 7th dimension or sly fox
super helpful, thanks for this!
Would be really cool to see how you guys go about making drums groove so well. Songs like infinite funk and chilli daddy have so much bounce with all the little ghost notes and cut up breaks, would be interesting how you arrange drums like this!
Would absolutely love a Virtual Light breakdown at some point in the future. That one is pure ear candy.
Amazing deconstruction! clear and detailed! I would recommend giving some section playback preview at the beginning when jumping to different musical sections like drums to ambient sections for a clear contrast!
Good idea, thanks!
My mind was blown away when I saw that Bass Rack with the automations.
It seems you two do a lot of filter & volume automation. Are you doing these all by hand or using some sort of midi controller to play in the movement at times?
All by hand :)
thank you for this video!! i'd love to see Hydroplane or Drift :)
You guys are brilliant! There's too much I want to say about this video--thanks for the breakdown.
Yeah! More of this stuff - this is great! :D
This is awesome... Sick project! Quick question: you guys didn't use stereo panning in this track, any other reasons on that?
Would love to know the specs on your computer to run ALL that without crashing lol
Really great video! Thanks for the upload! Will I be able to see the Sanctuary ep songs on stems or Track Deconstruction in the future? (It would be difficult since it was released 7 years ago and is a collaborative album.)
Really Want to see how Cobalt look like in the project file
agreed, Cobalt is insane
:)
So sick!! Much love fellas <3
Less is more you say Jim? HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR PROJECT!?!? Great stuff, way to much to proces :D Thank you <3
This has made me so happy taking a peek at this, it's just amazing thank you so much <3
Thank you guys ! Always been wondering about the way you've made that crazy "metric modulation"... Now I know the thing behind it :)
Awesome break down! Quick question - that warping reesey bass you make through all of the automation etc - in the sampler (before all the post processing), is it the same basic reese bass as in your previous tutorial showing your methods of bass design?
It's similar yeah but a bit more processed. We did the same thing as in that tutorial except instead of starting with an operator in ableton, we played a long note on a hardware synth (prophet 6) with some saws detuning. We recorded that in ableton and applied some distortion to fatten then resampled to put in the sampler.
insane guys thank you
y'all are insane. thank you for this.
Thank you for this. :). Always wanted to see how a KOAN sound track looks like.
Thanks a lot! Love this track
Awesome 😁😁