When making this track, I really focused on learning to create sounds with more intent instead of the more random process it had been up to this point. I think I’m also re-learning a lot stuff from when I was younger… I used to use LMMS when I was a kid and I can’t say if it was harder to use or it was a skill issue. I learned recently that LMMS is still around? I need to check it out again.

Overall, I like how the track ended up. It could have better mixing, though!

Original track description from the YouTube video:

Second track!
I worked on this one before our wedding and now that everything is settling down,
I finally finished it!!!

I started messing with Sytrus and linking filters to automation tracks. The track started sounding pretty fun and decided to finish it. I think this one ended being a pretty cohesive track (I usually make way too many conflicting parts and join them). I’m also really happy with how the effects using Gross Beat ended up. The comment from “early previewers”, a.k.a. wife, was that I’ve been learning a lot. This was fun to work on! I tried to make something calmer at first and I think I got some trance-like qualities in there, but the usual style still comes through.

This was the first track I was brave enough to put on a YouTube short and I was really surprised that I got positive feedback from sharing stuff. Honestly, the track peaked when making that short and the finished thing is all over the place, I think.

Original track description from the YouTube video:

I finally decided on a name!!
This was the version that was approved by my two person (non-professional) jury.

This started after finding out that sidechaining is a thing. I didn’t utilize it that much, but I got positive feedback on it, so here we are! This was made in FL Studio. I also recorded some electronic guitar parts to test how recording works. I’ve been just messing around in FL Studio, but I really should look up some tutorials for specific styles of music, I think.

I also published it with the new artist name I’ve now been using for the last couple of months. It ended up being a fairly quick thing to choose. I had used “Arch-Jenna” previously online so I thought “Yeah, that’s good enough!”

When I first started trying to create finished tracks, instead of just BGM for random game projects I show my wife, I posted the first tracks with the author name Milky Dragon’s Melancholy (named after my favorite TCG card during that time). The mixing is terrible and I hope I won’t have to listen to them again anytime soon.

Still, my personal favorite of the 4 tracks I made back then is this one:

The tracks from that learning period in order from the oldest to newest:

• Howling Slug’s Despair
• Moody Dragon’s Overdrive
• Wanderer’s Frustration
• Soapy Girl’s Vulgar Act

This started after finding out that sidechaining is a thing. I didn’t utilize it that much, but I got positive feedback on it, so here we are! This was made in FL Studio. I also recorded some electronic guitar parts to test how recording works. I’ve been just messing around in FL Studio, but I really should look up some tutorials for specific styles of music, I think.