My submission for the QWave x MacProd Sample challenge of 2023.

Name of the track is R1VER (just because I have a 3 in my name and I thought it would look cool). I have always loved drum and bass music, but I could never really get it sounding right when I tried to make it. So this is my first half-decent attempt at making it. The sample sounded slow and relaxing which made me want to contrast it even harder, so my track is really fast and loud. I had the evil laugh sample already saved from a while ago and though it would make a good intro with some horns. Most of my instruments were made in vital, either from scratch or from a preset which I tweaked. The vocal sample is from Splice, which I chopped a bit to reduce the emptiness. The amen breaks were added on a whim just because I also had the sample on hand and breakcore is another favourite genre of mine, so I did some chopping and pitching of the amen break to spice things up in the middle of the track. The actual sample was used only in the intro and a little bit as filler throughout the track, however, I used the melody of the sample (and the sound of the guitar in the last bar of it) to construct a lot of the midi in the track, keeping it in the same key as the original sample. Overall, I think this was a decent attempt at a DnB track and I'm happy with the result, especially since this is the first one I've made over 30 seconds!

R1VER

Sample at the start is the Lich from Adventure Time

Song has a big switch up at 2:12, so it's kinda two songs in one but I just couldn't resist using that banger female vocal sample

L1CHF4LL

REMASTERED VERSION OF THE TRACK SO IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SHIT ANYMORE!

TR3K