I made an audio thing. It wasn't out of the ordinary for me to do, and it wasn't more sudden than any other one I've made, but I wanted to make a blog about it and here's why.
I made it because of something else being the "conduit" of the inspiration to make it, which made it in a sense more of a spur of the moment creation.
It had a unique thing about that the average listener doesn't need to hear or understand and is just something I was happy to have in it.
The track I am talking about is a thing called Let's Talk About It. The main thing I am going to be talking about in regards to the track can be found in the two images below, or, more succinctly, the difference between them.
Now, there is a difference, which might be obvious, but if it isn't in the first image there are three lines in sets on main low and in the second image this type of pattern has changed to main high, also in the second image, if you are familiar with DAWs you can tell that it is further down the track by the numbers at the top of both images.
Now for more descriptions. The reason for the Main High's and Main Lows patterns looking like that and effectively "switching" later on is due to the way I wanted to make it, now, that sounds like a "uh yea obviously," but just let me explain it to you. I wanted this tracks purpose to feel like two different people talking to each other and over a period of time they adopt each others styles of talking where by the end the auditory experience is flipped.
As I was making something like this, it quite literally turned into what I wanted, but without the images I have no way to tell if its obvious as whenever I would listen back to it to see if it sounded the way I wanted it, It would, which worried me. The reason something so dumb worries me is once I made a very hard game that I spent a few months making that I was very good at. The reason I was good at this game wasn't because I am an apex gamer, but because I spent so much time interfacing with it that the difficulty wasn't something I considered, but that's a different project and story. I was worried the same held true here, so I did what anyone would do.
I called my friends on discord and asked them if it felt how I wanted. Initially, I was hoping "oh gee oh gawd, I hope people can hear two people saying bling belong(midi keyboard onomatopoeia.)" What I got, however, was something unexpected and something very cool. One of my friends that I showed told me once it was all said and done that it sounded like climbing a mountain (or at least that's what it made them visualize.) Other friends said similar things, similar in the sense that they weren't picturing what I intended, and it was due to this feedback that I, ended up changing nothing, I was so hyped that people had such variability in what they pictured. Further note, some people still understood it a bit, but at the end of the day, one of my friends said the start of it made them smile, and another friend felt like they were climbing a Mountain.
So TL:DR. Mission Successful :)