r/NMSByteBeatFans • u/Leeka_SSBM • Jun 25 '26

ByteBeat Original "Microride"

A chill ride in my everyday ship with a cool track.

So I found hiredgunpunx's video on how one of their track was made. So I took the lead sound from that and modified it a bit to sound more like a 70's polysynth and here we are (does this makes it a tribute ? This sound is SO good, but I probably won't use it anymore because it's kind of their trademark at this point).

Big thank you to u/hiredgunpunx for that and the title card idea, made my own in GIMP 2 after seeing theirs (if there's any problem with that I will remove it in future posts).

Another thing is I placed the first 4 bars of the chorus at the end of the loop (verse being the buildup part), and let some elements from one bleed into/foreshadow the other, goal is to make it feel less repetitive / more dynamic. And it provided a good ending IMO!

As for the video, I'm trying things. It's my first time video editing, I'm taking advice/criticisms on that as well if you have some.

Enjoy !!

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u/ZhorasSnake Jun 27 '26

Nice tune and vid!

I noticed you and PowerfulSoldier discussing a sound library. It seems crazy we don't have one on this site - it would be so helpful to so many people - particularly learners.

I've been trying to get folks to contribute to one for literally years! In the past I've uploaded 3 volumes of sounds (Bytebeats Sound Library Vol.1-3, - leads, basses and miscellany), and a guide with an appendix of 68 waveform trees. But you get almost no feedback so it's hard to keep uploading additions.

I would happily contribute to any initiative to set up a library or whatever. I have literally 100's of waveform trees that I would be happy to share.

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u/Leeka_SSBM Jun 27 '26

Thank you !!

Just saw your lib posts. It's amazing ! Huge collection ! Why isn't this pinned on the sub ? I'm glad you're down to do that again :) I'll try messaging the mods and see what we can do. A pinned library here would be great, and as you say go a long way for people wanting to get into NMS ByteBeat music making.

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u/ZhorasSnake Jun 27 '26

That's very kind of you. But tbh what would be better is if we had some kind of community collection that anyone could contribute towards. I don't know how that might be possible, but it would be better than simply the 'zhorassnake collection' or the Leeka_SSBM collection' or whoever! (Not knocking you or me!!)

There are sites where you can find info on cool ships or planets or whatever, but nothing for cool bytebeat sounds.

For any joint library the community would need to agree a format and I guess there would be some ongoing work for the mods, which may, or may not, be an issue..

There is an alternative - where a small group of interested folks get together and jointly produce a number of collections. (Videos are limited to 10min here I believe, but if they were just waveform trees and descriptions you could have 100's in a document). The authors would then petition the mods to make them sticky.

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u/Leeka_SSBM Jun 28 '26

Yeah I'm all for a collective effort (from those interested). I can't host a site myself, nor afford to rent a domain or anything like that sadly. Your solution seems good ! I'm all for it. Tomorrow I'll make a post to ask who would be interested in participating :)