"Blonde" — 04.Be Yourself/12.Facebook Story（Buddy Ross' Running Around）

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(The article is translated by DeepL, may be a bit weird to read :>)

The background music of Be Yourself and Facebook Story is sampled to Buddy ross's running around, a typical nostalgic atmosphere lofi-song.The beautiful melody in the Running around title track plays a very important role in the integrity of Blonde, this melody is made up of two warm key sound, let's make a similar sound below.

From the first tone that appears on the left, you can hear what sounds like a saw wave pad attached to a sine pluck.You can start with any of the simple basic key or pluck Sound, using DX7 as an example, and create a new tone.

Make the ENVELOPE's Attack zero and a short decay to make it sound like a pluck, then make an identical sound in OP2 but lower the detune by 10 and put the Output leavel around 70 to make this OP2-OP1 section of the output sound fuller.

Then turn on OP3, (remember to stagger the two main sound output lines on the ALGORITHM so that OP1 and OP3 are the outputs, and control them with OP2 and OP4 respectively)

Select the waveform of R.SAW and adjust the same to the ENVELOPE of OP1, use COSINE in OP4 to make the tone here a little brighter, here you need to control the ratio between them so that this part of SAW is not too prominent.

Then come to FX and add a little Flanger bonding tone. And Use the Pro Q does a high and low cut to remove the unwanted frequencies and cuts off some of the saw sound at around 3000hz to make it less harsh.

Finally add a preamp plugin Radiator to give the tone a little heat.

The second sound has a very heavy effect, I'm not sure if the original sound is rhodes or piano. I wanted a realistic feel, so I used a Kontakt sample piano sound (Native Instruments's Noire), chose a darker preset, then layered a DX7 synth piano to make it sound fuller.

The sound in running around has some wobble effects, you can use RC-20 or Tape mello-fi or other effects to add these effects,  this effect will sound very strange if you add more, so I chose a Pad-for preset and lowered its magnitude, make it sounds just right.

Then I used Pro-Q to do a high and low cut, and added a parallel huge reverb on the send (parallel reverb does not affect the original sound and is easy to adjust)