January 1st, 2026

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Let’s do this! Post your first jamuary jam in this thread!

This year, let’s try something different for prompts — reminding everyone that you DO NOT have to follow the prompts, they’re just for inspiration. So it’s OK to use part of a prompt, a prompt from a different day, a prompt from somewhere else on the internet, or just do whatever you feel like.

Each day I’ll post:

  1. A song title
  2. A mood
  3. A BPM
  4. A key
  5. A color
  6. A pseudo musical sheet with 4 tracks that you can interpret at will
  7. A small phrase

(Disclaimer: these were generated with the help of AI. I wrote a small Python script that generates the prompt, and used AI to suggest me nouns and adjectives.)

Here’s today’s prompt:

Horizons (Reprise)

Mood: Playful · BPM: 109 · Key: B Minor · Color: Sand

Score

1  █   ▒  ▪□    ╌┄┈
2          ▂ ▇ ▇  ▂      ░█
3  ×+·•°      ∼~≈∼~≈≈∼≈  ≈~~∼∼◇◆✧
4       ░▒▓█▒░██∷·…

“The last train leaving the station”

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song_cards.pdf (57.5 KB)

And this is a PDF with printable cards of the prompts, for the whole month.

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And happy new year, everyone!!! :smiley: :partying_face:

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One more thing: this year I’m scheduling posts for 4am PST / 7am EST, since that’s when the day starts on the international date line.

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These are cool! I like the “pseudo” sheet music! At the very least it’ll be something to stare at while jamming.

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Horizons Jamuary 2026

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hi all! happy new year!

here is my first jam of the year:

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We’re back baby! Jan 1.mp3

I’m really looking forward to this year. It’s gonna be a great month :slight_smile:

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Happy New Year Everyone! I’m Looking Forward to hearing your jams again.

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Hi all - happy new year! - been awhile since I have done one of these. Mostly do Techno / EDM or DnB so will largely be ignoring the prompts but aim to do a jam every day. Here’s the first.

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Happy new year!

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Still a bit tired of NYE yesterday but at least we’re off to a good start!

Synths used:

Sonicware Liven Megasynthesis
Yamaha DX Reface
Yamaha AN1x
Modal Craftsynth 2.0
Roland Groovebox MC505

Will check out other uploads tomorrow during the morning coffee, keep up the creativity everyone!

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Happy New Year everyone. Great to be back – year three, track one. Enjoy. Big thanks to @beto for making this possible. The AI that prompts us… yeah, that’s ironic.

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Happy new year! I’ve been looking forward to this so much! It’s great to see you guys again :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Thank you @beto for making it happen!

Here’s my first track this year, from the OP-Z.

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Getting the dreaded “you cannot post a link to that host” error other users have mentioned.

So for now I’m just going to post the link broken up and get it over with. :nerd_face:

youtube. com/watch?v=tZeoFLyWvbg

Hopefully I’ll have it figured out by tomorrow!

May the jams overflow! :alien_monster: :satellite_antenna: :ringed_planet:

EDIT: maybe it will work now that I’ve posted & stuff!

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I used a whole lot of stuff and tracked in the DAW for this one. I only used the train, and BPM from the prompt.

There’s the train sound which I took from a white noise device I use to get to sleep at night. Boss DR-770 drum machine, several synths, layers of guitar, bass guitar, and some percussion. I was going to add more ride but at that point I’d been working on it for hours. It’s been months since I really used my DAW so it was good to get into it. I expect I’ll be doing more DAWless than using the DAW this month.

Synths: Roland Fantom X-6, Korg Microsampler, Alesis Nanobass, DSI Mopho, Arturia Microfreak, Korg MS2000R and 4 different guitars, plus a bass guitar.

Pedals: TC electronic Ditto X4 for the train loop, Flashback X4, M300 rack fx, Eventide Space, Hologram Microcosm, Chroma Console, Boss ME80 multi-fx for the guitar.

DAW: Cakewalk Sonar 8.5, Line 6 UX2 interface both of which I’ve been using since 2009!

And yes, thank you @beto !

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“Waking Up At Noon”

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@Yuteimusic that’s a solid jam! Really nice groove there, and it’s amazing how much you make in only 2 minutes.

@sunblogger I really like that persistent arpeggio and all the little ear candy through the song.

@banalytic this was quite the journey, it made my mind wonder and drift away. What software is that?, it looks really cool.

@dreamindani that’s a lovely guitar tone you got there, so warm and just the right amount of grit. I really enjoyed listening to this!

@FriendlyVisitor I really like how sparse and minimalist the track is, with reverb/delay filling in the spaces. Really chill jam!

@muezig I love that gnarly jam, it’s a solid beat! And I like your setup, I don’t remember ever seeing modular used for EDM.

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I went to a friend’s house for a NYE party last night at 8pm, and got back home from the party at 7pm today. But I wanted to record something, so I used the Deluge to make a couple parts with 4 tracks, and I “played” the score sheet using the Faderfox EC4 to modulate parameters on each track.

Recorded straight into a Zoom H6, no post-processing.

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