Roygbiv by Boards of Canada
Roygbiv by Boards of Canada runs at 85 BPM in the key of B minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
This analysis has not been checked by a person. Tempo, key, and genre come straight from the software, so treat them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Measured
- Tempo
- 85 BPM
- Key
- B minor
- Length
- 2:29
- Genre
- ambient
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Suno prompt
A brooding ambient track with high energy and a swung feel at 85 BPM. The low end is analog synth bass playing root-note anchored, under a programmed drum machine with a brushed snare and sparse dark cymbals. Warm analog pads carry the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows a slow linear build. A lead synth leads, building through repetition. Analog hiss adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the lead. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding melodic lead and low-end weight, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a calm and settled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- analog synth bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 85
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- ambient
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Lead instrument
- a lead synth
- Lead style
- building through repetition
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- a programmed drum machine
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- melodic lead
- Secondary focus
- low-end weight
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- a slow linear build
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
About this page
This is an independent acoustic analysis. Tempo and key are measured from the audio; instrumentation and production characteristics are classified against a fixed vocabulary. The source recording is deleted once the analysis finishes, and no lyrics from it are stored.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Boards of Canada. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.