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OTHER DISCUSSIONS => General Synthesis => Off Topic => Topic started by: Paul Dither on November 22, 2015, 06:13:41 PM
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Hi all! In good old fashion we'd like to continue providing a place where you can share your music.
Whether you just like to use this thread for shameless self-promotion or you actually like to get some feedback about your latest track(s) from other members: this is the place!
Although this is a DSI/Sequential forum and most of you are here because you own at least own of their instruments, this thread is not necessarily about endorsing DSI and Sequential gear. It's about your music, no matter what equipment you've used to create it. So don't feel intimidated when you'd like to share a piece that doesn't feature any DSI/Sequential instrument. After all, we all enjoy a good tune!
I'll give it a start:
After I did all the Pro 2 videos a couple of weeks ago, I decided to record a track that features only my Moog instruments (oh, the heresy) with the exception of the Volca Beats. Everything has been recorded live.
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42O1WKvA4HQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42O1WKvA4HQ)
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Interesting demo, Paul Dither! There are many good ingredients in there. It took me a few listens to really appreciate the track. Must be honest and say that it did not impact me as much as I really wanted it to the first few times I listened to it. But its certainly very well done and displays musical skills way beyond what I will ever be able to do.
Like the idea of using the Pro 2 for sequencing the Minitaur. Was wondering if one could feed the Minitaur with some of Pro 2's digital wave shapes via external input for even wilder bass? Imagine the sub oscillator and four supersaws for a starter. These can either be sent via a CV out or via the main output with the benefit that the effects such as character/chorus/flange/distortion can be applied to digital oscillators before being Minitaur'ed. Now add sequence tracks of varying lengths for even more sonic color.
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Interesting demo, Paul Dither! There are many good ingredients in there. It took me a few listens to really appreciate the track. Must be honest and say that it did not impact me as much as I really wanted it to the first few times I listened to it. But its certainly very well done and displays musical skills way beyond what I will ever be able to do.
Like the idea of using the Pro 2 for sequencing the Minitaur. Was wondering if one could feed the Minitaur with some of Pro 2's digital wave shapes via external input for even wilder bass? Imagine the sub oscillator and four supersaws for a starter. These can either be sent via a CV out or via the main output with the benefit that the effects such as character/chorus/flange/distortion can be applied to digital oscillators before being Minitaur'ed. Now add sequence tracks of varying lengths for even more sonic color.
Thanks for your honest comment, dslsynth. It confirms the first impression I had after I was done. I think it has partially to do with where you perceive the 1 to be in the 7/8 rhythm, especially in the opening bars - it tricks me too. That's where the title came from, haha.
As for all the rest: Basically, the Minitaur is just triggered by the arpeggiator of Ableton Live (in hold mode). I just activate key changes with the Pro 2. Bummer, I know. I'd like to do more 'real' interactive stuff between the Moogs and the Pro 2 though. It's mainly a time thing. I also realize, once I've spent a lot of time with one instrument, like the Pro 2 for example, it always takes me a while to get back into the mindset for another instrument, like the Sub 37 for example. Not that both are overly complicated, but once you've immersed yourself fully into one, it takes a bit of a reboot to approach another. It's also easy to forget about some tricks and shortcuts if you're not constantly using it all pretty much nonstop.
But that also has a positive side: It shows me that there's no reason for serious GAS right know, as I've still plenty to explore with what I have. Feeding DSI's digital waveshapes through Moog filters is only one thing.
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Oh yes, that darn T-word! Looking forward to hear more of your music and sonic experiments. Good stuff there for sure! And yeah both Pro 2 and Sub 37 are fairly large voice architectures so there be plenty of noise oceans to explore for good sounding islands. Being good at sound design as you have shown in your videos will surely help that process!
Speaking of your excellent track I did not even notice it was in 7/8. :o
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Paul Dither, at 8:35 there's an interesting sound- sort of ring mod or FM thing going on. That's coming from the moog then?
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Paul Dither, at 8:35 there's an interesting sound- sort of ring mod or FM thing going on. That's coming from the moog then?
Exactly, that's the Sub 37. If I remember correctly right off the bat, the filter cutoff is being modulated by a fast LFO.
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I made a new original, all synthesizer, composition. I used my Eurorack Modular, DSI MoPho, DSI Tempest, Korg MS2000B, and one voice/synth sample that I created. It also features Soundole (Peter Anthony Smith) on EWI.
Link to Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXR3EGqIoWE&feature=gp-n-y&google_comment_id=z13vfzjiwkmsvz5nq23bcnog1ub5ulcpa04
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A short melodic piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUHXLQgY5o
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Okay... it's a rough lot to follow something as great as the last ones, but here's a short Evolver-only thing.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/metro-cloud
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Some great stuff posted here! Cheers! :)
I recently made a mood piece as a showcase/demo for a software synthesizer. It's not an emulation of a specific synthesizer but it shares features with many of the classic polyphonic analogue synthesizers of yesteryear. All synthesized sounds are from this synt. I ran all the synth tracks through a shared bus with a delay and a reverb. A .rex loop is providing the beat.
https://soundcloud.com/exodesound/red70
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I also made this short piece as an showcase for the Boomstar 5089 synthesizer. It features 4 different takes of the Boomstar. FX were applied quite liberally in this track as well, spring reverb and delay. No other FX except for some gentle mastering.
I love the tone of the Boomstar. It has that larger than life quality to it that I think is rare to find in modern analogues. The next step would be some expensive modular system, imho.
https://soundcloud.com/exodesound/monumental-5089
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I made a new original, all synthesizer, composition. I used my Eurorack Modular, DSI MoPho, DSI Tempest, Korg MS2000B, and one voice/synth sample that I created. It also features Soundole (Peter Anthony Smith) on EWI.
Link to Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXR3EGqIoWE&feature=gp-n-y&google_comment_id=z13vfzjiwkmsvz5nq23bcnog1ub5ulcpa04
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Steven, Nice arrangement and it works so well with that wind controlled instrument.
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A short melodic piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUHXLQgY5o
Ok, my PO8 doesn't sound like this! ;) Really pretty.
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Okay... it's a rough lot to follow something as great as the last ones, but here's a short Evolver-only thing.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/metro-cloud
This sounds just like an accordion squeezebox.
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This sounds just like an accordion squeezebox.
I'm really glad that you heard that. The key is just a little bit of velocity-to-attack modulation.
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Ok, my PO8 doesn't sound like this! ;) Really pretty.
Oh yes it does, Soundquest! The P'08 can do it all. But thanks.
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This piece is mostly Prophet '08, with just a few chords from the Poly Evolver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXxc6tMpyRg
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This piece is mostly Prophet '08, with just a few chords from the Poly Evolver:
Its very good with a nicely calm winter mood ... and no winter solstice celebration... ;)
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Thanks, DSLSynth.
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I decided to put some of my more recent songs into an album. A few of the tracks are exclusively DSI instruments: "Glimmer in the Dark" all PO8 and "The Happy Raccoon" and "Good Bad Ugly Song" all PEK, "Reset Go" all Pro2.
I stuck with my username for the CD title "Soundquest". It can presently be found here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/brianschaft and so I'm told, on Itunes and Amazon within a few weeks.
I made this CD for family and friends for Christmas. So the first track is actually some narration explaining basic synth operation since this seems to be a misunderstood and shrouded hobby we have ;)
-Brian
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Now I miss the summertime, so here's a diversion for me. It's sort of an attempt to evoke various sounds from my backyard as a beautiful orb weaver waits in my shed waiting for something tasty to come along. It's all MicroBrute, but sometimes the MicroBrute needs love.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/the-orb-weaver-waits
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My latest track "Slyrinx" from my "The Reality Dysfunction" project.
#Pro2 #MC303
https://soundcloud.com/skmakesthings/slyrinx (https://soundcloud.com/skmakesthings/slyrinx)
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https://soundcloud.com/prophet08/prophet-6-sequence
The Prophet 6 getting all sequenced up.
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https://soundcloud.com/prophet08/prophet-6-sequence
The Prophet 6 getting all sequenced up.
Nice buildup. You use the on board sequencer?
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Really like playing with the Pro 2 sequencer. Had this neat string sound so I made a folky tune out of it. All pro 2, except intro accordian which is Studiologic Sledge, passing car is Novation K station, rhythm is Korg EMX.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/road-outta-orleans
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Really like playing with the Pro 2 sequencer. Had this neat string sound so I made a folky tune out of it. All pro 2, except intro accordian which is Studiologic Sledge, passing car is Novation K station, rhythm is Korg EMX.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/road-outta-orleans
That's an excellent acoustic guitar sound, really nice.
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Thanks Sacred Synthesis.
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Prophet '08 and Poly Evolver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qacbzCbT8
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Prophet '08 and Poly Evolver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qacbzCbT8
Nice flute-like tones in the whole intro. Is that the Evolver or PO8?
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Thanks, Soundquest. The flute-like sound used for the beginning chords is a digital waveshape from the Poly Evolver, and the high-pitched melody is the Prophet '08.
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I spent the day learning how to do most of what I need to do with MuseScore. The printed output would have looked slightly better with Finale, specifically the spacing of accidentals.
The recording is all Moog today. I hope I'll be forgiven.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/a-boy-and-his-dog
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This one is sort of an experiment involving the use of the MicroBrute as a second LFO for the Little Phatty.
The melody is produced with teeny tiny movements of the filter cutoff knob. Over the last few days, various serendipitous online explorations have led me to listen to an hour or so of Tuvan throat singing. Without indulging in cultural appropriation, a bit of that influence certainly crept into this short piece.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/straightline
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That's an effective rendition of synthetic throat singing. And as I listened to it, the spaghetti noodles on my plate began to slowly rise up.
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I'm at it again with the birds, well, "seagulls". Unfortunately I lost my PO8 patch for seagulls, which was quite convincing. So seagulls you hear this time will be from the Roland Gaia. Waves and wind are Novation K-Station ( I haven't turned that on in a few years), but all the rest is Poly Evolver Keyboard.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/the-mariners-return
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This one is sort of an experiment involving the use of the MicroBrute as a second LFO for the Little Phatty.
The melody is produced with teeny tiny movements of the filter cutoff knob. Over the last few days, various serendipitous online explorations have led me to listen to an hour or so of Tuvan throat singing. Without indulging in cultural appropriation, a bit of that influence certainly crept into this short piece.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/straightline
Right on, that does sound like the Mongolian throat singing Chysn. Maybe put some flute to it and get the rest of those noodles on Sacred Synthesis' plate to stand on end ;D
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I'm at it again with the birds, well, "seagulls". Unfortunately I lost my PO8 patch for seagulls, which was quite convincing. So seagulls you hear this time will be from the Roland Gaia. Waves and wind are Novation K-Station ( I haven't turned that on in a few years), but all the rest is Poly Evolver Keyboard.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/the-mariners-return
Those seagulls were fairly good. I like this sort of thing - imitating natural sounds. I've been meaning to do some myself.
I think we should have a bird imitation contest here. We'll call it, "Beat My Birds".
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It is a good seagull sound. Perhaps blown to somewhat Hitchcockian proportions. On the other hand, I've never been on a ship at sea, only on the Great Lakes, where the gulls may be more sparsely distributed.
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Thanks guys. I like the bird contest idea ;D
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"Beat My Birds".
There will be feathers all over the place! . o O ( beaten up birdies )
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http://www.dsi-lifeboat.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9&p=25
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"Beat My Birds".
There will be feathers all over the place! . o O ( beaten up birdies )
No bird violence will be tolerated. If anyone harms as much as one fowl feather, we'll send the PETA police after you.
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No bird violence will be tolerated. If anyone harms as much as one fowl feather, we'll send the PETA police after you.
Better keep the eagles (https://youtu.be/EwTul9-HGu8) out of the equation then!
But yeah I have had the synth protection agency after me a few times.
. o O ( :o )
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Nothing spectacular, but....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVyYbwqNe8
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Nothing spectacular, but....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVyYbwqNe8
Way to sell it! It was a very nice start to the morning.
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Thanks, Chysn. Yes, quite the self-promotional, I know. Well, I had rearranged my set up in such a way that I wasn't able to record for a few weeks, until I had gotten a cable. Once the cable arrived, I was impatient to post something new. So, it was a quick and minor production.
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All Pro 2, except for the Simmons electric drums.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/seismic-slop
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Very pretty, and then interesting, Soundquest. I thought you had sold or returned your Pro 2?
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Very pretty, and then interesting, Soundquest. I thought you had sold or returned your Pro 2?
Thanks Sacred Synthesis. No, after I first got the Pro 2 it I had a keyboard issue where a few of the keys were bad. After a few e-mail conversations with DSI , they sent me a new keybed. The Pro 2 I really like and I think it's laid out well. I have two favorite things about it:
1) I find that the Pro sequencer draws me in whenever I turn the unit on. That is a refreshing deviation from how I think of the sequencers present on my other instruments- where the control for sequences are difficult, or needing software to really utilize. For example, the PEK has amazing stuff you can do with the sequencer, but the soundtower software isn't really that great for controlling it. Programming PEK sequences with the onboard controls is possible, but not a likely way I'm going to go about it.
2) I think after I had gotten the Mopho, my interest waned quickly because I was not much of player that would use (or could use) mono keys very effectively. I didn't expect to get another monophonic keyboard synth anytime soon. But then the Pro 2 changed that. Its paraphonic ability is a really neat dimension of sound and quite different than polyphonic. I had gotten earlier experience with such paraphonic mode using the Vermona MKII and figured another paraphonic instrument couldn't hurt. So that was that, and I ordered the Pro 2. It was after the fact though that I discovered that the Pro 2 has some hidden tricks I'm finding that plucky strings (like guitar, banjo type strings) are able to made on the Pro 2 very nicely. I hope to write much more about it and explore some of it's softer elements and sounds.
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A late night exercise in creating hands-free crescendi. Pardon the audio annoyance in the first minute. I probably should start using a little compression. All things in their time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iD4v82q7Q
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Sacred Synthesis,
Nice buildup to 1:30. (I guess hence the name). There's a neat background "drone" ~ 5:13 too. (it that the bass peddles ??). Probably my favorite of your music postings thus far. I want on listen on something other than these lousy computer speakers of mine.
PS> I like your nature pictures too, but this picture on this video allows me to see how cool two PO8's looked stacked.
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Thanks a lot, Soundquest. That "drone" is a pedal point played on the Hammond pedalboard wihich controls the Evolver Desktop.
Personally, I prefer the nature pictures as well (which are all local photographs taken by my wife), but unfortunately, I have to occasionally "play the game" by using a studio photograph, which gets the video a much wider reception.
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Well... just an Ambient doodle I made while trying to make a lush reverb with my Fireworx unit... still getting to know that FX box...
Just some random playing in layers for about two minutes... nothing serious, and actualy only made to test the reverb program.
Only one synth was used here... no EQ'ing or mastering of any kind done... just raw and dirty...
http://razmo.ziphoid.com/TheGirlAndTheButterflies.mp3
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A simple piece of music using three pads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azcDglUP7sE
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A simple piece of music using three pads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azcDglUP7sE
Simple idea and great development. I didn't expect the pad to kick in around 8:06, that's how I got lost in what was happening before. ;)
Tasty as usual. And I like this sort of hybrid, i.e. brass and string type pad I referred to above.
I had to smirk at the understatement in the description, where it says, "The piece begins with a soft digital pad played on the Poly Evolver Keyboard. After the simple theme is stated, the Prophet '08s embellish it with two more animated patches." Makes it sound very modest about the great PEK pad. It's also a funny inversion if one thinks about the intruments' features, meaning that usually one would expect the PEK to take over the more complex part.
This piece also made me think whether you ever considered a Minitaur for bass pedal duties.
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I just post these tracks here again before they get lost in the Prophet-6 subforum.
This piece features 8 tracks of the Prophet-6: https://soundcloud.com/pauldither/bric-a-brac (https://soundcloud.com/pauldither/bric-a-brac)
And this one has been done with 28 tracks of the Prophet-6: https://soundcloud.com/pauldither/shoulder-pads-noisy-smacks (https://soundcloud.com/pauldither/shoulder-pads-noisy-smacks)
It's all pure Prophet-6 including the effects, i.e. except for the usual mixing and mastering tools no external effects have been used. I hope these rather eclectic pieces show a bit of the variety that's possible with the Prophet-6 although it might seem limited in terms of modulation options.
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Simple idea and great development. I didn't expect the pad to kick in around 8:06, that's how I got lost in what was happening before. ;)
Tasty as usual. And I like this sort of hybrid, i.e. brass and string type pad I referred to above.
I had to smirk at the understatement in the description, where it says, "The piece begins with a soft digital pad played on the Poly Evolver Keyboard. After the simple theme is stated, the Prophet '08s embellish it with two more animated patches." Makes it sound very modest about the great PEK pad. It's also a funny inversion if one thinks about the intruments' features, meaning that usually one would expect the PEK to take over the more complex part.
This piece also made me think whether you ever considered a Minitaur for bass pedal duties.
Thanks, Paul. The "inversion" is part and parcel of my set up. The PEK-PER combination is to my left, while the two Prophet '08s are directly in front of me, with the bass pedals below them. Occasionally I do change things around and put the Poly Evolvers in the central position, but then I miss the bi-timbrality of the P'08s. So, the Poly Evolvers are second-class instruments in my music room because of my preference for purer analog sound.
Now why would I need a Minitaur? Because my pedal lines are generally a lot more than just long sustained notes, those little stubby pedals are by no means sufficient, nor is the Moog's limited key range. Plus, because of the use of quarter and eighth note lines, an overwhelmingly dense bass sound would sound muddy. I like the job the Evolver Desktop does , especially since it has four oscillators. I would, though, like to add a Tetra to the bass section.
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Thanks, Paul. The "inversion" is part and parcel of my set up. The PEK-PER combination is to my left, while the two Prophet '08s are directly in front of me, with the bass pedals below them. Occasionally I do change things around and put the Poly Evolvers in the central position, but then I miss the bi-timbrality of the P'08s. So, the Poly Evolvers are second-class instruments in my music room because of my preference for purer analog sound.
Do the numbers indicate that you've sold one PEK by now?
Now why would I need a Minitaur? Because my pedal lines are generally a lot more than just long sustained notes, those little stubby pedals are by no means sufficient, nor is the Moog's limited key range. Plus, because of the use of quarter and eighth note lines, an overwhelmingly dense bass sound would sound muddy. I like the job the Evolver Desktop does , especially since it has four oscillators. I would, though, like to add a Tetra to the bass section.
Oh, it was just a thought. The Minitaur doesn't sound muddy though. But yeah, depending on what you would like to add, the limited key range might end up being an obstacle.
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Do the numbers indicate that you've sold one PEK by now?
No, I've still got both PEKs. One is sleeping in a case. I've warned the poor thing that it could be sold at any time.
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Good stuff recently.
Sacred Synthesis: I think that's my favorite of yours to date; the pedal harmonies are especially amazing.
Paul: Thanks for the impressive Prophet 6 music. You're helping to make my life difficult.
Raz: I love the theatrical feel of the Girl and the Butterflies. What synth is that?
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Paul: Thanks for the impressive Prophet 6 music. You're helping to make my life difficult.
I take that as a compliment. ;D
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I also uploaded the tracks to YouTube, as it provides a slightly better quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaspA13xuQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaspA13xuQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0xqT_Of98 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0xqT_Of98)
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Paul: Thanks for the impressive Prophet 6 music. You're helping to make my life difficult.
I take that as a compliment. ;D
That was the intention, of course. I admire both the instrument and what you do with it, and I've been recently considering changing direction and getting a Prophet 6 instead of building a eurorack system (the "instead" part is pretty much set in stone). So when I hear stuff this good, it's another important piece of information for the crossroad.
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Paul: Thanks for the impressive Prophet 6 music. You're helping to make my life difficult.
I take that as a compliment. ;D
That was the intention, of course. I admire both the instrument and what you do with it, and I've been recently considering changing direction and getting a Prophet 6 instead of building a eurorack system (the "instead" part is pretty much set in stone). So when I hear stuff this good, it's another important piece of information for the crossroad.
Thanks a lot, chysn!
Eurorack or Prophet-6 - that makes quite a difference. Is there anything you'd still like to know or I could help you out with in terms of the Prophet?
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Eurorack or Prophet-6 - that makes quite a difference. Is there anything you'd still like to know or I could help you out with in terms of the Prophet?
Thank you, but just listening to what you and others have done gives me plenty of information. It's not about sound nor capability, but what I think I'll enjoy. I ordered a eurorack case today, so Schrödinger's Cat could be out of the bag at this point.
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Sacred Synthesis: I think that's my favorite of yours to date; the pedal harmonies are especially amazing.
Thanks, Chysn.
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Eurorack or Prophet-6 - that makes quite a difference. Is there anything you'd still like to know or I could help you out with in terms of the Prophet?
Thank you, but just listening to what you and others have done gives me plenty of information. It's not about sound nor capability, but what I think I'll enjoy. I ordered a eurorack case today, so Schrödinger's Cat could be out of the bag at this point.
That sounds like it's the right decision - at least with regard to what I've heard from you and the flexibility you're looking for.
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Here's my first thing using the Evolver and the Mother-32. It should be easy to tell what's doing what.
I used no plug-in effects, but I did use the Evolver as a delay unit for a few of the Mother-32 parts.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/pirate-kite
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Good stuff recently.
Sacred Synthesis: I think that's my favorite of yours to date; the pedal harmonies are especially amazing.
Paul: Thanks for the impressive Prophet 6 music. You're helping to make my life difficult.
Raz: I love the theatrical feel of the Girl and the Butterflies. What synth is that?
Sorry for the late answer... it was made with the Blofeld and Fireworx :)
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I neglected my Pro 2 a little bit while I was spending a lot of time with the Prophet-6. So here's my return to another good friend of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUy_VYl51ec (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUy_VYl51ec)
(Make sure to use headphones or decent speakers.)
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I neglected my Pro 2 a little bit while I was spending a lot of time with the Prophet-6. So here's my return to another good friend of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUy_VYl51ec (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUy_VYl51ec)
(Make sure to use headphones or decent speakers.)
I bought the OB6 too quick after my Pro 2. I know the quagmire you're in ;)
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Here's my first thing using the Evolver and the Mother-32. It should be easy to tell what's doing what.
I used no plug-in effects, but I did use the Evolver as a delay unit for a few of the Mother-32 parts.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/pirate-kite
Actually which is doing the main metallic sound, Evolver I take it?
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A little piece to show some both odd and traditional sounds of the Vermona MK2.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/thought-dimension
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Here's my first thing using the Evolver and the Mother-32. It should be easy to tell what's doing what.
I used no plug-in effects, but I did use the Evolver as a delay unit for a few of the Mother-32 parts.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/pirate-kite
Actually which is doing the main metallic sound, Evolver I take it?
The Evolver is doing the rhythm part, and is layered (fairly low, just to provide some harmonics) on the first lead part, and then the Mother-32 is going through the Evolver's delay on two or three parts.
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A little piece to show some both odd and traditional sounds of the Vermona MK2.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/thought-dimension
That Vermona sounds nice. Was it doing the drums, too?
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A little piece to show some both odd and traditional sounds of the Vermona MK2.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/thought-dimension
That Vermona sounds nice. Was it doing the drums, too?
Yes, drums also.
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Mostly Prophet '08 music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ETd88Rq1g
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Mostly Prophet '08 music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ETd88Rq1g
Superb sounds and dynamics, the latter of which make this particularly convincing with regard to orchestral playing. Your most cinematographic piece so far I'd say.
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Thanks, Paul. I did it last night under the worst of conditions - rather irritated with a mother-in-law in the house whom I thought would never go away. The musical juices were not happy, but I managed to sneak a quick little piece in.
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Thanks, Paul. I did it last night under the worst of conditions - rather irritated with a mother-in-law in the house whom I thought would never go away. The musical juices were not happy, but I managed to sneak a quick little piece in.
Hence the melancholy? ;D
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Thanks, Paul. I did it last night under the worst of conditions - rather irritated with a mother-in-law in the house whom I thought would never go away. The musical juices were not happy, but I managed to sneak a quick little piece in.
Hence the melancholy? ;D
Is that all it was? Huh, I thought it was despair. It's a good thing my little music room is down in the basement, where I can hide!
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Thanks, Paul. I did it last night under the worst of conditions - rather irritated with a mother-in-law in the house whom I thought would never go away. The musical juices were not happy, but I managed to sneak a quick little piece in.
Hence the melancholy? ;D
Is that all it was? Huh, I thought it was despair. It's a good thing my little music room is down in the basement, where I can hide!
Yes, towards the latter third, there was also lots of despair despite nicely interwoven pads. ;)
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Thanks, Paul. I did it last night under the worst of conditions - rather irritated with a mother-in-law in the house whom I thought would never go away. The musical juices were not happy, but I managed to sneak a quick little piece in.
Hence the melancholy? ;D
Is that all it was? Huh, I thought it was despair. It's a good thing my little music room is down in the basement, where I can hide!
Yes, towards the latter third, there was also lots of despair despite nicely interwoven pads. ;)
That must have been the instant it occurred to me that she might be spending the night. It made me immediately reach for the modulation wheel and open up the filter.
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Paul, you're featured on the DSI Facebook page today. Nicely done.
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He's one of their regular features now.
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Paul, you're featured on the DSI Facebook page today. Nicely done.
Thank you, chysn! Glad you liked it.
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He's one of their regular features now.
Come on, I've put my blood, sweat, and tears into it. ;D
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Of course you have. And you deserve to be recognized for your excellent work.
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Here's my latest synth composition, called 'The Storm'. It's 100% synth!
I finished putting this together not too long before I left for my trip on Japan-- so I've been too busy to post too much about it. Details are in the video description :)
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwtqBK7458o
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Here's my latest synth composition, called 'The Storm'. It's 100% synth!
I finished putting this together not too long before I left for my trip on Japan-- so I've been too busy to post too much about it. Details are in the video description :)
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwtqBK7458o
Nice to see a modular synth used for actual music!
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Nice to see a modular synth used for actual music!
I always struggle with that, actually! I really love creating sounds with my modular for various projects-- a lot of which aren't 'music' in the traditional sense. Likewise, within this type of music, I'm always trying to add various special effects that are distinctly not musical, but somehow fit in. While all of the parameters are available on a modular, it is easy to create set-it-and-forget-it style patches, whether played on a keyboard or sequenced. In future projects, I really want to start making use of foot pedals and pitch bend/mod wheels in all of my sounds to help add more of a human feel to my patches.
Anyways, here's more new music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBh06jqBHY
While I (mostly) recorded one track at a time, all of the stuff besides the pads that create the chord patterns was improvised. I actually used the Tempest as a synth on a lot of these tracks. It's quite a departure from what I normally do.
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A synthesizer performance by Nick Batt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewd-oZLU880
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This is actually an odd one for me to post, in that it's a track that sounds nothing like anything I've otherwise done. It's a bit of a piss-take on life as an ex-pat in Berlin. And for what it's worth, I've never been clubbing in my life! The video features Pro One and MS-20m, but honestly, I think at least half the tracks here are VST. There's probably a fair bit of Doepfer DE and the second solo is Novation X-Station (the first solo is M-Tron). This came out as a 7" on Beehive Sound and then on my Antronica CD. However unlike me it sounds, I suppose it sounds as much like me as anything, and I hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/clubbing-in-berlin
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Nice to see a modular synth used for actual music!
I always struggle with that, actually! I really love creating sounds with my modular for various projects-- a lot of which aren't 'music' in the traditional sense. Likewise, within this type of music, I'm always trying to add various special effects that are distinctly not musical, but somehow fit in. While all of the parameters are available on a modular, it is easy to create set-it-and-forget-it style patches, whether played on a keyboard or sequenced. In future projects, I really want to start making use of foot pedals and pitch bend/mod wheels in all of my sounds to help add more of a human feel to my patches.
Anyways, here's more new music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBh06jqBHY
While I (mostly) recorded one track at a time, all of the stuff besides the pads that create the chord patterns was improvised. I actually used the Tempest as a synth on a lot of these tracks. It's quite a departure from what I normally do.
Steven, The bass guitar sounds ~ 5:00 are very convincing.
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Steven, The bass guitar sounds ~ 5:00 are very convincing.
I assume you're talking about Swells-- in which case I did play a fretless jazz bass on my of the tracks, including the one that is playing at 5:00 ;).
If I had to make that sound with a synthesizer, it would require some digital oscillators with linear FM (like the DX7) but with more randomization like that available in Eurorack via noise etc. I suspect something close could be done with an Akemi's Castle!
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Got it. Some things- like cymbals, are just hard to mimic. So, in my particular case I just usually add the real thing. If you ever do get the fretless sound down via synth I'd be interested in the details. I 've always liked that sound.
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Hey all - I posted on the P6 page that I just received my Prophet 6 today. This song I'm offering up is rather ridiculous, but I've been saving a space inside it for a P6 solo - nudge to 2:30 if the track isn't your bag of tea. I'd only had the Prophet maybe 30 minutes, and I'm sure I coulda toned down the solo tone a hair or three, but I'm hoping my enthusiasm for my new creature comes across... Cheers!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/8-times-a-lady-rough-mix
P.S. Micromoog bass, as well as skinny chorus riff. Juno 6 chords. Basic beat Roland R-8, fills TR707. There's a Pro One around 2:40 adding a second bass track. Can't remember what else is on or in!
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Hope I'm not too piggy here, but I came up with this track last night using only P6, apart from the vocals. It was interesting using only one synth for everything. It's a quick mix here, no effects other than those inside the synth. Cheers!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/sunday-warning-2/s-YW5fX
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Moinmoin,
not very Prophet-heavy, not even keyboard features, and I am even hard to see... But nevertheless I do like it ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJpV6Hu5cU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPN0jjKrss
Martin
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New song with DSI OB-6 and Nord Lead 4.
The main melody parts (i.e. last third of song) "warbly/bending keys" is a patch that made on the Nord. It sounded sorta oriental to me- so hence the inspiration. The rest is OB6. Except Gong, and drum which is Korg EMX.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/pagoda-epiphany
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Moinmoin,
not very Prophet-heavy, not even keyboard features, and I am even hard to see... But nevertheless I do like it ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJpV6Hu5cU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPN0jjKrss
Martin
Nice band, have you played together long?
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Thought I might break out a new (shorter) edit from my 'Pilgrimmage' featuring untreated pure Prophet 12 recorded in two ancient churches
https://soundcloud.com/andy-15-3/beuno-mary-goes-canterbury
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The Prophet 6 is turning out to be one of the most useful synths I've ever picked up, most of the time I end up reaching for it first whenever I want to make a new sound :)
Here's a short background song I made with the Prophet 6 recently for this Lego stop-motion video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXlMw9MjbZo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXlMw9MjbZo)
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Moinmoin,
Bob (the Dog) kindly asked Nice band, have you played together long?
The band is run by Peter (b), who has been professional musician for his "whole life", which means something, as he is 62 years old. During his carreer he played with some very interesting and high rated musicians from jazz and rock to pop music (and You should really hear him bow a double bass...).
With Reno (guit), Markus (tb), and some other musicians he forms "Final Virus", a band in between jazz and metal for some 20 years. Max (dr) has replaced formerly often changing Final Virus drummers for the last few years. Yours sincerely plays with them for less than 3 years, Yavuz (tp) once played one occasion 3 years ago and was kind of reactivated for the concert. For Missi (voc), this was the very first concert with the band or any of its musicians ever. She was recommended to us by the organizator of the festival and had less than 6 weeks more or less occasional rehearsal with us before walking onstage together.
The video was recorded August 2015, and as the experience was good, we since have added Patros (ts) and form a regular band of 8 muscians. Nevertheless we also recorded a double Vinyl LP with b, dr, guit, tb, kb only and occasionally smaller sections of the entire group performed life.
And: Thank You, Bob, for Your interest and kind words!
Martin
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I just noticed that this thread existed so you'll have to apologize if you notice that I posted a similar link on the P12 page.
A friend of mine and I recently started an improv electronic project that features him on modular synthesizer and myself playing a Prophet 12 and manipulating some of the layers of music in Ableton Live. The concept for the project is that we have identified several musical elements that we each share responsibility for, but some of which are only allowed to be played by one person at a time. Our strategy is to manage these elements visually by trading cards back and forth that list which element of the music is available to be played by either of us. So for example, there may exist a couple of cards with "rhythmic bed" available, but only one card with "lead voice" on the table.
We may eventually move away from this approach, but for the time being it's a fun experiment. Have a listen for yourself if you're into slightly dissonant ambient electronic music (or maybe even if you're not :) ). Everything that you hear on this recording was improvised live to tape.
Have a listen here: https://earthquakevoyage.bandcamp.com/
Feel free to share any feedback you may think of.
Thanks!
Adam
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A long dreamy piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaW-lGTz5Y8
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An odd one for posting in synth forums in a way, only as it's much more of a 60's/70's pop (with psych-proggy? touches) type ting... Many things people post here are purely electronic, but this has an old Ludwig kit, an acoustic guitar and flute on display. That said, there's also huge globs of Prophet 5, Micromoog, Pro One, Juno 6, MS-10 and MS-20, Wurly 200 and my new and much beloved Prophet 6. I've basically had myself to stop adding more synths atop the main riff. Hope you enjoy... https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/its-the-coffee-that-makes-the-man-go-mad-rough-mix
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...I've basically had myself to stop adding more synths atop the main riff. Hope you enjoy... https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/its-the-coffee-that-makes-the-man-go-mad-rough-mix
Fun tune -- it didn't feel too crowded with synths to me. Quite balanced really.
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Fun tune -- it didn't feel too crowded with synths to me. Quite balanced really.
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Cheers Adam...
I suppose I started with the thickest synth, the P5, and each synth added after was a little bit thinner in texture. The Prophet 6 was a recent addition, and it's doing a very light bell part on the final choruses. Honestly, I'd thought to get a trumpet player involved to do that part, but that's a whole other direction for a song that's really begging to be mixed and moved on from!
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Adam,
Let us know when the album releases. Will you be doing synth stuff on the other songs?
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A long dreamy piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaW-lGTz5Y8
ooh, that section between 4:00 and 4:30 is really special.
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Thanks, Soundquest.
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A long dreamy piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaW-lGTz5Y8
Super glad I checked in on this thread! I didn't catch this one on my YouTube feed.
Still listening to it, but it is absolutely beautiful so far. I'm really enjoying the super high lead line on this-- it manages to stand out perfectly, but in an inoffensive way.
Please forgive me if I've said this before, but it sounds like you have an approach similar to Vangelis. Have you ever looked into his setup with his volume pedals and split keyboards and all that? I know he uses a lot of that to trigger & fade in arps and things of that nature (which IIRC you aren't the biggest fan of), but he also uses that kind of stuff for layering various sounds or octaves. It sounds like you do some of that in your improvisations-- I'd love to love to read about your particular set up and how you implement various controllers-- foot pedals, expression pedals, sustain pedals, volume pedals and keyboards as controllers for other synths.
I don't think I've ever wanted a proper polysynth more than while listening to this piece!
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Thanks, Steven. Actually, I don't listen to anything other than classical music. I've never been a Vangelis fan and have heard only what has been played on the radio over the years. I have watched a few videos of him, but his approach is very different from mine. I've never thought of our styles or methods as being that similar.
As for my set up, it's laughably simple, with only two volume pedals and a couple of effects devices. It's probably 95% musical instruments, and that's just the way I like it. I'll try to post in the near future some new pictures of my music room.
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Thanks, Steven. Actually, I don't listen to anything other than classical music. I've never been a Vangelis fan and have heard only what has been played on the radio over the years. I have watched a few videos of him, but his approach is very different from mine. I've never thought of our styles or methods as being that similar.
As for my set up, it's laughably simple, with only two volume pedals and a couple of effects devices. It's probably 95% musical instruments, and that's just the way I like it. I'll try to post in the near future some new pictures of my music room.
Thank you for the quick response! It's a testament to your musicianship that you're able to do all that with so little. I thought you were perhaps using a volume pedal per synth (which could work as an alternative to having to slide faders on a mixer). I'm interested in how you are using your volume pedals. Also, are you not using any sustain pedals??
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Hi gang - Here's an older tune of mine called MTV Song (guess which century it was written in!). Originally a two guitars/bass/drums rocker, it's been re-wired and loaded with synths. Pro One bass, plus bit of squirmy sync tone from the P1 in the chorus. Juno 6 doing the chords on the chorus, Prophet 6 doing another sync part and probably other scraps as well. My notes say Micromoog and MS-20, but I couldn't swear to who's doing what - blurry mess!! My old Danelectro in there as well. Oh, and TR-707 drums... Hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/mtv-song-antonique-mix
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I recorded an original arrangement of the Theme of Love from Final Fantasy IV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgcp_lj7H-4
It's mostly Eurorack, although there is also quite a bit of MoPho on the track :)
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Nice work!
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New Improvisation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33wrj9xKjA
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Nice work!
Thank you! I really really really wanted to use the DSM Feedback module for the 'guitar' part, but it didn't quite come out in time. Ironically that module was released on the exact day that I made this arrangement public on YouTube :P. I think something like an optomix would have worked well for it as well. I almost bought one for it but ultimately ran out of time.
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New Improvisation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33wrj9xKjA
Beautiful sounds, beautiful changes.
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Thanks, Chysn.
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Thank you! I really really really wanted to use the DSM Feedback module for the 'guitar' part, but it didn't quite come out in time. Ironically that module was released on the exact day that I made this arrangement public on YouTube :P. I think something like an optomix would have worked well for it as well. I almost bought one for it but ultimately ran out of time.
Should be arriving pretty soon! I think mine shipped yesterday, but I haven't received confirmation yet.
I have the LxD instead of the Optomix (for space reasons), and I think it's going to pair very well with the DSM03.
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New Improvisation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33wrj9xKjA
Yes! I love that sound that you're getting with your Poly Evolver on this. I've listened to it twice already :).
I know you like to make choir patches, and if I may do so... I'd like to recommend the Doepfer A-104 Trauotonium Formant Filter as it can really add just the right amount of extra resonance. Although I use mine with monophonic sounds and make chords with multiple passes of recording-- I'm not sure how it would handle a polyphonic open voice. I know that formants for the same vowel will change depending on the range. At any rate, if you ever go down the Eurorack hole, I think you would get a lot of use out of that module.
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Steven -
Thanks for the advice. That PEK Patch was not my choir patch. I have one that is much better and more realistic, even though I have no interest in truly emulating a real choir. But thanks for the filter suggestion. It does sound intriguing, though. Can you link to a sample of your use of it?
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I recorded an original arrangement of the Theme of Love from Final Fantasy IV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgcp_lj7H-4
It's mostly Eurorack, although there is also quite a bit of MoPho on the track :)
I just got to hear this now. That was a superb arrangement, Steven. I'm not familiar with the music, but it sounds like a mournful European folk song. Very tastefully and professionally done.
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This is a much better version from the same batch of improvisations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwItJ-ps5fw
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An odd one for posting in synth forums in a way, only as it's much more of a 60's/70's pop (with psych-proggy? touches) type ting... Many things people post here are purely electronic, but this has an old Ludwig kit, an acoustic guitar and flute on display. That said, there's also huge globs of Prophet 5, Micromoog, Pro One, Juno 6, MS-10 and MS-20, Wurly 200 and my new and much beloved Prophet 6. I've basically had myself to stop adding more synths atop the main riff. Hope you enjoy... https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/its-the-coffee-that-makes-the-man-go-mad-rough-mix
Sounds great. Nice to hear a song. :-)
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An odd one for posting in synth forums in a way, only as it's much more of a 60's/70's pop (with psych-proggy? touches) type ting... Many things people post here are purely electronic, but this has an old Ludwig kit, an acoustic guitar and flute on display. That said, there's also huge globs of Prophet 5, Micromoog, Pro One, Juno 6, MS-10 and MS-20, Wurly 200 and my new and much beloved Prophet 6. I've basically had myself to stop adding more synths atop the main riff. Hope you enjoy... https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/its-the-coffee-that-makes-the-man-go-mad-rough-mix
Sounds great. Nice to hear a song. :-)
Thanks Vinny. As much a synth-obsessive as I am, I'm a basic, grunty singer/songwriter first and foremost. Can't remember the last time I brought a synth to a gig!
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This don't count exactly as "my" Music, but I hope you guys enjoy this peculiar version of the Beatles' Love Me Do, all I and I and minor! Prophet 5 bass and solo, M-Tron Pro piano. https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/love-me-do
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Ant of 12047, nothing wrong with covers ;). BTW, that is a very interesting take on such a cool classic! Love the feel & sounds.
Speaking of covers, I forgot to post this earlier! I had the honor of adding a few parts to one of Ace Waters's video game cover songs. If you guys aren't aware of his channel yet, please check it out! Tons of great synth action :)
Anyways I added some MoPho melodies as well as a little solo as one of my parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfMEj6Q3ek
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(Almost) entirely modular, with heavy reliance on the DSM03. The synthesizer part is all a single take with a single patch. Warning: I've been pretty pissed off most of the week.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/deserves-got-nothing-to-do-with-it
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(Almost) entirely modular, with heavy reliance on the DSM03. The synthesizer part is all a single take with a single patch. Warning: I've been pretty pissed off most of the week.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/deserves-got-nothing-to-do-with-it
Cool piece and a pretty good outlet for being pissed off (a sentiment I share :-X)! ;)
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Warning: I've been pretty pissed off most of the week.
Nice calm piece. I like it!
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In contrast to chysn's quiet piece, I present Secretion of the Wafer. The main keys are Prophet 6 and Juno 6 - the chordal washes. I tracked one the P6 then the Juno, one take each, so it's pretty loose going. The solo is Micromoog and there are slight bits of Prophet 5 scattered about, but not likely noticeable. Hope you guys enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/secretion-of-the-wafer
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New improvisation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCZYyegOUdQ
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New improvisation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCZYyegOUdQ
Lovely.
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Thanks, Ant.
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I interrupt the soaring beauty and lush grandeur of Tim's latest for sort of an experiment.
There are a couple of concepts in play here:
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/who-are-you-really-and-what-were-you-before
(1) An earnest attempt at Karplus-Strong synthesis with the DSM03. Rather than trying to play the DSM03 as a sound source, I'm providing my own tuned impluses. I'm sort of alternating between struck metallic surfaces and plucked... maybe "strings"... by adjusting the feedback time for a signal that's already in tune. I need to work on this a bit. I think I can combine this with a low pass gate to make the result less harsh, but that's for another piece.
(2) I'm working on developing a compositional technique that involves writing scales instead of notes. I come up with several motifs on the piano, and write down the notes in the motifs until I have four "scales." They're not full scales as we usually think of them, though; they're just sets of notes that include all the notes in each motif, so they're between 4 and 7 notes. I go through these scales one at a time, entering them into the µScale. Various modulation sources decide what notes are actually played, but the notes are constrained to the ones in the original motifs. Since I'm not immediately shifting from one scale to another (I'm just toggling buttons on the µScale), a listener can sort of hear gradual transitions from one scale to the next.
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Finally got some time over this holiday weekend to go into the music room. "Moonlight Over the Rockies" is a blend of orchestral and synth.
The P-08 is featured. The initial melody, cellos and string accompaniment are the P-08. the P-08 really makes this production.
The orchestral sounds are EastWest Symphonic Orchestra software. The piano and bass are my trusty old Yamaha S90, which I also use as my controller. The echo snare and some bell sounds are a DX-7.
BTW, there was no sequencing and no quantizing. What you hear is what I played. :)
Enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/jdt9517/moonlight-over-the-rockies
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As a VERY HAPPY user of the Mopho desktop i just upgraded my gear with a used Tetra and:oh my god!! i love it so much!
Such a MONSTER! and the fact that you can upgrade with polychain makes it so amazing too!
This is the first proper track i made ONLY with Tetra for synths to test its capabilities and Neunaber for FX.And I'm very excited and satisfied by this synthesizer!!
https://soundcloud.com/fxbip/tetra-talk
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Anyways I added some MoPho melodies as well as a little solo as one of my parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfMEj6Q3ek
My eight-year-old son was humming this melody today, and I said, "Where did you hear that?" and he said it's from a game his friend plays. And I said, "I've heard that before... wait a minute..." I showed him this, and he pretty much lost his shit. And then he made me look up the original on YouTube, and when it was over, he said, "I like the original better." What do kids know, anyway?
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https://soundcloud.com/fxbip/analogue-prayers
https://soundcloud.com/fxbip/tetra-impro-pedal-test-2
some melodic experimental done only with Tetra and delay.
second one is multi dub impro
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Dear DSI-loving peeps! Well, I'll just say upfront there's not a synth in sight on this tune, though I'm sat next to a Prophet 5 as I type. Still, it's solstice and I'm sharing my Christmas song everywhere I can. Jangly 12-strings and a Ringo-kit in lieu of a P6 or Evolver, but I'll make up for that next time around... Cheers to all and hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe3AndZZEXg&index=9&list=PLKKnWmd5llyIPDRtSaM5QrY6tAgKmkJq7
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Dear DSI-loving peeps! Well, I'll just say upfront there's not a synth in sight on this tune, though I'm sat next to a Prophet 5 as I type. Still, it's solstice and I'm sharing my Christmas song everywhere I can. Jangly 12-strings and a Ringo-kit in lieu of a P6 or Evolver, but I'll make up for that next time around... Cheers to all and hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe3AndZZEXg&index=9&list=PLKKnWmd5llyIPDRtSaM5QrY6tAgKmkJq7
No synth! Ok, but I hear bells @3:25 Don't tell me those are real orchestra bells ;)
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Dear DSI-loving peeps! Well, I'll just say upfront there's not a synth in sight on this tune, though I'm sat next to a Prophet 5 as I type. Still, it's solstice and I'm sharing my Christmas song everywhere I can. Jangly 12-strings and a Ringo-kit in lieu of a P6 or Evolver, but I'll make up for that next time around... Cheers to all and hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe3AndZZEXg&index=9&list=PLKKnWmd5llyIPDRtSaM5QrY6tAgKmkJq7
No synth! Ok, but I hear bells @3:25 Don't tell me those are real orchestra bells ;)
Ha! Quite right! I had to give a fresh listen meself. I think the producer had an Emulator II, so the bells would likely have come from that. I did want (sampled) tubular bells, but they were too plodding. I've always been fond of this recording - originally for a local charity CD, with studios around town giving time to various bands for free, so lots of good Xmas vibes , even as we baked through sessions in August!
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Hey folks - well, again, this isn't a DSI-rich song, but it's got a few synths and such scattered amongst the very kitchen-sink production. The main chordal synth is actually a GForce VSM OB-8 patch, but there's Micromoog and probably/possibly Pro One, MS20 and Dark Energy in the mix. I don't have the Pro Tools session file handy so can't look it up. Oh, there's loads of M-Tron Pro fx on the track. And Roland R8 and maybe TR707. "Real" drums and bass and guitar and and a million of everything else. A mess, but the video is wonderful, I'd say. Very pleased! Shot in Oxford, so properly Alice-vibe'd.
I'll post a few more DSI/Sequential-focused tracks soon, but this video was premiered today and I figure a few of you will enjoy the madness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krhKujax3js&list=PLKKnWmd5llyIPDRtSaM5QrY6tAgKmkJq7&index=1
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My band, Roxaboxen, just posted a new video for our song "Ignite". A local vocalist, Janxx, collaborated with us on this version and we are super pumped about the result.
Check it out please!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wue0q0Ol0s
The visuals used are primarily from our stage projections for this song.
DSI stuff appears quite often throughout (and a Roland):
Tempest: main drum loop through the first 13 secs switching in and out the internal Distort circuit (producer added some grainy reverb). Mixed in pretty low at 0:45 and 2:41 in the bridge too and other places. We have a live drummer who plays a Roland drum brain. The main "human" drums were recorded with MIDI and sound replaced later (cymbal overheads and a kick mic were acoustic). Main groovy hi-hat is a sample loop (not tempest).
Evolver: The original chord progression was written on an Evolver. On the final version, the Evolver's part is primarily chopped up using a rhythmic stutter edit tool. You'll hear this throughout. I think it may be mixed in really low for the pad too, but I'm not sure.
JD-XA: The JD-XA took over the main pad duties. The patch I made had several layers and wound up with too much bass. It's significantly high passed in this mix. The supersaw stuff wound up better on the Roland than the original patch on the Pro-2. Part is mainly analog with digital supersaws sent through the analog Roland filter.
Pro-2: Badass Pro-2 sequence for the bridge (if I may say?). Starts at 2:30. Comes back at 3:53. The slew rate dials played a key part on the feel of this. Something I've not been able to replicate on any other sequencer/synth.
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Great track, blewis! Really like it. Is it the same vocalist as the singer on the "Reckless" track you posted some time ago?
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Hey dslsynth, thanks for the kind words and thanks for being engaged! We were unable to keep things going with the previous Reckless vocalist. A shame because she was quite amazing, but that opened the door for other opportunities...
This track features a different vocalist, Janxx. You can check out some of her other stuff at http://janxxmusic.com . She's quite good and her solo stuff is all her: all the songs, instruments, and vocals. We wanted to do a collaboration with her in a electronic band setting and I think she nailed it helping us re-ignite our track Ignite.
Great track, blewis! Really like it. Is it the same vocalist as the singer on the "Reckless" track you posted some time ago?
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An all-Prophet '08 piece using a PWM pad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWYw8b8fsWk
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A very challenging piece!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkS3LgRRqA
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A very challenging piece!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkS3LgRRqA
I like this one, nice job.
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Thanks, Bob.
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A very challenging piece!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkS3LgRRqA
Sounds like quite an endeavor, but the result is very easy to appreciate! Lovely stuff, as always.
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Thanks, Ant.
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I like it, very nice melody. Are you scoring by hand or with software?
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Thanks, Chysn. I'll score by hand, but then I'll re-score it using MuseScore2.
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Here's a new one from me, though it's decidedly retro in its newness. All the 80s ick I couldn't stand in the day has come back to haunt me and I'm happy to share! Power ballad with endless drum Phils? Yup! Epic* guitar solo? Indeed! Day the Earth Stood Still reference? For sure! Hare Krishna chant? Why not!?
Prophet 6 for the chords, Prophet 5 is the bass, with PolySix as the sort of harpsichord-y ting. Roland R8 is in charge of the dreaded drum track. I think that's it for the electronics. Hope some of you folks can dig it... Thanks!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/ice-in-the-rain-mix-2
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Hi,
Here are some track, with all synths sounds made with Prophet 12 ('currently working on new material)
https://soundcloud.com/thedisease/dawn
https://soundcloud.com/thedisease/nowhere-prophet-12-rework
https://soundcloud.com/thedisease/pulse-prophet-12-rework
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A very challenging piece!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkS3LgRRqA
SS: You should just play and get yourself a recording engineer ;) In all seriousness, I'd imagine a nice multi track of one of your songs would tally up to something amazing.
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It's tempting to go the way of multi-tracking, and I certainly will experiment with it. But no doubt, something will be lost. I like the clarity, directness, and simplicity of compositions that are performed all at once. If there's one thing I don't like about synthesizer music, it's the seemingly endless layering that is common. Layering in moderation? Fine. But still, I'm interested in a fresh and original approach to this, to rethinking synthesizer music, and clarity of sound is front and center. I want every measure of music to be easy enough to follow with a moderately musical ear, and every note and sound that doesn't substantially contribute to the piece to be removed. Multi-tracking brings with it the temptation to do just the opposite. Just as much, is it even necessary? What need do I have of multi-tracking. I don't consider making things easier to be a need.
Regarding engineers, I was actually going to teach my wife how and when to make various changes for me while recording. I'm sure she'd be happy to do it, but then I'd have to take her out for dinner afterwards. ;D
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Here's a new piece that features the DSM03 quite prominently. Actually, pretty much everything I do now features the DSM03 in some capacity, but here it's front-and-center as a rhythmic instrument, in conjunction with a low pass gate.
This was recorded directly into my Tascam DR-05, which is another thing I've become quite fond of.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/total-protonic-reversal
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Hi all - I posted this in "Prophet 6" as well. A simple A/B comparison, re-recording an old song of mine, first with only Juno 6 and then with only the P6. Tech details are up on the SC page linked here. Cheers!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/sets/you-can-move-a-mountain-juno-6-vs-prophet-6
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Hi all - I posted this in "Prophet 6" as well. A simple A/B comparison, re-recording an old song of mine, first with only Juno 6 and then with only the P6. Tech details are up on the SC page linked here. Cheers!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/sets/you-can-move-a-mountain-juno-6-vs-prophet-6
I love the song, and I'm glad you gave me an excuse to hear it twice. I can't say which version I like better. The Prophet 6 clearly does a great job with the bouncy synth baseline, though.
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Hi all - I posted this in "Prophet 6" as well. A simple A/B comparison, re-recording an old song of mine, first with only Juno 6 and then with only the P6. Tech details are up on the SC page linked here. Cheers!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/sets/you-can-move-a-mountain-juno-6-vs-prophet-6
I love the song, and I'm glad you gave me an excuse to hear it twice. I can't say which version I like better. The Prophet 6 clearly does a great job with the bouncy synth baseline, though.
Thanks, Chysn! I did hold things back, keeping tones simple in a square-or-saw kinda way, but the P6 does love being a bass machine.
I'm pushing my luck, perhaps, but here's the original version - bass and drums from the guys in Cake, backwards guitars (Kimberley Rew!) and loads of Wurli. Very organic, not a synth in sight!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/you-can-move-a-mountain
Hope you enjoy it as well!
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Hey gang - an updated version of my "Prophet 6 vs Juno 6" track, You Can Move a Mountain. This new version def. favors the P6. I've re-done a few parts, augmented bits etc. New bass-line from the P6, plus some Evolver and 808 thrown in. Long story short, I'm not presenting this as a "vs" battle by now, but instead am shaping up the track into a more proper form. That said, it's still a work-in-progress. Still, I figured maybe a few here might be curious to hear the development. It feels more like a proper song than a synth demo by now... Hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/mountain-p6-vs-j6-all-in-rough-mix
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A new piece from me, an Evolver-driven instrumental. I posted this also on the Evolver page, so I won't say much here. Hope you folks enjoy it a bit!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/plonkee-trawl-mix-3-no-vx/s-Mr4Jw
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Did a quick demo over the weekend. https://youtu.be/ICPLMQYpM9s
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Cool, that gets intense. I like the Pendereckiesque lead bwaaps. Is that the Prophet 6?
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Cool, that gets intense. I like the Pendereckiesque lead bwaaps. Is that the Prophet 6?
Yup. It's actually a factory patch that I really enjoyed. I need to mix it properly still but it's actually a layer with a low male choir patch on the Kurzweil as well underneath.
The bouncing arpeggiated notes, the "Tom Sawyer" filter sweep and the pipe organ sound are also the Prophet 6 as well. The Moog is just the repeated bass line.
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An all-Evolver piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOGd3v-rC_M
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An all-Evolver piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOGd3v-rC_M
Makin' the Evolver proud of it's bass! At ~9:00 very deep
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The bass enters at 6:32. That would be the Evolver Desktop controlled by the Hammond XPK 200L Pedalboard.
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This is a musical cue for an animated series, for a parodic scene in which a dinosaur tramples a plastic city. I listened to a bunch of musical cues from Godzilla et al destroying cities, and the one I liked the most sounded like a half-speed clip of a microphone placed inside a hanging piano which was repetitively dropped onto the ground while its strings are scraped with guitar picks.
The only audio here is the complex oscillator through the DSM03, which is the handling the ringy abused piano duties. A couple function generators are patched into each other's rise CV, so they're sort of fighting over who gets to control the VCA.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/creaturey-destroys-the-city
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This is a musical cue for an animated series, for a parodic scene in which a dinosaur tramples a plastic city. I listened to a bunch of musical cues from Godzilla et al destroying cities, and the one I liked the most sounded like a half-speed clip of a microphone placed inside a hanging piano which was repetitively dropped onto the ground while its strings are scraped with guitar picks.
The only audio here is the complex oscillator through the DSM03, which is the handling the ringy abused piano duties. A couple function generators are patched into each other's rise CV, so they're sort of fighting over who gets to control the VCA.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/creaturey-destroys-the-city
I know the exact cue. Akira Ifukube-Godzilla Comes Ashore (1954) Am I right? https://youtu.be/FFHJh8hxaJA
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I know the exact cue. Akira Ifukube-Godzilla Comes Ashore (1954) Am I right? https://youtu.be/FFHJh8hxaJA
YES! Isn't that amazing?
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I know the exact cue. Akira Ifukube-Godzilla Comes Ashore (1954) Am I right? https://youtu.be/FFHJh8hxaJA
YES! Isn't that amazing?
I love how they used it in the new Shin Godzilla film too. I think the effect was achieve by smacking the piano strings with something and modifying the speed later. A similar effect was used for his roar. It's a wet leather glove being scrapped against a detuned upright bass and played back at half speed.
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Back at it with the Birds :) Kind of odd actually that I didn't get DSI in here somewhere, but I figured I'd post anyway
Nord Lead 4 - main bright pad melodies, bright keys, pipe organ, horns, wind chimes
Behringer DM12- mellow pads w. flutes, violin, cello, harp, wind, first two bird tracks (multi birds)
Analog Solutions Red Square assisted by Vermona Lancet - all remaining birds towards end (solo birds), talking, little sequence at 4:07.
Roland Gaia- crickets
Drum- acoustic large tom
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/abounding-spirit
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This isn't new, nor is it finished, and there's not a single synth on the track at this point... BUT it's got a couple Mellotron M400 tracks squished up in the mix at the moment. We'll be adding more guitars, real drums and who knows what else, but the rough mix here has a nice feel. Adrian Shaw from Hawkwind on bass. Hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/summer-of-gold-mellotron-and-ade-bass
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Just wondering if we spread the music out too much on this forum? On the old forum all the music postings were in one spot and somehow seemed easier to navigate. I thought it seemed easier to check the whole posted population if you wanted to see a particular posting. What I'm saying is that with everything being a reply versus a new thread in a category it makes digging thru posts to find something harder. This is not a problem for most of us "daily users", but for somebody new, who lets say just wanted to browser thru some OB6 music, needs to sort thru a lot of reading.
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So it sounds like the suggestion is to make separate board for music posts? I like the idea -- I think it would be easier to navigate and would encourage more thorough discussion of particular pieces.
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Exactly. Just trying to spawn some shop talk about the music we make, or perhaps encourage more posting. Don't wanna be a photography club without sharing photo's ;)
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I've always preferred the method of categorizing DSI synthesizer music according to the predominat instrument, and keeping the thread always at the top of the page. That way you don't have to scroll around to find it. So, for the Rev 2, call the thread "Rev 2 Music" and leave it at that. The general Music thread makes sense for non-DSI synthesizer music, or music that doesn't have one predominat DSI synthesizer.
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Just another song. Used Doepfer DarkTime sequencer to drive DM-12 synth.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/music-box-mind
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I've always had a soft spot for sample and hold, and that sequence with a dissonant tone was quite similar to it. Very pretty. And I like the ending - haunting in a good way.
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Featuring DSM03, with Moskwa modulating the tuning. This is pretty much why I sold my drum machine.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/bumpy-night
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I've always had a soft spot for sample and hold, and that sequence with a dissonant tone was quite similar to it. Very pretty. And I like the ending - haunting in a good way.
Thanks for the feedback Sacred Synthesis.
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Featuring DSM03, with Moskwa modulating the tuning. This is pretty much why I sold my drum machine.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/bumpy-night
Chysn, sounds like a pattern, but yet random. Is this some type of randomizer involved?
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Chysn, sounds like a pattern, but yet random. Is this some type of randomizer involved?
No. I'm playing the patch live to a recorder in one pass, and any random-sounding parts are probably just me playing Pressure Points or turning knobs, or changing the sequencer gates. I don't have much of an interest in generative music, so I'm never going to just let a patch wander off on its own.
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ok, got it.
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Hi gang - I posted the original version of this a while back (I *think* I did... did I?). That one featured a Prophet 6 dueling with a Juno 6. This version has a Prophet 5 as main synth. There are bits of Mellotron in as well, plus ye olde fashioned guitar/bass/drums etc. The video ALMOST features identical Spanish twins. Almost! I hope you enjoy it...
(P.S. This sorta leads to a separate rant/post I'm pondering, my own P6 vs. P5 thoughts, as I've been in a situation where I'm literally living with one or the other these days. But for now, Secretion of the Wafer... with chickens!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzGbIFdpcM
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All OB6. I already posted this in the OB6 section as a soundcloud link, but this is the youtube version.
https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=CaVJKyKOa5k
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Hey Soundquest, I sure do appreciate the free advertising, but you might want to double check that link! ;D
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Hey Soundquest, I sure do appreciate the free advertising, but you might want to double check that link! ;D
Sacred Synthesis. It seems to be working ok to my video. Maybe you had youtube already up and it loaded your link somehow.
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Hey Soundquest, I sure do appreciate the free advertising, but you might want to double check that link! ;D
Sacred Synthesis. It seems to be working ok to my video. Maybe you had youtube already up and it loaded your link somehow.
Soundquest, you posted the link to the Edit Video screen. For folks that don't own that video, it goes to that person's My Videos screen instead of the edit screen. So when you click it, you see your video; when he clicks it, he sees his stuff; when I click it, I see my stuff.
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Ah, that's the problem.
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All OB6 , with the right link this time. Too bad we cannot edit posts :-\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVJKyKOa5k
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You can always ask the assigned moderator to change one of your posts. I get requests often enough.
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Just messing with the Pittsburgh Foundation and Doepfer Dark Time and came up with these funky vowel sounds. No patch memory here, so I had to record it ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXV19kbp880&feature=youtu.be
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Greets, gang. I'm presenting a duel of the Prophets. I've recorded two versions of the same song, once using only the Prophet 6 and then again with Prophet 5 playing the identical parts with closely matched patches. There are more tech details on the Soundcloud page, so I won't go into that stuff here. Maybe a main point to make is that the P6 is in Berlin and the P5 is in California. I finished up the Prophet 6 track, then set about replicating it soon as I landed in Cal. A curious exercise. I posted something similar a while back, a song recorded once with only Juno 6 and then with Prophet 6. In both cases I've tried to keep things as matches as possible. With the Juno vs P6 track, I used only one oscillator on the P6. In the P6 vs P5 track, the P6 was recorded in mono, wit no internal effects used, as the P5 doesn't have stereo outputs or any effects. Now, the P5 is a wee bit noisy anyway, but in this case, there's also an amount of USB noise on the MIDI'd tracks. The P6 is super clean in comparison. Anyway, enough talk - here's the music. Thanks!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/sets/magazine-street-prophet-6-vs-prophet-5-variations/s-DBHEZ
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Catchy tune. I actually like the P5 version better. But I think its just that the bass line is a little softer in the mix.
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Catchy tune. I actually like the P5 version better. But I think its just that the bass line is a little softer in the mix.
Cheers, SQ. The timbre of the P5 bass patch is also a bit softer, as well as being mixed lower. I mixed the P6 version of the song through both speakers and headphones, whereas the P5 mix was headphones-only. I won't be back in Berlin until October, but I'm curious to compare the versions through speakers in my studio.
Of course, in the meantime, I did a mix combining both P5 and P6. It turned out quite alright - whatever differences between the synths, they certainly add up to something epic! I feel incredibly fortunate to have both Prophets in my life.
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Here we go, my first ever tune featuring the Prophet Rev2. https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/seeing-things-differently (https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/seeing-things-differently). I am a bit nervous about doing this, as I don't consider myself to be a good musician - but I am too old now to let anything hold me back :)
Patch consists of two Rev2 layers, driven by Bitwig version 2 on different midi channels (multimode). Because of a small bug in multimode I made sure Bitwig never played the same note simultaneously on each channel (octave apart is fine). Also featuring my very first Blofeld Mellotron patch, sample based. Percussion provided by stock Bitwig samples.
Rev2 patches only have small amount of EQ added, no external effects. Blofeld Mellotron flute external effect is provided by Lexicon MX-400 (chorus + reverb arena in series mode).
You can download the Rev2 patch sheet here: https://gezz.eu/tutorials/DSI_Prophet_Rev2_Parameters_Gezz_Gentl_PCM_Seeing_things_differenlty.pdf (https://gezz.eu/tutorials/DSI_Prophet_Rev2_Parameters_Gezz_Gentl_PCM_Seeing_things_differenlty.pdf)
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Very nice, Gerry. I especially liked the bass and the beautiful flute chorus. There were some lovely chord progressions in the upper registers. More, please!
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Very nice, Gerry. I especially liked the bass and the beautiful flute chorus. There were some lovely chord progressions in the upper registers. More, please!
Thanks Sacred, so kind. There will be more with the Rev2. It is a wonderful instrument and I have started to include it nicely into my work flow. Was worth the wait :)
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Absolute synthnewbie and the Rev 2 is my first and beloved Hardware. I made my first patches and a little piece with it. All sounds and fx come from Rev2.
https://youtu.be/Qe6Uuzfyc-A
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Here we go, my first ever tune featuring the Prophet Rev2. https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/seeing-things-differently (https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/seeing-things-differently). I am a bit nervous about doing this, as I don't consider myself to be a good musician - but I am too old now to let anything hold me back :)
Patch consists of two Rev2 layers, driven by Bitwig version 2 on different midi channels (multimode). Because of a small bug in multimode I made sure Bitwig never played the same note simultaneously on each channel (octave apart is fine). Also featuring my very first Blofeld Mellotron patch, sample based. Percussion provided by stock Bitwig samples.
Rev2 patches only have small amount of EQ added, no external effects. Blofeld Mellotron flute external effect is provided by Lexicon MX-400 (chorus + reverb arena in series mode).
You can download the Rev2 patch sheet here: https://gezz.eu/tutorials/DSI_Prophet_Rev2_Parameters_Gezz_Gentl_PCM_Seeing_things_differenlty.pdf (https://gezz.eu/tutorials/DSI_Prophet_Rev2_Parameters_Gezz_Gentl_PCM_Seeing_things_differenlty.pdf)
A beautiful piece of music Gerry! The Rev2 is capable of so many different sounds.
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Here we go, my first ever tune featuring the Prophet Rev2. https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/seeing-things-differently (https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/seeing-things-differently). I am a bit nervous about doing this, as I don't consider myself to be a good musician - but I am too old now to let anything hold me back :)
Patch consists of two Rev2 layers, driven by Bitwig version 2 on different midi channels (multimode). Because of a small bug in multimode I made sure Bitwig never played the same note simultaneously on each channel (octave apart is fine). Also featuring my very first Blofeld Mellotron patch, sample based. Percussion provided by stock Bitwig samples.
Rev2 patches only have small amount of EQ added, no external effects. Blofeld Mellotron flute external effect is provided by Lexicon MX-400 (chorus + reverb arena in series mode).
You can download the Rev2 patch sheet here: https://gezz.eu/tutorials/DSI_Prophet_Rev2_Parameters_Gezz_Gentl_PCM_Seeing_things_differenlty.pdf (https://gezz.eu/tutorials/DSI_Prophet_Rev2_Parameters_Gezz_Gentl_PCM_Seeing_things_differenlty.pdf)
Nice, the flutes sound like Andean flutes.
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Absolute synthnewbie and the Rev 2 is my first and beloved Hardware. I made my first patches and a little piece with it. All sounds and fx come from Rev2.
https://youtu.be/Qe6Uuzfyc-A
I like it, nice job.
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Absolute synthnewbie and the Rev 2 is my first and beloved Hardware. I made my first patches and a little piece with it. All sounds and fx come from Rev2.
https://youtu.be/Qe6Uuzfyc-A
I like it, nice job.
Thank you Bob!
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Hi gang- a slight change of pace for normally pop-focused me. This is an improvised ambient track I made way back in maybe 1986. Prophet 5, Korg PolySix, Pro One and Korg MS-10 would have been the synths used, with the P5 shining as you'd expect. This has to be the most chill piece of music I've ever made, and it's almost weird for me to hear it now. Hope you enjoy.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/dolphins-on-drugs
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Hi gang- a slight change of pace for normally pop-focused me. This is an improvised ambient track I made way back in maybe 1986. Prophet 5, Korg PolySix, Pro One and Korg MS-10 would have been the synths used, with the P5 shining as you'd expect. This has to be the most chill piece of music I've ever made, and it's almost weird for me to hear it now. Hope you enjoy.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/dolphins-on-drugs
Given the discussion about other (digital) synths in the sister forum, this is a track I wrote last weekend featuring the Rev2 and the Blofeld. Enjoy! I will post the patch sheet for the Rev2 shortly.
https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/light-in-the-world-ardour-master-20171005 (https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/light-in-the-world-ardour-master-20171005)
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Happy Halloween everyone!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JlTwEjjYNxQ
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Pumped another one out this week...https://youtu.be/82k7LdIDXIo
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Look no VST's involved :) . All hardware, Rev2 featuring prominently as dual bass track, exploring the lower end of the Rev2 here.
https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/there-is-nothing-to-fear-take-01 (https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/there-is-nothing-to-fear-take-01)
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Did some Tangerine Dream covers with just the DSI Tempest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC1YvIvALnA
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Did some Tangerine Dream covers with just the DSI Tempest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC1YvIvALnA
Re-uploaded it cause I noticed a spelling error.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNG8k5Imz0&t=17s
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First time I used Evolver in a track. This track features only DSI synths, Prophet Rev2 and Evolver Desktop, no outboard effects (needed). Rev2 and Evolver effects sufficient for my taste ;). Percussion are samples played by the Akai S5000 + some limited effects (Midiverb II).
https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/i-am-one-self-ardour-master-20171119
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Another track I wrote a while back with my friend. Decided to use it as a basis just test out the Prophet 6 after getting it back from the repair shop. So far so good.
Instruments Used
Prophet 6
Tempest Drum Computer
Fender Stratocaster w/Roger Linn Design-Adrenalinn iii Effects Box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ0ROHrhheo
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Hi Gang - here's a different type of "Berlin School" for you - it's my attempt at a Kurt Weill sort of number. Apart from the MS20 drones at the start of the track, the minimal backing is all Prophet 6. Only two patches are used- a distorted organ and a basic plonky saw-tooth thing that sounds a bit like a piano in context. What sounds like a bass track is just the low left hand. The drums - kick, snare and hi hat - are also P6. The song is a bit to the left of what I usually do, and I'm tempted to have a singer I've started working with in Berlin have a go at it, as this is more her typical style than mine. For the moment, it's simply a fun song that came quickly together. Hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/berliner-grotesque
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The Duke Arrives/Barricade (John Carpenter/Alan Howarth cover)
-Prophet 6
-Tempest Drum Computer
-Fender Stratocaster
-Adrenalinn iii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJV7FCM-_o
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Something a bit more mellow ala Miami Vice.
Fender Stratocaster
Prophet 6
Tempest Drum Computer
Adrenalinn iii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQmjm5XAlsk&feature=youtu.be
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a couple of lil snippets of a track I made fully on the Tempest.... well as in all the main parts and ideas were made in the Tempest, then I added some more noise fx and drum hits n stuff to it later in the daw, processed etc
https://soundcloud.com/essiomusic/distinto
https://soundcloud.com/ribenmusic/essio-distinto-original-mix
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Something a bit more mellow ala Miami Vice.
Fender Stratocaster
Prophet 6
Tempest Drum Computer
Adrenalinn iii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQmjm5XAlsk&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQmjm5XAlsk&feature=youtu.be)
Right out of the 80s. Slide a fretless bass in there?
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Something a bit more mellow ala Miami Vice.
Fender Stratocaster
Prophet 6
Tempest Drum Computer
Adrenalinn iii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQmjm5XAlsk&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQmjm5XAlsk&feature=youtu.be)
Right out of the 80s. Slide a fretless bass in there?
Nope that’s all P6, Tempest And Guitar. I was thinking of adding a sax but a fretless bass wouldn’t be too bad on the next track.
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Greets, all - here's a fresh track, conjured on a dark Sunday afternoon in Berlin. I've been so fixated on my Prophet 6 lately that I wanted an excuse to use all the other synths surrounding me. Here's who's doing what...
Pro One - MIDI'd bass
MS-20 - atmospheric drone, with reverb from both RE-20 and PT plug-in.
Evolver - hard sync arpeggio
Juno 6 - chorused filter sweep chords, w "spring reverb" from Boss RE-20
Micromoog - s/h mosquito freak out. (This is the first time I've ever used the pitch ribbon on this thing!)
Prophet 6 - two tracks playing identical minimal melody. One with vague Vangelis' type brass-ish patch, the other a sync tone that sounds a bit cat-yowly.
TR-707 - drums. I run the 707 through the Evolver, sometimes for precessing, but always cos I don't have enough channels on my mixer!! In this case, the processing on the drums comes from a Pro Tools plug, not the Evolver. More spring reverb from a plug.
You can see the gear in the pic on the SC link and the name of the track will make sense then...
Cheers!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/clean-your-room2
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Greets, all - here's a fresh track, conjured on a dark Sunday afternoon in Berlin. I've been so fixated on my Prophet 6 lately that I wanted an excuse to use all the other synths surrounding me. Here's who's doing what...
Pro One - MIDI'd bass
MS-20 - atmospheric drone, with reverb from both RE-20 and PT plug-in.
Evolver - hard sync arpeggio
Juno 6 - chorused filter sweep chords, w "spring reverb" from Boss RE-20
Micromoog - s/h mosquito freak out. (This is the first time I've ever used the pitch ribbon on this thing!)
Prophet 6 - two tracks playing identical minimal melody. One with vague Vangelis' type brass-ish patch, the other a sync tone that sounds a bit cat-yowly.
TR-707 - drums. I run the 707 through the Evolver, sometimes for precessing, but always cos I don't have enough channels on my mixer!! In this case, the processing on the drums comes from a Pro Tools plug, not the Evolver. More spring reverb from a plug.
You can see the gear in the pic on the SC link and the name of the track will make sense then...
Cheers!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/clean-your-room2
Nice one Anton, great track. I regularly get complaints from my other half about cleaning my room (of equipment with flashy lights). Deja vu all over: doesn't seem to make any difference if I am 18 or 58 years of age. Ha ha.
Thanks for the tip of running stuff through the Evolver, I haven't tried that yet and forgot about that capability.
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Nice one Anton, great track. I regularly get complaints from my other half about cleaning my room (of equipment with flashy lights). Deja vu all over: doesn't seem to make any difference if I am 18 or 58 years of age. Ha ha.
Thanks for the tip of running stuff through the Evolver, I haven't tried that yet and forgot about that capability.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Gerry. My studio at home is small enough that on one hand, there's not much room for cleaning, if that makes sense! Things are only where there's space for them to be! But I'm not a tidy person, it has to be said, and my Novation X-Station, which I use as master controller, is also a table - pens, a lighter, a drum machine, the Evolver, David Bowie guitar pick all resting "neatly" on top at the moment.
I think it's something like Bank 3, patches 30-39, where you'll find the main Evolver "blank" patches for processing. Maybe the ten patches prior are the ones meant for guitar processing. It's all in the manual, so don't take my guess as final word! But yes - the Evolver does a gorgeous job processing external sounds. My first synth was a Prop One and I ran everything in the world through the Audio In. I've got a Korg MS-10 which does a particularly sweet job of fuzzing up electric guitars. The Evolver is set up properly to do external processing in a way that's very appealing. But like I said, it also serves a practical need for me, as I don't quite have enough input channels on my mixer! Thus, the Roland TR-707 lives permanently plugged into the Evolver. I'm due to upgrade my mixer, but I think I might just keep the 707/Evolver combo as-is. They like each other!
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Some live modular music for Christmas Eve, featuring a voltage-controlled Christmas tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JD4Y3pXUik
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Some live modular music for Christmas Eve, featuring a voltage-controlled Christmas tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JD4Y3pXUik
Brilliant Christmas sound installation!
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Seasonal greets, all. Here's a remake of a song I wrote three years ago during Christmas break in Berlin. It's not a Christmas song, but I do think there's a touch of sleigh bells to the secret vibe. Anyway, this version, apart from drum machine and vocals, is all Prophet 6 and Prophet 5. I tracked it in Berlin with my P6, then augmented or replaced a few tracks via the MIDI'd-up P5. Hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/down-around-the-radio-syntho-rough-mix/s-M89y4
P.S. - the song I posted last week, Clean Your Room, has been re-jigged a good bit, also with Prophet 5 added and the arrangement/mix in stronger shape. https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/clean-your-room2
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Merry Christmas, everybody!
Here's a little Advent and Christmas music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FyGwa4Cu9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnxCV4n-lAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGl_-tEPpE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5psbnQUX2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhfQf5KO10g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pze_tG6fyNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRgB5Mi18a8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfEcKxi7y8g
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R.I.P. Ulli Lommel. A cover I did of Tim Krog's score for Lommel's film "The Boogeyman"
Prophet-6
Moog Sub 37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UpNuLXBbLo
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Is this the fatal flaw in the ointment? I found this clip last night of me rocking out in the teenage basement, doing what would now be called "DAW-less jamming" or such. Musically, it's pretty wretched (And Sacred Tim, this is an MS-10 in nothing-but-harsh mode), but for you youngsters, all Stranger Thing'd and such, wondering what it was REALLY like back in the day, I give you the purest display on earth. 1984, with PolySix, Korg MS-10, Pro One, dreadful Korg DDM-110 and a Yamaha Porta Sound. Throw in a Casio digital watch, my high school gym shorts and my Split Enz-inspired haircut and you're almost there. I think the main thing is the dancing. Yep, kids, this is EXACTLY how we looked on the dance floor, I swear! Uh, I promise next time I post something here, it'll be anything but this. But I bet at least 2 or 4 of you might get an "authentic" kick out of this frightening time slice! Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/dkRcMPcE-Kg
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"Sacred Tim"? My, that makes me feel special!
Thank you for that amusing plunge into 1980's culture. I, too, passed those years playing in bands.
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Sometimes it only takes one thing to tip a day off the razor's edge from being a crappy day to a cheerful day. And there it is.
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Is this the fatal flaw in the ointment? I found this clip last night of me rocking out in the teenage basement, doing what would now be called "DAW-less jamming" or such. Musically, it's pretty wretched (And Sacred Tim, this is an MS-10 in nothing-but-harsh mode), but for you youngsters, all Stranger Thing'd and such, wondering what it was REALLY like back in the day, I give you the purest display on earth. 1984, with PolySix, Korg MS-10, Pro One, dreadful Korg DDM-110 and a Yamaha Porta Sound. Throw in a Casio digital watch, my high school gym shorts and my Split Enz-inspired haircut and you're almost there. I think the main thing is the dancing. Yep, kids, this is EXACTLY how we looked on the dance floor, I swear! Uh, I promise next time I post something here, it'll be anything but this. But I bet at least 2 or 4 of you might get an "authentic" kick out of this frightening time slice! Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/dkRcMPcE-Kg
Ah wonderful and timeless, those were the days. Where did you get all the money from, as a teenager, to buy all that gear?
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Is this the fatal flaw in the ointment? I found this clip last night of me rocking out in the teenage basement, doing what would now be called "DAW-less jamming" or such. Musically, it's pretty wretched (And Sacred Tim, this is an MS-10 in nothing-but-harsh mode), but for you youngsters, all Stranger Thing'd and such, wondering what it was REALLY like back in the day, I give you the purest display on earth. 1984, with PolySix, Korg MS-10, Pro One, dreadful Korg DDM-110 and a Yamaha Porta Sound. Throw in a Casio digital watch, my high school gym shorts and my Split Enz-inspired haircut and you're almost there. I think the main thing is the dancing. Yep, kids, this is EXACTLY how we looked on the dance floor, I swear! Uh, I promise next time I post something here, it'll be anything but this. But I bet at least 2 or 4 of you might get an "authentic" kick out of this frightening time slice! Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/dkRcMPcE-Kg
Ah wonderful and timeless, those were the days. Where did you get all the money from, as a teenager, to buy all that gear?
I'm still in shock for having discovered this footage, have to say. My father and I moved into a smaller house when I was a teen and some of the money he made on that went towards kitting out my wee basement studio. Meanwhile, by the time of this vid, I'd started working weekends at a trendy dance club, making handfuls of cash each night. The Korg MS-10 I won in a battle of the bands sponsored by the big music store in town. My "best keyboardist" performance was directly inspired by Ron Mael from Sparks, and included a hands-off one-note synth solo, a moment I'm still a bit smug about! The MS-10 is sat directly behind my laptop at the moment. The PolySix is at my dad's and the Pro One is in Berlin.
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a hands-off one-note synth solo
I'm tempted to delve for details, but that seems... unwise.
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a hands-off one-note synth solo
I'm tempted to delve for details, but that seems... unwise.
Well, how could you play a keyboard while you've got those jumping jitters?
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a hands-off one-note synth solo
I'm tempted to delve for details, but that seems... unwise.
Well, how could you play a keyboard while you've got those jumping jitters?
To explain both the "dancing video" and the "one note solo" biz in one fell swoop, both were me, in my true teenage glory, mocking the rock of the day, I think. Regarding the hands-free solo, my band was the only "new wave" group in this teenage battle of the bands - the rest of the bands were still pretty steeped in Music Store Rock, if that makes sense. So my band felt we were the edgy (ha!) agitators. For every band/instrumentalist that played as many notes-per-second as possible, we/I were minimalists by design, so I made a show out of playing one note or fewer, ala Ron Mael.
Now, the basement video is a little harder to explain, given that I'm still in shock myself for having just discovered it. I'm one of those "I don't dance, I'm a musician" musicians. I *sorta* tried dancing once at a high school graduation thing in Australia. Don't ask. And I waltzed for 4 minutes at a then-GF's brother's wedding, only because it would have made her look bad if I didn't. Seeing myself twerking and fizzing out in the video I've shared as an analog teenage hairstyle is baffling, but I'm certain there's a heavy degree of piss-taking going on. It's not like I danced around in the basement when the camera WASN'T on!
Anyway, I'm glad if you guys have gotten a kick out of this clip. Even friends who've known me for ages ain't seen something like this out of me!
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A far from human birth...I present my cover of John Scott's score for the 80's alien flick INSEMINOID.
Prophet 6, Moog Sub 37 and Tempest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7HccMAYJtM
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This is an odd synth from Analog Solutions that most may have never seen. Once in a while i'll toy around with it.
https://youtu.be/R3Ug7n7U4wQ
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12 O Clock. Midnight. The 21st Of April. The Fog rolls in...
Instruments Used
Roland V-Piano
Sequential Prophet 6
Moog Sub 37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sTzWVP1Z4
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This is an odd synth from Analog Solutions that most may have never seen. Once in a while i'll toy around with it.
https://youtu.be/R3Ug7n7U4wQ
I was half expecting Booji Boy to pop out during the first slice here - this should be the theme to his feature film debut!
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Ha, now that's a name from the past. The Devo guys got their start down the road from me in the Kent/Akron area. Mark (one of the founders) was very into synths, and IMO, a real inspiration to bands that synthed up music later in the 80's. And far as boogie boy...that's got to be one of my favorite weird, and I do mean weird, videos. Devo with Neil Young and boggie boy playing the moog. ;D
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Ha, now that's a name from the past. The Devo guys got their start down the road from me in the Kent/Akron area. Mark (one of the founders) was very into synths, and IMO, a real inspiration to bands that synthed up music later in the 80's. And far as boogie boy...that's got to be one of my favorite weird, and I do mean weird, videos. Devo with Neil Young and boggie boy playing the moog. ;D
Glad the reference has such resonance, as it were! Yeah, DEVO were such an influence on so many of us, it seems. My high school nickname was Mothersbaugh Spud.
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I posted this on the Prophet 6 page, so I won't ramble on here. Just to say, this is a final mix of something I posted last Christmas. It's 65% Prophet 6, 34% Prophet 5 and 1% Dopefer DE. A bright, bit-too-lite pop song...
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/down-around-the-radio-syntho-rough-mix/s-M89y4
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All Roland V-Piano and Sequential Prophet-6 (only using the original Prophet-5 presets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxkAkh-d0mE
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All Roland V-Piano and Sequential Prophet-6 (only using the original Prophet-5 presets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxkAkh-d0mE
Recommended, really nice and gloomy (in a good way) atmospheric :)
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All Roland V-Piano and Sequential Prophet-6 (only using the original Prophet-5 presets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxkAkh-d0mE
Recommended, really nice and gloomy (in a good way) atmospheric :)
Thanks for the kind words sir! :)
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Just messing around with the Vermona MKII and came up with this sequence sent by the Arturia Keystep. Some nice squeaks and such by moving the mod wheel when the sequence is running. OB6 is doing the pads and voices.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/gurgly-goop
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This is an odd post for me, as it's inspired by a comment in a thread about "obsession" elsewhere on the forum. I'll include the comment and my reply here, then post my track. To keep things "in the family," I can tell you that my Pro-One is the main synth (maybe the only one, can't recall...) on this weird little song! Um, without further...
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When our ancestors were dissatisfied, they were more likely to go back out there again to try to get some more meat for the family. Those who were satisfied, stayed to snuggle by the fire and smoke magic mushrooms... and didn't live to see their genes survive to the next generation. We're wired to be dissatisfied.
Forgive me, Jason, for taking this somewhat out of context and off-topic, but I suppose got excited seeing magic mushrooms come up for the only time on DSI forum! I think I get your gist, but in the spirit of Monday morning coffee talk, I'd like to quote Terrence McKenna on the subject of mushrooms, meat and evolution...
"Whether the mushrooms came from outer space or not, the presence of psychedelic substances in the diet of early human beings created a number of changes in our evolutionary situation. When a person takes small amounts of psilocybin visual acuity improves. They can actually see slightly better, and this means that animals allowing psilocybin into their food chain would have increased hunting success, which means increased food supply, which means increased reproductive success, which is the name of the game in evolution. It is the organism that manages to propagate itself numerically that is successful. The presence of psilocybin in the diet of early pack- hunting primates caused the individuals that were ingesting the psilocybin to have increased visual acuity."
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/seeds-of-space
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This is an odd post for me, as it's inspired by a comment in a thread about "obsession" elsewhere on the forum. I'll include the comment and my reply here, then post my track. To keep things "in the family," I can tell you that my Pro-One is the main synth (maybe the only one, can't recall...) on this weird little song! Um, without further...
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When our ancestors were dissatisfied, they were more likely to go back out there again to try to get some more meat for the family. Those who were satisfied, stayed to snuggle by the fire and smoke magic mushrooms... and didn't live to see their genes survive to the next generation. We're wired to be dissatisfied.
Forgive me, Jason, for taking this somewhat out of context and off-topic, but I suppose got excited seeing magic mushrooms come up for the only time on DSI forum! I think I get your gist, but in the spirit of Monday morning coffee talk, I'd like to quote Terrence McKenna on the subject of mushrooms, meat and evolution...
"Whether the mushrooms came from outer space or not, the presence of psychedelic substances in the diet of early human beings created a number of changes in our evolutionary situation. When a person takes small amounts of psilocybin visual acuity improves. They can actually see slightly better, and this means that animals allowing psilocybin into their food chain would have increased hunting success, which means increased food supply, which means increased reproductive success, which is the name of the game in evolution. It is the organism that manages to propagate itself numerically that is successful. The presence of psilocybin in the diet of early pack- hunting primates caused the individuals that were ingesting the psilocybin to have increased visual acuity."
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/seeds-of-space
Ah ha great track! You are not the re-incarnation of Klaatu are you?
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This is an odd post for me, as it's inspired by a comment in a thread about "obsession" elsewhere on the forum. I'll include the comment and my reply here, then post my track. To keep things "in the family," I can tell you that my Pro-One is the main synth (maybe the only one, can't recall...) on this weird little song! Um, without further...
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When our ancestors were dissatisfied, they were more likely to go back out there again to try to get some more meat for the family. Those who were satisfied, stayed to snuggle by the fire and smoke magic mushrooms... and didn't live to see their genes survive to the next generation. We're wired to be dissatisfied.
Forgive me, Jason, for taking this somewhat out of context and off-topic, but I suppose got excited seeing magic mushrooms come up for the only time on DSI forum! I think I get your gist, but in the spirit of Monday morning coffee talk, I'd like to quote Terrence McKenna on the subject of mushrooms, meat and evolution...
"Whether the mushrooms came from outer space or not, the presence of psychedelic substances in the diet of early human beings created a number of changes in our evolutionary situation. When a person takes small amounts of psilocybin visual acuity improves. They can actually see slightly better, and this means that animals allowing psilocybin into their food chain would have increased hunting success, which means increased food supply, which means increased reproductive success, which is the name of the game in evolution. It is the organism that manages to propagate itself numerically that is successful. The presence of psilocybin in the diet of early pack- hunting primates caused the individuals that were ingesting the psilocybin to have increased visual acuity."
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/seeds-of-space
Ah ha great track! You are not the re-incarnation of Klaatu are you?
Cheers, Gerry! I suppose having Klaatu come up in a mushroom-related post on a synth forum must mean we're getting somewhere good and weird in the world! Glad you liked the track. It's from 2006, and a very nailed-together piece. I was recording on a Roland 1824, using a different click track for each section and recording each section in different parts of the house, sometimes to my father's dismay. I did have fun, though!
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Hi again all - don't mean to fill the airwaves, but I'm pretty pleased with how this video turned out - and it's a got a Prophet 5 in it, so, you know! I can't remember what's doing what, but there's Prophet 6, Juno 6 and probably Prophet 5 in the track itself. But did I mention the P5 in the video? What a beautiful thing it is. If, on the other hand, you're kinda over the whole synthesizer trip, well, the vid also has cats and lasers. And LPs! Etc. I hope you dig it. Thanks!
http://bigtakeover.com/news/video-premiere-down-around-the-radio-by-anton-barbeau
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Hi again all - don't mean to fill the airwaves, but I'm pretty pleased with how this video turned out - and it's a got a Prophet 5 in it, so, you know! I can't remember what's doing what, but there's Prophet 6, Juno 6 and probably Prophet 5 in the track itself. But did I mention the P5 in the video? What a beautiful thing it is. If, on the other hand, you're kinda over the whole synthesizer trip, well, the vid also has cats and lasers. And LPs! Etc. I hope you dig it. Thanks!
http://bigtakeover.com/news/video-premiere-down-around-the-radio-by-anton-barbeau
Nice work and great bass playing as well! Extra points for coffee and cats. ;)
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Hi again all - don't mean to fill the airwaves, but I'm pretty pleased with how this video turned out - and it's a got a Prophet 5 in it, so, you know! I can't remember what's doing what, but there's Prophet 6, Juno 6 and probably Prophet 5 in the track itself. But did I mention the P5 in the video? What a beautiful thing it is. If, on the other hand, you're kinda over the whole synthesizer trip, well, the vid also has cats and lasers. And LPs! Etc. I hope you dig it. Thanks!
http://bigtakeover.com/news/video-premiere-down-around-the-radio-by-anton-barbeau
Nice work and great bass playing as well! Extra points for coffee and cats. ;)
Danke! And I'm pleased we worked Ultravox, Bowie and XTC record LPs in there...
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Danke! And I'm pleased we worked Ultravox, Bowie and XTC record LPs in there...
Yeah, that came to my attention as well, particularly the Scary Monsters LP. ;)
A slight OT question: Since you're partially based in Berlin, will you be at Superbooth?
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Danke! And I'm pleased we worked Ultravox, Bowie and XTC record LPs in there...
Yeah, that came to my attention as well, particularly the Scary Monsters LP. ;)
A slight OT question: Since you're partially based in Berlin, will you be at Superbooth?
Scary Monsters is my fav Bowie. Well, along with Black Star, Heroes, Lodger etc...
I've never been to Superbooth, but I'll be in Berlin during the dates it's running, so perhaps!
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Hey Guys!
I'm a REV 2 owner and have a band called 'Sun Gods' where the Prophet is really a main ingrediënt of our sound :)
Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jshx4gfKgKs
Greetings, Sander
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It was time for another Rev2 and Evolver track, really great fun having multiple Dave Smith designed instruments (got to get some more, ha ha ;-).
https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/fear-is-a-stranger-to-the-ways-of-love-take04
Feauturing:
- Dave Smith Instruments Desktop Evolver (my own FM style patch) through a Boss RV-500 Shimmer patch
- Dave Smith Instruments Rev2 (two layers independently routed). Layer A of the Rev2 is a custom bass sound, with added pitch shift / reverb through two Lexicon MX400 patches routed in series. Layer B is a more classic dual sawtooth, where I tried to add some percussive rhythm by bringing in the noise oscillator through modulating the LFO amount
- My favorite patch of the Korg Microstation (Fem Remap) slightly adjusted
- Percussion samples played on Akai S5000, kitchen utensils (a baking tray hit with a wooden spoon ;-) recording played through a TC Electronics (delay and reverb) and Lexicon MPX 500 for plate for the bass drum.
Directly recorded into Audacity, no further eq. and processing except on the synths and samplers themselves.
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In this house...what you don't know....will hurt you.
RETURN TO GHOSTHOUSE
Prophet-6
Moog Sub 37
Tempest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Oc4THD9Bo
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I'm going to leave this here without comment, except to say that it makes heavy use of the DSM03.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/laurel
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Exterminators 3000
Fender Stratocaster
Prophet 6
Moog Sub 37
Tempest Drum Computer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=63EN4ac5RVQ
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Improvisation #83 for Poly Evolver Keyboard and Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEwn8lO26g0
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Sacred Synthesis, I know it's mainly a string pad but it develops to bit of a "clarinet" too from 12:30-13:30. That worked well. We're you running the PEK HP filter on the metallic pad?
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Soundquest -
Do you mean the melody sound? I put a ton of time into developing that patch, and there is such an assortment subtleties to it that it can have a variety of characteristics, including flute, clarinet, and a touch of oboe. As for the PEK patch, no high pass filter was used. Based on the position of the cut off frequency controlled by the modulation wheel, you can get that throaty metallic quality when you want it that is the magical quality of the Evolver. Still, I just love that Poly Evolver Keyboard. I've not grown tired of it in the least.
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A few covers for tonight.
First up SCALPS
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/scalps-drew-neumann-and-eric-rasmussen-cover
next up
VALLEY
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/valley-bill-wyman-cover
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Dave Smith and Elektron combination. I am amazed how well the Evolver combines with the Digitone. Evolver is connected to the audio ins of the Digitone, effects on the patch are coming from Digitone. Only internal effects on Rev2 patch.
This is my very first track (ever) without any Windows/Linux computer sequencing involved. Recorded directly into Audacity on Linux, no further eq or mastering, just as they are.
https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/all-locked-doors-are-open (https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/all-locked-doors-are-open)
- Rev2 - slight variation on the Voxstereo patch
- Digitone sequencing internally and Rev2 + Evolver, including simple CC modwheel modulation (filter cutoff)
- Evolver - simple bespoke patch
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Congrats on being freed of that computer sequencing Gerry. Let the hardware do it's thing! :)
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Congrats on being freed of that computer sequencing Gerry. Let the hardware do it's thing! :)
Thanks Soundquest. Next step later this year a Cirklon :) I am on the waiting list since December last year. Then I need Bitwig only to be able to re-record my old tracks, the laptop will be shutdown and put on a storage shelf.
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Well that's a good looking sequencer. I'd really love to get the Polyend, but it's out of my price range. You ever look at those?
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We found something in the ice...
We found something...
We found some thing
We found some THING
Prophet 6
Tempest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM5B39jXvGY&feature=youtu.be
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Wendy....give me the bat....
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/the-shining-wendy-carlos-cover
and
Revenge Of The Ninja (Rob Walsh cover)
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/revenge-of-the-ninja-rob-walsh-cover
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Classical piece I did for a WWI film called "HUMANITY"
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/humanity-score
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Classical piece I did for a WWI film called "HUMANITY"
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/humanity-score
What did you use for instrument?
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Classical piece I did for a WWI film called "HUMANITY"
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/humanity-score
What did you use for instrument?
Just a Roland FA-08. Originally it was more synthesizer based along the lines of Chariots Of Fire and Apocalypse Now (With LOADS of Moog). The director changed his mind a few times and decided he just wanted a basic classical/orchestral piece so I just redid everything, including re-writing the main melody, from scratch. Just a quick sketch on the FA-08 sequencer. Was hoping the PX would arrive in time for me to use that but the FA-08 is good enough.
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hey guys,
just finished n released a new 6 track album... would love for you guys to hear it and share some thoughts... cheers.
http://essio.bandcamp.com/album/tribal-hunter
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hey guys,
just finished n released a new 6 track album... would love for you guys to hear it and share some thoughts... cheers.
http://essio.bandcamp.com/album/tribal-hunter (http://essio.bandcamp.com/album/tribal-hunter)
Not my style of music, but I like it. There’s some quality synth work in there for sure. Are you using any DSI products in there?
“Deep Jungle” could use a guitar solo starting at around 2:28 IMHO... 8)
Good work!
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Prophet X with touches of Prophet 6 in a more traditional Orchestral performance.
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/crystal-lake-harry-manfredini-tribute-with-prophet-xprophet-6
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hey guys,
just finished n released a new 6 track album... would love for you guys to hear it and share some thoughts... cheers.
http://essio.bandcamp.com/album/tribal-hunter (http://essio.bandcamp.com/album/tribal-hunter)
Not my style of music, but I like it. There’s some quality synth work in there for sure. Are you using any DSI products in there?
“Deep Jungle” could use a guitar solo starting at around 2:28 IMHO... 8)
Good work!
Hey, thanks a lot for checking it out n the nice words...
yea, I have used the prophet 12 in there for sure... lots of other non dsi synths too, access virus, blofeld, loads of soft synths...
feel free to lay a guitar over it, I'd love to hear what that sounds like... if u want the unmixed lemme know... maybe we can make a 2.0 version :)
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Midsummer Meditation I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpzevvpDF7E
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Sacred Synthesis, The "saw bass" when it comes in ~ 3:30 I assume you triggered with your foot pedals? I like the piece, especially the change ~ 3:30. It seems somewhat different for you perhaps (meaning with the theme rhythm played throughout).
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Thanks, Soundquest. Yes, the bass was naturally played on the pedals, and the patch itself consisted of four oscillators of sawtooth and PWM tones tuned to 16' and 32' octaves, so it's very deep. Plus, it's polyphonic. The P'08 module is perfect for the purpose.
If the music seems a little different, that's because it's a composition, rather than an improvisation. When I do a synthesizer improvisation, I tend to drift near ambient electronica territory, which is never my intention. I like much better producing carefully designed compositions.
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Some Prophet X pieces
Akira Ifukube
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/godzilla-comes-ashore
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Les Baxter
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/the-beast-within-improvisation-les-baxter-tribute-prophet-xprophet-6
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Midsummer Meditation I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpzevvpDF7E
Easily my favourite piece you’ve done. Great job.
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Thanks.
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https://youtu.be/x_JSFDcxoss
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https://youtu.be/e2win6m4LEM
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Here's my first widely accessible Rev2 piece ever. It's a classical (or film-music if you like) sounding microtonal piece, made after retuning the Rev2 to a Bohlen-Pierce scale. But don't let that scare you away, I like to think it's quite accessible, although feel free to disagree!
Throughout the piece I used preset P2 F1 (VeloStrings), in some measures I also used a homemade oboe-like patch (based on a heavily tweaked version of F4 P61 (Morning Woodwind). Layering the patches was done in ardour5. All sound is pure Rev2, no equalization or external effects (apart from volume normalization) have been applied.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWrdtfCT4Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWrdtfCT4Y)
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Here's my first widely accessible Rev2 piece ever. It's a classical (or film-music if you like) sounding microtonal piece, made after retuning the Rev2 to a Bohlen-Pierce scale. But don't let that scare you away, I like to think it's quite accessible, although feel free to disagree!
Throughout the piece I used preset P2 F1 (VeloStrings), in some measures I also used a homemade oboe-like patch (based on a heavily tweaked version of F4 P61 (Morning Woodwind). Layering the patches was done in ardour5. All sound is pure Rev2, no equalization or external effects (apart from volume normalization) have been applied.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWrdtfCT4Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWrdtfCT4Y)
Weirdly refreshing to hear this on such a hot day in Berlin! Like a glass of lemonade with a lizard in it! Very nice piece.
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Weirdly refreshing to hear this on such a hot day in Berlin! Like a glass of lemonade with a lizard in it! Very nice piece.
That sounds about right :) Thanks!
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Hi all - I've just released my third installment of my Antronica series. Many of the tracks on Antronica 3 have been previewed in this forum already, as much of this album was recorded in a fit of Prophet 6 vs Prophet 5 frenzy etc. Loads of Sequential and DSI on this album. The aforementioned Prophets, plus Pro One and Evolver.
I'm only selling the album via my Patreon page, but I wanted to share a track with the forum. This is one of my earliest songs - maybe I was 15 when I wrote it, compared to 51 now! This version is mostly comprised of Prophet 6, with a touch of Prophet 5. There's some Mellotron M400 in here as well. The drum track switches between TR-808 and LinnDrum, both are owned by the guy with the Mellotron. It was pretty cool to use both drum boxes for this tune. Maybe the Linn is mixed a bit loud, but ah well! And yeah, cheesiest drum fills ever, but it had to be done.
Oh - the album was mastered with LANDR, by "robots with ears," or such. I tried out the "high intensity" setting at first, but the stereo spread suffered a bit, with anything panned left or right being over-squashed. What you're hearing here is "medium intensity" robot mastering.
Hope you enjoy this ancient track brought back to life...
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/03-pilot-for-landr/s-SBo1q
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I wanted to test out using all of my gear in a single Carpenter jam. They Live's score is Carpenter and Howarth showcasing their love of the blues. A perfect hymn for the downtrodden and forgotten working class. The entire piece was sequenced on the Tempest (which is sequencing the main bass line which is being MIDI'ed out to both the Prophet X (with a VS bass and Electric Finger Bass patch) and the Moog Sub 37. The Dobro, Sax and faux harmonica are all done on the Prophet X. I tried to pan a lot of the instruments through the stereo field to give a wider sound. The Prophet-6 is doing some huge pads and filter sweeps. Hope you enjoy and remember to put your sunglasses on!
INSTRUMENTS USED
DSI/Sequential Prophet-X and Prophet-6
Moog Sub 37
Tempest Drum Computer
EQUIPMENT AND EFFECTS
Soundcraft Signature 22MTK
COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE
ASUS Zenbook Pro Computer System
Presonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/coming-to-la-jam
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Did some Morricone on the PX tonight.
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/shades-of-revolver-morricone-tribute
Also did a remake of one of my original composition...now featuring the PX :)
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/sequence-4-prophet-x-prophet-6-moog-sub-37-tempest
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Another tribute to another one of my favorite composers.
Alessandroni Alessandroni is a name that almost never gets mentioned when discussing classic composers and classic soundtracks. A multi-instrumentalist is best known as "the whistler" for Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western scores as well as the fuzzed out electric guitar (and classical nylon guitar) for them as well. Alessandroni's own scores venture into the experimental realm with loads of variety and methods far ahead of their time. You have classical string quartets mixed with fuzzed out buzzsaw guitars for Lady Frankenstein, polka beats and cheery harpsicord for The Mad Butcher and many others. His most powerful work comes in the form of a unique and powerful film: Killer Nun. Despite what the lurid title suggests it's actually an interested character study and comes highly recommended.
The score itself is as almost as bizarre as the film. In 1979 we have Alessandroni doing loops, samples being manipulated (via Gregorian chants played on a reel to reel player and having the tape moved around and slowed down by hand, funky fuzzed out wah guitar, slurping synth bleeps and bloops (done on either a Moog or ARP) and most shocking of all: Hip hop beats....on an analog drum machine (I'm guessing CR-78). This is 1979 we are talking about here!!!!!
Alessandroni was playing live concerts well past 90 years of age until he passed March of last year at the well lived age of 92.
INSTRUMENTS USED
DSI Sequential Prophet-X
Moog Sub 37
DSI Tempest Drum Computer
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/killer-nun-alessandro-alessandroni-cover
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Did some experimenting with a Prophet X pipe organ patch I made.
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/carnage-castle
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Absolutely proud to put this track up. My best friend Allan Rÿppl and I haven't recorded anything in ages. This is something we are certainly going to redeem in the near future. Always thrilled to jam with this guy. He's a fantastic musician and an amazing friend. This one goes out to all the gut munchers out there!
Moog Sub 37 and Prophet X are the synths used.
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/cannibal-lust-feat-allan-ryppl
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The Stalker.
Prophet X and Tempest
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/the-stalker2
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Wanted to try my hand at a more rockin/blues guitar oriented track. For some reason I have always associated werewolves and blues so I figured now would be as good a time as any to express that and what better werewolf to sample than the great Spanish Horror Icon himself, Paul Naschy.
I'm not much of a guitarist but I decided to try my hand at some slide guitar which I think suited the overall piece well.
The Prophet X is doing the drums, dobro and some lead electric guitar. I think it handles it really well. Very realistic.
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/full-moon-blues-prophet-x-fender-stratocaster
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My first attempt at Italo Disco. :)
Prophet 6
Prophet X
Moog Sub 37
Tempest
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/night-of-1000-screams-prophet-6-prophet-x-moog-sub-37-tempest
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My first Music Video :)
https://youtu.be/jpVm7QT-5F4
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Watch out for those manholes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1xHCdHDICU
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The idea is that you are standing in a Bog listening to the sounds around you. It's done entirely with Vermona MK2. Well, except for the Vermona Lancet HP filter, which helps with the thunderstorm. A little ambiance from the Lexicon, and the "music" itself is thru Strymon BigSky- at times.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/the-summer-bog
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The idea is that you are standing in a Bog listening to the sounds around you. It's done entirely with Vermona MK2. Well, except for the Vermona Lancet HP filter, which helps with the thunderstorm. A little ambiance from the Lexicon, and the "music" itself is thru Strymon BigSky- at times.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/the-summer-bog
Pretty. Like a beefed-up Enoscape!
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https://soundcloud.com/bran13/arytm-sketch
Elektron Analog Rytm mkII lays down the main beat with a cool sample played back with echo.
2 Tracks of Prophet-6 goodness and last night I added a track of Prophet X goodness. Only a touch of EQ on one Prophet-6 track, but other than that the synth were printed to the DAW straight.
Lots of guitar. (don't hold it against me (they're a bit out of tune too))
I took horrible notes, but after 30 minutes of searching for what preset I used from the Prophet X, I think it was a tweaked F3 P114 Sinwave Memories.
If you make it to the end, you'll hear the Prophet X Sinewave Memories taking me into that Pink Floyd zone - although I'm no Gilmour (it's the tape loop/string machine sounding bit from the Prophet X that threw me into it).
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https://soundcloud.com/bran13/arytm-sketch
Elektron Analog Rytm mkII lays down the main beat with a cool sample played back with echo.
2 Tracks of Prophet-6 goodness and last night I added a track of Prophet X goodness. Only a touch of EQ on one Prophet-6 track, but other than that the synth were printed to the DAW straight.
Lots of guitar. (don't hold it against me (they're a bit out of tune too))
I took horrible notes, but after 30 minutes of searching for what preset I used from the Prophet X, I think it was a tweaked F3 P114 Sinwave Memories.
If you make it to the end, you'll hear the Prophet X Sinewave Memories taking me into that Pink Floyd zone - although I'm no Gilmour (it's the tape loop/string machine sounding bit from the Prophet X that threw me into it).
Nice one. Enjoyed it as a track, forgetting to pay geek-attention to which synth was doing what. And I'm all for guitars!
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You have the right to remain silent....forever!
One of my favorite composers is Jay Chattaway. I absolutely adore his scores from the 80s with films like Maniac, Red Scorpion, Invasion USA and Maniac Cop. I love how he combines traditional acoustic and orchestral instruments and compositions with electronic elements, drum machines, sludgy synths. Peter Levin often did the keys and synths for Jay's scores and one of his key sounds is an Oberheim SEM 6 Voice. I haven't got 6 SEM's but I recently acquired a Tom Oberheim SEM-Pro and I couldn't do this tribute without getting some slurping Oberheim drones in there.
Hope you enjoy!
INSTRUMENTS USED
Sequential Prophet-X (For 99% of the score)
Oberheim SEM-Pro (Low slurping filter sweeps)
Tempest Drum Computer(Played by hand)
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/maniac-cop-lives-jay-chattaway-tribute-prophet-x-oberheim-sem-pro-tempest
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A tribute to Linda Blair and the gang.
Prophet X (Steinway Grand Piano layered with a Prophet VS wavetable as sampled string attack and synthesised FM string type sound)
Tempest (Steady beat on the Linn Drum kit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbTCOCc5GE
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Improvisation #84 for Poly Evolver Keyboard and Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfIjd53Hos
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Sacred Synthesis: that's a very nice tune. I played it three times already.
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Thanks very much, Jok3r.
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Here's a link to my current single.
It's mostly soft synths, but the strings and the synth lead towards the end of the track are prophet 12.
Enjoy! :)
https://blottuk.bandcamp.com/track/this-isnt-how-it-started
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Here's a link to my current single.
It's mostly soft synths, but the strings and the synth lead towards the end of the track are prophet 12.
Enjoy! :)
https://blottuk.bandcamp.com/track/this-isnt-how-it-started
Cool! There are not enough shuffle rhythms nowadays.
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Toccata Arpeggiata on REV2. Enjoy the ride!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJYCof3ViLk
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Fabulous chord progressions. You could get another piece of music out of those dramatic changes.
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Improvisation #85 for Poly Evolver Keyboard and Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-7pNQZoiYY
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Fabulous chord progressions. You could get another piece of music out of those dramatic changes.
Thank you Sacred Synthesis for listening and commenting! Given how many pieces of music have been made with simple I IV V and similar progressions, no doubt there's more to be found :)
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Well, "simple chord progressions" is where I jump in ;-)
Usually i don't publicate any of my stuff, since normally it consists of unfinished ideas. But since it's so simple this time, I think I could make an exception.
I created an arp/pad 2-layer patch on my Rev2 this evening and recorded some simple chords with a slight touch of a melody with it. The pad gets mixed in via the modwheel. Somehow I like this patch very much.
I didn't add any effects or further processing to the recording. That's purely my Rev2. It sounds best on headphones, because I'm doing some panning modulation.
https://soundcloud.com/user-113276372/no-name-yet
Since I don't have a good name for this track/patch yet, any suggestions are welcome ;-)
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Another microtonal piece, this time dividing the octave in 10 equal parts (as opposed to the usual 12).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA4YuLfRQoQ
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Another microtonal piece, this time dividing the octave in 10 equal parts (as opposed to the usual 12).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA4YuLfRQoQ
Hold down "preset" and press 0 - should hopefully fix this.
(I make joke - I love your stuff!)
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Hold down "preset" and press 0 - should hopefully fix this.
Tried it, but it sounded even worse. Now how do I break it again?
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Another microtonal piece, this time dividing the octave in 10 equal parts (as opposed to the usual 12).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA4YuLfRQoQ
This is how all music would sound if we adopted the metric system for music! ;) I kid.
Actually the microtonal scale created a dissonance that matched the subject matter of the footage.
Well done!
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This is how all music would sound if we adopted the metric system for music!
How dare you spoil my carefully tuned master plan ;)
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https://soundcloud.com/jdt9517/moonlight-sonata
While this is a classical piano piece, it does have a place discussing electronic instruments. This instrument sound is the EastWest Pianos Steinway D sample. The important fact is this is all MIDI created.
Dave Smith, by creating MIDI, you have helped me tremendously in creating piano performances. I have nerve damage in right arm (age related) and it is difficult for me to record a clean performance. Recording by MIDI allows me to digitally go into the performance and fix my errors.
Enjoy!
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Absolutely gorgeous, Jim. And I'm sure your mistakes would only have improved Beethoven's piece! It may be "pop" classical music, but I've always loved Moonlight Sonata. Now if only MIDI would allow us to fix our mistakes in live performances!
Regarding your comments on Beethoven, it strikes me that, when a person endures personal sorrow with virtue, the world is blessed with another introspective painfully sweet composition, as in this case. But when a person responds to sorrow without virtue, the world is afflicted either with more ugliness or with more violence. Thank God Beethoven chose the high road.
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I had to practice this piece as a kid at the age of about 11 years. And I hated it! I wanted to play music that sounded more fun and more like the stuff I listened to on the radio.
Ironically, it was in my stormy puberty when I learned to love classical music. I was looking for my old sheets and practiced this piece again and had a lot of fun while doing so.
At the moment I don't play my real piano very often, because of job, girlfriend, rock band, synthesizers ;-)... but when I do, I still love to play this song. It's one of my all-time-favorites.
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One for Poly Evolver Keyboard and one for Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdizu0njYxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbuydINfxI
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Tim, the Prophet 08 improv is beautiful. I'm sure the Evolver one is, too, but I haven't gotten around to listening to it yet. I don't know why I decided to click on Prophet first.
jdt9517, I love a bit of the Ludwig Van. I never learned Moonlight, but the first movement of Sonata Pathetique was the hardest piece I ever had to tackle. Listening to Beethoven and playing Beethoven both make me cry for entirely different reasons :) Well done!
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Thanks, Jason. I guess your instinct is prophetic! Or perhaps you like rivers more than lakes?
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You do put the evolve in Evolver. I like it.
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Thanks very much, Sandy.
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Thanks all for the kudos on Moonlight Sonata.
@SS- Great work (as always)!
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I appreciate it, Jim
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I haven't uploaded a video in a while as I'm currently in pre production on a short film I'll be directing in November. I've been swamped in pre-production and trust me that's a great thing. I'm very fortunate to have met a wonderful producer in Toronto here who really is helping me get things going. I'm very fortunate and blessed to be surrounded by so many supportive and wonderful people.
Howard Shore's score for Videodrome is quite a unique score. What he did was he scored and recorded a real string orchestra and then re-sampled that recording into his Synclavier synthesizer. So the whole score has synthesized string recordings and authentic string recordings which fits the film's plot perfectly.
I used the Prophet-X for this and approached it in a similar way. I used the beautiful string samples from 8Dio and layered them with the same strings but altered through frequency modulation and amplitude modulation. Lots of Bit and Hack used on the strings as well as some oscillators mixed in there as well. I think it turned out very well. Hope you enjoy! Long Live The New Flesh!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6axsOhaiNI&t=5s
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One thing I've learned about YouTube: if you don't post music with some regularity, then you quickly lose your audience. Even a few weeks can cost you. My preferred standard is one or two pieces about every two weeks. Anything less than that and you quickly become relegated to a "dead channel" status, and that's in spite of having hundreds of subscribers. There are definitely tricks to this game.
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One thing I've learned about YouTube: if you don't post music with some regularity, then you quickly lose your audience. Even a few weeks can cost you. My preferred standard is one or two pieces about every two weeks. Anything less than that and you quickly become relegated to a "dead channel" status, and that's in spite of having hundreds of subscribers. There are definitely tricks to this game.
Agree 100%
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A melancholic mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGajwLuKfo
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A melancholic mood:
Thanks, just what I needed! :)
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A melancholic mood:
Thanks, just what I needed! :)
Sorry about that. I'll have to create some music one of these days that is giddy, fun, and light-hearted. But it'll be like twisting myself into a pretzel!
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Sorry about that. I'll have to create some music one of these days that is giddy, fun, and light-hearted. But it'll be like twisting myself into a pretzel!
Not to worry, my old friend. It was very good and worked well for my current mood. Thanks again! :)
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A melancholic mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGajwLuKfo
Excellent!
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Thanks.
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He's Not Jason
He's Not Freddy
He's Real...
For my next installment I wanted to do something a bit more minimalist, and it doesn't get much more minimalist than Robert McNaughton's score for Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer.
McNaughton's score was done with a pretty basic setup
Roland Juno 106
Korg Polysix
Ensoniq Mirage Sampler
It's very percussion oriented with blasts of discordant synth stabs and off sounding arpeggiated metallic samples.
Instruments Used
Sequential Prophet-X Sampler (Heavy percussion hits, piano, whispering and screams)
Sequential Prophet-6 (A simple drone with a Phaser on it)
Enjoy!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz0PjKCRtYw&t=12s
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You are now in the deep end....of HORROR!
Richard Einhorn's score for Shock Waves is downright terrifying. Done entirely on both a MaxiKorg and MiniKorg and swamped in plate reverb gives a perfect atmosphere for this underwater Nazi zombie flick. In fact, I think it might have been the only score recorded with the MaxiKorg and MiniKorg ever.
Low synth drones, electronic bleeps almost mimicking the bleep of a sonar of a submarine. Lots of thunderous distorted synth blasts as well. Einhorn also used a recording of a crowed yelling "Zeig Heil" over and over as things become more intense. Oddly, I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech off of Archive.org.
I couldn't help but also add a "Goosestep" patch to further add to the atmosphere. That was done with The L Train patch on the Sub 37. When you slow it down it gives a perfect militant march type sound.
The only synth used here was the Sub 37.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
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Sacred Synthesis and LoboLives are definitely the Yin and Yang or Heaven and Hell of this thread. Their styles and themes are so different. LoboLives, you must have grown up watching all those Saturday night horror flicks. I didn’t get to see your last one as YouTube pulled it. It is fun hearing such a diverse collection. Being that it is bedtime here I think I’ll listen to some Sacred Synthesis as it is less likely to induce nightmares! ;)
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
Well the video was flagged anyway lol
I don’t think you are out of line at all, you simply are curious what a real life tragedy has to do with a synth video. The film Shock Waves is a 70s cult film staring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. It is about a group of people who are shipwrecked on an island and stumble upon a desolate SS battleship. They end up waking up the cargo, which in this case happens to be immortal underwater SS super soldiers. The whole movie is on YouTube as are it’s trailers and the soundtrack just got remastered and released on vinyl.
Not much I can do about the origin of the underwater super soldiers I’m afraid. Even the opening title has a swastika on it and as I said the soundtrack does have a lot of Third Reich sound effects so I just take it as part of the film. Much like how I look at real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas talking about killing his mother as part of the film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (video I posted before Shock Waves). It just comes with the territory with these types of films.
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Sacred Synthesis and LoboLives are definitely the Yin and Yang or Heaven and Hell of this thread. Their styles and themes are so different. LoboLives, you must have grown up watching all those Saturday night horror flicks. I didn’t get to see your last one as YouTube pulled it. It is fun hearing such a diverse collection. Being that it is bedtime here I think I’ll listen to some Sacred Synthesis as it is less likely to induce nightmares! ;)
As it stands I have about 11 floor to ceiling shelves filled with Cult Films and about 8 racks of vinyl soundtracks. I think I’m the only person in this thread that has spent as much money on posters, Blu Rays, masks and horror memorabilia as I have on synths and guitars.
YouTube put the video back up but with a censorship warning stating the content could be considered offensive.
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Sacred Synthesis and LoboLives are definitely the Yin and Yang or Heaven and Hell of this thread. Their styles and themes are so different. LoboLives, you must have grown up watching all those Saturday night horror flicks. I didn’t get to see your last one as YouTube pulled it. It is fun hearing such a diverse collection. Being that it is bedtime here I think I’ll listen to some Sacred Synthesis as it is less likely to induce nightmares! ;)
Although I know this is said in jest, I'm quite happy to read it.
Let me say something strange. When I was about twenty years old, I spent a long late night trying as best I could to imitate to cries and moans of hell with synthesizers, reverb, and a large loud PA system. Controversial for this forum, I realize, but so be it. The effort was related to a very dark song I had written. I dare say, I did as well as a synthesist could with the imitation. Later that night - or morning, actually - I had an experience that scared the living daylights out of me. Laugh if you want, but you weren't there.
I have no doubt that evil can be attained through art. If you give yourself to exceedingly dark music, you can arrive some place or meet something that you didn't intend to. Sometimes intentions don't matter. Hence, I will not approach exceedingly dark music, nor will I produce it. Perhaps some of my music could be forced into such a category, but it just isn't the case. I would admit that I'm inclined towards the somber and introspective; that's an admission of a personality. Sad? Yes, at times. But dark? No, never.
It's only one opinion on a synthesizer forum, and you can all laugh at the religious fanatic. Regardless, I would warn anyone and everyone to beware of exceedingly dark music.
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Sacred Synthesis and LoboLives are definitely the Yin and Yang or Heaven and Hell of this thread. Their styles and themes are so different. LoboLives, you must have grown up watching all those Saturday night horror flicks. I didn’t get to see your last one as YouTube pulled it. It is fun hearing such a diverse collection. Being that it is bedtime here I think I’ll listen to some Sacred Synthesis as it is less likely to induce nightmares! ;)
Although I know this is said in jest, I'm quite happy to read it.
Let me say something strange. When I was about twenty years old, I spent a long late night trying as best I could to imitate to cries and moans of hell with synthesizers, reverb, and a large loud PA system. Controversial for this forum, I realize, but so be it. The effort was related to a very dark song I had written. I dare say, I did as well as a synthesist could with the imitation. Later that night - or morning, actually - I had an experience that scared the living daylights out of me. Laugh if you want, but you weren't there.
I have no doubt that evil can be attained through art. If you give yourself to exceedingly dark music, you can arrive some place or meet something that you didn't intend to. Sometimes intentions don't matter. Hence, I will not approach exceedingly dark music, nor will I produce it. Perhaps some of my music could be forced into such a category, but it just isn't the case. I would admit that I'm inclined towards the somber and introspective; that's an admission of a personality. Sad? Yes, at times. But dark? No, never.
It's only one opinion on a synthesizer forum, and you can all laugh at the religious fanatic. Regardless, I would warn anyone and everyone to beware of exceedingly dark music.
That’s awesome! You know it would be somewhat of a cool concept to do a Sounds Of Heaven/Sounds Of Hell EP. I’m totally down to do a collaboration.
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
Well the video was flagged anyway lol
I don’t think you are out of line at all, you simply are curious what a real life tragedy has to do with a synth video. The film Shock Waves is a 70s cult film staring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. It is about a group of people who are shipwrecked on an island and stumble upon a desolate SS battleship. They end up waking up the cargo, which in this case happens to be immortal underwater SS super soldiers. The whole movie is on YouTube as are it’s trailers and the soundtrack just got remastered and released on vinyl.
Not much I can do about the origin of the underwater super soldiers I’m afraid. Even the opening title has a swastika on it and as I said the soundtrack does have a lot of Third Reich sound effects so I just take it as part of the film. Much like how I look at real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas talking about killing his mother as part of the film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (video I posted before Shock Waves). It just comes with the territory with these types of films.
Like I said, I've not seen the film, but I'm sure it's a fine piece of schlock. I'm a pretty broad-minded film freak, and often come home from the video store with about 5 or 6 titles in hand, anything from Maya Deren to Wes Craven. It was probably one (or more!) of your posts that prompted a weeks-long John Carpenter binge (He's my ex-cousin-in-law, innit!). But yeah - touching on something Sacred Tim said, there's a certain darkness out there/within that's very real - our culture lives through it again and again and we're doing a "tremendous" job with it on the planet at this very moment in time. I'd never (rarely, anyway!) wish to censor someone else's voice/opinion, but I felt (and still feel) that putting actual audio from a Hitler speech out into the world right now isn't on. Maybe if it was used to illustrate a powerful point, or to inspire a moment of consideration and compassion... but otherwise, it's gratuitous and a reminder of real-life horror.
(I'm just back to Berlin after two months away, very jet-lagged, and perhaps edgier and more sensitive than usual. There are 4 Stolpersteine on the doorstep of my apartment building, commemorating the people who once lived here, maybe in this very flat. It's easy to spend my time surrounded by synths and cranking out ABBA or Amon Duul while the kettle boils, but sometimes the human darkness of the world we share hits hard.)
Uh - sorry to belabor this! I'll post a jaunty synthpop tune soon to make it up to y'all!
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
Well the video was flagged anyway lol
I don’t think you are out of line at all, you simply are curious what a real life tragedy has to do with a synth video. The film Shock Waves is a 70s cult film staring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. It is about a group of people who are shipwrecked on an island and stumble upon a desolate SS battleship. They end up waking up the cargo, which in this case happens to be immortal underwater SS super soldiers. The whole movie is on YouTube as are it’s trailers and the soundtrack just got remastered and released on vinyl.
Not much I can do about the origin of the underwater super soldiers I’m afraid. Even the opening title has a swastika on it and as I said the soundtrack does have a lot of Third Reich sound effects so I just take it as part of the film. Much like how I look at real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas talking about killing his mother as part of the film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (video I posted before Shock Waves). It just comes with the territory with these types of films.
Like I said, I've not seen the film, but I'm sure it's a fine piece of schlock. I'm a pretty broad-minded film freak, and often come home from the video store with about 5 or 6 titles in hand, anything from Maya Deren to Wes Craven. It was probably one (or more!) of your posts that prompted a weeks-long John Carpenter binge (He's my ex-cousin-in-law, innit!). But yeah - touching on something Sacred Tim said, there's a certain darkness out there/within that's very real - our culture lives through it again and again and we're doing a "tremendous" job with it on the planet at this very moment in time. I'd never (rarely, anyway!) wish to censor someone else's voice/opinion, but I felt (and still feel) that putting actual audio from a Hitler speech out into the world right now isn't on. Maybe if it was used to illustrate a powerful point, or to inspire a moment of consideration and compassion... but otherwise, it's gratuitous and a reminder of real-life horror.
(I'm just back to Berlin after two months away, very jet-lagged, and perhaps edgier and more sensitive than usual. There are 4 Stolpersteine on the doorstep of my apartment building, commemorating the people who once lived here, maybe in this very flat. It's easy to spend my time surrounded by synths and cranking out ABBA or Amon Duul while the kettle boils, but sometimes the human darkness of the world we share hits hard.)
Uh - sorry to belabor this! I'll post a jaunty synthpop tune soon to make it up to y'all!
I certainly sympathize and understand why people would be offended but I’ve always stood by the mentality that people shouldn’t have to change their personal interests simply because someone else is offended by them. Really the whole point of an exploitation film is to take a subject, be it war, sex, counter culture, death, revenge, religion, or race and make it so over the top to the level of cartoonish proportions. Perhaps in some way it’s a nice coping mechanism or somewhat cathartic? I’m not sure. I’m also a filmmaker and growing up with exploitation films they are likely going to be a big influence to my work. I can’t worry about someone being offended by a film that happens to have nazis anymore than I can be concerned that someone else is offended by a film with a murderous nun. Life is too short.
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
Well the video was flagged anyway lol
I don’t think you are out of line at all, you simply are curious what a real life tragedy has to do with a synth video. The film Shock Waves is a 70s cult film staring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. It is about a group of people who are shipwrecked on an island and stumble upon a desolate SS battleship. They end up waking up the cargo, which in this case happens to be immortal underwater SS super soldiers. The whole movie is on YouTube as are it’s trailers and the soundtrack just got remastered and released on vinyl.
Not much I can do about the origin of the underwater super soldiers I’m afraid. Even the opening title has a swastika on it and as I said the soundtrack does have a lot of Third Reich sound effects so I just take it as part of the film. Much like how I look at real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas talking about killing his mother as part of the film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (video I posted before Shock Waves). It just comes with the territory with these types of films.
Like I said, I've not seen the film, but I'm sure it's a fine piece of schlock. I'm a pretty broad-minded film freak, and often come home from the video store with about 5 or 6 titles in hand, anything from Maya Deren to Wes Craven. It was probably one (or more!) of your posts that prompted a weeks-long John Carpenter binge (He's my ex-cousin-in-law, innit!). But yeah - touching on something Sacred Tim said, there's a certain darkness out there/within that's very real - our culture lives through it again and again and we're doing a "tremendous" job with it on the planet at this very moment in time. I'd never (rarely, anyway!) wish to censor someone else's voice/opinion, but I felt (and still feel) that putting actual audio from a Hitler speech out into the world right now isn't on. Maybe if it was used to illustrate a powerful point, or to inspire a moment of consideration and compassion... but otherwise, it's gratuitous and a reminder of real-life horror.
(I'm just back to Berlin after two months away, very jet-lagged, and perhaps edgier and more sensitive than usual. There are 4 Stolpersteine on the doorstep of my apartment building, commemorating the people who once lived here, maybe in this very flat. It's easy to spend my time surrounded by synths and cranking out ABBA or Amon Duul while the kettle boils, but sometimes the human darkness of the world we share hits hard.)
Uh - sorry to belabor this! I'll post a jaunty synthpop tune soon to make it up to y'all!
I certainly sympathize and understand why people would be offended but I’ve always stood by the mentality that people shouldn’t have to change their personal interests simply because someone else is offended by them. Really the whole point of an exploitation film is to take a subject, be it war, sex, counter culture, death, revenge, religion, or race and make it so over the top to the level of cartoonish proportions. Perhaps in some way it’s a nice coping mechanism or somewhat cathartic? I’m not sure. I’m also a filmmaker and growing up with exploitation films they are likely going to be a big influence to my work. I can’t worry about someone being offended by a film that happens to have nazis anymore than I can be concerned that someone else is offended by a film with a murderous nun. Life is too short.
To be clear, I'm not offended by the idea behind the film in any way, or you paying homage to it, or to the exploitation genre. We use films and music and art in general sometimes to examine our culture at its worst, or to face our collective fears from the safety of the screen, etc. I dig how deep into film-making/soundtrack work you are. My issue is with the direct use of material from a Hitler rally. "I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech..." is what I find objectionable. Considering you're doing a cover here, I'm not sure I understand the artistic merit in using something so genuinely horrific.
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
Well the video was flagged anyway lol
I don’t think you are out of line at all, you simply are curious what a real life tragedy has to do with a synth video. The film Shock Waves is a 70s cult film staring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. It is about a group of people who are shipwrecked on an island and stumble upon a desolate SS battleship. They end up waking up the cargo, which in this case happens to be immortal underwater SS super soldiers. The whole movie is on YouTube as are it’s trailers and the soundtrack just got remastered and released on vinyl.
Not much I can do about the origin of the underwater super soldiers I’m afraid. Even the opening title has a swastika on it and as I said the soundtrack does have a lot of Third Reich sound effects so I just take it as part of the film. Much like how I look at real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas talking about killing his mother as part of the film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (video I posted before Shock Waves). It just comes with the territory with these types of films.
Like I said, I've not seen the film, but I'm sure it's a fine piece of schlock. I'm a pretty broad-minded film freak, and often come home from the video store with about 5 or 6 titles in hand, anything from Maya Deren to Wes Craven. It was probably one (or more!) of your posts that prompted a weeks-long John Carpenter binge (He's my ex-cousin-in-law, innit!). But yeah - touching on something Sacred Tim said, there's a certain darkness out there/within that's very real - our culture lives through it again and again and we're doing a "tremendous" job with it on the planet at this very moment in time. I'd never (rarely, anyway!) wish to censor someone else's voice/opinion, but I felt (and still feel) that putting actual audio from a Hitler speech out into the world right now isn't on. Maybe if it was used to illustrate a powerful point, or to inspire a moment of consideration and compassion... but otherwise, it's gratuitous and a reminder of real-life horror.
(I'm just back to Berlin after two months away, very jet-lagged, and perhaps edgier and more sensitive than usual. There are 4 Stolpersteine on the doorstep of my apartment building, commemorating the people who once lived here, maybe in this very flat. It's easy to spend my time surrounded by synths and cranking out ABBA or Amon Duul while the kettle boils, but sometimes the human darkness of the world we share hits hard.)
Uh - sorry to belabor this! I'll post a jaunty synthpop tune soon to make it up to y'all!
I certainly sympathize and understand why people would be offended but I’ve always stood by the mentality that people shouldn’t have to change their personal interests simply because someone else is offended by them. Really the whole point of an exploitation film is to take a subject, be it war, sex, counter culture, death, revenge, religion, or race and make it so over the top to the level of cartoonish proportions. Perhaps in some way it’s a nice coping mechanism or somewhat cathartic? I’m not sure. I’m also a filmmaker and growing up with exploitation films they are likely going to be a big influence to my work. I can’t worry about someone being offended by a film that happens to have nazis anymore than I can be concerned that someone else is offended by a film with a murderous nun. Life is too short.
To be clear, I'm not offended by the idea behind the film in any way, or you paying homage to it, or to the exploitation genre. We use films and music and art in general sometimes to examine our culture at its worst, or to face our collective fears from the safety of the screen, etc. I dig how deep into film-making/soundtrack work you are. My issue is with the direct use of material from a Hitler rally. "I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech..." is what I find objectionable. Considering you're doing a cover here, I'm not sure I understand the artistic merit in using something so genuinely horrific.
Because the soundtrack is littered with sound effects and samples from the SS. I figured it would fit just as well as the Zeig Heil sample. I didn’t want to be going around looking for this specific sample or asking around for this specific sample as it would eat up too much time. It was the only audio sample I could find that somewhat fit and since it was off of the public domain archive, I could use it freely. It is appropriate in the context of the film’s plot and was used as an effect to create unease and judging by everyone’s reaction, it was successful.
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Happy Halloween LoboLives. I’m sure you made some ghoulish tunes today.
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Sacred Synthesis and LoboLives are definitely the Yin and Yang or Heaven and Hell of this thread. Their styles and themes are so different. LoboLives, you must have grown up watching all those Saturday night horror flicks. I didn’t get to see your last one as YouTube pulled it. It is fun hearing such a diverse collection. Being that it is bedtime here I think I’ll listen to some Sacred Synthesis as it is less likely to induce nightmares! ;)
Although I know this is said in jest, I'm quite happy to read it.
Let me say something strange. When I was about twenty years old, I spent a long late night trying as best I could to imitate to cries and moans of hell with synthesizers, reverb, and a large loud PA system. Controversial for this forum, I realize, but so be it. The effort was related to a very dark song I had written. I dare say, I did as well as a synthesist could with the imitation. Later that night - or morning, actually - I had an experience that scared the living daylights out of me. Laugh if you want, but you weren't there.
I have no doubt that evil can be attained through art. If you give yourself to exceedingly dark music, you can arrive some place or meet something that you didn't intend to. Sometimes intentions don't matter. Hence, I will not approach exceedingly dark music, nor will I produce it. Perhaps some of my music could be forced into such a category, but it just isn't the case. I would admit that I'm inclined towards the somber and introspective; that's an admission of a personality. Sad? Yes, at times. But dark? No, never.
It's only one opinion on a synthesizer forum, and you can all laugh at the religious fanatic. Regardless, I would warn anyone and everyone to beware of exceedingly dark music.
Yes my post was in jest but like most humor it was grounded in some truth. I don’t consider LoboLive evil but he wears his taste in the horror film genre on his sleeve in this thread. As your music here I find beautiful and calming. They do make an interesting contrast. And I enjoy hearing both.
I do agree that music is a very powerful medium that can definitely tug at your heart and soul. Those great soundtracks are so effective cause they create that emotion in you to fit the scene on the screen. I think in the future, those studying great music will often look back at the things created to accompany a movie as the great works of our era. Like some music Bach created to be played as lite entertainment for some social parties of the aristocracy.
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Happy Halloween LoboLives. I’m sure you made some ghoulish tunes today.
Thanks!
Actually I was at auditions with my producer all day for a film I’m directing. I’ll be in the studio tomorrow though. :)
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Sacred Synthesis and LoboLives are definitely the Yin and Yang or Heaven and Hell of this thread. Their styles and themes are so different. LoboLives, you must have grown up watching all those Saturday night horror flicks. I didn’t get to see your last one as YouTube pulled it. It is fun hearing such a diverse collection. Being that it is bedtime here I think I’ll listen to some Sacred Synthesis as it is less likely to induce nightmares! ;)
Although I know this is said in jest, I'm quite happy to read it.
Let me say something strange. When I was about twenty years old, I spent a long late night trying as best I could to imitate to cries and moans of hell with synthesizers, reverb, and a large loud PA system. Controversial for this forum, I realize, but so be it. The effort was related to a very dark song I had written. I dare say, I did as well as a synthesist could with the imitation. Later that night - or morning, actually - I had an experience that scared the living daylights out of me. Laugh if you want, but you weren't there.
I have no doubt that evil can be attained through art. If you give yourself to exceedingly dark music, you can arrive some place or meet something that you didn't intend to. Sometimes intentions don't matter. Hence, I will not approach exceedingly dark music, nor will I produce it. Perhaps some of my music could be forced into such a category, but it just isn't the case. I would admit that I'm inclined towards the somber and introspective; that's an admission of a personality. Sad? Yes, at times. But dark? No, never.
It's only one opinion on a synthesizer forum, and you can all laugh at the religious fanatic. Regardless, I would warn anyone and everyone to beware of exceedingly dark music.
Yes my post was in jest but like most humor it was grounded in some truth. I don’t consider LoboLive evil but he wears his taste in the horror film genre on his sleeve in this thread. As your music here I find beautiful and calming. They do make an interesting contrast. And I enjoy hearing both.
I do agree that music is a very powerful medium that can definitely tug at your heart and soul. Those great soundtracks are so effective cause they create that emotion in you to fit the scene on the screen. I think in the future, those studying great music will often look back at the things created to accompany a movie as the great works of our era. Like some music Bach created to be played as lite entertainment for some social parties of the aristocracy.
I was watching an interview with composer Christopher Young and he said a lot of conservatories looked down on film music for many years (considering it rushed, sloppy and commercial) and it wasn’t until composers like Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone started to branch out into other styles and incorporate different genres into their classical pieces that more and more conservatories started to change their view. I’ve always considered soundtrack music to be the most pure form of music because it’s rarely written for a specific listening audience. It’s simply there to accompany a mosaic of images. Remove those images and suddenly the music becomes its own thing and can sometimes be taken completely out of context.
I remeber playing a Riz Ortolani piece once at work and this older woman who was really into classical music came up to me and said that was one of the most beautiful pieces of music she’s heard. The music? The opening theme to the film Cannibal Holocaust. A film banned in numerous countries for its content. Go figure lol
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I can't even watch the video in Germany. >:(
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I can't even watch the video in Germany. >:(
It’s also censored in the UK, Italy and other places apparently.
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
Well the video was flagged anyway lol
I don’t think you are out of line at all, you simply are curious what a real life tragedy has to do with a synth video. The film Shock Waves is a 70s cult film staring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. It is about a group of people who are shipwrecked on an island and stumble upon a desolate SS battleship. They end up waking up the cargo, which in this case happens to be immortal underwater SS super soldiers. The whole movie is on YouTube as are it’s trailers and the soundtrack just got remastered and released on vinyl.
Not much I can do about the origin of the underwater super soldiers I’m afraid. Even the opening title has a swastika on it and as I said the soundtrack does have a lot of Third Reich sound effects so I just take it as part of the film. Much like how I look at real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas talking about killing his mother as part of the film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (video I posted before Shock Waves). It just comes with the territory with these types of films.
Like I said, I've not seen the film, but I'm sure it's a fine piece of schlock. I'm a pretty broad-minded film freak, and often come home from the video store with about 5 or 6 titles in hand, anything from Maya Deren to Wes Craven. It was probably one (or more!) of your posts that prompted a weeks-long John Carpenter binge (He's my ex-cousin-in-law, innit!). But yeah - touching on something Sacred Tim said, there's a certain darkness out there/within that's very real - our culture lives through it again and again and we're doing a "tremendous" job with it on the planet at this very moment in time. I'd never (rarely, anyway!) wish to censor someone else's voice/opinion, but I felt (and still feel) that putting actual audio from a Hitler speech out into the world right now isn't on. Maybe if it was used to illustrate a powerful point, or to inspire a moment of consideration and compassion... but otherwise, it's gratuitous and a reminder of real-life horror.
(I'm just back to Berlin after two months away, very jet-lagged, and perhaps edgier and more sensitive than usual. There are 4 Stolpersteine on the doorstep of my apartment building, commemorating the people who once lived here, maybe in this very flat. It's easy to spend my time surrounded by synths and cranking out ABBA or Amon Duul while the kettle boils, but sometimes the human darkness of the world we share hits hard.)
Uh - sorry to belabor this! I'll post a jaunty synthpop tune soon to make it up to y'all!
I’m curious, are you by any chance living near Bayrischer Platz in Berlin, the Jewish area where a lot of the street names were renamed once? A friend of mine used to live in Haberlandstraße so I’ve been in that area quite a bit. I’ll be in Berlin next week actually.
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I couldn't help but also add a "Goosestep" patch to further add to the atmosphere. That was done with The L Train patch on the Sub 37. When you slow it down it gives a perfect militant march type sound.
The only synth used here was the Sub 37.
Finally got a chance to listen to this. That was a lot of fun, thanks for sharing it.
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I couldn't help but also add a "Goosestep" patch to further add to the atmosphere. That was done with The L Train patch on the Sub 37. When you slow it down it gives a perfect militant march type sound.
The only synth used here was the Sub 37.
Finally got a chance to listen to this. That was a lot of fun, thanks for sharing it.
Thanks Sandy!
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I couldn't find a sample of this anywhere so I had to settle for a Hitler Speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrpPOlz9VE
Never words I thought I'd come across on the Sequential forum. Huh. Your dedication is impressive, credit due, but I'd encourage further efforts towards finding a sample from the film or faking your own foley etc. The whole "Hitler thing" is deeply uncool, to put it gently! I'm not familiar with the film you're paying tribute to, admittedly, so I don't know if there's a point I'm missing, but if you ever pay homage to the Wicker Man, say, I'll definitely give that a click.
Mods - if I'm out of line with this, I apologize, and I'll understand if you delete my reply here.
Well the video was flagged anyway lol
I don’t think you are out of line at all, you simply are curious what a real life tragedy has to do with a synth video. The film Shock Waves is a 70s cult film staring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. It is about a group of people who are shipwrecked on an island and stumble upon a desolate SS battleship. They end up waking up the cargo, which in this case happens to be immortal underwater SS super soldiers. The whole movie is on YouTube as are it’s trailers and the soundtrack just got remastered and released on vinyl.
Not much I can do about the origin of the underwater super soldiers I’m afraid. Even the opening title has a swastika on it and as I said the soundtrack does have a lot of Third Reich sound effects so I just take it as part of the film. Much like how I look at real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas talking about killing his mother as part of the film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (video I posted before Shock Waves). It just comes with the territory with these types of films.
Like I said, I've not seen the film, but I'm sure it's a fine piece of schlock. I'm a pretty broad-minded film freak, and often come home from the video store with about 5 or 6 titles in hand, anything from Maya Deren to Wes Craven. It was probably one (or more!) of your posts that prompted a weeks-long John Carpenter binge (He's my ex-cousin-in-law, innit!). But yeah - touching on something Sacred Tim said, there's a certain darkness out there/within that's very real - our culture lives through it again and again and we're doing a "tremendous" job with it on the planet at this very moment in time. I'd never (rarely, anyway!) wish to censor someone else's voice/opinion, but I felt (and still feel) that putting actual audio from a Hitler speech out into the world right now isn't on. Maybe if it was used to illustrate a powerful point, or to inspire a moment of consideration and compassion... but otherwise, it's gratuitous and a reminder of real-life horror.
(I'm just back to Berlin after two months away, very jet-lagged, and perhaps edgier and more sensitive than usual. There are 4 Stolpersteine on the doorstep of my apartment building, commemorating the people who once lived here, maybe in this very flat. It's easy to spend my time surrounded by synths and cranking out ABBA or Amon Duul while the kettle boils, but sometimes the human darkness of the world we share hits hard.)
Uh - sorry to belabor this! I'll post a jaunty synthpop tune soon to make it up to y'all!
I’m curious, are you by any chance living near Bayrischer Platz in Berlin, the Jewish area where a lot of the street names were renamed once? A friend of mine used to live in Haberlandstraße so I’ve been in that area quite a bit. I’ll be in Berlin next week actually.
I'm over in 12047, about a 12-minute walk from Schneidersladen!
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I think I might switch over to Vimeo for certain videos. It seems to be a bit more of an open minded platform.
For those that were interested in seeing my Shock Waves video but couldn't, I will be doing a series entitled "The Audio Nasty" ( a nod to "The Video Nasty" scare in the UK in the 80s) which is going to be focused on films that require a bit more of a mature audience.
Turning a negative to a positive.
https:// vimeo.com/298775123
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Macabre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFKFULgtb0
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Macabre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFKFULgtb0
Just the right thing. Lovely. Thank you.
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Thanks, Ant.
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Macabre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFKFULgtb0
This is easily the best thing you’ve done. Absolutely breathtaking. The choir and pitch bends offer the right amount of unearthly emotion. I was actually listening to it while watching the film The Sentinal and was pleasantly surprised at how well your music fit. Would love to hear more like this from you. Great job. What instruments did you use? Poly Evolver?
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Thanks. I used the usual: Poly Evolver Keyboard, Poly Evolver Rack, 2 Prophet '08 Keyboards, 2 Prophet '08 Modules, plus a Hammond pedal board.
This music is not where my mind is; it's far too morbid. I can make the stretch for an occasion or two, but that's enough. Unfortunately, I've been told it's not dark enough. Good grief. I was hoping to be done with it, but no.
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Thanks. I used the usual: Poly Evolver Keyboard, Poly Evolver Rack, 2 Prophet '08 Keyboards, 2 Prophet '08 Modules, plus a Hammond pedal board.
This music is not where my mind is; it's far too morbid. I can make the stretch for an occasion or two, but that's enough. Unfortunately, I've been told it's not dark enough. Good grief. I was hoping to be done with it, but no.
With all respect to your deep sensitivity, I'd suggest this piece isn't, according to common-law standards, actually morbid or even macabre in the least. It's dark in tone, or darker than your previous work, but there's true light in this music. It's a lovely contribution to the world.
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With all respect to your deep sensitivity, I'd suggest this piece isn't, according to common-law standards, actually morbid or even macabre in the least. It's dark in tone, or darker than your previous work, but there's true light in this music. It's a lovely contribution to the world.
Thank you for that happy comment, Ant. There will always be Light in it, and I wouldn't ever want to get it out. I would only like it to be purer Light.
I couldn't even find a slightly morbid picture for the piece in all our photograph files. The closest thing I could come to was a strange looking horse stable near Cobh, Ireland, taken by my wife! Perhaps I should have subdued it a bit by changing it to black and white; but sakes, the green leaves were just too pretty and cheerful. ;D
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With all respect to your deep sensitivity, I'd suggest this piece isn't, according to common-law standards, actually morbid or even macabre in the least. It's dark in tone, or darker than your previous work, but there's true light in this music. It's a lovely contribution to the world.
Thank you for that happy comment, Ant. There will always be Light in it, and I wouldn't ever want to get it out. I would only like it to be purer Light.
I couldn't even find a slightly morbid picture for the piece in all our photograph files. The closest thing I could come to was a strange looking horse stable near Cobh, Ireland, taken by my wife! Perhaps I should have subdued it a bit by changing it to black and white; but sakes, the green leaves were just too pretty and cheerful. ;D
Ha! At the risk of back-and-forthing this for days, I'd say the photo was a perfect fit for the piece. Pretty, yes, but mysterious. And maybe that's the best word for my take on your piece - as I said, I didn't find it macabre or morbid, but it's got a mysteriousness to it. Again, nice one. You've struck a nice nerve.
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I've covered some pretty well known themes to some pretty well known films (well amongst cult movie buffs anyway) but there's some real hidden gems out there such as Shuki Levy's score for Dawn Of The Mummy. The film itself is a bizarre mix of classic Universal/Hammer style Mummy film and Dawn Of The Dead....I guess that's where the title comes from haha. I have no idea what Levy used on the score but his main riff is just infectious and plays in different incarnations through the picture. I went for more of a driving, hard hitting death march type of approach. The only synth I used was the Sequential Prophet-X. Lots of choir sounds layered with some VS wavetables to give an unapologetically digital sound. The drums are all from the PX as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hzt6oRVCk8
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https://soundcloud.com/jdt9517/moonlight-sonata
While this is a classical piano piece, it does have a place discussing electronic instruments. This instrument sound is the EastWest Pianos Steinway D sample. The important fact is this is all MIDI created.
Dave Smith, by creating MIDI, you have helped me tremendously in creating piano performances. I have nerve damage in right arm (age related) and it is difficult for me to record a clean performance. Recording by MIDI allows me to digitally go into the performance and fix my errors.
Enjoy!
Been off-line for a few weeks. Neat to return and hear some great music posts. Really pretty
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A melancholic mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGajwLuKfo
oooh, I like that change at 7:26. This could be in a movie soundtrack or something. This is one of my top favorites on your postings Sacred Synthesis.
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I've covered some pretty well known themes to some pretty well known films (well amongst cult movie buffs anyway) but there's some real hidden gems out there such as Shuki Levy's score for Dawn Of The Mummy. The film itself is a bizarre mix of classic Universal/Hammer style Mummy film and Dawn Of The Dead....I guess that's where the title comes from haha. I have no idea what Levy used on the score but his main riff is just infectious and plays in different incarnations through the picture. I went for more of a driving, hard hitting death march type of approach. The only synth I used was the Sequential Prophet-X. Lots of choir sounds layered with some VS wavetables to give an unapologetically digital sound. The drums are all from the PX as well.
Lobolives, I watched the first 39 seconds before i started asking...hey, where's the far-out video? Nevermind, it came ;) How you liking the Prophet X? Seems like the perfect tool for your interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hzt6oRVCk8
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Lobolives, I watched the first 39 seconds before i started asking...hey, where's the far-out video? Nevermind, it came ;) How you liking the Prophet X? Seems like the perfect tool for your interests
I love the Prophet X. It really has been a game changer for me sound design wise and just soundtrack wise in general. It really is a tool for experimentation.
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Oooh, I like that change at 7:26. This could be in a movie soundtrack or something. This is one of my top favorites on your postings Sacred Synthesis.
Thanks, Soundquest. That's actually what it's supposed to be for.
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Mystery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rods-iHD7JQ
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Love those filter sweeps at the end. I am a sucker for them.
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Thanks, Sandy. That's the 2-pole filter.
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New, all-Prophet 6 recording of a track that originally came out in 2007 and got used in a weird clip that went viral. Before it was pulled, it hit something like 6,000,000 plays, so by some standard, this is my massive worldwide hit! Uh...
I hope no one takes offense at the lyric - the song is aimed at fundamentalists; it's not mocking any religion per se. Anyway, it's a catchy tune and loaded with synths, what else is there in life?!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/automatic-door-synth-remake-2018-mix-1
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Recently I got around to watching 1974's House Of Seven Corpses and it's quickly become one of my favorite films. It was awesome to see stars of the 40s and 50s like John Ireland and Faith Domergue and John Carradine star in a 1970s horror flick about a film crew filming a horror film in a legit haunted house. Some genuinely creepy moments with a really creepy choir based score. I decided to do a little tribute to this flick. Not a cover but my own composition inspired by the flick.
I used the Sequential Prophet X for this one with two choir samples split across the keyboard. With loads of Reverb, BBD Delay and a thick Phaser over top of them. There's also some Hammond organ samples and Ambient samples underneath too. I also used various cymbal samples loaded with long delays to add to the atmosphere.
There is some incidental Moog Sub 37 bleeps and bloops saturated in reverb and delay as well.
© Everett Dudgeon 2018
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2018
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/house-of-seven-corpses-prophet-x-moog-sub-37
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Recently I got around to watching 1974's House Of Seven Corpses and it's quickly become one of my favorite films. It was awesome to see stars of the 40s and 50s like John Ireland and Faith Domergue and John Carradine star in a 1970s horror flick about a film crew filming a horror film in a legit haunted house. Some genuinely creepy moments with a really creepy choir based score. I decided to do a little tribute to this flick. Not a cover but my own composition inspired by the flick.
That is a great piece Lobo!
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Recently I got around to watching 1974's House Of Seven Corpses and it's quickly become one of my favorite films. It was awesome to see stars of the 40s and 50s like John Ireland and Faith Domergue and John Carradine star in a 1970s horror flick about a film crew filming a horror film in a legit haunted house. Some genuinely creepy moments with a really creepy choir based score. I decided to do a little tribute to this flick. Not a cover but my own composition inspired by the flick.
That is a great piece Lobo!
Thank you! I've really been getting into doing non synthesizer sounding soundtracks using the Prophet X. With maybe some incidental synth textures here and there to compliment the orchestral stuff. Especially when the soundtrack is minimalistic and utilizing only a few instruments. There is a certain charm when a soundtrack is just a piano, organ, trumpet and single cello or a line up a Rhodes piano, basic mono synth (Moog or ARP) and jazz drummer.
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Recently I got around to watching 1974's House Of Seven Corpses and it's quickly become one of my favorite films. It was awesome to see stars of the 40s and 50s like John Ireland and Faith Domergue and John Carradine star in a 1970s horror flick about a film crew filming a horror film in a legit haunted house. Some genuinely creepy moments with a really creepy choir based score. I decided to do a little tribute to this flick. Not a cover but my own composition inspired by the flick.
That is a great piece Lobo!
Thank you! I've really been getting into doing non synthesizer sounding soundtracks using the Prophet X. With maybe some incidental synth textures here and there to compliment the orchestral stuff. Especially when the soundtrack is minimalistic and utilizing only a few instruments. There is a certain charm when a soundtrack is just a piano, organ, trumpet and single cello or a line up a Rhodes piano, basic mono synth (Moog or ARP) and jazz drummer.
The small incidental sounds added a lot of atmosphere. You did a good job with the levels of those sounds. They added with distracting.
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Recently I got around to watching 1974's House Of Seven Corpses and it's quickly become one of my favorite films. It was awesome to see stars of the 40s and 50s like John Ireland and Faith Domergue and John Carradine star in a 1970s horror flick about a film crew filming a horror film in a legit haunted house. Some genuinely creepy moments with a really creepy choir based score. I decided to do a little tribute to this flick. Not a cover but my own composition inspired by the flick.
That is a great piece Lobo!
Thank you! I've really been getting into doing non synthesizer sounding soundtracks using the Prophet X. With maybe some incidental synth textures here and there to compliment the orchestral stuff. Especially when the soundtrack is minimalistic and utilizing only a few instruments. There is a certain charm when a soundtrack is just a piano, organ, trumpet and single cello or a line up a Rhodes piano, basic mono synth (Moog or ARP) and jazz drummer.
The small incidental sounds added a lot of atmosphere. You did a good job with the levels of those sounds. They added with distracting.
Thank you! :)
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That was obviously supposed to say “without distracting”
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That was obviously supposed to say “without distracting”
Lol ;)
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One of my top 10 favorite films of all time...maybe even in my top 5! 1963's ground breaking film Blood Feast. Without it, there would be no slasher movement of the 70s and 80s. PERIOD! Absolutely adore H.G. Lewis and all his works and much like John Carpenter, Lewis also did the music for his films!
The theme for Blood Feast is simple but iconic with it's kettle drums and trombone playing a slow dirge.
The Prophet X is the only synth on this and unlike most of my other works, I wanted to use it in a more "Traditional" sense as opposed to as a synthesizer. I designed some faux kettle drums with some tonal percussion samples, a monophonic trombone, clunky upright piano and single violin.
Enjoy! And the next time you are at a wedding...make sure you contact Fuad Ramses for his catering service! I hear he does an excellent Egyptian feast!!! MWAHAHAHA!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNrbnwqDAo
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Amando de Ossorio's immortal Spanish horror series, The Blind Dead is beloved by many fans. The images of the sightless, undead Templar Knights emerging from their tombs on skeleton horses should be considered one of the definitive icons of horror.
The soundtrack for the Blind Dead films was done by Antón García Abril. It's incredibly minimalistic and relies heavily on atmosphere. I tried to recapture this with the ever versatile Sequential Prophet X.
Hope you all enjoy!
©Everett Dudgeon 2018
℗Everett Dudgeon 2018
https://vimeo.com/307207358
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An original piece!! A tribute to one of the greatest science fiction films ever! Mario Bava's immortal Planet Of The Vampires. No overdubs or outboard effects. Everything is done in real time and with the onboard effects of the Prophet X. I think the organ and eerie reversed whispers really capture the gothic essence of vampires while some cinematic stingers and oscillator bleeps and bloops capture the classic 1950s/60s outer space feel. Loads of Plate Reverb and BBD Delay enhance the atmosphere.
Hope you all enjoy!
©Everett Dudgeon 2018
℗Everett Dudgeon 2018
https://vimeo.com/307554261
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Hope you all enjoy!
I think that's my favorite piece of yours that I've heard so far. Thanks for sharing it!
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Hope you all enjoy!
I think that's my favorite piece of yours that I've heard so far. Thanks for sharing it!
Thank you! I recently have been experimenting with the idea of composing a piece entirely on the PX without the use of overdubs. With the sliders and mod wheel bringing in various sounds. Glad you enjoyed it! :)
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Another original! Continuing to experiment with using the Prophet-X for an "off the floor" type composition with no overdubs or external effects. The inspiration is my favorite Tobe Hooper film (yes, even more so than Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Eaten Alive aka Death Trap aka Starlight Slaughter aka Horror Hotel aka Legend Of The Bayou and probably a dozen other alternate titles.
I tried to capture the feel of a swampy bayou with the use of a digeridoo and dobro guitar droning along with samples of water splashes and "psycho sounds". There's some synthesized sample and hold sounds which help add to the uncomfortable atmosphere.
Hope you enjoy and remember if you are ever lost in the bayou, just look for old Judd's place, The Starlight Hotel. He's a friendly fellow and even has a pet you can play with. ;)
©Everett Dudgeon 2018
℗Everett Dudgeon 2018
https://vimeo.com/307608503
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New song with Sequential Circuits Pro One (and some non-Sequential synths) I have owned since 1981: it is called "Something For Nothing". Please tell me how you like the song and how it can be improved. The song is at the top of this link:
https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/?bandID=224436
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Kicking off my new year with something "normal" (i.e. not microtonal). It's a tribute to a classical composer that influenced my musical taste back when I was (much!) younger: Dmitry Kabalevsky.
The following is the result of some improvisation on his op39 no22 "Novelette", played live on a rev2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYzmOdQ6YTc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYzmOdQ6YTc)
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Kicking off my new year with something "normal" (i.e. not microtonal). It's a tribute to a classical composer that influenced my musical taste back when I was (much!) younger: Dmitry Kabalevsky.
The following is the result of some improvisation on his op39 no22 "Novelette", played live on a rev2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYzmOdQ6YTc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYzmOdQ6YTc)
Wonderful.
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Wonderful.
Thanks for listening!
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One of my all time favorite films is Richard Stanley's Hardware. A punk rock, visually stunning, industrial nightmare. The score was done by none other than Simon Boswell who, in line with the cybernetic feel of the film, sequenced the entire score on an Apple 2E with a Greengate Sampler software. I attempted to recreate the same feel with the Sequential Prophet X sampler.
Dark synth pad driven landscapes with sweeping melancholy strings and some bluesy slide guitar go on for what seems like forever...until you meet the Mark 13 at the end.
© Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/no-flesh-shall-be-spared-hardware-tribute-prophet-x
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And now for something completely different...
Inspired by the Jerry Goldsmith score for The Mephisto Waltz, I wanted to use the Prophet-X in a more classical oriented score using only the amazing piano and string samples from 8Dio. I synced all the sequences from my DAW (Studio One) and used the onboard effects, sequencer and features of the PX.
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/the-devil-commands-prophet-x
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Greetings fellow DSI/Sequential enthusiasts. I've spent a lot of time this week listening to many of the great songs here and have decided to add a couple of tracks to this massive online mix tape. Both feature original Prophet 12 and Prophet X sounds with an Analog Rytm and Analog Four playing supporting roles. I hope you enjoy them.
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/meet-me-in-bangkok
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/no-soup-for-you
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Nice work! I like those.
Greetings fellow DSI/Sequential enthusiasts. I've spent a lot of time this week listening to many of the great songs here and have decided to add a couple of tracks to this massive online mix tape. Both feature original Prophet 12 and Prophet X sounds with an Analog Rytm and Analog Four playing supporting roles. I hope you enjoy them.
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/meet-me-in-bangkok
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/no-soup-for-you
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Greetings fellow DSI/Sequential enthusiasts. I've spent a lot of time this week listening to many of the great songs here and have decided to add a couple of tracks to this massive online mix tape. Both feature original Prophet 12 and Prophet X sounds with an Analog Rytm and Analog Four playing supporting roles. I hope you enjoy them.
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/meet-me-in-bangkok
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/no-soup-for-you
Dale, I like both, smooth and mellow.
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Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you liked them!
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Greetings fellow DSI/Sequential enthusiasts. I've spent a lot of time this week listening to many of the great songs here and have decided to add a couple of tracks to this massive online mix tape. Both feature original Prophet 12 and Prophet X sounds with an Analog Rytm and Analog Four playing supporting roles. I hope you enjoy them.
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/meet-me-in-bangkok
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/no-soup-for-you
Awesome! Following now!
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The whole track is done in one take on the Sequential Prophet X.
"When you have spent your life like a fortune that never seemed to end.
A second chance will come like a long lost friend.
Great joy will fill you and flush you hot.
No more will you ever be cool
for she is the Devil's honey pot.
And you'll drown in her you fool."
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/the-devils-honey-prophet-x
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It's been ages since I posted here, and honestly, I've lost a bit of track which of my older tunes I've shared, but pretty sure this ain't one of 'em. This was me at age 19, in the basement, with a P5 (rev2, I found out long after the synth had died) and PolySix, amongst. TR-707 drums. Recorded on a 4-track cassette, every inch of tape crammed with sound. Unlike some of the other teenage Ant tracks that were released on Antronica 2, this one features my original angsty vocals. Only way to sound like a teenager is to be one, I guess! Hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOb4TNM8n8
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This was me at age 19, in the basement, with a P5 (rev2, I found out long after the synth had died) and PolySix, amongst. TR-707 drums. Recorded on a 4-track cassette, every inch of tape crammed with sound.
Wow. How many times did you bounce tracks to fit all that onto that machine!?!
Very enjoyable.
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This was me at age 19, in the basement, with a P5 (rev2, I found out long after the synth had died) and PolySix, amongst. TR-707 drums. Recorded on a 4-track cassette, every inch of tape crammed with sound.
Wow. How many times did you bounce tracks to fit all that onto that machine!?!
Very enjoyable.
Glad you liked it. I just checked the transferred tracks in Pro Tools, and sounds like track 1 is main keyboard (P5), plus TR-707, PolySix strings and... maybe that's it. Bit murky in there! Track 2 says "piano/bass," so that's acoustic piano and some synth (P5? Pro One? MS-10?) doing long note bass. There's also PolySix choir on that track. I assume I must've played either the bass or choir part while bouncing. There are two vocal tracks, but they also have all sorts of stuff going on in the spaces where I'm not singing - there's a "guitar solo" played on a Casio SK-1, another PolySix doing a sort of Ultravox thingy, a snare drum track and sound fx. It's a shame the tapes themselves didn't hold up so well - in Pro Tools I can hear how much they've degraded, but back in the day these tracks were pretty clean, considering the format.
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One of my all time favorite synth composers is the highly underrated Carlo Maria Cordio. While this isn't directly a cover of his score for the film Body Puzzle (aka Misteria) it is heavily influenced by it.
There's no sequencing or arpeggiating whatsoever here. The acoustic guitar and reversed piano strikes are simply looped and playing back at different speeds.
No overdubs at all. Everything is played in real time in a split patch on the Sequential Prophet X. On the upper half the melody is played by a Prophet VS wave layered with a choir. The choir is having it's sample size stretched and shrunk by an LFO creating a "glitch" type effect.
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/body-puzzle-prophet-x
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This is an original piece I recorded last week and I'm really proud of it. It's something completely different. I've always been a big fan of combining dark synth music with slow jazz. Here I brought out my trusty Prophet 6 and the ever versatile Prophet X. The PX is doing the drums as well as the Wurlitzer for the main them as well as the saxophone solo. The Prophet 6 is doing some vintage sounding brass/pads. I think it fits very well. Hope you enjoy.
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/city-in-fear-prophet-x-prophet-6
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An original piece as a tribute to one of my all time favorite films. Seriously, The Manster is downright creepy! Absolutely love it. There's no overdubs or sequencing at all here. The low brass and Taiko drums (since the film is set in Japan) are simply looped with the loop speed being modulated by an LFO. On the upper half of the synth is an organ as well as a faux theremin (Which is a MUST for 50's monster flicks) and there's also some menacing trumpet effects as well.
Hope you enjoy!
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://vimeo.com/319277307
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Unleashing my inner church organist (who'd have thought?!).
I'm taking some medieval chant (which normally consists of only monophonic human voice)
and serve it with creamy REV2 sauce:
https://soundcloud.com/stefaanhimpe/tantum-ergo-sacramentum
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Nicely done.
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Nicely done.
Thanks a lot!
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Unleashing my inner church organist (who'd have thought?!).
I'm taking some medieval chant (which normally consists of only monophonic human voice)
and serve it with creamy REV2 sauce:
https://soundcloud.com/stefaanhimpe/tantum-ergo-sacramentum
This is a great example of what a difference a rearrangement makes and a nice juxtaposition of different historical approaches to harmonics.
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So what's the good news?
Here's a nice original jazz number done entirely on the Sequential Prophet X (drums, detuned piano and trumpet. Overall...it was good efficient butchery.
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/bay-street-killer-prophet-x-jazz
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Just two random ditties from last December:
https://soundcloud.com/pauldither/five-fluttering-tequilas
Basically a multitracked Prophet-6, some ride cymbal and the Moogerfooger MF-104M delay.
https://soundcloud.com/pauldither/stubborn-drizzles
Apart from an electric bass (also responsible for what sounds like a tremolo guitar), this only features the Prophet-6 and the Pro 2. The latter does the squelchy bass, the restrained lead, and the noisy sound that can be heard from the first few seconds onwards (not the harpsichord sound, the other stuff). All the rest is the Prophet-6 and some additional FX.
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Last December I released my third EP called "Tertiary". All 5 tracks on the album feature the Rev2. You can hear tasters on my site" https://gezz.eu and of course EP is available on all streaming sites (just search for my artist name "Gezz").
My first experiment with the Maninkin Schrittmacher: https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/schrittmacher_digitone_rev2_20181209 great way to learn non-linear composing / playing.
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Last December I released my third EP called "Tertiary". All 5 tracks on the album feature the Rev2. You can hear tasters on my site" https://gezz.eu and of course EP is available on all streaming sites (just search for my artist name "Gezz").
My first experiment with the Maninkin Schrittmacher: https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/schrittmacher_digitone_rev2_20181209 great way to learn non-linear composing / playing.
Gerry, I like that percussive tone used on the Schrittmacher track. Was that the Digitone?
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While I'm not a huge fan of the Nightmare On Elm Street series, the films have some heavyweight composers attached to them. From Charles Bernstein's iconic original to Christopher Young and Craig Safan. Each soundtrack has it's own identity. This piece is heavily influenced by Angelo Badalamenti's synth score for Part III: Dream Warriors but it's also given it's own flavor.
The Prophet X is doing everything. There's no overdubs except for the scream at the end. Everything else is real time. I tried to give it a really lo fi sampler type feel.
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/freddys-not-dead-prophet-x
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A first start with a new Tascam DR-100 MK III:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJXdfoLkrQs
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Last December I released my third EP called "Tertiary". All 5 tracks on the album feature the Rev2. You can hear tasters on my site" https://gezz.eu and of course EP is available on all streaming sites (just search for my artist name "Gezz").
My first experiment with the Maninkin Schrittmacher: https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/schrittmacher_digitone_rev2_20181209 great way to learn non-linear composing / playing.
Gerry, I like that percussive tone used on the Schrittmacher track. Was that the Digitone?
Yes it is. This was an ad hoc performance, recorded in one take, all sequencing done by Schrittmacher (not using the Digitone as sequencer).
I believe I used factory presets on the Digitone. If you want I can double check for the name. I didn't save the project on the Digitone, I will have to look for it.
I am very impressed with the sound quality and patch design capabilities of the Digitone, even it's quirks are impressive (do not trigger the same note within the release time of the previous note ..... ha ha). For the price it is selling here in the Netherlands it is a bargain ;-).
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Released my first collaborative album today. It features my partners singing voice and the Rev2 primarily with occasionally the Korg Microstation for background choir effect. It is in a relaxing style, ambient electronic.
The collaboration is with my partner Evelien. So we released the album under the artist name "Flien&Gezz", it is called "Just Be". It features Evelien's singing voice, abstract, no words, with reverb provided by my Boss RV-500. I do like the sound of her voice combined with this particular patch of the Boss reverb.
Releasing it worldwide didn't quite go as I expected. The different platforms mangled the artist name. Sometimes (like with Amazon) it was taken as one word "Flien&Gezz" as we intended. Sometimes the software changed the name into two words "Flien & Gezz". Unfortunately the Spotify word mangler made a complete mess out of it and it created a new album under my artist name ("Gezz") and quoted "Flien" as the artist, weird. Unfortunately it makes it more difficult for our friends and acquaintances to find the music. I will check with our label to see if they can correct it.
You can find a taster on https://gezz.eu/ click "Collaborations" and it will scroll down.
All recordings are done live in the studio, in one take. Which is what we wanted, to generate the spontaneously evolving nature of the tracks. Including "mistakes" obviously ;-).
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A first start with a new Tascam DR-100 MK III:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJXdfoLkrQs
I listened to this several times now... very nice piece of music, as always. I simply like your organ-like music.
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Thanks, Jok3r.
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Sacred Synthesis,
The new Tascam recorder seems to be capturing it well. You should pick out some of your favorites pieces and put them all in one spot (an album of sorts). I say this because I could see the value in having one continuous play, like you see on some of the relaxation, classical, meditative compilations. Playlisting works but there's those the gaps and commercials.
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Soundquest,
What else do you mean other than playlisting, of which I've done quite a bit? On my channel, you can go to the various playlists and hear one piece after another for an hour or two.
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Bit of teenage new wave nostalgia for you, mixed with the facts and fictions of my current life between two countries. Prophet 6 for bass, solo, string wash and synth riff (with Pro One) on final chorus. Juno 6 chords on chorus. TR-707 drums through Evolver. Written in Berlin, in anticipation of my pending trip back to California.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/across-the-drama-pond-early-version/s-RU9dy
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Also posted in the sequencer thread, my development to work out slowly a live set using just two sequencer and a limited amount of synths.
Latest (written and recorded tonight): https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/live005
Last weekend: https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/live004
Few weeks ago: https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/live003
All featuring the Rev2 of course! Most recent one also the Evolver.
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The collaborative creative musical fruits of Gernot Reininger and myself are now available online (at all the usual streaming/download sites). Five tracks on our first EP. The album is called "Orbit" and we call ourselves "Synthernational". Artwork by Gernot's daughter :). Inspired by both our love for adventure and space related stuff.
We are really proud and we had such a great time writing the tracks together. Of course there is plenty of Rev2 action as we both own one. Enjoy!
Check it out at our site for tasters: https://synthernational.eu/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/20CEf01OTPngmx39gxJMGX?si=m62b6-SPTvmC9Y0iuXXT_Q
Gernot and I "met" through this forum. A very big thank you to Sequential for providing this forum.
I had no idea writing music collaboratively with another like minded person, a few hundred kilometers away, would work so well. Inspiring and (for me) also kind of safe - helping me build confidence in my own abilities to write and play electronic music and instruments. Having sat on the fence for 40 years, this for me is a huge step. Thanks Gernot
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I've no idea where this might sit amongst the collective ear here, but it's a cover I did a few years back of Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," imagined, I imagine, as the Magnetic Fields doing the Velvets. There's an obvious and obnoxious Pro One featured throughout the track...
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/ill-be-your-baby-tonight-bob-dylan-cover
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Hi there. Today my first Solo EP has been released on various streaming platforms as iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Youtube and so on. My artist name is "Reger" and the EP is called "Ex(track)te". Maybe some of you want to give it a listen and enjoy the music.
I really want to thank Gerry Havinga for encouraging me to work on my tracks, release and share them with you.
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Crescendi #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qB2l3Mm5AQ
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Gang! My latest album is out today and here's the first video. The track features two tracks of Prophet 6 playing the main chords - distorted organ and a piano-ish sound. Bass is Micromoog. The "drum machine" is also P6, with a real drummer lurking beneath. Pretty minimal backing track, but it suits the song. Hope you enjoy. We had great fun with the video, as you can probably tell...
https://moofmag.com/2019/05/10/music-video-premiere-berliner-grotesk-anton-barbeau/
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Gang! My latest album is out today and here's the first video. The track features two tracks of Prophet 6 playing the main chords - distorted organ and a piano-ish sound. Bass is Micromoog. The "drum machine" is also P6, with a real drummer lurking beneath. Pretty minimal backing track, but it suits the song. Hope you enjoy. We had great fun with the video, as you can probably tell...
https://moofmag.com/2019/05/10/music-video-premiere-berliner-grotesk-anton-barbeau/
I loved this song when I first heard it (maybe a couple years ago?). Back then, as I listened to it like nine times in a row, I went down a Google rabbit hole learning about fonts.
I'm happy there's a video!
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Gang! My latest album is out today and here's the first video. The track features two tracks of Prophet 6 playing the main chords - distorted organ and a piano-ish sound. Bass is Micromoog. The "drum machine" is also P6, with a real drummer lurking beneath. Pretty minimal backing track, but it suits the song. Hope you enjoy. We had great fun with the video, as you can probably tell...
https://moofmag.com/2019/05/10/music-video-premiere-berliner-grotesk-anton-barbeau/
I loved this song when I first heard it (maybe a couple years ago?). Back then, as I listened to it like nine times in a row, I went down a Google rabbit hole learning about fonts.
I'm happy there's a video!
So glad to hear all this - thank you! It's funny, but I'm pretty certain which font we'll use for my next record. The album is to be called Manbird, a sorta homage to the film Lady Bird, which was set in Sacramento, my home town. I think we're fated to use Armador, the distinctive font used for the film. I'm not actually a font geek by any means, but next thing you know... etc!
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Improvisation #94 for Poly Evolver Keyboard and Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_UmcE_7ctA
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This piece is mostly Prophet '08, with just a few chords from the Poly Evolver:
The very high melody adds lots of atmosphere. I like it a lot!
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Thanks!
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Really cool thread is this. Very interesting to see all the ways people use their instruments. I own a Prophet Rev2 and in one of my bands, I use it rather untypically, namely for live bass playing. (in another band, I do more interesting stuff with the sound capabilities of the Rev2, no worries :) ) See the videoclip we just released starring Rev2 for bass. (and a nord electro 3 in disguise)
https://youtu.be/OyQRZIqUut0
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Really cool thread is this. Very interesting to see all the ways people use their instruments. I own a Prophet Rev2 and in one of my bands, I use it rather untypically, namely for live bass playing. (in another band, I do more interesting stuff with the sound capabilities of the Rev2, no worries :) ) See the videoclip we just released starring Rev2 for bass. (and a nord electro 3 in disguise)
https://youtu.be/OyQRZIqUut0
Wow man what a truly great track! So many transitions and energy, rhythmic variations, awesome good. Following you guys on Spotify now. This is the kind of music that gets better and better the more I listen to it. Really well done.
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Really difficult to follow such a great act as Dick Laurent ..... but my style is a tat different. Still preparing for a live performance, now working on attempt number 14 (previous 13 attempts partially successful, but will fix that).
Prophet X patch on layer A based on a sample from the cinematic types, stretched and modulated in many different ways. Percussion from Prophet X on layer B (world percussion set). Layer A of the Rev2 and my trusted Evolver playing lead at different places and Digitone providing some background here and there.
Sequencing from the Digitone (P X layer A, Rev2 and Evolver) and Schrittmacher (P X layer B percussion). From the Scrittmacher I am also adjusting the Rev2 filter cutoff when I am playing.
EQ from Bitwig and I used the Ik Media Lurssen plugin for mastering for the first time (still learning....).
Directly recorded into Bitwig live in the studio.
https://soundcloud.com/user-252754541/live014-ambient-magic
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That is so nice to hear Gary, thanks for your compliments! And indeed, your music is from a different corner of the musical universe than Dick Laurent's. :) Although, one thing in common: a lot of experimentation going on! Good work, liked your mellotron track too!
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That is so nice to hear Gary, thanks for your compliments! And indeed, your music is from a different corner of the musical universe than Dick Laurent's. :) Although, one thing in common: a lot of experimentation going on! Good work, liked your mellotron track too!
Thanks. Indeed experimentation, sound design, building tracks, so much fun.
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Very nice piece, Gerry. Some nice warm tones and a certain restless suspense to the music.
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Very nice piece, Gerry. Some nice warm tones and a certain restless suspense to the music.
Thanks Sacred. I finally convinced myself, composing and playing this track, that I am ready to start performing "live" without a DAW. Of course at my current level the sequencers are still doing most of the heavy lifting, but that is a matter of practice.
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Thanks Sacred. I finally convinced myself, composing and playing this track, that I am ready to start performing "live" without a DAW. Of course at my current level the sequencers are still doing most of the heavy lifting, but that is a matter of practice.
That could be the beginning of a new "career" for you - or perhaps, of a professional hobby.
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Improvisation #95:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pueDW0dY_ak
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Gerry, I like the sequenced rhythms at 4:00. May I say "daring" for "ambient" as not being cluttered with effects.
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Sacred Synthesis. Re #95 improv. Your music always puts me into a wonderful cathedral and reminds why you had probably chosen your old your old forum name "The Analog Organist". So many of the bass notes sound exactly like a church organ.
I still wish we could post music in a fashion like on the old forum- whereas the post of a song was segregated where it would not be buried as other posts were made, but could be easily indexed by member. Not sure i'm making myself clear, but those who remember how the music post section was arranged on that forum might know what I mean.
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Thanks, Soundquest. I actually wish the bass pedal had been a bit louder. I like the powerful effect a pronounced but not over-bearing bass can have. The piece was a test run for uploading to Tunecore, but it failed because there is a touch of distortion and one bad note.
I wish I could remember the old system we had on the previous forum, how it differed from this forum. But I agree, posting music here is kind of hit or miss, since it does quickly get buried.
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Improvisation #95:
It's good, but too short ;) I wish it could go on for a bit longer.
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Improvisation #95:
It's good, but too short ;) I wish it could go on for a bit longer.
Sorry - I seldom go on for less than ten minutes, and usually quite a bit longer. You're the first person ever to tell me one of my pieces was too short!
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I just used my Rev2 in the latest Disquiet Junto project (https://disquiet.com/2019/06/20/disquiet-junto-project-0390-pace-quickens/). (The Disquiet Junto is a weekly songwriting/recording prompt that you have to complete in 4 days or less.)
The bass part is a slightly-tweaked version of the "Sad Bass" preset. The arpeggios are a bespoke patch for the project.
https://soundcloud.com/oakbloodthree/disquiet0390-still-black-still-friday-still-slow
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Just a ditty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dcUYb9Ptxc
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Just a ditty:
By your standards, this is absolutely jaunty! I like it a lot. The big pedal point sound is fantastic.
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Just a ditty:
By your standards, this is absolutely jaunty! I like it a lot. The big pedal point sound is fantastic.
Thanks, Chysn. It's a weird little bit, something like a daydream, that probably belongs as an interlude between two more elaborate sections.
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Alas, the seemingly impossible has happened:
https://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-95-Musical-Synthesizer/dp/B07T3ZHJLQ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=the+musical+synthesizer&qid=1561846246&s=dmusic&sr=1-2
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Alas, the seemingly impossible has happened:
https://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-95-Musical-Synthesizer/dp/B07T3ZHJLQ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=the+musical+synthesizer&qid=1561846246&s=dmusic&sr=1-2
Not authorized, I assume? What are you supposed to do about that?
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Alas, the seemingly impossible has happened:
https://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-95-Musical-Synthesizer/dp/B07T3ZHJLQ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=the+musical+synthesizer&qid=1561846246&s=dmusic&sr=1-2
Not authorized, I assume? What are you supposed to do about that?
Oh no - I did it through Tunecore. It's legitimate. Perhaps my "alas" is misleading. I meant it's been a long and difficult road to the present.
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Oh no - I did it through Tunecore. It's legitimate. Perhaps my "alas" is misleading. I meant it's been a long and difficult road to the present.
Oh, good! Yeah, the alas threw me off. Thought you were going to have to lawyer up. Congratulations!
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Alas, the seemingly impossible has happened:
https://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-95-Musical-Synthesizer/dp/B07T3ZHJLQ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=the+musical+synthesizer&qid=1561846246&s=dmusic&sr=1-2
And on Spotify, I must be your very first follower there.
Well done. Album please, please, please. :)
Who did you use to publish the content - ah sorry I just re-read previous post: Tunecore?
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Thanks, guys. Yes, I started with Tunecore, and they distribute it to the other sites/platforms. Next, I'll work on Bandcamp. I'm just fumbling around here, learning by doing, but so far so good. I'll have to get more serious about the composing, though. Thus far, I've just improvised my way along.
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Thanks, guys. Yes, I started with Tunecore, and they distribute it to the other sites/platforms. Next, I'll work on Bandcamp. I'm just fumbling around here, learning by doing, but so far so good. I'll have to get more serious about the composing, though. Thus far, I've just improvised my way along.
Well I wouldn't worry about that. As far as I can see all your tracks I listened to so far are release worthy. It is up to you to decide which ones you want to publish first.
You might want someone else to create a final master for release for the target platforms (streaming/CDs/LPs/Bandcamp/etc.). This works for me as this is still outside of my own expertise. Please don't get me wrong, listening on Spotify with my ATH-M40X headphones, the track sounds very good. This is just an idea.
Please keep going! Don't forget to register the released tracks' author rights (royalties) locally in your country (USA?).
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Please keep going! Don't forget to register the released tracks' author rights (royalties) locally in your country (USA?).
Gee, I knew I forgot about something.
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Thanks, guys. Yes, I started with Tunecore, and they distribute it to the other sites/platforms. Next, I'll work on Bandcamp. I'm just fumbling around here, learning by doing, but so far so good. I'll have to get more serious about the composing, though. Thus far, I've just improvised my way along.
It's nice to have it out there. I've used CDBABY for about 5 years now and am satisfied with them. They similarly will post to all the musical outlets. They have a statistics page where you can watch your sales and source of sales generated from those outlets. I think I'm approaching my first payout of $25, but it has been years ;)
While these sites will stock your physical CD's as well, generally, I see that people don't want physical CD's anymore. I started seeing this really change when I was playing with the R&R band. Ten years ago you could still sell CD's at gigs when the medium had perceived value. As recently as 5 years ago it took a final nosedive. Today, if you give CD's away for free, you're unlikely to get any feedback, but perhaps it might get used as a cup coaster. Then there's the idea that an album is not digestible to the younger generation since they prefer bite-sized streams for what appears to them as being free. CD is not a good format for singles.
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Yes, it's all true, but who said anything about CD's? It's all about digital downloads, with CD's only as an option.
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I'm actually thinking about doing a small batch of vinyl releases of some faux movie soundtracks with some artwork/photography by yours's truly.
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Vinyl, that'd be cool. I wanted to do something like that just for the novelty, but it's still pretty pricy which discouraged me. Besides, even my own turn-table doesn't work anymore, so then I'd need to buy a new one :-\
If you want to go even more underground, Remember those LP-sized laser discs? They were very short lived, preceded CD's, but had the art work printed on them.
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Here's an all ages rap song I did mostly using the OB-6 and P-6. There's also a Minimoog Model D at the end, and a Fender Rhodes driven through a Fender Princeton amp.
https://youtu.be/SIb9uKonO30 (https://youtu.be/SIb9uKonO30)
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Just messing around with this pattern on the Deepmind 12 and Korg EMX. My once a year stab at techno.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/minor-trifle
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https://youtu.be/ZSy9aQiQWS0
Had an excellent jam with my best friend Allan Ryppl this weekend. Got to watch some movies and record this little number. Can't go wrong with some Tangerine Dream.
A little breakdown on the instruments
Tempest-Doing the main bass line, the kick drum (using with Boss DR55 sample) as well as some white noise sample and hold type percussion. There is also a slight phaser effect as well.
Prophet X-Doing the filtered, arpeggiated bongos and some pads at the beginning and end of the piece, these pads are actually samples imported into the synth (the one at the start is a sample of a Roland D50 Soundtrack patch layered with a Fairlight Arr1 sample-the one at the end is a custom patch using the onboard samples trying to emulate the Korg M1 Universe patch)
Prophet-6 is doing a pad with a heavy phaser effect on it that's panning back and forth.
Alesis Strike Multipad-Doing those classic "in The Air Tonight" gated reverb style drums.
℗ Everett Dudgeon & Allan Ryppl 2019.
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Finally got some user samples into the Prophet X.
Got to check out Lamberto Bava's film The Ogre over the weekend.
Had some spare time in the studio...
Why not? :)
This isn't a cover of Simon Boswell's fantastic theme for The Ogre but a quick little piece I wrote/recorded in about an hour today. I figured I would go for a style you might hear in a late 80s early 90s Italian horror flick. Very digital/rompler sounding. Some brooding atmospheric pads at the beginning before going into a soft melody.
Loads of user samples:
Synclavier (Bell Gong),
Fairlight (Arr1),
Roland D50 (Digital Native Dance/Soundtrack/Time)
As well as some Korg M1 inspired patches (Universe/Magic Piano) created on the Prophet X using 8Dio's factory samples.
The Tempest is keeping a nice steady Linn Drum beat. Nothing fancy but I think the piece turned out pretty good for a quick job.
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://youtu.be/0KV_stgE0Fw
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Sounds good, very clear. PS- You seem to find the most far out videos ;)
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Sounds good, very clear. PS- You seem to find the most far out videos ;)
Thanks so much! It's odd most people into synths got into it through bands like Depeche Mode and others, but for me it was 80s synth soundtracks from having a small video store behind my house and I would constantly keep buying movies after school.
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Arpeggiator/Sequencer party! I was at the studio this weekend and decided to record a few tunes. John Carpenter and Alan Howarth's score for Big Trouble In Little China is easily one of the best synth scores out there and it features probably the greatest synth setup in history. I decided to do a small tribute using the synths I have. Not a direct cover but there's certainly some motifs and riffs from the amazing score.
Sequential Prophet X Sampler-Slap bass, Middle Eastern percussion, Mandolin and Glass Marimba samples as well as some string, choir, Prophet VS and ethnic instrument overdubs.
Prophet 6-Some filtered pad sounds at the beginning, the iconic "rising brass" stab and some low arpeggiation.
Tempest-Lots of frantic percussion using the built in arpeggiator with both the LM-1 and Linn Drum Samples
It's all in the reflexes. :)
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://youtu.be/BpcA9e3Rgag
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-84NazI6FA
Big shout out to Chris Alexander who's been posting about the surrealist 1986 horror flick "Nomads" and inspired me to do this track. The score for that film was done by Bill Conti and features nonother than Ted Nugent on guitar!
This is not a cover of that score but it certainly is heavily influenced by it.
Sequential Prophet X is doing some atmospheric droning ambiences (Done with a looping sample of an Electric Guitar as well as some Sunn O))) style feedback drones as well as some piccolo flute effects and Prophet VS wavetables blending in and out of each other)
My American Fender Strat is being run through the Roger Linn Adrenelinn iii Guitar Effects Pedal and has a heavy Mesa Boogie amp simulation as well as some chorus on it.
The Tempest has a "TomCart Kit" which has the samples from the expander cartridge from Sequential's old drum machine "TOM". Incredibly heavy sounds run through a gated reverb effect.
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2019
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Vinyl, that'd be cool. I wanted to do something like that just for the novelty, but it's still pretty pricy which discouraged me. Besides, even my own turn-table doesn't work anymore, so then I'd need to buy a new one :-\
If you want to go even more underground, Remember those LP-sized laser discs? They were very short lived, preceded CD's, but had the art work printed on them.
Laser Discs were actually for movies not music I believe I have a bunch of Abbott And Costello and Gamera movies on them.
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I'd intended to post this on the P6 page in response to a question about the 6's sequencer, thinking I'd built up this whole track with a layering of sequences. When I opened up the PT file, I was surprised to see that much of the track appears to have been played by hand. The song is 4 chords, repeated, with no variation, so the sequencer would've made sense. This was a quick and early take, intended for a singer in Oxford, hence it being a bit out of my vocal range at points. Nothing came of this track, but it's a really lovely presentation of the P6, at least. There's a hint of Evolver in as well, looks like.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/dust-demo-for-laima-bite/s-0ljYH
EDIT: Turns out that indeed much of this recording is based on P6 sequences - two different versions of the chord loop, one quite hazy, the other quite pretty and bell-ish. The bits that don't repeat, or are a bit finger-flubbed were recorded "live" after the fact.
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All week I've been listening to some really obscure soundtracks from cult films like Hide And Go Shriek, The Lamp, and others and decided to try my hand at doing my take on the score for Hell High (aka Raging Fury). Although made in 1984, it wasn't released until 1989. Not sure what gear Rich Macar and Chris Hyams-Hart used by I decided to work with a fairly simple setup and have a much more electric guitar oriented score than the original (which sort of fits in with the "high school punk" type vibe).
Anyway the gear breakdown is.
American Fender Stratocaster running through the Roger Linn Adrenalinn III Guitar Effects Box. I wanted to use one of Roger's own amp creations so I went with the RLD Sizzle Preset.
Prophet-6 is doing everything from strings, sequenced bass, synth choir and synth clavinet. I used some of the original Prophet-5 patches on here.
Prophet-X is only used for the upright piano at the beginning and end (I used the "Bar Piano" preset)
Tempest Drum Computer is doing a heavy metal type beat with frantic kick drums on a "Tom Cart Kit".
Enjoy and remember...stay in school kids. :)
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_yx0d2qv8c
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My music is going through something of a change lately. I’m trying to draw in my wilder wandering. This track is a wild one though. Largely made in iOS, with Sampler, Auria etc. Prophet 6 in the background of course. Hoping to do better/more soon. https://man-oeuvre.bandcamp.com/album/the-kismet-circuitry
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Further exploring the user sampling feature of my Sequential Prophet X. Had a bit of a rough week and I've been on a big Mindhunter binge on Netflix.
The samples are taken from the excellent documentary "The Killing Of America" with an interview with serial killer Ed Kemper. You can hear me mangling the samples with LFOs, pan spread, arpeggiators, loop size manipulation, as well as some bit reduction through the entire piece.
The Prophet 6 is doing a heavy drone with an LFO modulating the low pass filter. .
The Tempest is doing an 808 beat with some analog distortion on it to give a nice gritty sound.
Enjoy! Please check out Severin Film's release for The Killing Of America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsa7F...
©Everett Dudgeon 2019
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4euqgtf9-z4&t=212s
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Very quick track I did tonight on the Prophet-X. I've been listening to a lot of scores recently from Christopher Young (Hellraiser, Species, Dorm That Dripped Blood, Def-Con 4, The Power) and I decided to do a quick track in his style. I noticed that, despite not using any synths Young focuses a lot of ambience and atmosphere conveyed. His score for Def-Con 4 showcases this and I wanted to try my hand at something a bit more "Freestyle" with not a whole lot of traditional structure. I used a lot of "Ambience" and "Cinematic" samples from the Sequential Prophet X for this piece as well as some Brass, Flute and String effects. Ironically the PX even has a category in the Cinematic section called "Def-Con"...I couldn't resist using a sample of it at the end. ENJOY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7PDgFrsXks
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Hi there!
So after a couple years off, I am back to releasing my own original music again. I quit DJing and nightlife after 20 years of doing it all professionally, from playing to throwing parties and everything in between. So this is me just having fun, no pressure to please promoters, bookers, managers, agents, random people half my age at the party ::)
Deep house, broken beat kinda thing on the first EP, but there’s a whole lot of other stuff coming up from ambient to weird drummy techno, synth patches, sample packs, art prints… Just gonna have me some good ol’ fashioned fun.
https://allandbyallo.bandcamp.com/album/rule-of-thirds (https://allandbyallo.bandcamp.com/album/rule-of-thirds)
And it’s my first time using gear on a release. I only got into hardware rather recently, so this is also me validating the investments! ;D This stuff features the Rev2 and the Moog Sirin.
(http://fullbleedsound.com/img/abstudio.jpg)
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I decided to create a SoundCloud playlist to contain anything I do that includes my Rev2:
https://soundcloud.com/oakbloodthree/sets/rev2
So far it's only got three short pieces done for the Disquiet Junto (https://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet-junto-faq/), but there will be more coming very soon.
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This is an odd one for me in that no Sequential products here harmed in the making of this track. :-)
My friend wrote the song and came with bassline, vocals, and chord progressions. I added drum programming (Elektron Rytm mkII), guitar (custom Jazzmaster and Kemper), and synth (Peak) And did the recording:
https://soundcloud.com/kirk-bryson-420449859/auralface-runaway
I really like the feel of the chorus that starts around 1:30. Proud of my synth addition.
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In contrast, this one is nearly all Sequential. All the synth is Pro 2, the darker distorted drums are Tempest. The 808 groove is actually the Avid Venom!
I took an audio sample from YouTube where a user had fed the text from a Bladerunner 2049 book into to a text to speech program. The text is an expanded version written by Gosling of the baseline test - which I find fascinating.
I think it would be good for a set opener.
https://soundcloud.com/bran13/baseline
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I couldn't resist calling my "ambient" generative new album "Music for Dentists", as the idea came to me while sitting in the waiting room of my dentist a few months ago.
http://gezz1.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-dentists
Featuring on track 1 the Prophet Rev2 with a twinkle of Digitone and Deepmind 12. On track 2 Prophet Rev2 plus Digitone. Sequencing from the Schrittmacher, running several loops with different speeds, rarely repeating themselves.
This is also my first attempt using Bandcamp ...... Enjoy ;-)
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I'm looking at selling my Moog Sub 37. It's just not getting as much love as it should and I decided to do at least three tracks over the next few weeks with it as a primary instrument. First up we have a Ivor Slaney's awesome synthesizer score for the Canadian cult flick DEATHSHIP.
Ivor Slaney was actually a classically trained composer and recorded many classical and jazz pieces through his prolific career with his later years dabbling in experimental funk jazz and synthscapes. Highly recommend checking out his score for "Terror" and "Prey" as well.
The Moog Sub 37 is doing everything here except the drums. The brassy lead, Theremin lead, low drones as well as some unnerving sound effects. Everything is run through loads of reverb with some slap back delay in some eras.
The Tempest is doing a steady military beat on a Boss DR55 Sample Kit.
ENJOY!!!!
℗Everett Dudgeon 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZaNtz8ZYhU&lc=z23iipfber2ayxfxx04t1aokgb5ro2mef14bwag513hvbk0h00410
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Hey all - here's a fresh video, a slice of my Berlin, for a song due next year on an album called Manbird. Unusually for me, this features no Sequential/DSI action, and despite the DX7 featured on film, this was tracked entirely with a Korg Prologue. (There's a touch of M-Tron on here - maybe it's real Mellotron, I honestly can't remember!!) Anyway, one thing I love about the Prologue is that is can get those yowling Korg MS sounds. This song, inspired by and filmed in my beloved Neukolln, is scratchy and messy to suit. Hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/2ZL9KCn851E (https://youtu.be/2ZL9KCn851E)
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSpecC5iPR8
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Finally a piece from a series of movies I know, because horror movies are not my favorite genre ;-) I've been waiting for you to do a tribute on the halloween soundtrack since I'm following this thread ;-)
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I am in the process of writing my first song. I am using this opportunity as a means of reinforcing what I am learning about my instrument, music theory, as well as Cubase. I am finding this intimidating as I am struggling to put what is in my head into music.
But it is a great way to learn.
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Finally a piece from a series of movies I know, because horror movies are not my favorite genre ;-) I've been waiting for you to do a tribute on the halloween soundtrack since I'm following this thread ;-)
Ha! I figured it was the right day to do it. Lol truth be told I think the score for Halloween iii is the best....I actually think it’s the best film of the series as well...I’m not a huge fan of the Michael Myers story or character.
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It's me Billy! Wishing you a Black Christmas everyone.
No overdubs. Everything you hear is played directly from the Prophet X with samples I put in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ida3znpzWao
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Pretty much synth-free, this one - my Christmas song from the mid-90s, all 12-string jangly and Ludwig drums. Maybe there's an Emulator doing the bells, but otherwise, not an electron in sight...
Meanwhile, the vid is from my Cambridge days. This track is about three former lives behind the times, but it's a sweet song and I hope you guys enjoy it. Best to everybody!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe3AndZZEXg&list=PLKKnWmd5llyIPDRtSaM5QrY6tAgKmkJq7&index=13&t=0s
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Here are my two albums, die Lazerpolizei (80s influenced pseudo soundtrack) and Azimut (70s influenced synth album). I use Mopho Keyboard very heavily on Azimut, it is so very versatile. Other instruments include Waldorf Streichfett, Novation Supernova, Moog Slim Phatty and mainly Arturia plugins.
https://dieterkoma.bandcamp.com
And my FB page https://www.facebook.com/Dieter-Koma-105842877590545/
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Here are my two albums, die Lazerpolizei (80s influenced pseudo soundtrack) and Azimut (70s influenced synth album). I use Mopho Keyboard very heavily on Azimut, it is so very versatile. Other instruments include Waldorf Streichfett, Novation Supernova, Moog Slim Phatty and mainly Arturia plugins.
https://dieterkoma.bandcamp.com
And my FB page https://www.facebook.com/Dieter-Koma-105842877590545/
Quite liking this! Danke!
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DieterKoma, I like it, retro yet new.
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This is done with Prophet 12 (all pads) and Deepmind 12 (piano)
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/open-window
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Thanks for the comments. I already have some new ideas brewing, but I'll have to work on my band's album first and then make some ambient tunes for my wife's hypnotherapy recordings.
You can find my band's music on Bandcamp as well, the intro of Leviathan is my personal favourite:
https://mshornblower.bandcamp.com/track/leviathan
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All synths on this track are Korg Prologue.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/synthbeak-mixed-unmastered/s-fT5z5
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All synths on this track are Korg Prologue.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/synthbeak-mixed-unmastered/s-fT5z5
I enjoyed that. Some great sounds from the Prologue.
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This is done with Prophet 12 (all pads) and Deepmind 12 (piano)
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/open-window
A beautiful piece, Soundquest. I love the piano-like patch.
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Thanks sacred synthesis
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I recently moved myself, my cat, and all of my instruments from Minnesota, USA to Moscow, Russia. It's going to be a while until I can set up a studio again, and all of my synths (All Sequential / DSI) are resting in flight cases for now, and so currently all I've made room for is the Tempest, OB-6, and a recording mixer on top of a writing desk. The video I'm sharing here is an excerpt where I pick up from where I left off on a song I started four years ago on the Tempest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPWpo0B8LM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPWpo0B8LM)
Link to earlier video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLls2xnVkU
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I recently moved myself, my cat, and all of my instruments from Minnesota, USA to Moscow, Russia. It's going to be a while until I can set up a studio again, and all of my synths (All Sequential / DSI) are resting in flight cases for now, and so currently all I've made room for is the Tempest, OB-6, and a recording mixer on top of a writing desk. The video I'm sharing here is an excerpt where I pick up from where I left off on a song I started four years ago on the Tempest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPWpo0B8LM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPWpo0B8LM)
Link to earlier video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLls2xnVkU
Excellent stuff as always. Enjoy Moscow!
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Hey gang. New release out today!
Bit of Rev2 in here, though not too much this time. Worked with a very talented keyboard player out of NZ, so the focus here is Rhodes à la Nord.
Electronic music, jazzy broken beat deep house stuff. Hope you enjoy it! Can be bought in all digital shops, streaming thingies and all the other whatnots.
https://youtu.be/i4R48_GJM4o
Here's the Bandcamp for sending a couple bucks for a tune, if you feel so inclined. https://allandbyallo.bandcamp.com/album/dilatant-ft-matt-paull
If you can't swing the coin, I also accept deep dish pizza, tacos, oxen or small satchels of grain as payment.
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A somewhat ridiculous song perhaps, but I have to say I really had a ball making the voices.
Starts off with Modor NF1 doing the opera voices. This synth is fantastic for voices. Then OB6 has some angry exchanges, then Pro 2 comes in with the main sequence. OB6 is the pads and keys. Korg EMX for percussion.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/incident-at-the-opera
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Haven't posted on my SoundCloud for a long time but did this track while over at the studio this weekend. Totally off the cuff but really proud of how it turned out.
Inspired by my love of Italian Horror/Sci Fi flicks from the 70s/80s, this one I envision about a killer shark in the style of films like Tintoera and The Last Shark.
The Sequential Prophet X is doing pretty much everything except guitar. The timpani samples and gong hits are user samples while the string runs are all done with the onboard 8Dio Samples and sequenced with the onboard sequencer.
The guitar is an American Fender Stratocaster running through a Roger Linn Adrenalinn iii Effects Processor with an octave fuzz effect...totally evoking those Alessandro Alessandro fuzzed out guitar stings.
The Sequential Prophet-6 is doing a few stingers and filter sweeps as well as a bass line near the end during the "attack" sequence
The structure of the track is actually in two parts, the first would be what a title sequence or main theme would sound like while the other is what one might hear during the shark stalk/attack sequence.
ENJOY THE BEACHES!
© Everett Dudgeon 2020
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://soundcloud.com/user-523209234-123574856/tiburon-ripple-of-death-prophet-x-prophet-6-stratocaster
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Hello Friends,
Here's the first track I have completed since relocating to Chiang Mai. Instruments used: Prophet-12, Prophet-X, Sub 37, Analog Four, and Analog Rytm. I hope you enjoy it!
https://soundcloud.com/dale-ong/a-small-collection-of-atoms
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Dale, I think I hear the P12 doing the main sequence thruout, correct?
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Dale, I think I hear the P12 doing the main sequence thruout, correct?
Yes - that’s a stack of 2 copies of the same sound panned hard left/right each running a random arp.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JoNVjag-JE
Did a series of ambient/drone pieces with my best bud Allan Ryppll. All had an Earth: Hex era type vibe to them with some Spaghetti Western type influences. Allan is playing a Fender Stratocaster through a Roger Linn Adrenalinn iii Effects Processor with some Univibe effect as well as a slow drum groove playing out of it. I'm just doing some ambient guitar pads on the Prophet-X.
ENJOY! Plenty more to come.
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https://youtu.be/VZIqHAV7Hzo
Second installment in Allan Rÿppl and I's ambient/drone/shoegaze adventures.
This is a mixture between the Prophet X looping some electric guitar strums through a rotating speaker effect as well as some sequenced timpani hits (from a User Sample I installed) and Allan playing an American Fender Stratocaster to his heart's content through a Roger Linn Adrenalinn III Effects Box
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This is all done using the Novation Summit. I've spent the last few weeks familiarizing myself with it. About half the patches used are factory patches and the rest are my own. The opening scene is a cool sound effect (factory patch) for a sci-fi song. The weird voices are aided by the digital wave shapes labeled as such. All onboard effects. Has a Stellardrone influence at the beginning using the appeggiator, then goes into some of my usual voices and pads.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/outpost-light-year
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A nice assortment of sounds and music, Soundquest. On the steely side. And some beautiful chord progressions. How would you compare the Summit's pad quality to the Prophet 12's?
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https://youtu.be/CXOYQD3q1mE
Following up on my Death Ship video. This is my second installment in my final Moog Sub 37 series. One more video and then I'll put it up for sale.
Toronto had a pretty cold winter so I decided we should heat things up with a cover of Richard Einhorn's score for one of my favorite flicks, Don't Go In The House.
Lots of low monophonic drones and filter sweeps as well as some softer melodies. I'm positive Richard used the same synths he did on Shock Waves: Korg Maxikorg and Korg Minikorg.
Richard's wonderful score was just released by Waxworks records and I urge you to check it out...
https://waxworkrecords.com/products/d...
Crank this baby up! Mother says you can play your music loud!
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A nice assortment of sounds and music, Soundquest. On the steely side. And some beautiful chord progressions. How would you compare the Summit's pad quality to the Prophet 12's?
Thanks Sacred Synthesis. Nothing really struck me just yet -specifically as far as if I can make a better pad sound here or there. I say "not yet", because I think I need more time. I want to go back to the P12 after playing with the Summit for three weeks now and get a fresh perspective. As a happy P12 owner going into this purchase I knew the Summit would have many overlaps with the P12. But, I was really looking for a slightly different sound in addition to a few features I desire. Such as... I liked the ease of layering prospects on the Summit, along with the ring mod, more wave shapes and the effects looked enticing. As Razmo was mentioning, the oscillators really do stay tack sharp on the high end avoiding aliasing. They are indeed very "exact" but, like on the P12, there are slop parameters available (what they call "divergence"). This can makes a noticeable difference in the overall warmth. There's a couple of factory pads that are really quite nice. I think I'll be able to make some really nice pads eventually, but just like the P12 , it took me a little time to find the sweet spot.
My only complaint so far (besides a stiff aftertouch) is that I'm not a huge fan of pre- routed lfo's to filter or pitch. They do this on the Summit, and its that way on the Deepmind as well, and its just plain annoying to me. Seems I'm always looking for a buried lfo effect to turn off. Let me route my darn lfo's where I want too! For that, I'm grateful to Sequential for leaving an open slate on the mod matrix in this regard.
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All Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf27fGrG3i4
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Sacred Synthesis - I was perhaps thrown off by the image of the waterfall and expecting a slice of tonal bliss! A lovely piece, as always, but with some rather ominous elements. A nice surprise. (And, a nice sales pitch for the 08, a synth - in Rev2 form - I keep giving a fresh ear to whenever I'm in the music store...)
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Thanks, Ant. If you could have seen the whole area, you'd appreciate where the "ominous" came from. When civilization decays, it often looks more menacing then nature in all its wildness.
One thing I really like about the P'08/Rev2 design is the location of the modulation wheels. I never could have made this piece if they were in the usual place to the left of the keyboard.
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Thanks, Ant. If you could have seen the whole area, you'd appreciate where the "ominous" came from. When civilization decays, it often looks more menacing then nature in all its wildness.
One thing I really like about the P'08/Rev2 design is the location of the modulation wheels. I never could have made this piece if they were in the usual place to the left of the keyboard.
Funny, but the photos are saying "serene" - it's quite a lovely scene you've captured. The music has a tone that must be in the photos you're not posting!
I don't even remember where the wheels on the Rev2 are - I'm assuming they're upper left, above the keyboard (sorry, "keybed" as the kids are all sayin'!)?
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It's cool that there's been an uptick of posts in the Your Music thread. I've been busy with a new track that seems fit for sharing. It's all Prophet 6 (plus drum machine and vox). I tried Pro One for bass but - gasp - I found the P6 to be the right guy for the gig. I think the song is in a presentable place, but I can imagine new lyrics/vocals and an edited arrangement with perhaps a few further bells and whistles. There's a vocoder waiting at my GF's, and that's got to be on a track like this. Etc. For now, it's fresh and it's all Prophet 6! Thanks.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/my-dirty-animal-early-version-13
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Ant,
That synth part reminds me of early Devo synth sound, which is a good thing. Hey, I gotta agree with you on Sacred Synthesis's waterfall throwing us for a loop :D But I really like the sounds he pulled out of the PO8 at 2:40.
Guys,
Probably blasphemous for me to say here, but I recently sold my P08. Don't kick me outta the forum ;) I still have my P12, Pro 2, OB6 and PEK and they aren't going anywhere. Actually selling it was sort of sad, being it was my first "real" synth. I found I just wasn't using it much anymore and I needed the room quite frankly. Seems like ages ago, but I'll never forget the anticipation waiting for the UPS driver to show up with the PO8. It took a month because it got lost in shipment! Anyway... I had a Korg R3 and Novation K station at the time, so PO8 taught me about analog. I sold the Korg like a month later because it sounded so thin to me ;D
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Aw, come on now, fellas. As strange as it might have seemed, that sample and hold effect represented the rocks tumbling down the ravine. Okay, so maybe I went too far with it.... :-[
My next piece will be all white noise.
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Ant,
That synth part reminds me of early Devo synth sound, which is a good thing. Hey, I gotta agree with you on Sacred Synthesis's waterfall throwing us for a loop :D But I really like the sounds he pulled out of the PO8 at 2:40.
Guys,
Probably blasphemous for me to say here, but I recently sold my P08. Don't kick me outta the forum ;) I still have my P12, Pro 2, OB6 and PEK and they aren't going anywhere. Actually selling it was sort of sad, being it was my first "real" synth. I found I just wasn't using it much anymore and I needed the room quite frankly. Seems like ages ago, but I'll never forget the anticipation waiting for the UPS driver to show up with the PO8. It took a month because it got lost in shipment! Anyway... I had a Korg R3 and Novation K station at the time, so PO8 taught me about analog. I sold the Korg like a month later because it sounded so thin to me ;D
Funny, but I just got back into DEVO last month, not kidding. In the midst of "nothing but acid folk from 1971" kick, I found a DEVO greatest hits CD in an antique shop for $3 and thought, well, this will last a spin or two. Instead, my girlfriend and I became obsessed, so perhaps no surprise the synth tones rubbed off. I really love their tight, clean bass patches especially. My nickname in high school was Mothersbaugh Spud, it has to be said!
I miss my R3, I *think*. It had a few really nice patches, like the string synth and Wurli-ish thing. I brought it to a band gig and it just didn't fly, sonically, though, and thus I sold it. It did have some odd charm, though, but doesn't ANY synth?
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Aw, come on now, fellas. As strange as it might have seemed, that sample and hold effect represented the rocks tumbling down the ravine. Okay, so maybe I went too far with it.... :-[
My next piece will be all white noise.
Dare ya! (Seriously, I've wanted to try that, but the best laid plans of white noise mice etc...)
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Ant,
That synth part reminds me of early Devo synth sound, which is a good thing. Hey, I gotta agree with you on Sacred Synthesis's waterfall throwing us for a loop :D But I really like the sounds he pulled out of the PO8 at 2:40.
Guys,
Probably blasphemous for me to say here, but I recently sold my P08. Don't kick me outta the forum ;) I still have my P12, Pro 2, OB6 and PEK and they aren't going anywhere. Actually selling it was sort of sad, being it was my first "real" synth. I found I just wasn't using it much anymore and I needed the room quite frankly. Seems like ages ago, but I'll never forget the anticipation waiting for the UPS driver to show up with the PO8. It took a month because it got lost in shipment! Anyway... I had a Korg R3 and Novation K station at the time, so PO8 taught me about analog. I sold the Korg like a month later because it sounded so thin to me ;D
Funny, but I just got back into DEVO last month, not kidding. In the midst of "nothing but acid folk from 1971" kick, I found a DEVO greatest hits CD in an antique shop for $3 and thought, well, this will last a spin or two. Instead, my girlfriend and I became obsessed, so perhaps no surprise the synth tones rubbed off. I really love their tight, clean bass patches especially. My nickname in high school was Mothersbaugh Spud, it has to be said!
I miss my R3, I *think*. It had a few really nice patches, like the string synth and Wurli-ish thing. I brought it to a band gig and it just didn't fly, sonically, though, and thus I sold it. It did have some odd charm, though, but doesn't ANY synth?
Some good talent came out of Kent Ohio, which is just down the road from me. They're having a 50 year anniversary of the Kent State shootings there in May. I'm sure devo will be one of the bands there.
The R3 was bi-timbral and some nice patches were in there as you said. I didn't really know much about how to program a synth yet when I had that. I sold it and picked up a used Roland SH211 which was perfect for learning the basics.
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https://youtu.be/LfKvwGfav2Y
This was all done using the Prophet VS waves in the Prophet X. In fact I’m actually using a few factory patches such as “Wavetable E.P.” And “Wave Strummer”. I programmed the classic Prophet VS choir patch as well as a Vector Synthesis string sound (with LFOs fading in and out two Prophet VS Wavetables and the PX’s own oscillators set to square waves.
The drums are all Tempest using the Sequential TOM samples but also the arpeggiated rhythm is all done using an onboard Prophet VS wave.
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There are some really fantastic underrated synth scores for some obscure films out there and John Ross's score for the 80s department store slasher Hide And Go Shriek is no exception. Have no idea what John used but it sounds like it might be an Emulator or some type of sampler with an analog synth.
Breakdown of the instruments:
Sequential Prophet-X: Low fi horn/string sample (modified from the factory 8Dio samples) and timpani hits and rolls (from an imported User Sample)
Sequential Prophet-6: Slurpy brass.
Tempest Drum Computer: Almost a hip hop style beat on a "909 Kit" with a low analog bass line pumping behind it.
Enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://youtu.be/59JKdemUPlA
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Some more weird voices from the Modor NF1. The Vermona MK2 is the main sequence, Percussion Korg EMX. As a sequence, it drones on a bit, but its interesting if you're curious what the Modor can do with making human-like sounds.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/if-you-feel
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What a weird group of friends you have there, Soundquest! Is it the local accent. ???
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Some more weird voices from the Modor NF1. The Vermona MK2 is the main sequence, Percussion Korg EMX. As a sequence, it drones on a bit, but its interesting if you're curious what the Modor can do with making human-like sounds.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/if-you-feel
Groovy, innit! I'm sat staring out a farm window on a very grey day. Perfect soundtrack, and I'm a fan of "drones on a bit..."
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I released this 3 track ep a few weeks ago. Used my prophet 6 for all the chord progressions!
https://soundcloud.com/noticeom/sets/run-away
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I released this 3 track ep a few weeks ago. Used my prophet 6 for all the chord progressions!
https://soundcloud.com/noticeom/sets/run-away
This has nice sound, it sort of reminds me of New Order.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf73iYs1Kj4&t=175s
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It's rather primitive... but it's a little something...
PEAK on bass, Rev2 with Strymon pedals on the noisy arpeggio in the back, ableton on drums, Kronos everything else.
https://soundcloud.com/user-113276372/monotony
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I’ve only just learned how to use Ableton so am shamelessly late to the party. This is my first attempt. Still need to work on this a fair bit, including replacing the one-bar drum loop with something for each section and tweaking the synth voices.
https://soundcloud.com/peter-kenney-750235819/im-gonna-go-my-way
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I’ve only just learned how to use Ableton so am shamelessly late to the party. This is my first attempt. Still need to work on this a fair bit, including replacing the one-bar drum loop with something for each section and tweaking the synth voices.
https://soundcloud.com/peter-kenney-750235819/im-gonna-go-my-way
I find this track quite funny... sounds like the menue screens in some of our Nintendo Wii Games ;D ;D ;D
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This is a mix of synths but all doing their specific purpose. The P-12 is doing some fiddle/cello in the middle. The Nord Lead 4 is doing the breathing, random noise thruout (via Polyend sequencer), as well as the radio sound at the beginning and end. Made a patch on DM-12- that is plucky strings -that I use quite a bit in conjunction with the Linn Instrument for slide and tremolo effects.. The Summit is used for the LFO bass and voices, best noticed in the beginning and ending minutes.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/breathe-for-me
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I've posted a few of my teenage synthpop things here before, but pretty sure I've not posted this one. It's me in the basement, back in 1986, I think. The main synth is Prophet 6, with a bit of PolySix choir amongst. TR-707 drums. I was into Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel at the time, which comes across for better or worse! This was done on a Yamaha MT-44 4-track cassette deck.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting)
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I've posted a few of my teenage synthpop things here before, but pretty sure I've not posted this one. It's me in the basement, back in 1986, I think. The main synth is Prophet 6, with a bit of PolySix choir amongst. TR-707 drums. I was into Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel at the time, which comes across for better or worse! This was done on a Yamaha MT-44 4-track cassette deck.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting)
I love it! I would like a high quality remake of this song!
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I've posted a few of my teenage synthpop things here before, but pretty sure I've not posted this one. It's me in the basement, back in 1986, I think. The main synth is Prophet 6, with a bit of PolySix choir amongst. TR-707 drums. I was into Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel at the time, which comes across for better or worse! This was done on a Yamaha MT-44 4-track cassette deck.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting)
Cheers, jok3r! I have started re-making some of my teenage tunes, and this one would be a blast. One of these long C-19 days, maybe!
I love it! I would like a high quality remake of this song!
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I almost missed your answer inside the quote... :D :D :D
Yeah, the C-19 crisis is hard for many... but it gives oppotunities to others and to do stuff you couldn't for years. I'm training my classical piano skills at the moment. If I had some spare time for music, I needed to program sounds for my cover band in the past years. Now all gigs are canceled and I can play for myself... and I enjoy it very much, to be true. I started to build up a little home studio, too.
I know this may sound like sheer mockery to people that need the gigs for a living. I hope you don't feel offended by me and that you will find your way through the crisis.
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I almost missed your answer inside the quote... :D :D :D
Yeah, the C-19 crisis is hard for many... but it gives oppotunities to others and to do stuff you couldn't for years. I'm training my classical piano skills at the moment. If I had some spare time for music, I needed to program sounds for my cover band in the past years. Now all gigs are canceled and I can play for myself... and I enjoy it very much, to be true. I started to build up a little home studio, too.
I know this may sound like sheer mockery to people that need the gigs for a living. I hope you don't feel offended by me and that you will find your way through the crisis.
I'm still not the world's great Tech Guru when it comes to forums and text formatting!
And I'm not sure if you're speaking directly to me or to the gigging musicians on the forum in general, but I, for one, took zero offence at your words. These are deeply challenging times and we've all been affected by the pandemic, in all sorts of ways. I know people who've had C-19 and recovered, and I know people in hospital at the moment. Still, it's human nature to carry on however we can. In the face of this frightening tragedy, Tiger King has become a "comforting distraction!" And I say this having watched it myself. But meanwhile, on the "why we're here" front, many of us are trying to find ways to keep making music, keep getting it out into the world. I don't know if I miss gigging, oddly. I'm probably making more cash writing for a French band I'm in than I would from gigs right now. My gig life is scrappy and inconsistent lately. I would've done a small solo Spanish tour in July followed by recording and gigging with the French band, and that would be my income for summer. Instead, everyone in the French band is stuck at home, and the bandleader keeps writing and sending me tracks to which I add melodies and lyrics. Because it's all we can do right now towards a second album, everyone is extra keen to make it work.
There's no shame in finding an upside in this unprecedented and freaky time! That said, I'm having a harder time working on my own songs. My gf is working from home and I don't have the blocks of open writing time I normally would if she was in the office! And I'm sure this won't be weird to the folks of the forum, but I'm trying to find a way to buy a second-hand Prophet 6 here in California. Mine lives in Berlin and the thought of being without it for months is unsettling! Priorities, eh?
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Oh, well... in the beginning it was more directed to you personally... but then I remembered that we are on a forum and that others will read this, too. So I added something more general.
I felt a need to add the last line, because I have strange feelings about being so happy because of the crisis, while the existence of others is in pure danger. I have really great luck that my (and my partners) job is not affected by the crisis at all... and in fact almost no one of our friends is in trouble, too. At the moment of writing the lines I remembered being in a musicians forum where a lot of professionals are, and that there might be a lot more people having troubles than I have in my little world. I just wanted to show them, that it's not a matter of course for me being happy at the moment and that I know that it's really, really bad what is going on.
Perhaps I'm reading too much newspapers, but when I read about well known politicians, other VIPs and countries that talk the whole thing down, I thought when writing the above lines in an international forum I have to point out that I'm not such a dumbass who doesn't care about this (If someone feels offended by that, then he/she should ;-) ), because this seems not to be a matter of course, too. Sad, but true.
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I've posted a few of my teenage synthpop things here before, but pretty sure I've not posted this one. It's me in the basement, back in 1986, I think. The main synth is Prophet 6, with a bit of PolySix choir amongst. TR-707 drums. I was into Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel at the time, which comes across for better or worse! This was done on a Yamaha MT-44 4-track cassette deck.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting)
I agree w jok3r, this deserves a remake. Great happy 80's sound.
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I've posted a few of my teenage synthpop things here before, but pretty sure I've not posted this one. It's me in the basement, back in 1986, I think. The main synth is Prophet 6, with a bit of PolySix choir amongst. TR-707 drums. I was into Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel at the time, which comes across for better or worse! This was done on a Yamaha MT-44 4-track cassette deck.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/valeries-waiting)
I agree w jok3r, this deserves a remake. Great happy 80's sound.
Thanks, Soundquest... I'm glad you like it. A remake would be a blast to work on.
Funny that I've ended up with a second P5, a second TR-707 and I now have the same PolySix again that was mine at the time I wrote the song. I'm easily set to do a remake, I guess. I'd love to get a real drummer and bassist on the case this time around. Of course, the bass would have to be a fretless for proper '80s vibe!
I lose track of what I've posted to the forum, but I did indeed recently re-do another song of mine from the same era. My current California band are on it, with me playing a nice squash of Prophet 5 and Prophet 6. I'll upload it to SC one of these days...
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Just got a prophet 6, having a lot of fun with these INHALT patches, they're right up my alley. I really want to complete this DAWless rig with a Zoom recorder, MPC (in lieu of a Cirklon), another poly (maybe a Multi-Trak, Matrix 6, or Rev2), and possibly a Bass Station II, because currently my Tempest is tasked with bass duties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhMsgogaLEw&t=141s
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https://youtu.be/r_Gbq1peo04
I'm unfortunately locked out of my studio space for the foreseeable future due to quarantine so I've been going through some files on my computer and decided to put a few tracks out. This one is longer and pretty chilled out.
Allan is on the Strat running through the Roger Linn Adrenelinnn iii Guitar Effects Box (Which is also doing the tribal drum beat).
I'm on the Prophet-X playing a Rhodes patch with a phaser on it and a nice blend of orchestral strings and Solina-esq synth strings near the end.
Enjoy!
The title comes from the 1945 film of the same name.
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Vermona DRM Mk3 and Mopho sequenced form my daw. I accidentally sent my drum sequence to my synth and it sounded surprisingly groovy. The result:
https://soundcloud.com/willtayl0r/jungle-boogie
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Here's one of mine from a forthcoming album called Manbird. The song is "Space Force," and it's based on the real deal, not the Orange Man's chewing gum fantasy! SCI synths only make a cameo here, with a touch of Prophet 6 and Pro One doing the "beeyyow" drone note once or twice. Drumtraks (mixed with bits of poorly mic'd Ludwig) make up the drum kit. That's a Korg Prologue doing the solo. I love the Prophet 6 as a lead synth, but the Prologue is a lovely one as well. Bryan Poole on mad, wiggly guitars! Hope you enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/13-space-force
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My music ... :) :)
https://soundcloud.com/group-of-light
All the productions with synths 8)
Enjoy the ride......
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxs5acLVfYzscwaHI2mweVg?view_as=subscriber
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Renewal by Callistella, an ambient EP to accompany psychedelic journeys, used the Prophet 6 and Ob6 as the main synths.
https://open.spotify.com/album/52Svh2j8SAYZcwXajgcvN6?si=PAVL2OFOTfyAowcwdsvWSA
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Although I'm locked out of my studio during quarantine, I am trying my best to cope with my mental health. I've been going through some older recordings and I'm going to try my best to keep posting some new videos on here. Even if it's nothing people haven't heard before from visiting my SoundCloud.
Today is a track I did a while back with my best friend Allan and it's one of the more intense pieces we've done. Inspired by the 1970s rape/revenge genre with films like Rape Squad, Ms. 45 and Lipstick it features a freestyle jazz drum solo done entirely using the Prophet X's arpeggiator. There's a few slurpy filter sweeps underneath as well. Overtop a frantic saxophone goes insane channelling John Zorn while Allan incorporates some dissonant "Slayer-esq" guitar chaos overtop with loads of delay from the Roger Linn Adrenalinn 3 Guitar Effects Box.
Fun fact: The title is actually a reference to the track "Paint Her Mouth" by Herbie Hancock for the original Death Wish soundtrack....I couldn't help but give Jeff Goldblum a cameo.
I hope you enjoy. Be safe. :)
©Everett Dudgeon & Allan Ryppl 2020
℗Everett Dudgeon & Allan Ryppl 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTt6hnzYY68
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I suppose the video is more showing Keystep than anything else, but Summit in multilayer mode works nicely as a jam set up.
https://youtu.be/R0hoWWU_StY
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Streaming Link Below:
The Tempest and Rev 2 are front and center all over this yet to be released record. Temporary Insanity by Benny Leather on FDH records. I’m sharing a private stream link with all my fellow Sequential and Synthesizer enthusiasts.
Link in Instagram bio for preorder: @benny_leather
Enjoy ⛓🖤⛓
https://soundcloud.com/user-953503034/sets/temporary-insanity-1/s-QJ372vumUBw
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Dreamy Poly Evolver with just a touch of Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4kir-FRbQ
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My final Moog Sub 37 Video and some thoughts about Sequential’s next possible synth and plans for some future ARP editions to the family.
https://youtu.be/cVbC00z1ytg
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I wanted to try something different with the Prophet X. Lately I've been focusing on more synth sounds/old school sampler sounds but I wanted to try and go back to my roots and focus on more orchestral composition. I did this fairly rough sketch of a James Bernard style piece. Originally it was a lot more Egyptian flavored and I was going for a Mummy style piece but after doing a few tweaks it came out more along the lines of The Devil Rides Out or Horror Of Dracula.
Overall, I'm happy how it turned out, especially for a quick, unpolished sketch. I think there was only about 2 or 3 overdubs but most of the track was played in one pass.
The title and poster art is actually of an unmade Hammer film about a cult that performs sacrifices at Stonehenge.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyCqz5YAlyg
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Video for the title track of my Manbird album has premiered on louderthanwar. Besides featuring a Prophet 5 in the vid, the song itself has Prophet 6 on bass synth and other sounds. The P5 is in there, too - it takes over on bass just as the song winds down. The video was a lo-budget blast and shows off various locales of my home town, Sacramento, many of which parallel scenes from the film Lady Bird. Hope you dig!
https://louderthanwar.com/watch-this-anton-barbeaus-new-single-manbird-takes-flight/
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Video for the title track of my Manbird album has premiered on louderthanwar. Besides featuring a Prophet 5 in the vid, the song itself has Prophet 6 on bass synth and other sounds. The P5 is in there, too - it takes over on bass just as the song winds down. The video was a lo-budget blast and shows off various locales of my home town, Sacramento, many of which parallel scenes from the film Lady Bird. Hope you dig!
https://louderthanwar.com/watch-this-anton-barbeaus-new-single-manbird-takes-flight/
I like your new track very much... like most of your stuff. Is there a specific reason why the man bird wears St. Pauli merch? ;D
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Video for the title track of my Manbird album has premiered on louderthanwar. Besides featuring a Prophet 5 in the vid, the song itself has Prophet 6 on bass synth and other sounds. The P5 is in there, too - it takes over on bass just as the song winds down. The video was a lo-budget blast and shows off various locales of my home town, Sacramento, many of which parallel scenes from the film Lady Bird. Hope you dig!
https://louderthanwar.com/watch-this-anton-barbeaus-new-single-manbird-takes-flight/
I like your new track very much... like most of your stuff. Is there a specific reason why the man bird wears St. Pauli merch? ;D
Glad you like the song!
I used to perform in Hamburg quite often - my fav venue was Hasenschaukel, just off the Reeperbahn. Before I even knew of the St. Pauli football team and their progressive ways, I picked up the shirt from their shop, just cos I liked it. The Manbird song/album are autobiographical, and we wanted to glue together certain iconic Ant images - the St. Pauli shirt, the odd hat, the big blue ring - are all things I've worn for years at gigs etc. It's like a "build your own Anton" kit! The Prophet 5 and the Hagstrom guitar are also dramatic "props" that way!
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Sacred synthesis, RE Improv 98: The dreamy -spacy stuff is my favorite type of thing on synths. Really like the slow transitions like at 1:20-1:40, then again at 3:10- 3:30 for example. I appreciate that this can be done that smooth in a live take.
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Video for the title track of my Manbird album has premiered on louderthanwar. Besides featuring a Prophet 5 in the vid, the song itself has Prophet 6 on bass synth and other sounds. The P5 is in there, too - it takes over on bass just as the song winds down. The video was a lo-budget blast and shows off various locales of my home town, Sacramento, many of which parallel scenes from the film Lady Bird. Hope you dig!
https://louderthanwar.com/watch-this-anton-barbeaus-new-single-manbird-takes-flight/
Ant of 12047- I wouldn't know this was "low budget" I think this video production is actually really top notch. Good straight ahead rock n roll too.
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Video for the title track of my Manbird album has premiered on louderthanwar. Besides featuring a Prophet 5 in the vid, the song itself has Prophet 6 on bass synth and other sounds. The P5 is in there, too - it takes over on bass just as the song winds down. The video was a lo-budget blast and shows off various locales of my home town, Sacramento, many of which parallel scenes from the film Lady Bird. Hope you dig!
https://louderthanwar.com/watch-this-anton-barbeaus-new-single-manbird-takes-flight/
Ant of 12047- I wouldn't know this was "low budget" I think this video production is actually really top notch. Good straight ahead rock n roll too.
Thanks! My partner, Julia VBH, and I have been doing videos together for a bit, and she's definitely got an eye for keeping things sharp and tidy. We've been hired to do videos for other bands, but when we work on my songs, there's nobody paying us, hence "low budget!" I mean, Julia even made the nest by hand using grape vines from her family farm! Our biggest expense was gasoline used to drive around Sacramento. Oh, and I think the pigeon mask cost $25! I do love that high quality albums and videos can be made at home for nearly no money.
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With Shout Factory releasing that awesome Friday The 13th Boxset (Which I preordered of course) I went back and started listening to some of the soundtracks of the later films. While Harry Manfredini's frantic score is better known of some of the later synth works by Fred Mollin are quite impressive. Fred Mollin did the synth work on Part 7, the entire score for Part 8 and even scored the F13 series. He also scored the series "First Knight" as well. His tool of the trade? The Kurzweil K250.
While in the studio last week I tried my hand at programming some "Mollin-esq" patches on my Sequential Prophet X. This is all done in a single take. No overdubs in split mode. Nothing fancy just a quick que.
Some female vocals saying the word "Resurrected" (symbolizing Tina resurrecting Jason) with some tubular bells being hit with mallets and some filter sweeps on the low square waves on one side of the split.
The other side of the split has some strings symbolizing the delicate parts of Tina's scenes and some heavy Simmons esq percussion hits symbolizing the ever approaching Jason Voorhees.
And just like the 80s....there is chorus on EVERYTHING lol
I am seriously considering the new Kurzweil PC4 but really do wish Kurzweil would come out with a module version of their sounds. If I do manage to go that route, you can sure bet you'll hear some more Fred Mollin style stuff on this channel.
Enjoy! Ki ki ki Ma ma ma
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6p3bLGvF3c
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Continuing on with my experiments in using the Sequential Prophet X in more "traditional" scores I did a rough cover of Akira Ifukube's opening title theme to my favorite Kaiju film of all time.
It's rough in some areas and it was done completely by ear but I think it didn't turn out too bad. Enjoy!!
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cX5m7aCOE
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Continuing on with my experiments in using the Sequential Prophet X in more "traditional" scores I did a rough cover of Akira Ifukube's opening title theme to my favorite Kaiju film of all time.
It's rough in some areas and it was done completely by ear but I think it didn't turn out too bad. Enjoy!!
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cX5m7aCOE
Loving all of the stuff you've posted LoboLives... MOODY! Piquing my interest in the Prophet X as I feel like my tastes are going more towards orchestral / soundtrack sounds recently. It seems like the X has endless possibilities.
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Continuing on with my experiments in using the Sequential Prophet X in more "traditional" scores I did a rough cover of Akira Ifukube's opening title theme to my favorite Kaiju film of all time.
It's rough in some areas and it was done completely by ear but I think it didn't turn out too bad. Enjoy!!
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cX5m7aCOE
Loving all of the stuff you've posted LoboLives... MOODY! Piquing my interest in the Prophet X as I feel like my tastes are going more towards orchestral / soundtrack sounds recently. It seems like the X has endless possibilities.
Thanks so much! Yeah I love the PX so much I'm considering getting a Prophet XL to accompany it.
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Five Circles by Vangelis (from Chariots of Fire)
I’m using two Sequential Prophet Rev2’s, panned left and right for a better stereo field (which I learned from Sacred Synthesis). These are my own “CS-80” patches, but I started with a VCM “Voice Component Modeling” template by “creativespiral.” I’m using a little Prophet delay and Valhalla Vintage Reverb. As you can hear, there are quite a few splits and layers on the Yamaha Montage, including the choir patch which is being played via MIDI from the Prophet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-TaPAjeAJw
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Excellent patch, Jason - nice and crisp - and the arrangement as well. There'a ton of musical force sitting in that studio.
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Many thanks!
Regarding the gear, the King Korg is on loan, and now that I have the Montage, I will be selling the Yamaha S70/XS. I’m very fortunate to have my setup.
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Does the King Korg have a mediocre generic sound quality, as some claim?
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With its digital oscillators and filters, I can understand why people say that the KingKorg has a mediocre generic sound quality. And yet, I was surprised at how much there is to like about the KingKorg, given that I think it was designed to be cheaper than what we are used to (e.g, with Dave's instruments). I don't like the feel of the keybed, and I can't say that I would be tempted to buy one. Like you, I'm very used to having a nice stereo field, and when I don't hear that, everything sounds less inspired.
But it's extremely versatile: there are filters to mimic Prophet 5, Oberheim, Moog, Korg, Mellotron, and various others. You can do splits and layers, which gets pretty flexible given that you can have the equivalent of more than two oscillators on each. I immediately heard some patches that I loved and thought that I could never get out of my Rev2's... But when I really started to copy certain patches, I found that I could often get surprisingly close with the Prophet. What I love is that there are a lot of classic synthesizer patches to mimic many/most famous songs, and many of those patches are programmed really well... in sort of a simple way (not much modulation).
I kept thinking about how much more successful the '08 or Rev2 would be if Sequential had invested and prioritized getting similar quality classic patches. Many, many keyboardists love those old, familiar sounds; they are what got us excited about synthesizers when we were young. Then you buy a Prophet '08 and find that you really don't dig most of the patches. I decided to try to copy a few patches into the Prophet gear... and I ended up doing quite a few. The parameter values don't line up exactly, but I just went through using the initial values and my ears. I was really surprised how similar the oscillators and basic filters often were. At times, they sounded identical. I used creativespiral's templates and then slowly copied a patch, and then dumped it into both Rev2's w/panning... and then smiled at how much better the patches were on the Prophet. But frankly, if I had two KingKorgs panned in a similar way, it would probably often sound nearly as good.
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Five Circles by Vangelis (from Chariots of Fire)
I’m using two Sequential Prophet Rev2’s, panned left and right for a better stereo field (which I learned from Sacred Synthesis). These are my own “CS-80” patches, but I started with a VCM “Voice Component Modeling” template by “creativespiral.” I’m using a little Prophet delay and Valhalla Vintage Reverb. As you can hear, there are quite a few splits and layers on the Yamaha Montage, including the choir patch which is being played via MIDI from the Prophet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-TaPAjeAJw
Very nice performance Jason.
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Many thanks, Soundquest.
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Poly Evolver Keyboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhIi_5mqgj8
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Hi all!
I might as well add my latest album to this list. Likström is tORE tRANAH´s second album. It is an entirely electronic and instrumental album. 90 % of it is done with a DSI Pro2 and a MOOG DFAM, then maybe 10% Behringer Pro 1. Here is a Bandcamp link, but it is also available on vinyl. I would of course love to sell a few copies! ;D
https://toretranah.bandcamp.com/album/likstr-m
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I think my point here is MPE controllers., Really looking forward to the OB6 getting such. This was a skeleton of a song I did with a friend of mine years ago until I Recently added some some "pedal steel guitar" and pads. The Linn Instrument is great for that. Check around 1:00 and 2:30. I would not be able to do this effect without an MPE type controller. Used a DM12 in this case for the patch. It's not MPE capable, bur even so, the MPE controllers can be a nice addition for any synth to add some realism to string instruments.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/janie
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Hey all. Just did this track last night at the studio. Been on a big Filmrage kick lately. For those that are unaware Filmrage was a company that released a TON of late 80s early 90s Italian horror films and almost all of them recycled cues from Carlo Maria Cordio. One of my all time favorite composers. Factory sounds from the Roland D-50 are all over those scores as well as a frantic drum machine (not sure what kind, but I have a hunch it might have been an Oberheim DMX).
Anyway, this is a completely original piece and it took me a total of maybe 30 minutes to do. I used a lot of the Roland D-50 samples in my Prophet X as well as a few factory Prophet X sounds in there (DirtyPipes, WaveStayson, Goth Bass). I wanted to go for a purely digital sound and I think I really nailed that FilmRage sound. It starts off doing some spooky pads and then explodes into a frantic witchy brew inspired by Cordio's score for Zombie 5: Killing Birds.
The Prophet X is doing everything (D-50 Soundtrack and Digital Native Dance patches, choir, Wavetable pad, pipe organ, slap bass, heavy drums and even the famous Orch5 hit from the Fairlight CMI)
Clips are from the Filmrage flick "Beyond Darkness" and the poster art near the end is from Witchery.
Enjoy!
©Everett Dudgeon 2020
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKnYfafW3TU&t=4s
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Here's an odd one, maybe. This song seems/sounds synth-free, but it's got Prophet 6 throughout the first verse and Roland XP-10 kicking in later with some very plain sawtooth waves. Granted, all other instruments are what you'd expect for this sort of song - twangy, strummy and slide guitars, plus electric bass and acoustic drums. There is a bit of real Mellotron choir underneath the guitar solo...
I've worked on other people's tracks where I've snuck synths in under the radar (what's with people who don't dig synths, man???), but this is the first time I'm snuck synths on my own track.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/06-chicken/s-IprErPGbyN4 (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/06-chicken/s-IprErPGbyN4)
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John Cacavas is one of the best composers in horror that has sadly been ignored. His iconic whistle oriented score for the awesome Horror Express still sends shivers down my spine. Other works include The Satanic Rites Of Dracula and Kojak.
I was going through a bunch of unreleased horror soundtracks and when I came across Mortuary I couldn't believe that John Cacavas was the composer. Luckily my Prophet X was next to me and I felt inspired.
The Prophet X is doing everything here. The upright piano, some bowed tonal percussion, suspenseful orchestral strings and some 12 String guitar hits.)
Enjoy!
©Everett Dudgeon 2020
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCuJdbqkmI
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Mountaintop Motel Massacre is truly an underrated horror flick. It has elements of Psycho, Misery, and even some classic Old Dark House moments.
The score by Ron Di Iulio is minimalistic and creepy. I sounds like the score is completely synthesized and my guess is an ARP Odyssey or Minimoog was used with possibly some type of string machine.
I went with a bit more of an acoustic approach using the Prophet X. The main melody is sequenced with some samples of a music box and also some creepy children vocals "La" This gives a creepy childish innocence which perfectly represents the main character Evelyn. There some brooding filter sweeps behind everything symbolizing something evil lurking beneath the surface.
Then suddenly another female vocal starts doing another melody overtop which is soon joined by a Theremin-like synth.
All in all I'm quite proud of this one, as simple as it is.
Please check out Vinegar Syndrome's awesome release of the film
https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/...
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WYKGb3_rSU&lc=UgwyW9VJN12a_NtMz3J4AaABAg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbElAdvjXFc
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Sacred Synthesis, It sounds like breaking waves on a beach ~ 7:15. Don't know if that was what you were going for exactly, but thru my cheapo speakers at my work that's what I could gather ;)
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There was no association between the music and the photo. The latter was a haphazard choice when making the "video." But you're welcome to make sense of my nonsense, Soundquest. ;D
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Ha, those are definitely waves at 7:26. Like it, pretty melody too.
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This is mostly Nord Lead 4 pads and keys. I don't think I'll ever part with that synth since I manage to get some really unique sounds from it, Prophet 12 is used for bass and a short sequence. Modor NF1 synth is simply great for making voice-like sounds. I mean how weird can it get- this can take you there. Turned off the electricity to capture some acoustic drumset for the final touch. What does the song mean? I'm not really sure, but in this day and age where it seems everyone is talking w/o listening, my synth is just piping up to say shush up.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/dont-fret-the-flayer
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I recorded a bunch of tracks this weekend and made sure they were all reflective of different styles. This first one is a quick Ifukube inspired piece. Nothing fancy but I really wanted to capture that classic Showa era Kaiju type score that you would hear Ifukube do for Frankenstein Conquers The World or Varan The Unbelievable. I think it turned out well.
The Prophet X is doing everything. Piano, Strings, Horns, Bassoon, Clarinet, Flute, Cymbal Roll, B3 Organ
I couldn't resist using one of my favorite Kaiju as an inspiration for the piece as well. ;)
©Everett Dudgeon 2020
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH0uiz4XGE8
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As always: it's not much... but I had fun doing it. So it's at least a little something again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nziVCpCANgg
EDIT: I uploaded the pure audio to soundcloud, too.
https://soundcloud.com/user-113276372/october-jam-2020
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Jok3r,
Doing anything live like this takes time and preplanning. I like hearing peoples jams , thanks for posting.
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Jok3r,
Doing anything live like this takes time and preplanning. I like hearing peoples jams , thanks for posting.
You're very welcome. I'm not a great composer, nor a producer and most of my stuff is lying somewhere unfinished. So I'm happy about every little piece I manage to at least finish and publish somehow. On the other hand, if I'm looking around on Youtube myself, it is often such "simple" jams, that I like the most. Perhaps I'm just not the guy for more complex music 8)
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A few weeks ago, my wife released a new album where she plays Rev2 on several tracks, including some patches I programmed for her. It's a free or pay-what-you-want download this time.
Rev2 is on tracks 1, 2*, 3, 6*, 8, 10*. If you only listen to one, try #6. (* = my patches)
https://music.dianemariekloba.com/album/orion-before-dawn
This outtake also uses Rev2 and one of my custom patches:
https://soundcloud.com/dianemariekloba/insignificant
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I have a love/hate relationship with SOV (shot on video) flicks. Some are okay but most are almost unbearable. That being said some do have some nice synth scores and 1983's Sledgehammer is no exception. The music is credited to Ted Prior, Marc Adams and Philip G. Slate. It has a nice hypnotic feel to it with lots of dread. I have no idea what was used on the original but I dusted the old Prophet-6 off and decided to give it some love. Everything you hear in the track is from the P6, including the phaser and delay effects.
Enjoy!
ⓟ Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSZNjRZa9c
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My relationship with the home video (and found footage) gimmick is only a deep hatred, but hey, you got some nice sounds going there.
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My relationship with the home video (and found footage) gimmick is only a deep hatred, but hey, you got some nice sounds going there.
Thanks. My only issue with SOV stuff is the run times and lack of discipline. When a bad movie is shot on film there is still a discipline and craft to it because it’s expensive and every shot costs money but then with video these people were just shooting and shooting and shooting and never stopping. So everything, every shot, every scene just drags and drags and the run times start to go into 100 plus minutes...it’s agony. Lol
Sledgehammer isn't too bad though but once you start getting to Blood Lake...ugh forget about it.
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When a bad movie is shot on film there is still a discipline and craft to it because it’s expensive and every shot costs money
What's even worse is when these sort of flicks infected big budget movies with the whole documentary style of shooting craze. Every time the camera man goes to zoom-in I'd like to slap them upside the darn head and then gently introduce them to a little device called the Steadicam. At least those home video flicks had no real editors and what little editing they do have they at least have the decency of not being versed in the school of Michael Bay, unlike the hacks that worked on Hurt Locker, Captain Philips, etc. Such projectile vomit inducing imagery because you think the cameraman and editor should be characters in your lousy movie.
Sorry for the rant, but it gets my blood boiling! :P
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When a bad movie is shot on film there is still a discipline and craft to it because it’s expensive and every shot costs money
What's even worse is when these sort of flicks infected big budget movies with the whole documentary style of shooting craze. Every time the camera man goes to zoom-in I'd like to slap them upside the darn head and then gently introduce them to a little device called the Steadicam. At least those home video flicks had no real editors and what little editing they do have they at least have the decency of not being versed in the school of Michael Bay, unlike the hacks that worked on Hurt Locker, Captain Philips, etc. Such projectile vomit inducing imagery because you think the cameraman and editor should be characters in your lousy movie.
Sorry for the rant, but it gets my blood boiling! :P
You would absolutely love Mad Doctor Of Blood Island (easily in my top ten favorite films) all the scenes with the monster have a constant zoom in zoom out effect...like a demented heart beat.
At 1:47
https://youtu.be/oUgaZ5YvRrY
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Back to the birds.... well sorta... these are real owls. Recorded Barred Owls in my backyard this summer on my phone, so I figured I'd incorporate that into a song. Sampled a banjo I had in my basement using Omnisphere. All the pads are the Summit synth, which is pretty capable of dreamy pads.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/excitement-at-the-roost
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Goodness gracious, Soundquest, those were beautiful chord progressions and a gorgeous pad! Lovely.
We have barred owls here in Massachusetts. Their song is described as asking, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for youuuuu?" I hear these humorous cries all the time when I'm hiking; they're the sound of home sweet home to me.
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Thanks Sacred Synthesis. Yes those were Barred owls indeed. I live by the park and they will occasionally gather in a tree in my neighbors yard for a hoot fest.
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Hey all you groovy cats! I wanted to do something different for this Halloween and different than my usual soundtrack work. I was going through some original movie posters I have collected over the years and stumbled across an fantastic one sheet for the awesome 70s grindhouse flick 3 On A Meathook and immediately I felt inspired to do an orginal track.
The Prophet X is doing everything from the lo-fi piano at the beginning to the rock organ and electric finger bass.
The Tempest is doing a steady groovy with a lot of swing.
I hope you guys enjoying it and have a Happy Halloween.
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
©Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziFuULECi9E
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Halloween by John Carpenter
'Tis the Season
Most of the fun sounds, including all the strings and bass pedals, are coming from two Prophet Rev2's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9aAaHaUYdQ&list=PLKEwScAT610GoTYuxw5FBVjnjq7SkUven&index=1
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Halloween by John Carpenter
'Tis the Season
Most of the fun sounds, including all the strings and bass pedals, are coming from two Prophet Rev2's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9aAaHaUYdQ&list=PLKEwScAT610GoTYuxw5FBVjnjq7SkUven&index=1
Excellent rendition. Man 5/4 time really is hard to nail properly. Took me about 3-4 attempts just to get everything in time with my cover.
Incredible to think the original was just done with a Moog System 55 and upright piano. Even the beat was actually just sequenced white noise on the Moog.
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Many thanks. That means a lot coming from you!
Incredible to think the original was just done with a Moog System 55 and upright piano. Even the beat was actually just sequenced white noise on the Moog.
I didn't actually know that until I read it on your YouTube channel! I always assumed that there was a Prophet 5 in there somewhere.
Btw, in addition to your Carpenter work, I really enjoy your Ennio Morricone pieces and the one I heard that you said was inspired by him. I have a few covers by him on my YouTube channel, although, alas, they have no Sequential gear in them.
Thanks again.
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I've no music to contribute today, but as it's Halloween, I'll instead point out that John Carpenter is my ex-cousin-in-law. Huh!
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Halloween by John Carpenter
'Tis the Season
Most of the fun sounds, including all the strings and bass pedals, are coming from two Prophet Rev2's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9aAaHaUYdQ&list=PLKEwScAT610GoTYuxw5FBVjnjq7SkUven&index=1
Oh it's this time of the year again ;D I love your cover. Thumbs up on Youtube!
As I explained when Lobo did his cover last year (or is it already two years ago?) I'm not really into horror films, but Halloween is one of the few series of film that I actually watched. I liked this theme from the first moment I heard it. When I was a teenager I used a slight variation of this tune on the piano which moved around the circle of fifths until I arrived back in the first key. It was a nice exercise to learn all the minor keys.
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I'm not really into horror films, but Halloween is one of the few series of film that I actually watched.
That's exactly how I feel! I like suspense movies, such as those by Hitchcock and Shyamalan, but I rarely like horror. I like The Shining and at this time of year, I find myself sometimes enjoying Halloween. ...But I've always loved the soundtracks! My son (turning 26) is a huge fan of horror and has seen all the classics going back to the beginning of the genre, and so sometimes he points me in the right direction. My brother turned me on to the Unsolved Mysteries theme over the summer, which I recorded... I still haven't seen a single episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ah5luk34Q&list=PLKEwScAT610GoTYuxw5FBVjnjq7SkUven&index=2
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Eddie Van Halen Keyboard Tribute - 1984 & Jump
Does the world really need another 1984/Jump - Eddie Van Halen Keyboard Tribute? Clearly not. And yet, since 1984, I have been haunted by the quest to perfect these sounds. I have repeatedly tweaked these patches over the years, and only recently feel like I have something worthy of the original. All these years later, it’s remarkable how much fun it still is to play. The passing of Eddie prompted me revisit this, and I think the Prophet Rev2 is the perfect instrument for the job. I used a CreativeSpiral Template from his VCM Prophet Rev 2 sound bank as a starting point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZIPmLT7HiY
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Jason,
Fantastic, really nailed the sound perfectly. But as a drummer, I gotta ask- how did you get Alex to come over and record that drum track? ;)
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I found an isolated drum track on YouTube! The beauty of the internet.
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An Autumn Walk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOB8Ju4rKmY
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An Autumn Walk is another exquisite piece filled with beautiful imagery.
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I really need to pay more attention to this thread. Lots of great music going on over here!
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An Autumn Walk is another exquisite piece filled with beautiful imagery.
Thanks, Jason. There's such a contrast between the woods and synthesizers - two loves, two conflicting life styles. I won't tell you which one I far prefer.
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A mostly-improvised demo recording of a handful of my custom programs on the Rev2. Not winning any awards for composition or performance, but some fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax6WToMhU4g
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Hey all - this is a new mix of a song I've previously posted (I *think*!), though honestly, I can't remember which other version I posted. It's a song from my teen years that was released on one of my recent Antronica albums. The two versions on Antronica were from '84 and '87 respectively. This newer track is all Prophet 6, except for the drums (Drumtraks) and the VC340 vocoder bit.
In the spirit of the age, I'm indeed selling my Prophet 6. Well, selling one of my P6s - my original 6 lives in Berlin, but I've been away since March thanks to the pandemic. I couldn't bear to be away so I bought one for my time in California. I'm in the Sacramento area if anyone is interested in the P6. I'll post it properly in the FS section. For now, I hope you (re?)enjoy this slice of new wave teen pop!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/go-p6-version-2020-mix-1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdcmgF6SMvM
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Hi,
I am sharing as an attachment an mp3 audio sample of a preset that looks like a horror movie. All is made from a patch of Pro 3.
The idea was to achieve a "second minor" dissonance and "modulate" the sound sources so that it evolves slowly.
As I like the result, I wanted to share it with you.
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Salut,
Je partage en pièce jointe un extrait audio mp3 d'un preset au allures de film d'horreur. Tous est réalisé à partir d'un patch du Pro 3.
L'idée était de réaliser une dissonance "seconde mineur" et de "moduler" les sources sonores pour que celle-ci évolue doucement.
Comme j'aime bien, le résultat, je voulais le partager avec vous.
Merci de votre écoute :)
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Here is an original piece that was done in about 20 minutes or so. It's not specifically influenced by any one composer but there are certainly elements of some mid to late 70s Spanish or Italian satanic/nunsploitation type of scores.
The Prophet X is doing everything. Piano, strings, cymbal and waterphone effects (Waterphone was a user sample I imported), some delay Latin percussion, organ and also a female choir vocal (This is actually two samples that are blending in and out of each other by use of an LFO and also looped forwards and backwards to give something a bit more interesting than a single word repeated).
Enjoy!!
©Everett Dudgeon 2020
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G413ITnSfrA
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I created some crazy patches. I made some melodic extracts from it.
I wanted to share them with you.
Well crazy this Pro 3
:o :o
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oq1fN04Frk
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A few minutes of Happiness & Peace… from one of the most beautiful pieces by Vangelis: La Petite Fille de la Mer.
On the Prophet Rev2, I was happy to get sort of a dreamy choir with triangle waves and then later bring in audio modulation with the modulation wheel, making it more like a string. As usual, I started with VCM from CreativeSpiral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvnhQy7aVT0
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That was gorgeous, Jason. Very subtle, gentle and dreamy. Believe it or not, I didn't even know Vangelis had composed that piece. Thanks for the education
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Jason, You seem to have a knack for getting the sound perfect to the original. Perfect! I read before that many of Vangelis's iconic sounds were presets on the CS80 and some of his other synths. What is the bottom instrument?
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That was gorgeous, Jason. Very subtle, gentle and dreamy.
That means a lot Sacred Synthesis, especially given how I love your work and how big of an influence you've been.
Thank you Soundquest! I think that you are right about his use of the CS80. There's a video on YouTube demonstrating how close some of the presets are to some of his tracks (e.g., China). Having said that, he really seemed to experiment with most early keyboard instruments; the list of instruments he used is quite extensive. This particular track was released in 1973, but I believe the recording goes back to 1970 or perhaps even earlier. Therefore, there is no CS80. His main instrument here was a Fender Rhodes, although I don't know the models well enough to tell which. Based on the dates, it is probably a Silver Top/Sparkle Top or a Mark 1 Suitcase or Mark 1 Stage. I'm playing a Yamaha Montage 8, which has a number of nice Fender Rhodes options to choose from. I think a lot of his sound comes down to his use of reverb, and I think the Valhalla Vintage Verb works well.
On the original, there are a number of electric piano overdubs played higher with different panning. I tried to replicate this by having the upper notes of the electric piano panning differently from the lower, so that they would sound like they were coming from different instruments. At the very end, I layered some of the higher notes to double and play an octave higher... so you get the effect of an octave by playing just one note. This doesn’t work for most of the piece, but I was able to bring the effect in at the end nicely with a pedal. So what you get is really something like a live duet.
It has been speculated by several people that the ambient strings were played on a Hammond organ because Vangelis tended to use it that way. (He didn't use a Leslie.) As I happen to have a '57 Hammond, I obviously experimented, and I think the theory fails miserably. I don't know what he used; it may simply have been a real string player.
If anyone likes Vangelis, please check out my other cover of him: Five Circles from the Chariots of Fire soundtrack, which features the Rev2 in the role of the CS80:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-TaPAjeAJw
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It has been speculated by several people that the ambient strings were played on a Hammond organ because Vangelis tended to use it that way. (He didn't use a Leslie.) As I happen to have a '57 Hammond, I obviously experimented, and I think the theory fails miserably. I don't know what he used; it may simply have been a real string player.
I think the choir-like patch you used was just right for the piece. It nicely complimented the electric piano sound, even when both were played in the upper registers. I'll be listening to this one again.
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Thank you so much. I took some time, and my wife was teasing me: "You're spending a lot of time on this one!"
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Happy New Year everyone! Let's see what 2021 brings us!
This track was heavily inspired by Luigi Ceccarelli's score for the Bruno Mattei film Rats: Night Of Terror although it's not a direct cover.
The instruments
-Sequential Prophet-6 (synth pipe organ, slurpy main riff)
-Tempest Drum Computer (Stead beat using a Tom Cart kit as well as the arpeggiated synth bass line)
-Fender Stratocaster (Running into a Roger Linn Adrenalinn iii pedal with some distortion, delay and huge reverb)
Enjoy!
©Everett Dudgeon 2020
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHouPko3BiY
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I wanted to try and do a track completely with the Tempest and so I actually managed to pump out a few of them. This one is a cover of Hideki Furusawa's theme for the Japanese gore flick Entrails Of A Virgin. Everything you hear is done in real time on the Tempest. The Prophet VS plucks, the digital electric piano, the drums and percussion to the thunderous distorted timpani.
Enjoy!
℗Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A4_qJfFQjU
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A project I did last year with a composer-singer friend of mine: https://alattia.bandcamp.com
Lots of Rev2 on this whole album, well interspersed with some Nords and the occasional Moog.
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Here's my cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." I've always loved this song, and seeing him do it with Youssou N'Dour on the So tour was a lifetime thrill. My version is quite modest, and for me, quite minimalist! Besides the vocal percussion loop, we've got Prologue for the bass and Prologue and Prophet 5 doing the chords. I think I was too intimidated by PG's track to go much further! Hope you enjoy it.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/in-your-eyes-mix-1-mp3
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Hey all! I decided to do something a bit different with this video. Instead of a single track or tune I wanted to create more of a suite which combines multiple themes.
I was heavily inspired by the film Night Killer (which was released in Italy as Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3). In that film the soundtrack was mostly library cues compiled together from Carlo Maria Cordia cues.
This suite features loads of user samples in the Prophet X including:
DX7 Electric Piano
DX7 Tubular Eruption
Ensoniq SQ-1 Dynamic Grand Piano
EMU Marcato Strings
EMU Liquid Stack.
and of course it also features a saxophone near the end along with a steady beat on the Tempest.
Hope you guys enjoy!!
©Everett Dudgeon 2021
®Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6JF-5B57wo
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Here's my cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." I've always loved this song, and seeing him do it with Youssou N'Dour on the So tour was a lifetime thrill. My version is quite modest, and for me, quite minimalist! Besides the vocal percussion loop, we've got Prologue for the bass and Prologue and Prophet 5 doing the chords. I think I was too intimidated by PG's track to go much further! Hope you enjoy it.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/in-your-eyes-mix-1-mp3
Could it be that the link is not working?
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Here's my cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." I've always loved this song, and seeing him do it with Youssou N'Dour on the So tour was a lifetime thrill. My version is quite modest, and for me, quite minimalist! Besides the vocal percussion loop, we've got Prologue for the bass and Prologue and Prophet 5 doing the chords. I think I was too intimidated by PG's track to go much further! Hope you enjoy it.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/in-your-eyes-mix-1-mp3
Could it be that the link is not working?
SoundCloud or rather its algorithms will remove tracks from the platform for copyright infringement. Since the track is originally a Peter Gabriel composition, I think that's what happened here.
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Here's my cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." I've always loved this song, and seeing him do it with Youssou N'Dour on the So tour was a lifetime thrill. My version is quite modest, and for me, quite minimalist! Besides the vocal percussion loop, we've got Prologue for the bass and Prologue and Prophet 5 doing the chords. I think I was too intimidated by PG's track to go much further! Hope you enjoy it.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/in-your-eyes-mix-1-mp3
Could it be that the link is not working?
SoundCloud or rather its algorithms will remove tracks from the platform for copyright infringement. Since the track is originally a Peter Gabriel composition, I think that's what happened here.
Oh, I didn't know that. I think I heard covers on soundcloud quite often?
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Hi gang - let me try again with the "In Your Eyes" cover. I think I grabbed the wrong link... this one posted today will hopefully work! Sorry about the confusion, and thanks for letting me know about the un-working link...
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/in-your-eyes-mix-1-mp3/s-4NyFBlmSn3v
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Yes it works! And I like it very much. I'm a fan of your voice to be honest, that's why I like most of your stuff.
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Yes it works! And I like it very much. I'm a fan of your voice to be honest, that's why I like most of your stuff.
Thanks, jok3r!
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I wanted to continue on with the idea of a "suite" like I did with my previous Night Killer 3 video. I also wanted to try something very different musically as well. Something more along the lines of a Christopher Young or Richard Band style score. There's also some elements of Albert Glasser's heavy brass motifs and the frantic tribal percussion of Nicholas Carras. Although everything you hear is directly from the Prophet X (including the roars/monster sounds) there are no "synth" sounds at all in this. Completely orchestral and acoustic sounds. The only "Electronic" element is an electronic violin sample with a phaser. Something simple that's a throwback to it's use in 50s monster films like Cosmic Man and It! The Terror From Beyond Space.
The "plot" is also something that I thought of as well ;)
I hope you all enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EmK9HMSyI
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Definitely Monster music there Lobo Lives ;)
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Definitely Monster music there Lobo Lives ;)
Thank you :)
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Mothafuckin Dunwich!
That is all baby!!
℗Everett Dudgeon 2021
©Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuw3OY-bBMc
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Hey gang! Up this week is actually sort of a semi cover/semi improvisation with a rockin' edge and more guitar oriented.
Jan Haflin's score for the Donald Farmer flick Demon Queen is absolutely stellar and I've been listening to the main theme constantly for a while so I decided to do my own variation of it but with more guitar solos.
The instruments.
An American Fender Stratocaster running through the Roger Linn Adrenelinn iii effects box on a Ronald Jazz Chorus emulation.
Prophet X-A chorused piano.
Prophet 6-Wind effects, soft brass, slurppy filter sweep near the end-all with the "Vintage" mode engaged)
Tempest doing a steady hip-hop style beat on a 909 "Kit" and also doing the low analog bass line as well.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMlcOGMfsFo
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I wanted to try another track completely with the Tempest. This time an original piece heavily inspired by the minimalistic synth work of Nico Fidenco in the 70s. Very simple stuff but effective.
Everything you hear is from the Tempest in real time with no overdubs.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYZyO3XCNow
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Hi gang... here's a quick bite from last night. A minimalist slice of music, with touches of Harmonia and Kraftwerk. All synth sounds are my new, beloved P5, while drums and vocal sounds are "locally sourced" samples, meaning they're taken from my own records.
I didn't shy away from effects or EQ, but that's not to say anything radical is happening! Echo, reverb etc...
Hope you enjoy! Thanks...
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/diction/s-alb4p9Ubv27
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Ant... finally the song of you and your P5 that I was waiting for. I love it. Missing your singing voice on it.
I like the pretty simple drum beat. Don't know how to explain... but it gives me something that suits my current mood pretty well.
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Ant... finally the song of you and your P5 that I was waiting for. I love it. Missing your singing voice on it.
I like the pretty simple drum beat. Don't know how to explain... but it gives me something that suits my current mood pretty well.
Glad you're digging it, jok3r! I did originally have vocals on it and might bring them back once I find better lyrics. I mostly wanted to play around with the murky side of the P5.
I'm working on a next "proper" record and it includes a few further remakes of way-back teen Ant tunes. The Prophet 5 is at the heart of the these tunes. Maybe I'll post a rough mix once things take clearer shape...
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Just realized YouTube snapped down on my last video because of the title and restricted it.
You can also watch it here as well which is not age restricted.
https://vimeo.com/514478725
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Daddy's Gone A Huntin'!!!
Was listening to a lot more obscure soundtracks recently and I absolutely love the score to early 80s horror flick The Forest. The score was done by Richard Hireonymus and Alan Oldfield with a distinctive blend of trumpet and synth.
This is not a cover but an original piece that actually flows more like a Boards Of Canada style composition with the trumpet (Prophet X) and the monophonic analog synth (Prophet 6 in unison mode) dueling back and forth to create a dream-like atmosphere.
I hope you enjoy and if you decide to go down in the woods for some nice social distancing....you just might be in for a big surprise.
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1xQe81z5k
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This is probably the first time I've done a soundtrack tribute to a film I really dislike. I'm not a fan of Fred Olen Ray at all save for maybe his earlier stuff (Scalps, Alien Dead) but I have to say Michael Perilstein's driving soundtrack to Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers is quite good. Perilstein also did the score for the awesome monster flick The Deadly Spawn. While that score used mostly piano and analog synths from what I could hear, the score for HCH is pure digital bliss (likely done with a DX7 and cheap sampler-perhaps a Casio, Ensoniq Mirage or Prophet 2000)
Instruments:
Prophet-X-DX7 FM Clav Ensemble (which is being driven via midi from a voice from the Tempest) and digital square wave organ from the PX's oscillators section.
Fender Stratocaster being run through a Roger Linn Adrenelinn iii Guitar Effects Box with a heavy rockin tone with loads of chorus on it.
Tempest with a driving beat using a Tom Cart kit through a heavy gated reverb effect.
Hope you all enjoy!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7VtRlBqERs
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Hey folks! This week is an original piece done in a classic minimalistic horror drone style. Inspired by 80s straight to video serial killer flicks like Murderlust and Last Vegas Serial Killer (both of which have their trailers used in this video-and the artwork is from the VHS box of Murderlust).
A low, sinister heartbeat type pulse drives the maniac on while heavy chorus pads drone through the piece.
The Tempest is doing the low pulse using two analog oscillators and some analog distortion.
The Prophet 6 is doing some filtered pads with loads of heavy chorus on them.
Everything is done in real time and no overdubs.
Oh yeah, the title of the piece is actually a reference to the awesome Japanese Goregrind band Catasexual Urge Motivation (or C.U.M. for short). It's one of their track titles :)
Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD1SkO-VVUs
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Hey gang! This week is another Tangerine Dream tribute! While the other two covers/tributes I've done (Spasms, The Soldier and The Park Is Mine) have been more based around their classic Berlin school type style with heavy sequencing, the score for the 1981 Australian flick Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior) is more inspired by their earlier work from the Phaedra era. More drone and ambient oriented sounds.
The Prophet X is doing a mysterious drone using both a low-fi Mellotron-esq choir (with frequency being modulated by a random LFO to emulate tape flutter) and a B3 organ each panned hard left and right. Underneath two oscillators of the PX give the sound body while a thick Phaser and massive Super Plate reverb swamp everything. As the song progresses I increase the slop parameter to simulate the degrading mental state of the teens in the film.
The Tempest is doing a repetitive and menacing sequence on the analog oscillators. Again through a large reverb.
I hope you all enjoy!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okEffgTu96U
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https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/winds-of-mars
The Perseverance Rover recoded wind noise on the surface a few days after touching down on the red planet. I took those wave forms (mostly irregular sine waves) and imported them to the Summit synthesizer. This song uses ONLY those wave forms generated 155 million miles away using two unique patches. The intent is to capture both the wispy and rumble character of the Martian wind.
The original sound may be found on Soundcloud via NASA- "first audio recording of sounds on mars".
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Mars has a lovely hollow flutey tone. Very nice music, Soundquest.
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Thanks Sacred Synthesis.
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The 1954 film "THEM" is one of my all time favorite films. I decided to do an ambient tribute to it with the Prophet X. Everything you hear is done 100% in real time and with user samples. I wanted to give the feeling of what the world would sound like if THEY won the battle. Windy desolate landscapes and seemingly endless hoards of chirping atomic monstrosities. One of the PX's oscillators drones to add to the brooding atmosphere.
Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://vimeo.com/528794249
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Something that has always puzzled me is why Sequential has never created a sample pack for the Prophet X using the original factory samples from the Prophet 2000 sampler from the 80s. Well a wonderful Prophet 2000 user group has graciously shared some of these samples and I've imported them into my PX and decided to create a piece with them (maybe even a few pieces).
Inspired by Severin film's release of awesome 80s action flicks Strike Commando, Strike Commando 2 and Invaders Of The Lost Gold I wanted to do piece influenced by the pumping synth soundtracks of these type of films. Deadly Prey, The Last Hunter, White Ghost etc.
Prophet X is using samples that are all from the Prophet 2000 factory discs. Strings, Sax, Choir, orchestral loops and hits, and Rock guitar.
The Prophet 6 is doing some sinister filter brass swells at the beginning "prologue" as well as the frantic, high resonant arpeggio with loads of pan spread. All with the "Vintage" mode engaged at about 70%.
The Tempest is doing a pumping beat on a Linn Drum kit with the snare being run through one of the voice outs through a large reverb.
Enjoy!!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAxh_YuGzRg
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Hello fellow synth fiends. Here's a song of mine I wrote and first recorded in 1986. Yow! For no clear reason, I've done a remake, keeping as close to the original 4-track version as possible, using much the same gear. The Prophet 5 for bass and main chords. Korg PolySix is the murky "choir." My TR-707 lives in Berlin, so I made do here with 707 samples for the drum track. There's a riff on the 2nd and 3rd choruses played on Moog Grandmother that's new to the song, but really, it sounds and feels not much unlike my original teen track, only cleaner and slightly more in tune! Hope you enjoy it.
https://archive.org/details/rain-rain-mix-5
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This week I wanted to again try to do a track with the Tempest as my main driving force. All of the drums and synth sounds you hear are completely done in real time with the Tempest. The only overdubs are the Strat run through a Roger Linn Andrenelinn iii Guitar Effects Box.
I absolutely love the film The Soultangler. It's almost like a cheap, very cheap, version of Re-Animator. I couldn't help but give this track a rocking cheezy feel.
Anton Lupesky hopes you enjoy!!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxf7o6xAZ0Y
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Much like my old Impetigo-Maggots tribute, I wanted to try and pay a synth tribute to another of my favorite Death Metal bands: Lord Gore. Instead of doing a cover of their music I decided to create a "Soundtrack" type piece for one of their songs. I was heavily inspired by the soundtracks one might find in one of those Straight To Video 80s gory monster flicks like The Abomination or The Suckling. I always loved Lord Gore's lyrics so I couldn't resist doing a spoken word variation on this track.
INSTRUMENTS USED
Sequential Prophet X-Sewer gurgling, heartbeat, grunts and roars (taken from the Green Gargantua from War Of The Gargantuas), and upright piano.
Prophet 6-slurping filter sweeps and main heavy brass line with the "vintage mode" on everything.
Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrSPQk6UUvc
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With Unearthed Films announcement for their future Blu Ray release of the awesome Evil Dead Trap (1987). I decided to pay a little tribute to the really catchy synth score by Tomohiko Kira. I have no idea what he used on the original but it certainly sounds digital so I wanted to recreate that here.
The Prophet X is only doing the low fi Fairlight Sararr sample (user import). The rest of the track is all Tempest including the main sequenced melody done using the onboard Prophet VS wavetable in the Tempest. An on board Linn Drum "kit" provides the steady beat.
Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_boorjc7k
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This is something I've wanted to do for a while. An original soundtrack to an imaginary film...the entire soundtrack with multiple cues and stingers. There are some pieces that are repeated with different variations to give a sense of themes for each characters/settings/moods.
Heavily inspired by a late 80s/early 90s direct to video slasher flicks like Edge Of The Axe, Deadly Manor and others. I wanted everything to be very digital sounding. A group of teens visit an isolated house in the woods and are stalked by an axe wielding killer.
Prophet X-I used the onboard Prophet VS samples and patches (Wavetable E.P., Wavestrummer, Poly VS etc) as well as my newly imported Prophet 2000 samples
-Slap bass
-Rock Guitar
-Choir
-Strings
-Orchestral Hit
-"Junk Beats" Hip Hop Beat Loop
Alesis Multipads-Heavy percussion/Phil Collins-esq tom rolls, and even some Blade Runner style synth pads.
Tempest-909 Kit beats with a voice out on the snare or clap going through a large reverb.
The title is inspired by the Blood Freak track of the same name. The lyrics reference imaginary characters so I wanted to use them here as well.
I know this is a long one but I hope you enjoy it and close your eyes while listening and watch the wonderful story unfold in your imagination.
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcPNUxaun-g
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Lobo Loves, With this genera you could probably do a soundtrack to a real movie versus just an "imaginary movie". Not sure how one goes about getting into that field. I only spot listened, but the parts I heard were good for the format.
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Really excited to finally be able to share this. It's the new video we've made for a song from my Manbird album, and besides the Prophet 6 used on the track (bass, lead and a bit of brass), the video itself is a synth-geek dream/nightmare. You'll see me as new wave teenage boy playing PolySix in my first band, the Fabian Society. And my prize for "Best Keyboardist" in the battle of the bands we'd entered was a Korg MS-10, also featured in the vid. I still have both Korgs and use them frequently.
(One more synth geek note... in the VHS footage of me onstage, I've got a pic of Billy Currie from Ultravox duct-taped to my teen trench coat!)
http://bigtakeover.com/news/VideoPremiereAcrossTheDramaPondbyAntonBarbeau
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Lobo Loves, With this genera you could probably do a soundtrack to a real movie versus just an "imaginary movie". Not sure how one goes about getting into that field. I only spot listened, but the parts I heard were good for the format.
Thank you. I've actually scored a few films already. i plan on doing more of these Soundtrack Albums soon in different genres.
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Really excited to finally be able to share this. It's the new video we've made for a song from my Manbird album, and besides the Prophet 6 used on the track (bass, lead and a bit of brass), the video itself is a synth-geek dream/nightmare. You'll see me as new wave teenage boy playing PolySix in my first band, the Fabian Society. And my prize for "Best Keyboardist" in the battle of the bands we'd entered was a Korg MS-10, also featured in the vid. I still have both Korgs and use them frequently.
(One more synth geek note... in the VHS footage of me onstage, I've got a pic of Billy Currie from Ultravox duct-taped to my teen trench coat!)
http://bigtakeover.com/news/VideoPremiereAcrossTheDramaPondbyAntonBarbeau
Very cool. As always. Still a big fan here ;-)
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Really excited to finally be able to share this. It's the new video we've made for a song from my Manbird album, and besides the Prophet 6 used on the track (bass, lead and a bit of brass), the video itself is a synth-geek dream/nightmare. You'll see me as new wave teenage boy playing PolySix in my first band, the Fabian Society. And my prize for "Best Keyboardist" in the battle of the bands we'd entered was a Korg MS-10, also featured in the vid. I still have both Korgs and use them frequently.
(One more synth geek note... in the VHS footage of me onstage, I've got a pic of Billy Currie from Ultravox duct-taped to my teen trench coat!)
http://bigtakeover.com/news/VideoPremiereAcrossTheDramaPondbyAntonBarbeau
Very cool. As always. Still a big fan here ;-)
Thanks jok3r!
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As you know, my all time favorite composer is Les Baxter. The versatility the man had with his musical output was incredible. His score for FROGS is no exception. Ditching his traditional jazz scores and orchestral pieces, Baxter decides to go "FULL BRAIN ENO" and run real sounds of frogs and swamp sounds through his synthesizer.
For this tribute I took a user sample of swamp sounds I imported into my Prophet X and ran them into the ring modulator and massive Spring reverb effects with LFOs controlling the mix amount of both. I also incorporated some unnerving sample and hold style noises as well.
Very simple but very effective.
Hope you enjoy
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xm6P-B--vw
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"Ring-moding frogs" well, that's different. In that same vein of using nature sounds...I 'm deciding just how I will be making use of the 17 year cicadas that are due to erupt into their song in Ohio within a few weeks.
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"Ring-moding frogs" well, that's different. In that same vein of using nature sounds...I 'm deciding just how I will be making use of the 17 year cicadas that are due to erupt into their song in Ohio within a few weeks.
I've been on the East Coast twice during the cicada's reign of audio terror. Brian Eno's "cricket menace" ain't got nothing on that sound you've got coming up! That said, from all reports, sounds like you might want to order a Strega and quick!
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Bloodeaters aka Toxic Zombies aka Bloodeaters: Butchers of the Damned aka The Dromax Derangement aka Forest of Fear is finally getting a proper blu ray release from the good folks at Massacre Video. I wanted to do a quick tribute to the film and it's soundtrack by Ted Shapiro. Given the year, Shapiro likely used a Minimoog or ARP Odyssey for his synth parts. Nothing fancy here, just the PX doing a repetitive upright piano motif while the Prophet 6 does some monophonic synth lines.
Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
Please support Massacre Video
https://massacrevideo.com/site/?product=toxic-zombies-limited-edition-blu-ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQcbZmcyFgA
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One of my favorite flicks is Criminally Insane 1975 and I couldn't help but do a melancholy tribute to Ethel :)
The entire piece is done on the Prophet X using GLASYS' "Vinyl Piano" technique as well as some additional ring modulation and BBD delay near the end.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtfMWilOgyo
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Hello gang - I'm posting another recent remake of an ancient teen Ant song. I probably posted the original way back, but I've lost track! This is called "Valerie's Waiting" and it shows me at my most Kate Bush/Peter Gabriel, written in 1986. Yow! As with the other teen tracks I've been remaking, I tried to replicate the original as closely as I could.
The main synths throughout the first half of the song are Prophet 5. The bass is Moog Grandmother and the strings are a combo of VC-340 and PolySix. I started work on this song during one of several uncomfortable "B-word" discussions on the Forum, and was sheepish to even go near the VC-340, especially as part of the conv was about string machines etc. I'd actually assumed the PolySix would get the job done, as that's what I used on my 4-track recording, but in this case, it didn't quite cut through on its own. I also tried using the GForce VSM and Korg Prologue. The latter can do a decent PolySix approximation and can also come really close to the VC-340 string sound. In the end, though...
Meanwhile, the piano was one of the Pianoteq upright models. At first I figured I'd go with a grand piano, cos why not, but the upright suited the old-school spirit. I wrote and recorded this tune on a small Chickering studio piano and Pianoteq had that "dad's living room" vibe. There's a touch of M-Tron Pro at the end, and a few guitar tracks. Drums were from Logic's live-in Drummer.
A note - I know I'm one of the few here on the Forum who posts pop songs with vocals. I've found myself doing more and more for-hire vocal work lately and wanted to put it out there that I'm available for such. PM if interested. (And mods - if this isn't appropriate, feel free to edit or delete.)
Hope you enjoy the tune, and thanks!
https://archive.org/details/valeries-waiting-mix-3
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Nature sounds on Hydrasynth? I was able o get some frogs and crickets going ;)
Some interesting keys too.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/remember-this-spot
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That was impressive, Soundquest. And really nice music. You just have to get those frogs to say "jig-a-rum" a little more distinctly. I realize it's difficult to get frogs to speak clearly. ;D
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Hah, thanks Sacred Synthesis. Yeah, making bull frog with good diction is not easy :D. Funny story here, is that I wrapped that song up yesterday, as I still needed to make the frog as the final touch. By chance, the night before my wife and I went down to the local lake in town and I heard a bull frog calling- which I don't usually hear there. I told her to hush up for a moment as I wanted to hear the detail of his voice- because I was making a frog the next day on the synth. Yeah, she thinks I'm nuts. ;)
For that frog I used a pulse for the main voice sound, then a ramp shape lfos , one for volume, one for filter. Also sharing the second lfo as a source I routed it to osc 2 level. Osc 2 was one of the digital wave forms on the Hydrasynth that seemed to just add a little realism to the buzzing/guteral, sound they get at the top of the volume ramp. I recently sold the Nord Lead 4 - where I had so many of my insects and birds stored. The rest live in the P12.
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You told your wife to hush up so you could hear a bullfrog? Did you type that from your hospital bed?
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You told your wife to hush up so you could hear a bullfrog? Did you type that from your hospital bed?
;D
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Here's my tribute to the Canadian cult flick "Bells" aka "Murder By Phone" aka "The Calling." It's pretty much a Scanners knock off but without any of the supernatural aspects to it.
The score was done by none other than John Barry! It's a complete departure from his big band scores for the James Bond franchise or his moody compositions from films like Midnight Cowboy. This one is entirely electronic. I used my trusty Prophet 6 here with the main riff having the Pulse Width of the oscillators modulated by a sample and hold LFO which creates a strange rhythmic pulsing sound, the song melts into a cacophony of BBD delay echos as it plays. There is also another overdub with a triangle LFO modulating the filter cutoff and speeding up as the intensity progresses until it reaches audio range modulation territory.
No idea what was used on the original but it's likely a Prophet-5 or ARP 2600 was used (ironically these were also used for Howard Shore's score for Scanners) but perhaps it might have been a giant Moog Modular for all we know.
One thing we do know for sure is if you ever come across a payphone and it starts ringing, answering it might be the last thing you do!!!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCHvRDJ0bRM
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I was talking to my friend Allison about the new Homegrown Horrors boxset release from Vinegar Syndrome and was explaining that a lot of the films are similar to The Strangeness: A group of young friends just making a monster movie for no money on weekends.
I went back and revisited The Strangeness and read up on the production through Stephen Thrower's incredible book Nightmare USA. What an inspiration it was and what a kick ass Carpenter-esq synth score as well.
Instruments are as follows.
Prophet-6 doing pretty much everything from the warbling pads to the Theremin-like lead.
Fender Stratocaster being run through the Roger Linn Adrenelinn Effects Box on a clean Fender amp setting through some sinister delay simulating the echoing of the cave.
The Tempest is driving everything with a steady Linn Drum beat with an analog bass line pumping through the piece.
Enjoy folks!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGv7319ViVY
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This week I wanted to do a tribute to a score that doesn't get much attention and that's Rick Ulfik's Synclavier driven score for the 80s flick Street Trash.
This isn't a cover of his score but it's certainly heavily inspired by the "Viper Theme" he did. Everything is done using the Prophet X in real time with zero overdubs and relying on the onboard Prophet VS waves to recreate that unapologetically digital sound.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-X_aGKzm50
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Memories of Green from Blade Runner Soundtrack (Live Cover)
Most of this is piano, but I use three Prophet Rev2 patches from my two units on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NClCE4Th8tI
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I don't know how much of that was improvised, Jason, but it showed an excellent command of harmonic progressions. A few dominant sevenths fell just in the right places to move the music to the next chord. I'm impressed with that sort of talent. Oh - but the white noise was out of tune. :P
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Oh - but the white noise was out of tune. :P
That's what I get for using someone else's patch!
I have read that much of Vangelis' work is improvised, with his film work frequently written and played as he watched clips of the film. I always wonder how much of it starts as an improvisation which later is developed with more deliberate effort. He frequently did overdubs, and perhaps altered pieces later as well. It could also be that with so much playing, some of the work ends up being of greater quality. It does seem that many of the best composers produced enormous amounts of music, with much of it not being as worthwhile. In this case, Memories of Green was actually first recorded for a studio album called See You Later in 1980, so it could be that more work went into this than some of his film music.
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I've been on a big 1980s action kick as of late and one of my favorites is 1985's Cocaine Wars. Lots of 80s elements and has a nice synth soundtrack.
I didn't want to do a cover of the score but instead my own creation.
The Tempest drives along the beat with a "Tom Cart" kit with it's massive synth tom hit running through a large reverb.
The arpeggiated bass as well as "Tom Sawyer" filter sweeps are done with the Prophet 6 using the vintage mode.
The Prophet X is doing some user samples which include a typical 80's DX7 electric piano as well as strings from the Emulator 2.
Enjoy!!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqqgZ04beyQ
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1981's "Scream" gets a bad wrap for being slow and plodding. While the film is a slow burn there are some genuinely creepy moments, especially when the legendary Woody Strode arrives. It comes off like a combination of a slasher but with a classic ghost story approach.
The Prophet X is doing everything here. From the 12 string guitar to the repetitive tonal percussion and upright piano to give impressions of an old western ghost town
I decided to run the entire piece through a low fi "crackling vinyl" effect. Giving the impression of something old....representing the ghostly elements of the story.
Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhsHTna3mg
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I did an interview with Johnny Normal and Bridget Gray for Johnny's Synthetic Sunday show on Artefektor Radio. It ran yesterday and I'm posting the pod'd version here, in case anyone's curious. I'm a little disappointed that the audio quality of the songs varies so much, but there's a nice range of my synth-based material, from teen years up to my latest, and if you can bear to hear me rambling on with too much coffee in my blood, I talk about using the same Minimoog that Gary Numan first encountered, why I wouldn't want a Mellotron and whether I consider myself a synth geek. Cats, chimeras, lizards, pigs are all in the mix, too!
Enjoy!
https://artefaktorradio.com/podcast/johnny-and-bridgets-virtual-sofa-special-anton-barbeau-interview-feature-ar134/ (https://artefaktorradio.com/podcast/johnny-and-bridgets-virtual-sofa-special-anton-barbeau-interview-feature-ar134/)
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I did an interview with Johnny Normal and Bridget Gray for Johnny's Synthetic Sunday show on Artefektor Radio. It ran yesterday and I'm posting the pod'd version here, in case anyone's curious. I'm a little disappointed that the audio quality of the songs varies so much, but there's a nice range of my synth-based material, from teen years up to my latest, and if you can bear to hear me rambling on with too much coffee in my blood, I talk about using the same Minimoog that Gary Numan first encountered, why I wouldn't want a Mellotron and whether I consider myself a synth geek. Cats, chimeras, lizards, pigs are all in the mix, too!
Enjoy!
https://artefaktorradio.com/podcast/johnny-and-bridgets-virtual-sofa-special-anton-barbeau-interview-feature-ar134/ (https://artefaktorradio.com/podcast/johnny-and-bridgets-virtual-sofa-special-anton-barbeau-interview-feature-ar134/)
I listened to the whole interview (more or less attentive, since I'm working right now). There were some nice little stories you have told there. But what I really liked was the great tour through your music. Some very nice tunes there, some I've known before and some that I don't know what to feel about ;-)
If you can listen to the radio at work, I recommmend to you listening to this interview for 2 hours instead of your regular radio station.
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Improvisation #103 for Poly Evolver Keyboard and Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87H5lesS3w
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Improvisation #103 for Poly Evolver Keyboard and Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87H5lesS3w
Lovely, as ever. And a perfect cool, calming moment after a silly hectic day.Thanks!
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Thanks, Ant.
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Here's one that I hope will also be calming, despite it being a shoplifting-themed song!
It's called "Crystals," and was written in Berlin on Prophet 6. I've been away from my P6 since the pandemic kicked off and this track reminds me why I love the 6 so much. The Prophet 6 can sound so organically electronic and classically modern. The chords are P6, as is the white noise rhythm loop, which is augmented with an SCI Drumtraks. Pro One on bass. Bryan Poole from Of Montreal plays guitar, Sharron Kraus sings harmonies and plays recorder and my wife Julia is on gin jigger and vocoder vox.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/crystals-1/s-5JhW884gIu1 (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/crystals-1/s-5JhW884gIu1)
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This week I wanted to try something more traditional and I began revisiting a lot of scores for Made For TV films. I wanted to try something more minimalistic but also orchestral so I used the Prophet X with a single piano patch and also some creepy quartet phrases. Some cymbal rolls with a thick Phaser to really capture that 70s mood as well.
I couldn't resist adding some analog synth hits through the piece from the Prophet 6 and then I realized it began to sound very similar to Jerry Goldsmith's score for The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud.
Overall, I'm really happy with how this turned out.
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhdNbWcBJNk
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Improvisation #103 for Poly Evolver Keyboard and Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87H5lesS3w
Epic Sacred Synthesis! Really like the theme on this one.
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Thanks very much, Soundquest!
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This week I wanted to pay tribute to one of my favorite obscure Spanish flicks, Necrophagus aka Graveyard Of Horror aka Butcher Of Binbrook. It is one of the weirdest and wildest gothic horror flicks from Spain. The organ heavy score was done by Alfonso Santisteban.
INSTRUMENTS USED:
Prophet X: Overdriven organ (done by cranking the drive of the analog filter on the PX), church bells and faux Mellotron choir.
Prophet 6 is doing a 70s analog string machine/orchestrator type patch. This is done using only a single square wave with heavy PWM and thick Phaser on it. It's also doing some slurping filter sweeps near the end run through a BBD delay.
Hope you enjoy!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqpYXXODTU
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This week I wanted to pay tribute to not only one of my favorite horror films of all time but also one of my top favorite horror stars of all time. The immortal Jacinto Molina aka Paul Naschy and his ultimate gothic masterpiece: Horror Rises From The Tomb. I absolutely adore this Spanish icon's work.
The soundtrack to this film was done by Carmelo A Bernaola and is done entirely on organ. It has an appropriate gothic feel with lots of melodrama. The Prophet X is doing everything here, from the blown out organ (burned through the drive section of the analog filter), to some menacing cymbal rolls and percussion effects as well as an eerie ghostly whisper that's slowed down to demonic levels.
No additional effects added, everything is pure PX.
Alaric de Marnac hopes you enjoy!!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvew7J6gbgg
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Hi all - I'm getting set to fly to Berlin on Monday, where I'll be selling off or shipping home all of my studio gear. I'm doing some audio tidying before I go, since I won't be able to do much recording while in Germany. This is a fitting track, perhaps... a touch of Berlin School meets... uh, not sure. It was a commissioned piece. I often run crowdfunding campaigns to fund my albums and one fellow always chips in, with the "I'll write a song for you!" reward as his pick. I've written silly songs for each of his two kids, and this track was written for him specifically. Allyson Seconds joins me on vocals.
The track features Prophet 6 doing the arpeggios, Prophet 5 (my wife's rev 3 - this track is from before the age of the rev 4) is doing sawtooth chords and bass, and there's an Evolver in at the end soloing its head off. The only non-Dave track is the VSM strings...
I only did a quick mix of this last night, but one thing I like is the "pizzicato" string plink. It's actually just the Pro Tools click track run through a harmonizer plug in. One of those happy accidents.
Hope you dig, and thanks!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/berlin-skoo-of-hugs-farm-2021-mix-1/s-b5c1B7foUUz
(https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/berlin-skoo-of-hugs-farm-2021-mix-1/s-b5c1B7foUUz)
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This week I wanted to try something completely different. I'm a huge fan of 1950s/60s exploitation flicks. Films like The Sinister Urge, Strange Compulsion, and one I saw recently titled....you guessed it....Violated!
The soundtrack for the film was done entirely with electric guitar by Tony Mottola and it was the main inspiration for this track.
The Fender Stratocaster is being run through the Roger Linn Adrenelinn iii Guitar Effects Box with a Fender Reverb setting, with the gain slightly cranked and a vibrato effect on it....giving it that classic 50's surf vibe. There's also some overdubs with a Maestro style fuzz sound as well.
The Prophet X is doing some slow jazz drums and some period appropriate Beatnik Bongos.
I hope you enjoy!!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NspVr6PZEcU
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One of my all time favorite films is 1958's Misterios de Ultratumba (released in the United States as Black Pit Of Dr. M) directed by the criminally underrated Fernado Mendez. In fact I would dare say it is a contender for "greatest horror film of all time." In my eyes, it is.
In the 1950s and 60s, Mexican horror was at it's pinnacle. Films such as The Vampire, The Witch's Mirror and The Man And The Monster took elements from the 1930s and 40s Universal gothic horrors and surpassed them. It is a shame that the video label "Casa Negra" is no longer around, they were giving these films the treatment they deserve. I highly recommend tracking down the long out of print DVDs if you can get them.
One of the best element of the film (and there are many) is the riveting score by Gustavo César Carrión. Gustavo César Carrión was a Mexican music composer for film productions, having scored for dozens of films during a thirty year career. The thunderous timpani drums and sweeping mysterious strings truly evoke the mysteries of the afterlife and the horror that might await us.
This is entirely done with the Prophet X. Mostly using factory samples with a few user samples thrown in. I'm quite proud of this one and I hope you enjoy it.
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgs10h0P-w
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I used the Modor NF1 synth to make this. I was able to get a pretty convincing hammered dulcimer sound. Only thing not Modor is the fiddle-which is done on the ASM Hydrasynth. Did all the controlling with a Linn Instrument 128. This helped with the slide guitar.
I wasn't aiming for any particular bird species, but this sounds similar to a bird in the woodlands here in Ohio. Possibly a chickadee, but I'm not sure.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/frolic-under-the-canopy
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Hey gang! I've been on a huge giallo kick lately with the awesome sets from Vinegar Syndrome and I decided to try my hand at a Giallo inspired soundtrack.
The Prophet X is doing electric bass, overdriven organ and also the music box at the end of the piece.
Fender Stratocaster is doing a typical Alessandro Alessandroni fuzzed out electric stings.
The Tempest is providing some nice drum rhythms to drive the piece.
Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cei-TMFP0mY
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This is my first track with my newly acquired ISLA Instruments S2400 Drum Sampler. It's absolutely incredible and I've already done a few tracks with it alongside my other gear. I'll be doing a review video in the next few weeks but for now I wanted to see what this puppy can do.
This is a cover of Brad Fiedel's wonderful tribal score for the voodoo masterpiece Serpent And The Rainbow. Brad used two Fairlight CMI 2s (as he did on Terminator 2) so I imported a bunch of CMI samples into both the S2400 and the Prophet X. What you are hearing is synced percussion from both the Prophet X and the S2400. The main lead is done by use of a CMI sample of a trumpet layered with the famous Arr1 sample). There is also some slowed down vocals from the factory PX's library as well.
Hope you enjoy! Expect to hear more in the coming weeks :)
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHgLl9XxGR8
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I've no idea if "Space Goat" is the name of an Italian horror film from 1976, but this is the theme song from the song of the same name! I'm in Berlin, selling off or shipping back home all my gear. Prophet 6 is the only thing left! It's on this track for the squishy solo, plus the second-chorus riff and the arpeggio bit on the bridge. The "guitar" on the verses is a Reface CP. There's a bit of Arturia CMI running throughout the song - the "space-y" fx thing. I never use the Arturua stuff, but my old computer in Berlin has it handy so I went with it. Lots of good stuff in there, but I'm not so much a softsynth type.
Synths aside, this track kinda revolves mostly around the bass track. Before I sold my Jazz, I stuck it on a half dozen tunes.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/space-goat-bln-bnc-8/s-E3lMb67lD5x (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/space-goat-bln-bnc-8/s-E3lMb67lD5x)
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I like that line "space goat speakin thru my throat" Fun weird song.
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I like that line "space goat speakin thru my throat" Fun weird song.
Thanks! I admit, it was a much more gruesome line originally, but my mother-in-law is signed up for my Patreon page
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Here is my second track with the ISLA S2400 Drum Sampler. Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III has always been my favorite entry in the series after the original and Jim Manzie's score for the film is fantastic. I'm not sure what gear he used on the original but for this tribute I used a ton of EMU samples in both the Prophet X and S2400.
The Prophet X is doing the dobro, filter sweets, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, non tonal percussion as well as some sinister string scrapes, choir, reverse cymbal rolls and some low French horn parts. The samples in some cases are being looped and synced to the external clock from the S2400. Thus providing simulated guitar strumming and additional percussion.
The PX is also providing the chainsaw sound effect as well.
The S2400 is doing some low tuned kicks, rim shot, shaker and claps.
Hope you enjoy!
GO GET THE MEAT!!!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mq9jSyfmBM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyjKIUMSbA
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For what it's worth, I now have a Bandcamp account:
https://themusicalsynthesizer.bandcamp.com/
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Another of my tracks with the ISLA S2400 before my official review video.
Paul Zaza is quite a prolific Canadian composer, scoring such films such as Popcorn, My Bloody Valentine, Prom Night, Flesh Gordon Meets The Cosmic Cheerleaders and the wonderful holiday classic A Christmas Story.
He also scored some awesome synth based soundtracks for films like Bullies, The Vindicator and the awesome monster flick...The Brain
Zaza used a DX7, Emulator 3 and EMU SP-12 Drum Machine and I tried to incorporate as many of those sounds into this track.
Prophet X is doing the DX7 sampled arpeggiated pattern (using the DX& harp preset and bass preset combined) as well as some EMU samples (Strings, sitar, Liquid Stack and the famous shakuhachi sample) Zaza also used some original samples he made in the score such as lion roars and whale sonar sounds but pitched down to give them an unearthly feeling. I've done the same during the opening atmospheric build and the unnerving ending...as well as sewer gurgles and heart beat.
The S2400 is loaded with classic EMU SP-12 samples. There's some lowered pitched on the crash toms as well as a super lower tuned percussive "Zap" which I used to great effect to simulate some type of cerebral attack.
I hope you independent thinkers enjoy! OBEY THE BRAIN!!!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djP8yYY7JQM
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I was absolutely beside myself with joy when I found out that AGFA was releasing 1982 Shot On Video shlockfest "BoardingHouse" on Blu Ray in a special edition.
Watching this film is an absolute mind melting experience. From the terrible green screen computer generated credits to the Betacam camera work...to the over 100 minute running time.
Anyway, I decided to celebrate by doing a cover of the score. I have no idea who did the score but music is credited to "33 1/3" so we'll go with that.
The Tempest is actually doing not just the LinnDrum Kick but also almost all of the synth bass lines and filter sweeps in this piece while the Prophet 6 is doing the Theremin style lead and some dark pads and "Horror Vision" stings. Lots of use from the onboard distortion of the P6 to give it a really low fit ugly feel....just like the movie.
So I hope you enjoy, and remember girls, if you are between 18 and 25, unattached and beautiful, then you can share this 10 bedroom house for approximately $100 a month. The rent won't kill you, but something else will...Call Jim.....at the Boardinghouse.
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76gU5vug3Mo
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I was absolutely beside myself with joy when I found out that AGFA was releasing 1982 Shot On Video shlockfest "BoardingHouse" on Blu Ray in a special edition.
Watching this film is an absolute mind melting experience. From the terrible green screen computer generated credits to the Betacam camera work...to the over 100 minute running time.
Anyway, I decided to celebrate by doing a cover of the score. I have no idea who did the score but music is credited to "33 1/3" so we'll go with that.
The Tempest is actually doing not just the LinnDrum Kick but also almost all of the synth bass lines and filter sweeps in this piece while the Prophet 6 is doing the Theremin style lead and some dark pads and "Horror Vision" stings. Lots of use from the onboard distortion of the P6 to give it a really low fit ugly feel....just like the movie.
So I hope you enjoy, and remember girls, if you are between 18 and 25, unattached and beautiful, then you can share this 10 bedroom house for approximately $100 a month. The rent won't kill you, but something else will...Call Jim.....at the Boardinghouse.
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76gU5vug3Mo
Everett, there’s a new interview with John Carpenter on his latest score that I thought you may be interested in checking out:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010phy?at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=%40BBCRadio3&at_custom2=twitter&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=1872AEAE-2DC0-11EC-8522-C5E139982C1E&at_medium=custom7&fbclid=IwAR08ipW-rJBip8RQb6gRQvc5KHN70blAs49Vr8122sq8mSTon0Yk4g3ak7U
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'Tis The season.....
I've been sitting on this track a while and figured I'd post it seeing as Halloween is just around the corner. Here is a tribute to the fun slasher flick Hack-O-Lantern. Although there are nods to Greg Haggard's awesome synth score, it's not a direct cover.
The Prophet X is firing on all cylinders with user samples. Prophet 2000 pipe organ and rock guitar as well as DX7 Tubular Explosion. There is also a custom piano patch I made from the factory samples in the PX which is based on the Korg M1's Magic Piano.
The Tempest is doing a driving beat on a "Tom Cart" kit with loads of reverb.
Hope you enjoy and remember...
The Power.....is in the blood!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAbODwfFU6s
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This isn't exactly a "Halloween" track, but it's partly inspired by Svankmajer's Faust. And maybe this is a good moment to point out that I'm John Carpenter's ex-cousin-in-law!! (Take 'em where we find 'em, right?)
Prophet 5 - bass (run through Arturia's Juno 6-type chorus) and main verse chords. Juno 6 - chorus chords. Prologue - descending strings. VC340 - held strings. Danelectro via Rat into ZT amp- guitar. Digitakt - drum patter (Drumtraks samples). Original drum loop - Brad Cross. The solos are done on the Yamaha CP, with a wah-clav thing happening and played from a Prophet 6 for pitch bends etc. Have to say how much I love the CP - an all-time fav keyboard.
Hope you dig!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/keep-my-face-clean-2021-remake?si=faa90f4f24c84a23ae01aa23673fb6cb
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE
https://vimeo.com/640801457
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This isn't exactly a "Halloween" track, but it's partly inspired by Svankmajer's Faust. And maybe this is a good moment to point out that I'm John Carpenter's ex-cousin-in-law!! (Take 'em where we find 'em, right?)
Prophet 5 - bass (run through Arturia's Juno 6-type chorus) and main verse chords. Juno 6 - chorus chords. Prologue - descending strings. VC340 - held strings. Danelectro via Rat into ZT amp- guitar. Digitakt - drum patter (Drumtraks samples). Original drum loop - Brad Cross. The solos are done on the Yamaha CP, with a wah-clav thing happening and played from a Prophet 6 for pitch bends etc. Have to say how much I love the CP - an all-time fav keyboard.
Hope you dig!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/keep-my-face-clean-2021-remake?si=faa90f4f24c84a23ae01aa23673fb6cb
What a beatiful track... suits my annual autumn mood very well...
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This isn't exactly a "Halloween" track, but it's partly inspired by Svankmajer's Faust. And maybe this is a good moment to point out that I'm John Carpenter's ex-cousin-in-law!! (Take 'em where we find 'em, right?)
Prophet 5 - bass (run through Arturia's Juno 6-type chorus) and main verse chords. Juno 6 - chorus chords. Prologue - descending strings. VC340 - held strings. Danelectro via Rat into ZT amp- guitar. Digitakt - drum patter (Drumtraks samples). Original drum loop - Brad Cross. The solos are done on the Yamaha CP, with a wah-clav thing happening and played from a Prophet 6 for pitch bends etc. Have to say how much I love the CP - an all-time fav keyboard.
Hope you dig!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/keep-my-face-clean-2021-remake?si=faa90f4f24c84a23ae01aa23673fb6cb
What a beatiful track... suits my annual autumn mood very well...
Thanks much, jok3r! I don't often think my music reflects the seasons so well, but once in a while a tune does feel like it belongs to autumn or winter or summer or such. And this song is enough about the "ghost" of a relationship to sit easy on the Halloween border. Meanwhile, it's still amusing that the Juno 6 is a "new" discovery for me. Now that I own one, I can suddenly hear it on a million songs from back when. If the Prophet 5 keeps this song grounded, it's the Juno 6 that lifts it off the ground.
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JUSTICE IS SERVED.
Good Guys: 1
Scumbags: 0.
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1CWCG0Xq1M
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZadaYxD2OU
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I haven't been in the studio much recently so I decided to go back through some older tracks and give them a proper video release. I did this track just a bit after I got the ISLA S2400. I'm a big fan of Jim Manzie's work and I've done a tribute to his score for Leatherface TCM III so I figured I'd try my hand at another track of his.
I'm a huge fan of the original Pumpkinhead and the score for that by the late Richard Stone perfectly blended some traditional folk and bluegrass elements with brooding horror soundscapes. Jim Manzie did the same for the sequel but in my view, gave an actual theme to the story with it's driving main tune.
No idea what Jim used but for this I used the Prophet X and S2400 together. They really are a killer combo.
The PX-Loaded with Emulator 2 sounds (slap bass, piano, strings) and PX's factory dobro guitar.
The S2400 is doing some percussion with EMU samples.
Everything is done in almost one take with the only overdub being the dobro guitar. Enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2FAtNF77JM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZadaYxD2OU
I like that soft part contrast ~ 7:15.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZadaYxD2OU
Always perfectly tuned to the Moment, your music.
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Thanks, Soundquest and Ant.
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Blade Runner (End Titles) - Cover
There's a link at the end for a "Making Of" video, where I talk about the sounds I used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZsvQfXQYIk
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Blade Runner (End Titles) - Cover
There's a link at the end for a "Making Of" video, where I talk about the sounds I used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZsvQfXQYIk
Nice one! I do wonder if Vangelis' score for Blade Runner isn't one of the greatest soundtracks ever. So vital to scenes on screen. Really impressive tribute you've done here, Jason.
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Thanks Ant! It's certainly one of my favorite soundtracks!
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Very well done, Jason. All classic sounds - the types you can never grow tired of - including the white noise at the end.
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Here's a sparkly little synthpop song I made recently with Pro 3 voicing all the parts except drums. It came together really quickly, because the Pro 3 makes good sounds really easily, and the Force helps with the rest of the workflow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Cs0w-yBsk
I love how little effort it takes to get good sounds out of this thing. It's just overflowing with juicy synth goodness.
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Here's an odd one, maybe. It's from 2010, but it popped to mind again as I've just uploaded the album it's from, Psychedelic Mynde of Moses, to Bandcamp in time for BCF. Anyway, the song is from a time when I was drifting back into a synth-fixated mindset. Of all things, it was coming down with swine flu while living in the UK that did it. I started having fever dreams about synths and became obsessed all over again like I had been as a teen. The song itself is dedicated to Tony Dale, a fellow who ran the Camera Obscura label in Australia. We knew he wasn't going to live much longer and those that knew him - at his request, in case it seems morbid otherwise - put together a collection of songs for him. My friend Karen made the film for the song. The only synth I owned at the time - and thus the one synth on this track - was a Korg R3. I quite liked that one, but sold it ages back when I needed money for proper analogue gear! Hope you enjoy this moody tune... https://vimeo.com/13623878?fbclid=IwAR1KO1k9ztrUrkrWutM7qhvAhbHsLP6JcSt6VcnwCZ44umruhxMghhrdEpQ
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I don't mean to dominate the Your Music section with back-to-back posts, but a pair of videos from a recent album of mine have been premiered and I think they might appeal to a few synth-headed types amongst. Two short songs, in contrasting character. "Mushroom Tree" is only Korg Prologue doing a very passable harmonium, but "Auslanderbeak" is a very Prophet 6-rich track. I don't remember what other synths are on it, as I don't have the Pro Tools file handy, but my Berlin recordings relied heavily on the P6. Hope you enjoy!
http://bigtakeover.com/news/VideoPremiereUnderneathTheMushroomTreebyAntonBarbeau (http://bigtakeover.com/news/VideoPremiereUnderneathTheMushroomTreebyAntonBarbeau)
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It's a bit early, but,...
Merry Christmas, everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z58s_NBFrVE
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Sacred Synthesis: I've watched many of your videos more than once, but this one has the record! I just love the sounds through and through, especially the Prophet '08 leads. I noticed that this is a new post on YouTube. It sounds the same to me; is it different? Excellent work with a beautiful melody.
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Thanks, Jason. The recording is different in that I used the Korg ARP Odysseys for the two patches that give the melody. On the older version, I had used the Prophet '08. This time the P'08 was used only for the string patch at the end.
I was sadly about to post the two Odysseys for sale in order to finance a Rev2. It's been difficult trying to make recordings with only two keyboards and all these modules. But I wanted to give this piece a try, which called for a number of changes to be made during the playing/recording, such as twisting completely around to turn on and off mixer channels while playing those arpeggios. But I'm glad I did it because the Odysseys sound so much sweeter than the P'08 did in the older recording. To my ears, the ARP voice - and this seems to be true also of the Korg ARP 2600M - has a strikingly lovely character, more like an acoustic instrument than a bloody electronic one.
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It's a bit early, but,...
Merry Christmas, everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z58s_NBFrVE
Very nice. But is there something wrong with your recording setup? There is a high frequent tone throughout the whole recording. Even before the actual music starts. I nevered heard this in one of your recordings before.
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Ug. Yes, I've traced this down to the Odyssey modules. I recorded in a less than perfectly silent setting and couldn't hear the noise. I'll fix this problem and replace the recording in the near future.
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The recording is different in that I used the Korg ARP Odysseys for the two patches that give the melody. On the older version, I had used the Prophet '08. This time the P'08 was used only for the string patch at the end.
Odysseys sound so much sweeter than the P'08 did in the older recording. To my ears, the ARP voice - and this seems to be true also of the Korg ARP 2600M - has a strikingly lovely character, more like an acoustic instrument than a bloody electronic one.
I hear it now. I was playing it quietly (in my classroom) and didn't notice the difference. The leads are beautiful on both, but I hear what you mean. (I also hear the extra noise now; my ears aren't what they used to be.)
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Ug. Yes, I've traced this down to the Odyssey modules. I recorded in a less than perfectly silent setting and couldn't hear the noise. I'll fix this problem and replace the recording in the near future.
Funny, but to me the noise adds a touch of "VHS" vibe! The music itself is lovely and not marred by a touch of swish.
And... thanks to you, I've decided to hold onto my Odyssey.
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Okay, Ant. Now I feel better. Thanks. But I still can't hear the noise!
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Okay, Ant. Now I feel better. Thanks. But I still can't hear the noise!
The two plug-ins I've been using a lot lately, "Wires" and "Springs," both from Audio Damage, include the option of added noise. It's funny how far around the circle we've spun. In "real life," I've become terrified of noise in my tracks, yet even the most remastered Beatles tracks live full lives on a bed of tape noise.
Anyway, your track sounds great. Musically and otherwise. Whatever noise is there needs to be squinted at hard to be heard under anything less than scientific conditions.
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To be serious about it for a second, after going through my set up, I've tracked down the sound to the two Odyssey Modules. I can lower their outputs and push up the mixer master level, so it's a matter of tweaking volumes. But isn't this the nature of old school technology? As you've suggested, Ant, once upon a time this level of noise wasn't a problem. And now it's even a charm. Jeepers, people actually buy white noise apps to help them sleep at night.
So, I've decided to double the price of the piece on Bandcamp. Why should people get all this noise for next to nothing? ;D
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Could resist a little bit of PEK for Christmas.
https://youtu.be/S_Rw3i7udNo
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I posted this earlier in the "single synth" thread, as it's all Prophet 5. Drums are P5 sampled into the Digitakt.
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/i-used-to-say-your-name-all-p5-remake (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/i-used-to-say-your-name-all-p5-remake)
And if anyone's curious, here's the original, as written for and sung by Allyson Seconds... Allyson isn't really into synths and I always felt I had to sneak them onto her records!
https://youtu.be/6sMn9qk9bmw (https://youtu.be/6sMn9qk9bmw)
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This track is a very different bag of fish than my usual psychedelic new wave synth-pop type ting. An ambient slice, "approved" by my German massage therapist!
The piece is called "Dolphins on Drugs," which teenage me improvised in my dad's basement - Prophet 5, PolySix, Pro One and MS-10 - live to cassette, probably 1986.
The video is far fresher, mostly comprised of footage taken around the tide pools near Bodega Bay only days ago, plus some shots of our dog, cos, well, just cos! Hope you enjoy...
https://youtu.be/ooHfk6-py0w (https://youtu.be/ooHfk6-py0w)
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I'm finally able to session out my synths again after a huge electrical problem in my studio due to a ground failure in the sockets (not the synths). The short burned out the main PC board in my Pro 2 and destroyed my mixer, where sparks emitted out of them both and damaged the top panel of my Prophet '08. The main outs on the '08 also got damaged and so I'm stuck with using the headphone out now. Carson fixed my Pro 2 and then I finally got the rest of my DSI / Sequential gear here with me in Russia now after going back home to the States last month. Pro 2 still has burn marks on the cosmetics, but I cleaned it up pretty good. I have clean voltages in my studio now after calling a tech and I'm back to making music. I made new end cheeks for the Prophet '08 and covered the damaged panel with a new skin. ...I made it white to match the similar make-overs I did to my Tempest and Mono Evolver Keys years ago. An encoder broke off of my OB-6 last night, but it's just for the effects output, so no biggie. I still have an extra encoder that Mark from Sequential sent me a couple years ago after two of them broke off after a show in Estonia.
This is a multi-cam session using the Prophet '08, OB-6, Tempest, Pro 2, and Toraiz SP-16.
- OB-6: With the filter wide open (sorry), punching the sequencer on / off now and then.
- Pro 2: I'm thumbing between two different sequences in the play-list function.
- Prophet '08: Keyboard split for bass, higher octaves for keying apreggiated 8th notes.
- Tempest: Secondary octave bass on the individual outs and white noise.
- Toraiz SP-16: Drum duty, with LM-1 samples and some other fun kits.
https://youtu.be/OfsH_j12450
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jonas, 80's Like. The recording quality is interesting to me. What do you record with?
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Little bit of three synths: Udo, ASM and Modor
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/new-music-box
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I run everything into my Zoom Livetrak 12 mixer where each track gets recorded on the SD card. And then afterwards I just sync the audio to the three cameras in Sony Vegas.
jonas, 80's Like. The recording quality is interesting to me. What do you record with?
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A pious Prophet '08 in Church organ mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew5q4Z8-9mo
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I picked up the Arturia Moog modular V soft synth, just because I'll surely never have the real thing :-\ Anyway, it was fun to play with for a bit. Pretty complex actually, but the array of classic onboard patches is interesting to go thru. In fact, some are really refreshing pure.
This song here is actually 90% Hydrasynth, with the Moog doing a sample hold gurgle that I liked throughout.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/move-what
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This is a song that my wife and I wrote over the last holiday break. The bass line and pad is from a Prophet 6. The bulk of the melody line is a distorted Rhodes sound (with a clean bit in the bridge) from a Nord Stage 3. The arpeggio bits and one verse of grittier melody is from a Novation Peak. Some chorus and reverb from Strymon pedals. I mixed it in Logic Pro X.
https://soundcloud.com/markwilkins/ski-day-2-sps-final-1
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Very happy to have a new vid out. I've posted the song before, but the video is fresh, premiering on Big Takeover today. Don't be shocked by the Roland XP-10 or Korg MS-20... I can assure you the track is all Prophet 5 and Moog Grandmother. But for video-making-with-dog purposes, we went with easier to handle keyboards!
Hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/N3iAcKsBrMk
(Here's the link to the Big Takeover bit, in case you want to read more of the song's history...)
https://bigtakeover.com/news/VideoPremiereRainRainbyAntonBarbeau?fbclid=IwAR1UD3R6JTwbuWlPQN_0fY37ToaTZDH8Or5Cn6MfYQ_0uelS4siXd3RdCxc
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Slowly getting back to a better headspace I ended up recording a few tracks and putting together a few videos.
I originally did this as part of my review for the ISLA S2400 but I decided to give it a dedicated video instead.
One of my all time favorite slasher films is Destroyer. I originally saw the trailer on an old VHS for Hammer's Horror Of Frankenstein and rushed out to get a copy of the film myself sooner afterwards. It's awesome and I love seeing Anthony Perkins in this era.
Composer Patrick O'Hearn did the score for the film. I have no idea what he used but it sounds like a Fairlight in some parts.
There are three parts to this suite. The opening drone, the heavy percussion section for the opening credits and finally the awesome end credit sequence.
For this the ISLA S2400 is not only doing all the percussion (done with a mixture of Fairlight CMI and EMU SP-12 samples) but it's also doing all of the external sequencing as well to the Prophet X.
The Prophet X is doing some lo-fi choir, Electric Bass, synth, electric guitar. I ran everything through the Hack and Decimate parameters which provided lots of aliasing and added to that "Fairlight-esq" sound.
Hope you all enjoy.
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1VoD5RllO0
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This is an original track I did when I was in the studio recently. I was inspired by straight to video, low budget zombie flicks. While I'm not a huge zombie film fan myself, I do appreciate a lot of the soundtracks that accompanied those films.
I wanted to give a really lo-fi sound so I used the Prophet X's sampled synth sounds and altered the tone to thin them out as well as changed some of the loop points. Almost to give the impression of a really cheap, radio shack type synth. I added some onboard chorus since most thin sounding synths have onboard chorus in order to thicken them out. No filter action or real articulation at all. Just flat sounding and cheap which totally fits the style.
The ISLA S2400 is doing all the drums (done with samples of the EMU Drumulator). These EMU samples also included guitar and bass sounds as well so the muted guitar and FM style bass you are hearing are factory Drumulator sounds too. I went with a dry sound for these to also add to the lo-fi feel.
Just a really simply track that I hope you will enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQZJEhjbHg0
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It's fantastic that so many obscure soundtracks are getting official releases as of late. Composers for films like Blood Harvest, Slaughterhouse and Demon Wind likely never dreamed their work on these films would be getting such treatment....and well deserved treatment at that.
Bruce Michael Miller's score for the 1990 film Demon Wind is criminally underrated. From slow brooding synth pads to heavy as hell drum machine hits to fantastic electric guitar work, it's almost as if John Carpenter asked David Gilmour to do a few guest solos over some of his pulsating synth scores.
In the liner notes, there's not much information in regards to what equipment was used other than Miller mentioning he used "Oberheim and Juno synths" because of the thunderous rumbling low end. My ears detect some sampler action and drum machine work as well.
For this set up the ISLA S2400 is providing the driving beat using some EMU samples. I increased the gain on the snare and toms and also tuned them down a bit to give them a massive sound.
The Prophet X is doing some slap bass (with a Prophet 2000 sample) as well as the panning pulsating synth pulse.
The Prophet 6 is doing some vintage sounding pads,
There's also some incidental sound effects of demonic growls (using the sample of a lion growling and pitched down) and wind blowing all done on the Prophet X as well.
The Stratocaster is running through the Roger Linn Adrenalinn iii Effects Box with a Gilmour style lead tone with chorus, delay and reverb.
I hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPypLuR3NKQ
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I bought myself a Matriarch last weekend and did a little track last night. Everything is done with Matriarch, except drums and effects. Those come from Ableton Live.
The matriarch gave instant retro vibes and so I wanted to do something in synthwave style. I love this kind of music from past decades.
I also posted this in the single synthesizer multri-track challenge.
As with most of my music: not the greatest of all compositions, but I really had fun doing it.
https://soundcloud.com/user-113276372/matriarchs-wave
EDIT: Forgot to paste the link :P *idiot*
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A nice little piece with some fine patches, Jok3r. How many tracks did that take?
For the first thirty-five seconds, you seem to have the staccato patch combined with a soft legato patch in the background playing the same chords. I like that effect. At first, I thought it was delay.
The Matriarch definitely is an impressive synthesizer. It was a good choice on your part.
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I bought myself a Matriarch last weekend and did a little track last night. Everything is done with Matriarch, except drums and effects. Those come from Ableton Live.
The matriarch gave instant retro vibes and so I wanted to do something in synthwave style. I love this kind of music from past decades.
I also posted this in the single synthesizer multri-track challenge.
As with most of my music: not the greatest of all compositions, but I really had fun doing it.
https://soundcloud.com/user-113276372/matriarchs-wave
EDIT: Forgot to paste the link :P *idiot*
Yeah, nice vibe to the track. And it shows off the impressive range of the Matriarch. I've got a Grandmother and adore that thing. You've got me tempted by the Matriarch now!
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A nice little piece with some fine patches, Jok3r. How many tracks did that take?
For the first thirty-five seconds, you seem to have the staccato patch combined with a soft legato patch in the background playing the same chords. I like that effect. At first, I thought it was delay.
The Matriarch definitely is an impressive synthesizer. It was a good choice on your part.
Besides the Drumtrack there are only 5 tracks in there. Bass, the "staccato patch", high solo strings, string pad and the noisy filter-fm lead sound.
In fact there is a little bit of this gorgeous analog delay on the bass and staccato patches. Those are not layered any further. It sometimes sounds a little bit like legato/glide because - as I learned just over the past days - you can not turn the glide function entirely off. Even if you turn the knob all the way down, there is a little bit of glide remaining. Perhaps I turned it up a little bit in this case, because I liked it... but I can't remember.
Yeah, nice vibe to the track. And it shows off the impressive range of the Matriarch. I've got a Grandmother and adore that thing. You've got me tempted by the Matriarch now!
Thank you both for your kind words. The Matriarch is an absolute beast. Of course, I did a lot of other sounds this weekend and especially for basses and leads I must say: there's nothing like a Moog. There's so much beef in the sound. I can absolutely recommend buying one. I think I will not regret it.
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"Fortunately," I'm not tempted by the Matriarch. I love the Grandmother so very much and it serves the role as "only Moog in the house." I do miss the Micromoog I sold when I left Berlin (all the more right now, as I'm back in Berlin with zero synths!), as it has its own groovy sound, but the Grandmother - and Matriarch - do that Thang and they take up the right amount of sonic space.
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In fact, I'm already thinking about buying an additional Grandmother... not for what it is, but for its modules. More LFOs and Envelops for my Matriarch ;-) I think they would make a great pair.
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I recently watched Patrick Still Lives and absolutely loved it. The score was done by Berto Pisano and is completely chaotic and often times random so I decided to try my hand at composing something original with a few nods to Pisano's soundtrack.
I also did this track to showcase the external sequencing capabilities of the ISLA S2400. While the S2400 isn't doing any of the sounds in this piece, it's handling 90% of the sequencing with only a few parts done with the Prophet X's internal arpeggiator and step sequencer.
The Prophet X is doing everything using the factory samples from 8Dio. From the electronic drums, jazz drums, piano, jazz flute, brass. The "Synth" type pulse you hear is actually a PX's Hammond organ sample run through the onboard ring modulator and phaser effect. I cranked the filter drive on most of this to give everything a fairly gritty signal. Oh and the faux Theremin (which is a key element in the Pisano score) was done by cranking the filter resonance and using PX's touch sliders to control the cutoff frantically.
I hope you enjoy this experimental piece. :) I'm thrilled with the S2400's sequencing capabilities. The only thing I wish that would be implemented in a future firmware update is the ability to step record manually from an external midi controller...as of right now only real time record allows this.
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9Oxou3Ra0
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My album Power Pop!!! was released a couple weeks back. The album title is meant as a poke in the eye of the genre that's sorta claimed me for decades, but for our purposes on the forum, I assure you, this is a very synth-rich record. There's a track called "Prologue, Literally," which was inspired by our very own Sacred Synthesis, even. I posted a video not long back of a song called "Rain, Rain." This song is part of a trio of songs I wrote as a synth-obsessed teen. One way or other, I do think it's a record that might appeal to a few folks here. You can check out the various tracks via the label's BC page. Thanks!
https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/power-pop (https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/power-pop)
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Well that was a pitch that was guaranteed to work! I had to listen to that last track. I get it; it's a spoof on my monster bass disorder. Yes, I admit I've got a serious case of MBD. I'll get you for that, Ant. ;D
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Well that was a pitch that was guaranteed to work! I had to listen to that last track. I get it; it's a spoof on my monster bass disorder. Yes, I admit I've got a serious case of MBD. I'll get you for that, Ant. ;D
I love it when an album has a nice big Sgt. Pepper ending!
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Sacred Tim - "Prologue, Literally" came out of a forum chat where we were talking about the Prologue, a synth I adore. I snuck a wee bit of P5 onto the track, and yeah, the MBD moment is courtesy of the Grandmother. The Korg just doesn't go that deep!
Chysn - I'm always happy when anybody even mentions Sgt. Pepper, whether in regards to my own work or not, so thanks!
This is a long read, but Pop Matters did a feature on the album, with a fair bit of synth-related scribble. If you're curious/bored/waiting to have a cast removed etc. take a look!
https://www.popmatters.com/anton-barbeau-power-pop-2022 (https://www.popmatters.com/anton-barbeau-power-pop-2022)
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My girlfriend suggested I do another full length original soundtrack to follow up my Axe Of Violence video. I took her recommendation and did this score.
The Hoodoo Ship was inspired by late 80s/early 90s Italian productions such as Black Demons so I wanted to give a very digital sounding approach to the music.
The Prophet X is only using patches with the Prophet VS waves. No traditional "sampled" sounds at all. The VS choir, wavetable E.P., are all pure VS sounding patches.
The ISLA S2400 is handling both traditional drum machine sounds (using samples of the Alesis HR-16) as well as a sampled loops of African tribal drumming.
The dialogue you hear is from one of my favorite radio shows "The Shadow" and the episode The Hoodoo Ship. About an old slave ship that is said to have a curse on it and kill those that board it. I used this as the main inspiration for the music's story.
As always, I hope you enjoy and hope the music stimulates your imagination and allows the story to develop in your mind.
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRPsfGQNC0
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Something a little different...
A long time ago I used to make songs with my friend, basically my “brother from another mother”. And we knew this guy who could belch like nobody’s business. He could say words, burping out just about anything.
So my brother asked him to belch some stuff for us.
He laughed at the idea, but then he showed up one day with a cassette tape he recorded for us. The plan was to make a song out of it.
But we never did.
Time passed. We all went separate ways.
Then a couple weeks ago I found that old tape in a storage box. And my brother’s birthday was coming up… so I made this for him:
This was made using a Pro 3, an Akai Force, and an ancient tape from someone I haven't seen this century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t9GcPZfxvU
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Had an incredibly stressful week and I wanted to try and do something a bit more mellow for this track. I'm a fan of the late 80s film Jack's Back. I've always been fascinated with Jack The Ripper in general and the idea of a Jack The Ripper in a modern day setting has always been a favorite interpretation of the character. The score was done by Danny Di Paola. It isn't synth heavy but there are a few synth elements here and there mixed with the slow noir-esq jazz.
The Prophet X is doing everything in this track and it's all done in one pass. No overdubs at all. The right hand is doing a Rhodes electric piano layered with a synth pad (from the PX's oscillators) and run through the onboard Super Plate Reverb effect and the right hand is doing a saxophone with aftertouch controlling some of the pitch bends.
Couldn't resist doing a filter sweep near the end ;)
Hope you enjoy
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J_jywCBqp8
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This week I wanted to try and tackle a more traditional style soundtrack with an original suite composition. This piece was heavily inspired by 1960s/1970s Italian gothic horror films. Films like Castle Of Blood or Terror Creatures From Grave.
A story that's set in an old castle with a storm raging on outside and inside an infighting family with a macabre secret.
The Prophet X is doing everything here. Strings, woodwinds, gongs, cymbal rolls, acoustic guitar, ghostly female vocals, piano and organ.
I really like how this turned out and I think I'll certainly try my hand at more of these type of scores. Perhaps one day, a complete soundtrack of one. Just have to find the right story....
As always, I hope you enjoy..
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8uAEBNRiAg
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This being your particular genre, LoboLives, I can see why you so like the Prophet X. The piece is an assortment of hauntingly altered and unaltered acoustic/natural instruments and tones. The instrument is perfect for what you do.
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This being your particular genre, LoboLives, I can see why you so like the Prophet X. The piece is an assortment of hauntingly altered and unaltered acoustic/natural instruments and tones. The instrument is perfect for what you do.
Absolutely. I'm still tempted to hunt down a PXL one day and have them both. I really want to get more orchestral samples into the PX as well. It's hard to justify spending $200-300 on a high quality orchestral VST just to import it into the PX using SampleRobot.
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Here's another song from my new album, Power Pop!!! I coulda sworn I posted this already, but I've searched the forum and didn't see this one pop up. Anyway, it's called "Never Crying Wolf Boy" and it's one of the early songs I wrote after getting my P5 and Grandmother. I'd moved my studio into my wife's former office, and only took the two synths just mentioned with me. The Prophet is the main synth in the track - doing bass and chords and riffs. The Moog doubles up the chorus riff and is the synth for the solo. There's also a bit of Pianoteq in there, dressed up as a CP, and the horns are Logic's own.
There are two sampled guitars - my own twangy Danelectro is turned a bit slide-ish here - and the backwards, psychedelic bits come from Donald Ross Skinner, Julian Cope's erstwhile right-hand man. Donneye played on the title track of my record and, with his consent, I sampled the hell out of his tracks for use throughout the album.
The song - lyrics aside - was inspired by my discovery of the band New Musik. Prophet 5 seems to have been their primary synth. Now that my Pro One is back from Berlin, I tend to use it for typical 8th-note parts, but the P5 sounds lovely on "Wolf Boy," I'd suggest.
Thanks for your time, and hope you dig!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXwlwCGczA
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXwlwCGczA)
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Hi Anton of 12047,
I see a few YT releases, but is this whole album available now on Bandcamp or Soundcloud, etc?
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I don't think I posted my band Lean Logic's latest album "The Last Mirage", it was recorded just before I got the Prophet 5 Rev 4 but the Prophet REV2 is all over it, as well as various other synths like the Pro~One, ARP Pro Soloist, Roland Juno 60 etc.
Working on the next one now for which I've been using the P5 Rev4 as the main instrument.
https://youtu.be/jJlWgD2w9rA (https://youtu.be/jJlWgD2w9rA)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWwA4kbnq4-1A8b9fbNX126EvjKS5Z7k (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWwA4kbnq4-1A8b9fbNX126EvjKS5Z7k)
https://leanlogic.bandcamp.com (https://leanlogic.bandcamp.com)
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Hi Anton of 12047,
I see a few YT releases, but is this whole album available now on Bandcamp or Soundcloud, etc?
Hi Soundquest - yeah, the whole Power Pop!!! album is up on Bandcamp/Apple and other places for sale via the Big Stir label. I'm cautious about posting to the Sequential forum anything that reads as a sales pitch, but the song I did post is sufficiently Prophet-heavy to be worth a push amongst the gang here.
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This is a track that I had kicking around for a few weeks so I decided to do a quick video of it. While I'm not a huge fan of comedy horror at all, nor really a fan of the film Doom Asylum, I really did enjoy the synthesizer soundtrack. My ears detect some low budget sampler (Likely an Ensoniq Mirage or Prophet 2000) and a drum machine.
For this I have the Prophet X doing some low fi bells and choir layered with the PX's oscillators and a synced LFO is modulating the filter cutoff to give a creepy effect.
The ending is a Prophet 2000 sample of a pipe organ with a thick flanger effect on it. There's also some incidental orchestral hits with a flanger on them also.
The S2400 is doing the frantic beat in the middle. If the drums sound sort of familiar it's because I used some of the same samples Depeche Mode used on People Are People.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://youtu.be/PR4X0gVL5k0
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Here's another from my current album. This one might be the closest I'll come to landing in LoboLives land, as it's got "soundtrack" vibe dripping from its pores. Prophet 6 on bass and brassy chords + Drumtraks (plus guitar) makes for a minimalist, yet Sequential-heavy track. Apologies if the "explicit language" of the second half hurts any ears, but farm life has taken its toll on me, I guess!
https://youtu.be/lKx2pVGv-U4 (https://youtu.be/lKx2pVGv-U4)
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This week I wanted to do something a bit different. I have done a few tracks in the past that featured the Tempest doing some Berlin School type sequencing (Chained Heat, Crime Wave: 2020, Rats: 2021, Dead Kids, Spasms) and this week I wanted to do a complete track with the Tempest and only the Tempest doing an old school Tangerine Dream style track. This was obviously heavily influenced by their score for Sorcerer but it's not a cover at all.
Everything is don in one take and in real time. No overdubs at all. All of the analog synth sounds and drum sounds are coming from the Tempest. The only drum sounds I used were some Boss DR55 Kick and Snare samples. The "hi hat" is sequenced white noise which is panning back and forth from an internal LFO.
The snare is going to a voice out which is being run through a delay and phaser in Studio One.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIjdJ83B3s
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This week I decided to do something a bit more low-key and inspired by 90's vampire film Pale Blood. This isn't a cover of Jan Kaczmarek's score but there are certainly elements in there, as well as the main riff to the Agent Orange song "Bite The Hand That Feeds" which plays a few times through the film and is performed live by the band.
The Prophet X is doing everything in one take and no overdubs in split keyboard mode. The lower half is doing a drone with reversed grand piano and choir samples blended with the PX's oscillators and darkened analog filter. The upper half is doing some heavy drums and electric guitar with loads of chorus on it (perfect for that classic Goth Guitar type sound).
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbWUjVnN2UU
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I don't think I posted my band Lean Logic's latest album "The Last Mirage", it was recorded just before I got the Prophet 5 Rev 4 but the Prophet REV2 is all over it, as well as various other synths like the Pro~One, ARP Pro Soloist, Roland Juno 60 etc.
Working on the next one now for which I've been using the P5 Rev4 as the main instrument.
https://youtu.be/jJlWgD2w9rA (https://youtu.be/jJlWgD2w9rA)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWwA4kbnq4-1A8b9fbNX126EvjKS5Z7k (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWwA4kbnq4-1A8b9fbNX126EvjKS5Z7k)
https://leanlogic.bandcamp.com (https://leanlogic.bandcamp.com)
Nice one. Some lovely/chewy sounds in this! Curious about the "sax" - where's that from?
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I don't think I posted my band Lean Logic's latest album "The Last Mirage", it was recorded just before I got the Prophet 5 Rev 4 but the Prophet REV2 is all over it, as well as various other synths like the Pro~One, ARP Pro Soloist, Roland Juno 60 etc.
Working on the next one now for which I've been using the P5 Rev4 as the main instrument.
https://youtu.be/jJlWgD2w9rA (https://youtu.be/jJlWgD2w9rA)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWwA4kbnq4-1A8b9fbNX126EvjKS5Z7k (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWwA4kbnq4-1A8b9fbNX126EvjKS5Z7k)
https://leanlogic.bandcamp.com (https://leanlogic.bandcamp.com)
Nice one. Some lovely/chewy sounds in this! Curious about the "sax" - where's that from?
Thanks Manbird, the sax comes from the Mellotron 4000D, some Chamberlin and Mellotron tenor/alto saxes combined
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This song is a remake of something I wrote as a teen (and released on my second Antronica album), but I'm pretty positive I've not posted this remade version here before!
I did my best to replicate the OG teen track, note-for-note, tone-for-tone. Prophet 5 doing fretless bass, marimba and organ. Korg PolySix for the strings and steel drum. Drums are my Sequential Drumtraks, sampled for ease of use.
Those old 4-track days still haunt me... such a different mindset - so much care and commitment had to precede every next move. Still, Logic and I had fun with this new version! Hope you enjoy... thanks
https://youtu.be/IvQbk2sNQUM (https://youtu.be/IvQbk2sNQUM)
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Doing a quick jam showing of the Tempest and ISLA S2400 synced together.
Hope you enjoy! Please excuse the wrong notes :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMZ2Dkkc2j0
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Doing a quick jam showing of the Tempest and ISLA S2400 synced together.
Hope you enjoy! Please excuse the wrong notes :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMZ2Dkkc2j0
As I said some time ago, I‘m still not really into horro movies, but I always listen to your tracks, even if I often don‘t comment on it.
It was a real joy for me watching you doing it as a jam this time. Well done, Sir!
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Doing a quick jam showing of the Tempest and ISLA S2400 synced together.
Hope you enjoy! Please excuse the wrong notes :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMZ2Dkkc2j0
As I said some time ago, I‘m still not really into horror movies, but I always listen to your tracks, even if I often don‘t comment on it.
It was a real joy for me watching you doing it as a jam this time. Well done, Sir!
Thank you so much! :)
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Here's something inspired by our own Sacred Synthesis. I don't quite mean I was going in the direction of his improvisations, but rather this was me trying to conjure up a nice demo of the Korg Prologue at its loveliest. I love the Prologue... it's a synth I clicked with immediately. With its Ensemble effect, it can do lovely "PolySix" strings and with it's Drive switch and honky filter, it can veer into MS-10/20 territory. Maybe the most startling thing is that it can be tricked into sounding more like a rev 2 P5 than my Prophet 6 - sometimes. The Prologue doesn't have an epic low end - or my Prologue 8 doesn't seem to, anyway. Maybe the 16 with its compressor can get there? With the low end question in mind, this track does include the Moog Grandmother hitting that "long lunar note." There's a tiny touch of Prophet 5 as well, just cos, but it's mostly a token gesture - my Prophet 5 and Grandmother arrived within days of each other, just as I'd started work on this track...
Hope you enjoy... here's the ironically titled album closer, "Prologue, Literally"...
https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4 (https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4)
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"Trying to conjure up a nice demo of the Korg Prologue at its loveliest" is certainly an excellent motivation in creating a piece of music. I'll give you credit for making a synthesizer that I had wanted to like but couldn't finally sound likeable. Very nice patch and music.
I'm curious. What instrument provided the vintage string patch? I liked that, too.
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"Trying to conjure up a nice demo of the Korg Prologue at its loveliest" is certainly an excellent motivation in creating a piece of music. I'll give you credit for making a synthesizer that I had wanted to like but couldn't finally sound likeable. Very nice patch and music.
I'm curious. What instrument provided the vintage string patch? I liked that, too.
The strings are Prologue. One of the on-board effects is Ensemble, based on the one in the PolySix's. I did, though, download a user-created BBD-type effect ala that of the classic string synths, and that's probably what is on my string patch here. I sold my PolySix last year, so having the Prologue able to cover a range of stringer sounds is nice. I really find the Prologue such a satisfying and enjoyable synth. The built-in effects are fantastic... they feel very naturally part of any patch I create, rather than something slopped on top of or around a sound.
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Good morning! New single + instrumental version:
Bandcamp https://allandbyallo.bandcamp.com/album/ready-to-go-ft-sally-green (https://allandbyallo.bandcamp.com/album/ready-to-go-ft-sally-green)
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/3zuwoGz8uc0zgYQMESgCwg?si=3qMSJ0yjSCiCG3xBaaEKVA (https://open.spotify.com/album/3zuwoGz8uc0zgYQMESgCwg?si=3qMSJ0yjSCiCG3xBaaEKVA)
Jazzy broken beat house kinda thing with vocals by Bay Area Boogie queen Sally Green.
All synths recorded through UAD Neve 1073 unison. That thing's permanently locked in my Console.
Chords, pads - Prophet Rev2
Leads - Moog Sirin mostly, KORG Monologue accents
Rhodes, piano, strings - Nord Electro 3
Synth fx (space whales) - Moog Matriarch
Trap drum kit stuff, some tops - Abbey Road Vintage Drummer Kontakt instrument (which is amazing)
And a bunch of mix tools from UAD, Plugin Alliance, Noise Ash, KIT Plugins.
Mastered by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering
Artwork is a hand painted piece by yours truly. Molotow markers on cardboard.
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Here's something inspired by our own Sacred Synthesis. I don't quite mean I was going in the direction of his improvisations, but rather this was me trying to conjure up a nice demo of the Korg Prologue at its loveliest. I love the Prologue... it's a synth I clicked with immediately. With its Ensemble effect, it can do lovely "PolySix" strings and with it's Drive switch and honky filter, it can veer into MS-10/20 territory. Maybe the most startling thing is that it can be tricked into sounding more like a rev 2 P5 than my Prophet 6 - sometimes. The Prologue doesn't have an epic low end - or my Prologue 8 doesn't seem to, anyway. Maybe the 16 with its compressor can get there? With the low end question in mind, this track does include the Moog Grandmother hitting that "long lunar note." There's a tiny touch of Prophet 5 as well, just cos, but it's mostly a token gesture - my Prophet 5 and Grandmother arrived within days of each other, just as I'd started work on this track...
Hope you enjoy... here's the ironically titled album closer, "Prologue, Literally"...
https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4 (https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4)
Speaking of Vangelis passing just the other day...this is a nice reminiscent tidbit at 1:30.
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Here's something inspired by our own Sacred Synthesis. I don't quite mean I was going in the direction of his improvisations, but rather this was me trying to conjure up a nice demo of the Korg Prologue at its loveliest. I love the Prologue... it's a synth I clicked with immediately. With its Ensemble effect, it can do lovely "PolySix" strings and with it's Drive switch and honky filter, it can veer into MS-10/20 territory. Maybe the most startling thing is that it can be tricked into sounding more like a rev 2 P5 than my Prophet 6 - sometimes. The Prologue doesn't have an epic low end - or my Prologue 8 doesn't seem to, anyway. Maybe the 16 with its compressor can get there? With the low end question in mind, this track does include the Moog Grandmother hitting that "long lunar note." There's a tiny touch of Prophet 5 as well, just cos, but it's mostly a token gesture - my Prophet 5 and Grandmother arrived within days of each other, just as I'd started work on this track...
Hope you enjoy... here's the ironically titled album closer, "Prologue, Literally"...
https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4 (https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4)
Speaking of Vangelis passing just the other day...this is a nice reminiscent tidbit at 1:30.
I've warmed up to the Prologue myself but unfortunately they are discontinued at this point so I never got around to getting one to pair it with my Prophet 6.
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Here's something inspired by our own Sacred Synthesis. I don't quite mean I was going in the direction of his improvisations, but rather this was me trying to conjure up a nice demo of the Korg Prologue at its loveliest. I love the Prologue... it's a synth I clicked with immediately. With its Ensemble effect, it can do lovely "PolySix" strings and with it's Drive switch and honky filter, it can veer into MS-10/20 territory. Maybe the most startling thing is that it can be tricked into sounding more like a rev 2 P5 than my Prophet 6 - sometimes. The Prologue doesn't have an epic low end - or my Prologue 8 doesn't seem to, anyway. Maybe the 16 with its compressor can get there? With the low end question in mind, this track does include the Moog Grandmother hitting that "long lunar note." There's a tiny touch of Prophet 5 as well, just cos, but it's mostly a token gesture - my Prophet 5 and Grandmother arrived within days of each other, just as I'd started work on this track...
Hope you enjoy... here's the ironically titled album closer, "Prologue, Literally"...
https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4 (https://youtu.be/nLYSbo1vKU4)
Speaking of Vangelis passing just the other day...this is a nice reminiscent tidbit at 1:30.
I've warmed up to the Prologue myself but unfortunately they are discontinued at this point so I never got around to getting one to pair it with my Prophet 6.
I've not heard it had been discontinued. Perhaps supply chain issues, rather? Sweetwater has them in stock in the US...
It's a lovely synth, certainly. When I was living between Berlin and Cal, and before the P5 was reissued, I had my Prophet 6 in Germany and a Prologue back here. It made for a curious long-distance relationship. Those two synths get on well. I think the Prologue gets on well with anything, though. Seriously. It doesn't have the sonic heft of a Prophet, but it does things neither my P5 or P6 do. Some of that is to do with the effects. Korg nailed those on the Prologue. If someone was only just starting out in the world of synths, who knows if I'd push a Prologue on them. But as a complimentary synth, it's an easy one for me to suggest.
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Hey all - I've come up with a small tribute to Dave Smith. Musically, it's a modest thing, but the sound of his epic synths is what I hoped to put on display.
Prophet 5 for the main theme. Prophet 6, Pro One and Drumtraks come in next, followed by Evolver with P6. It concludes where it started. Again, as a piece of music, it's small, but I hope I've conveyed my appreciation for the impact Dave Smith has had on my life. All best thoughts to his family and friends and his colleagues at Sequential.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67490287
(https://www.patreon.com/posts/67490287)
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Hey all - I've come up with a small tribute to Dave Smith. Musically, it's a modest thing, but the sound of his epic synths is what I hoped to put on display.
Prophet 5 for the main theme. Prophet 6, Pro One and Drumtraks come in next, followed by Evolver with P6. It concludes where it started. Again, as a piece of music, it's small, but I hope I've conveyed my appreciation for the impact Dave Smith has had on my life. All best thoughts to his family and friends and his colleagues at Sequential.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67490287
(https://www.patreon.com/posts/67490287)
I like this short piece very much. It gives some "everything said" vibes to me.
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Hey all - I've come up with a small tribute to Dave Smith. Musically, it's a modest thing, but the sound of his epic synths is what I hoped to put on display.
Prophet 5 for the main theme. Prophet 6, Pro One and Drumtraks come in next, followed by Evolver with P6. It concludes where it started. Again, as a piece of music, it's small, but I hope I've conveyed my appreciation for the impact Dave Smith has had on my life. All best thoughts to his family and friends and his colleagues at Sequential.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67490287
(https://www.patreon.com/posts/67490287)
I like this short piece very much. It gives some "everything said" vibes to me.
Thanks, jok3r. I never met Dave, but there was something so warm about his presence, and so bright about his energy. Even only knowing him through interviews etc, he seemed like he was always very "in the room," if that makes sense. I'm surrounded by gear he created, gear I use every day, so I guess he's still in the room, in a way!
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Didn't get a chance to do a Night Owl Review this week (It's blistering hot so I have the Air Conditioner cranked to make sure the dogs are okay inside the apartment...which means the sound isn't optimal) so I went back into some tracks I recorded a while ago and decided to do a video on them.
One of my favorite directors is Don Dohler. There's something really genuine about someone making monster movies in their backyard for no money, on weekends with friends. Especially at a time when shooting on actual film was standard and any kind of distribution was a pipe dream for such project. Dohler found a way to get such awesome flicks out there such as Galaxy Invader, Fiend and of course...Night Beast.
Dohler also was willing to take a chance on younger talent to help him with his films and one of those younger talents was none other than J.J. Abrams. Yes. THAT J.J. Abrams! Believe it or not Abrams is a synth enthusiast (He's actually on Sequential's artist roster) and, with the help of Rob Walsh (Revenge Of The Ninja) he ended up doing a fantastic synth score for the film.
I have no idea what Abrams used but for this track I limited myself to only the Tempest and Prophet 6.
The Prophet 6 is doing the low bass/pad line as well as some faux string machine sounds and windy special FX sounds.
The Tempest is not only doing a repetitive hi-hat rhythm (done on an 808 Kit) but also the main sequenced melody, done using the onboard analog oscillators.
I hope you enjoy!!
P.S. I really wish Abrams would score more films....especially synth scores...the score for the film is a lot of fun and really adds to the picture.
©Everett Dudgeon 2021
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsRN5_ndI8Q
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I'm posting something that's meant as a sales-pitch, I admit, but I think that for the folks of the forum, it'll read mostly as a mess of "Huh???" This is a cut'n'paste take on my forthcoming album, presented in sound collage mode. My wife thought it worked well as a piece unto itself, hence my posting it here. I've zero idea if this will lead to millions and billions of record sales, but it's hopefully an amusing sonic joyride for a few Heads!
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/stranger-snippy-promo-mp3-bnc (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/stranger-snippy-promo-mp3-bnc)
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This is all done with the Summit. Happy music.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/it-can-wait
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z92ETAi5rTU
Just a quick cover of the main theme for one of my favorite films: David Durston's "I Drink Your Blood".
The Prophet X is doing just the timpani drums.
The Prophet 6 is doing the distorted mono synth
Fender Stratocaster running into the Roger Linn Adrenelinn iii effects box with an auto wah and delay effect on it.
All the implements necessary to make this incredibly simple theme, incredibly effective.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
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Here's something from my next record. I must confess, I barely played keyboards on this one - the Mellotron, Farfisa, piano and Moog are all courtesy of my mate Sir Thomas Hughes. He's a monstrous, magical player. He used to play with Nektar for a bit of a while. Anyway, I did add some white noise from my Juno 6's chorus and I probably played a note or two of synth. Otherwise, I'm on bass and guitars this time. Still, it might be an amusing diversion for a few of ye peeps.
I hope you enjoy the song.
https://youtu.be/E1XmGmh3lsY (https://youtu.be/E1XmGmh3lsY)
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Manbird , this sounds right to what I consider your retro roots. Really liked when the ultra distortion guitar comes in.
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I used the Behringer 2600 and Vermona MK2 synthesizers to make this. DSI P12 used as a controller with an arpeggiator for main track. Most of the song is just two tracks simultaneous. The 2600 was set in Duo mode (paraphonic)and provides much of the main theme, portamento "pads" and deep bass parts. The Vermona was set to 4 alternating voices so that each osc is set slightly different and thus occasionally fm each other- as heard in the "voicey" parts.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/intrigue-ground
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Here's a piece....
Mostly Pro3 tracks. (mp3!)
(Audio file ends up mono.)
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I used the Behringer 2600 and Vermona MK2 synthesizers to make this. DSI P12 used as a controller with an arpeggiator for main track. Most of the song is just two tracks simultaneous. The 2600 was set in Duo mode (paraphonic)and provides much of the main theme, portamento "pads" and deep bass parts. The Vermona was set to 4 alternating voices so that each osc is set slightly different and thus occasionally fm each other- as heard in the "voicey" parts.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/intrigue-ground
Nice - and weird! I'm always a fan of weird. Your piece sits on the edge of "something I can't quite put my finger on" and the slight dissonance is appealing.
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I just recorded a very sloppy moment/minute of "Summertime" that I kinda like.
The electric Piano is a Kurzweil, the lead is the Pro3.
(2.3 meg mp3)
Cheers
(Yea, I'm looking into signing up for Bandcamp. - Anybody have any feedback on them, or a better idea?)
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Yea, I'm looking into signing up for Bandcamp. - Anybody have any feedback on them, or a better idea?)
Yes. A Bandcamp account is easy to set up, it works as it's supposed to, and you can actually earn money from home if you can somehow get the word out about your music. As always, the key is advertising.
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Yea, I'm looking into signing up for Bandcamp. - Anybody have any feedback on them, or a better idea?)
Yes. A Bandcamp account is easy to set up, it works as it's supposed to, and you can actually earn money from home if you can somehow get the word out about your music. As always, the key is advertising.
Bandcamp has been really good for me. I release at least one album per year, and Bandcamp makes for a reliable outlet. I've also been uploading older items from my back catalog, offering bundled deals etc. I'm not the finest businessman in the candy store, but Bandcamp is something I've been able to manage with relative ease.
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Here are two songs I helped out with, but they're not mine. The act is called Mystery Fix. Most of the music is done with Soma Pulsar, if I'm not mistaken. I was hired to write lyrics and sing. I really enjoyed this collaboration and imagine a few of the peeps here will like the songs...
https://mysteryfix.com/album/blown-away-the-needle?fbclid=IwAR35hYdDF1SL1dZlmEVOj9JOY0IBMxHM7gVjEg8FxwFPQ7jgTbQ14mzc__E (https://mysteryfix.com/album/blown-away-the-needle?fbclid=IwAR35hYdDF1SL1dZlmEVOj9JOY0IBMxHM7gVjEg8FxwFPQ7jgTbQ14mzc__E)
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Used several synths to make this track:
Prophet 12: cello, cello voice, basses, timpani drum
Vermona MK2: fade in/fade out sequencer via Polyend sequencer
ASM Hydrasynth: pads and woman voice
Omnisphere: piano
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/stardust-theme
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Very nice, Soundquest. An effective and tasteful use of delicate strings, and a solemn series of Alberti bass/rocking chord progressions with the piano patch. One of my favorites from you.
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Thanks for the kind words.
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I've been reading the Sacred Synthesis thread about String Synthesizers with interest. I was looking for something recently to cover Roland VP-330 when I was working on a Vangelis cover: Rachel's Song from Blade Runner (this one with my daughter). I used the Prophet Rev2 for strings and a slightly altered Boy's Choir from the Yamaha Montage to get the effect. (I also blended in my daughter's voice.) I also used the Rev2 for bass, wind, and a staccato triangle wave sound. I used a Hydrasynth for a few leads... and used its ribbon controller a bit, which was fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abU41-3h8-Q
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Jason, that was quite an achievement, a beautiful little masterpiece. Wow. I'm stunned at the polished quality of the piece. And you had quite a few things happening at once. I also liked the eye-balling between you and your daughter at the end. That was cute.
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Jason - That is absolutely beautiful. I loved loved it. The playing and the vocals are fantastic. Thanks for posting this!
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Wonderful, Jason. Thanks for making this and posting it. And all best to your daughter as she sets off musically adventuring in South Korea!
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Sacred Synthesis, Mark Wilkins, and Manbird: Thank you so very much for your kind comments! Working on videos for YouTube can be a little tedious and frustrating at times. Comments like yours are very motivating and keep me going. I will share them with Megan.
I think I'm going to do a "Making Of" video demonstrating keyboards and sounds from the video for those of us who like to chat about such things. The Hydrasynth is a newer instrument for me, and it has some nice touches. I programmed some of the leads first on the Rev2 and then programmed them into the Hydrasynth and was fairly happy with how good they sounded on the digital instrument. Obviously, I wish the Hydrasynth was analog, and yet an analog Hydrasynth would probably be out of my price range.
I really liked that I could frequently play the bass and strings with one hand, especially with a really long release time on the bass. Notice too, the Rev2 module in the upper right hand corner, which is giving that beautiful stereo effect.
Thanks again,
- Jason
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Yes, a "making of" video would be interesting to us synthesizer nerds.
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Yes, a "making of" video would be interesting to us synthesizer nerds.
:D I found my people! Who in the real world can we talk to about programming synthesizers? I hope to get to that soon. I used about a dozen sounds, most of which are original.
I have one "Making Of Video" already for Blade Runner End Titles, which you can find at the end of the video. I think that one used even more sounds than this one.
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Count me in as a viewer too Jason. You nailed the reverb and effects just right.
PS> I have those same windchimes ;D
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Count me in as a viewer too Jason. You nailed the reverb and effects just right.
PS> I have those same windchimes ;D
Many thanks Soundquest!
I was fortunately able to borrow the wind chimes over the summer vacation from the school where I teach. Had I not, I probably would have decided to buy them, as they add so much, and I can't find anything that sounds as good with my keyboards. I have great samples of most other percussion on my Yamaha Montage but nothing that would have worked well. I also recorded them a little for a future project or two. Thanks again.
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The real ones are best, but I've had some reasonable luck with making the standard (4 tube hang from your porch) windchime sounds on the Pro 2, then some LFO varying the delays fast to slow. You can mess with sample n hold pitches too.
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Video talking about sounds of the above cover of "Rachel's Song" by Vangelis.
Discussing using the Hydrasynth to cover Vangelis/CS-80 (and how it can be used to give Prophet Rev2 polyphonic aftertouch). Using Prophet Rev2 for MiniMoog bass and strings of VC-330, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g0NrmczQN8
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Video talking about sounds of the above cover of "Rachel's Song" by Vangelis.
Discussing using the Hydrasynth to cover Vangelis/CS-80 (and how it can be used to give Prophet Rev2 polyphonic aftertouch). Using Prophet Rev2 for MiniMoog bass and strings of VC-330, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g0NrmczQN8
In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard. I've never played a real CS-80 so I can't directly opine on authenticity, other than to say the updated versions of Arturia vintage synth plugins are in a completely different league than the originals (Arturia has really gotten their game together in that regard). Their entire vintage collection is worth owning, but several of the newer ones including CS-80 are real standouts.
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In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard.
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I need to keep this in mind and try to give Arturia a try, perhaps in a store. I don't have a logical aversion to softsynths, (especially when compared to digital synthesizers!) but I have never used them. I guess I do have an extra computer that I could try to hook up. I saw Eddie Jobson (U.K.) a few times, and he was using Arturia CS-80 V Software. That's a great endorsement given what he did with the CS-80.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvpKtsK2Vo
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In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard.
I need to keep this in mind and try to give Arturia a try, perhaps in a store. I don't have a logical aversion to softsynths, (especially when compared to digital synthesizers!) but I have never used them. I guess I do have an extra computer that I could try to hook up. I saw Eddie Jobson (U.K.) a few times, and he was using Arturia CS-80 V Software. That's a great endorsement given what he did with the CS-80.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvpKtsK2Vo
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You can also try demos for most plugins, including the CS-80: https://www.arturia.com/component/com_myarturia/id,145/view,demo/
I have sort of a love-hate thing with softsynths -- to my ears, most of them seem to have a specific sound profile to them that puts me off. They *can* sound great, but in addition to the user-experience advantage hardware has over them, analog-modeled soft synths, at least to my ears, typically miss that last 5% in the sound itself that seems to make 95% of the difference to my inspiration. With time thoughplugins have been getting better, and are often emulating not only the synth sound generation but DAC characteristics. Even my highly discriminatory ears were impressed when I heard the CS-80 plugin, and it became more important considering how far out of my budget a real CS-80 was. When the cost/affordability disparity is THAT large, getting 95% of the way there seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.
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Well I'm always thinking about what make a neat wave form from sounds you might hear every day. So, my latest concoction, seeks to outdo my teapot wavesource in strangeness, and is using the Novation Summit oscillators loaded with sounds of a hair drier :D! I was expecting such a waveform to look like mostly noise, but actually there's a high pitch whine that gives a cyclic pattern, thus making it usable. The wave import on the Summit is pretty easy using the editor. Also, microtunings and scales can be changed, so on this one I'm using a scale called "Mersenne Lute circa 1635". Of course bass, percussion, and main piano are using just regular waveforms, but you can hear the wispy sound during the intro, then again on the whole ottro after 3:35.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/steady-wind
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In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard.
I need to keep this in mind and try to give Arturia a try, perhaps in a store. I don't have a logical aversion to softsynths, (especially when compared to digital synthesizers!) but I have never used them. I guess I do have an extra computer that I could try to hook up. I saw Eddie Jobson (U.K.) a few times, and he was using Arturia CS-80 V Software. That's a great endorsement given what he did with the CS-80.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvpKtsK2Vo
You can also try demos for most plugins, including the CS-80: https://www.arturia.com/component/com_myarturia/id,145/view,demo/
I have sort of a love-hate thing with softsynths -- to my ears, most of them seem to have a specific sound profile to them that puts me off. They *can* sound great, but in addition to the user-experience advantage hardware has over them, analog-modeled soft synths, at least to my ears, typically miss that last 5% in the sound itself that seems to make 95% of the difference to my inspiration. With time thoughplugins have been getting better, and are often emulating not only the synth sound generation but DAC characteristics. Even my highly discriminatory ears were impressed when I heard the CS-80 plugin, and it became more important considering how far out of my budget a real CS-80 was. When the cost/affordability disparity is THAT large, getting 95% of the way there seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.
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I posted this a couple years back, but given that (a) yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the release of "Love Me Do" and (b) my version features the Prophet 5 covering the bass line, I figured no harm in reposting! Thanks for indulging me...
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/love-me-do (https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/love-me-do)
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It's been a while since I've posted in the forum but I haven't stopped using my rev2 :)
Here's a little Gregorian chant harmonized on the rev2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqRtlTwXlpo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqRtlTwXlpo)
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That was an interesting combination. The patch was soft and reverent and the chords were fairly smooth. The only "bump" was the change to a major chord at the end, which altered the Church mode.
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Super old K2000 sequence. Maybe some TX81z and K1r..
https://soundcloud.com/ronlussier/got-punch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WuQ9lVyqw
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Sacred Synthesis, I like the change that happens at ~6:20 when it goes to the airy patch. One of the digital waveforms on the PEK I presume.
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Thanks. Yes, that's my male choir straining up to its chipmunk register.
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My most recent fart from my Pro3...
No fx even, it's raw...
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My next most recent sequence...
(on a Pro 3)
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Hi all - it's Bandcamp Friday, where all fees are waived and artists get 100% of their sales price.
I've just released a download-only album on BC called Drones of the Prophet.
https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/album/drones-of-the-prophet
The 5 tracks were recorded on the Prophet 6 while I was living in Berlin. 3 of the 5 tracks ended up on various krautrock-themed compilation LPs on the Fruits de Mer label, but it was always my intention to release the tracks together. There's a light motorik thing called "Sunrise, Pt. 7" to start, with the next song, "Berlin School of Doubt" being the sample track.
I mostly post my pop songs here on the forum, but the Drones album might appeal to a few different heads, I'm hoping.
Thanks,
Ant
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My next most recent sequence...
(on a Pro 3)
Haha, "My..."
I should note that that's really just a tweak of "Earth's Core" [F7 P26]...
One of my fav sequences to play with... ("EC_..." - I've got a bunch of these, mostly based on 'Part B'.)
Also, a note/tip here, with Paraphonic On on the *synth*, but NOT on the sequencer, you get the round robin triggering on the oscillators, which can create a sort-of "48 step pattern".
(Pattern B of "Earth's Core" is like this, and is the main part I tweaked / keep tweaking, above.)
[Extra note: I noted, thanks to one of those youtube synth geeks, that a *single track* in a sequence can be a different length! (?!)
- Say, the Cutoff track... Set it to obviously modify the Cutoff, then press and Hold step 15 and press Reset!
- The Cutoff track now loops at step 15! Offsetting itself every 16(?) tracks!
-- That is is So Fg cool! Creating an almost generative sounding pattern!
And then make a seq track that noticeably modifies an Osc volume and press and hold step 13 and hit Reset. Then IT loops at step 13! ..Etc. Gotta love this thing!]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8lkXBptrAM
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This is a gospel song that my wife and I wrote. I played the instrumental parts and she did the vocals. The bass is from my Prophet 6 and the interlude lead synth from the Novation Peak. The other parts are soft synths (mostly Spectrasonics). It is the first song I have tried to write involving lyrics (hehe - probably painfully obvious). But we had a lot of fun making it.
https://soundcloud.com/markwilkins/kingofglory (https://soundcloud.com/markwilkins/kingofglory)
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I've just put out a new solo album on Bandcamp, "Häxan - A Soundtrack".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEngkPB5yk
I was commissioned by Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast to compose a new score for the 1922 Swedish silent movie "Häxan" directed by Benjamin Christensen, as part of the BFI "In Dreams Are Monsters" season of horror films.
I used the Sequential Prophet 5 Rev. 4 extensively on the full 1hr 45min score (and therefore on the condensed 45min album version), as well as the Sequential Circuits Pro-One, ARP Pro Soloist, Roland Juno 60 etc, a shamanic drum, flutes, guitar.
Of possible interest to some people, I also used a couple of ex-Tony Banks instruments I bought from Genesis - a Roland Rhodes MK-80, and a Korg Wavestation.
I performed the score at a live screening last week and hope to do so in the future, perhaps with a tour of sorts...let's see!
The full album is on Bandcamp:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/h-xan-a-soundtrack
Nick
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I've just put out a new solo album on Bandcamp, "Häxan - A Soundtrack".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEngkPB5yk
I was commissioned by Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast to compose a new score for the 1922 Swedish silent movie "Häxan" directed by Benjamin Christensen, as part of the BFI "In Dreams Are Monsters" season of horror films.
I used the Sequential Prophet 5 Rev. 4 extensively on the full 1hr 45min score (and therefore on the condensed 45min album version), as well as the Sequential Circuits Pro-One, ARP Pro Soloist, Roland Juno 60 etc, a shamanic drum, flutes, guitar.
Of possible interest to some people, I also used a couple of ex-Tony Banks instruments I bought from Genesis - a Roland Rhodes MK-80, and a Korg Wavestation.
I performed the score at a live screening last week and hope to do so in the future, perhaps with a tour of sorts...let's see!
The full album is on Bandcamp:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/h-xan-a-soundtrack
Nick
That was an easy sale! Really like this and will be happy to have it living inside my phone!
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I've just put out a new solo album on Bandcamp, "Häxan - A Soundtrack".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEngkPB5yk
I was commissioned by Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast to compose a new score for the 1922 Swedish silent movie "Häxan" directed by Benjamin Christensen, as part of the BFI "In Dreams Are Monsters" season of horror films.
I used the Sequential Prophet 5 Rev. 4 extensively on the full 1hr 45min score (and therefore on the condensed 45min album version), as well as the Sequential Circuits Pro-One, ARP Pro Soloist, Roland Juno 60 etc, a shamanic drum, flutes, guitar.
Of possible interest to some people, I also used a couple of ex-Tony Banks instruments I bought from Genesis - a Roland Rhodes MK-80, and a Korg Wavestation.
I performed the score at a live screening last week and hope to do so in the future, perhaps with a tour of sorts...let's see!
The full album is on Bandcamp:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/h-xan-a-soundtrack
Nick
That was an easy sale! Really like this and will be happy to have it living inside my phone!
Thank you! Glad you like it.
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Hi all - my newest, Antronica 4 vs The Spoken Word is out today, a download-only release on Bandcamp. This one probably covers more ground than most other material I post here. Of the lead-off track, one customer writes: "That's some serious analog synthy goodness right there." Prophet 5 and 6, Pro One, ARP Odyssey, Moog Grandmother will have that effect!
There's also a load of more experimental work - very sample-based, hence the Spoken Word part of the album's name. I've got samples of Peter and Darrin from Ciat Lombarde and Patch Point, respsectively, sampled over Tago Mago inspired drumming. There's Colin Moulding of XTC talking Berlin. My ex-wife sent me some sleep-talk recordings taken with her sleep app. It's an all over the place album. The record concludes with yer standard model stoned late night jam, with the Roland System 8 and TR-6S getting a workout. Each track has a listing of the various bits of gear used. The Prophet 5 and 6 do much heavy throughout.
Hope you enjoy, and thanks for your time...
Ant
https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/album/antronica-4-vs-the-spoken-word
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I have just put a new single out, “New Dark Age”, do have a listen on my Bandcamp:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/new-dark-age
The track features Prophet 5 Rev 4 masquerading as Moog Taurus bass pedals towards the end, and there is ARP Pro Soloist & Mellotron on there too, as well as Tony Banks’ old Roland Rhodes MK-80 piano that was used on We Can’t Dance and the Genesis tour in 1992.
Hope you all have a nice Christmas!
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0651090174_65)
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I have just put a new single out, “New Dark Age”, do have a listen on my Bandcamp:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/new-dark-age
The track features Prophet 5 Rev 4 masquerading as Moog Taurus bass pedals towards the end, and there is ARP Pro Soloist & Mellotron on there too, as well as Tony Banks’ old Roland Rhodes MK-80 piano that was used on We Can’t Dance and the Genesis tour in 1992.
Hope you all have a nice Christmas!
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0651090174_65)
Nice one. Your voice has a touch of Tony Mansfield twang to it.
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I have just put a new single out, “New Dark Age”, do have a listen on my Bandcamp:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/new-dark-age
The track features Prophet 5 Rev 4 masquerading as Moog Taurus bass pedals towards the end, and there is ARP Pro Soloist & Mellotron on there too, as well as Tony Banks’ old Roland Rhodes MK-80 piano that was used on We Can’t Dance and the Genesis tour in 1992.
Hope you all have a nice Christmas!
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0651090174_65)
Nice one. Your voice has a touch of Tony Mansfield twang to it.
Thanks Anton 🌲
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This song is about 50% Prophet 6. A good portion of the bass, most of the melody line, and some of the pads were played on it. Other parts are from U-He Diva and Spectrasonics Omnisphere.
https://soundcloud.com/markwilkins/respite
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR-Wp5i1svI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR-Wp5i1svI
That was lovely. Perfect for the mood and weather here on the farm today! Thank you.
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Thank you, Ant.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR-Wp5i1svI
Just found it in my Youtube subscriptions before coming to the forum... what a sound! Who needs this whole Vangelis CS-80 stuff, if he can have your mighty P'08 pair?! ;D
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Thanks, Jok3r. It's a sound quality that I feel no desire to improve (except for the recording quality, of course). I'm completely content with the Prophet '08.
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Hi all - I think I've posted this song before, but we've just had the video premiered today, so I'm back to present the song once more. I mean, clowns, right? Who doesn't want to see clowns in a pop video?
The song is pretty sparsely arranged... Prophet 5 is the main chordal synth, Moog Grandmother plays the "solo." Soma Lyra 8 is the distorted "guitar." Digitakt drums, P-bass and Pianoteq finish things off...
https://www.popmatters.com/anton-barbeau-stranger-premiere
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Ok, I got the "B" 2600 before the great "dist". But it is a nice synth nevertheless. I can get some convincing flutes from it and nice basses too. The Vermona paired with it always speaks for itself. I have both in a rack with some other semi modular stuff. Just a little ditty I did.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/delicate-time
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After 5 months of silence.....I'm back. Time to get spooky.
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvCbuHxtDp4
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https://soundcloud.com/markwilkins/modeldplus3
This is a very short (90 second) track that I recorded as an experiment in one take. I was playing a simple riff with lead on the Moog Model D, and pad/bass on the Prophet 6 that was controlling the Peak via MIDI and using a Nord to add some Rhodes-y sounds. The sonic "wash" made my ears happy. So I opened the DAW and recorded the MIDI of three keyboards and the audio of the Moog in one take. I re-recorded some of the audio by playing the MIDI back through the P6, Peak, and Nord. I had to keep the original audio from the Moog because it doesn't use after touch from MIDI. I then dropped the drum track on top of the four audio tracks. The result is, as one might expect, a big swirling mess of squishy sound. But it was fun to do and I found a bit of enjoyment in it.
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Hey all - I know this isn't standard practice in the "Your Music" thread, but... I'm doing a livestream gig tomorrow (Sunday March 26) at 1pm (PST) on Facebook. I've been doing these streamed concerts with my wife (and our dog and cats) since the pandemic kicked off. The gigs are synth-free - I'll be playing acoustic 12-string and Wurli - but songs are songs in my world. You needn't have a Facebook account in order to view, and if you miss the livestream, the concert will be archived for later viewing. These have been fun gigs, with a small audience tuning in from all over the world. If you're looking for something to fill an amusing hour, please tune in! Thanks, Ant
Here's the event link...
https://fb.me/e/TJfYgbTc (https://fb.me/e/TJfYgbTc)
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I want to dedicate this to my awesome girlfriend. She has been such a huge support system for me through some hard times. Every time it feels like there is some immoveable obstacle in front of us she's always there to give me that extra push we both need to persevere.
I've been a big fan of John McCallum's work for a while, specifically his low budget synth oriented scores (Terror Eyes, Surf Nazis Must DIe etc) and one of his best is the score for the incredible Miami Connection. While his synth set up consisted of a Casio CZ-5000 and Sequential Circuits Pro One on Surf Nazis Must Die, I'm not sure if he had the same set up for this.
The Prophet X is doing my "cheap synth" patches that I created using the onboard synth samples (not the onboard oscillators) and cranked the filter drive to give it a really dirty lo-budget feel.
The Prophet 6 is in Unison Mode mimicking the Pro One's duties. Doing all the low bass tones and sound effects.
The Tempest is doing all the drum machine parts through use of a "Tom Cart" kit from Sequential's Tom (as well as some other onboard digital drum machine samples)
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlybXGtxeM
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Glad to see you're back at it LoboLives, the soundtrack meets the clips nicely. Some of those 80's movies were so goofy looking and even more so now ;)
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Mr. Crowley Keyboard Intro. (Ozzy Osbourne)
Prophet Rev2 does a surprisingly good pipe organ. I used two Rev2 units and later control them with the Yamaha Montage for some added Montage sounds. I tuned the four oscillators an octave apart, with C1 & C2 mixed a little quieter than C3 & C4. 33% Pulse Width with PWM. If I had another Rev2, I would have used it for the bass, which I like slightly more on the Rev2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6HiqDMMs18&lc=Ugzyxci4nfMVigYLOMd4AaABAg
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Glad to see you're back at it LoboLives, the soundtrack meets the clips nicely. Some of those 80's movies were so goofy looking and even more so now ;)
Thank you. I got laid off a week or so ago so I'm just trying to mentally focus on other things like music to distract me until something else comes along. Recorded a few more tracks the other day too.
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I agree, Jason. That pipe organ patch is wonderful.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ligft92y4IU
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That's pretty epic Sacred Synthesis. It would make a very fine soundtrack.
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Thanks, Jason.
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I've been on a big kick lately of late 80s early 90s martial arts films. Especially those with Cynthia Rothrock, Billy Blanks, Jalal Merhi and Bolo Yeung. I decided to pay tribute to one of those flicks, TC 2000. A super fun Terminator inspired flick with a kick ass soundtrack by Varouje.
I have no idea what the original score used but I wanted to give a different flavor than my 80s synth stuff. I used the onboard "cinematic" samples in the Prophet X as well as some factory presets. Massive horns, twisting metallic tones, ambient pads and thunderous percussion and hits.
I hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kjCbVT3AM
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A very odd one, if I say so myself. But... it's an all-Sequential tune, so there's that! Prophet 5 (chords, melody), Prophet 6 (bass) and Sequential DrumTraks doing the dumb drum thing. And... Kyle doing the singing!
https://polynormalrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aint-no-lady
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After being laid off a few weeks ago, I've decided to really try and focus on what I want to do in life. As such, I'm really concentrating on using the gear I have currently to it's fullest capabilities.
Although I have used the Tempest as mostly a drum machine or handling background sequence parts in tracks, I've never used it as a full on polysynth in a multitrack situation. So this past weekend I worked on a few tracks with syncing the Tempest to my DAW and doing some overdubs using the synth engine as a polysynth for pads and such.
I always wanted to do a cover of Dennis Michael Tenney's work. His scores for Night Of The Demons, Witchtrap, Leprechaun 3 and 4 and Witchboard 1 and 2.
From what I've researched, Tenney's set up at the time included
Sequencer: Yamaha QX1
Sound Modules: Yamaha DX-7 FM Keyboard
Yamaha TX-81Z FM Module (x3)
Yamaha RX-11 Drum Machine.
I used the onboard digital wavetable samples in the Tempest and went for a purely digital type sound with 3 overdubs. The first handling all the main sequences, the second doing the main melody and the third doing some pads and strings.
I hope you enjoy!
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℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CN1jbf8jT4
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Neat to hear the Non drum side of the Tempest. PS> I remember seeing that movie.
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Neat to hear the Non drum side of the Tempest. PS> I remember seeing that movie.
Tempest is truly underrated as a synth itself.
Yeah the first two Witchboard flicks are awesome. The composer is actually the director's brother. lol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxfKIZPgs0
Hey all! I haven't done a track or video exclusively with the Prophet 6 for a while so I gave it a whirl last weekend and did this cover of Dick Maas' score of his film The Lift. Incredibly underrated film and brooding score.
The original was done with a Jupiter 8 and Juno 106 synthesizer but this cover was done 100% with the Prophet 6. As cool as the Prophet 5/10 reissues are, I still don't think I'd ever get them over my Prophet 6. The versatility, onboard effects and features are truly special to me.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
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For reasons unknown to me, I have The Lift on VHS. Curious!
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I have a new single out, "2039 (EarthPercent Mix)", released as part of Brian Eno's charity EarthPercent's Earth Day 2023 fundraiser.
If you see this, please do give the EarthPercent Bandcamp a visit https://earthpercent.bandcamp.com (https://earthpercent.bandcamp.com), the Earth Day 2023 Compilation Album includes specially donated tracks by Brian Eno, Michael Stipe, Dry Cleaning, Nile Rodgers...and me amongst others! The money you spend on the track (or the full Compilation Album) will go to EarthPercent’s Grant Giving Fund, supporting organisations across the globe on the forefront of fighting the climate crisis.
"2039" started off on the Prophet 5 Rev 4, it's doing the main chord sequence on there. There's also Pro-One, ARP Pro Soloist, Juno 60 synth bass, and Mellotron. Foz Foster (The Monochrome Set) also contributes hammered dulcimer and musical saw (every track needs one).
You can find "2039 (EarthPercent Mix)" on my own Bandcamp too, and if you like it please do give me a follow on Bandcamp:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/2039-earthpercent-mix (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/2039-earthpercent-mix)
And here's the lyric video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2rsYI5Mk9g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2rsYI5Mk9g)
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For reasons unknown to me, I have The Lift on VHS. Curious!
You know you are the fourth person to tell me this. I had someone on Facebook say that despite not being into horror at all, nor even having a VCR....they have The Lift on VHS in their attic...no other tapes...just that one. They hadn’t even seen it. Seems like it’s some type of strange phenomenon.
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This "byte choice" song is a somewhat industrial track. I put a short Intro sample track here too so you can see what instrument is doing what.
example:
Phobos Red Square, Vermona MK2, B 2600
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/intro-samples
Song:
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/byte-choice
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Was in the studio this past weekend with the dogs and I wanted to try a more ambient track. Although the title and video are based on the 1985 film Confessions Of A Serial Killer, it's not a cover of William Penn's awesome DX7 based score....instead it actually sounds distinctly more early 90s. Almost reminds me of the score for Skinner by Contagion.
Anyway, the Prophet X is doing everything. All I used where the "Cinematic" and "Ambience" sample categories. Atmospheric voices and textures and dark pulses flood the piece. The only other samples I used were reversed piano strikes that were looping.
The dialogue is from an interview with serial killer Henry Lee Lucas taken from the intro to Impetigo's classic track "Boneyard". Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZ2JoH3aSI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ATl5BaBTo
Hey all! When I was in the studio last I managed to crank out a cover of Erica Portnoy's awesome score for the 1988 flick Flesheater: Revenge Of The Living Dead.
I'm not 100% sure of what Erica used (Although there is an interview on the new Vinegar Syndrome Blu Ray which I still need to pick up) the ending credits thank "Oberheim" so I'm assuming there's either an analog Oberheim synth or drum machine or both in there.
For this cover the Prophet X is handling an old upright piano, some wind and rain effects and unhearthly voices.
The Prophet 6 is handling all the rumbling pads.
The ISLA S2400 is really the star of the show. Not only is it handling all the drum machine sounds (Done using Oberheim DMX samples) but it's also sequencing everything as well.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
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You can thank my girlfriend for this. She's had to endure countless hours of synth samples and soundtracks blaring in our apartment. This is one track I've played often (be it in it's original form or remixes from other artists) and she said "Why don't you just cover it?"
To tell you the truth, I'm shocked I haven't covered this one after all this time.
Continuing on from my Witchboard track, I did the entire cover using the Tempest. This time I only used one overdub (the strings) while the main theme was done entirely on the Tempest in real time. Overall, I think it turned out really well and shows how underrated the Tempest is as a compositional tool.
Fun Fact: Carpenter based this theme on the riff from Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mab70EaRGc0
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Hey all! Here is the soundtrack to the film Manhattan Zodiac '77 from Astra United and Bounty Films.
You can read more about the film here
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14909188/
Big thank you to director Hedwig Schreck who gave me the opportunity to score in a genre of film that I'm a big fan of. She asked me to approach the music similar to that of 1970s library music (similar to CAM or KPM Libraries). Only a few queues and a bunch of stingers that she could repeat and pepper in through the film.
The Prophet X and the ISLA S2400 handled all the work. I didn't use any traditional synth or drum machine sounds at all but rooted the music distinctly in the 1970s style (Acoustic drums and percussion, electric bass, flute and organ). According to Severed Cinema I did quite well:
"The soundtrack is also another big part of the movie’s aesthetic. Composed by Everett Dudgeon, I believe he nailed it here by delivering an authentic level of what you would actually hear from this type of film were it made in the projected time period of the ‘70s."
https://severed-cinema.com/manhattan-zodiac-77-review-from-astra-united-and-bounty-films/?fbclid=IwAR1-fe1_wQft4kgE1yQeIoSRzO3r8GH9YEJju0gdAIqRLiUGPFHnlJ8XJbM
Hope everyone enjoys!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJD6P0T2mxE
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"The soundtrack is also another big part of the movie’s aesthetic. Composed by Everett Dudgeon, I believe he nailed it here by delivering an authentic level of what you would actually hear from this type of film were it made in the projected time period of the ‘70s."
Hope everyone enjoys!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
That's great man, In the little American towns where I came from we said not "Take it sleazy" but sometime or other I must have heard somebody say "take 'er sleazy".
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6T4Pft79b7v5/
A little psychedelic synth, played with the drums at times and other times played with and fiddled with knobs. I only upload to Bitchute.
video description follows:
For anyone who think my music always too busy like i do, this me playing drum and synth only
This is the Prophet, and a lot of good prophet dial turning here more than you will see on the youtube channels of some guys. More like, for anyone who would be interested in something I would. You would think there would be more people interested in this, and maybe they are out there. I think it's not a matter of finding this niche, more a problem of finding people with equipment, vision, and skills to actually build such a machine as I have. So no, you probably won't find anyone else with the scripts to do this, the artistic vision (mostly you see knobs making pop or other fascist music based on the 4/4 time signature) or the stamina. I remain standing alone another year. Anyway, this is some serious Prophet dial turning, I made almost 30 presets yesterday while filming this Drum practice in OBS. You die hard synth psychedelia listeners audiophiles, and lovers can benefit.
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Hey all! I've wanted to cover this classic Carpenter theme for a while and last week I decided to give it a shot.
I didn't want to do a 1x1 cover of the original but my own variation on it. There's nods to the original "From New York" version as well as the more rock oriented "From L.A." version but I really think this has it's own flavor and as such I've decided to do this as sort of an unmade sequel version "Escape From D.C."
All the sounds you are hearing are 100% Prophet X. No user samples but all factory content. I used some of my own patches but also some factory presets as well. Synth piano, electric guitar, and bass orchestral strings, sound effects and three sets of drums (Disco Kit, Techno Kit, Zeus Kit)
I didn't credit it because no sounds were used but everything was sequenced from the ISLA S2400 believe it or not. I find the sequencing on the S2400 so easy (Although I do wish there was some fixes in the Step Sequencing mode). I essentially just made a song using the dedicated MIDI tracks and synced it to my DAW with about 5-6 passes using the same sequences but different patches. Worked like a charm.
There was an awesome mock poster for Escape From D.C. I found online. I'm not sure of the artist but I would like to give them credit (leave a comment if you know who did it)
Anyway Enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ZbO793ARY
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Hey all! Here is the soundtrack to the film Manhattan Zodiac '77 from Astra United and Bounty Films.
You can read more about the film here
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14909188/
Big thank you to director Hedwig Schreck who gave me the opportunity to score in a genre of film that I'm a big fan of. She asked me to approach the music similar to that of 1970s library music (similar to CAM or KPM Libraries). Only a few queues and a bunch of stingers that she could repeat and pepper in through the film.
The Prophet X and the ISLA S2400 handled all the work. I didn't use any traditional synth or drum machine sounds at all but rooted the music distinctly in the 1970s style (Acoustic drums and percussion, electric bass, flute and organ). According to Severed Cinema I did quite well:
"The soundtrack is also another big part of the movie’s aesthetic. Composed by Everett Dudgeon, I believe he nailed it here by delivering an authentic level of what you would actually hear from this type of film were it made in the projected time period of the ‘70s."
https://severed-cinema.com/manhattan-zodiac-77-review-from-astra-united-and-bounty-films/?fbclid=IwAR1-fe1_wQft4kgE1yQeIoSRzO3r8GH9YEJju0gdAIqRLiUGPFHnlJ8XJbM
Hope everyone enjoys!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJD6P0T2mxE
Thought I was watching that old TV show SWAT on first track. Good 70's vibe throughout.
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Hey all! Here is the soundtrack to the film Manhattan Zodiac '77 from Astra United and Bounty Films.
You can read more about the film here
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14909188/
Big thank you to director Hedwig Schreck who gave me the opportunity to score in a genre of film that I'm a big fan of. She asked me to approach the music similar to that of 1970s library music (similar to CAM or KPM Libraries). Only a few queues and a bunch of stingers that she could repeat and pepper in through the film.
The Prophet X and the ISLA S2400 handled all the work. I didn't use any traditional synth or drum machine sounds at all but rooted the music distinctly in the 1970s style (Acoustic drums and percussion, electric bass, flute and organ). According to Severed Cinema I did quite well:
"The soundtrack is also another big part of the movie’s aesthetic. Composed by Everett Dudgeon, I believe he nailed it here by delivering an authentic level of what you would actually hear from this type of film were it made in the projected time period of the ‘70s."
https://severed-cinema.com/manhattan-zodiac-77-review-from-astra-united-and-bounty-films/?fbclid=IwAR1-fe1_wQft4kgE1yQeIoSRzO3r8GH9YEJju0gdAIqRLiUGPFHnlJ8XJbM
Hope everyone enjoys!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJD6P0T2mxE
Thought I was watching that old TV show SWAT on first track. Good 70's vibe throughout.
Thanks!
It seemed the 70s scores were really focussed on percussion. I think it was likely due to the rise in funk and experimental jazz.
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Hey all! Just something short and simple for this entry. I sadly missed out on the awesome AGFA Attack Of The Beast Creatures (I'll get it eventually) but I wanted to pay tribute to the synthy score for it.
I have no idea what was used on the original but for this I only used the Prophet 6.
I added some onboard analog distortion to the patch to mimic the low-fi/lo budget feel of the film. I also added some onboard Bucket Brigade Delay and thick Phaser effects.
Hope you enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnMn2QTUBIU
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Hey all. This week I wanted to try and do a cover of a composer who I think is hugely underrated, Al Festa. His scores for Robowar and Zombi 4: After Death are absolutely incredible.
According to Festa, the gear used on the scores was
Roland D50
Akai S900 Sampler
Minimoog
Steinway Grand Piano
Roland MSQ700 Sequencer.
For this cover I used both the ISLA S2400 and Prophet X together. I used the S2400 as more than just a typical drum machine. I noticed that ISLA Instruments themselves have started to refer to the machine as a "Desktop Sampling Workstation" and it really is. A lot of factory S2400 samples are used from the internal library as well as a few user samples. It's handling most of the sounds you are hearing save for the choir sound, string sound and some orchestral hits.
As Robowar is clearly inspired by Predator, Al Festa also used some sound effects from the "Predator Vision" in the score as well and I did the same here.
Hope you enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxxQVipWGZ4
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I finally ended up watch Amazonia: The Catherine Miles (aka White Slave) story the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it.
This isn't a cover of Franco Campanino's beautiful score for the film, I decided to do a completely original track which is heavily inspired by the mid to late 80s Italian Cannibal soundtracks. Earlier films like Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox utilized a blend of orchestral and Latin style pieces with dark passages from synths like the ARP Solina or Polymoog. The later era of films incorporated more synthesizers (DX7, various drum machines) into their sound pallet while still retaining that blend of styles.
The ISLA S2400 isn't just doing all the heavy drums and percussion (samples from a Roland R8 Drum machine) but it's also sequencing the Prophet X as well which is doing the acoustic guitar, DX7 Electric Piano and female vocals (run through a rotating speaker effect). I also added a nice M1 Universe part at the end (Obviously a more early 90s type sound but I thought it worked)
My girlfriend has been kicking my ass to get back into the studio so I ended up getting a ton of stuff done over the past couple days which I'll be posting over the next few weeks.
Not only has my girlfriend been integral into motivating me to get back into the studio and create but she's also starting to get into music production herself and she's producing some excellent stuff thus far and has hugely inspired me.
Hope you enjoy. Plenty more to come.
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roh_BeOL_1E
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I wanted to get back into doing more orchestral oriented pieces recently so I did a few tracks while I was at the studio.
I always have a difficult time writing this type of music because I often find myself debating "should I add another instrument or keep it simple?".
I will have to sit down and revisit some of my favorite soundtracks and composers doing this style (Ronald Stein, Les Baxter, Nicholas Carras, Albert Glasser etc) and get some of their techniques down.
Although I did take inspiration from Waldo de los Ríos' score for the 1971 version of Murders In The Rue Morgue, it's not a direct cover at all and the ending melody is completely my own. Strings, bells, harp glissandos, pianos, cymbal rolls, brass swells are all done from the Prophet X.
I'm happy how it turned out but more than anything, it's a good starting off point for me to really start to focus on this style of music again. I would love to be able to incorporate MPE style techniques in my work (be it from a Linnstrument or from something like the Push 3) but I have no funds for that right now so t's a great opportunity to re-learn this music as opposed to learning a new instrument.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvdnUsO8qI
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Lobo Lives, well the PX is well-suited for this orchestral need. I had tossed around the Prophet X idea for a long time, just because I would prefer a hardware sampler in a traditional keyboard format more than the numerous "checkerboard" button devices that are out there. Wish there was more music posted for such a neat instrument.
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Lobo Lives, well the PX is well-suited for this orchestral need. I had tossed around the Prophet X idea for a long time, just because I would prefer a hardware sampler in a traditional keyboard format more than the numerous "checkerboard" button devices that are out there. Wish there was more music posted for such a neat instrument.
Indeed. I do think there is some interest getting peeked on the PX with videos by Essen Kraft and Starsky Carr. Even Chris from Novation said it feels like it’s a “sleeper”.
I’m doing my best to try and showcase the versatility of the synth. From emulating things like the D50 or Prophet VS to doing lol fi style sampling sounds to doing cinematic tones and Orchestral work to just a simple piano or organ sound. I don’t know if I’m succeeding but I do intend to focus on this style of music more as opposed to synth style stuff...perhaps a combination of both?
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Being a, maybe obsessive, fan of the Pro 3, I'd love to hear some analog-only patches from the PX.
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Being a, maybe obsessive, fan of the Pro 3, I'd love to hear some analog-only patches from the PX.
I actually think that’s was one of the factors that hurt the PX initially...a lot of the demos just focused on standard synth type sounds and it totally devalued the PX’s sonic capabilities. Even the add on packs from 8 Dio....like do we really need another sawtooth wave? I really only use the synth engine to beef up the foundation under a sample or use a sine wave to FM a sampled instrument (I found this actually emulates a flutter tongue effect on trumpets).
Nah. I can’t help you with that unfortunately. Although there are demos online showcasing Prophet 5, OBX, Jupiter, Moog, ARP samples.
Even when I’m doing synth type sounds I use the sampled synths that 8 has on board like “Sawtooth Ensemble” or “Pulse Ensemble”. It gives the sound a very static, low budget type feel which I love.
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Here’s some examples.
“I wanted to give a really lo-fi sound so I used the Prophet X's sampled synth sounds and altered the tone to thin them out as well as changed some of the loop points. Almost to give the impression of a really cheap, radio shack type synth. I added some onboard chorus since most thin sounding synths have onboard chorus in order to thicken them out. No filter action or real articulation at all. Just flat sounding and cheap which totally fits the style.”
In this example though I did use the filter a bit. Almost reminds me of the Sequential Max.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdZycV0W6ho&pp=ygUdRXZlcmV0dCBkdWRnZW9uIGtpbGxpbmcgc3ByZWU%3D
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HI all - my latest video is up today. Normally, I make a point of posting Sequential-related music to the forum, but there's barely a synth on this one, and it's a Korg! BUT... it's playing a nice little solo, and is announced by none other than the creator of "Electronic Sound" himself, Beatle George! My full album is out in September, and is loaded with Prophet 5. For today, though, I hope you'll enjoy the song - and the Korg prologue!
https://glidemagazine.com/294265/video-premiere-anton-barbeau-captures-bygone-era-of-music-with-infectious-pysch-pop-anthem-waiting-on-the-radio/?fbclid=IwAR2Tp5TYDYdEzH0MXhQRiTcnlM4WuMrt0JkGLEAn2aBxpVdWRzcPA5Pby70 (https://glidemagazine.com/294265/video-premiere-anton-barbeau-captures-bygone-era-of-music-with-infectious-pysch-pop-anthem-waiting-on-the-radio/?fbclid=IwAR2Tp5TYDYdEzH0MXhQRiTcnlM4WuMrt0JkGLEAn2aBxpVdWRzcPA5Pby70)
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Although I've been busy in the studio I'm having a difficult time doing some of my "non synth" oriented soundtrack work. My mind just hasn't been focused lately but I'm trying my best. I figured I'd trying my hand at a simple cover from one of my favorite monster flicks. Ray Kellogg's The Giant Gila Monster This actually ties in perfectly with the announcement that the film has been restored and getting a special edition Blu Ray release (as well as Kellogg's other film The Killer Shrews) from the new label The Film Masters (Which I believe are an offshoot of The Film Detective).
Anyway, the Theremin driven theme by Jack Marshall is very simple (sounds like it was recorded with no more than 6 people or so) but fits the lumbering creature so well. Marshall was one of Capitol Records' top producers in the late 1950s and 1960s. He had a varied career as a jazz, rock and classical guitarist and also as a composer, arranger and record producer.
The Prophet X is doing the electric guitar, upright piano, clarinet and faux Theremin and as utilizing the onboard step sequencer in parts.
The ISLA S2400 is doing the drums (Snare, piatti crash and timpani) as well as some of the sequencing. The first time using the S2400 for this style of music...it surprisingly works very well in keeping the foundation of the track.
Overall, I'm happy with how it turned out. I hope my mind gets back on track and I can focus on some more original orchestral pieces. Perhaps a Western or Sword And Sandal type piece.
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxs2sC67Nmw
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Hey all! This is another track I had kicking around recently and I wanted to give a big shout out to Chris Alexander and his new book on the Roger Corman/Vincent Price/Edgar Allan Poe cycle.
https://www.chrisalexanderonline.com/...
Les Baxter's score for Pit And The Pendulum is sort of a precursor to the experimental soundtracks of films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Relying more on ambient sound effects and instruments being run through huge plated reverb and tape echoes.
The Prophet X is handling everything here. From the menacing grating strings (panning back and forth to give the impression of a swooping pendulum blade), to the organ, bass clarinet and scratching strings being run through heavy analog style delay and loads of super plate reverb.
I hope you enjoy! I'll be in the studio again later this month and I'll try and get some more tracks done :)
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPCcvhJNoM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QBZOkzjOqU
This is a track I actually recorded last year and just ended up stumbling across it while moving some files around. This isn't a direct cover of Riichirô Manabe's score for the awesome Vampire Doll (The first film in the incredible vampire trilogy from Toho) but it's certainly inspired by it.
Nothing fancy here. Just the Prophet X doing three tracks: Harpsichord, organ and bell/chime percussion (done using a looped sample).
I EQ'ed everything to make it sound like an old record with lots of vinyl pops and cracks.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2022
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2022
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Hey all! While at the studio this week, I wanted to try and focus on doing more orchestral style work. To warm up I did a nice little tribute to Ronald Stein's beautiful score for Phantom From 10,000 Leagues. Everything you hear is all from the Prophet X. I think this turned out quite well and I'm happy with it.
Hope you enjoy! Much more to come!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7xZSdQUuqk
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The water waves P-X as well?
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The water waves P-X as well?
Yup.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STRgQU-M6YY
Hello all! I worked on a ton of tracks recently and after watching the most recent Subspecies film Blood Rise, I felt inspired to try my hand at the classic theme.
I remember first seeing the trailer for Subspecies II Bloodstone on a VHS I had when I was younger and I immediately ordered it from by local video store. Unbeknownst to me, it was actually a whole film series which has become a big favorite of mine.
The Prophet X is doing most of the work here, vocals, strings, toms, piano, organ, pads and eerie bells while the ISLA S2400 is not only doing some of the sequencing to the Prophet X but it's also handling the driving timpani and gong sounds.
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
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I finished this track recently. Or it’s as finished as any track ever is. https://soundcloud.com/markwilkins/reduction
It was kind of fun in a different way from most. Part way into creating it, I started thinking it would be useful if I had a plug-in in my DAW that showed me the chord names playing in a MIDI track. I wasn’t able to find one, so I stopped the music creation and spent about six weeks creating a plug-in to do that. https://github.com/markwilkins/midi-chord-reader
I am probably the only person who will use it, but it was pretty fun to create the plug-in. It’s been a while since I have written C++ code. I had forgotten how much I like it. Writing code for fun/enjoyment is almost as great as writing/playing music. The corporate grind tends to make one lose sight of the joy of creation.
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And since we are approaching ski season, here is a very low quality video I made with my phone while skiing last spring on a weirdly wintery day for so late in the year (the local ski hill is named “Bogus Basin”). The backing track I added, however, was kind of fun from synth perspective. I did a live jam using the Prophet 6, Minimoog Model D, Novation Peak, and Nord Stage 3.
https://youtu.be/69la1FpcKVo
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Lately I've been watching a lot of 80s Hong Kong action cinema (In The Line Of Duty, Iron Angel etc) and felt inspired to do an original piece.
The Prophet X is doing the DX7 bass, electric guitar and orchestral strings while the ISLA S2400 is doing all of the drum work via some EMU samples (including the famous Orchestral Hit as well.).
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuymW-K63vA
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Hoodoo_ray. I just jumped thru some tracks as I'm at work, but what I heard sounds good. One the funnest thing we can do imo is release a whole album. Its neat to go back years later and have it all in one spot.
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Hoodoo_ray. I just jumped thru some tracks as I'm at work, but what I heard sounds good. One the funnest thing we can do imo is release a whole album. Its neat to go back years later and have it all in one spot.
The tracks in this do have (or at least are meant to have) some narrative something in common, so thought it made sense to collect them together. Thanks for taking the time to listen!
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This was just something I did quickly when I was in the studio last. Very simple but so much fun.
One of my favorite films is Inframan from Shaw Brothers.
To quote Roger Ebert
"The movie even looks good: It's a classy, slick production by the Shaw Brothers, the Hong Kong kung fu kings. When they stop making movies like Infra-Man, a little light will go out of the world."
This isn't a direct cover but it's heavily inspired by the synth/funk theme from the US version of the film.
The Prophet 6 is doing the repetitive two note sequence with a synced Random LFO doing some classic 1970s "computer" sounds.
The Tempest is actually doing a factory "Funk Kit" beat project which I think fits really well to the theme.
Hope you enjoy music beyond bionics!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_flA9PANqc
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Hi gang - I've got a new album coming out Friday. As with anything I do, synths - the Prophet 5 and Prophet 6 in particular - are always lurking, even when not at the heart of a given song.
Flood Magazine is streaming the whole record as a pre-release. Not sure how long it'll be up, but please feel free to check out some of the tracks.
Hope you enjoy!
https://floodmagazine.com/143900/anton-barbeau-morgenmusik-nachtschlager-first-listen/ (https://floodmagazine.com/143900/anton-barbeau-morgenmusik-nachtschlager-first-listen/)
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Pro3...
(Actually, wait, this is probably double tracked.) ... 2 Pro 3s?
I did do a few dual Pro3 tracks... can't remember for sure. - but this is all Pro3!
With only internal effects.
(Based off of the "Nuuk" patch. I think.)
- Yea, uh... U2_p11 and U1_p9. So, not just Muuk...
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Hi gang - I've got a new album coming out Friday. As with anything I do, synths - the Prophet 5 and Prophet 6 in particular - are always lurking, even when not at the heart of a given song.
Flood Magazine is streaming the whole record as a pre-release. Not sure how long it'll be up, but please feel free to check out some of the tracks.
Hope you enjoy!
https://floodmagazine.com/143900/anton-barbeau-morgenmusik-nachtschlager-first-listen/ (https://floodmagazine.com/143900/anton-barbeau-morgenmusik-nachtschlager-first-listen/)
Hey Anton, I assume you'll have this on streaming services eventually too? I did a quick run thru, I really like Bop, and Coming clean (good break in the middle). Maybe you should do a greatest hits album some day of your faves.
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Hi gang - I've got a new album coming out Friday. As with anything I do, synths - the Prophet 5 and Prophet 6 in particular - are always lurking, even when not at the heart of a given song.
Flood Magazine is streaming the whole record as a pre-release. Not sure how long it'll be up, but please feel free to check out some of the tracks.
Hope you enjoy!
https://floodmagazine.com/143900/anton-barbeau-morgenmusik-nachtschlager-first-listen/ (https://floodmagazine.com/143900/anton-barbeau-morgenmusik-nachtschlager-first-listen/)
Hey Anton, I assume you'll have this on streaming services eventually too? I did a quick run thru, I really like Bop, and Coming clean (good break in the middle). Maybe you should do a greatest hits album some day of your faves.
Hey Soundquest - thanks for checking it out. I've actually got a greatest non-hits record out there, called Empire of Potential, but honestly, it's old enough and I'm prolific enough that I don't really push that one anymore. I made it mostly for touring, and as such it contains songs that I was performing live at the time.
I do have several albums in the Antronica series, where I take my songs and rework them into fully synth'd-up shape, but I think you're onto something and it's time to do a new "introducing Ant" collection.
I don't like being sales-pitchy on the forum, but since we're here (and since Bandcamp makes it easy to preview tracks), I'd encourage curious folks to sniff around my Bandcamp page. It's a bit more curated than the rest of my too-much catalog!
https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/ (https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/)
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I have a new single out now called "End Of Terrain.", accompanied by an amazing video by award winning neural networks artist and filmmaker Glenn Marshall, who has previously worked with Peter Gabriel and Tangerine Dream.
I used the Prophet 5 Rev 4 heavily on the song, it's doing the background atmospheric stuff and also the big Northern Lights solar flare type melody in between the choruses and verses. Other synths used are the ARP Pro Soloist and the SCI Pro-One. Along with good old fashioned piano, drums, guitar and bass.
"End Of Terrain." is taken from the forthcoming album "Bloody Saturnalia", which is available to pre-order now on Digital or 180 gram vinyl gatefold LP formats. If you pre-order the album on Bandcamp you get "End Of Terrain" now, plus the complete album the moment it’s released on the 24th November.
If you're interested, here are some links...
Pre-order "Bloody Saturnalia":
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia)
Buy "End Of Terrain" / watch the video:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain)
"End Of Terrain." was written following the passing of my Dad, and a little trip to Iceland I made to see the Northern Lights, a step up from watching lightning storms as Dad and I would do when I was a child. As luck would (not) have it, the lights did not show themselves - or at least not to the naked eye. Just a slightly greenish tinge to the sky on long exposure photographs. So thank goodness we have songs where can make anything we like happen, we can have the solar flare strike Earth's magnetic field every chorus, and the lights dance in the sky as the souls of departed loved ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zDoNTmlBYw
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I have a new single out now called "End Of Terrain.", accompanied by an amazing video by award winning neural networks artist and filmmaker Glenn Marshall, who has previously worked with Peter Gabriel and Tangerine Dream.
I used the Prophet 5 Rev 4 heavily on the song, it's doing the background atmospheric stuff and also the big Northern Lights solar flare type melody in between the choruses and verses. Other synths used are the ARP Pro Soloist and the SCI Pro-One. Along with good old fashioned piano, drums, guitar and bass.
"End Of Terrain." is taken from the forthcoming album "Bloody Saturnalia", which is available to pre-order now on Digital or 180 gram vinyl gatefold LP formats. If you pre-order the album on Bandcamp you get "End Of Terrain" now, plus the complete album the moment it’s released on the 24th November.
If you're interested, here are some links...
Pre-order "Bloody Saturnalia":
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia)
Buy "End Of Terrain" / watch the video:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain)
"End Of Terrain." was written following the passing of my Dad, and a little trip to Iceland I made to see the Northern Lights, a step up from watching lightning storms as Dad and I would do when I was a child. As luck would (not) have it, the lights did not show themselves - or at least not to the naked eye. Just a slightly greenish tinge to the sky on long exposure photographs. So thank goodness we have songs where can make anything we like happen, we can have the solar flare strike Earth's magnetic field every chorus, and the lights dance in the sky as the souls of departed loved ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zDoNTmlBYw
Really nice. Always like your music, and the video was fab. And... much appreciation for your stack o'gear!
Very sorry to hear about your dad, meanwhile. My own father is in his last months. Life does as it wishes with us, I guess.
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I have a new single out now called "End Of Terrain.", accompanied by an amazing video by award winning neural networks artist and filmmaker Glenn Marshall, who has previously worked with Peter Gabriel and Tangerine Dream.
I used the Prophet 5 Rev 4 heavily on the song, it's doing the background atmospheric stuff and also the big Northern Lights solar flare type melody in between the choruses and verses. Other synths used are the ARP Pro Soloist and the SCI Pro-One. Along with good old fashioned piano, drums, guitar and bass.
"End Of Terrain." is taken from the forthcoming album "Bloody Saturnalia", which is available to pre-order now on Digital or 180 gram vinyl gatefold LP formats. If you pre-order the album on Bandcamp you get "End Of Terrain" now, plus the complete album the moment it’s released on the 24th November.
If you're interested, here are some links...
Pre-order "Bloody Saturnalia":
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia)
Buy "End Of Terrain" / watch the video:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain)
"End Of Terrain." was written following the passing of my Dad, and a little trip to Iceland I made to see the Northern Lights, a step up from watching lightning storms as Dad and I would do when I was a child. As luck would (not) have it, the lights did not show themselves - or at least not to the naked eye. Just a slightly greenish tinge to the sky on long exposure photographs. So thank goodness we have songs where can make anything we like happen, we can have the solar flare strike Earth's magnetic field every chorus, and the lights dance in the sky as the souls of departed loved ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zDoNTmlBYw
Really nice. Always like your music, and the video was fab. And... much appreciation for your stack o'gear!
Very sorry to hear about your dad, meanwhile. My own father is in his last months. Life does as it wishes with us, I guess.
Thanks Anton. You aren't in Berlin are you? I am at the moment - although to be fair I'm finishing off self isolating with Covid, whoops. Anyway I'm sorry to hear about your Dad too. I guess it's that time of our lives when the generation above us slips away, along with the safety net.
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I have a new single out now called "End Of Terrain.", accompanied by an amazing video by award winning neural networks artist and filmmaker Glenn Marshall, who has previously worked with Peter Gabriel and Tangerine Dream.
I used the Prophet 5 Rev 4 heavily on the song, it's doing the background atmospheric stuff and also the big Northern Lights solar flare type melody in between the choruses and verses. Other synths used are the ARP Pro Soloist and the SCI Pro-One. Along with good old fashioned piano, drums, guitar and bass.
"End Of Terrain." is taken from the forthcoming album "Bloody Saturnalia", which is available to pre-order now on Digital or 180 gram vinyl gatefold LP formats. If you pre-order the album on Bandcamp you get "End Of Terrain" now, plus the complete album the moment it’s released on the 24th November.
If you're interested, here are some links...
Pre-order "Bloody Saturnalia":
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia)
Buy "End Of Terrain" / watch the video:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain)
"End Of Terrain." was written following the passing of my Dad, and a little trip to Iceland I made to see the Northern Lights, a step up from watching lightning storms as Dad and I would do when I was a child. As luck would (not) have it, the lights did not show themselves - or at least not to the naked eye. Just a slightly greenish tinge to the sky on long exposure photographs. So thank goodness we have songs where can make anything we like happen, we can have the solar flare strike Earth's magnetic field every chorus, and the lights dance in the sky as the souls of departed loved ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zDoNTmlBYw
Really nice. Always like your music, and the video was fab. And... much appreciation for your stack o'gear!
Very sorry to hear about your dad, meanwhile. My own father is in his last months. Life does as it wishes with us, I guess.
Thanks Anton. You aren't in Berlin are you? I am at the moment - although to be fair I'm finishing off self isolating with Covid, whoops. Anyway I'm sorry to hear about your Dad too. I guess it's that time of our lives when the generation above us slips away, along with the safety net.
You know, I was meant to be doing a listening party for my new album just last night in Berlin, but my dad's health is poor enough that I felt cancelling the trip was wise. So, no Berlin Covid swap for me just now!
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I have a new single out now called "End Of Terrain.", accompanied by an amazing video by award winning neural networks artist and filmmaker Glenn Marshall, who has previously worked with Peter Gabriel and Tangerine Dream.
I used the Prophet 5 Rev 4 heavily on the song, it's doing the background atmospheric stuff and also the big Northern Lights solar flare type melody in between the choruses and verses. Other synths used are the ARP Pro Soloist and the SCI Pro-One. Along with good old fashioned piano, drums, guitar and bass.
"End Of Terrain." is taken from the forthcoming album "Bloody Saturnalia", which is available to pre-order now on Digital or 180 gram vinyl gatefold LP formats. If you pre-order the album on Bandcamp you get "End Of Terrain" now, plus the complete album the moment it’s released on the 24th November.
If you're interested, here are some links...
Pre-order "Bloody Saturnalia":
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia)
Buy "End Of Terrain" / watch the video:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain)
"End Of Terrain." was written following the passing of my Dad, and a little trip to Iceland I made to see the Northern Lights, a step up from watching lightning storms as Dad and I would do when I was a child. As luck would (not) have it, the lights did not show themselves - or at least not to the naked eye. Just a slightly greenish tinge to the sky on long exposure photographs. So thank goodness we have songs where can make anything we like happen, we can have the solar flare strike Earth's magnetic field every chorus, and the lights dance in the sky as the souls of departed loved ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zDoNTmlBYw
Really nice. Always like your music, and the video was fab. And... much appreciation for your stack o'gear!
Very sorry to hear about your dad, meanwhile. My own father is in his last months. Life does as it wishes with us, I guess.
Thanks Anton. You aren't in Berlin are you? I am at the moment - although to be fair I'm finishing off self isolating with Covid, whoops. Anyway I'm sorry to hear about your Dad too. I guess it's that time of our lives when the generation above us slips away, along with the safety net.
You know, I was meant to be doing a listening party for my new album just last night in Berlin, but my dad's health is poor enough that I felt cancelling the trip was wise. So, no Berlin Covid swap for me just now!
Ah that's a shame. What a strange confluence of life events. I wish you the best with the situation with your Dad, I hope it goes as well as it can.
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Hey all! This is another quick recording I did when I was in the studio last time. It actually consists of some patches I created when I originally got the Prophet X.
No direct influence on the music but it's certainly inspired by some Italian Sword And Sorcery/Barbarian style flicks. I tried to combine traditional orchestral sounds but blended with a few synth sounds here and there.
Nothing fancy but I hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4tBBc3kFZk
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Hi all - I recently posted a link to my latest release, a double album called Morgenmusik/Nachtschlager. Lots of Prophet 5, Prophet 6 and Pro One on the album etc.
The Gare du Nord label has seen fit to put together a remix album of selected songs from the album. The album comes out Oct 20 with a listening party, but you can check it out in advance on Bandcamp. I'm thrilled with how it turned out. Hope you dig it, too!
https://garedunordrecords.bandcamp.com/album/morgenmusik-nachtschlager-remixes (https://garedunordrecords.bandcamp.com/album/morgenmusik-nachtschlager-remixes)
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To coincide with the Visual Vengeance Blu Ray release, I wanted to do a cover of Kim and Richard Davis' score for the 1986 Super 8 monster film The Abomination.
Everything you hear is actually from the Tempest. I went with a harsher digital sound and utilized the onboard VS waves. I recorded it in two passes with the on board distortion activated on one of the passes, while the other one was clean. I overdubbed some polyphonic pads and added some chorus and reverb via Studio One.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXOcD16e9U
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This track is very special to me. I've always been a huge fan of Jerry Goldsmith's work, specifically his interest in experimenting with bringing different types of sounds into his traditional orchestral compositions. I decided, I should at least attempt, to give one of his pieces a go. Not a 1:1 cover, but my own interpretation of a cue.
The 1989 film Leviathan has been a huge childhood favorite of mine. I remember renting it from Jumbo Video endlessly and watching it with him and my brother. I was always fascinated with the creature.
Goldsmith was incorporating a lot of synthesizers into his work in the 80s. Specifically the Yamaha DX and TX FM sounds as well as the Prophet VS. As such I also incorporated some Prophet VS sounds and white noise sequences from the Tempest, which is also adding a drum machine kick drum (Not in the original cue but I thought it worked)
The Prophet X is handling everything else. From the "underwater" sound effects (done via a lower tuned "Sea Horse" percussion sound darkened with the PX's analog filter. The strings, percussion, brass, vibraphone, woodwinds etc are all Prophet X. I think my personal criticism of my version is there's not enough woodwind work. Woodwinds seem to be something I always forget to focus on when working on my orchestral tunes. I'll certainly try and rectify that for the future.
I hope you enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaJRmESvSEk
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Alex Ball, he of the rather great YouTube documentaries on the Prophet 5, Korg, ARP etc, has remixed my song “End Of Terrain”. My Prophet 5 parts are still on there along with ARP Pro Soloist, but everything else is Alex on a variety of vintage instruments including the ARP Avatar and the Roland System 100 and 100m.
https://youtu.be/auuwBN7wZFo?si=y7T2r2_6vPAuTikY
You can download the remix here, and the album pre-order for my forthcoming album “Bloody Saturnalia” is on the Bandcamp site too:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain-alex-ball-remix (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain-alex-ball-remix)
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Alex Ball, he of the rather great YouTube documentaries on the Prophet 5, Korg, ARP etc, has remixed my song “End Of Terrain”. My Prophet 5 parts are still on there along with ARP Pro Soloist, but everything else is Alex on a variety of vintage instruments including the ARP Avatar and the Roland System 100 and 100m.
https://youtu.be/auuwBN7wZFo?si=y7T2r2_6vPAuTikY
You can download the remix here, and the album pre-order for my forthcoming album “Bloody Saturnalia” is on the Bandcamp site too:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain-alex-ball-remix (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain-alex-ball-remix)
Curious! He's taken your track and "brought it indoors." It's a little less personal, but it would be as a remix... Alex's version is as much about the joy of synths as anything, maybe.
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Alex Ball, he of the rather great YouTube documentaries on the Prophet 5, Korg, ARP etc, has remixed my song “End Of Terrain”. My Prophet 5 parts are still on there along with ARP Pro Soloist, but everything else is Alex on a variety of vintage instruments including the ARP Avatar and the Roland System 100 and 100m.
https://youtu.be/auuwBN7wZFo?si=y7T2r2_6vPAuTikY
You can download the remix here, and the album pre-order for my forthcoming album “Bloody Saturnalia” is on the Bandcamp site too:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain-alex-ball-remix (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-terrain-alex-ball-remix)
Curious! He's taken your track and "brought it indoors." It's a little less personal, but it would be as a remix... Alex's version is as much about the joy of synths as anything, maybe.
That describes it quite well 😊
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Very nice original post Paul Dither, I was listening to it just now. I didn't chase any of the other posts, but it did remind me of a little thing I put on Bitchute yesterday a 1 hour and 5 minute replay from Nov 16 2019 Youtube live stream entitled "Underwater Sounds" at the time. Now I am currently very annoyed on the Bitchute platform, and boycotting the Youtube, so no one should take this title I put on Bitchute seriously, as it is hateful and can get me cancelled, but it is all in the spirit of despising the entire internet these days. So yeah, not talking to yall on that one.
Any way, current events in the world, being what they are, I went with my feeling on that one, and appear to have been cancelled off Bitchute actually the day before and not for the reason of the title, but more for the reason of deleting all my older videos and unsubscribing from about 5 channels, which obviously struch a wrong chord as does my current hate for practically every one on that friggin platform.
So here, to make a long story short, This is the replay from 2019 Youtube, hsoted today by Bitchute but possibly ghostbanned/invisible depending how the link reacts when not logged in. The synths were I believe the Reface CS on heavy bass, and then there were some VST synths in various programs including Velvet Piano, (which comprised most of the soloing in the last 20 minutes) Vacuum Pro (AIR) was spotted, ME80 (Memory Moon), and Arturia Prophet on last 25 minutes arps. The Drums (last 25 minutes) were provided by Sennheiser VST. Very heavy LFO type Bass from the CS I believe. This was actually a very good live performance I listened to it several times yesterday after and while uploading it. Please excuse my hate, or if you don't want to do that that's fine too. You really can't hurt me.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kNY8kHVB21bK/
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I wanted to try another "suite" approach to an original theme. This time taking inspiration from low budget films like Fiend, Galaxy Invader, Night Fright and...you guessed it The Day It Came To Earth. I absolutely love these kind of films.
I wanted to do a really stripped back approach and as such I limited myself to using the Prophet X only as a faux electric grand piano (In fact a stock factory preset). The Prophet 6 is mostly doing monophonic work, faux Theremin and sound effects and the Tempest is just doing a simply beat using the Boss DR55 samples. Both the P6 and Tempest are run through some onboard distortion to give a really raw sound
I hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NrabIcVbo
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Hey all - in the spirit of remix-mania, the Gare du Nord label is hosting a live listening party right about now, 11am (PDT), running the remix album of songs from my new Morgenmusik/Nachtschlager record. Lots of very synthy/electro moments, but I've zero clue what gear was used by others. I don't even know how many of my Prophet 5/6 tracks survived the remixes! Tune in, turn on and find out in real time!
https://garedunordrecords.bandcamp.com/live/morgenmusik-nachtschlager-remixes-listening-party (https://garedunordrecords.bandcamp.com/live/morgenmusik-nachtschlager-remixes-listening-party)
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This is mostly Novation Summit synth. I used wave forms of a GuZheng and Erhu (both oriental string instruments) to program into Summit's oscillators. I have a china cymbal that I used for the gong like crashes. Though the bell-like repetitions towards the end are all Summit. Tuvan Singer and soprano voice are via Omnisphere. Those would be hard to synthesize ;)
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/beyond-yellow-river
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Did you really think I'd forget?
I couldn't help but do a cover of my favorite rendition of the classic theme. Halloween 2 has a much more "Gothic" feel than the first film and the synthesized pipe organ version of the theme emphasizes this.
The original was done with a Prophet 5, Prophet 10, 2 ARP Avatars and ARP Sequencer as well as a Linn LM1 Drum Computer.
For this I wanted to embrace the qualities of both the Prophet 6 and the Tempest. In fact, most of what you hear are factory presets! The Tempest is using one of the kits from "Roger's Beats" and also doing the famous 10 note melody in 5/4 time. The Prophet 6 is doing all the menacing brass, strings, organ sounds as well as the screeches/stingers near the end. Near the end I went crazy with the Tempest and started messing with the feedback, pitch, distortion to make the piece fall apart.
I couldn't help but also throw in the "Mr. Sandman" melody which plays during the ending credits.
Happy Halloween Everybody!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXZsuUNtY4&lc=UgxbVK_iLTmNOAyiSI94AaABAg
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I have another single released from the forthcoming Bloody Saturnalia album (out 24th November, pre-order digital / gatefold 180 gram vinyl LP formats at https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com (https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com)), it's called Chloe's Brain 🧠.
The song features piano, ARP Pro Soloist, Mellotron, Pro-One, & various soft synths as well as guitar, Aubrey Simpson from Pale Blue Eyes on bass guitar, and Simon Adams on drums.
Neural networks artist Glenn Marshall who has made videos for Tangerine Dream and Peter Gabriel has created another video for Chloe's Brain, just as hypnotising as the one for the End Of Terrain single.
Hope you like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOJq-vl6e5c
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I slept over with my dogs at the studio this past weekend and while we were in bed, we watched 1989's Moonstalker. Part of Vinegar Syndrome's Homegrown Horrors Boxset Volume 2. It's a fun, independent slasher film with an excellent soundtrack by Douglas Pipes. It has a great theme and I couldn't resist turning on the Prophet X and S2400 and doing a quick rendition of it.
I have no idea what was used on the original but here's a breakdown of this track. I wanted to try and think of what type of synth sounds they were using around this time.
Prophet X is doing 3 parts
1-Piano with no velocity and lots of chorus on it.
2-Synth pad-done using the oscillator samples instead of onboard oscillators. Giving it a static, low budget type effect.
3-DX7 bass/clav. This is done using two DX7 samples: A bass and clav explosion patch and I slowly fade the clav sample in as the song intensifies.
The S2400 is actually loaded with samples from the Roger Linn Adrenelinn 3 Effects Box. There's some excellent sounds in that machine. Wish I didn't sell my guitars, I'd be using it a lot more.
Hope you enjoy and beware of Bernie....he's still out there.
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6JQNFw9Kms
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Oskar Sala is likely a name that isn't common when discussing synth soundtracks. He was a German composer who specialized in the Trautonium, an early form of musical synthesizer invented in the 1930s. In 1948, Sala further developed the Trautonium into the Mixtur-Trautonium. Sala's invention opened the field of subharmonics, the symmetric counterpart to overtones, so that a thoroughly distinct tuning evolved.
He managed to score many films with this instrument and later used it to create a non-musical soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
One of his best scores was for the Edgar Wallace inspired Krimi film "Strangler At Blackmoor Castle" (1963). What stands out to me is the fact that around this time most electronic scores were used in space oriented science fiction films (Ala Forbidden Planet) but this is a murder mystery set in a dark and brooding castle...with a completely electronic score. This predates the synth slasher craze by decades.
I approached this, not as a cover but more or less as creating my own unique sound using the Prophet X. I tried to create an instrument that might have been possible around this time period:
-Despite what you might think, 0 oscillators are being used. The Prophet X is being run in 32 voice paraphonic mode with ONLY a Hammond organ sample being run through the onboard ring modular effect.
-The PX's sliders are controlling the parameters of the effect and the key tracking is set to full.
-The filter has a slow attack with resonance. Given that the synth is in paraphonic mode, this is only evident during certain key presses.
Everything is done in one take with no overdubs. The reverb you hear is also from the PX as well.
I hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-JFouKJP4
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Hi all! A brand new/very old one from me... another song from my teenage basement years, freshly re-recorded this for my latest album. The lyrics are vintage 1983/84! Very OMD-meets-Ultravox.
Pro One bass. Lots of Prophet-5. The solo is ARP Odyssey. There's a little recurring riff that's the ARP and Moog Grandmother together. Bit of sampled CP-70 piano and some high/pretty Juno 6 via System 8. The drum machine was DR-110.
https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/track/stumbling-falling (https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/track/stumbling-falling)
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Hi all! A brand new/very old one from me... another song from my teenage basement years, freshly re-recorded this for my latest album. The lyrics are vintage 1983/84! Very OMD-meets-Ultravox.
Pro One bass. Lots of Prophet 5. The solo is ARP Odyssey. There's a little recurring riff thats the ARP. and Moog Grandmother together. Bit of sampled CP-70 piano and some high/pretty Juno 6 via System 8. The drum machine was DR-110.
https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/track/stumbling-falling (https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/track/stumbling-falling)
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Nice. Fun!
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My album “Bloody Saturnalia” is out now:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kAqRWOTFypEznzQ-PM7PcdK1JtlqIEReE&si=m08dsHku2ShR72S0
The Prophet 5 Rev 4 is all over the album, along with its uncle (!) the Pro~One, and many more keyboards besides. Some notable keyboards:
- Tony Banks’ Roland Rhodes MK-80 (the culprit behind “I Can’t Dance” 😄)
- Keith Emerson’s piano (which is now based at a studio on the English south coast where I’m based)
- Maggie Cole’s harpsichord, Maggie is a renowned harpsichordist and also happens to be the partner of Richard Macphail (Genesis) making that a triple whammy of prog connections 😄
Anyway the album isn’t particularly prog. I hope you’ll give it a listen, and also if you see this on time please do join me for the “Bloody Saturnalia Listening Party” on Bandcamp, this Thursday 30th November at 8pm UK Time. We can listen to the album together and have a chinwag over Live Chat, RSVP here:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/merch/the-second-bloody-saturnalia-listening-party
The album is available Digital / Gatefold 180g Vinyl LP formats, as well as being on the usual streaming / download sites:
https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-saturnalia
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One of my favorite trilogies (and also one that is currently unreleased on Blu Ray) is the 80s Italian Rambo knock off "THUNDER".
I didn't do a cover of the various scores for the trilogy but instead took a crack at my own original piece inspired by the films.
The main influence was Jerry Goldsmith's score for Extreme Prejudice which (Like much of Jerry's work) combined synth and drum machine elements with orchestral elements.
The Prophet X is handling the orchestral strings, brass and thunderous percussion in addition to sounds of the Prophet VS and the famous shakuhachi sample from the EMU library.
The ISLA S2400 is doing a driving beat using sounds from the Drumulator and it's also sequencing a lot of the Prophet X parts as well.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJiBBDOXjE&t=14s
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I used the Trigon-6 for the melody on this song. It also has a Prophet 6 (pads) as well as a Minimoog and a Novation Peak involved. I started working on this around the same time my wife and I were putting together lyrics for a different song. Probably not coincidentally, the melody I was writing turned out to scan nicely with the lyrics. So we recorded it with that melody. I then went back to the song and made this instrumental version. The Soundcloud app/service (which makes me grumpier every time I use it) claimed it would distribute this with the text " - Instrumental" on the end of the title. It, however, did not.
youtube: https://youtu.be/4LKOPOmegKk?si=E-WOCHqmdxzPf4yV
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4RyDdu3YVLd5eHZWuanm40
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A very old track I did. (20 years?)
Mostly K2000 plus a TX81z? - And an SR-16.
https://soundcloud.com/ronlussier/got-punch
...I guess, here's an old all-tracks link... (all 20+ years old?)
https://soundcloud.com/ronlussier/sets/all-tracks
[edit: the classical stuff is 98% typed-in, then mouse/velocity edited, and REALLY dry / tempo locked!]
But, again, mostly K2000!
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Elric, Might be older yet...It has a definite 80's vibe. ;)
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Elric, Might be older yet...It has a definite 80's vibe. ;)
Haha. Yea.
I'm pretty sure these are all mid to late 90s. (Except the electronic classical, I did those in 2000-2001.)
My 80s sequences died with with my broken ESQ-1! [Miss that thing! $400! lol ]
- I grew up on Tangerine Dream, et al, and hard rock.
If I did new full tracks / "song sequences" it would still have an 80s vibe!
So... that's just me. - I'm old.
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This week I just wanted to do a quick little video of a cover I've been wanted to do for a while: Ralph Jones' score for Slumber Party Massacre. It's a fun and quirky little score originally done with a Casiotone MT-30!
For this cover I did everything using the Tempest. My previous experiments with the "Only Tempest" tracks have mostly been "all digital" and focusing on the VS waveforms, for this however I used a single analog oscillator on most sounds. Traditional sawtooth and square waves with a little audio feedback here and there.
I think it turned out well. Hope you enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErNfXKxmB6g
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I wanted to try something completely different than what I've done before. I've been following a fantastic Drum and Bass producer @Thought-Forms and his tutorials in creating some 90s style music you would find in various video games. I'm not a gamer myself but some of the music he creates has been really inspiring. Silent Hill, Parasite Eve type stuff. I used some of his techniques to create this piece.
The Prophet X is handling most of the work, I used a sample in the "Ambience" category and stretched it across the key bed. I added some bit reduction to it to give it some character. I used the large Super Plate reverb that's onboard the PX.
There's some incidental sound effects as well coming from the PX and run through some onboard delay and reverb.
The S2400 is doing a typical slowed down breakbeat (which was common in this type of music) and pitch stretched it to fit the BPM of the track. I used the onboard analog filters to bring the beat in and out of the track.
Overall, I'm quite happy with it and it got me thinking, I might try and do a full album with this kind of minimalistic music. Very similar to 1990s horror films as well...reminds me of some passages from Carpenter's In The Mouth Of Madness.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZV3D2QQjpM
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Merry Christmas everyone! In the spirit of the season, I wanted to pay tribute to one of my favorite holiday horror flicks: Silent Night Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out. Directed by one of my favorite filmmakers, the late great Monte Hellman (Beast From Haunted Cave, The Shooting, Two Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Ride The Whirlwind).
Out of all the entries in the infamous franchise, I enjoy this one the most and I can't explain why.
No idea what J Stephen Soles used but for this I used the Prophet X and ISLA S2400.
The Prophet X is handling the strings (Done with EMU samples) as well as the bell (8Dio) and female vocal (EMU) melody.
The PX is being sequenced by the S2400 which is also doing the drums using samples from the Roland R8 drum machine.
I hope you enjoy and have a safe and wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. :)
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcEO2IdoxXQ
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Sounds good Lobo Lives. The bells allow this to be Christmassy enough ;)
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I added a couple of my really old tracks to my SoundCloud. -- Just an improv/"jam" here.
-- The K2000 is/was kinda cool! (Though this has got some pretty bad moments in it. - Man that bass just drops out there! :( )
https://soundcloud.com/ronlussier/synth-t4
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Sounds good Lobo Lives. The bells allow this to be Christmassy enough ;)
Thank you so much!
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As the new year approaches, for the first time in a long time, I'm hopeful for the future.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2023
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMuRUB0UyR0
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Rev2 does Blade Runner Blues Lead (CS-80).
At the end, there is a link to a second video about how to program the patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxXnXJJvWlk
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My wife and I were sitting on the back patio sometime last summer and she said that a short melody popped into her head. She then vocally recorded the 8 bar ditty into her phone. Then we got back to reading our books and sipping the wine. A couple of months ago, I remembered it and we created the MIDI version of her impromptu phone recording and then added some parts ... and as these things sometimes go, we fiddled with it for a while and then called it "done".
The Trigon-6 has the main synth melody part, Prophet-6 on the pads, Minimoog on bass, and some soft synths for the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_onRZuvdtc
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My wife and I were sitting on the back patio sometime last summer and she said that a short melody popped into her head. She then vocally recorded the 8 bar ditty into her phone. Then we got back to reading our books and sipping the wine. A couple of months ago, I remembered it and we created the MIDI version of her impromptu phone recording and then added some parts ... and as these things sometimes go, we fiddled with it for a while and then called it "done".
The Trigon-6 has the main synth melody part, Prophet-6 on the pads, Minimoog on bass, and some soft synths for the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_onRZuvdtc
Really pretty. The synths sit so well together. And cool story of the song itself. Nice collaboration.
Curious how the differences between the Trigon and P6 sit for you. I've yet to encounter a Trigon in the wild, but I've been intrigued by it since its release.
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Really pretty. The synths sit so well together. And cool story of the song itself. Nice collaboration.
Curious how the differences between the Trigon and P6 sit for you. I've yet to encounter a Trigon in the wild, but I've been intrigued by it since its release.
Thank you!
Good question about the Trigon and P6. My initial "throw away" short contrast statement would be that, "the T6 sounds edgier and grittier and the P6 sounds softer and more beautiful." But as we have all (on this forum) learned, Sequential makes fantastic sounding instruments across the board. The thing I am really enjoying is that the Trigon, to my ears, does indeed have quite a different sound from the P6; there is less overlap between the two of them than I expected.
What I am finding, though, is that the pair of them together are better than the sum of the parts, as it were. In my opinion, certain synths just naturally sound good when played together (as in playing both via MIDI ... so the same notes at the same time with different patches). And, wow, the P6 and Trigon make a rich beautiful sound when played at the same time.
It does seem to me that it takes a little more work to coax the sound I am looking for out of the Trigon than from the P6, but I've had the P6 since 2016 so the familiarity aspect likely contributes to that.
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Really pretty. The synths sit so well together. And cool story of the song itself. Nice collaboration.
Curious how the differences between the Trigon and P6 sit for you. I've yet to encounter a Trigon in the wild, but I've been intrigued by it since its release.
Thank you!
Good question about the Trigon and P6. My initial "throw away" short contrast statement would be that, "the T6 sounds edgier and grittier and the P6 sounds softer and more beautiful." But as we have all (on this forum) learned, Sequential makes fantastic sounding instruments across the board. The thing I am really enjoying is that the Trigon, to my ears, does indeed have quite a different sound from the P6; there is less overlap between the two of them than I expected.
What I am finding, though, is that the pair of them together are better than the sum of the parts, as it were. In my opinion, certain synths just naturally sound good when played together (as in playing both via MIDI ... so the same notes at the same time with different patches). And, wow, the P6 and Trigon make a rich beautiful sound when played at the same time.
It does seem to me that it takes a little more work to coax the sound I am looking for out of the Trigon than from the P6, but I've had the P6 since 2016 so the familiarity aspect likely contributes to that.
I've always enjoyed certain pairings of synths... Prophet 6 and Juno 6 were a good team, with a clear contrast in tones between them. And interesting that the P6 is your easy-to-coax synth. I've had mine as long as you've had yours but I still sometimes have to give it a proper nudge to get it moving into the sonic range I want. But... your piece of music does a seamless job of weaving great tones together.
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I wanted to dedicate this to Zahliia Müller (Manhattan Zodiac '77) who has graciously offered me another soundtrack endeavor with her newest film Delirium 13. She once remarked that she would love to have me as the Fabio Frizzi to her Lucio Fulci so I thought it would be fitting to do a Frizzi track for her.
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqsglLmYMgQ
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100% Pro 3
(Oh, man, and then turn on paraphonic!)
https://soundcloud.com/ronlussier/ec-u3p31-07-final6
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I was thrilled to hear that 1961's "The Dead One" (aka Blood Of The Zombie) was getting a proper Blu Ray release from Severin films. It's an awesome flick that showcases both the jazz scene in New Orleans as well as well as it's underground voodoo folklore....it's also the first zombie film in color!
This isn't a cover at all but it's a tribute to the voodoo style music from the film. Both the S2400 and Prophet X are synced and handling all the various percussion elements in the music. As the music progresses, more and more elements come in and I also increase the onboard distortion of the Prophet X to build up the intensity of the ritual.
For when the drums start.....he walks and kills.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2024
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Ho6J4Q7h0
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Here is my latest song. I debated about posting it on this forum because the only Sequential parts on it are the Trigon-6 which covers the bass and the white noise (wind) at the end. The bulk of the sound is the Minimoog, Nord Stage 3, and Yamaha DX7. I do have a piano section in the middle. But it turns out I cannot figure out how to mic a grand piano, so the actual audio is from Keyscape. So that part of the video is a lie, but it shows the intent. I just can’t figure out how to use microphones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQT5xaoHI0E
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markwilkins,
I wouldn't shy away posting a song if not mostly Sequential stuff. There's not a lot of traffic anyway and its interesting to see other instruments in action like this.
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I do have a piano section in the middle. But it turns out I cannot figure out how to mic a grand piano, so the actual audio is from Keyscape. So that part of the video is a lie, but it shows the intent. I just can’t figure out how to use microphones.
Mic'ing up a piano can be a tricky business, but here is a very quick article to get started
https://mxlmics.com/micing-a-piano/
There are loads of youtube videos etc about this. Generally speaking, using 2 microphones (or even 3) is the best way. There is no absolute way to do it, a fair bit of experimentation is required - mainly due to the room and position of the piano.
From my (fairly limited) experience of this, if you can get 2 mics on the go you will almost certainly be able to achieve a nice recording, once you figure out the best placings and distance from the piano - but the guide above is a good starting point.
Regarding using microphones generally, it can seems bit daunting at first, but actually the general rules still apply - it's about finding the right position really for whichever room you're in and what it is you are recording. Distance makes a big difference, even a few inches - again like I say, my advice is to follow the basic principles, but experiment with it too - there's no real right or wrong as long as it sounds good in the end.
Nice tune by the way! :)
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I have another new single out taken from the new album Bloody Saturnalia, it's called "A Tear In The Fold". The single is released to mark two sold out performances at the Barbican in London, taking place this Sunday, where I'll be performing my score for the 1922 film Häxan on Prophet 5, Minimoog & Mellotron. I wrote this song in the wake of my Dad's passing. Lyrically it takes comfort from the idea that time isn’t linear, and that those precious moments with loved ones are forever as present as they once were. That's my beloved Pro-One sat atop Keith Emerson's piano in the video...although it doesn't get played haha. It *is* on the recording though, along with ARP Pro Soloist, Prophets REV2 and 5, Roland Rhodes MK-80, and a lovely piano borrowed off Emma Gatrill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRUWDwFyxe4
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This is predominately OB6, with a tad of 3rd Wave for the flutes and Arturia Drumbrute to wrap it up.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/nu-troubadour
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(https://forum.sequential.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=127.0;attach=4951)Early recording of this. It is the video recording:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/S3FpeFLxfiUa/
I may go back in and put some bass. I play the prohet with the drums and with the LaunchKey arp. The Beatstep pro plays the System 1m the ARP 2600 from Aruturia is very prominent during the most part especially when I am playing the deep groove drums from Roland. The Reface DX is playing the iPhone 5S Moog Model D and the AKAI Adv 25 is playing the Vacuum Pro and perhaps some Remastered Cassette 808 VST. I think that's it. The System 1m is via modular cables only and those cables coming from the Beatstep pro Sequence 1 & 2.
At this time I am planning to the bass. I made the recording in Studio One. If I get that done, it means I wl actually make a mp3 and probably put it on my Soundcloud.
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Trippy man
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Every so often I fire up the Modor NF1m, and when I do I'm always impressed with the vastly different sounds one can pull out of this synth. The formant filter parallels with the other filters to allow some nice vocal type sounds.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/laughing-stock
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This is 3rd Wave, but the stringy most pad is Hydrasynth. Towards the end you can hear the little clicky squeeky quirks to be gotten with shifting thru the wave table using programed envelopes. The 3td Wave does a decent traditional analogue sound in addition to its digital forte.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/the-finding
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This is 3rd Wave, but the stringy most pad is Hydrasynth. Towards the end you can hear the little clicky squeeky quirks to be gotten with shifting thru the wave table using programed envelopes. The 3td Wave does a decent traditional analogue sound in addition to its digital forte.
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/the-finding
Very nice! That is a lovely piece. I’ve been looking forward to hearing 3rd Wave examples.
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Thanks markwilkins
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My first track with the Prophet X fully repaired and back in action. I decided to pay tribute to one of my favorite Shaw Brothers films, Ghost Eyes. While Shaw Brothers are more known for their martial arts films (Five Fingers Of Death, 36th Chamber Of Shaolin etc) they did manage to dabble in some science fiction and horror (Inframan, Mighty Peeking Man etc) and Ghost Eyes is a primary example of early Asian horror that really has transcended generations of horror filmmaking in the East. Lots of the scares and even the story seem commonplace now but Ghost Eyes was from 1974.
The music for Ghost Eyes was done by Yung Yu Chen. This is not a direct cover at all but it's certainly influenced. Lots of ethnic instruments, violent string plucks and scrapes, eerie vocals, cymbal rolls and organ are all coming from the Prophet X.
Hope you enjoy!
© Everett Dudgeon 2024
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLdH2gVzkE
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Lobo Lives, interesting to see that side of the PX library. Happy to see you're back at it.
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Usually recordings I make are multitracked, but while experimenting the other day with the Moog Matriarch driven by a sequencer, I was able to roll the Hydrasynth into it too and do the tune in one take. I've enjoyed the Moog last few weeks. Its refreshingly back to basics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvJWOyuABw
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One of my favorite horror monsters of all time is The Mummy. I absolutely loved the Universal series with Lon Chaney Jr as Kharis slowly stalking and terrorizing the defilers of his princess' tomb.
But it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Lot 249" which the first piece of literature to portray a re-animated mummy as dangerous. The story inspired the subgenre heavily and there were countless adaptations.
One such adaptation was a segment from Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (1990). The adaptation actually was more humorous and featured a lot of slasher-esq elements. Almost a parody of the sub genre.
The music for Tales From The Darkside: The Movie was actually composed by no less than 5 composers. One of which was Jim Manzie doing the music for the Lot 249 segment. I've spoken about Manzie in the past on my Pumpkinhead 2 and Leatherface videos.
This was approached much more as a suite rather than a specific cue. Lots of ethnic type sounds, acoustic bass from the Prophet X's library as well as some EMU samples of strings and modified PX's samples mimicking some of the sounds Manzie was using constantly on his scores (the string plucks and scrapes with chorus and delay, filtered choir sounds etc).
I think it turned out pretty good.
Hope you enjoy
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bWBdyI4PQ
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Well I officially have switched my DAW to Digital Performer and I decided to do a quick track covering one of my favorite flicks, the iconic R.O.T.O.R.! ("Robotic Officer Tactical Operations Research/Reserve" )
I have absolutely no idea what David Adam Newman used but for this everything is done in a single take with the ISLA S2400 and Prophet X.
The S2400 is actually doing most of the work here. All the sounds you hear from it are from the factory sample kits and sounds. The synth sounds and kalimba samples are from @Fluxwithit and the drums are from @AlexBallMusic . The S2400 is also sequencing the Prophet X which is doing an emulation of the choir patch from the Prophet VS (using the onboard VS waves).
Now with the Prophet X being officially discontinued, I'm more determined than ever to keep pumping out videos showing just how incredible this synth is. My favorite synth of all time.
Anyway I hope you enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euPBhGC1igk
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VC340 strings and Prophet 5 doing the descending melody.
Pro One is the Bass.
Doepfer Dark Energy, the synth that brought me back to analogue back when, plays the ascending line. Love that synth!
TR-8S for drums.
The vocals are me trying out Melodyne as instant-harmony generator.
Samples include Laratron, Donneye and Himself.
https://on.soundcloud.com/Wd6cENg1DsQ7tiYL8
(https://on.soundcloud.com/Wd6cENg1DsQ7tiYL8)
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It's been a trying week. Lost my job and had to say goodbye to my family dog. I've been in a lot of mental pain recently and I wanted to do a track that really expresses that. Something far different than what I'm used to doing on this channel.
The Prophet X is doing the guitar, bass and unnerving sound effects as well as atmospheric choir.
The S2400 is handling all the drums and percussion as well as sequencing the Prophet X while in song mode.
Hope you enjoy.
© Everett Dudgeon 2024
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBavo1uu5uo
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Hey all. Just another track I did recently while moving over to Digital Performer full time. I recently saw the film Digital Man (1995) and loved it so I wanted to do a tribute to the theme by Jim Goodwin. Not a 1:1 cover but I think it turned out well.
The Prophet X is doing the strings, M1 style magic piano, synth and guitar sounds as well as some cinematic pads and twisting metallic sounds.
The ISLA S2400 is doing the drums using a Roland R8 sample pack I got from Cyborg Studio and I believe a few orchestral snare rolls from the EMU library. The S2400 is also sequencing everything as well.
After a trying week. I'm trying to remain positive and move forward.
As always, hope you enjoy and thank you for your support.
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj6dcTGYUPQ