Your Music

Re: Your Music
« Reply #1040 on: December 23, 2024, 07:13:11 PM »
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Re: Your Music
« Reply #1041 on: December 30, 2024, 08:43:49 AM »
I thought this might be an appropriate video for New Years and our inability to turn back time....at least for now.

Continuing to experiment with sequencing from Digital Performer I wanted to see if I could do a track that is entirely sequenced from DP.

I wanted to tackle a very underrated score with Vince Tempera's House Of Clocks. The Fulci film was finally released on Blu thanks to Cauldron films as part of their Houses Of Doom boxset.

No idea what Tempera used for his synths but for this it's 100% Prophet X. Using mostly factory samples and patches. The bells are all done with the "Spectraphonix" factory patch and the percussive clock sounds are done using the "Clocks And Gears" patch. The choir is a blend of a multisampled choir vectoring with a sampled stretch choir sound. The pipe organ is the only user sample from the EMU library and the main lead melody is done with a DX7 electric piano sample.

I think it turned out well. Hope you enjoy!

© Everett Dudgeon 2024
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmjfhJZOQPA

Re: Your Music
« Reply #1042 on: December 30, 2024, 08:38:08 PM »
Not sure that calling this a "song" is totally accurate. Perhaps it is a "sonic experiment in the key of Eb". I recorded a mix of live synth output (with a number of effects pedals involved). The primary keyboards involved are a Prophet-6, Nord Stage 3, and a Minimoog; those were recorded live. I added a bass line from the Trigon-6 after the fact. More info is included in the YouTube description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHAtFAUHyM

Re: Your Music
« Reply #1043 on: January 07, 2025, 09:09:56 AM »
Happy New Year everyone!!!

After experimenting with using Digital Performer as my main sequencer, I wanted to try and take an existing MIDI file and see if I could use it to sequence my external gear. I downloaded a bunch of different MIDI "Movie Soundtrack" files and one of them was Jerry Goldsmith's score for Total Recall.

The ironic thing about this score is it's eerily similar to the Basil Poledouris score for Conan The Barbarian. I found out that Poledouris and Goldsmith had a friendly rivalry in the 80s and you can clearly hear this in their work around the time. Poledouris taking Goldsmith style synthesizer sequencing techniques for Robocop, No Man's Land etc. Goldsmith borrowing the structure of Basil's percussion and melody from Conan for Total Recall. All in good fun.

I think this turned out well. I didn't want to do a 1 to 1 score at all but wanted to put my own spin on things. The Prophet X is handling all of the orchestral brass and strings as well as some standard "Synthesizer" sounds from the Prophet VS, DX7 and some analog synth emulations.

I decided to change the percussion and have the Tempest handle all the percussion sounds using a Simmons style "kit" that was designed by Roger Linn. The toms and snare are all being sequenced externally by Digital Performer but the rapid analog hi-hat.

Hope you all enjoy!

℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tq6b7ueBzo

Re: Your Music
« Reply #1044 on: January 11, 2025, 09:40:29 AM »
This is a song done on the 3rd Wave.  It uses a cymbal waveform taken from one of my crash cymbals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOrhmQpxAE

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Re: Your Music
« Reply #1045 on: January 13, 2025, 08:42:55 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_bu8CVxrQ

From the immortal Jess Franco comes arguably the most faithful adaptation to Bram Stoker's novel. With some absolute powerhouse actors and frequent Franco collaborators: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom,  Klaus Kinski, Jack Taylor, Maria Rohm and Soledad Miranda,

The film remains faithful to Bram Stoker's original literary work and embodies an atmospheric essence reminiscent of Mario Bava's distinctive style within the horror genre: it is characterized by a pervasive darkness, an eerie ambiance, and a sparing use of dialogue, which collectively contribute to its profound impact. Furthermore, this adaptation marked the first instance in cinematic history where the character of Dracula is introduced as an elderly gentleman who rejuvenates upon the consumption of fresh blood.

Bruno Nicolai's score for 'Il Conte Dracula' is widely considered one of his finest compositions. It commences with 'Processo', a masterful and evocative piece that intertwines an Eastern European melody, performed exquisitely by Leonida Torrebuono on the Hungarian harpsichord, with a sudden and grandiose romantic string passage. Throughout the film, the score demonstrates an unyielding orchestral rhythm, showcasing Nicolai at the pinnacle of his thematic and communicative prowess.

The Prophet X is doing everything here. From the distinctly exotic ethnic instruments and orchestral parts to eerie vocals and percussion. Everything is sequenced by Digital Performer with only a few parts played from the internal step sequencer of the Prophet X.

Hope you enjoy

© Everett Dudgeon 2025
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2025

Re: Your Music
« Reply #1046 on: January 20, 2025, 08:59:24 AM »
This is an original track I did recently before the end of last year. I was inspired by period piece horror films that came out around the late 80s and early 90s. Usually they were adaptations of famous works of literature like Murders In The Rue Morgue, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde etc. I used clips from the Anthony Perkins' flick Edge Of Sanity (Which was a Jekyll/Hyde adaptation) but it's in no way a cover of the film's soundtrack.

I wanted to maintain a sense of the period with having a mostly string oriented piece but with some "modern (90s)" type elements. Sweeping string quartets guide you through the fog drench streets of old London while a rhythmic hi hat and 12 string guitar drive the tension.

The only "Synth" part is actually done with a user patch I made on the Prophet X called "Darkside". Taking inspiration from the Roland D50 and Korg M1, it's essentially an "LA" or Additive synth type patch. The attack is a crash effect (sounds like shattering glass) with an ambient vocal pad underneath and some buzzing oscillators giving body to the sound (with lots of portamento on the oscillators to give them movement). I wanted to add this in the track as a nod to how some composers around this time would add smaller synth hits and textures to their orchestral scores to add a unique color to the sound pallet.

Overall I think it turned out well.

Hope you enjoy!


© Everett Dudgeon 2024
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwQWPkdHOVY

Re: Your Music
« Reply #1047 on: February 09, 2025, 12:23:31 PM »
This is nothing illustrious,  more of just a of a sound demo of the Pittsburgh Modular Foundation 2 with some electric piano tossed in.   I was messing with it the other day hooked to a sequencer.

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Re: Your Music
« Reply #1048 on: February 10, 2025, 10:07:46 AM »
This is nothing illustrious,  more of just a of a sound demo of the Pittsburgh Modular Foundation 2 with some electric piano tossed in.   I was messing with it the other day hooked to a sequencer.

https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/pittsburgh-modular-foundation-2

Nice! But it reminds me that I covet their Taiga!