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[LoboLives]

A new year.

Time to play.

℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx50fim0Flo

[Manbird]

Howdy! Here's a weirdo video for an oddball song of mine. The two main synth tracks are both played on Prophet 6. There's a brassy chordal thing throughout the song and a little squiggly lead sound that comes and goes.

https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/anton-barbeau-inside-the-dark-mystery-temple-of-klaust.html

[markwilkins]

Howdy! Here's a weirdo video for an oddball song of mine. The two main synth tracks are both played on Prophet 6. There's a brassy chordal thing throughout the song and a little squiggly lead sound that comes and goes.

https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/anton-barbeau-inside-the-dark-mystery-temple-of-klaust.html

Nice!! That is a great song!

[Manbird]

Howdy! Here's a weirdo video for an oddball song of mine. The two main synth tracks are both played on Prophet 6. There's a brassy chordal thing throughout the song and a little squiggly lead sound that comes and goes.

https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/anton-barbeau-inside-the-dark-mystery-temple-of-klaust.html

Nice!! That is a great song!

Thank you, Mark! I'm usually such a verse/chorus guy, so this is more abstract than I'm used to, but it was great fun putting it together from various bits and pieces!

[LoboLives]

One of the most underrated horror films out there is Scarecrows (1988). Upon first glance, you would think it's a run of the mill living scarecrow terrorizing the living but the film adds a completely different curveball of military and inter-dimensional involvement. I highly recommend it.

Equally as underrated is composer Terry Plumeri. Legendary touring jazz musician (upright bass, piano, flute) who later became a house composer for Roger Corman's New Concorde Pictures and continued as a composer going forward up until his tragic murder in 2016 at age 71.

Here the Prophet X is handling everything. Mysterious cinematic strings overtop a brooding piano motif. Thunderous toms and relentless shaker drive the piece on until occasional moments of uncomfortable scrapes and frantic atonal percussion.

I think it turned out quite well. Hope you enjoy!

℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlgZmxg1eJk

[LoboLives]

This is a track I did at the end of last year that I never got around to posting, so I figure...no time like the present.

First of all, The Dead Pit is awesome. I remember seeing the infamous clamshell VHS case for it at Jumbo Video all the time with the eyes of the zombie having red lights that lit up. It's a fantastic asylum/mad doctor/zombie film with some excellent moments. The composer for the film? Dan Wyman.

Dan Wyman is a name that doesn't get a lot of love. He assisted John Carpenter with the Moog synth programming on Assault On Precinct 13, Halloween and The Fog. In addition to being a brilliant programmer, he was also quite a good composer himself and his own scores reflect this.

His work in the early 80s such as Hell Night and Without Warning blend traditional string ensembles and orchestration alongside his synth work. In those cases he used his single keyboard version of the Prophet 10. This is the same Prophet 10 he used alongside his Moog modular systems on The Fog.

His score for The Dead Pit is a bit of a mystery to me but I have a suspicion he was using the Synclavier system. The sampling and sequencing $300,000 marvel that was used on dozens of soundtracks and music hits in the 80s. (Side note....I'm very interested in the Synclavier Regen but I also saw Synclavier is working on a full on keyboard expanded synth version of it as well...)

For this I used the Prophet X to handle the piano, guitar strumming, electric guitar power chords and also included some Synclavier samples (The famous Bell Gong and Choir sounds).

The Tempest is doing the massive distorted timpani sound and of course the standard drum machine type tones with some tuned feedback applied. I also through in some Simmons style tom fills as well.

Hope you enjoy! COME TO DADDY!!

© Everett Dudgeon 2025
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5UDDwh7iIU

[Manbird]

This is another track from my recent Klaust album. This one features loads of Prophet 5 and Prophet 6 - the latter handling the solo duties. The Prophet 6, alongside the Grandmother, has been a go-to for solos. The song features the Taiga synth, a dreamy weirdo machine.

I found the OG demo for this on a cassette, which means the song dates from the 90s. Rebuilt it with my band, with drummer Tom playing "gunshot snare" and cymbals over my drum machine track.

https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/track/torito

[LoboLives]

"Death, death, death comes sweeping down, filthy death the leering clown, death on wings, death by surprise, failing evil from worldly eyes, death that spawns as life succumbs, while death and love, two kindred drums, beat the time till judgement day, an actor in a passion play, without beginning, without end, evermore, amen."

An beautiful gothic horror soundtrack from Manuel De Sica is one of the driving factors of the longevity of Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man).

The score combines electronic and acoustic elements. For this cover I used the Tempest for the massive distorted timpani as well as the arpeggiated synth bass.

The Prophet X is doing all the orchestral strings and eerie atmospheric vocal sounds and whispering.

Hope you enjoy!
"I should have known it. The rest of the world doesn't exist."
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQSPuP1SZE

[LoboLives]

This is a quick, little original track I did recently. I've made no bones about how much I love the "Cinematic" and "Atmosphere" categories in the factory 8Dio Prophet X's sample library. I really think that they are worlds unto themselves outside of the standard instruments. Each key a completely different sound/texture. Using the "Sample Stretch" feature on the PX allows that one sound to be spread across the keyboard. After some careful adjustments of the tuning against he oscillators, it suddenly becomes a chromatic playable instrument.

For this track I was going for a late 80s/early 90s type of score with heavy atmosphere. Something like a burned out cop hunting the elusive bloodsucker through the rainy streets of the city.

The guitar drone/loop lures the piece on as huge menacing strings sweep down like bats. Not a string sample but from one of the onboard Organic Ambience samples stretched. There's some distant female operatic vocalizations as well (again using the Ambience category with a "Vocal Ambience" sample stretched).

The only "Synthesis" part of this is actually the FM bells. Those aren't samples but are done by frequency modulating the PX's digital oscillators against each other. I spoke about this before but the FM capabilities on the PX are worthy of some exploration themselves, so I'll be trying to attempt a track using only this in the near future.

As simple and quick as it is, I think it turned out quite well.

Hope you enjoy!

© Everett Dudgeon 2026
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLGVmX_-nU

[markwilkins]

Here is a song that my wife and I wrote and recorded. Two old people recording music … certainly not something worth making a video for, but we had a lot of fun. The Prophet 6 pad holds everything together through the entire song. The intro is the P6 pad with the Peak providing a plucky sawtooth. The Minimoog does all the low end. The Nord 3 piano through the song was actually rendered through a plugin (Keyscape) via the MIDI. Oh … and the drum hits were rendered from the MIDI as well; the Roland kit sounds good, but it is hard for me to record and mix the audio from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyjZ4hL6nYI

[Soundquest]

I like it Mark...especially all the switches getting flicked on at the start.  Always good to have your wife like the hobby too

[Soundquest]

Some 3rd Wave.

https://youtu.be/phAiewYDM9M

[markwilkins]

I like it Mark...especially all the switches getting flicked on at the start.  Always good to have your wife like the hobby too

Thank you! I’m glad someone appreciated the switches being turned on. It is indeed a bonus to have my wife enjoy the hobby. It’s easy to talk her into helping with arranging and phrasing and mixing. She is far more musical than I am (and her ears can still hear well).

[Manbird]

Yeah, the “switches” intro is a hit! And I’m always a fan of behind-the-scenes or as-it-happened footage. And it’s great you guys do music together. My wife sings with me sometimes and we collaborate on oddball projects once in a while. While I do music full time, she has a proper job, working for a land trust. She’ll commission me to do background music for various documentaries she makes, but it’s always mellow acoustic guitar stuff. I try to sneak synths in, but… no!