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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!

[LoboLives]

Admittedly, I've never been a huge fan of Cronenberg's Scanners. Outside of 2 good effects scenes and a great Howard Shore soundtrack, the film is really dull.

Now Scanners 2: The New Order? YES PLEASE! Not only is the plot significantly more interesting and includes a lot more action sequences but the performances and characters actually develop a great sense of pathos to them.

I can't remember Scanners iii too well but Scanner Cop? 1 and 2? Gold.

I really think there was a missed opportunity not turning this into a TV series.

The soundtrack was done by Mexican composer Louis Febre who's success came years later scoring the series Smallville.

I used the Prophet X for the majority of the sounds here. Lots of 90s Rompler inspired strings mixed with faux Wavestation type synth textures. I'm assuming, given the year of the film, Febre likely used the Wavestation and M1 to great effect or perhaps a Kurzweil.

The Tempest is doing the drum beats, which totally fit the 90s aesthetic and actually are factory beats programmed by Roger Linn himself!

Overall, I'm quite proud of this. Hope you enjoy!

℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FNW6_GnfM

[LoboLives]

Hey all! This week has been pretty stressful but while I have access to my studio, I managed to get a few tracks done.

This is a completely original track heavily inspired by some 1970s gothic vampire scores like Carlo Savina's score for Malenka.

12 string guitar, eerie female vocals, pipe organ, strings and orchestral percussion are all that's required to give a sense of an unholy ghoul's lust for blood. All supplied of course by the Prophet X.

I hope you enjoy!


© Everett Dudgeon 2026
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JevHUNcvj0

[LoboLives]

Truth be told, I generally don't venture out to watch films if they are past 1997 but I do remember in the late 90s/early 2000s there was a plethora of direct to video creature flicks I rented. Most were absolute dreck with terrible CGI (I can forgive rubber monsters, clunky stop motion and wooden puppets but terrible CGI....nope).

One of the better ones was King Cobra. It's essentially Jaws but with a genetically engineered snake terrorizing a town and it's actually pretty fun with some decent practical effects work and an appearance by Pat Morita.

The film was created by duo David Hillenbrand and Scott Hillenbrand. Both of them co directed and co wrote it with Scott staring in the film and David handling the soundtrack work.

I have no idea what David used but for this it's 100% Prophet X and I wanted to really try and capture that relentless feel of the creature stalking it's prey and go for that late 90s/early 2000s type sound.
Strings, bongos, choir, electronic drums, synth bass and some ethnic instruments are there in addition to some JD 800 inspired pads/effects. Most of the sounds are from the native 8Dio sample library with a few Ensoniq and EMU sounds thrown in there as well.

Digital Performer is sequencing everything.

Hope you enjoy!
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0vPJuNCdU

[LoboLives]

I was strongly considering doing a cover of one of my favorite video store rentals back in the 90s, A.P.E.X. I had already done a cover of Jim Goodwin's work for my cover of Digital Man and his score for A.P.E.X. is really good as well.

One I started tinkering around through, the piece became it's own thing and not a cover. So I decided to do this as a sort of mock sequel theme.

Everything you are hearing is 100% Prophet X. The thunderous percussion, cinematic strings, "M1 Magic Piano",  Electric Guitar and even the Prophet VS "Volkanik" style patch I created using the onboard VS waves to add to the futuristic elements of the story.

One thing I absolutely love about Digital Performer is the Conductor track. You can change the meter or bpm of a song at different points and really help the piece from becoming static. A true composition lifeline when scoring. You can hear how in this piece it changes bpm a few times, giving it an "Ending Credits Suite" type of feel.

Hope you enjoy!

© Everett Dudgeon 2026
℗ Everett Dudgeon 2026

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