Synth – The Temple of Bague: Recent Episodes
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Technically simple but harmonically complex ambient track. Waldorf Streichfett and Moog Mother-32 sequenced by Korg SQ-1. Live recording. Inspired by Treebeard’s conversation with Merry and Pippin.
Something ambient now – after all that growling and bellowing the last time 🙂 Everything Burns
Something a little different this time. Made a lovely snarly synth guitar sound by forming a sawtooth and squarewave powerchord. This is a song about the evangelical cults of the American mid-west and the way they line their own pockets by preying on the vulnerable. It’s loud and angry 🙂 Judgement
Finished Now 🙂 Thanks to all who provided feedback – it’s much appreciated. Now being added to the Synthesis Page. Shining Girl
It’s done, I think. It’s been added to the ‘Synthesis’ page up the top there. 2. Clarinda
So, playing around with Mixcraft to get a bit of verse and chorus structure in place yields the following rough mix. As usual, please excuse the poor vocals – I’m still using a horrible Korg condenser mic. The should be a shiny new dynamic mic arriving Real Soon Now(tm). Everything Burns Prototype II
More mucking around with Mr Haydn. This is just a quick dabble to try out some other stuff. The theme is played on a synthetic organ sound with a heavy reverb applied to give it a ‘church hall’ sound. Nearer the end, a couple of my usual synth patches join in. Mucking around with Haydn.
Ok, so this little theme has been rattling around in my head after StillHarpingOn was speaking about it, so I had to get down and dirty with the MicroKORG to get it out of my system. Dear Mr Haydn, I am SO sorry. I realise you’re spinning in your grave fast enough t get giddy,
So one of the songs off the album I’m working on is called “Everything Burns.” The melody and structure for it came to me in the middle of the night and kept me awake for hours and then tried to do a runner in the morning, so I did a quick rough of the verse/chorus
So I needed to make a synthetic bell sound for a project I’m working on and thought I’d do a little ditty just to let you hear what I’m talking about when I say ‘synthetic bell’. But as I started playing I realised, with no small amount of horror, that what I was dredging up
So I’ve modified my usual synth patch to not reset the attack envelope on keychances and added a little bit of portamento to give a rather nice sliding effect. Here’s a little tune to demonstrate what I’m talking about. The chord progression is based on a song called Private Lessons by Kevin O’Neill, Peter Ward
There’s a strangely beautiful poetry in the BBC’s shipping forecast. I reckoned it needed some music. There’s two versions here – the first has some electronic treatment on the voice and some listeners have found it doesn’t sound quite right. The second version has a simple reverb applied. See which you prefer. John Dow –
Ok, so driven in from the garden by a plethora of wasps and one annoying neighbour, I was planning to stick my head in a book, but sadly my synth got a hold of me. So, without further ado, I present Morphine in C – the music I image would be played in a psychiatric
Anyone familiar with Wagner’s Parsifal will know this one. It’s a short 24 second snippet of exquisite loveliness, using my nice warbly theremin sound. John Dow – Dresden Amen
This is a gorgeous gorgeous rich sound and I use it all the time. The patch is pretty straight forward on a microkorg: Turn off write protect and initialise a sound bank to the defaults Add a second oscillator (Saw wave) and set the level to 127 Detune the second oscillator – I set it
Programmers are allowed to write a “Hello World” program to learn about a new language, so I’ve made a “Hello World” to learn about a new synth. This was played on a Korg MicroKorg. It’s not Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, just a few notes to get the hang of the tiny keyboard and to try out