Category: Synth

The Withering of all Woods

  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.

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Judgement

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

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Shining Girl

Finished Now 🙂 Thanks to all who provided feedback – it’s much appreciated. Now being added to the Synthesis Page. Shining Girl

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Clarinda

It’s done, I think. It’s been added to the ‘Synthesis’ page up the top there. 2. Clarinda

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Everything Burns Prototype II

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

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Mucking around

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.

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St Anthony’s Choral

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,

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‘Everything Burns’ prototype

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

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OMG

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

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