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Uncontrollable
A dance track that goes pretty hard! Your enjoyment might be enhanced by a very basic but very cute animation loop. This is Track 4/5 on the EP. [more inside]
Till The Bells Bring Us Home
High-energy synths and percussion with intertwining, anthemic melodies. (My love of Rush probably shows but it's a pretty straightforward tune.)
Chilliwack
This was a fun one to make. Basically one improvised take on a MIDI keyboard which is hooked up to 3 synths and drum machine, with a pad from a 4rd synth going on in the background. Piano and noise-wave crashes were added afterwards.
Using the JX-8P as a bass synth for the first time and gotta say....not too shabby!!!!!! [more inside]
Slopes
Analog synth rap beat!!
If I Can (You Can Too)
A pretty simple dance tune. I borrowed (well, adapted) a melody, I admit - but it was a 4/4 melody crying out to be in 3/4, and I wanted to set it right. This is track 2/5 on the Hellish EP.
Lush
Got an Arturia Keystep which means I can now program sequences on the JX-8P and baby it is a game changer!!!!!! Marimba sounds are from the Roland SC-88 which is MIDI'd up to the JX-8P as well.
Belkin
2 analogs synth looping together. Experimenting with CV connectivity to create syncopation.
Pressures Accumulating
This is a piece for (synth) strings, trumpet, and drums. [more inside]
leguminate
Kind of an LCD Soundsystem vibe
Python's Peak
Arps: Roland SC-88
Chords: Roland JX-8P
Drums: Korg S3
Bass: Korg Monologue
brightloop.mp3
a demo synth loop with some manual tom fills in stereo
The Beckoning Light on the Marsh
Dungeon/fantasy/forest synth again. You shouldn't follow the light! [more inside]
Sand Palace
A cheesy little synth funk tune that I made about a decade ago to accompany a presentation or something.
I re-discovered it this morning while cleaning up old files in a google drive.
Streets of Bakersfield [Buck Owens via Pete Kurie]
A ripoff of a cover. Check the cover version that I ripped off, it's great.
In a Silent Way
Joe Zawinul's In a Silent Way performed on modular synth and ms20 mini.
Over My House
3 analog synths, drum machine, vocoder
End Credits
slightly wistful outtro-style synth jam... you know what, this one goes out to Cortex!!!! Thanks so much for all you've done for us on here over the years and hope we'll still see some sick Cortex action on the black every now and again!!!
LA nights
Driving music with some synth pad action
July
I realize it's May, but you know
For JJ
Analog synth + vocoder
Ice Dance
Improvising on a synth loop
Energy Ladders
This is a piece that I recorded by triple-tracking myself playing an FM synthesis patch (the "twist" being that it has an extra cosine applied to the modulated signal) written in Pure Data. [more inside]
Interlude
Improvising with 2 synths and a drum machine (where it's at!!!!)
Inchoate Burbler
Some weird low sounds.
silhouettes
Cover of a Postal Service song. I'm pretty sure the song is ~actually~ about nuclear war, but the lyrics are weirdly appropriate for the pandemic. [more inside]
ZZ
Doing sort of a Deadmau5-style beat using an old drum machine (Korg S3). I used the noise wave on my Korg Monologue to create the little cymbal swells every couple bars (classic Deadmau5 trick which I have been trying to copy for a while using different methods). The pulsing synth riff is also kind of a Deadmau5 thing. It's weird - I'm not even that much of a fan of the guy but the handful songs of his that I've liked have clearly influenced me a lot.
deep end
Some minimal/deep house vibes. A very simple 4-track recording that was super easy and fun to make.
Bleep
Vocodin'
A New Kind of Beat 3
Arpeggiator solo
American Synthsgiving
Synth demo in 2 parts. Featuring new gear acquisition the Korg S3 drum machine!
Ritmo
A little gtr, a little marimba, a little synth.
mutations
Orca jam with an OP-Z. [more inside]
Walk Around the Pond Three Times
Something may happen if you do. [more inside]
enjoying my life dot mp3
just kind of feeling good about stuff!!
Brazilian Brooks
Another drum-less synth loop featuring the Roland Sound Canvas SC-88 deploying its absolutely classic harp sample once again!
All of the sounds on both this and my last post were made using hardware rather than software which is kind of a first for me in terms of synth tunes! Really enjoying it!
postd
a new synth track featuring a new vintage gear acquisition, the Roland SC-88, providing the classic harp sample!
Signal Tower
Semi-ambient modern synth pad instrumental with minimalist electronic bass, reversed electric guitar, and some pretty and deliberate vinyl crackle-ish soft static noise and a gentle mix of treated samples. Maybe sort of cinematic? [more inside]
Fei Long Studio 8
Some FL in FL
Mellow Morns
An eggs-tremely mellow morning improv sesh on the synth rig!!!
eemz haleemz
so I've been using this songwriting trick where I program a simple loop using the sequencer on my synths and sort of riff off of it to come up with the other instrumental parts. Then, when I have the idea properly fleshed out, I remove the synths. A songwriting scaffold, of sorts (though in many cases I have kept the original loop in there!!!)
Anyways, for this track I included the synth loop at the very beginning so you can hear what I'm riffing off of for the rest of the track. Hope you like it!!!! -CA
Special Teams
Tried a bunch of new stuff this time round. It's a dance trance but I played almost everything live, including the drums which were "performed" on the keyboard, because I'm not a drummer. The only things that were automated were the drum fills, crash cymbals, and the marimba/piano 2 patterns.
Misty Views
FM softsynth drenched in reverb, chorus and delay
Let There Be Snow
Merry Synthmas
Unicorns Keeping it Real
Another song from my early 20s. Going through some old files and finding some stuff that I hope is worth posting on here. I will try
Tropical Highball Club
An older one. Circa 2008
Grave E Cantible
Franz Joseph Haydn [more inside]
Time (the Revelator)
More microKORG experimentation, this time a Gillian Welch cover. I've finally gotten around to listening to this album recently, and a lot; it's really latching on to me. The title track is gorgeous and where I can't match Welch's vocals I can get weird instead, so: vocoder time. [more inside]
Exhalation
This was a sort of contemplative outro track for an album I released on Soundcloud earlier this year. The highlight is probably the delightfully warbly horn synth I stumbled across that did a decent job of filling out the song's character with its wandering melody.
Synthprovisation #1
A short improvisation on the Roland JD-XA synthesizer using the 4-voice analog synth engine w/ arpeggiator and its wonderful filters!
I Bought A MicroKORG (I Apologize)
After coveting the things for 15+ years I finally went and bought a microKORG synth/vocoder from a person in town who was selling it slightly used for cheaper. I have been playing with it all morning and here is an attempt to put several pieces together in a hastily improvised song. [more inside]