7 posts tagged with synth by cortex.
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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]
posted by cortex on Jul 24, 2020 - 5 comments

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]
posted by cortex on Jul 11, 2020 - 8 comments

Paranoid Shepard

This is an endlessly rising Radiohead cover vignette; a section from Paranoid Android rises a whole step and repeats itself, and does so again, six times total, before returning to where it started, as a kind of large-scale take on the Shepard tone. [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 9, 2015 - 4 comments

The Golden Age (Beck cover)

A synthed out, vocoded take on Beck's extremely non-synthy song off of Sea Change, as an excuse to fiddle around with Reason 8. [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 5, 2015 - 6 comments

Seams (vocoder bringdown edition)

A recording from 2004 of a song from 1998. I really like vocoders: I think that they are very awesome. More inside!
posted by cortex on Apr 5, 2007 - 5 comments

Three Dimensional

Absolutely ridiculous synth-and-spoken-word composition I recorded to cut my teeth on Reason.
posted by cortex on Nov 14, 2006 - 5 comments

Iran To Pursue Atomic Research Despite Russian Plan

Creepy, moody synthballad about geopolitical nuclear politics, circa March 2006.
posted by cortex on Aug 9, 2006 - 4 comments

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