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Merry Synthmas
posted by CarrotAdventure on Dec 25, 2023 - 1 comment

3 analog synths, drum machine, vocoder
posted by CarrotAdventure on May 11, 2022 - 0 comments

I realize it's May, but you know
posted by CarrotAdventure on May 7, 2022 - 0 comments

Analog synth + vocoder
posted by CarrotAdventure on Apr 15, 2022 - 0 comments

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.
posted by CarrotAdventure on Dec 24, 2021 - 0 comments

Merry Synthmas
posted by CarrotAdventure on Dec 25, 2020 - 0 comments

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

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

A simple pop song for synth, drum machine and vocoder. Featuring another cheeky sequence from the Prophet-6! [more inside]
posted by CarrotAdventure on Feb 5, 2019 - 1 comment

vocodin' [more inside]
posted by CarrotAdventure on Jan 8, 2019 - 0 comments

It's here
posted by CarrotAdventure on Jan 1, 2019 - 2 comments

"I can't do anything without thinking about you next"
posted by CarrotAdventure on Dec 25, 2018 - 4 comments

A synthy jam about the magic of summer, youth and minivans.
posted by grumpybear69 on Jul 19, 2017 - 5 comments

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

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

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