Iteration

Had a play with Spitfire Chamber Strings. Rather than do something beautiful, I used a close mic mix, a load of different articulations and embellishments and did a spot of 1950s light music. Works rather well I think!

Strolling in Hyde Park (Spitfire Chamber Strings Demo)

A complete re-record of the cue "Payback Time" from the Predator OST using virtual instruments.

Music composed by Alan Silvestri.

Sample libraries used:

Strings: Spitfire Audio Chamber Strings, LA-SS Lite, Orchestral Tools Berlin Strings EXP E SFX.

Woodwinds: Spitfire Audio Symphonic Woodwinds / Albion Woodwind

Brass: Cinesamples Cinebrass Core, Spitfire Audio Albion Brass

Percussion: Spitfire Joby Burgess Percussion, Fluffy Audio Log Drum, Xtant Audio Slit Drum

Pianos: Cinesamples Abbey Road & Spitfire Albion Piano

Harp: Orchestral Tools - Symphonic Sphere

Synths: Omnisphere

FX: Waves EQ, Izotope Vinyl, T-racks

Predator - "Payback Time" - Alan Silvestri Cover

Got a 1982 Roland Juno 6. Made a quick track with it.

Roland Juno-6 Demo: Get Your Love Through the Radio

This audio relates to this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVSpNWS9ig

This is a complete remake of "Busybody" by Billy Mayerl using entirely virtual instruments and plugins.

There's a vintage mix for comparison on my Soundcloud.

My Computer is a 1950s Orchestra - Part 4 - Modern Mix

A piece of music I co-composed for the L'OR espresso campaign that began back in 2016. We did a full length version of it, so thought it was good for prosperity to put it online somewhere.

Music composed and arranged by Alex Ball, Sanj Sen and Ellie Wyatt.
Pianos: Alex Ball, Sanj Sen
Strings: Ellie Wyatt, Joe Giddey
Vocals: Sam Dixon
Everything else was done with VSTs

Pursuit Of Gold (Music from the L'OR Espresso advert)

This audio relates to this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmDh242ehlM

A complete remake of John Barry's theme to Thunderball using virtual instruments with some pointers of what's happening in the music. Sounds used: Strings - Spitfire Audio Chamber Strings & Albion Woodwind - Spitfire Audio Symphonic Woodwinds Brass - Sample modelling The Trumpet, Cinebrass Core & Pro Percussion - Spitfire Audio Joby Burgess Percussion, Symphonic Sphere Harp Piano - Yamaha U3 mic'd with two condensors Sequencer - Cubase Processing - Waves Abbey Road Vinyl, EQ and compressors on each instrument group with various settings (all subtle). Then Goodhertz Vulf Compressor on the mix bus running as a parallel compressor. Again, set softly. The gradual build up of saturation gives it a vintagey sound, but without it being obvious. It also smudges the instruments together nicely and helps the overall mix. Reverbs - used a Past to Future EMT impulse (https://gumroad.com/pasttofuturesamples#) and sent the high strings and winds to it a reasonable amount. Kept the low strings and shorts away from it because it's too boomy. Put a high pass on the reverb channel itself so that it was an airy sound. Also setup a stock hall impulse and and fed things into that to varying degrees. The sample modelling trumpets had an additional reverb on them as the samples are bone dry so require that to start with and then you can build from there.

John Barry | Thunderball (James Bond) | Remake

I uploaded the original demo version of this last year but have since made a proper song of it that is on my album "Filibuster".

You can get my album here:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/filibuster/1362218288
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3CD4wUQoWyyp97wGvr46GA?
Amazon Music: http://amzn.eu/gVXjtJL
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bdiwqnbb6e2yjr3gnwavh45eybe
Napster: https://us.napster.com/artist/alex-ball/album/filibuster

Get Your Love Through the Radio (album version)

Famous Russian folk tune (and theme from Tetris). Here played on Balalaika getting faster and faster.

Korobeiniki

A few score excerpts from "The History of the Prophet Synthesizer" which can be watched here: https://youtu.be/Ruh0B5QKBMs

This music was written especially for the film and was performed on Prophet 5 rev3, Minimoog Model D, Pro~One, Prophet 600, Prophet T8, Prophet 12 and Prophet REV2 with some LinnDrum, TR-909, TR-808 and Oberheim DX to boot.

Every single Prophet is featured in the film if you want to check out the other instruments that aren't featured in this audio medley.

The History Of The Prophet Synthesizer - Score Excerpts

A quick track I recorded whilst having my first go on an original Jupiter 8. There's an accompanying video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvBKZaVD14A

Other instruments used are Roland Juno-6, SH-101, JX-3P, TR-808, Linn Drum, Yamaha DX7 and some guitar parts.

Jupiter 8 | First Contact

Download and enjoy. My first track of 2019.

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85EL3tAD3j4

Ich Bin Ein Disco Biscuit

Some of the music from "Land of the Rising Sound: A Roland Retrospective"

Mr K

2019 Roland System - 8, System 500, TR - 8s

2000 Roland VP - 9000

1996 Roland JP - 8000

1988 Summer Of Love

1984 Roland TR - 707

1983 Roland TR - 909

1983 Roland JX - 3P

1982 Roland Juno - 6

1981 Roland TB303 & TR606 As Nature Intended

1981 Roland Jupiter 8

1979 Roland System 100m

1979 Roland RS - 505 Paraphonic

1978 Roland SH - 7

1978 Roland CR - 78, SH - 1, ProMars And Jupiter - 4

1976 Roland System 700

1972 Roland TR - 77 And SH - 1000

Some underscore from the documentary "Land of the Rising Sound"

The Roland Corporation (SH-7, CR-78)

Land of the Rising Sound Intro (SH-101, Juno-6, JX-3P)

Do I smell synthesizers?

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