first session with my brand new  KORG Volca bass. some tuning of the filter knob on a simple sequenced beat. - only the volca sound (3 VCO active).
done with FX from t.c. m-one (slap-delay&spring reverb) on a Mackie VLZ pro1642 Mixer.
.WAV recorded with Tascam DR-40 on 6.oct.2013 in kitchen-studio-lab Fischach.
track normalized to -1dB level with audacity.  all by ascii68

Volca bass 1 94bpm

The Frogs from outa space have landed and do a concert.  ;-)

All music was done with the internal sequencers of my two Korg Volca (Bass & Beat). Shuffling beat with analog filter morph makes the tune.
hope anybody likes this..

Live played and recorded by ascii68 at Kitchen-Studio_Lab on 30.05.2014,Fischach . recording assistance by my good friend Nedi S. 

Space Frogs

Moderate tempo trance or dance track - livesession.

Synthwork done with inspiration of my VIRUS kb.
Rhythm from Roland V-Combo.
played live at one-man session on 11.04.2015
at Kitchen-Studio-Lab Fischach by ASCII68.
recorded with Tascam DR-40 from Mackie Mixer 1642 VLZ pro.

Saturday Virus

Experimenting with my new Korg Kaosillator pro.
Live track without any precussion beat.
My idea was trying to put brainwaves to audible sond.

performed and recorded 25.09.2015 at Kitchen-Studio-Lab Fischach by Ascii68.

Friday - Mesh 120

Artists Re-release of original recording from 30.Okt.2015.
music  produced by Nedi Simic at beyond-stairway-musicproduction Westheim/Neusäß.
...the dopest sound we've ever made...recoreded at three weekends, without any.

Psych. Dr. HD - WARNING: listen wih Caution, extreme psychedelic sounds !

A short sound example of my new Korg minilogue Synth. 
I was long waiting for it to be delivered (April/2016).
Simple Phrase on Keys done with factory preset polyphonic soundset.

Music and recording done with Korg minilogue direct to Mackie 1642-VLZ pro Mixer and on to Tascam DR-40 digital recorder. No additional FX.
Sound only "Normalized" with Audacity 2.1.2 to -1dB.
All work  was done by Ascii68 at Kitchen-Studio-Lab Fischach on 16.05.2016.

Minilogue Hopsasa

Performing "mostly_D" on Pasadena semiacoustic Guitar, curtesy of "Dr.G.", into my own Blackstar HT5-R Valveamp at DI out.
 A little Delay and Reverb added at the Drive Channel of the Amp. 
Guitars neck humbucker PU used.
Rhythm made with Korg Kaossilator pro at 108bpm.
Music was live done and inspired by nearby ringing churchbells, the reason for only two notes played on guitar - mostly D.
Recording rig as usual: Mackie 1642VLZpro mixing Console and Tascam DR-40 for digital recording.
All this was done by Ascii68 at Kitchen-Studio-Lab KSL-Fischach on 1st Nov. 2016

Mostly D

"Nasser Hund" is a slow ambient instrumental 85bpm house track,
composed and played by ASCII68 based on analog synth and beat.

MusicalStory is about a wet rained old longhaired Dog. Slowly returning home from strolling the neighbourhood. very slowly..

Arangement and recording done by https://soundcloud.com/nedeljko-simic
at Beyond Stairway Music Production - Westheim/Neusäß.
5.Nov.2016.

Used analog Instruments: 
  Elektron - analog Rythm
  Dave Smith - Mopho
  Arturia - microBrute
recoding with Soundcraft LX7 analog mixing console

Der nasse Hund

First impression of my brand new Arturia DrumBrute analog drum synthesizer accompanied by Korg Kaossilator pro.
Live Recording done with Tascam DR-40 via Mackie 1642VLZ pro analog mixing Console .
Normalized to -1dB max. audio level with Audacity 2.1.2 .

Live Demo by Ascii68 @K-S-L Fischach 24.Nov.2016

Analog Klopfzwerg  mit Begleitung

Soundcheck after rewiring my homestudio K-S-L.
Now 4x USB-Midi Synth and 4x MIDI via Trhu-Box (for the Volcas)online to DAW.
MC Gastarbeiter aka Nedeljko Šimić assisted with the wiring and 
setup the recording rig and DAW correctly.
After all connections were made, and checked, we jammed the instruments.
music live played by ascii68 and Nedeljko Šimić.
used Instruments: Arturia DrumBrute, Korg-(minilogue, Volca beats, Volca bass, Volca keys, Volca FM), Yamaha-reface DX, Roland VR-700 (V-combo).
DAW-sequencing project : Steinberg Cubase 6 LE AI
Audio mixed with Mackie 1642VLZ pro, digital recorded with Tascam DR-40.
28.Nov.2016 K-S-L, Fischach

Wiring Session / Soundcheck featuring MC-Gastarbeiter

A tiny little synth-tune  to proof Santa Claus, that Markus is a good one and deserves presents and candy. :-))
live done on 2.Dec.2016 at K-S-L, Fischach

Before Santa Comes

Happy new year dear friends and followers.

This is my 1st track with new Soundcraft Signature 22MTK mixing console:
DJ Gastarbeita and Ascii68 jammed along and recorded with new gear. 

Song is about a railwaystation loudspeaker lamenting the good old times,
in an long, repetitive and almost anoying mannor. 
Just like reality at the Station. ;-)

Some classic E-Piano from Roland V-Combo as well as Synth-Pad
from Access Virus kb and 2nd E-Piano from Yamaha Reface DX.
Guitar is my good Ibanez ART-120 to Blackstar's HT5-R clean channel.
Drumsounds made with Arturia DrumBrute and some individual outputs to analog Mixing-Console.
This time Cubase 6LE for some DAW voice filter effects and singletrack recording was used as well as Audacity for finalisation:

Time for a new audio production workflow at K-S-L. ;-)

(The old Mackie VLZ1642pro Mixer was too buggy in the end,
so it had to be replaced just by beginning of new year:)

Mixdown and Relesase on 10.Jan.2017 by Ascii68 at K-S-L Fischach

Frijahr wor alles bessar - (extended longplay version - for DJ Gastarbeita)

Some Sunday Inspiration with Guitars at different Setup.
Again some fun in D scale ;-)

Ascii68 performed on:
Ibanez ART-120 LP-Guitar into ART StudioV3 MP valve preamp.
Ibanez AW15EC acoustic-Guitar (thanks to "Manni B.") into Blackstar HT5-R Valve-guitaramp via D.I.out.
Kramer Striker 700ST 4-String Bass into Blackstar HT5-R via D.I.out.
Roland V-Combo Piano (Stereo).

Nedi Simic https://soundcloud.com/nedeljko-simic
 performed on:
Arturia DrumBrute analog Drum Synth into Soundcraft mixing console (1+4 individual lines).
Yamaha reface DX (tubular Bells).

Live played and improvised by ascii68.
Recording and Arrangemant done by Nedi Simic.

Arrangement was done with use of Steinberg Cubase6 LE AI as DAW and Soundcraft Signature22-MTK analog mixing Console.
Recorded and released by Ascii68 as first raw mixdown on 05.Feb.2017 at K-S-L Fischach

D-Acoustic - Electro

The slowest 123bpm track ever made so far .
Some analog Synth souds and Guitar playing a relaxing Theme.

Ascii68 performed on:
Ibanez ART-120 LP-Guitar into ART StudioV3 MP Valve preamp
Acess Virus-kb Synth
Yamaha reface DX Synth
Roland VK-700 V-Combo (Organ)

Nedi Simic https://soundcloud.com/nedeljko-simic performed on:
Arturia drumBrute
Korg Volca Bass
Korg Volca FM

Used DAW for Project recording and sequencing as usual Steinberg Cubase6 LE AI.
Analog Mixing Console is a Soundcraft Signature22 MTK. Used the built-in Lexicon Reverb and Delay FXs for record  and mixdown.
Arrangement and mastering by Nedi Simic. Recorded and released on 12.Feb.2017 at K-S-L (Kitchen-Stdio-Lab) Fischach by Ascii68

Yolo - echt jetzt?!

Alzheimer Tourette Syndrom (ATS)is a nasty mental disease 
and the topic of this song. You might never heard of before.

Ascii68 performed live vocal  and improvised words of wisdom about ATS.

Nedi S. and Ascii68 made this educational song on carnival weekend,
so maybe we had a Clown for lunch each day :-) This is the result.

Ascii68 performed live on:
Vocals on Kotec KM70DX dnamic microphone to Soundcraft mixing console.
Bass done with Kramer Striker 700ST (a bass from the very first series).
analog Synth was the Korg Minilogue.

Nedi S. performed :
Drum/Rhythm Arrangement with Arturia DrumBrute.
Operating the DAW (Cubase6 LE AI) and supervised live recording. 
Mixdown and Mastering. Soundcraft Signature22 MTK.

All this beautiful work was done from 24th to 26th Feb. 2017 on carnival Weekend at Kitchen-Studio-Lab (K-S-L) Fischach. 
released by Ascii68 on 26.02.2017

AlzheimerTourette Syndrom

Ascii68 brings you another extreme example of the Tourette disease.
The song results in very bad german/austrian words for songlyrics.
Idea came to my mind after an excessive "Horvath" Video session on YT.  ;-)

The usual suspects done this Piece of Art: Ascii68 featuring Nedi S. https://soundcloud.com/nedeljko-simic-1
This time the Production was done with Steinberg Cubase7 
(thanks to Nedi S. and his License Key Dongle) and Soundcraft Signature22 MTK analog mixing Console.

Instruments used  by ASCII68:
Roland VR-700 (Piano/organ)
Access Virus kb (Synth)
Yamaha reface DX (Synth)
Ibanez ART-120 (E-Guitar)

Rhythm and Arrangement by Nedi S.
Instruments used  by Nedi Simic:
Arturia DrumBrute (analog Drum Synth)
Steinberg GrooveAgent  plug-in(Snare)

Music composed and live performed by Ascii68  during March 2017. 
Mixed and recorded at K-S-L Fischach on 18.03.2017 by Ascii68

Alpen Tourette - Warning : explicit german/austrian Lyrics !

Short 110bpm Arpeggiator synth-style  on my Korg MicroX.
music was played without any sequencer, with my bare hands - lol,
recorded with Samplitude 10.21 at kitchen-studio-lab Fischach 25.11.2012
postprocessing: normalized to -6dB
by ascii68

MicroX Arp-110

I Made a short sequence with my brand new Behringer CRAVE one voice analog Synth. Did the Bass part on one track and added EchoFX from Electro-Harmonix Oceans11 Reverb Pedal. The Melody track was done at the same sequencer Speed with different transposing and the Shimmer ReverbFX from Oceans11 pedal. Recorded this little Session with Audacity2.1.2 and linked the two mono tracks to one normalized stereo track. Chunky analog souds from one single voiced Instrument is the result.
Written, played and recorded on 10th. Oct.2019 at K-S-L Fischach by Ascii68

news from the past

CRAVE-Echo

CRAVE_Echo

A little acoustic drumming at beginers Level on my Pearl Export Kit. 
Micing the drumset was the Task for this session.
Up(PRA218A) and Down(D70ME) microphone on Snaredrum for the first time.
A total of 9 microphones (6x Dyn, 3x Condenser) were used and sent to Soundcraft Signature22 MTK mixing Console for multitrack recording with Cubase7 DAW.
Mixing was done on analog Soundcraft Console, thanks to USB return :-)
A bit of FX was added to one mic.
Kudos to recording engineer Nedi S. for assistance and advice.
All rigging and playing by Ascii68 himself.
recorded on 8th December 2019 at K-S-L fischach by Ascii68.

Drums at home 2

Synth Artist / Musician / Producer

- Welcome to my place dear music friend-

Please enjoy my work and leave a comment or a Like, if you like :-).

Used Graphicartwork (pictures) is also made by me and choice is indpendent from used instruments on each tune..

 Nice greetz from Bavaria - keep on rockin'
Yours Markus aka ASCII68

Kitchen-Studio-Lab-Fischach
-  Ascii68  -  :-)

THIMC: I compose,play and listen and sometimes even move to those sound, while staying in a house, so this is real HOUSE music,in german called "Hausmusik",
If this music is  made with use of some electronical instruments, it may be called -e.house-. ( just for the Nerds ;-)

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