Another "one-note" Absynth soundscape. I wanted to depict the sounds one might hear deep inside a melting iceberg.


Dissolving Ice Tunnels

First time I tried to create a percussive thing in Omnisphere, which turned out to be lot of work, and while I was at it, Holger Czukay suddenly was on my mind.... one session....12 hours later... :) Version 1. 

All Omnisphere, multiple Valhalla Delays, Chandler Germanium Compressor, Weiss Maximiser.

Czukay Ish

Demo featuring two patches (Ambient Delay Scape for the pan drum & Filter Dance for the drone/pad) from the expansion Tension for Synestia, available on patchpool.net, automating some of the installed Synestia Macros in Logic. Demo starts dry.

Delay Scape and Filter Dance

Demo featuring two patches (“Cave Delays“ for the lead synth and “Cosmic Filters“ for the drone/pad)from the expansion Tension for Synestia, available on patchpool.net, automating some of the installed Synestia Macros and volume in Logic. Demo starts dry.

Cave Delays and Cosmic Filters

Processing a synth drone (Zebra) with the patch Drone Processor from the expansion Tension for Synestia, available on patchpool.net, automating some of the installed Synestia Macros and volume in Logic. Demo starts dry.

Drone Processor

Processing real, tuned chimes played live on tape and a bass flute patch (Falcon) with the Synestia preset “Chime Enhancer“ from the expansion Tension for Synestia, available on patchpool.net, automating some of the installed Synestia Macros and volume of the dry signals in Logic. Demo starts dry, then the Synestia signal fades in.

Chime Enhancer

Demo for the Synestia patch “Stringer Groove“, a pitch sequence from the expansion Tension for Synestia, available on patchpool.net. Processing a drum groove and a synth sound, automating some of the installed Synestia Macros and volume of the dry signals in Logic. Demo starts dry, then the sends to the Synestia bus open.

Stringer Groove

Demo for the Synestia patch “Gong Model 02“, a physical modeling patch from the expansion Tension for Synestia, available on patchpool.net. Macro automation in Logic, demo starts dry, then the FX signal fades in.

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Gong Model 2

Processing layered piano, English horn, synth pad with the preset Himalaya Verb from the expansion Tension for Synestia, available on patchpool.net - Synestia Macro automation and volume automation of the dry instrument levels.

Tension for Synestia

Himalaya Verb

Live improvisation with Tasty Chips GR-1 multi-timbral + minimal post-processing

Dissolving Ice Tunnels

Brian Clevinger