Track number 9 on the Chip & Pin album - A nod here towards some of the sounds and style used in the creations of early Jean Michel Jarre

09 Man Vs Machine - Chip & Pin

Track number 8 from the Chip & Pin album - This is the synthesiser used to its full capability to produce a very fine dance track incorporating a multitude of those unique sounds available from a variety of electronic music synthesisers

08 Hi Flyer - Chip & Pin

Track number 7 from the Chip & Pin album - More brilliant synthesiser sounds driving along very nicely assisted by percussive elements also entirely created with the Reason collection of electronic synthesisers

07 Time To Make The Move - Chip & Pin

Track number 6 from the Chip & Pin album - A slightly moody track, again using entirely synth created sounds and hinting at past creations from well known artists  with its style and use of some typical and familiar sounds

06 Lift Me Up - Chip & Pin

Track number 5 from the Chip & Pin album of all synthesiser tracks - This uses a bouncy lead line that harks back to some popular early synthesiser tracks that also became chart hits despite being entirely instrumental

05 Banofee Pie - Chip & Pin

Track number 4 from the Chip & Pin album - Slow attack analogue Moog lead line here that personifies some of the best emotional creativity that can be produced using the electronic music synthesiser - familiar sounds to those lovers of Vagelis

04 Peace Within - Chip & Pin

The title track from the album of all synthesiser created sounds and tracks - every sound on every track is created by using one of a variety of electronic music synthesisers - evolving sounds i.e. those that change their character over time are typical of the analogue music synthesiser - many of those used here

03 Chip & Pin - Chip & Pin

Track number 2 on the Chip & Pin album - The driving ARP (arpeggiator) sound is the basis of this track and typical of past dance classics such as Giorgio Moroder/Donna Summers - I Feel Love - All sounds on all of these tracks are created using the electronic music synthesiser, including all drums and percussion

02 Don't Stop - Chip & Pin

The first track on the Chip & Pin album tha is dedicated to and all about the Electronic Music Synthesiser. The idea here was to use only those devices to create every sound on every track on this album of brilliant electronic music

01 Chameleon - Chip & Pin

This could easily have been a Chip & Pin track as well as a Clive Button chillout track......wad ya tink? - made this one a FREE download......

Into The Light

Chip & Pin is all about the electronic music synthesiser; it is also an acknowledgement of all those great artists that have created music in many styles using these devices since their inception. Every sound on every track of this album has been created using one of a variety of electronic music synthesisers devices along with multiple effects; this includes all the drum sounds used. There are a great many sonic references to tracks and artists that have gone before and have been a huge influence on this album. Its creation is a testament to their creativity and originality. Those synthesiser aficionados among you will no doubt recognise many sounds used here and know their sonic origins and for the rest of you it will be a voyage of discovery through the expansive world of pure electronic music.

The electronic music synthesiser has always held a wonderful fascination for me with its virtually unlimited sound creation possibilities from the early Moog and EMS synths through to the modern day software emulations of which there is no better example than the collection provided within ‘Propellerheads’ - Reason software that I have been working with since it first appeared in 2000. A powerful system in the hands of an experienced synthesiser user and programmer it contains 3 very different and unique synths, the ‘Subtractor’ is closest to the early Moog devices etc. that all used subtractive synthesis as their main sound creating basis, then there is the ‘Malestrom’ a graintable synth similar in concept to the PPG and then the ‘Thor’ that is a monster of a synth that covers virtually all the various synthesiser sound creating possibilities that have been used over the years by different manufacturers all within one instrument. Add to these the huge variety of effects devices within Reason and the possibilities of using multiple instances of all these synths and effects and you can see how it was possible to produce every sound on this entire album. 


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