X-tra Juicy remix of 'Calm Tunnel' from Juice Galaxy. Originally composed by BCF Records. No sampling was done, the track was completely recreated by ear.

Calm Tunnel (Juice Galaxy Remix)

The famous 'Vox Humana' sound recreated (or an attempt anyways) on the Prophet-12. Since the Prophet 12 has enough LFOs and oscillators, there's enough to meet the requirements for Vox Humana.

Vox Humana Prophet 12 Patch

Testing out my Vox Humana (or rather, 'Vox Prophana') patch on the Prophet 12 in more somewhat of a song. Sounds pretty good and I also have the bass chords with manipulating the Prophet 12's curtis analog filters (it has a lot of stepping because I had to use CC values instead of NRPN because it didn't function properly! So much for modern technology).

Alien Dance 2020 (Prophet 12)

A song done with Zero-G's "Tonio" Vocaloid2 soundbank.

Too Late Tonio

Not at all musical, or even nice. Just random noodling to experiment with the Jupiter-4's ability to produce FM synthesis as its LFO is actually an "HFO" and modulates the Jupiter's oscillators as if they were carriers.

Unlike Yamaha's FM synthesis, doing FM synthesis this way is extremely unstable and practically impossible to tune. This is why Yamaha actually uses "phase modulation" so that everything stays in tune but achieves the exact same results as frequency modulation. Some people will argue that it's not 'true FM synthesis' but they're frankly just wrong and you can tell just by listening to Yamaha FM synthesizers that yes, it's FM synthesis :)

Jupiter-4 (Frequency Modulation Experiments)

#1 NI's The Grandeur
#2 Pianoteq's Blüthner
#3 EWQL's Bösendorfer
#4 JV-1080 St.Concert
#5 JV-1080 770 Grand 1
#6 NI's The Giant
#7 EWQL's Steinway D

Piano Sample Shootout

Some Mozart MIDIs ran through a Roland Jupiter-4.

Jupiter-4 Mozart

Track in upcoming album. First done with a real Jupiter-4, and then with Mercury-4 (emulated VST). You'll be able to hear how Mercury-4 gets the resonance wrong along with some differences of waveshapes, chorus, etc.

Quiet Zone (Jupiter-4 then Mercury-4)

An upcoming track for a game I'm working on. This is a microtonal track done in Sytrus using "Euler-Fokker genus".

This is version 2.0 with some modified basslines and such.

Colour Bleed (V 2.0)

One of the tracks for an RTS I'm working on (it'll be awhile, lol).

Catapult In the Rough

A demo of a complete patch bank (96) that I've programmed from scratch for the Roland VariOS-8 software on the VariOS module. No external effects, no additional processing or compression. It's entirely recorded from the raw output of the VariOS.

Not all of the patches are demonstrated here, but a good portion are and of course some of my favourites.

The VariOS seems to excel at long morphing textures, flexible ring modulation, and some impressive handling at classic 'synth' sounds. It does not in fact sound like a Jupiter-8 or a JUNO-60, but with some clever tweaking you can get some very nice effects. The software resonance is prone to peaking, so it was very difficult to control the internal EQ and find the 'sweet' spots to prevent problems with the patch; but the final results are pretty excellent if you ask me.

Roland VariOS-8 Custom Patches

Another microtonal track for a project I'm working on. Tuned in an Euler-Fokker genus.

Invisible Marmalade (Euler-Fokker genus)

Another track for an upcoming project. Done in the harmonic series with neutral chords with said harmonic series.

Cowbell Harmony (Harmonic Series)

For upcoming project. Done in Harmonic Series, 100% frequency modulation synthesis, sans microtonic on the drums.

Wet Socks (Harmonic Series)

This is a remix on the original 1962 IBM 704 recording done of daisy bell and other phrases. Accompanied by the actual piano backing.

One caveat to note that it was fairly get the tuning correct against the old record recordings.

Daisy Bell IBM 704 Remix

The chords reverse engineered from Gary Numan's "I Sing Rain" on the album Dance (1981). Recreated on a Jupiter-4 with the same settings. I added some rain that I recorded outside myself.

Track is deliberately made long in case you want to relax to some Jupiter-4.

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