This is the theme music I remixed for the Burn Bright book trailer by Random House Australia for the author Marianne de Pierres.

The song is a remix of "Angel Arias" by Yunyu specifically for this book trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4iHj1AIMg

A big thanks to Random House Australia for the opportunity to work on this project and to post this on Soundcloud and to Yunyu for an excellent song to work with.

The copyright belongs to the original musician ( Yunyu ) and Random House Australia.

evolutionary theory - Angel Arias by Yunyu ( e-theory remix ) for Burn Bright ( Book Trailer Theme )

I just fixed a lovely Roland SH-3a synthesizer that had an issue with the VCA. After fixing it, I decided to record this test to ensure all the functions are working correctly.

2021-09-04 Roland SH-3a Repair

Demo "Song" whimsically titled "Onenotesuponatime"

I am uploading this on the first day of experimenting with a Tom Oberheim SEM Pro analog synthesizer.

You can read more about it here:
http://www.evolutionarytheory.com/2011/02/just-took-delivery-of-an-oberheim-sem-pro/

This demo is all entirely SEM only, no other processing ( except a limiter ) was used.

What you are hearing is basically everything except the envelope generators ( the MIDI cable I bought didn't fit into the rear panel of the SEM, so I could only "play one note" ).

On display are the Saw and Pulse/Square waveforms, the absolutely astonishing 12dB multi-mode filter ( Low-pass, Notch, High-pass and Bandpass ), oscillator frequency and pulse modulation, filter modulation, oscillator sync, and LFO modulations in basically every combination you could imagine. I wanted to make an extremely comprehensive demo of what's possible with the raw building blocks.

The bass on this thing is INCREDIBLE....
I love the way it kind of talks when you push the oscillator sync and filters together.

I'll post up more once I get the right MIDI cable ;-)

Any questions just let me know.

evolutionary theory - Oberheim SEM Pro - Onenotesuponatime - ( hardware demo )

Hi there!

A while ago I decided that I wanted to make my own hardware and software to make music with.

This test is the first realization of that dream.
Over the last 3 nights I've written from scratch a VST2.4 64bit Windows plug-in to simulate the kick drum of a Roland TR-808 Drum Machine.

The reason I chose this sound is that it's subtly complex, yet still relatively simple (from a DSP point of view). So it's something that I felt I could do a good job of quite quickly. This is my first VST Plug-in. It's also something that other people have tried, but I never felt I'd seen a truly inspiring example of this particular sound emulated in software to a high fidelity.

This is a test of my first attempt. The plug-in in its current form uses 0% CPU on my machine when operating in Ableton Live 9, is fully real-time (no samples), and to me sounds top notch in terms of sound quality.

As a computer graphics programmer in my full time job, writing code is something I do a lot of and it brings me a lot of joy to be able to do so for my other passion of music.

More soon. This is still early days, and the sound has a long way to go before it's truly realistic.

Available as a download also for you to hear it as an uncompressed .wav file.

Vst Plugin Test 01 - e808 - evolutionary recordings

Hi there!

A while ago I decided that I wanted to make my own hardware and software to make music with.

This test is the second realization of that dream after my first test with simulating a Roland TR-808 Kick Drum (a project which I will return to shortly since it is more complex than this one).

Over the past few weeks I've written from scratch a VST2.4 64bit Windows plug-in to simulate the kick drum of a Roland TR-909 Drum Machine. The simulation is based on the original schematics and so far I've successfully modeled in software, with exceptional accuracy, the triangle-core VCO, the diode wave-shaper and the single-transistor VCA. I have more work to do on making the simulations closer to the real hardware.  So far, however, the results are extremely encouraging for such an early stage of development.

Available as a download also for you to hear it as an uncompressed .wav file.

Vst Plugin Test 02 - e909 - evolutionary recordings

This is a quick audio test of the evolutionary recordings E-1 Analog Synthesizer Dual Voltage Controlled Oscillator - VCO.

Two saw-tooth waves are played throughout, at different pitches and detuned differently over time.

The associated image shows what the current implementation looks like.

Unfortunately the soundcloud compression has decreased the sound quality quite a bit.... But the raw .WAV sounds amazing.

evolutionary theory - E-1 Analog Synth - VCO Test 1

This is a test of a VST Compressor design I've coded from scratch that uses some advanced mathematics to directly simulate an electrical component model of a modern audio compressor in real-time.

I've been teaching myself advanced discrete differential equation evaluation and combined this with my existing knowledge of computer programming in the development of the plug-in thus far.

My full-time occupation is as a Software Engineer writing high-performance graphics rendering code for the feature film industry, so combining this knowledge with music is something I've always loved doing.

The techniques this compressor uses I believe are unique, and display all the same non-linear behavior as the hardware I am basing the design on.

What you can hear is a dry loop, followed by a compressed loop. All loops are using one set of settings, so there is no tuning of settings being done, I just wanted to share the sound of this plug-in as it currently stands.

I'm looking to go commercial with this VST within a reasonably short time-frame, and are about to start on the GUI for the Windows 64bit version before looking into other platforms to support.

All comments welcome!

evolutionary theory - etheoryCompressor - VST Test 01

This is some audio ( from Native Instruments and Abbey Road Studios 70s drums via Kontakt 4 ) running through an SB4000 ( SSL Bus-Style ) DIY compressor that I just finished building.
You can hear me engage the compressor at each 16 beat interval.
Each loop starts dry, and then has the compressor engaged.

The settings are extreme but they show how much crush the SB4000 can have over drums ( not that you'd likely use it this extremely in context ) and what type of effects you can get it you push things - various settings were used, but mostly:

Lowest Threshold
10:1 Ratio
Fastest Attack
Fastest Release
Filter set to T2 mode
about 10dB gain

Any questions please let me know.

evolutionary theory - SB4000 Compressor - ( test 1 )

Here is my first attempt at writing a 4-Pole resonant Filter VST.

This one is based on the Vadim Zavalishin paper: "The Art of VA Filter Design" and the Roland 100m 121 VCF filter.

I've written an exact digital solver for the analog circuit including the zero delay feedback path, which also includes the diode clipper in the feedback path.

This is quite a complicated piece of code mathematically so I'm extremely proud of it!

This might make it to a product stage at some point in the near future.

Enjoy my first jam with it!

evolutionary theory - VST 4-Pole Roland-inspired Filter - Zero Delay Feedback + TPT

Here is my first attempt at writing a Filter VST.

This one is based again on techniques found in the Vadim Zavalishin paper: "The Art of VA Filter Design".

This time I've extended and finessed those techniques, added some more, and created something reall special:

An emulation of the KORG MS-20 Low Pass Filter (Late Model, not the early one, that'll come  next!).

I've written an exact digital solver for the entire analog circuit including the zero delay feedback path, and the diode clipper in the feedback path.

DIVA is providing a raw waveform to filter, and the reverb is from Valhalla Room Reverb.

Enjoy!

evolutionary theory - MS-20 LPF (Late Model) VST Plug-in

This is an emulation of the KORG MS-20 High Pass Filter (Late Model, not the early one, that'll come  next!).

I've written an exact digital solver for the entire analog circuit including the zero delay feedback path, and the diode clipper in the feedback path.

DIVA is providing a raw waveform to filter, and the reverb is from Valhalla Room Reverb.

Enjoy!

evolutionary theory - MS-20 HPF (Late Model) VST Plug-in

A little tune that I've been toying with for a few weeks.

It's still just a start but I thought I'd post it up to see what people thought.

I think it needs some vocals and some drums, so there's still a lot of work to do on it!

This track was composed, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered entirely within Ableton Live 8.1 by Luke Emrose.
copyright 2009 Luke Emrose

Technical Information:
* Strings and general orchestral instruments - Standard Kontakt 4 Library
* Piano - NI Akoustik Piano

VST Plug-ins used for mixing / mastering:
* Mastering Limiter - Voxengo Elephant 3.5
* Mastering EQ - Sonalksis SV-517Mk2
* Reverb - Waves IR-L



evolutionary theory - Seeing Around Corners ( work in progress )

This is the Australian theme music for the book "Redbreast" by Jo Nesbo.

I wrote this piece of music for Random House Australia.
Here is a link to the American version of the trailer on YouTube ( which features different music, which I was required to create an alternate version of for zoning and legal reasons ): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3350u5ECL0&amp;feature=related
This track was composed, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered entirely within Ableton Live 7.0.16 by Luke Emrose.
copyright 2007 Luke Emrose

Technical Information:
* Strings and general orchestral instruments - Standard Kontakt 3 Library
* Drums - Battery 3
* Choir - East West Symphonic Choirs

VST Plug-ins used for mixing / mastering:
* Mastering Compressor - PSP MasterComp
* Mastering Limiter - PSP Xenon
* Mastering EQ - Sonalksis SV-517Mk2
* Mastering Saturator - PSP VintageWarmer 2
* Reverb - Waves IR-L


evolutionary theory - Redbreast ( Book Trailer Theme )

This track was composed for an Adelaide Massive website song writing competition, which it won.

This track was composed, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered entirely within Madtracker by Luke Emrose.
copyright 2005 Luke Emrose

Technical Information:
* Entirely written in Madtracker

evolutionary theory - All I Wanna Say

Here is a tune that will at some day be finished I think - probably after my album collaboration with Lee Safar.  Just wanted to post this to give people the chance to give feedback and tell me if they like this, I am quite attached to it, and I can't wait to finish it one day.

evolutionary theory - Seven Twenty ( unfinished )

This Kick drum is an attempt at recreating the old Gabber/Harcore kicks by replicating the old technique of overdriving a Mackie CR1604 desk using a 909 kick.

I recreate that chain here using multiple instances of Trash 2 with EQ's in between them. There are 5 in a row all tuned differently to get this kick sound.

All a bit of fun and experimentation.

Hardcore Techno Kick Drum Test

This is an attempt at recreating the Roland Juno Alpha-1 style Hoover sound using VSTs. Quite a fun exercise to do.

Hardcore Lead

Hi everyone! Here is a tune that's been kicking around on my computer for a while that I thought I would share. I hope to get around to it after I get through some of my current musical commitments.

I hope you enjoy it! Sorry about some crackling in there, something weird happened during the bounce. However, it's a work in progress, so it ain't perfect ;-)

Also, the original catalyst behind this song was the VST plug-in Drumaxx: http://www.image-line.com/documents/drumaxx.html - which I bought the day I made this.  All the drums are synthesized directly from Drumaxx from patches I made from scratch.

copyright ©2010 - Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory

evolutionary theory - DnB Idea 01 ( unfinished )

Another work in progress to be finished hopefully one day soon.  This one is basically what I came up with when I decided to not restrain myself to any particular genre, but just GO FOR IT and see what happened.

All drums courtesy of Abbey Road Studio Drums 60s, 70s, 80s and Modern Kits and I'm particularly happy with the bassline and synth work on this.

The image for this tune is of an analog compressor I'm currently designing to build to produce my music.  My personal goal is to be only using hardware and software I've created myself to produce my music within 5-10yrs.

copyright ©2010 Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory

evolutionary theory - Motion Sickness ( unfinished )

This is another one I just found that I wanted to share that I'm quite fond of.
Another one to add to the work in progress list!

Any comments welcome, thanks in advance.

copyright ©2011 Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory

evolutionary theory - Stormfront ( unfinished )

This tune was an experiment from start to finish.
Initially I wanted to see if, using only a sample of white-noise, I could assemble an entire song, simply based on careful manipulation of white noise using only Ableton Live's Sampler instrument (and Simpler in some cases).

The kick is a bandpass filtered white noise, with a quick envelope sweeping down, the hi-hats are basically just quick enveloped noises, and all the synth sounds are white-noise loops folding in on themselves.

Well, EVERYTHING up until the 1 minute mark is, indeed, purely manipulations of white noise, however, after that point I got itchy for some organic sounds and broke out the piano.  The result is weird, and very much me.  I hope you like it!

I'm calling this finished, just cause I can't see myself doing any more work on it.

copyright ©2011 by Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory

evolutionary theory - White Noise ( mini-tune )

I started learning music theory only very recently (even though I've been "producing music" for over 18 years now) and this is a live improvisation of piano I did (after one of my piano lessons) a little while ago that I thought I'd share with you all.

It's far from perfect but it was all just off the top of my head and I needed to get it out that day - so - here it is.

copyright ©2011 by Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory

evolutionary theory - Untitled Piano Improvisation 01

This one dates back to 2004 and was written entirely using Madtracker

This one went OFF in the clubs back in Adelaide where I used to DJ many years ago.

It also has an accompanying vocal which I am determined to re-record and re-release with this tune by the incredibly talented Lesley Williams.

What do you all think, with some cleaning up and the original vocal back in it, would you all like to get a hold of this one?

Would love to know what you all think!

copyright ©2004 by Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory

evolutionary theory - I Got You ( Original )

This is the Australian theme music for the book "The Rangers Apprentice" by John Flanagan.

I wrote this piece of music on commission for Random House Australia.
Here is a link to a version of the trailer on YouTube it was originally composed for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZleasAiY6yU

Other related links:
http://www.rangersapprentice.com/
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Author/Flanagan,%20John

This track was composed, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered entirely within Ableton Live 7.0.16 by Luke Emrose.
copyright 2007 Luke Emrose

Technical Information:
* Strings and general orchestral instruments - Standard Kontakt 3 Library
* Drums - Battery 3

VST Plug-ins used for mixing / mastering:
* Mastering Compressor - PSP MasterComp
* Mastering Limiter - PSP Xenon
* Mastering EQ - Sonalksis SV-517Mk2
* Mastering Saturator - PSP VintageWarmer 2
* Reverb - Waves IR-L

evolutionary theory - The Ranger's Apprentice - Erak's Ransom ( Book Trailer Theme )

My piano teacher and I have discussed for a long time the idea of me writing a series of songs for piano, and then learning them as a part of my piano practise.

This is the first of a series of songs I am writing as a part of my piano practise.

I hope you enjoy this journey with me as later on I try and actually perform these pieces (hopefully without totally ruining them)!

This particular version is just from MIDI, with some mixing/mastering I added to it.

I hope you enjoy.

cheers,

Luke

copyright ©2012 by Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory.

evolutionary theory - Song For Piano 02

This is the first song for piano that I will be learning as part of my piano lessons.
I composed this song since I have been finding it difficult to concentrate on playing music by other composers, so felt it was worth just concentrating on playing music that I had composed myself.

This song is still in progress and I think that the final version will be roughly four times as long.

I am very happy with the progress so far - what do YOU all think?

Thanks in advance for listening, I really appreciate it :-)

copyright ©2012 by Luke Emrose aka evolutionary theory

evolutionary theory - Song For Piano 01

Not much to say about this other than it's a lil' idea that I kinda like and would like to turn into something complete at some point....

This track was composed, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered entirely within Ableton Live 8.2.1 by Luke Emrose.
copyright 2010 Luke Emrose

evolutionary theory - u-he ACE Synth Experiment - ( work in progress )

This one is something I have just started and am quite interested to get some feedback on.
Do you like this?I'm pretty happy with the concept, I just have a pretty serious task of heavily involved mixing and fine tuning to make this completely perfect, but I'm hoping this will be a really great tune.

I hope you enjoy this small teaser taste of it....

This track was composed, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered entirely within Ableton Live 8.2.1 by Luke Emrose.
copyright 2010 Luke Emrose


evolutionary theory - Spaceling - very early teaser edit - ( work in progress )

This is the theme music for the 10th book in the series "The Rangers Apprentice" by John Flanagan.

I wrote this piece of music on commission for Random House Australia.
Here is a link to a version of the trailer on YouTube it was originally composed for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqEFmc29lj0

Other related links:
http://www.rangersapprentice.com/
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Author/Flanagan,%20John

This track was composed, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered entirely within Ableton Live 8.1.5 by Luke Emrose.
copyright 2010 Luke Emrose

Technical Information:
* Strings and general orchestral instruments - Standard Kontakt 4 Library
* Drums - Battery 3

VST Plug-ins used for mixing / mastering:
* Mixing Compressor - Abbey Road Studios - TG12413_1969
* Mixing EQ - Sonalksis - SV-517Mk2
* Mixing Saturator - PSP AudioWare - MixSaturator 2
* Mastering Compressor - Cytomic - The Glue
* Mastering Limiter - Voxengo - Elephant
* Mastering Saturator - PSP - VintageWarmer 2
* Reverb - Waves - IR-L with an IR of the Sydney Opera House

evolutionary theory - The Ranger's Apprentice - The Emperor of Nihon-Ja ( Book Trailer Theme )

Normally I hate it when people copy other people in the form of remixes, but, to a degree, I believe that it's also a form of flattery.

Now in terms of sound design and patches, it doesn't get a lot better than The Sky by Mat Zo, and, this attempt at matching some of his incredible sound design, is very much a form of flattery to him.

I clearly still have a long way to go, but, I'm having fun returning to first principles again and focussing on my sound design and patch programming.

Enjoy!

(original chord progression by Mat Zo)

evolutionary theory - Mat Zo - The Sky - Patches Remake

Websites:

www.evolutionarytheory.com
www.evolutionary-theory.com
www.evolutionaryrecordings.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/evolutionary-theory/110717958952413

With over 20 years of production experience, 6 compilation album appearances with 17 released singles, an on-line repertoire of over 62 releases and a genre pool that spans Classical to Drum and Bass - evolutionary theory aka e-theory aka Luke Emrose has had an eclectic and striking production history.

Starting in Adelaide, a chance meeting with Mark7, 5158 Records label owner and 1997-98 Triple J DJ Mix-up contest winner, set in motion a string of events that forever changed the face of the local Adelaide music scene. Along with vocalist Lana, the three were nominated for the 2005 SA Dance Music Awards Local Release of the year for their Drum and Bass anthem - “Like The Sun”, which received world-wide radio and club exposure. Next, collaborating with now-signed Technique Recordings artists D Jon and Skyver and 2003 Australian Idol finalist vocalist Lesley, Emrose co-produced the first ever 5158 Records world-wide Vinyl release, “Gimme Something”, which was later also signed to Technique Recordings via a remix by prolific Perth-based Drum and Bass producer, Phetsta.

Now residing in Sydney, Emrose has composed/produced music for companies like Random House Australia; producing many and varied styles of music for online book marketing campaigns and trailers - from classically inspired Orchestral arrangements to Glitch and Breakbeat jingles whilst also maintaining a regular stream of Drum and Bass releases for the popular 5158 Records CD compilation - ‘Adelaide Drum and Bass’ - now in it’s 6th series (Emrose has contributed 14 singles for the series since it’s inception in 2002), and more recently a string of Trance and Progressive House tunes.

Emrose has recently worked with Lee Safar on the singles "I'm Here" and "We Jump" - both available on Beatport, and is currently hard at work on Lee Safar's up and coming Electronica album.

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