I had been looking at getting a mpc. But my iPad pro seems to be able to do most things(for now)

Theme for a film noir spy thriller set in 1980's East Germany.

This track heavily features the STS Serge Modular synthesizer. 

Eigengrau / темно-серый

For KVR-OSC 161 - Synth1 by Ichiro Toda

20 instances of Synth1 in Reaper v5.99

Dynamics: Presswerk, Transpire
Filter: ReaEQ, MQ57
Delays: NastyDLA
Reverb: TALRevIII, Deelay, Verberate 2
Satturation: Thrillseeker XTC, Green Eugen2
Stereo:  MidSideMangler
Analyzer: SPAN, Youlen Loudnessmeter 2

Photonic - First Light

Some sounds that I programmed with my DSI Prophet '08 analog synthesizer. More sounds compared to the first upload. Totally unquantized, recorded while testing the sounds.

F5D - Prophet '08 Demo

Watched a Youtube video recently on crafting your own synth patches on the MPC One just like I have been doing on the Digitakt for a while. It made me try to assemble some 80s dosk pop from old Amiga ST disc samples again. The MPC gives me polyphony and more effects on the tracks compared to the Digitakt. 
The song mode on the Digitakt is better for my taste but I guess thats only a matter of a philosophy for the workflow. I actually handled all mutes among the tracks manually on the MPC One in this tune. It took some retakes I can tell you.

Enjoy this feel-good retro tasting pop thing with mostly 8-bit 22kHz-ish samples from various synths like D-50, Juno 106 and DX21 and CZ-101.

MPC does Amiga Goodness

Flight of the Monarch

1993

just trust the bass and all will be fine...

Well. Before I forget and because somebody might be interested and because I`m a little talkative at the moment:

EverBlue was born through three phases. The first one as a little piano song. The basic cadence quite usual then opened to something more interesting. Found that quite nice but boring.

But it was nice and…. because I had lost myself in a fabulous indie rock band from Singapore that day, I decided to try something else by adding straight guitars on the 8ts… what led to using another rhythm which I then combined with another rhythm.  Additional layers of strings were attached.  That worked quite ok. What means mehh but showed the right direction. And that was the second phase.

Third phase I killed it all, erased all of the melodic instruments except one e-piano which I fuzzed, delayed and filtered… programmed two synthbass lines, some breaks and added the high hookline for which I then searched for the right sound for hours.

Then I listened and listened and could not stop listening, thought about turning down the bass but decided not to cause I realized that it`s the bass I`m floating on. 

And that’s that story…

EverBlue

Wald

MMC June 2025. Ambient electronic, Bejeweled style. Made with FL Studio, using lots of Sytrus.

Framework

Derek Carr - Destiny

For KVR-OSC#136 Odin2 by The Wave Warden

Done in Reaper v5.99 with:

Movement 1 - Crossing Bifröst		16 x Odin2
Movement 2 - The twelve Palaces	14 x Odin2
Movement 3 - Memory of the Fallen	 3 x Odin2
Movement 4 - The War Horns		23 x Odin2

Dynamics: ReaComp, TDR NOVA, Transpire, TDR Kotelnikov
Filter: ReaEQ, Thrillseeker XTC, Thrillseeker VBL, GreenEugene 
Reverb: Dragonfly Room and Hall
Satturation: BassProfessorII

Master: ReaEQ, MQ57, ReaComp, TDR Kotelnikov, SPAN

Photonic - Coming Home To Asgard

Ableton Live with a couple of va, analogs, fm, romplers and various hybrid synths via a MOTU 828 and of course vsts. Style includes all sorts of genres, I guess film and games is the theme. As long as it resonates in my head even if its sometimes only the gear talking. Anyway, thanks for listening.

MPC does Amiga Goodness

Fredrik Forsberg

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