Each track on this album is played by a different MIDI sequencer App.

The app in question plays all the instruments (other than the odd drum track played by one of the Lumbeat Drummer apps) either directly or via other apps. 
All tracks are just one take, no post editing and the only input I have is to start and stop the recording.
All the mixing, muting, effects for the track etc are fully automated using apps such as StepBud.

The MIDI Sequencer Album

Just one instance of ChordBud 2 going through…

2 RhythmBud playing Ravenscroft 275 and SWAM Flugelhorn
ArpBud playing BeatHawk Bass
Rozeta LFO is ‘humanising’ the SWAM. Effects are LRC7 and TB Reverb.

ChordBud 2 (Soddon Jazz Quartet)

2 ChordJam playing 2 Moog Model D, Roli Noise, 2 GeoShred, BeatHawk Bass, ThumbJam Bass (in Arp Mode) and Roli Noise Drums.
Lots of effects especially on the GeoShreds i.e. TB Reverb, LRC7, Attack Softener, Nembrini Analog Rack Noise Gate, FAC Alteza and Velvet Machine.

ChordJam (Soft Set)

Just one iBassist plays 2 BeatHawk and 3 SWAM Saxophones. The trick here was to use the AUM Note Range filtering feature to split the output from iBassist into the different instruments.
2 Rozeta XOX play 2 Roli Noise Drums.
2 SnakeBud manage the volume up / down plus unmuting the drums, iBassist and BeatHawk Trombone and Trumpet staccato after the initial Saxophone opening.

IBassist (Bold As Brass)

Half way through creating this the vision of marching Ants came to me and stuck…

5 Rozeta Particles play SWAM Contra Bassoon, Bassoon, English Horn and Oboe + a Roli Noise.
5 Rozeta LFO vary the Density, Pitch, Speed and Spread of each Particle plus the Expression on the SWAMs.
2 more Rozeta LFO vary the volume of each SWAM.
A SnakeBud gradually increases the volume of the Roli Noise ‘Ant’

Rozeta Particles (Advancing Ants)

I must admit to struggling with Fugue Machine. Other people get great results and it is an excellent app but I don’t appear to have the knack. Having said all that I was (relatively) pleased with this. Just 4 bars and 21 notes! So…

Just one Fugue Machine playing 2 Roli Noise organs (via ScaleBud), BeatHawk Bass, 2 Roli Noise Drums, Roli Noise Harp and 3 Roli Noise Guitars (one via Rozeta Scaler)
2 Rozeta LFO mixes things up including the Input Transpose on Scaler to give the lead guitar some variety.

Fugue Machine (4 Heads Are Better Than 1)

MelodyBud wasn’t intended for this sort of track but I had fun trying to do it and the end result just about works…

22 MelodyBuds playing…
1 SWAM Contrabassoon
2 SWAM Trumpets
2 SWAM French Horns
2 Tenor Trombones
2 SWAM Violins
3 SWAM Oboes
2 BeatHawk Organs
1 ThumbJam Timpani
1 ThumbJam Timpani Roll
StepBud was used to move through the MelodyBud patterns
Finally, just a bit of LRC7, FAC Alteza and TB Reverb added

MelodyBud (Almost SWAM Zarathustra)

“Now that we who survived have reconstructed a civilization on a rational basis, we want to preserve for future generations as many accounts as possible by the actual witnesses of the catastrophe that overtook the world” - from ‘When The Moon Fell’ by Morrison Colladay, first published 1929.

Moonset

In peace or in blood, we will all go down to Sheol 

Going Down to Sheol

Swaparoonie time
It’s time to do the swap
We’re gonna mark the papers
You can find out what you got

Quiz time melting in the sun
Must be Monday afternoon
Will we find our brain cells?
We’re gonna find out soon
If you don’t know the answer don’t be tempted by your phone; there’s a damn good
reason
It’s a 50 point deduction or execution, explained in clear Glaswegian

Swaparoonie time…

Jeopardy, oh jeopardy
That’s exactly what it is
There are eight answers and only eight answers
Play it safe or take a risk
A chance for glory, a Stevie bonus you can be a Tavern hero
Get one wrong and go too far and you’ll get a big fat hairy zero

Swaparoonie Time

This EP is named as such, because I produced the first three tracks on an Android tablet and the other three tracks on an iPad.  Here is the track listing...

-An Epic Intro - 0'00"
-Tujamo - 4'10"
-The Android Returns - 7'44"
-Princess (ft Malleous) (E) - 12'24"
-Kowloon (2025 Version) - 14'57"
-A is for Acid - 18'44"

Notes

"An Epic Intro" is Prog Rock meets Electronica and was inspired by seeing Britt Floyd (Pink Floyd cover band) live!

"Tujamo" is an homage to Tujamo, one of my favourite EDM producers.

"The Android Returns" is straight up Trance music and was the first thing I produced for this EP on an Android.

"Princess" is an explicit HipHop diss track inspired by this woman I knew from an online community who I have beef with, tried to make peace with, and she refused.  No, I was never in love with her.  She's just toxic, period.  I wrote the chorus, and Malleous wrote the verses.

"Kowloon" is a remake of one of my old tracks from 2009, but with modern production values.  The original version, while good, sounds rather milquetoast, so here's the 16th anniversary version!

"A is for Acid" is a Breakbeat track inspired by a mix of Prodigy, Paul Van Dyk, and a touch of Acid House.

I humbly ask you to please enjoy this EP!  Cheers.

JWM - Across the Platforms EP

Dementia


She walks where roots remember rain,
Eyes aglow with ancient flame.
A whisper rides the desert wind,
The voice of all who came before her kin.

Her hands hold stars, her breath the sky,
She dreams in symbols others deny.
From soil to soul, the path is clear —
The mother speaks, and she can hear.

Ancient Flame

Awakening- 30 bpm -.wav

Once again I walk the tightrope
Head spins from forsaken hope
To reconcile, to heal old wounds
I’m beyond that now, I can’t dance, to that tune

The broken promise I chose to swallow        
The slate I wiped, it all rang hollow
I bought your lies but the bank’s run dry
The blame you insisted I share, and the lies

You make no sense you twist the truth     
Unrecognised from the innocence of your youth

My questions you choose to ignore       
My reasons not the point anymore
Your mysterious melancholy goes unexplained
I’ve fought too long, can’t shake the blame
Maybe I’ll see you on the other side

Comfort in conscience, knowing it’s clear
Masks my sadness, for year upon year     
I can’t make you like me, if you’ve had your fill 
I don’t have the power if you don’t,  have the will

I watch your eyes fall to the floor
You stand to leave gently closing the door
My voice has gone, lost on the breeze
Can’t carry on living like that, on my knees


On The Other Side

Weightless with no frame of reference… ideal for generating a sense of wonder

Weightless Passage

Dark Clouds

Everything here is created, recorded and mixed on an IPad Pro using AUM.

I use GeoShred to play everything that is not generated or sequenced.

I also have some tracks on my YouTube channel

Rozeta Particles (Advancing Ants)

GeoTony

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