Just a little improvisation around this Specdrum-pattern (not the original ZX-Spectrum hardware here though; I once had it, but it broke my comp back then AFAIR).


Fluffy Drums

My recreation of Chris Huelsbeck's classic C64-game-tune. Uploaded with his kind permission. Check out his official websites at:
http://www.huelsbeck.com
http://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/music

Have fun!

The Great Giana Sisters, Title-Theme (#1) (Low Gravity Mix)

Vivaldi,  RV103 (with ProteusVX)

Just copied the piano-notes by hand one by one from a music sheet, then added some string-sounds. All sounds from Proteus VX (freeware VST).

Moussorgsky - Promenade

Arpy

This is a sound experiment of mine.
Synthmania showed in several very helpful videos, how the arpeggiator of the Juno 60 can be triggered by a drum-machine (like the TR-707). That way, the synth uses the input for the notes of the arpeggiator from the keyboard, while it uses the input for the rhythm from the drum-machine (by CV):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vh_5RDi1e4
It seems the result of this technique has inspired a lot of the musicians from the early 80s, that I like.
Then I thought, what if I do that in midi? So today I wrote a Python script, that creates a jack-client (on Linux) using the module "alsaseq". The script gets midi input from a midi-keyboard (pitch) as well as from seq24 (rhythm). And it sends the result - a simple "Up"-arpeggio - to ZynAddSubFx. For reference, a bass drum from hydrogen (also controlled by seq24) was added.
This is the result. I think, it sounds quite remarkable.
I hope to get inspiration for song writing from this.
Today is just the first day, the script is working.

The Arpeggiator Trick

Hydrogen Test

Dexed, Flute-sound vom DX7's default ROM; plus jack-rack, played with NP-32 with mididings to raise the velocity curve (Python).

DX Flute

Transposed Sequencer

"Bass Station 2" sampled into Linuxsampler.

BS2 Strings

Bass Station 2 sampled for polyphony, plus some effects.

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