Synthesizers: Korg Arp Odyssey, Moog Sirin, Roland JX-8P, D-05, JP-08,  System-8
Drums & Percussion: Korg Arp Odyssey, VSDSX
Sound FX: Korg Arp Odyssey

Digital Audio Workstation and Processing:
Cockos Reaper
Reasonstudios Reason, Pulveriser, Polar,The Echo, Master Bus Compressor, Channel EQ, Channel Dynamics
FXpansion Etch Red
Soniccharge Echobode
Selig Leveler
Decomposer Sitala
Synapse GQ-7, 90 Vintage Phaser, Deep Reverb, Fat Space
Fabfilter Saturn
Valhalla Shimmer
Sonicbitsio Pump
TAL Reverb
Oril River
Kazrog True Iron
Softube Saturation Knob
Voxengo Tempo Delay
Kuassa EVE-AT1
Waves CLA-76, Doubler4, RCompressor
Unfiltered Audio Renoun Reverb

Dinosaurs In Space - by Cosmic Address

This is a rather intense song by Color Theory standards. 🤜🏻😵🤛🏻

You're in a relationship with someone who wants a rival, an enemy, a fight. You feel like you've been here before, watching the threads of your friendship fray and unravel. You think to yourself, "Just let me go... I'm stretched to the limit."

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THE LIMIT
©2021 Brian Hazard (ASCAP)

The fear of falling
And the promise not to fail
Pulling my worlds apart
Hand on my heart

Light the match
And leave me for dead
And everybody said
Isn’t she nice?
Sugar and spice

Just let me go
I'm stretched to the limit
And bones are bound to break
Is that what you want?
A fight to the finish
Will it satisfy the ache?

I watch it happen
I incriminate myself
Flexible as a lie
Reach for the sky

Twisted arms
And sadistic whims
Dislocated limbs
Picking a fight
On a Saturday night

What if I told you
That it wasn’t meant to be?
What if I told you
I won’t be here for the ever after?

COLOR THEORY
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The Limit

I wrote this track earlier this summer, but didn't manage to find the time to record a performance and video until well after the leaves started to change. This was created all in Ableton Live. Most of the synths are Reason's Europa. Drums and effects are all stock plug-ins and samples with some Valhalla Shimmer.

I'm constantly working at the limits of my amateur musical knowledge. I have a lot of trouble finding chords and melodies that reach what I'm aiming for, but I'm happy with the chord change on the keys halfway through the song and the riff that comes in near the end.

The live performance is simple—just a few buttons to turn drum parts on and off and knobs mapped to various effects parameters. But I learned a whole lot about how to use Ableton in a live setting in the process. For example, the pads here don't turn off the drum track audio, they actually mute the MIDI itself. This way sample tails don't get cut off. I also did some neat tricks like mapping a knob to the snare roll which also automatically mutes the kick. Live is amazing.

Video:  https://youtu.be/Iku05xfnW54

End of Summer (Ableton Live jam)

The Digitakt continues to be a pure fun machine. Here, I'm using it for drums, bass, and pads. It's also MIDI sequencing the MB33. The MB33 is running through an old bass distortion pedal to give it some dirt, and an equally old guitar delay pedal to add some tape echo. The pad is something I made in Reason and sampled into the Digitakt.

I multitrack recorded everything live into Ableton using Overbridge. Being able to record every Digitakt track separately is awesome for mixing. Also, since the Digitakt sends its external inputs through Overbridge too, it is essentially a general purpose 2-track audio interface on top of its other capabilities.

Once I recorded all ten tracks of audio in, I spent a bunch of time mixing and doing additional production on it. This one is more of a jam than a real song—the arrangement isn't exactly very interesting—but at least it gives me an opportunity to practice mixing.

Polyhedral (Digitakt, MB33 live deep house)

Ergo Elk

Pour Me The Moon

buzz2

Entry for the Tribute ReasonTalk song challenge. All synths sounds created using Speo's Tribute Wavetable Synthesizer

Always Late

Duck step

Entry for https://www.reasontalk.com/2021/02/turn2on-wtfm-synth-double-competition/

1st place
https://forum.reasontalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=7521993

Duck Story

My submission for the ReasonTalk Ekssperimental Sounds Wavemaster Challenge. All sounds used originate from the Wavemaster.

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