Concept:  Using a Bastl Kastle 1.5 synthesizer to create heavy industry factory noises where robotic arms move large metal shapes to position them for slicing, cutting and deburring. 

Mastered on June 26, 2025 using Bandlab mastering, mastering preset is Tape, intensity is 50 percent, input gain is -4.5 dB. 

Signal path:  Bastl Kastle 1.5 audio out to Bastl Dude Mixer to USB Audio Adapter MIC-in to Chromebook to Bandlab. No passive mixer used to reduce Kastle volume before going to the Dude Mixer... the goal was to get a more raw sound as if recorded in a factory. Guitar input was used on Bandlab.

Bastl Kastle Patches: 
+ to waveshape
- to square LFO
waveshape to triangle LFO
mode to stepped

I adjusted OSC Pitch and Timbre during the recording to create the changes in sounds. 

Bandlab effects: 
* Gain is -6.3 dB
* Stereowise (Spread is 4.5, Low is 100%, High is 78%)
* Vintage Limiter (Gain is +3.74, Attack is 10.00, Release is 5.44, Knee is -8.41, Enhance is +1.78, Volume is +6.86)
* Dimension B Chorus (Preset is 02)
* EQ3-M (3-band EQ with Mid Sweep) (Low is +4.1 dB, Mid is +6.5 dB, Mid Sweep is 2173 Hz, High is +7.3 dB)
* D-Delay (Time is 0.152 Hz, Feedback is 27%, High Pass is 355 Hz, Low Pass is 5477 Hz, Dry Level is 65, Wet Level is 35, Volume -1 dB)
* Noise Gate (Threshold is -51.6 dB, Attack is 4 ms, Release is 395 ms)

126bpm, 4/4 timing

WAV format 16-bit, 44.1kHz

Photo:  "Cut-off Saw Cutting Metal with Sparks" by Anamul Rezman. 
Pexels License. Photo-editing by jtechno electronic music. 

"Slice Factory" is copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email for permission to use.

Slice Factory

June 2025 - Not posting new songs for a bit as I am applying mastering to the current songs here. I am also redoing some of the effects for certain mixes so mastering comes out better. I'll announce when that is complete and return to creating new songs to add. 

I listen to tons of techno, trance and EDM. I grew up tho with 60s and 70s rock and jazz fusion. I took piano for five years. My dad played piano, accordian, xylophone, bongos and little bit of guitar. Mom was an oil and acrylic artist. In college I practiced piano in the listening rooms and hung out in the music degree buildings and went to bunches of concerts in the SF Bay Area. 

In 2018 I landed a writing gig with DJD UK Global Music and wrote 74 listener reviews of songs for their artists. The label owner later retired after a long career in music production and marketing and closed his label.

I released my debut digital album on the DJD UK Global Music label in March 2019 called "Off Grid Analog", 13 tracks, 48:05 minutes of experimental/electronic/noise original music available for just a year on all major online outlets.  It was fun working with a label and to create an album. 

In the past I've created music on a Korg Poly-61, Korg X-50 and an Alesis Micron and mixed on a Mackie 1402-VLZ3 14-channel mixer. Today I've been creating electronic, experimental and noise music with a Teenage Engineering PO-28 Robot Pocket Operator, Stylophone Gen X-1 Analog Synthesizer, Bastl Kastle 1.5 Synth,  Meeblip Geode Synth, Alesis Q25 Controller, Kieth McMillen QuNexus USB MIDI CV Gate Controller, Alesis Micron Synth, Rucci 8-bit Power Synth, Rucci Maximal Drone, Rucci 16-step CV Sequencer,  Moffenzeef Modular MSG II Black, Stylophone Gen R8 Synth, Bastl Dude Mixer, Korg Volca FM Synth, Make Noise O-Coast Synth, Korg Monotron Delay Synth, Korg NTS-1 Synth Benidub Filtro, Arturia Keystep Controller, etc. I got away from melodic pieces to explore music and to dabble in electronic, experimental, noise, drone and experimental techno, ambient, trance styles.

My home studio includes m-Audio BX5 powered monitors and use of Beyerdynamic studio headphones, Sony and Beats phones. I use a Chromebook and the cloud-based in-browser Bandlab DAW and I do my own mastering. I use both a Baslt Dude Mixer and the Behringer Xenyx 1002B 10-chnl mixer. I use Mogami cables, Roland Gold MIDI cable, CV cables, iConnectivity MIDI to USB cable. I use a Boomstick Psychoacoustic DAC for added richness of dynamics. Final signal path output goes through the USB audio adapter into my Chromebook.  I rarely do multitrack preferring a straight signal path from one device to the next till final put goes through a mixer to the audio adapter into the Chromebook. 

I'm active on synth and music groups on Facebook under my name:
John Koudela III.  My music name tho is jtechno on Soundcloud. 

I'm located north of Seattle, WA. Contact me at:  jtechnoelectronicmusic@yahoo.com
All music I create and post are copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email me for permission to use my tracks.