I started with the piano parts, since I already had the first couple arpeggio parts floating around my head for a while.  I also was sick of hi-hats, so I wanted a simple drum part without any of those.  It kinda evolved from there into something dub-steppy.  I got to manually do the wubbing for once with the LFO knob on my keyboard, as opposed to automated ahead of time, so that was fun.  I've ended up wishing for some better sound capability (ie. synths) too.  The tools I have at the moment weren't perfect for what I wanted to do, and I didn't have any samples handy of what I was looking for.  Even though I didn't spend as much time on this, I think it turned out ok.  I really need to get proper monitor speakers...

Combo VI

Quick draft of a main action theme for a currently non-existent naval combat game.

CVNNAVDEFRON Theme

Put together in 2 days just for fun using a guitar recording and 2 vocal snippets about World of Warships so generously contributed by friends of mine.  It has some guitar, a vocoder, a mellow sine/triangle synth, laid back drums, what more could you ask for?

Boats and Torps

Chiptune adaptation influenced by a classic sea shanty for use as a level soundtrack in nautical game that will probably never be made!  Generated a couple years ago, finally being uploaded here.

Farewell To Spain

Comments on the track while in development were that it was happy with a sad/melancholy tinge to it, so I felt like maybe it could be the favorite song of a spirit trapped in a gallery or theater box balcony.  A funky balcony!  So that became the name!

Spirit Of The Funky Balcony

Drank some wine, made some coffee, and almost burned myself on my stove!  But most importantly had fun working with samples.

Corks Coffee And Conflagrations

After I did Birdstep, I wanted to spend more time on something similar, but... without a bird.  It ended up not really going in that direction, and I got to experiment with some sounds instead.  This is the end result.  I also tried to improve my mixing, which is a work in progress.

This week I was playing around with some sounds, and actually tried out an electric piano and tweaking it a little bit.  I used to not really like the sound very much, but for some reason I suddenly was really into it last week.  That experimenting, plus a vocal line that I had lying around, ended up turning into this song.  Not really techno-y or anything at all, but that's fine.

So Long

I don't know exactly how this came about.  I wanted to do something with more chiptune influence this week, and it was supposed to be space-themed.  I had about three other various project sessions started with various stages of recording, trying to find what the space-chip sound or melody would be for the song.  Then I started listening to spanish marches, which led to some pasodobles and flamenco music, and then some related Charles Mingus Jazz.  That all caught my ear, and thus this project was started.  I also did a lot more manual recoding of synth audio than usual (and midi too for some of the software synths), which was fun to play!

Keith DeRuiter