Just Instrumentals

Just an Ambient Mood

Instrumental only.  Add your own lyrics. :)


Daw: Logic Pro X

15 Tracks

Instruments:
Rob Papen Quad - Island Arp - JoMal - No FX
Rob Papen RG - 013 Stl 16th Dawn Preset, 3_Steel RG grooves 01 Bank - No FX
Logic Pro Alchemy - 70s Synth Arp -  with Waves S1 Imager and SoundToys PrimalTap as FX
Spitfire Hans Zimmer Strings - 60 Cellos All in one — Long setting — with SoundToys Crystallize (Wet Pad) as FX
Hans Zimmer Strings and QUAD Island Arp used without FX on two tracks
Logic Pro Alchemy - Divine Voices - no FX
KV331 Audio Synthmaster - AR Morph Scanner BT — no FX
Spectronics Omnisphere — Lunar Choirs — no FX
Logic Pro Alchemy - 80s Dream Guitar — Ensemble Symphonic 5 Voice FX
Logic Pro Alchemy - Dynamic String Layer - No FX
Cinebrass Sonore - Horns Legato - No FX
Logic Pro Alchemy - Alchemists Choir — Modulation Delay Super Chorus and Flanger Yellow Flanger FX
Logic Pro Alchemy - Wavetable Morph Lead — No FX
EastWest OPUS — Hollywood Backup Singers — WB Multi - No FX

MASTER MIX
Logic Pro AdLimit - Average Limit
Waves S1 Imager - S1 Full Reset
SoundToys - Sie-Q - Scooped
Ozone 9 — whatever makes it sound good :)

You Lift Me Up All Day

Project 13

Unfinished Sketch

Encore

Lazy Day

Project 60

Titles are like art at a modern art museum.  Label them anything you want.  You can't go wrong.

My Trip to the MOMA

One thing about being retired is that you can easily get lost composing music -- and conveniently forget you have tons of stuff left to unpack from your last assignment as well as a spouse who is calling for help but you can't hear because the music is so loud the walls are reverberating.

Midi Controller: Arturia Keylab 49 MKII
DAW: Reason 12 - Reason Studios
Mastered only using SoundCloud (needed to get my free masters in for January)
 VSTs used for this song:
Classic 808 v3- used midi loop from Reason Drum Loops
Reason Drum Loops - cw3_drm100_criss_top (Electronic Folder)
Hip Hop Kit 03- used midi loop from Reason Drum Loops
Toontrack EZbass - Straight 4/4 
SynthMaster 2 - PD SlowPad RL
Pink Noise Studio MAIA v2 - Slow String Ensembles
Pink Noise Studio MAIA v2 - Light and Shadow
Reveal Sound ReSpire Synthesizer - Big Sound Pd
VPS Avenger - LD Sweeper 2600 (from Retrowave 80s pack)
VPS Avenger - MU Muted Up and Down (from Guitars XP2 pack)
Omnisphere - Endless Opera Pad
Korg Mono Poly - Random Peak Ld (LEAD folder)

Put in Your Own Lyrics

Come with me,
Like you did before,
But this time,
When you take my hand,
I’ll never let it go.
I won’t promise you we'll be rich,
But I’ll promise we'll never be poor.

Brief Music and Suggested Lyrics: Mike Krath

I'll Never Let It Go

Daybreak

Living long enough, you'll eventually have those that passed on that you either have good memories of them or bad.  This song is for those happy memories, for those people who made our life worthwhile while living and continues to bring smiles to our thoughts many years after they left this earth.

The first lyrics (see below) was about a boy wanting to live up to his father.  But If I were to re-write lyrics, I would write about a town who remembered such a person.  Who even after suffering setbacks and hardships in life, still stood out as someone who would brighten your day.

And for the Sunday crowd look up Proverbs 10:7.

First Start:
Verse 1:
G D/F# Em
There's a young boy in this town,
C G D
With a dream that's going 'round,
G D/F# Em
He wants to be like his old man,
C G D
Strong and kind, with calloused hands.

Chorus:
G D/F# Em
He'll honor his dad with all his might,
C G D
He'll be a hero in his father's eyes,
G D/F# Em
He'll work hard every single day,
C G D
And make his dad proud in every way.

Verse 2:
G D/F# Em
He listens closely to his dad's advice,
C G D
And tries to be the man he would like,
G D/F# Em
He sees his dad as a guiding light,
C G D
And follows him both day and night.

Chorus:
G D/F# Em
He'll honor his dad with all his might,
C G D
He'll be a hero in his father's eyes,
G D/F# Em
He'll work hard every single day,
C G D
And make his dad proud in every way.

Bridge:
Am C G
And when the day finally comes,
Am C G
And the young boy is a man,
Am C G
He'll stand tall like his dad,
Am C D
And do the best that he can.

Chorus:
G D/F# Em
He'll honor his dad with all his might,
C G D
He'll be a hero in his father's eyes,
G D/F# Em
He'll work hard every single day,
C G D
And make his dad proud in every way.

Outro:
G D/F# Em
There's a young boy in this town,
C G D
With a dream that's going 'round,
G D/F# Em
He'll honor his dad with all his might,
C G D
And make him proud every single night.

Happy Memories

Gentle Winds

A reflection on the finality of life.

On and on,
Life goes on,
On and on,
Nothing new under the sun.

Man lies down,
In the ground,
Turns to dust,
Wind blows him around.

On and on.
Life goes on.
On and on,
Nothing new under the sun.

On And On

M-Obscure

I’m a song-writer who enjoys creating music of any genre.

My son recently introduced me to A.I. and taught me how to do covers of my previously released non-A.I. music. Since I've never considered myself a performer (except playing with worship bands at church or solo-piano at a rehab center) using A.I. is right up my alley.

Since I've  exhausted using my previously released music for A.I. covers, I now compose music in a DAW, rip to a wave file, and make an A.I. cover of this wave file. I then write lyrics to the A.I. music. It takes around 100 A.I. iterations to complete the lyrics and get a style I'm happy with.  

Brief Bio: Lived more than a quarter of my life overseas (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). Each country gave me an appreciation for different types of music plus probably why I get bored easily in sticking with one genre or another.