"Starcadia" is the stellar (ha!) title track of an EP by Joy Electric, on Plastiq Musiq. The melodies simply build on top of each other until the track becomes a monolith of sound. This is my best attempt at getting as close as possible to one of my favorite synth-focused songs.

All sounds here are the Moog Matriarch synthesizer in monophonic mode, MIDI programmed, and recorded directly into Ableton Live. No Ableton plugins or effects used except for some light track volume/panning sweeps, and compression on the [synth] bass drums. Delay sounds are the Matriarch's stereo analog delay.

NOTE: Through recording this piece, I learned about how MIDI clock data sent from a DAW can have tempo "drift" or "jitter". In other words, the timing of rhythmic notes is not perfect.

I do not own this song.

Starcadia — Joy Electric Cover — Moog Matriarch

Nicholas Greenwood

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