Fascinating Lil Progressive Uplifting <3 <3  <3

Oh, maybe I'm confused on the project. Is this a mixture of DAW and mobile app? The screenshot looks like it might be an emulator?

I'm just beginning to school myself in all the real equipment outside a DAW, and I have a lot to learn. Your songs and descriptions are very insightful. Good stuff, Sam. Thank you. :)

Since I heard Hang Massive work for the first time, I got obsessed with the need to hear Hang Drum sound. Now I enjoy playing it too, software of course. In particular Soniccouture as Native Instruments or Ableton Live device. 

Made this track last year, riding my bike along the picturesque hills surrounding Silicon Valley. The grass, burned to Gold for the most time of the year, looks (and smells) great. Giving California its Golden State name.

Ableton Live 11, Arturia MiniMoog, Soniccouture Pan Drum, Omnisphere, UAD Oxide Tape, IK One, FabFilters.

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Analogue

Golden

The main synthline across the track is played interactively on Buchla Easel Command 208c. One thing about it - it is not a synth in normal/usual way expected from a machine making sound by moving electrons. It is rather an instrument trully. Here is my first track with this beaut synth, exploring Buchla-sweet analogue twangs and tones. Just like Auroras, you expect the colors, but they are always different somehow. 

All 5 mins played in one shot interactively, moving Buchla sliders placed in main panel in one row. Brilliant design to be able to see what's going on with wires and sliders position. Being able to move many sliders as you go just does not let you setup a preset and play it thru. You want to change things always, naturally. It is a synth technically, but feels more like playing a jaw harp or guitar. When you twang a string while playing. Here you have 22 sliders handy aligned for that. 

Lower and higher notes are the sound of two oscillators playing the same incoming midi pattern. While envelope, wave-folding timbers, opening gate and voltage controlled amp are tweaked interactively. Also sequencer(strangely 3-5 steps max, not 4 or 8), is not only for arping notes,instead for voltage control other oscillators and combo filter/amp. 

I still do love Moog and East-coast "traditional" subtractive concept, but now dig the West-coast concept as much. Its a privilege to own and play this 1974 designed, slightly improved with usb-midi for modern times analogue gear. I fell in love with Buchla tones/concept when played newly released Arturia VST few years back. (check one synthline track: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/patrol?in=samprock/sets/4-million-thank-you).  Same idea in this track - explore one synths sound. Real synth sound, plus few sounds made by VST in the middle section. Tried to limit other instruments: two Arturia MoogMini basslines, Pigments FX-ing, OB-xa pads, Kick2. 

Buchla (monosynth) line is split to left/right with one phrase apart for more stereo movement. Jun-6 Chorus, Live 11 Echo, FafFilter Pro-C2, Timeless 3, Pro-R in different amount/locations across the song. Mastered with UAD OxideTape, IK One, and FabFilters Pro-MB compressor and Pro-L2 final limiter.

The cover art is auroras-bleeding Buchla Easel Command 208c.

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

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Auroras

Uplifting, inspiring and motivating Pop instrumental music featuring guitar harmonics, piano, synthesizers, sub-bass and a Trap / Hip-Hop drum beat. Great music for commercials, advertising, TV, films and videos.

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Positive Vibrations

This song is a memory of the summer of 2022, spent playing around with my friends Marialuisa and Illia Frolov.
The lyrics are a poem by Sandro Penna, recited by my favorite actor, Mel Ferrar.


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Odori d'Estate (feat. Mel Ferràr)

Practice Music Daily! See it in making :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7StcZ6cxgA

Quickest track I ever made ... public :) Just an improv with my favorite tools - Artiria ARP 2600, MiniMoog. Ableton Live 9 with on-board 808. Sound recorded in Audacity (for video). Video from iPhone 6S off PC screen (curved).

Have fun and inspiration in what you play!

TGIF! Quick Ableton improv with MiniMoog and ARP2600 (YT link)

Special here ~ everything is played by fingers on the iPad surface. Native Instruments app, called iMaschine 2, is limited to 4 tracks with 4 patterns over the whole song. Same time it is truly inviting environment for the Beatmaking and doing More-With-Less.

I already played electric bass and Fender Strat, mixing it in. While wanted to post bare-naked iPad version as-is, before I overproduced it in Ableton Live or spooked the charm of "4-track" classic setup :)  

Best inspiration with what you're playing today guys! 

~ Musically yours ~ S.P.  ~ @samprock  ~ @silentzen ~

Prockjets

Island (Maschine Sanctuary Edit)

Prock marathon continue - fresh one session recording. This time done on Native Instruments :) 

All played by hands on luxurious silky Maschine MK3 pads. Used Komplete kits and sounds, plus NI Monark and Arturia Prophet V3. Arturia synths integrated as NKS tools and available as native instruments in the Maschine flow. It's phunn! :) 

Inspired by nostalgic memories of good reading Haggard’s books in childhood. REALLY loved the adventure stories and hint of mystery. “She” is one fav of them … 

So here is the sound track for reading :) BTW, the book is available free at Project Gutenberg, where I usually grab a book in “epub” format and drop to iPnone/iPad (or Kindle version, or read online): gutenberg.org/ebooks/3155

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~

~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

She (History Begins)

☮ ~ Amber Alert ~ before we turn into a fossil ~ ☮

You are invited to submit YOUR own Planet Earth and Humanity dedicated music for the community playlist. All genres/styles, new or existing music. Send me a link to @samprock for inclusion by 2018/11/28. Playlist will be published on Silent Zen @silent-zen.

Our first Planet Earth collection by fabtastic SoundCloud fam artists:
https://soundcloud.com/silent-zen/sets/climate-change

I played this Amber track on my iPhone X. 100% Korg Gadget app, 128 BPM .... thinking of the subject and remembering how cool the vibe we all did with the collection. Cheers! 

Find Sam Prock at: 
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~

Crystal Ripples

☮  Amber (Community Playlist Collab Invite ~ Please Read) ☮

Fun free 80's spirit session with Cubasis on iPad. Model D by Moog, iSem by Arturia, Kauldron by Yonac, Syntronik by IK Multimedia, LD2 Classic Drums Machines by Steinberg. Those are good synth and some work now as Audio-Unit (embedded into Cubasis, not only connected as Inter-App).

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018
Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Prockjets (Singles Collection)

Game's Not Over (Power Up)

This is what I played on Maui. Hope it could pass along the island atmos and underwaters vibe. Did not try to replicate it though, it just came out.  100% Korg Gadget app driven by OP-Z by Teenage Engineering (no wires, midi goes over bluetooth). Unrefined, unmastered, direct upload from iPad micro-studio based on lanai somewhere on Maui. Aloha!

Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2019
Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~

Nautilus

☮ To celebrate our differences! ☮

100% organic made with Korg Gadget app on iPhone. Mastered in Ableton Live 11 Beta, Universal Audio, IK Multimedia and FabFilter tools. Love music making tech. VSTs, apps and vintage/newly made synths are very cool!

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen Records, 29 November, 2018
https://ditto.fm/prockjets-singles-collection

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Impressions

We Are Different

iPad and iPhone pocket projects ~ Keep it fun! 
Favorite apps:
DAW: Korg Gadget, Cubasis, Tabletop, NI Maschine 2, FL Studio
Synths: MiniMoog, Moog 15, Model D, Odessei, Mono/Poly, Kauldron
Guitar apps: Line 6 Pod, Bias, AmpliTube, Jamn
Photo & Art: ArtRage, Pixelmator, PhotoFox, uMake
App makers: Arturia, Moog, Korg, Retronyms, IK Multimedia, NI

Mobile attached hardware: 
Arturia KeyStep, Arturia Beatstep Pro, X-Key Air 25, M-Audio Axiom Pro. Connecting guitars and Moog thru IK Multimedia iRig Pro ... wonder if can make any use of my new Maschine Mk3 on mobile?

TGIF! Quick Ableton improv with MiniMoog and ARP2600 (YT link)

Prockjet (Sam Prock Mobile)

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