chill stuff

lotsa house and techno

Made using just the Teenage Engineering PO-32 Tonic, and my ART PRO VLA optical compressor. Tasty.

Tonic

I was kinda stressed out today, so I wanted to unwind a little with some quick and dirty house. This uses the Akai Rhythm Wolf for all the drums, then a Korg Volca Beats for that perfect kick. Everything was slaved to the Wolf, and the bass, pads, and keys were sequenced by the MPC1000. No I didn't use the built in bass synth on the Wolf lol, it's a little hard to use.

Equipment Used:
Akai Rhythm Wolf - Drums
Korg Volca Beats - Kick
Korg MS-20 Mini - Bass
Akai AX80 - Pad
Yamaha DX7 - E Piano

Alesis 3630 - Sidechained Pad, Kick Compression
Alesis Quadraverb - Pad Reverb
Roland SDE-2500 - Drum Delay
Yamaha R-1000 - Bass Reverb
ART PRO VLA - Drum Compression
DOD Ice Box - Drum Chorus
Mooer REECHO - E Piano Delay
ZOOM MS70CDR - E Piano Reverb
BOSS RV-6 - Drum Reverb

Wolf Of Detroit

Some good ole fashioned house, kinda minimal but I wanted to do a laid-back jam with my volcas, the po tonic and my modular. It's fun just running with some more limited sequencers and having fun with those. Also, dub chords on the volca bass sound fantastic.

Equipment Used:
Modular - Plucks and Bass (Rings for plucks, E340 for bass)
TE PO-32 Tonic - Drums, Clock
Korg Volca Beats - Additional Drums
Korg Volca Bass - Dub Chords

Mooer REECHO Pedal - Chord Delay

Mercurial Automaton

Finally got my crappy Fostex tape recorder to behave for like 6 minutes. It's just some simple stuff, nothing too serious or anything. Just wanted to lay down a simple, crappy track to tape again.

Equipment Used:
Roland TR-09 - Clock and Drums
Korg Volca Bass - Bass
Korg Volca Keys - Stabs

Fostex X-28 - Tape Recorder

This isn't terribly good, but I wanted to try and test out the 424 mk1. It works pretty well!

424 Test House

Hello! Got a TD-3 from Detroit Modular, their new store is awesome. But yeah, pretty decent chill track here, very pleased with the bass line and everything. I've never really done anything with any sort of 303-like synth so this was something new for me. Had to look up the original Roland manual to figure out programming haha!

Valid Destination

Alright, another day another jam. Dunno why, but I've been feeling in a good mood music-wise! This one is a bit slower, wanted something a little more ambient tonight. Had a really long day, kinda hurt my hand doing vinyl stapling for some restaurant benches. Also didn't get food till like 3 in the afternoon so have had a headache most of the day.

Anyways, this is a lot of synths! Pretty much all of the ones I've got hooked up save for the Matrix 6 and MKS50/TX81z. Neat!

Bistro

Alright, just something dumb and easy for testing out the Solina SE-IV. What a cool string synth, this thing sounds amazing! Though it weighs an absolute ton holy moly.

Drums are RD-8 through a BOSS RX-100 spring verb, bass is TD-3 through BOSS RCL-10 comp/limiter and Eletra EP-100 BBD, and finally strings are Solina through T-Rex Replicator. Recorded on my Tascam 246!

Eminent Namespace

Alright! So I got an Analog Rytm mk1, and it's basically the bee's knees. I spent like an hour or so getting to know it, then spent another hour making this little track. It's just 16 steps with conditional triggers, and some live mute/unmuting. I haven't learned the deeper stuff like songs and chains and all that, and I didn't want to mess around with more than just 16 steps so I made something fairly simple.

But this is all Rytm! I recorded it to my 246 with NR on at higher speed, then did some slight comp/drive/limit in DAW as I usually do, though not as heavy handed this time. I gotta learn to tame the comp in the Rytm however, those kicks get kinda buzzy.

Dust

Alright, so here's another Rytm jam! My thing did a weird at two points and cut the high out of the right channel for some reason, but whatever. Not a huge deal. Probably just hitting a bad spot on the tape or the mixer outs got bumped, probably that last one. Ech.

Anyways, this is all Rytm mk1 with 1.50a firmware. Just a few samples, mostly the analog engines.

Scannr

I feel super sick tonight, so I made some music to keep my mind off things. Hopefully it's just something I ate or eating way too long after lunch or something. Maybe it was a migraine.

Oh well, this is the K1m on pads sequenced by the Keystep, then ran through the T-Rex Replicator and Avalanche Run (just verb). Then it's Rytm providing clock to the Keystep and bass/drums. I really like making wobbly basses on the Rytm btw, the dual vco is so cool!

Recorded to tape on my Tascam 246 at high speed with dbx NR on.

Dubbish

Technically award-winning sound guy and music boy

I'm back bitches!

I post a lot of music here, sometimes slightly under-done stuff. Check back every now and then if you like a track, cause there's a good chance that a day after I put it up I will have already replaced the original file lol.

I moderate the synth discord, if you want to drop in and talk some shop or goof about, go here: https://discord.gg/hCuvGvc

My current equipment list is:
Akai AX80 (analog poly synth)

Behringer Neutron (analog duo synth)
Behringer Model D (analog mono synth)
Behringer Deepmind12D (analog poly synth)
Behringer RD-8 (analog drum synth)
Behringer MS-101 (analog mono synth)

Elektron Analog Rytm Mk1 (hybrid drum synth/sampler)
Elektron Octatrack Mk1 (digital sampler/resampler/looper/sequencer/mixer)

Korg DW-8000 (hybrid poly synth)
Korg Poly800 (analog paraphonic synth)
Korg Volca Beats (analog drum machine)
Korg Volca Keys (analog paraphonic synthesizer)
Korg Volca Drum (digital drum synth)
Korg Volca Modular (mini modular synth)

Hammond L100 (tone-wheel tube organ)

Oberheim Matrix 6 (analog poly synth)

Roland JX-3P (analog poly synth)
Roland JX-10 (analog poly synth)
Roland JV-880 (digital poly synth)
Roland JD-800 (digital poly synth)
Roland MKS-50 (analog poly synth)
Roland REVO-120 (Leslie emulator)
Roland S-550 (digital sampler)
Roland CR-68 (analog rhythm machine)
Roland MV-8000 (studio sequencer/sampler/brain)

Studio Electronics ATC-1 (analog mono synth)

Yamaha TX81Z(digital FM synth)
Yamaha SHS-10 (cheap digital keytar)

Doric 61TT Transistorized Organ (combo organ, like Farfisa)

Eurorack Modular

Tascam 246 (4-track tape recorder)
Tascam 238 Syncassette (8-track tape recorder)

Radio Shack MX-1000 (6 channel mic amp/mixer)
Yamaha EMS-10 mk2 (6 channel PA amp/mixer w/ spring)
Mackie 32-8 (32 channel/8 bus mixer)

BOSS RX-100 (spring reverb)
Roland SDE-2500 (15-bit digital delay)
Roland RE-101 (tape echo)
Yamaha R1000 (digital reverb)
Alesis 3630 (compressor)
ART Pro VLA mk2 (compressor)
Alesis Quadraverb (digital reverb)
Alesis Midiverb II (digital reverb)
Alesis Wedge (digital multi fx)
dbx 166 (compressor)

EQD Avalanche Run (delay/reverb)
TC Echobrain (delay)
EHX Small Stone (phaser)
EHX Big Muff Pi (fuzz)

Cannonball Brute Big Bell Stone Tenor Sax (duh)
Fender Squire P-Bass (bass guitar)
Fender Squire Bulletstrat (electric guitar)

Valid Destination

Dylan Packard