chill stuff

Got the Tascam 32 running again, so I've got it hooked up to the M-106! I'm waiting on some belts for the Portastudio 246 I grabbed, so have this chill stuff in the mean time.

Equipment Used:
MPC Live - Samples and sequencing
MS-101 - Arps
ATC-1 - Bass

Video here! https://youtu.be/0WJ3cJVGyqs

Repro

My 246 pinch roller bit the dust, ate two tapes cause I'm dumb. So here's some chill house vibes!

MS-101 on bass, microfreak on arps, s-550 on pad using some random samples I bought from a while ago, and then of course the mpc live.

Pinch Roll

Wanted to another little RM1X jam! So here's some sounds from the S-550 and K1000SX paired with the RM1X itself, some really cool sounds in there. The K1000SX might just be a strings-oriented rompler expander module for the K1000, but there's some gold inside that box!

RM1X on sequencing, drums and some pads. Then S-550 on a breath pad, and K1000SX on this little bloopy arp thing.

AMB02

Finally, reunited with a DW-8000. So good!

Have some booty bouncing deep house courtesy of the RM1X, DW-8000, and MS-101.

All sequencing/drums done on the RM1X, bass on MS-101, and stab on DW-8000. Oh also, RM1X goes through the eurorack (Antiphon, Rings, then Clouds) for some funky glitches and weird sounds to kinda add to it. So good!

Reunion

Alright, have a bit more house stuff from the RM1X/DW-8000/MS-101 trio, this time with the Wedge on the DW-8000 doing some flange and chorus action. Fun!

Follower

Oh man oh man! I've got the studio like 75% functional finally. This is recorded down to my Otari MX5050 mk3-8 tracker, then bounced to tape by some marantz rack deck, then bounced to digital by my Porta 246. This is featuring a bunch of gear all being sequenced by the RM1x, then ran through some fx, the mackie 8-bus, and out some modified cable to the otari.

Equipment Used:
Yamaha RM1x - Sequencing/Drums
Studio Electronics ATC-1 - Initial blips w/ delay/verb
Yamaha TX81z - Arp Pad
Behringer MS-101 - Bass
Oberheim Matrix 6 - Strings
Akai AX80 - Chord Mem Stabs

Late Communication

Alright, have the first day of janjam! I've got a video of this one as well which is neato. MS-101 on bass, AX-80 on chord mem, Tama on kick/snare/clap, MPC Live on sequence and other drums, ATC-1 on blips.

janjam2020 - 1

Alright, another house jam for jamuary! Same set up as the last time, but I did some sampling! I'm learning how to chop shit on the MPC lol, it's a lot of fun.

Wayoh

Day three, and we've got a slightly different feel to this track! It's a bit moodier, a little darker and faster than the old skool house I've been doing the past couple days. Video on youtube as per usual!

Tama TS-306 on kick/snare/clap, Deepmind12D on saw pad, MPC Live on hats and sequencing, Akai AX80 and Obie Matrix 6 on saw stabs, and finally the ATC-1 on plink plonks and MS-101 on bass.

janjam2020 - 3

Here's a much different pace track, but it's pretty neat! I like this one a decent amount.

janjam2020 - 4

Back on the horse, and back again with the jams! This one is some sort of dubby stuff with the EXO-2 tape delay from the Soviet Union. It's an awesome tape delay, two stereo inputs and a stereo out. Didn't have enough cable to do stereo this time, but definitely will in the future! It does need some work, as it currently isn't fully functional just yet.

janjam2020 - 8

Time for some more jams before bed, so have something a bit more chill. Took me a while to work out but it was a lot of fun. Very immediate box, the Model:Samples.

Autodub

Tryin out the new t-rex replicator on the bass synth and man oh man, what a pedal! I've got to get used to it a bit more but it's a real damn cool tape delay. Can get crazy short and crazy long, plus some lovely inputs for feedback and time which is neato.

Shatter

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, we've got a little jam going on! This time I'm trying out my weird dual camera set-up for VHS stuff in the studio. It works surprisingly well! Check the video out if you like fun VHS looks.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofV5Ccd5Pfc&feature=youtu.be

Time Travel

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)

chill stuff

Dylan Packard