Just a collection of my music that I find relaxing and calming.

Relaxing Stuff

Hey, even though I'm on vacation doesn't mean I can't make some kick-ass chill-as-hell ambient music! I brought my Blofeld and lappy up here, plus my brand new (old) TR-707 and my MPK mini keys to play with. Maybe I'll do some old fashioned Detroit techno next with the 707, basically a poor-mans 909. Aww yiss!

That's right, I'm uploading from a cabin in the middle of a small spit of land in a harbor! Life is good. Plus it just rained, so I wanted to take advantage of this momentary break to bring you fine folks some good music. Well, less music more ambient.

Equipment Used:
Waldorf Blofeld - Main Pad (Custom LIGHT AIR preset)
wind/rain/thunder - Atmospheric VSTs
FL Studio 11 - Sequencing/Recording/Mixing/etc.
AKAI MPK mini - Keyboard
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra - Interface

Light Air

I don't know if this is chillwave, but its chill. And it sounds like waves, or clouds or something.

Everything but drums are outboard. Used FL Studio 12 to sequence and all the other shit. Some hardware fx, some software. Mainly Valhalla stuff, Pancake, etc.

Clouds

So, using nothing but a few instances of Kontakt and my Poly800, I give you this! I've been chasing the Campfire Headphase-style sound for a little while, I think I'm starting to get there. This is kinda Boards of Canada but in my own words. I like it.

Oh, and no MIDI. I've got no MIDI cables, so everything was just tracked in and either looped or recorded straight live.

The Poly800 isn't even 100% working, it's a bit bashed up. But damn can it sound nice with a bit of coaxing.

Equipment Used:
Korg Poly800 Mk. 1 (w/ Moog Slayer) - All Synth Sounds
Kontakt 5 - Drums/Bass

Effects Used:
Various combinations of
Wampler Faux Tape Echo
Caroline Guitar Company KILOBYTE
Alesis Quadraverb (kinda broke, but still works)

Canadian Mahogany

Alright, here's the full track. Added in some bass line courtesy of yours truly. Not very good at playing bass, but at least it's in tune. Took a few things out of the IDM handbook with regards to drums. A little glitchy, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC39Vd3UpCI

Equipment Used:
Akai AX60 - Synth Pad
Kawai K4r - Pulsed Sound (in background)
Squier P-Bass - Bass Guitar
Kontakt 5 - 70s Drummer

Metastate

The follow up to Chimes, this is completely made using samples taken from Chimes and then reversed/pitched/mangled in various ways. I then added in some old Roland CR78 vst fun for the percussive sounds. Later on come in a few drones from the Poly800 and then a few notes off the guitar.

Equipment Used:
Akai AX60, Korg Poly800, Korg DW8000 - Random Sample Loops
Korg Poly800 - Overdriven Loops
Fender Squier Bulletstrat - Geetar Notes

Superposition

Another experimental piece, this one is three synths being droned in tandem with each other. Poly800 comes in on the lower drone first, then the DW8000 on an arp followed by the AX60 on another arp. This leads into the next song, Superposition.

Equipment Used:
Korg Poly800 - Chord Drone
Korg DW8000 - Arp
Akai AX60 - Arp

Chimes

Testing out the new setup, wanted to do a gymnopedie really quickly. It's not the best, but it does serve the patch I threw together well.

Gymnopedie No 1

Really chill track, made one or two changes really quickly. Sorry for reupload.

Lullaby I

I'm back, had to study for a midterm and get a lot of stuff done. But now I've got the L100 hooked up to my Roland REVO-120, with two mics in stereo surrounding the cabinet. The REVO-120 is a leslie emulator, it's pretty cool. Uses Roland analog chorus and phaser circuits to simulate the doppler horn on the leslie.

This is just something I wanted to make. And now that I have a real tone-wheel Hammond, I can make it! Working on my Doric combo organ, hopefully that will be in the mix within the next month or so.

Equipment Used:
Oberheim Matrix 1000 - wind sounds
Roland Super JX10 - fifth brass/saw pad
Hammond L100 - organ
Roland REVO-120 - rotary speaker
Kawai K4r - bass tones
Fender Squier Bulletstrat - guitar
Korg DW-8000 - string machine-esque solo

Can't Sleep

Hey everybody, chill out homies. Everything will be just fine, I'll be supplying everyone with positive vibes and chill waves from here on out.

But for real, I did this all in one day and it does show a little. It's a simple enough chord progression, with just one held chord being shifted up and down by a whole step. DW-8000 is using this cool patch that exploits high-resonance to create an almost automated sounding effect. I also come in and solo on the SH-09 live through a Small Stone Nano. Really fun piece, not to mention every single patch in this song was made by yours truly.



Equipment Used:
Korg DW-8000 - Main Chords
Roland Super JX10 - Bass
Kawai K4r - Low Pads
Roland JV880 - Overdriven Rez Pad
Roland SH-09 - Solo

retromine - CR78 Percussion Emulation
iZotope DDLY - Basically Every Delay
EHX Small Stone Nano - Phaser for SH-09

Sunset

This is not perfect yet, recorded to tape with no click so it's a bit tricky. But it gives that kinda haunting tape sound.

All tracks are done with the Korg monologue and the Yamaha R100 reverb.

Orchestral Suite No. 3 (BWV 1068) - Air

Alright, definitely improving sounds here. Played around with stereo panning, will probably go back and fix the stereo field on the past 3 songs or so.

Cool!

Equipment Used:
Casio CZ-1 - VHS warbly pad
Ensoniq ESQ-1 - Bell pluck
Korg Poly800 - Bass
Korg DSS-1 - Square arp
Kawai K4r - Detuned warbly lead plucks

Samples Used:
Roger Linn Linndrum - Kick, snare, toms
Alesis SR-16 - Ride
Oberheim DMX - Hat
Bits of layering here and there, lots of compression, etc.

Metro Air

I'm doing a random album auto-generated by Tom Whitwell's compose.py code. Really fun stuff!

Here's what the program told me to do:
Track 1: Yasemi
Mood: Cautious, Bouncy.
Source: Piano Sounds.
Filter: None.
Modulation: Audio.
Slope: Envelope.
Resonance: Cusp.
Chords: None.
Sequence: 6.


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https://medium.com/music-thing-modular-notes/how-i-recorded-an-album-in-an-evening-with-a-lunchbox-modular-and-a-python-script-443ca08f34da

https://gist.github.com/TomWhitwell/12d06d39571c3e19fb7457dc17c4915c

Yasemi

Modular Patch 5 (Bermuda.Tune.LP-1.WaspVCF.Clouds.Mikro)

FIXED THIS ONE!

Just a simple triple-tracked demo of the 0-coast playing my favorite tune by Bach. Fixed this up with some tempo changes and better tuning lol.

Equipment Used: 
Make Noise 0-coast - All sounds

West Coast Bach - French Suite No 5 In G Major - Allemande

This is a fairly simple track, came about after I was screwing around with the 0-coast and my HEK. Then I threw in a messy and noisey MS-20 bass sound, put some pad on top, and voila.

Equipment Used:
Make Noise 0-Coast - Random blips (ran through modular)
Korg MS-20 Mini - Bass
Akai AX80 - PWM pad and more blips
Ensoniq VFX-SD - Saw pad

Rainsheets

Another cozy, calming track. It's pretty simple, started with a recorded track on the MPC1000 that is played to the 0-Coast. That then goes through Clouds with a bit of pitch mod. Buffer is set low.

I recorded that and the RS-101 live, then put some fx on the 101. Recorded in the DX7, the MicroPiano, and then finally the MS-20 mini.

Equipment Used:
Make Noise 0-coast - Pentatonic blips
Roland RS-101 - Strings
Yamaha DX7- Pad
Kurzweil MicroPiano - Piano
Korg MS-20 Mini - Lead

Sunrise Over Brook

Another cozy track, decided to turn it into a little lo-fi hip hop track. Messed around with a home-brew DX7 epiano patch, threw it through some fuzz and bit reduction as well as some vinyl/lo-fizer type things. Then I made a quick beat using CR-78 samples, put that through some heavy compression and bit reduction. And finally beefed it up with some pads from the K4 and a bass from MS-20 Mini. Oh yeah, and the weird blippy bloops come from the 0-coast being ran through Clouds.

Equipment Used:
Akai MPC-1000 - Beat, sequencing
Yamaha DX7 - Electric piano
Make Noise 0-coast (and modular) - Bloops
Korg MS-20 Mini - Bass
Kawai K4 - Pad
Ensoniq ESQ-1 - Shimmers

Cabin In Forest

Just finished my DIY build of the MTM Turing Machine Mk2, decided to put it through its paces running with the Bermuda osc and the Make Noise 0-coast. Gate pulses the trigger input of contour, with the CV going through a quantizer then into the 0-coast 1v/oct and the Bermuda. Clock input comes from the LP-1. Mutable Instruments Clouds is set at 100% wet with no pitch modification.

Equipment Used:
Make Noise 0-COAST
HEK Modular

Turing Machine Testing

This is just a quick jam I threw together this evening. Uses mostly a drone from the 0-COAST, the MS-20 with a nice slow envelope (both of which run into Clouds to do some pitch shifting). Also we've got a DX7 playing little plunky sounds.

Equipment Used:
Korg MS-20 Mini - Slow pad
Make Noise 0-COAST - Drone
Yamaha DX7 - EP sounds

Fostex 2016 Line Mixer - Mixer for modular
ART PRO VLA - Stereo compression for modular
Alesis Quadraverb - Stereo reverb for modular

Alesis 3630 - Compression for DX7
Roland SDE-2500 - Delay for DX7
Yamaha R-1000 - Reverb for DX7

Panasonic RAMSA DA-7 - Mixing
Alesis LX-20 - Multitracking
Behringer T1952 - Master comp/limiter/coloring

Akai EIE - PC interface
REAPER - Final recording

Laminar Ripples

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)

Relaxing Stuff

Dylan Packard