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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

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

VIDEO VISUALIZER IS HERE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXkeYVpTOaA

Finished this a while ago, didn't upload it, so now I'm uploading it! I'll probably find some issue with this in the next 24 hours or so and fix it, but whatever.

I wanted to make a Com Truise-styled track, from the drum layering to the arp'd bass line, to the square waves, to the SC brass sounds. Really happy with this one, uses just about everything I have in the studio, save for the organ/wurly/rm-10/k2k. Fun fun.

Equipment Used:
Sequential Circuits Six Trak - Brass Sequence
Ensoniq ESQ-1 - Brassy Pad
Korg MS-20 Mini - Square Arp Bass
Korg EX-8000 - Lead
Kawai K4r - Saw Backing Pad
Casio CZ-1 - Warbly EP Sounds

Drumtraks Samples for drums
REAPER used for DAW

Signals

This isn't all that great, but it's a simple improv to tape.

Equipment Used:
Casio CZ-1 - Pad/EP
Korg MS-20 Mini - Violin Souding Synth
Whippany RM-10 - Drums

Alesis Quadraverb on all tracks, plus a Small Stone on the RM-10.

Island

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

So, the big bad ADAT machine ate my tape, so I lost the other recording. Also, I like this one quite a bit more. Bit more cohesive, a bit more practiced. It's even got a video attached to it!!! Shot on VHS!!!!!!!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16t-RCK3Ncg&feature=youtu.be

Signal Chain:
Make Noise 0-COAST is the source of the bass, Korg Volca Beats supplies the distorted drum sounds, and the Akai MPC1000 supplies MIDI clock and kicks.

The Beats is ran through a Sunshine Vapor Lofi Fuzz, and that in turn is put into the Doepfer Wasp Filter. The filter is then opened and closed manually (on CV1), and CV2 is modulated via the digital noise output of the Turing Machine. Resonance is set just below squealing, and creates some lovely harmonic distortion as only the Wasp filter can do. The LP output of the Wasp goes into the left input of Clouds. Also, the sync click out is connected to the analog math input on the 0-COAST and is subsequently routed to the Turing Machine clock in.

The 0-COAST is a bit more complex. It's direct output is ran into the external input of the MS-20 mini, and the headphone out is ran into the ESP amplifier for further distortion. The filter has no envelope attached to it and is opened and closed either manually or by LFO. A quantized CV is sent from the Turing Machine to the v/oct input, with the TRIG input for the envelope coming from the Pulse out on the Turing Machine. There's an awful lot of FM coming from both the band-pass out of the Wasp filter as well as a Bermuda oscillator. Both triangle and square waves were used in this, and CONTOUR was set to cycle at or just below audio-rate. This in turn creates interesting harmonics due to the fold-processor being ran at audio-rate. This is all routed into the right input of Clouds.

Clouds is hooked up to my Fostex 2016 line mixer in stereo, almost 100% hard panned. I mess around with reverb, position, size, wet/dry, and density all in real time. The trigger input is occupied by the Mikrophonie however, which both processes the click out of the Volca Beats as well as taps. Clouds is operating on a fairly low-resolution sample space and therefore gives that nice bit-reduction sound I love.

The Fostex 2016 is routed through an Alesis 3630 compressor in stereo, with sidechaining on both channels courtesy of the MPC1000 outs 1 & 2. Then, the 3630 is ran through a Quadraverb running the stereo separation 1 preset. That is then ran back into my patchbay and all signals are sent to the mixer.

Mixer sends two stereo mixes to the Alesis LX20 ADAT machine, which records all 8 inputs (including my room mic so I could call out sync points for the video).

The LX20 plays audio back into the RAMSA DA-7 mixer, and this in turn is sent through the current mastering stack which includes solely of a Behringer T1592 tube comp/limiter. I've got it pumping the limiter hard and the warmth adjustment is set to 100%. Recording on the PC is done through an Akai EIE interface and REAPER.

Phew. I think that's it.

Crunchbox

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

I did my setup in a different way, and then made this really quickly

Equipment Used:
Whippany RM-10 - Drums
Roland JX-3P - Pads/Bass
Korg MS-20 Mini - Lead

Cosmic Swirl

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

I really badly wanted to make something similar to stuff by Burial, some stuff inspired by UK garage and two-step and the lot. So, here's this thing.

EDIT: Fixed the weird snare/rimshot sound being off-beat too much. Sounds much better now.

Equipment Used:
Akai MPC1000 - Sequencing/Drums (606, Vinyl)
Korg MS-20 Mini - Bass
Korg EX-8000 - Bass
Roland JX-3P - Pad
Yamaha DX7 - Delayed E Piano
Waldorf Blofeld - Sustained Pad
Roland JV880 - Strings
Akai AX80 - String Pad

Sublevel

Some more garagey stuff. This one is pretty cool, all the drums are some 909, 606, and vinyl sampled kits layered, chopped, and sometimes reversed. Lots of panning, too, so use headphones or some good monitors.

Equipment Used:
Akai MPC1000 - Sequencing and Drums
Korg MS-20 Mini - Bass
Akai AX80 - Piano-ish Pad
Korg EX-8000 - Drone
Roland JX-3P - Distant Melody
Modular + Arturia Beatstep Pro - Plucks and Bloops
Roland JV880 - Strings

Late Bus

I'll come up with a better title later. I'm back btw.

Equipment Used:
Mantis Modular - Plucks and bass
Korg Volca Beats - Drums
Korg MS-20 Mini - Wind
Mooer REECHO - Drum delay

Subclass

Detainment

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

Equipment Used:
MPC1000 - Sequencing/Drums
TX81Z - Bass
D550 - Pad 2
EX8000 - Strikes
JX-3P - Pad 1

MX5050-Mk3-8 - Multitracking
CFX12-Mk1 - Mixdown

DSep1 - [shuffle Jam] - [TX D50 EX JV] MX5050 Tk1

I watched that hainbach vid on little handheld tape recorders, and using those to record things and play with the tape speed. So I did that with a little pocket portable voice recorder I've got laying around, with my dulcimer providing sound. Ran it through my modular, threw in some extra sounds. Neato!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdgr7EWf2pU

DSep2 - [staticfixation] - [Mod AR MP105] MX5050 Tk3

Alright, selling off some stuff so I'm taking a bit of time to focus on just the drums and bass sounds on this one. Actually fairly happy with this cut, did a little editing to spice things up a bit.

Bass is all Lil Erebus, and drums are 2hp kick and snare, with some BL mini shimmery for hats.

Robot Speak

Doing a slightly more complicated test of the QY700, with a lot of live pattern tweaking and stuff like that.

Equipment Used:
Yamaha QY700 - Sequencing and Drums
Roland D550 - First Pad
Korg Monologue - Bass
Roland MKS50 - Echo Horn
Yamaha TX81Z - Sparkley
Korg EX8000 - Second Pad

[qy700] - spectrum - tst3

Got a little jam going with the impact and the monologue. It's really fun to play with.

Equipment Used:
Korg Monologue - Bass
Arturia Drumbrute Impact - Beats
Mooer REECHO - Bass Echo

Monoimpact - [120,t3]d

Even more vapor stuff, this one is pretty chill. Actually most of them are pretty chill, but I ended up liking this one a fair bit.

It sounds like absolute ass until you throw a shitty compressor on the whole master bus, then pump the ever loving shit out of that and the limiter. Mmmmmm, transistor abuse.

Lounge Anticipation

A little 3/4 ballady sound here, enjoying all this vaporwavey stuff.

Recorded to Otari MX5050 Mk3-8, then slowed down on the reel.

Acceptance

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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)

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Dylan Packard