Ephemeral

purchase on Bandcamp

NUMBERS

Bandcamp

Sounds in the Ether

available on Bandcamp, here

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-minutes

twenty minutes

It has been a long time since I have uploaded anything. Eleven months, in fact.

Since releasing my last album, Anomaly, I struggled to get creative. I had lots of spare time, being out of work, but instead I turned to other, less creative activities.

DRONE is a sixty minute long drone piece which is available for purchase here,

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/drone

and an hour long video can be watched here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KHPd6hCWU

I hope you enjoy :-)

DRONE

No, I haven't gone totally mad :-D


I am currently playing around with Vital, the totally free and absolutely amazing wave table synth from Vital Audio

https://vital.audio/

This is something I have quickly knocked up as a sort of SFX experiment.

Vital has a total of eight oscillators and four random sources and I have used those to modulated various parameters, including LFO frequencies.

I did run out of LFO, though... could have done with just one more. I had to add a single automation track in REAPER to alter the Filter 1 Blend Amount.

So, an almost modular style ten minute long fart

I have made this available for free download, and set to CC with some rights reserved, so if you do end up using a part of it then, please, give me a little mention somewhere.

Fart (Vital SFX)

Chris Bryant (S1gns Of Life) created ten presets for the free Vital soft synth during a live stream to celebrate reaching a 1000 subscribers milestone on YouTube

Head In The Clouds was created using all ten of those presets, in one way or another but is in no way shape or form a showcase for them

all of the presets were used as supplied and the only other tweaks were done using EQ and some sounds were passed to a separate track with Adaptiverb on it

the first six minutes is pure drone

the following three minutes thirty seconds (approx) is a bit more "driven" in order to make use of the more percussive sounds, including a sort of bass line

the last thirty seconds finishes off with a drone

have to admit, I rarely do compositions like this, so it is what it is...


thank you very much for listening :-)

cheers

andy

Vital soft synth

https://vital.audio/

S1gns Of L1fe YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy_SvUn5yh4VEWv8J5sWCqg

Head In The Clouds [free download]

For the ambient online compilation Volume 14 I created to new and original track, this one, Omega Centauri and Psi Centauri

please consider adding the compilation to your collection, available here

https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-online-compilation-volume-14

download/buy

Omega Centauri

https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-online-compilation-volume-14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0pNySwD5h8

Video

Psi Centauri (a Midinous collaboration)

back in October 2022 I found out about a contest to create a reimagined version of a heavy metal track that was created especially for that contest

so I mentioned in the comments of that video that I wanted to do a twenty minute long ambient version, and the reply came back "do it!"

I downloaded the stems and got down to it, using the provided stems and effects to create what you can hear here

this is the "Radio Mix" at a mere five minutes long

you can listen to the full mix here

https://soundcloud.com/synkrotron/dance-of-the-wicked-mangled-full-mix

it took a while but I really enjoyed the process

sometime in the near future I will create a video outlining my creation process for something like this

I hope you enjoy

cheers

andy

Dance of the Wicked Mangled Radio Mix

Bohrium is the third track from my upcoming album called Ephemeral

Bohrium is a synthetic Heavy Metal element which has a very short half life, hence "ephemeral"

to watch the video for this piece please visit here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csNJMO5Rqbs

Bohrium

Hassium

Nihonium

Seaborgium

from my upcoming album which will be called Ephemeral

Nobelium

Pass The Maple Syrup Please

available on Bandcamp

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-in-the-ether

Sounds in the Ether (radio mix)

drone and guitar piece that I recorded live straight to a stereo track with no further editing or overdubs

video available here

https://youtu.be/6rjiVK7eiY4?si=CvM3gD7-4ItJvzcl

TWELVE

ELEVEN

Live Performance

FIVE is a minimal piece consisting of two sequencer parts and four drones

Metropolis and Pressure Points (with Brains) are the sequencers used

one drone was created by Elements with the gate held open and playing a low C

another by a Doepfer A-110 standard VCO square wave also tuned to a low C and sent into the Wasp filter with lots of resonance

yet another was a 2HP VCO square wave output this time tuned to G and sent into an Ivo low pass filter

the West Pest tuned to G and hold turned on and the wave fold modulated by its internal LFO was used for the last drone part

the opening sequencer part was made up of six sine waves courtesy of two disting Mk3, two disting Mk4 and two Lorelei VCO and was played by Metropolis

each oscillator was then tuned to the harmonic series for the fundamental and five partials

Oscillator 1 at Fundamental Frequency = C2
Oscillator 2 at Fundamental Frequency x 2
Oscillator 3 at Fundamental Frequency x 3
Oscillator 4 at Fundamental Frequency x 4
Oscillator 5 at Fundamental Frequency x 5
Oscillator 6 at Fundamental Frequency x 6

the fundamental sine was sent directly to a Doepfer A-138 four input mixer and its level controlled there

the five partials were routed to the AJH Triple Cross cross fader module with the balance modulated via LFO and the three outputs sent to the remaining inputs of the A-138 mixer for further balance control

the output of the mixer was sent to an Ivo low pass filter for further sound manipulation

the second sequence was Mavis with the pitch CV provided by Pressure Points and the gate provided by Pam's New Workout set to a Euclidean pattern

the sequencer parts were sent via the aux outputs of the Doepfer performance mixer to a disting C3 ping pong delay algorithm

all tracks were sent through the MPX 500 multi effects unit for reverb

you can see me building up my sine wave patch here

https://www.youtube.com/live/O2Xx6Ke2EkM?t=630s

FIVE

NINE is a piece from my upcoming album called NUMBERS

NINE was performed live and recorded to REAPER using four stereo tracks and one mono track (guitar)

some mixing and EQ was done in post but there are no overdubs

watch the video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CxmQczvIY

NINE

TWO is a piece from my album NUMBERS, available soon

EIGHT is a piece from my upcoming album called NUMBERS

EIGHT

THREE is a piece from my upcoming album called NUMBERS

THREE

FOUR

a first render of a drone from the new disting NT module

copious amounts of reverb courtesy of the Lexicon MPX 500

Cheat Mode Enabled [Radio Edit]

Cheat Mode Enabled

my submission for HWJ 04-11-24

image stolen from here

https://eu.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/travel/arizona/2020/10/11/dia-de-los-muertos-phoenix-day-dead-celebrations-through-years-photos/5917284002/

video

Día de los Muertos

from my latest album called twenty minutes, available on Bandcamp here

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-minutes

twenty minutes of your time please

two guys, andy and Luke, got together and jammed for an hour... this is a render of the end of the jam where Luke brought a simple but effective drum loop

much fun was had

for my livestream please go here

https://www.youtube.com/live/WKi1_WSO2AI?si=E4Is7zV9Iy7i1R3s&t=3661

and for Luke's, here

https://www.youtube.com/live/aqod0E5Qb5w?si=eqIW1EjBOXOlIsJ2

Synth Seeker and synkrotron jam snippet 18-01-25 (with percussion)

live jam 23-01-25

me and Luke (Synth Seeker) have been Jamming live on Jamtaba the last few Saturdays of #JAMuary2025. This is a recording of our final jam. It went well. :-)

Thank you Luke!

- synkrotron: www.youtube.com/live/n3QMWnIOpVE?…=CDIxbSceaLFbe51n
- Synth Seeker: www.youtube.com/live/PdaAyAJR2XI?…=nBYR9wnpm45LJUdS

Third Time's the Charm (Luke and andy Jam No. 3 #jamuary2025)

from my latest album called twenty minutes, available on Bandcamp here

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-minutes

live session can be viewed here

https://www.youtube.com/live/4tNDTiL46ug?si=H_OSNUP_PGl2JOp8&t=5442

another twenty minutes of your time

thank you for getting this far

this is the live performance I did for Drone Day 2025

also available on Bandcamp

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/drone-day-2025

Drone Day 2025

This is a track that I created by using some of the drone pad presets within Adaptiverb.

I also placed some of the wav files created into Iris to give me a couple of playable patches.

hive

UPDATE!

I have created a video for Idyia and you can watch that here:-

https://youtu.be/oo_ZOcft4I8

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Adaptiverb features heavily in this piece.

A bass guitar provides one drone track and guitar provides a second drone track.

Usual noodling over the top.

To be honest, I wasn't sure about uploading this, but here it is, let me know what you think...

Idyia [now with video]

Clytie

Distant Objects

Superluminal Transition

Neutrino

Electron

This is a short version of the title track of my latest album which can be purchased on Bandcamp here:-

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/anomaly

There is also an accompanying video that I created with Blender. Nothing special, just a test really and I have much to learn having only just picked up the software:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-nOuM1k32w

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