Gold and Silver would have you choose Red or Blue
https://youtu.be/NlumfPORoXE
https://open.spotify.com/album/6A4kJHZnDEHjfxsqetV2y4?si=gcAxQLA1SsKY_Cpb_Eq5ew
https://music.apple.com/us/album/animus-undone/1760122460?i=1760122461

Animus Undone

As I think of my 14-year-old daughter, I go back to my own childhood. To my dusty, dimly lit room where I had a small synthesiser and an echo machine on some sort of an altar. I go back to my hopes and fears, my expectations, my goals, my beliefs and my love for music. Often too little time to make my own music because I couldn't stop listening to Bach, TD, Klaus Schulze, Jarre, Vangelis, Pink Floyd and Todd Rundgren.

I recognise so much in her. My beautiful 14-year-old daughter with all her hopes and fears and her love for music.

Synth: 34 instances of Six-Traq by Full Bucket
DAW: REAPER v 7.24
FX: Spring-Box and Echo Cycles, Panagement 2, Room Reverb, Deelay, SuperMassive and Tempo Delay by Voxengo. Graphic EQ, Marvel GEQ, Frank CS, Stereo Touch, A1StereoControl, TDR Nova and Limiter no6

A Quattordici Anni  (OSC #188)

...but this synthesizer still found a little place in my heart, even for one short but bright moment!

One instance of Six-Traq in Cakewalk. FX: DReverb Light, Proximity.

IV - That's All... *sad sigh

This month's synth is Six-Traq by Full Bucket Music. Feel like I struggled a bit with this one and the result is this here track. At least I can say the tortoise is now clean.
I feel compelled to point out that the dodgy timing on the percussion in the intro is quite deliberate...
This was created in Tracktion Waveform Pro 13 with 13 instances of Six-Traq and the following additional plugins:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat Gain3 and kClip Zero for clip to zero
- the inevitable Valhalla Supermassive
- NI Raum
- kHs Filter
- kHs Delay
- kHs Stereo
- AudioModern Panflow
- Tracktion TStereoDelay
- Tracktion TEqualiser
- Tracktion TGate Expander
- Traction TReverber8
- xfer OTT
- Melda MCompressor 
- TDR Nova
- TDR Kotelnikov
- SPAN
- Youlean
- Melda MStereoScope 

All patches created from init with a mix of multi-traq and single-traq.

I May Have Licked The Tortoise

The Sound Of Merlin is about sharing the passion for music and sound. About sharing knowledge and experience. The sheer fun of making music together. The magic of it all.

Soft synth noodlings with a bit of hardware design on the side....

I'm a composer, working from a 3' x 5' studio (some may call it a dinette) in a 5th wheel camper, while traveling the United States. I've been on the road for six years, so most of my recent work will have come from a different state (of mind and location) during my travels.

Music makes me feel better about everything. I don't know that I'm ever happier than when I am creating. I sometimes wonder if creativity isn't one of the primary keys to happiness. Do you ever feel better than when you say, "Look what I did."? This phrase magically conjures the purest sense of childlike joy.

Music works for every part of our lives. We all have music for when we are sad, happy, celebrating, meeting others, when we are alone, and even when we are lonely. Did a song come to mind as you read each of those situations? I remember the first song I ever heard on the radio, on my first bus ride to kindergarten. One of my favorite musical memories is playing in a band for steel beach on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.

I love telling stories with music. Everybody loves John Coffey in the Green Mile, but Mr. Jingles should have a song commemorating his reaching and joining the circus at Mouseville. If you agree, join me for this and similar journeys. The music here is synthetic, but as real as you would choose to have it.

My music most often lands on Soundcloud first and is inspired by one of my favorite communities, Naviar Haiku:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
I find writing to a Haiku prompt sufficiently limiting and exquisitely inspiring.

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