A few months ago, Cherry Audio released a VST called Mercury-6, a faithful recreation of the Roland Jupiter-6 Analog Synthesizer. While the Jup-6 is famous to Thomas fans, it wasn't nearly as beloved by musicians as the more famous Jupiter-8, so I was skeptical that someone would make a VST of it. Sometimes it's good to be wrong!

I got the Mercury a few months ago, and have been working on recreating S1-2 instruments ever since. I decided to give the Breakdown Train theme another go, using my custom made strings sounds and xylophone mod, as well as a bass synth made by Kristian (Wisteria Bird Studios). This theme has always been iconic, with the heavy strings and the constant rimshot beat pitched down to replicate the clunking of a crane wench. Enjoy this recreation!

This recreation is free to use, please just credit Mike and Junior for the original and me for the recreation!

Original music by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell. Recreated by AceofTrains music in Mixcraft 9 using VST versions of the Roland Jupiter-6 analog synthesizer and the Linn LM-1 drum machine. 

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The Breakdown Train Theme - Season 1. T&TBDT Variant

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’80s Memories’ is a collection of 110 presets for Cherry Audio’s Mercury-6.

The “Dual” mode was used generously to provide fat and interesting layered tones. To compliment these, we’ve also included several single-layer patches for an authentic JP6 experience.

’80s Memories’ provides a handy arsenal for a variety of Retrowave subgenres (Synthwave, Cyberpunk, Darksynth, Chillwave, etc), running the full range of moods from bliss and happiness to anxiety and horror.

To sweeten the deal even more, we’ve also added 16 original drum WAVs to use in any drum machine or sampler. These samples were created from scratch within Mercury-6, then further enhanced with external processing.

Pack Contents:

112 Presets
21 Keys and Polysynths
20 Basses
17 Leads
16 Pads
9 Bells and Mallets
9 Plucks
7 FX and Risers
5 Arps
4 Brass Synths
2 Keyboard-Split Patches
1 Synth Tom
16 Drums/FX samples in WAV Format

Total Number Of Files:

128
5.3 MB

Software Requirements:

Cherry Audio’s Mercury-6 version 1.0 or higher.

Xenos Soundworks - '80s Memories' for Mercury-6

I make recreations of the music pieces from Thomas, Tugs, Theodore Tugboat, and other shows and movies. My recreations and covers are free to use for your projects with credits unless otherwise noted. PLEASE DO NOT REUPLOAD MY THEMES TO YOUTUBE OR ANYWHERE ELSE. Thanks!
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