So: Marseille. This was a synth I mostly ignored in Korg Gadget. Although I grew up with PCM synths and composed entire songs with them, today they feel a bit… naff. But then on hearing some of the entries at https://soundcloud.com/groups/gadgetcompetitor-only-for-fun I changed my mind a bit. The realism in JVM's compositions, and the interesting atmospherics and strangeness especially in Salvatore Nuccio's _04_ track… it was time to give it another go.

Unsurprisingly, I again decided I wanted to subvert the synth. I for the most part didn't want something that was for 'normal' instruments. I wanted drums! Electronic bass! Things Marseille doesn't have. So I made them anyway. A bass drum arrived from some serious messing around with the Electrobass preset (Comb Filter + very careful envelope manipulation), and a 'snare rimshot' arrived in much the same way. Hi-hats are decimated and HPFd piano. And then there's the odd electronic bass, again using the Electrobass preset, but shoving it through Comb and Decimator. Ten tracks in all are used here, three for the piano, which also has effects, notably Ring Mod to dirty it up a bit.

The end result is, I think, a quite pleasing and chilled-out track, not a million miles away from my Chiangmai output. 

As ever, I hope you enjoy listening and any/all comments and shares are hugely appreciated. For more single-synth Gadget tracks by me and others, visit https://soundcloud.com/groups/gadgetcompetitor-only-for-fun

Competitor Marseille (Project Noise) _01_

Here's another single-synth experiment in Korg Gadget, using the Dublin synth. I think this one's my favourite now—there's just so much you can do with the synth, in terms of percussion, bass, arps, textures and leads.

Anyway, having already done something very early synth-pop, I ended up taking a rather darker path with this one, with lots of meandering electronic noises. There are ten tracks in all, four of which are percussion (bass, snare, snare echo, hi-hat), one for bass, and the rest for arps and the melodies that swap in and out.

I hope you enjoy the track. If so, please leave a comment and/or share it, and for more single-synth Gadget tracks by me and others, visit soundcloud.com/groups/gadgetcompetitor-only-for-fun

Competitor Dublin (Project Noise) _03_

This single-synth Korg Gadget piece uses Helsinki. There are ten tracks in all, one for the pad, five for drums (three for bass), one for the bass line, and the rest for leads. It's quite a spacious piece, and confirms Helsinki as my favourite Gadget behind Dublin. All comments/shares very much appreciated, as always.

Previously in Helsinki: https://soundcloud.com/project-noise/competitor-helsinki-project?in=project-noise/sets/single-synth-korg-gadget

And more single-synth Korg Gadget pieces by me and others: soundcloud.com/groups/gadgetcompetitor-only-for-fun

Competitor Helsinki (Project Noise) _02_

Single Synth Ambient Music all recorded live in one take on one analogue synthesizer x Buy the album here: https://jparkersound.bandcamp.com/album/in-that-kind-of-way
Or, see the tracks live on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMa8rmMzhA0UC78aELX6J9AxKMwri44cb&si=isdd2u6UZEGll2N4
Full Discography Here: https://jparkersound.bandcamp.com/

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Craig Grannell aka Project Noise is a writer and musician, working nearish to Londonish. He first started tinkering with music in his teens and has since composed hundreds of songs, ranging from often atmospheric electronic pop through to noisy soundscapes.

He's currently infatuated with taking weird little acoustic guitar loops and smashing them into retro-infused clockwork pop songs. Well, that and Korg Gadget.

Electronic, ambient, with a little Rock thrown in...

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