Travelling

Eye Of The Storm

The HALLOWEEN 2020

Copyright Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

"What Did You Expect?" (Fusion)

Phillip Glass: Satyagraha

Mark Steinbach performing "Transports de Joie" from L'Ascension Olivier Messiaen at Sayles Hall Brown University, 2007.

Transports de Joie

Closer Now

Magic Hour

Copyright 2025 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

A Moon and Some Roses (for Piano)

A Piano In Vienna (Piano Improv)

"The truth is whatever floats your boat..."

The sounds in this track were created exclusively by Newfangled Audio's Pendulate virtual instrument plugin for the KVR One Synth Challenge 140.

***Track Statistics***
Key and scale:  D minor/D Dorian

DAW: Studio One 5 Pro

  New Fangled Audio Pendulate: 12x
 
 Stock DAW FX plugins on channels and group busses:
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 Compressor: 10x
 Limiter: 3x
 Pro EQ: 8x
 Channel Strip: 2x
 Mixverb: 1x
 Room Reverb: 2x
 Gate: 1x
 Analog Delay: 2x
 Beat Delay: 1x

 Additional stock DAW FX plugins on the mix bus:
 -----------------------------------------------
 Limiter: x2
 Fat Channel: x1

Demos

Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality

ToneDeF is a software engineer by profession, part-time composer by inclination. He is influenced musically by what he listens to, which consists of hard rock, hair metal, synth-pop, progressive rock/metal, new age electronic, techno/trance, and classics from the Romantic and Baroque periods. It is not unusual to hear tiny shades of commercially successful works within his own humble little ones -- he considers it an homage to the truly talented.

One of ToneDeF's guilty pleasures is recreating the music of classic computer/video games utilizing modern synthesized and sampled sounds. His first submission to SoundCloud was a re-imagining of the main theme music from the classic LucasArts game, "Ballblazer".

Although he has chosen "ToneDeF" as his handle, rest assured that he is not actually "tone deaf".

Who exactly are "The ElectroMetal Minstrels"? They are the virtual musicians "performing" the virtual instruments on each track sequenced by ToneDeF.

Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality

ToneDeF & The ElectroMetal Minstrels