A potpourri of miscellaneous original tunes.

Demos

When you've no one to blame but yourself, just own up to it, and make better choices next time.

Yet another simple track composed in the key of D minor.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Problems Of My Own Making

"They thought that the oasis would be a safe place to take shelter... they thought wrong."

"Ambush At The Oasis" was originally composed for the 53rd KVR One-Synth-Challenge.  This updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement (e.g. rock guitar, rock drums, electric bass guitar, hammond organ, mellotron strings).

The original track may still be found here: https://archive.org/details/KvrOsc53Feldspar/30Tonedef71-AmbushAtTheOasis.mp3

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Ambush At The Oasis [Rock Version]

"The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors... Lord of light, cast your light upon us."

"The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors" was originally composed for the 52nd KVR One-Synth-Challenge. This updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement (e.g. rock guitar, rock drums, electric bass guitar, hammond organ, mellotron strings) along with a couple of instances of the excellent Podolski synthesizer plug-in from U-He.

The original track may still be found here: https://archive.org/details/KvrOsc52Podolski_430/53Tonedef71-TheNightIsDarkAndFullOfTerrors.mp3

[Please note: as this track was mixed using inexpensive headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via inexpensive headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors [Rock Version]

When you and sleep have not connected in days.

"Sleepless" was originally composed for a KVR One-Synth-Challenge and used sounds created by Synapse Audio's Dune synthesizer; this updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement (e.g. rock guitar, rock drums, electric bass guitar, rock organs, and lead synth).

The original track may still be found here:  https://archive.org/details/KvrOscSpecialCm/46Tonedef71-SleeplessupAllNightUpAllDayUpAllNight.mp3

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Sleepless (Up All Night, Up All Day, Up All Night)

Sleepless (Up All Night, Up All Day, Up All Night) [R3worked]

"Traipse through terror, if thou dost dare to live dangerously."

"Traipsing Thru Terror" was originally composed for the 55th KVR One-Synth-Challenge using sounds exclusively created with Pekka Kauppila's "MauSynth". This updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement (e.g. guitar, drums, bass, organ, strings, synth).

This track  employs a triplet rhythm and is composed exclusively in the "Double Harmonic Scale" (AKA the Arabic/Byzantine Scale). 

The original track may still be found here: https://archive.org/details/KvrOsc55Mausynth/26Tonedef71-TraipsingThruTerror.mp3

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Traipsing Thru Terror [R3worked]

Captain Quint unwittingly alluded to his own demise.

"Gruesome Foreshadowing" was originally composed for the 79th KVR One-Synth-Challenge using sounds exclusively created with Archetype Instruments's "Lokomotiv". This updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement (e.g. guitar, drums, bass, organ, strings, synth).

This track is composed exclusively in the key of E Blues Diminished (+ perfect fifth power chords).

The original version of the track may still be found here: https://archive.org/details/OSC79Lokomotiv/g5ToneDeF+and+The+ElectroMetal+Minstrels+-+Gruesome+Foreshadowing.mp3

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Gruesome Foershadowing

Gruesome Foreshadowing [R3worked]

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.

Problems Of My Own Making

ToneDeF & The ElectroMetal Minstrels