My first ambient track made exclusively on a Yamaha Reface DX with patches made from scratch, recorded and edited in Audacity, no additional effects or equipment was used.

what else do you see

An attempt at an ambient/drone track, all sounds are from the yamaha reface dx using custom patches, edited in Audacity, no additional effects used.

the communication

All sounds created on a Yamaha Reface DX, both heavily modified presets and self made patches, edited in Audacity, no external or software bound effects where used.

extralogical

track composed from recordings in Audacity using both self made patches as well as one heavily modified preset, the initial noise exculded this is all from the Yamaha Reface Dx.

sudden brightness

All Reface DX, trying to layer complex evolving landscapes of sound into a ambient track.

perspective view

Just as the other tracks this one was made using only the Yamaha Reface DX, a Roland rubix22 audio interface and Audacity. 

No additional equipment, midi support or effects was used.

Still learning, exploring and having fun, not taking any of my results or my efforts to seriously, if it isn't fun, what's the point.

anticipation

Simillar to to the track "the comunication" a subtle and suggestive melody lurks in the background, the approach, equipment used and method is the same as before.

halfway point

shapes

the reveal

second attempt using the only the minilogue xd

utopianism

rendering stations

First track made using only the Korg opsix

algorhythmic

Third track using the opsix, and a newly acquired TC electronic M100 multieffect.

station setting

A simple track yet it evolves nicely, some faint and intended dissonances here and there to get some contrast, again using only the opsix as sound source and the tc M100 for effects where needed.

as it moves

off-world dreams

Acimbient

28 years ago I made my first "real song" with a CS1x controlled by bars & Pipes on an Amiga2000.

Some minor additions was made now in 2024.

Just for fun.

Back in 1996

Taking It All In Again And Again

Influenced by the decade of FM, the eighties, the electronic music, the sci-fi movies and TV series and their soundtracks, presented in an atmospheric and ambient context.

Inspired by the works of modern day masters of the genre such as Carbon Based Lifeforms and Solarfields, to the level of wanting to give this a try myself.

All tracks are made in a basement in Kungsbacka, Sweden, using only what is listed below, one synth at the time.

Roland rubix22 audio interface.
Audacity audio editor software.
Yamaha reface dx (the first ten album)
Korg minilogue xd (the next ten album)
Korg opsix (yet anther ten playlist)
Kord DW-8000 (1985)
The occasional beer.

contact me at : costallic@martinsson.cc

Costallic

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