music - tm

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...another track (previously unposted) from my latest Bandcamp release, Full Metal Algo

Made with modular synth riffs edited into a song using Tracktion's Waveform DAW.

The main modules used here are Doepfer's A-154/155 sequencer, A-190-8 MIDI sync, A-112 sampler/wavetable, and A-166 logic modules; Manhattan Analog's Discrete SVVCF filter; and ADDAC's "Ultra WAV" player. Portions are recorded from the Elektron Octatrack. "Found" 808 drum hits (playing in Waveform's sampler rack plugin) provide the main rhythm. The last four bars use Waveform's Collective sampler/synth.

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...a track from my latest Bandcamp release, Full Metal Algo

Made with modular synth riffs edited into a song using Tracktion's Waveform DAW.

The main modules used here are Doepfer's A-154/155 sequencer, A-190-8 MIDI sync, and A-166 logic modules; Manhattan Analog's Discrete SVVCF filter; and ADDAC's "Ultra WAV" player. A "found" 808 loop is used (in Waveform) to help glue it together.

"Scheduled Appointment" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp (with lyric sheet!)]

Composed on the Elektron Octatrack with some additional mixing in Tracktion's Waveform DAW, running on Unbuntu Studio. A final gain boost was done in Ardour using the threshold control in LSP's stereo limiter plugin.
This Octatrack has a growing .wav collection of Dance Sounds From The Last 20 Years (40 if you count one much-recycled breakbeat), tossed into this track like fruit salad. Very similar in method to the previously-posted track, "Dance Pastiche."

"Dance Pastiche" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]

One four bar sequence follows rapidly on another four bar sequence...
Composed on the Elektron Octatrack with some additional mixing in Tracktion's Waveform DAW, running on Unbuntu Studio. A final gain boost was done in Ardour using the threshold control in LSP's stereo limiter plugin.
This Octatrack has a growing .wav collection of Dance Sounds From The Last 20 Years (40 if you count one much-recycled breakbeat), tossed into this track like fruit salad. However, the "hook" comes from Loopmasters, which provided a sample pack for the Octatrack, about 5 years ago. Possibly that counts as vintage now.

"Trailing Trojans" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]

Composed w/ Tracktion's Waveform DAW, running on Ubuntu Studio
Sound sources:
Helm softsynth (a guitar-like e-piano setting, played in the piano roll, rendered to audio, sliced, reversed, pitch-altered)
808-style drum hits "found on the internet"
Some percussion riffs made with Elektron Octatrack
"Rock" beat loops from an ancient ROMpler called Beatburner
Calf Monosynth -- my own patches for basslines (triggered and recorded using Ardour and imported into Waveform)
a-fluidsynth playing E-Mu Orbit samples (triggered and recorded using Ardour and imported into Waveform for further alteration as audio)