"Anemone Would" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
A melange of modular synth (1/200th of the size of Venetian Snares'), Ableton presets, and, cough, archival sampling. At approximately :16, tunes emerge.
Update: Shortened, tweaked, reposted.
Update, June 2016: Substituted some Ableton-made tunes for the, cough, archival sample; reposted.
"Nursery Rot" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
The main synth voice here is a bit obnoxious -- like a Casio version of a someone's approximation of a ring-modulated trumpet. I just "went with it" and tried to build a short song around this timbre. The "lead" sounds are from sampler modules. A background theme running throughout is a sine and square wave "interleaved" and "bit-rotted" using the Segoh "bit rot" chip for Tiptop Audio's Z-DSP digital processing module. The drums are from various MIDI groove and sample kits in Linplug's RMV drum sampler (recently discontinued so now it's "vintage").
"Downsampled Rave Stomp" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
This tune uses a couple of hardware sampler modules. Many of the sounds are reduced from a CD-quality 16 bit depth/44.100 sample rate to 8 bits and/or a 22.050 Khz sample rate, in order to be playable in the modules. When the samples are triggered at different pitches they lose some further sound quality. But then they are recorded and mixed with other sounds in Ableton at "32 bit float" (that is, high quality). Ableton changes the speeds again so they conform with the pitch and bpm of the project. Then the samples are saved back down to mp3. Small wonder some of these "stabs" are the audio equivalent of passed-around, screenshotted Instagrams (note topical reference).
"Blooming Union (Wavetable Variations)" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
Speaking of the A-112, it was used throughout this tune; specifically, the sound source is the "Wiard waves," which I was finally able to transfer to the module.
The beginning section is in a non-4/4 time signature; I used an Ableton "groove map" to keep the beats in some semblance of sync with the A-112.
Some bass and synth lines were recycled from "Blooming Union" because I wasn't tired of them yet and that piece is only two minutes long.
Update, June 7, 2016: Revised and reposted. Sped up the tempo (after the intro), added bass lines, and made the beats more 4/4-ish.
"Blooming Union" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
Most of these sounds were made on my modular "rack" (and assembled in Ableton); however, the phattest sound (that recurs throughout) is a Native Instruments preset for the Massive wavetable synth, called "Blooming." Oh, well, I did the write the tunes for it myself. I think.
