"Keystroke Mountain" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
Grand piano + "urban beats" -- that's all you need to know.
The beats are all tweaked, using FX presets pretty much exactly as intended.
A nice thing about having a PC with a little more speed and memory is I can play sampled piano with all the convolution settings and no overload spasms.
The undulating granular sounds during the drum break were made a couple of years ago using Reaktor Photone and analog filter sweeps.
"Bass Twelve (2013 Mix)" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
This quasi-old-school house track was done in '09 and remixed in '12 for a monaural YouTube version (since removed).
This version is a bit punchier (louder, at least) and adds a new theme at the end. Not being mono means all the exciting stereo panning of the bass line is back.
"Bridge to Everywhere" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
The fairly credible house beat is a Steinberg preset. The drone-y middle part is four pulse-wave oscillators being slowly filter-swept by a rising sawtooth LFO (two in one channel) and falling sawtooth LFO (two in the other channel) while a simple MIDI melody is being played in the Vermona Perfourmer's duophonic mode.
At the end is what it sounds like without any guitar-rig FX processing.
"Carbon Credits" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
A bassline and beats were added and the tune was re-uploaded.
Update: Added about 45 seconds to "Bridge to Everywhere" -- a ridiculously lush pad comes in after the dropout and all the themes pile on for one more appearance.
Update 2: Minor tweaks to "Bridge to Everywhere." The pile-up of themes at the end isn't quite so immediate now.
"Buzz Monument" [mp3 removed -- tune is now on Bandcamp]
Still working with that Vermona chord patch from "Carbon Credits"; here I am switching among the Perfourmer's mono-, duo-, and polyphonic modes.
(Which basically stack and unstack the chords.)
The unpredictability of those modes doesn't always work out so I recorded some long runs and edited down to a few parts (and snipped out a few bum notes).
This sounds like a waltz even though it's 4/4. For a couple of measures it veers into jazzy Nino Rota-ish territory.
Am also continuing to run the synth through one of those skeumorphic "guitar rig" cabinets of amps and pedal FX arranged in preset chains.
The timbre changes dramatically, but the amp sound isn't monolithic. Fairly light tweaks to the analog synth such as altering the "key track" settings will also change the timbre of the amp.
"King Sprout" [mp3 removed -- tune is now on Bandcamp]
Some riffs made with the Vermona chord patch from "Carbon Credits"; this starts out robotic and the tunes get sweeter as it progresses.
Am still using my Krypt rhythms from the last few tunes -- cutting them up and moving them around.
