Prelude II - Promenade2239

Thank you a lot Ed! Firstly I much appreciate your kind words on the production itself: Yes! There is some electic Rhodes in here (from Roland synth) that I used to support the harmonic progression and to fill up the space at some places throughout this track.
I must say that I started only with drums this time ... When I recorded the solo using some nice flute-like lead I realized that this drum loop I was using takes too much place in the mix so finally I decided to remove it completely. That allowed me to add some more of pads and atmospheres and build much subtle/ambient-like composition...
As for the electric Rhodes I do not have any original one of course but I am very familiar with the mechanics of the real acoustic piano and action of church organ (I practiced also harpsichord for some time). The Roland Juno Di has very light action which in my opinion gives the possibility to play easier but from the other hand that's still just an emulation of the classic electric piano (which is basically an electro - acoustic instrument)... Still it sounds quite cool and keeping that original classic sound in mind I can record easier and faster now, not need to struggle with midi latency signal delay and adjusting midi notes anymore!
Maybe I will get the real Rhodes some day as well as I will probably continue progressively my current making-music in the future!

Thank you again for the time and giving me some great feedback! I really appreciate that.

Best to you, Alex

Hi.

You really forced me to go and check again all the different parts of this piece, it was a bit challenging this time as I normally do not really think in terms of the sections measured in seconds or bars when listening to my own music.

Firstly the 'jazz' label is way too much, but thanks! I did piano stuff earlier that introduced some amount of much better jazz feel but still I can't say I am really a proper jazz musician. In my view jazz is a kind of very advanced territory, both technically and musically. I am aware of the classic jazz sound and jazz styles but the actual transforming it into a fluently spoken language will require lot of work. Anyway you're definitely right: that's my preffered territory (beside the clasiccal stuff)!

All sounds are from the Roland synth.
0:12 - 0:14 - yes, I tried many presets and found some of them really cool, just like this nice vocal pad. All this was played from keyboard - I simply started with reggae drums on this one. Then recorded pads and backgrounds, finally the synth solo but still with drums so I could keep the time and a proper structure.

The synth has very powerful editor for creating the sound entirely from scratch but I will probably need more time to become more familiar with the process and all this stuff... It was quite fast-made track!

So I placed this floating pad here and there over the timline (I guess it might be very similar to what you do on your tracks at some point) and harmonized it with the low electric piano quasi bassline in descending fourths - a kind of an ostinato line. So I picked up one of epiano sound which was available (it's played 2 octave lower). It is a real foundation of the track. Synth solo presents just a kind of an abstract ornament thing here as I do not use any fixed and fully organized formula for improvisation (beside keeping time along the drums and following some scales, mostly very chaotically). Pads are only a nice background - it's all played in A minor.

So the low notes are just a E-piano sound from Roland synth (I could provide the sounds like this for you so you can freely use them if you want btw).

Yes, the 1:50 thing is just an another interesting pad I found when experimenting inside the synth sound bank.

4:20 it is a kind of a glide effect I guess (that's a monophonic type of lead).

Thank you so much for some great comments and pointing details!

Thank you Epic!

Firstly all sounds are from my new Roland synth, some of the presets are really cool with all the panning and cool-sounding candy on it. The lead is actually a flute-like synth lead, not really a guitar lead but I manipulated a lot of pitch bending so it may give some interesting guitar-like sound at some places indeed.

Yes, probably this is not not something you can hear on the radio haha. Happy you liked my creation for what it is!

Thank you again for nice words and all the best, Alex

Thank you a lot Steve! I truly appreciate the nice words.
I want to be able to play keys in a more organized way some day - lot of work ahead! The new synth is very easy to play but there's also still so much of new regions to explore for me regading to synths and electronic synthesis in general. The 'underwater feel' at the end was achieved by manipulating the cutoff/resonance filtering on the main synth lead.

Thank you for some great inspiration on synths!
Alex

thank you for nice comment.

I started with drums only but after recording the main synth line I decided to remove them. Without any sophisticated processing the track was already completed at that point. Therefore it was quite fast production in a sense.

Thanks again.

thank you a lot soundhound for some nice words.

Yes, this fusion label is quite confusing here. Basically the 'fusion' term would be much proper whith more stylistic elements of rock or funk, also jazz. So I changed it for chillout in here.

Thanks for the interesting scale comment - basically it is A minor pentatonic but coloured with elements of aeolian and phrygian. There's also a blues scale and some of the passages were simply played outside. I can't say that I am playing any real melodies here - I would rather label these as 'ornaments' haha. Yes, many of them are abstract-sounding. Roland Juno Di has very light keys, it is even too easy to play. So it seemed quite natural to play like this but still I will need to work more on proper pitch bending technique.

Just an experimental track of mine but really glad you liked it. Thanks again for your nice comment!

Best, Alex

Thanks!

Yes, this new hardware synth sounds quite different (and much better) from the plugins I was using earlier.

I played all layers from the keyboard (with very minimal processing added) mostly using synth prestets. It offeres also a great sound editor and probably almost endless possibilities for creative sound design but I will need more time to explore this feature seriously.

Happy you liked this one - thanks a lot for some good words.

Best to you,

Alex.

hey,

thank you for listening to the complete creation.

This is a synth jam track meaning that I played the solo line in a real time... I do not expect anyone to like it in it's entirety as it is basically a quite chaotic improvisation.

I appreciate your comment therefore even more and the fact that you liked it from 2:59. All sounds are from Roland Juno Di - I used only the presets this time as it is a new hardware for me.

It has an excellent sound editor so I can design the sound entirely from scratch.

To get the idea I suggest you to experiment with Synth1 http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/
explore some great Synth1 tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-0P8XBo6_Y

Best,

A.