Synth X - Promenade2239

Hello Ed

Thank you for kind comment and I am happy you enjoyed listening!

I am academically trained keyboard player (classical, not jazz - still struggling to go beyond classical) so it is very natural to me to just play everything on keyboards. From that very special perspective, I would say, basically I hate creating music using just a mouse pad tweaking different virtual programms (which I used to do a lot anyway). Probably it is because I still believe that there is something (magical?) in real instruments, I do not know. Real instruments offer an instant reaction and they are realistically resonating objects ultimately...

I occasionally take a chance to record church organs in their natural environment (which is not always easy) and also want to record acoustic piano soon as well as maybe do some more realistic and progressive music sometime. It would be great to talk to you and discuss some details then!

Thank you again for all support you're giving me

Alex

Hello Steve

Thank you for your nice words!
This is a track I made last Sunday afternoon playing with 'colors' trying to expand the sound sonically so to speak (acoustically, electronically or whatever). Nothing much of a true melodic substance or a solid, evolving, dynamic-oriented song-writing work in here (but I am still struggling going definitely into that direction so do not worry). No metric modulations - just few jazzy chords and some basic drumming and simple structure alternating the elements.

Thanks for pointing some connections to older music - I absolutely love classic recordings.
Glad you enjoyed some of musical illusions I created intentionally or not

Best to you, Alex

hello SikNoiz

thanks for nice comments. Yes, my focus was on the athmosperics mainly - it's all a Blofeld synthesizer. Making backgrounds busy was one way to push this composition sounding somewhere interesting as I can't contribute too much of anything satysfying in terms of keyboard playing.

Take care,
A.

Yo, Static

thank you for detailed review.

The main idea was to make everything on new synthesizers. I started with Wolf only and somehow wanted to see where this 'process' can eventally take me. Then adding more layers I finally ended up with around 30 tracks. I think the noise is coming from Akai Rhythm Wolf - by turning up the 'howl' distortion it always gerenrates a lot of noise. It might be also a result of bad cable connections - probably there was a sort of electrical interference happening. I am awaiting new equipment so I should get cleaner sound next time. I was aware of this but worked too quickly and couldn't fix the problem afterwards.

Regarding to the future perspectives on my music production I actually want to make everything in much simple ways than before. For example: all the ring-modulated background sounds in this song are mainly created using Waldorf Blofeld - new synthesizer I've invested in recently. Waldorf offers amazing sound-design possibilities. Some great textures can be made in just few moments (after mastering it's practical sound-modulation synthesis capabilities and learning how to manage it's menues of course).
Also I intend to record some keyboard music on my upright piano (I probably mentioned this many times before) but it probably will wait again few weeks - I work physically a lot so my hands are quite rough. Overall I still have a very little energy for music, mainly because of too many work commitments.
I worked online with Spivkurl a lot over past few months and wanted also to create some more raw, realistic and powerful electronic sounds. That may be the one of directions of developing my future sound.

The 2 chord progressions of the track are: Bb13 - Ebm9, Ab13 - Dbm9 so V (dominant) - I (minor) which sounds quite jazzy. The other is CM-GM, BbM - FM (all major chords) - a kind of IV-I bluesy/gospel sort of sound. First one recorded on Waldorf's 'Electric Organ' (which actually reminds a proper electric piano sound) - other on Roland's 'D-6 clavinet' preset ('outro' ending on 'electric piano' presets).

At 0:22 starts the 'major' progression, changing the mood. 0:43 was Roland's 'fantasy' sound with a little bit of sitar in it.

You're right about the 80's snare - the one I use (from Akai) is a kind of charecteristic noisy drum maschine sound and it really may reminisce some older recordings. The way I placed few simple snare fills produces quite 80's flavoured sound too.
There is extensive drum layering (Waldorf's bass drums and some other percussive sounds) and complex background (again Waldorf with some deep pads). I placed also some amount of arpeggiated quasi-melodies creating nice funky movement.

I am glad you liked the overall sound and my vision. Surely I want to make more spectacular and original music. We will see. I am still learning how to use new synthesizers so it may take some time.

Thanks again for good words.

Nice day to you, A.