Working stiff — Synthesizer Music Producer on the side | Retro Technology Vibe | Game Dev Interested Party | Infrequent dry/campy humor
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Renoise fun sequencing & mixing hardware synths
Lead: Deckard’s Dream tracked live into the patterns and
3 arpeggios driven by Kirnu VST, triggered by playing chords, sending note data over MIDI:
Roland MKS-100 main arp.
Roland Alpha Juno II bass arp
Korg DW-8000 secondary arp
Cold, snowy morning. ❄️ What are some iconic video game snow levels?
First pick: Super Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts (SNES) ‘Ice Forest’. The visuals along w/ the soundtrack were immersive for this theme.
Icy, lo-fi, high-register tremolo strings. Dry, staccato bells punctuating the mix.
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Next up: Strider (Arcade) ‘Siberian Wilderness’ level.
FM chip sounds being inherently “cold” are a natural fit for icy levels. This theme accentuates it with a jangly, staccato composition of bell-ish chords & tones.
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Been fighting a losing battle w/ my wife regarding the unsightly home theatre technology stack in the front room. She’s threatened to buy all kinds of frou-frou furniture to replace the functionality w/ aesthetics.
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…almost. Only just now saw the price. $600 for some bamboo fitted into a wood base? Uh uh. Time to investigate DIY.
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Scored this somewhat rare or uncommon original issue CD from 1988 — German production. I like collecting ones of this ilk.
It’s likely sequenced w/ Atari STs. But there’s also real-world instruments. I’d say the genre is Ambient/New Age + Berlin School + 80’s World music.
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Oh yeah! That’s the stuff.
(I think if the performative “Seagull Sax” lead composition had be rendered by a synthetic instrument, like the ‘Sync lead’ in this clip, it would’ve fit better).
youtube.com/watch?v=S5mmNTa9…
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Returning to older tech like RSS becomes increasingly necessary as search engines no longer search, so much as advertise, algorithm-ize, & link to bogus sites that optimize.
Just installed Vienna, open source Mac RSS reader, and... Man, I've missed RSS! So simple & clean, SUCH a better way to follow news & blogs than the algorithm-based ad-funded octopi that replaced it. When did I stop using RSS, and why? I can't remember. But I'm back.
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