Why I think analog synthesizers rulez

[aciddose]

http://soundcloud.com/aciddose/metarandrome

Distortion is a bit high, dynamics suck... into the compressor a little too hard.

Main instrument bus includes:
SH-09 for pulse-sub-osc res sound, left channel. (whistling)
AD-X-1 for pulse res sound, right channel. (wolblering)
DX-7 for clean high-strings sound, middle. (ahh)
Alpha Juno for clean low-strings sound, middle. (ooh)

These are mixed via a traynor console including EQ.

Drums bus generated by Xhip 2 using TR-707 sample set.

Both buses pass into a bus compressor (Xhip Compressor) and are mixed before heading into the master limiter (Xhip Limiter.)

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In case you haven't figured this out yet on your own, the melody is admittedly sorely lacking

This was inspired by Shy's track at http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=342725

I think really there are not many examples of plain old analog synthesizers and so we don't often get a chance to see them shine. When I'm working on something like this I'm generally thinking "oh man imagine if I could come up with a cool melody!"

At least after years of meddling in synthesis and dealing with a variety of gear I'm able to admit the problem most likely isn't the gear

http://soundcloud.com/aciddose/metarandrome-b

Mixed with lower compression, but now the hats.. aw forget it.

[seismic1]

The melodic aspects of this are not too far away. You just need something to complement those string synth chords. The L/R pulse sounds are lovely with a nice acid feel.

[daniel_baum]

THere are some nice sounds in this. It sounds like an accompaniment for something. I sometimes find myself writing stuff from the bottom up, and it sounds like you've only got a little way to go to puty a melody on it.

The DX7's not exactly analogue though, is it?

[aciddose]

neither the dx-7 or the alpha juno, the focus was on the hard-panned analogs of course.

if i had a full analog poly of course i'd use that

[Shy]

I love that AD-X-1, it can't sound less than great.
(about the mix (b), I'd just raise the volume of the hard panned synths or lower the drums' volume in relation to all the synths')

I agree about there being a serious lack of fine synth examples, and I'd say even worse lack of fine effect examples.

I have a nice mix I should rerecord (lost the audio tracks.. have the sequences), there's a good amount of different sections that blend well together. I'll send you the midi file when I post the mix and you could make your own mix from it if you'd like. It would be nice to hear different fine synths playing that nice gamey tune.

[Sendy]

Nice... I'd really like to hear this with a good melody or something, the underpinnings are already there so it should almost write it's-self.

[aciddose]

unfortunately i'm a terrible composer - it could be a coop though.

i'm not really happy with the arrangement. i swirled things around and added sections with instruments on/off for the purpose of allowing you to listen more to the instruments and less to the melody.

licensed as CC-attribution-non-commercial
http://xhip.presetexchange.com/temp/crap80sloop.mid

(original name for the one-bar bass loop you hear the ad-x-1 repeat over and over )

if anyone wanted to take a swat at this i'd love to hear/see the results! post back the midi too if you like the idea of further back and forth tweaking!

[SampleScience]

I actually prefer this kind of track made lofi with good old gear than newer unoriginal squeaky-clean tracks. I guess I'm getting old... I like the way the drums sounds, very energic!