Yes, another assault on your senses and sensibilities for about a minute and a half — time, I might add, that you can never reclaim.
This one is more of my playing around with soundwave creation, this time using the demo version of a new emulation of the classic synth, the Sequential Prophet 5.
Name a band from the late 70s to the late 80s that had synths and you can bet that they wrote at least one song with the Prophet 5. While there are other emulations of this classic synth out there, GForce worked directly with Sequential to get as close as they could to the original and revised sound of the analogue synth. And then they added more optional stuff for funsies.
I’m considering adding this “softsynth” to my collection to really better understand how to create cool sounds from basic soundwaves. Is is a bit more powerful than others in my collection, but I could learn from any of them. However, this has more cool options.
Not everything you hear was handcrafted, and I was guided in how to create the sounds I made. But I learned a lot in the process.
Drums are “realistic drums” from a sampled drumset. The reverb-laden guitar is my different go-to guitar synth (tweaked). The rest is me trying to learn.
One instrument using the Prophet 5 was the bass, crafted from the ground up. The second was a “twelve string” guitar (that I still feels needs some work).
We’ve got here an intro, second intro, a verse with two phrases, and a chorus with two phrases. Mix is “draft” and there are definitely places where it needs some tweaks before I would even begin to call it “polished”.
Listen if you dare. The original intent was something a little more dark, but it ended up being more bouncy than I had expected it would be. Songwriting sometimes goes that way: You set out to do one thing and the song has a mind of its own while you make it from beeps and boops into something more like music.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
14 responses to “songlets — GForce’s Sequential Prophet 5 demo”
Well, I found myself doing my very sad 80’s sway to this, so something hit the right note!
Definitely a bit of bounce to it – and I like the overall feel of this – a few slightly darker and mixed down lyrics to give juxtaposition would work.
Ha! I recall these days.
Almost a kind of Transmission kind of thing, I suppose. If I pick up the license for the softsynth, I’ll have to explore it (the demo is only for a week, which is pretty generous).
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Very cool. Has a Blade Runner vibe.
Thanks. Vangelis did use the hardware version of this synth on Blade Runner. In fact, there are some preset patches that the programmers included that allude to this without coming right out and saying so. 🙂
Cool. Keep learning. And sharing. 😉
Perhaps I will. There may eventually be a time that I need to take the clutter out into the back forty and toss it over into the ravine below… 😂
😂 I understand that.
Sounds like you’re having fun😁
Definitely. I’ve ultimately decided that purchasing a full license doesn’t add value to my workstream — not due to any fault of the softsynth, it is an excellent bit of plug-in architecture — but because I have other softsynths that do some of the same things as well or better for how I’ll use it. What I want to begin to understand is how the sound is developed and I have a sinking suspicion that it requires a physical analogue synth to really understand what is going on. In that respect, I’d better save up some pennies…
Yes you’d better.
I’m generally good at saving them and have a huge head start. 😁
Super fun sound and I’d totally dance to that back in the day (now too)! I’ll be interested to see where this takes you.
I’ll have to redo the bass and “guitar” with new voices/instruments as I elected to invest the cost of the software elsewhere, but the bones are there. We’ll have to see what happens… I might be working on a project like the one I did about 20+ years ago where I put out a 8-song “album” on CD of electronica in the vein of Delerium (samples, loops and production trickery).
That’s not to say that I didn’t care for this software, but I decided it ultimately couldn’t meet my eventual needs any better than what I already had.