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.
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