Tag: softsynths

  • songlets — GForce’s Sequential Prophet 5 demo

    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.

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  • Blue Monday

    Picture of an audio soundboard
    Photo by Anthony Roberts on Unsplash

    One of the things I have been considering is futzing about with music again. Like creative writing in my previous post, that also has a well that dries up, especially as I don’t usually have collaborators to bounce ideas off anymore. And my tooling around is more for the purposes of learning new recording, engineering and playing techniques than it is for performance. Much like publishing my writing, I am more interested in the joy of creation than I am in the idea fame or profit.

    [Trigger Warning: Musician-speak ahead and I don’t explain the terms I am using. Enter at your own risk.]

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