Tag: sound design

  • Hardware

    I recently decided to take the plunge and get a hardware synth to stop my dallying and futzing around with software emulation of synths.

    For several years now, I’ve intended to lean less on pre-loaded patches and work on an understanding towards how a patch is created from the basic soundwave (sine, saw, square, pulse, etc.) and massaged into the sounds you hear in music — whether it is someone like Depeche Mode or cinema’s Vangelis.

    I have played with the software synths on my digital audio workbench (DAW), and purchased a few other software variants in an attempt to find something that “clicks” with this wee walnut I store where most folks store a brain.

    Not a one clicked.

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  • 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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