Sequencing ‘Love On A Real Train’

Here’s a Free Music Friday double whammy!

Synthesist and modular synth developer Suit And Tie Guy has shared a couple of covers of the Tangerine Dream classic, Love On A Real Train.

“Both tracks were recorded as one contiguous take in the studio direct to 2 track and no editing was engaged,” he notes. “No processing other than compression was employed in the computer.”

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Free Music From Benge – Rebisus

Free Music Friday: Synthesist Benge (Ben Edwards) has released a new EP of electronic music, Rebisus, using a ‘name your price’ model.

Here’s what he has to say about Rebisus:

Presented here are five new pieces of music exploring the relationship between an electronic system of some complexity (details below) and simple pulse based compositions. The various instruments were set up in such a way as to be considered one large interactive system and the individual pieces were thereby ‘grown’ or allowed to form naturally.

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Switched On Nutcracker

synthmas-synth-christmasFree Music Friday: Reader Thom Martin (The Hybiscus Journals) has completed several more tracks in his ‘Switched On Nutracker’ project.

Here’s what he’s got to say about the tracks:

All sounds for these tracks were created on either Moog Rogue or Sequential Circuits Pro-One analog monophonic synthesizers and performed into Logic Express 8. There are a couple of spots where I did take advantage of the Pro-One’s on-board sequencer, but everything else was played in by hand. No MIDI was involved.

All sounds got a bit of reverb in Logic, and some of the noodly harp type parts also got a bit of delay or echo.

Here’s The Waltz of the Flowers:

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