Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a little jazz fusion synth jam, Vintage 74, by TheSynthFreq:
Jazz session with Jupiter-8, (split patch Bass/Xylo) and Motif-6: Vintage 74 Rhodes and Korg Emx preset drum pattern.
This song came about when searching for a random pattern on the drum machine that was completely different and out of the ordinary.
Technical details below. Continue reading
In this video, Andrew Snook of TronAudio, takes a look at designing a Dubstep Bass in Ableton Live:
I use multiple instruments to construct the sound. I use FM syntheses to create some really interesting tones and movement within the sound.
This short tutorial shows how to make nice house / electro bass sound with Novation V-Station VST Instrument.
It’s high layer bass sound – you can layer it with some subbass. Notice how FM Level Knob can dramatically change the sound. Also Oscillator 2 has volume set to 0 but still it affects an output sound thanks to FM (Synthesis) Knob
You can find this preset + whole sound bank for V-Station (and other synths) at vst-cafe.blogspot.com
Gary Wright – Love Is Alive (Midnight Special, 1976)
This video captures a great vintage synth performance by keyboardist and songwriter Gary Wright performing Love Is Alive on the Midnight Special TV show, 1976
His band features a young Steve Porcaro {keyboards for TOTO, Herb Alpert, Pablo Cruise, Brothers Johnson, etc.} on synthesizers along with a rockin’ lady cowbell player, dual keytars and some synth bass.
Wright’s best known for his synth-heavy track Dream Weaver.