Midi Monday - Next Stop a Synthwave Instrumental
Here is a little sythwave instrumental I composed in MPC 2 while on my commute into Chicago. I mainly wanted to explore the features of Jura a new synth by AIR that emulates Juno keyboards. This thing has all sorts of cool arpeggiators and has a wide range of tones and effects. For drums I used EZ drummer with the Dark Industrial library. For bass I used a plugin by AIR called Bassline it has some cool fuzz and sub basses to add the low end depth to songs. I think the only thing not by AIR in this track is the flute sound which is from Pigments by Arturia. Pigments is an interesting synth with a wide range of abilities in all categories, this time I was exploring its more pad-like qualities.
That's all for now, have a happy #midimonday :-)
▶️ 3Speak
Cool arpeggios and the flute sits nicely in the mix. Nice work.
Thanks for listening :-) the flute was actually the first track that everything else was built around. I was wondering what would happen if I started with a flute rather than a bassline or a drum track like I usually do.
It worked well. The flute was crystal clear.
I'm still sorting out my home studio and hope to get producing something soon.
For recording guitar? Zoom mic is pretty good with some kind of small sony camcorder and editing in after effects or premier to line up the audio.
I've got all the gear but no idea what I want to record. I'm writing a little bit of music with lyrics but it's slow going to be honest.
Ah yeah lyrics are the hardest part, one of my music students tried using chat gpt for their lyrics lol. They got scolded.
Getting scolded by a chat bot...classic dystopian nightmare 😂👍