1st Day

YouTube via willrobinsonensoniq | September 22, 2010

"Watching my excited daughter board the School Bus for the first time reminded me the excitement of my freshman year in High School. This was during the beginning of the New Wave 80's music revolution. From Journeys' Escape album to Thomas Dolby and Herbie Hancock, as well as the artist of the Miami Vice Soundtrack. There was so much great synth music and so very little time to enjoy it all.
This song started as an autumn season tribute and ended up as a walk through the hallways of my youth. I poured on the gravy this time. No holds barred. No Polyphony left either. I actually layered some extra TS 12 pads in Audacity at the intro to the second verse as it didn't sound thick enough. The Roland D series takes center stage with warm chiming pads of the D 110 with help from the Quadraverb GT (chorus, reverb and delay) and ghostly Phased pads of the D 20 and Digitech RP350. The D5 has the Rhythm Card loaded up and is dedicated to drums and percussive hits through the Boss RSD-10 for deep Reverb. The Korg M3r has a panning/tremolo electric piano. The Ensoniq VFX SD has the honor of providing glossy synth stabs as well as some techno snare hits and the bass with the filters opened/modulated by the wheel. The TS12 is sequencer, handclaps and bass as well as synth/arpeggiator layered with the D 110.
All the instruments are mixed and run completely analog into the sound card. Then it is captured by Audacity (freeware) to be later synched with the video. So any program compatible with Audacity can be mixed in later and added to another copy of this video. I was going to solicit a driving lead for this song from my fellow YouTubes, but the logistics nightmare pushed me away (sending multiple copies through email.) Maybe ... Anyone have suggestions???"