Chilled Out Summer Synth Jam

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by snolan1990

"I haven't put anything up in a while because I have been away from home and more importantly my synths at Uni. I'm not a 100% happy with this but I have been working on it flat out for the past few days so I thought I would record a version before I pulled out all the patch cables.

Please excuse the sloppiness of that synth guitar, I have to record that bit live because quantization messes up the flow of anything like that and the JX-3P can't receive pitch bend data which is obviously pretty important.

I'm not too sure why the video is all hazy and laggy but I think it might be something to do with my camera adjusting to the light out my window before I moved it into the relative darkness of the room, anyway you get the idea with the footage.

For those interested in the technical side of it all.

Drums are a combination of Roland TR-626 and TR-707 samples in the Akai S900. Bass is Roland Juno-60. The pads are Roland JX-3P through the RAK DD-2000 digital delay. The faux electric piano is a Yamaha TX81Z preset through a Guyatone PS-013 chorus pedal (I love the combination of FM and that chorus) The Lead is a very simple patch on the HackMe Rockit which I recently constructed from a kit. The Choral patch thing towards the end is a Kawai KC-10 preset with loads of delay from a Frontline DDS-20 digital delay. Finally the synth guitar is the JX-3P "Dist Guitar" preset through a DigiTech Hot Head distortion pedal, then through the Noise Gate of the Alesis 3630 and finally with a bit of the RAK DD-2000 delay. (The waves were just dragged in next to the track in Audacity, I had tried sampling it in the Oberheim DPX-1 but it lost too much fidelity to work, I could have put it in the E-mu ESI4000 but It would have covered about 4 floppies and I couldn't be bothered to load for 10 mins every time I wanted to work on it)"