Hidden Patterns By Miguel d'Oliveira

Hidden Patterns, on Spotify, is a new album from Miguel d'Oliveira whose videos have been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH.

via Miguel:

"Between documentaries soundtracks of the last 4 years I would try to write a track that was as different as possible from what I had just done.

Since each has an unusual pattern (structure, rhythm etc) I decided to release them as an album.
Hope you like them."

Hope and Doubt: viola and synths

Published on Jun 21, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira

from my score for BBC 2 series The Prosecutors.
music by Miguel d'Oliveira
violin: Kirsty Mangan

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Sequential Circuits Prophet-VS & Korg Volca FM.

Escape From New York on synths and Hurdy Gurdy

Published on Apr 9, 2020 Miguel d'Oliveira

"Hurdy Gurdy (Denis Soirat model) tracked 10 times + a few synth lines to colour it up

Gurdy was processed (distortion, chorus etc...)

I could lie and say the synths were vintage machines but it was all a bunch of cheap plug ins : )
music by John Carpenter
murdered by Miguel d'Oliveira in isolation"

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Never realized a Hurdy Gurdy could sound like a synth.

Waldorf Microwave XT: another 3 favorite sounds

Waldorf Microwave XT: another 3 of my favourite sounds Published on Mar 26, 2020 Miguel d'Oliveira

1st sound - melody
2nd - fast arpeg runs every 2 or 4 bars
3rd - root note bass

Miguel d'Oliveira Microwave XT posts

Irregular Heart Beat: Cello + Waldorf Microwave

Published on Apr 14, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira

"Was playing around with this old Waldorf Microwave XT (2nd hand 'bargain' I got yesterday) and thought it'd be interesting to add a couple of lines on a cello (yes, I use bits of tape to navigate the fingerboard)
Recorded with a DPA piano mic stuck to the tailpiece with blu tack."

2yo Minimoog jam

Published on Jun 9, 2014 Miguel d'Oliveira·49 videos

"my daughter going free style on the Minimoog.
I'm quite into avant-garde stuff but this is too Industrial for me."

Tunnel Vision

Published on Dec 19, 2016 Miguel d'Oliveira

"track I wrote for a BBC one series with superimposed footage I shot tonight, around London docklands and Blackwall tunnel.
all sounds (except glitch noises) from a DSI OB6"

Writing a track for Louis Theroux : Porn's Me Too

video upload by Miguel d'Oliveira

"Brief breakdown of approch and writing a 2 minute track for a documentary on the Forbidden America BBC series.
Louis Theroux: Porn's Me Too

Track written and performed practically on just a Casio CZ-1 (a couple of patches from Omnisphere overlayed) + external FX."

Monorail synthwave

Published on Dec 30, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira

"synthwave sketch track with a few hardware synths
[footage shot on the DLR with an iphone]
Last track I write in 2018
BTW - never let facts get in the way of a song title :) Duorail isn't as catchy."

Spot the synths at :52.

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Space Echo 301 - Sound on Sound answer

Published on Mar 28, 2020 Miguel d'Oliveira

"Reply to a question on my previous RE-301 video: What happens when you stop playing (dry signal) and sound on sound is left ON."

Monopoly Drum'n'Bass

Published on Jul 27, 2014 Miguel d'Oliveira

"Road testing the beefiness, punch and crazy cross-mod features of the good ol' Korg Monopoly on a drum'n'bass lick.
Recorded straight onto ableton Live through an mBox"

Waldorf Q - favourite sounds

video upload by Miguel d'Oliveira

"My favourite presets from a Waldorf Q I recently bought 2nd hand (many are the legacy of previous owners)
Love this synth but I don't think it comes close to the microwave XT

(brief appearance of Gigi, the leopard gecko)"

Neon City

Published on Feb 20, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira

"Heavily 80s influenced doodle on the OB-6 time machine.
Bucketload of chorus from Togu Audio Line on pretty much every track
Reverb from a Lexicon model 200
Multi tracked 6 times
No other instruments used - except drums (CR-8000)

filmed on a Porsche 924 (not mine) with my phone around and inside Blackwall tunnel {London]"

Looptrotter Monster abusing a Korg Volca FM

Published on Mar 3, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira

"First attempt to mangle & distort a synth sound from a Korg Volca FM with the mighty FET compressor / tube saturator Looptrotter Monster.
Very promising, I think.
Deliberately picked a sound that I hate (gold old digital piano) to see if I could turn it into something I liked."

Moog filter on a VST electric piano

Published on May 23, 2014 Miguel d'Oliveira·46 videos

"Trying to get some interesting colours on a simple VST electric piano by running it through the phenomenal filter on the MiniMoog Voyager."

River Bank : prophet 12 test drive #3

Published on Aug 12, 2019 Miguel d'Oliveira

"all sounds, except drums, from a DSI prophet 12.
Recorded and processed in ableton Live."

Things We Forgot To Say

Published on Sep 11, 2013 Miguel d'Oliveira·35 videos

"Doodle made with a Roland Juno 6 (multitracked 3 times)
Outboard: Neve Eq + Bricasti reverb

- no other synth or fx used -"

DSI Prophet 12 + TL Audio C1

Published on Apr 23, 2014 Miguel d'Oliveira·41 videos

"Running my P12 into a 2nd-hand Valve compressor I've just bought, hoping to get some of its sounds closer to what I'm after.

Prophet 12 is a 2 six-voice synth (digital oscillators)
TL Audio C1 is a 2channel valve compressor.
No other FX used on this test."

Remotely Guilty

Published on Aug 14, 2018 Miguel d'Oliveira

"Recording of a track from my score for BBC 2 The Prosecutors

violin - Kirsty Andrew
clarinet- Helen Pierce
synths used - Nord Stage 2, Prophet VS and Korg Volca FM"

MicrowaveXT on Tape Loops

video upload by Miguel d'Oliveira

"Playing with the artifacts coming from the use of tape loops (such as tape delay and the finite length of recording tape, etc...) to sketch a song idea.

The tape delay here is very close to what you get from a popular piece of kit such as the Roland Space Echo (except this is not varispeed and I didn't block the erase head)"