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Ripples Beget Ripples

By Tomatron.Jones on September 29, 2024 11:55 pm

Unlike other tracks, this one wasn't inspired directly by anything in particular. Instead, I found an old, rough idea for a beat I had started that included a drum sample and a few synth layers from a JUNO-06A. I decided to flesh out the full arrangement. Turned out to be a pretty exciting synth jam. Added a drop, some pads, and sax samples, and a lot of automation. Somewhere between electronica and synthwave I guess? Ultimately I should have added a bit more variation in the main melody and timbres but kind ran out of time. Also I should have re-recorded the synth because there's a bit of crunch in the JUNO recordings.

* Synths and bass mostly from JUNO-06A
* Lead synth from Massive plugin
* Drum, percussion, some pads, sax samples from Splice
* Valhalla, Transit plugins (and more)
* Gullfoss and Ozone for mastering

Total time: 4.5 hours

Yesterday 12:41 am

neon liminal

Oof that cyberpunk noire moment at around 1 min is just amazing, very blade runner, really evocative. Is this the little desktop Juno? How do you like to? It sounds fantastic here and I am always tempted lol.

Also those low bass swells at the end are really deep and beautiful.

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Yesterday 2:13 am

Tomatron.Jones

neon liminal wrote:

Oof that cyberpunk noire moment at around 1 min is just amazing, very blade runner, really evocative. Is this the little desktop Juno? How do you like to? It sounds fantastic here and I am always tempted lol.

Also those low bass swells at the end are really deep and beautiful.

Woah, thank you! 'Cyberpunk noire' is a great way to describe it, I hadn't been consciously thinking that but the lonely, distant sax amidst the synth pads is definitely that, thanks!

Yes, the Juno 06A is that small desktop unit. It's fantastic, sounds great, has a big Juno sound of both the 60 and 106 in a tiny unit. It was actually my first hardware synth and I love it. I use it in my live band setting as well.

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