In my Production Fundamentals course, we’ve been studying synthesis and MIDI composition using Ableton Live, with a particular focus on how these techniques can be applied to EDM and synth-wave music. I got inspired to write a basic synth-wave track of my own – far from the first. This is what came of it.
Just from my own personal aesthetic perspective, I am really enjoying listening to it. Especially on high volume on speakers with the sub-woofer cranked, or in the cans (Sennheiser HD 280 Pro). This track uses Ableton’s Arpeggiator on the bass, UHe’s incredible TyrellN6 subtractive synth, BlauKraut’s very nifty Charlatan synth (both free), the Micah’s Choir LABS instrument from Spitfire Audio and the sensational TAL-U-No-62 Juno 60 emulation from TAL Software, which, together, provide the awesome sleeping bass and choir sounds that start to sweep in half-way through the track.
There is a diatonic symmetry to the TyrellN6 line that provides much of the melodic content in the piece that I am really product of, and which would sit neatly in a Baroque fugue. The arpeggiated Charlatan bassline goes hard, and there’s enough harmonic, melodic and rhythmic variation in this piece (three different drum loops built on the same basic pattern) to keep the brain occupied while your ears do their thing.
Anyway – I hope you enjoy listening to this piece as much as I do.
