
Bob and I took to MicroKorg and Monotron respectively, and improved the Doobie Brothers. The results are just incredible…. MY GOD we’re good.
Here we are WITH the Doobies…
Here we are WITHOUT the Doobies (SUBSTANTIALLY betterrrrr…)
Nguyen Cha’ney came by last nite and we collaborated on this little bit. I’m not sure if I’m done with this song yet. I think there’s more that could be done/added/rearranged. Either way, I wanted to post it so I could hear it in the car.
Things used:

Thought about playing with tons of Ping-Pong delay and chorus today. I hate working to a click or tempo at all. I like letting the spirit move me for timing. This is obviously not a good way to work. Once again, I went for that heaving breathing tempo I love so much because it’s in my head and it’s slow enough that I can follow it.
No drums/percussion here. Just 2 melody lines from the Microkorg ping pong’d delayed. Then crap thrown on top. There is a little odd alias’ing on the first melody as I have it washed in some digital chorus plug in that makes it ‘tinny’. I dont mind this. It may bother some.
Either way, this was fun to make. I’ve stopped making it, and you get to hear it. Enjoy.
This is by no stretch a musical masterpiece. It is, however, something to be heard simply on the basis of clarity. I like how the opening piano just emerges from silence. No hiss, no hum, no crackling, just clean audio like the true black of an HD TV. This makes me EXTREMELY happy.
It can’t get much better than this at this point. This was seriously considered as a viable song, then we just gave up and moved the BPM up to 300 just to see how it sounded. We went to IHOP for breakfast at 4pm and came back and finished this. I blame IHOP !!
Starring:
Bob showed up in North Barfthesda and we educated and learn’t each other to make this thing.
Used: Â Volcas, MicroKorg, Kaossilator Pro, MiniKP, Phone
We have made and are making more of the best you have ever heard. Â You will have so much more you will ask for no more more. Believe me. Stay tuned.
This is a song played on all black keys. I wanted to work a little harder on creating with the MicroKorg and Kaossilator alone.
There are still some minor time issues, but HOLY CRAP THE SOUNDS ON THE mICROkORG ARE AWESOME. So many presets and this is with little to no variation of these stock presets. Â The quality and variety of the sounds are amazing. Â I went through as many as I could.
Geek Notes:
Note: Â This is terribly long (12 minutes and 23 seconds)… Â bump it around if you get bored. Â I think the last 2 or 3Â minutes sound the best (thanks to a bent, reverb’d, and delayed string chord I liked and it notably ends in this). Â There’s a really loud over-modulated bass bit in the middle thats hilarious and may destroy your speakers.
Once again, no sense of time or self control.  This is just too much fun to make!  I couldn’t stop myself. 🙂
This is a bit I made called “Fugue You”. Â Let us now define the “Fugue”. Â There are two definitions. Â First one musical, the second one psychiatric.
Either of these definitions seem appropriate.  I thought the image above suited the musical concept the best.  At least this is how I felt while performing it, with middle fingers everywhere.
There is a four note simple melody that was banging around my head from The New Deal song Navidrome.  I reproduced this as best I could on the Volca Bass (at the very beginning), then just built crap on top of it.  The final turned out to be 10 and some minutes (originally 12… I deleted some off the top before I was done).
Geek Notes (All are Korg products unless noted):
Let’s play the game, “see if you can hear Chad screw up in 10.5 minutes”.
“Did you hear it?”
“I HEARD IT!”
“All right Janet!”
Since I did the (Overmodulated) Jamola Number 3 yesterday and left out the Volca Beats, I thought I would do one real quick INCLUDING the Volca Beats.
Here’s a bit called Volca Waves. It started as an atmospheric “hearts of space” thing and then I decided to put the driving Kaossilator studio drums in the middle. I admit everything is a little “make it up as you go”. Lately I haven’t been really arranging anything. I’ve been striving to do things without any arrangement and just spew it out live. This was the reason for the little errors throughout. I have been trying to learn the “one man band live experience” by playing everything live in real time with little to no preparation. There are some things done ahead of time. Obviously the sequences and SOME selection of sounds are done in advance of pressing the record button. I have literally been writing MicroKorg presets I like on scrap paper to remember them. But I will admit, that a lot of times, I start swaying in time and stabbing a setting with my finger and biting my lip as I hit a key. Results can be bad, some can be good. You, the listener, get to hear BOTH the good and the bad which is my gift to you.
Either way here are the geek notes:
Hope you find it interesting.
PS Thanks to those who bother to comment. It means a lot and it makes having this blog worthwhile. I dont want to use facebook for this, because if one of these little bits IS really good, I would prefer to own the rights to it (which wouldn’t be the case if I posted them to facebook).