Moog Music Forum

Jay944 wrote:Max, your music is great indeed. It reminds my of Owen Pallett's, which I absolutely adore.


Here's my newest piece of sound :
http://soundcloud.com/imalmostart/2013-04-06

Thanks and great work Jay944! Space is what we need!

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New to the forum, thought I'd share a recent track. https://soundcloud.com/aphter-glo/aband ... stellation

Here is my most recent synth pop track. Hopefully you'll enjoy it. I'd love to hear compliments and criticisms, so feel free to message me in regards to it. Also you could just comment on soundcloud, as that would be more likely for me to check. I tried to do this as if the Moog Constellation had actually been made, so the basis for it is a polymoog patch, a Little Phatty part, and a Taurus for bass. There are drums, which while I made these with an electribe, I tried to make it sound like real drums, as would have been the only decent way to do drums when the constellation would have been released, and I did one part on a MS2000, I guess think of it as if there was a third person in the group - so like a person playing on a Moog Constellation, a drummer, and a person with another synth. Anyway, here's the link.

https://soundcloud.com/aphter-glo/aband ... stellation

Gambrel@gmail.com wrote:Here is my most recent synth pop track. Hopefully you'll enjoy it. I'd love to hear compliments and criticisms, so feel free to message me in regards to it. Also you could just comment on soundcloud, as that would be more likely for me to check. I tried to do this as if the Moog Constellation had actually been made, so the basis for it is a polymoog patch, a Little Phatty part, and a Taurus for bass. There are drums, which while I made these with an electribe, I tried to make it sound like real drums, as would have been the only decent way to do drums when the constellation would have been released, and I did one part on a MS2000, I guess think of it as if there was a third person in the group - so like a person playing on a Moog Constellation, a drummer, and a person with another synth. Anyway, here's the link.

https://soundcloud.com/aphter-glo/aband ... stellation

I like the lead that comes in after a couple minutes. I think overall it's a bit repetitive, as it's over 6 mins long and doesn't really evolve much. I would try to add some kind of verse/chorus structure (if you want to write a synth pop song) and then take something out/add a new element each time we hear a new verse/chorus.

One good piece of advice on pop songwriting I heard from Vince Clarke is this: Have something in your verse that feels slightly dissonant, or makes the listener feel tense, or uneasy. Then when the chorus comes, you take that away. That intensifies the enjoyment the listener experiences during the chorus.

I think you've got a good idea with this one, just needs refinement. Also, one small nag: please don't double-post songs. There is no need to clutter a tidy thread!

I like all of the sounds here, Gambrel. On length: is this for listening or dancing? Most pop songs are between two and three minutes. Dance songs are longer, but they have to measure out their energy. Kenneth's suggestions are useful here. Something else to look at are your drums. The individual hits sound great. Now try varying the parts. Alain can give you better advice than I can, but I found this book very helpful: Drum Programming: A Complete Guide to Program and Think Like a Drummer (1991) by Ray F. Badness. It assumes that you know nothing -- which in my case was exactly true. It's short and practical; I've read it through three times and I'm still absorbing new things.

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mico wrote:One of my recent works for my forthcoming Existence is Futile EP:
http://soundcloud.com/mahatma-dali/buri ... e-sands-of

You need some professional help. Absolutely brilliant piece. I need to go take a shower. Feeling very dirty after that one.

Hahahaha. Thanks, Sir Nose. I admit that I'm most pleased that it left you feeling filthy.

Mico, I'm really into your stuff. Dirty is a good way to describe the feeling. Inspired by Reznor at all? Cool to hear some industrial stuff on the forum!

Hi gang!
Some tunes made over the aeons by me, Moogs are used, plus ARP, Sequential, Roland,Waldorf. EMU, Novation. No particular style-just manipulated the synths to the different styles! something for everyone?
http://www.myspace.com/596234900/music

Just had a track released as part of a compilation, check it out!

http://wil-ru.bandcamp.com/album/va-wr037

Kenneth wrote:Mico, I'm really into your stuff. Dirty is a good way to describe the feeling. Inspired by Reznor at all? Cool to hear some industrial stuff on the forum!

Thanks, Kenneth. Honestly, I've never really listened to NIN (I know, blasphemous indeed). I just dig hard on nasty and dirty synthesis. Only recently have I began making my music more beat-centric. I'm more-so influenced by Clint Mansell and old movie scores.

Check this one out. Hope you like it (especially the chorus)!

http://www.soundcloud.com/kompress-r/gerettet

...if you have 15mins to sit back relax and listen... long, slow and deep.....

http://soundcloud.com/speciman-squared/ ... ng_preview

thanks for your listening time

For the techno dance lover, a combination of sequenced real Minimoog D bass, SQ80 chords, and live Korg MP4 melody. Sort of a cover of a music piece by Alex Robotnick (AKA Maurizio Dami).
Sequencer driven by DR-880 drum machine.
Get off your arse and shake that booty !

Enjoy, if that's your kind of music !

http://soundcloud.com/thealien666/n5-fr ... -alexander

My first demo for my other project, The Black Sacrament - a Skyrim-influenced Worship / Ritual / Drone project:
http://soundcloud.com/theblacksacrament/encantation

This is likely to be the most "mellow", albeit still eerie, piece that you can come to expect from this project. It is called, "A Child's Conjuring".

Enjoy.

(All synthesis performed with a Sub Phatty.)