Melted Butter
Similar to a previous song I built, titled Quasar, this tune is a tribute to and inspired by an old song I grew up hearing called Popcorn. I think the Hot Butter version from 1972 is the one I’m most familiar with, though I definitely recall hearing the original recording from 1969 as well. This tune features a sample of my husband making a popping sound with his mouth. Anybody can be a musician! đ
Teenage Dreamscape
This poppity throwback was built using mostly sounds from Arturia’s Analog Lab V (VST), with a few helpers thrown in from MuLab’s built-in synths.
Frosty the TranSan Snowman
Auto-accompaniment from the Yamaha YPT-320 Music Database, the preset for Jingle Bells. Melody comes from a Fluid Soundfont sax, additional woodwinds from BBC Symphony Orchestra VST, some MuLab bells, Full Bucket Mono Fury VST and Surrealistic MG-1 Plus VST.
8-Bit BOB
A few selections from the GarageBand for iPad SoundPack “8-Bit Legends”, with some OB-Xd (Oberheim) VST and U-he Tyrell N6 VST sandwiched in.
Retro Split
This song grew out of a test run of a newly released free VST called RetroGrit Lite by Audiolatry, accompanied by the Yamaha YPT-320 with a little smattering of a Mulab synth sandwiched in.
Elkasampler E-19
An up-tempo tune made from samples recorded from the Elka E-19 organ, with a little modern interlude sandwiched in.
Alternative Epilogue
A happy little tune composed on a thrift store rescue, the Yamaha PSR-12 (with some modern strings at the end).
Tamagotcha
This tune is built upon a noticeably nineties theme, an organ riff reminiscent to the cheesy pop hits of the 90s.
PSSt, There’s Something in the Mix
A poppy little piece with a hint of a swing, assembled with some fixin’s from Audio Animals’ Status VST bank based on the old Yamaha PortaSound PSS-480.
Auto at the Disco
Here’s a tune that sandwiches a Korg i3 workstation synth into the MIDI path of a Yamaha PortaTone keyboard’s auto accompaniment function set to Disco. Throw in a bit of live piano and some melodies played on the i3 and an old Korg MS-10 analogue synth, and you end up with this happy, poppy song.