Transistor Sandwich

Teenage Dreamscape

teenager riding a hoverboard approaching from the orion nebula

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

robots working on power generator with colourful floppy disks in foreground

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

piano keyboard wedged between two bananas in front of a retro TV

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

elka e-19 organ

An up-tempo tune made from samples recorded from the Elka E-19 organ, with a little modern interlude sandwiched in.

Alternative Epilogue

giant book in a field on alien planet

A happy little tune composed on a thrift store rescue, the Yamaha PSR-12 (with some modern strings at the end).

Tamagotcha

song art for 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

song art for psst theres 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

song art for 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.

The House on 25 Yamaha Street

song art for house on 25 yamaha street

Two synths a decade apart: the Yamaha PSR-225 from 1998, sending its auto-accompaniment tracks to the Yamaha MM6 from 2008. In this selection, a nineties House style played through a far more modern Motif-based sound engine.

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