The Adventures of Skywolf
Built upon a super cool acid bass synth arp from Looperman artist Konigsberg, this upbeat techno piece drips with tones of action and sci-fi technology.
Mortal Contact
Here’s a tune that starts off with a driving synth loop from Looperman artist Twistedloop, followed closely by a pumpin’ beat by Fanto8BC. Throw in some arps, booms and crashes, and you have a 90s-flavoured song well suited to action video games.
Bubble Bubble
Here’s a simple electro-pop tune with lots of percolating arps over a pumping TR-909 rhythm laced with some randomized hi-hats and a sweet loop from Looperman artist “alividlife”.
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
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.
Auld Lang Syne 2019
Time for a new transanitized version of the holiday favourite. This new version features some pumping loops from Looperman artist “Fanto8BC”, with some Roland KR-500 and Korg i3 sandwiched in.
White Christmas
This “transanitized” take on the Christmas Classic was built upon the 70’s Disco auto-accompaniment preset on the Yamaha PSR-225 from 1998. Then, with the exception of drums and sax, the accompaniment parts were remapped to other synths in the TranSan studio, including the Korg i3 and Yamaha TX-81Z. band-in-a-boxauto-accompanimentChristmasholidayyamaha psr-225
Christmas in Alaska
Here’s a sleigh bells shakin’ dubstep with a simple melody of piano, chimes and strings. Featuring a wonderful holiday drum loop from Looperman artist alexisescalona and sounds from the Korg i3, Yamaha TX-81Z, Roland KR-500 and Yamaha TG33 synths, along with a smathering of VSTs. This song was created live on-stream at Twitch.tv/TransistorSandwich.
Send the Transmission
Here’s an upbeat, bass-boomin’ drum-thumpin’ dancy tune that includes some very cool loops from Looperman artists Rasputin and LouiveMane.
Caught in the Filter
In a continuation of getting to know the MuLab software better, I decided to try some track automation for frequency filters. A few arps and a PortaTone dance rhythm later, and we have this upbeat tune!