Pyroplastic Heartbeat

blue gloved hands holding a red heart in the moonlight

A driving beat provided by the Yamaha MM6 auto accompaniment, with a stack of studio synths on the melodies along with a smattering of VSTs thrown in.

Jolly Jig of the Organ Grinder

small organ grinder on a backdrop of electrical components overlaid with a spiral galaxy

Auto-accompaniment on a Yamaha YPT-320 with a stack of synths providing a perky melody.

The Eurotech Aztek Choir at Olympus

silhouette of a choir overlaid on waveform background

Pumping auto-accompanied supplied by the Yamaha MM6 with a synth brass chorus melody and chill vibraphone verses.

Monster Drums Mashup

This tune is the culmination of a playtime session with the free Monster Drums VST plugin. After exploring the free kits available (18 at the time of publishing), we settled on Agung’s Futura Kit, which inspired a funky bass line. The rest of the tune was built up around that.

Victoria’s Bouncy Dance

Here’s a holiday weekend creation using a few different arpeggiators together to build the accompaniment to a melody you can whistle along to.

O Christmas Tree

Apple released a new drummers pack for the iOS version of Garageband, so I decided to give one a try with a Christmas classic.

Pan’s Cold Steel

An interesting drum loop laced with drippy-jingly foley followed by a spastic steel drum loop makes for a unique tune.

Bold Eagle Dawn

Landed myself a copy of Spitfire Audio’s “BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover” sample pack. Such beautiful, high-fidelity samples! Looperman artist Eendee’s “Scarydrums” loop doesn’t sound frightening at all when partnered with the fanfare tones of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Bird’s Eye View

At 150bpm, it’s not a slow song by any means, but a moderate beat wrapped in an acidy-arp that creates a sweet groove for the melody to play around.

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.