Christmas Cookies
Here’s a Christmassy tune perfect for your holiday video projects. A moderate tempo modern rhythm under sparkling bell synths and sleigh bells, occasionally sprinkled with twinkling piano and steam pops.
Colonel Pop
This is a fairly laid-back tune with a pumpin’ bassline under piano layered with synth pads, wrapped in a percolating electronic marimba that elicits visions of a popcorn maker. Built upon a solid foundation drum loop by Looperman artist “abelouis”.
Sorry Sally Sparrow
A laid-back composition of piano layered with whispy synth pads and cheerful bell accents wrapped in swirling arps atop steady but subdued analog drums.
Bionic Cheesecake
Here is the result of a new multi-layered performance piano setup I tried out. The piano is not only filled out with long, sweeping synth pads but also accompanied by a pulsating arpeggiator creating a steady bass line. All following a dark, heavy drum loop that sounds like a mechanical heartbeat.
The Jewel in the Eye of the Robot
This tune is built upon a looped sample of my bff Julie, from a band rehearsal in which she was playing the drums for “Honkey Tonk Woman”. This song is nothing like that song, but the drums sound very much like Julie. 🙂
Hypercycle Sunday Drive
This song grew out of some experimentation with a delightful little VST called Hypercyclic, available free for Windows, Mac and Linux from Plugin Boutique. It’s not a regular arpeggiator, no! One of its stated features is “for mangling…MIDI”, and eventually I ended up with a pulsating little white noice rhythm which blossomed into this piece.
A Hundred and One
This song was built on the Yamaha TX81Z’s most identifiable sound, the Lately Bass. A steady breakbeat splashed with some Yamaha TG33 bell strings and a little sprinkling of piano.
Ghost in the Underwater Piano
Another tune inspired by the BlueARP VST plugin, inserted before the MuLab built-in synth preset “Anticipation”. The melody is a blend of glockenspiel-style bells and an ambient piano that sounds like its drowning in the deep end.
DjinnDrum Jam
Just a little jam on a Linn Drum clone VST, with a little assistance from an 808 and a 909.
No Way Out
Here’s a tune that takes a lot of twists and turns. Just when you think you’ve figured out the pattern, it throws you a curve and you land right back where you started. It’s the musical equivalent of the Windows pipes screensaver.
