This is another piece from a stockpile of synthesizer tracks that I’ve been sitting on for a while. Locus 13.07b is a study in polyrhythmic arpeggiation produced using the Roland Super Jupiter MKS-80 and the Roland D-50.
Locus 13.07b
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Arpeggio with Nightmare
This arpeggio includes stacked Roland D-50 and Roland MKS-80 sounds, plus some mad, metallic, nightmarish, knob tweaking that I did on the MKS-80. For me the piece invokes a vision of unsuspecting creatures going about their business, unaware of a predatory horror that lurks in their midst.
Ninths Chords on Stacked Polysynths
I played these dense open ninth chords triggering both the Roland D-50 and the Roland MKS-80 simultaneously.
Stacked Polysynths Part 4
Here’s another example that fits into the stacked polyphonic synthesis series I started on April 4, 2011 with Stacked Polysynths Part 1. This time I played a chord progression while recording rather than adjusting parameters in realtime, making it into a micro-track of sorts. The fifths sounds was on the D-50 while the filter sweeping sound is something I dialed in on the MKS-80.
Stacked Polysynths Part 3
Yet another example of stacked polyphonic synthesizers. The hollow square wave arpeggio, courtesy of the Super Jupiter, is augmented by a glassy pad provided by the Roland D-50 Linear Arithmetic synthesizer.