Here’s an evolving arpeggio that I produced back in March, 2011, not long after I fixed my Roland MKS-80, and I’m pretty sure that I haven’t shared it until now. The two minute and twenty second segment includes some stereo imaging I was experimenting with at the time as well as copious amounts of delay and reverb.
Evolving Arpeggio on Roland MKS-80
This piece is a continuation of the sound I posted in Pro-One Sequence with Haphazard Tweaks. At this point I had roughly detuned the oscillators on the Pro-One to fifths, then I started to ramp up the feedback on the Memory Man until it produced the saturated pulse that fades out at the end.
Pro-One Sequence with Haphazard Tweaks #2
Evolving Mallet
Having finally started using the Roland Super Jupiter MKS-80 for the last two Ostracon performances my next goal is to utilize hardware synths for the majority, if not for all, of the instrument sounds during these shows. I have another repair necessary on the MKS-80 to make it performance ready, but other than that I should be in business soon. In preparation I have started weeding out some of the sounds in the MKS-80 internal memory, replacing them with my own programmed patches. Here’s an example of a nice harp-like patch I came up with during my last session. I created the passage by routing MIDI to the MKS-80 from Ableton‘s arpeggiator.
Dreamy New Age Synth Harp
This evolving bassline that’s arpeggiated on tritones was the apex of my interpretation of Erik Satie’s composition Vexations during Piotr Szyhalski piece Empty Words at Northern Spark early on the morning of Sunday, June 5, 2011. Eventually I will reproduce how I arranged these parts for the performance and share it here.
Evolving Vexations Bassline