Continuing my experimentation with the standalone arpeggiator on the Bitstream 3X led to today’s sound. Once again I created it by controlling the Roland MKS-80 with the BS3X. I added some subtle reverb afterward to liven it up a little.
BS3X Arpeggiated Synth Bass
My studio laptop is in for repairs so I’ve been experimenting with the standalone arpeggiator on the Bitstream 3X. Once I have learned a little more about this complex feature of the BS3X I’ll write more about it. For now here’s a short piece I created by controlling the Roland MKS-80 with the BS3X.
BS3X and MKS-80 Bouncy Fifths
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.
Arppegio with Nightmare
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 Polys Part 4
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.
Stacked Polys Part 3