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

Today I updated my studio with the inexpensive yet feature rich MOTU Audio Express interface. I haven’t had time to put it through its paces yet, but I did manage to get it configured in time to use it for the synthesizer sound of the day. Creating this sound would have been more difficult prior to owning this interface because I did not have as many available inputs with my M-Audio Firewire 410. To create this sound I stacked two polysynths – the Roland D-50 and the Roland MKS-80. With the Audio Express I was able to plug in both instruments in stereo and play them simultaneously using the D-50 as the controller, then record them on separate tracks. Here’s the first out of a series of these stacked polysynth experiments.

Stacked Polys Part 1