@joergkutter This is a gorgeous, gorgeous track. Are you playing a fretless? Gosh. I wish I could get that kind of separation on my home mixes in Logic. But this inspires me to keep trying.
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Thank you kindly! Yes, I play a fretless for the melody parts.
This track has been mixed and mastered by a professional; so, yes, if you could do that just as well, you should probably think about going pro post-haste 
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Lovin’ this @Paul_9207 !!! And the video was so fun to watch, too. Great editing. Nice tone on your bass, what is it? Can’t see it well on my small tablet screen.
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Thank you so much! The bass is a G & L Kiloton Tribute.
Very nice, Paul. That G&L is front and centre in the mix. 
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Bret made a music video for Almost Before, a track from the third Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Forever Postage (cover artwork by Todd Alcott.)
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What was supposed to be an occasional “jam evening” with a couple of friends turned out to be way more ambitious than originally planned
I did not contribute much to the composition, except for the bass. And even that could have been a bit more “polished”. But you have to start somewhere…
(and even with Bandcamp, I am still not sure how everything works. I hope that at least the unlimited streaming for free is working as intended.)
Let me know your feedback!
Bret made a music video for Quasimodo’s Heart, a track from the third Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Forever Postage (cover artwork by Todd Alcott.)
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@paolo.pfm Ich habe deinen Song sehr genossen. Echt cooler Groove! Ich kann zwar Deutsch, musste aber meine Grammatik bei Google nachschlagen! 
Danke danke
Again, I only played the Bass part. I cannot take any credit for the poetic lyrics 
There are two more uploads on the Bandcamp page since…
Sick as a dog today. Fever, headache and aching joints. Too sick to play bass (yes that sick).
But inspired by a recent post on the Synth Porn thread; I thought why don’t I dig out my old Arturia MiniLab and make some music.
There was a sweet hardware synth for sale locally, but I thought I already have a software package with loads of synths in and a midi keyboard that’s sitting on my desk. Use the gear I have already #goddamGAS
So here you go @fennario for just over $100, you too could produce generic garbage music just like this 
It’s been fun and more importantly distracted me from the flu.
DAW - GarageBand
Midi Controller - Arturia MiniLab MkII
Analog Lab VST (Free with MiniLab)
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Fun! Hope you feel better, man! My arm was already twisted though, my order is on the way
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I love the heavy use of samples, and the arpeggio/sequence work is great too, nice work. This is actually very much in the vein of some of my favorite music, so please keep going
Is the main sequenced line from the SQ-80? Sounds like one of the original factory patches from it, and SQ-80V is bang on.
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@howard that’s very kind. I’m not a synth guy (struggle to play a chord) but I do enjoy my time away from focusing entirely on bass. I should do more of it.
I don’t know what I’m doing, or the history of the synths, I just pick patches that I like 
I’m really just doing this for me.
Pads etc
Bass
Sequencers
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Ahh I was hearing the DX7 there then
Just FTR, I don’t think any single track was ever produced in the ‘80s with that many top tier synths, and Arturia’s emulation of them all is good. Golden age for us now, indeed. Some synth geek classics in there too that aren’t super well known, like the Oberheim SEM, alongside standbys like the DX7, Prophet 5 and MiniMoog. Nice choices!
Trivia, one of the things that makes the MiniFreak I own cool… The SEM is famous for a few reasons, but a big one is it had an exceptionally musical and good sounding filter. The MiniFreak is a digital synth for its oscillators and LFOs but it becomes a hybrid synth as those feed into an analog hardware SEM filter and VCA per voice.
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Nice composition. Super chill track. That’s cool that you can build that all out. Well done.
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It’s super cool.
Also, now that you’re working with synths and samples, you’ll get why crazy sounding people like me say that the 8/16 track limits on the Lite or Intro versions of DAWs is way too limiting. They add up fast
So, this is my second track, after the little remix I made with wonderful G.Goere.
Since a few months I have strange melodies and sounds in my head, especially when I’m in this state between sleeping and being awake, so I decided to make that musics real – if you can’t kill it, f#ck it
I wanted to make a track I would dance to, so it became kind of old school “in yer face”!
Also, it’s not perfect, as I’m still learning. It’s the first time I am playing with a keyboard, so that’s all WTF to me.
No bass guitar playing too … next time I’ll noodle around, I promise.
The title is inspired by a CNN article I read, about the US Supreme Court, that revived a First Amendment lawsuit from a street preacher who used a loudspeaker to call people “whores,” “Jezebels” and “sissies” as they tried to enter an amphitheater to attend concerts in a suburban Mississippi community.
As I partied a lot with “whores,” “Jezebels” and “sissies”, I found it a great tribute to my old friends
The “and chips” in the title came from a cute little girl that sang a song for me. This song took about 20 minutes, as she mentioned EVERYTHING she likes … and it ended with a very sweet “and chips”, so I decided that would be in my next song.
Best served on good headphones or speakers… there is a OVERWHELMING bass somewhere in the middle of the song.
Enjoy!
PS No children were harmed when making this track. The voices are AI, everything else is manual labour.
F#ck AI!
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Not my kind of music at all… as in: AT ALL!
But, kudos for actually doing it!
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Hahaha! Yeah, it’s not Taylor Swift
Next will be a f#cking hiphop industrial crossover track … but when I’m really really very old, I’ll surely do some jazz too, so stay tuned
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