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Groups and zones in #ShortcircuitXT beta - A starting overview

Open-source sampler plugin for Linux, macOS and Windows.
https://youtu.be/QvFi7kKsusU

#PeaceLoveMusic #MusicProduction #DAW #LinuxAudio #Linux #vst #Sampler #SurgeSynth

Groups and zones in #ShortcircuitXT beta - A starting overview

Open-source sampler plugin for Linux, macOS and Windows.
https://youtu.be/QvFi7kKsusU

#PeaceLoveMusic #MusicProduction #DAW #LinuxAudio #Linux #vst #Sampler #SurgeSynth

Groups and zones in #ShortcircuitXT beta - A starting overview

Open-source sampler plugin for Linux, macOS and Windows.
https://youtu.be/QvFi7kKsusU

#PeaceLoveMusic #MusicProduction #DAW #LinuxAudio #Linux #vst #Sampler #SurgeSynth

Groups and zones in #ShortcircuitXT beta - A starting overview

Open-source sampler plugin for Linux, macOS and Windows.
https://youtu.be/QvFi7kKsusU

#PeaceLoveMusic #MusicProduction #DAW #LinuxAudio #Linux #vst #Sampler #SurgeSynth

Groups and zones in #ShortcircuitXT beta - A starting overview

Open-source sampler plugin for Linux, macOS and Windows.
https://youtu.be/QvFi7kKsusU

#PeaceLoveMusic #MusicProduction #DAW #LinuxAudio #Linux #vst #Sampler #SurgeSynth

I think I need space away from it now, but I recently made progress on a touchscreen violin controller, which works over MIDI with my virtual synthesized violin.

I added it to my Stick Fingers web app, but it's not ready for the public build yet.

As an experiment, it's been useful. I can't play it well if at all, because although I have an ear for it, I don't have the dextierity or training to play a real violin.

As usual, I have a long todo list for it.

#SurgeSynth #violin #synth

More violin. This time I've applied the new design to my Surge Storm track, so here's the snippet with the violin solo. It also includes my Surge Grand Piano v49.

I'm pleased that the new instrument has tightness and controllability, which lets me throw more virtuoso action into it.

I might try some short snippets of difficult-to-play known pieces, as a further test, which might inform the design a bit more.

#violin #synth #synthesizer #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #orchestral #piano #soundDesign

I refreshed Surge Storm.

This weekend I was determined to break the creative drought, so I revisted a piece of music that I made in 2022, taking away the limitation of only using one software synth.

If you're into music theory, it has a few 'moments' ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tzN4f-M8c

I used Surge XT synth, BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover (free) and Arturia Piano V (bundled with my keyboard).

#orchestra #music #synthesizer #synth #surgeXT #SurgeSynth #cello #violin #chamber #bbc

I finished up the music:

Celeste Resurrection - Surge XT cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WLrZ9m2O9Q

#music #synth #surgeXT #SurgeSynth #vst #game #soundtrack #cover #celeste

[Edit: lightly updated - and I'm not going to work on this again for a while]

Another push. Some better sounds, arrangement, and production, plus new bits. The bit after this clip will get interesting (with the fade-out), and then I'm done. Not long now.

#SurgeXT #surgeSynth #80s #pop #music #synthesizer

This evening's quick noodle: I murdered Take On Me (instrumental, first few sections).

I found publically available MIDIs to be poor, so I started from nothing.

It's not mixed properly, as I'm just getting the sound design and notes down. I hear lots of other instruments and parts in the remainder of the original, so that'll be fun if I carry on with this one.

https://soundcloud.com/user-128602629/noodle-028-take-on-me-surge-xt

#SurgeXT #surgeSynth #80s #pop #music #synthesizer

Another fairly quick reproduction/cover: the instrumental part of Take My Breath Away.

Yes, I've murdered another Moroder track.

It's quite repetitive, and the vocal 'makes it', so I'm not sure how much I'll develop this one, and I haven't properly mixed/mastered this snippet.

Those are my excuses, but it was fun designing the percussion sounds, and making the instruments.

https://soundcloud.com/user-128602629/noodle-026-take-my-breath-away

#surgeXT #SurgeSynth #synthesis #music #cover #cbb

I like my cello (not a real one - I made a synthesized one). This piece (updated lots) takes the cello for a saunter, playing high at first then in its element around 0:40.

At least I have the sound close to ideal, and I think i know how to drive it. I'm looking forward to using t his in original work!

https://soundcloud.com/user-128602629/noodle-025-albinoni-adagio-d-minor-v2-wip-temporary-1

#synth #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #music #classical #strings #orchestra

🎶 **Excited to Share My New Arrangement of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!** 🎶

I had so much fun making this track come to life in my own style and couldn’t have done it without the amazing gear and incredible people who helped along the way!

**Special Thanks To:**
- **Viscount International** 🎹 for that iconic organ sound—big shout-out to Delroy White for taking it up a notch with some custom tweaks.
- **Yamaha Drums** 🥁 bringing the heartbeat of this track.
- **Audix Mics** 🎤 for capturing the drum sound perfectly.
- **Pianoteq** for that smooth Rhodes sound in the background, adding that perfect touch.
- **Nord** 🎹 used the Stage 4 for some awesome Clav sounds.
- **Surge Synthesizer** 🎛️ powered up tons of synth sounds! Surge is fully accessible and open-source, and for all my blind producers, this one is a must.

Shout out to Mike Gardner for making it all sound amazing with the final mix!

Check out these links to all the fantastic companies that helped bring this track together:

🎹 Viscount International - [viscount link]
🥁 Yamaha Drums - [yamaha link]
🎤 Audix Mics - [audix link]
🎹 Pianoteq - [pianoteq link]
🎹 Nord Keyboards - [nord link]
🎛️ Surge Synthesizer - [surge link]

**#Thriller #MusicProduction #ViscountOrgan #YamahaDrums #AudixMics #PianoteqRhodes #NordStage4 #SurgeSynth #BlindMusician #MichaelJackson #MatthewWhitakerMusic #Accessibility #MusicForEveryone**

🎶 **Excited to Share My New Arrangement of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!** 🎶

I had so much fun making this track come to life in my own style and couldn’t have done it without the amazing gear and incredible people who helped along the way!

**Special Thanks To:**
- **Viscount International** 🎹 for that iconic organ sound—big shout-out to Delroy White for taking it up a notch with some custom tweaks.
- **Yamaha Drums** 🥁 bringing the heartbeat of this track.
- **Audix Mics** 🎤 for capturing the drum sound perfectly.
- **Pianoteq** for that smooth Rhodes sound in the background, adding that perfect touch.
- **Nord** 🎹 used the Stage 4 for some awesome Clav sounds.
- **Surge Synthesizer** 🎛️ powered up tons of synth sounds! Surge is fully accessible and open-source, and for all my blind producers, this one is a must.

Shout out to Mike Gardner for making it all sound amazing with the final mix!

Check out these links to all the fantastic companies that helped bring this track together:

🎹 Viscount International - [viscount link]
🥁 Yamaha Drums - [yamaha link]
🎤 Audix Mics - [audix link]
🎹 Pianoteq - [pianoteq link]
🎹 Nord Keyboards - [nord link]
🎛️ Surge Synthesizer - [surge link]

**#Thriller #MusicProduction #ViscountOrgan #YamahaDrums #AudixMics #PianoteqRhodes #NordStage4 #SurgeSynth #BlindMusician #MichaelJackson #MatthewWhitakerMusic #Accessibility #MusicForEveryone**

🎶 **Excited to Share My New Arrangement of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!** 🎶

I had so much fun making this track come to life in my own style and couldn’t have done it without the amazing gear and incredible people who helped along the way!

**Special Thanks To:**
- **Viscount International** 🎹 for that iconic organ sound—big shout-out to Delroy White for taking it up a notch with some custom tweaks.
- **Yamaha Drums** 🥁 bringing the heartbeat of this track.
- **Audix Mics** 🎤 for capturing the drum sound perfectly.
- **Pianoteq** for that smooth Rhodes sound in the background, adding that perfect touch.
- **Nord** 🎹 used the Stage 4 for some awesome Clav sounds.
- **Surge Synthesizer** 🎛️ powered up tons of synth sounds! Surge is fully accessible and open-source, and for all my blind producers, this one is a must.

Shout out to Mike Gardner for making it all sound amazing with the final mix!

Check out these links to all the fantastic companies that helped bring this track together:

🎹 Viscount International - [viscount link]
🥁 Yamaha Drums - [yamaha link]
🎤 Audix Mics - [audix link]
🎹 Pianoteq - [pianoteq link]
🎹 Nord Keyboards - [nord link]
🎛️ Surge Synthesizer - [surge link]

**#Thriller #MusicProduction #ViscountOrgan #YamahaDrums #AudixMics #PianoteqRhodes #NordStage4 #SurgeSynth #BlindMusician #MichaelJackson #MatthewWhitakerMusic #Accessibility #MusicForEveryone**

🎶 **Excited to Share My New Arrangement of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!** 🎶

I had so much fun making this track come to life in my own style and couldn’t have done it without the amazing gear and incredible people who helped along the way!

**Special Thanks To:**
- **Viscount International** 🎹 for that iconic organ sound—big shout-out to Delroy White for taking it up a notch with some custom tweaks.
- **Yamaha Drums** 🥁 bringing the heartbeat of this track.
- **Audix Mics** 🎤 for capturing the drum sound perfectly.
- **Pianoteq** for that smooth Rhodes sound in the background, adding that perfect touch.
- **Nord** 🎹 used the Stage 4 for some awesome Clav sounds.
- **Surge Synthesizer** 🎛️ powered up tons of synth sounds! Surge is fully accessible and open-source, and for all my blind producers, this one is a must.

Shout out to Mike Gardner for making it all sound amazing with the final mix!

Check out these links to all the fantastic companies that helped bring this track together:

🎹 Viscount International - [viscount link]
🥁 Yamaha Drums - [yamaha link]
🎤 Audix Mics - [audix link]
🎹 Pianoteq - [pianoteq link]
🎹 Nord Keyboards - [nord link]
🎛️ Surge Synthesizer - [surge link]

**#Thriller #MusicProduction #ViscountOrgan #YamahaDrums #AudixMics #PianoteqRhodes #NordStage4 #SurgeSynth #BlindMusician #MichaelJackson #MatthewWhitakerMusic #Accessibility #MusicForEveryone**

🎶 **Excited to Share My New Arrangement of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!** 🎶

I had so much fun making this track come to life in my own style and couldn’t have done it without the amazing gear and incredible people who helped along the way!

**Special Thanks To:**
- **Viscount International** 🎹 for that iconic organ sound—big shout-out to Delroy White for taking it up a notch with some custom tweaks.
- **Yamaha Drums** 🥁 bringing the heartbeat of this track.
- **Audix Mics** 🎤 for capturing the drum sound perfectly.
- **Pianoteq** for that smooth Rhodes sound in the background, adding that perfect touch.
- **Nord** 🎹 used the Stage 4 for some awesome Clav sounds.
- **Surge Synthesizer** 🎛️ powered up tons of synth sounds! Surge is fully accessible and open-source, and for all my blind producers, this one is a must.

Shout out to Mike Gardner for making it all sound amazing with the final mix!

Check out these links to all the fantastic companies that helped bring this track together:

🎹 Viscount International - [viscount link]
🥁 Yamaha Drums - [yamaha link]
🎤 Audix Mics - [audix link]
🎹 Pianoteq - [pianoteq link]
🎹 Nord Keyboards - [nord link]
🎛️ Surge Synthesizer - [surge link]

**#Thriller #MusicProduction #ViscountOrgan #YamahaDrums #AudixMics #PianoteqRhodes #NordStage4 #SurgeSynth #BlindMusician #MichaelJackson #MatthewWhitakerMusic #Accessibility #MusicForEveryone**

Souvenir (OMD) - 2024 cover

After few tweaks to sound design and mixing, I can now call this done. I replaced the piano with something more in-keeping, without actually going vocal on it.

It's now all just using Surge XT synth, except for the toms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGsdstWPPk

#analog #synth #pop #music #80s #omd #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #Cakewalk #bandlab

Souvenir (OMD) - 2024 cover

After few tweaks to sound design and mixing, I can now call this done. I replaced the piano with something more in-keeping, without actually going vocal on it.

It's now all just using Surge XT synth, except for the toms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGsdstWPPk

#analog #synth #pop #music #80s #omd #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #Cakewalk #bandlab

Souvenir (OMD) - 2024 cover

After few tweaks to sound design and mixing, I can now call this done. I replaced the piano with something more in-keeping, without actually going vocal on it.

It's now all just using Surge XT synth, except for the toms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGsdstWPPk

#analog #synth #pop #music #80s #omd #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #Cakewalk #bandlab

Souvenir (OMD) - 2024 cover

After few tweaks to sound design and mixing, I can now call this done. I replaced the piano with something more in-keeping, without actually going vocal on it.

It's now all just using Surge XT synth, except for the toms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGsdstWPPk

#analog #synth #pop #music #80s #omd #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #Cakewalk #bandlab

Souvenir (OMD) - 2024 cover

After few tweaks to sound design and mixing, I can now call this done. I replaced the piano with something more in-keeping, without actually going vocal on it.

It's now all just using Surge XT synth, except for the toms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGsdstWPPk

#analog #synth #pop #music #80s #omd #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #Cakewalk #bandlab

My cover of OMD's Souvenir, v1.0.

I designed sounds for my favourite synth (Surge XT), mostly analog-style synthesis, with many effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu19YYXvsZs

#music #analog #pop #synth #synthesizer #cover #omd #SurgeXT #SurgeSynth #synthesis

I made a saxophone, in #SurgeSynth (Surge XT).

It's been a great tradition since the 1980s for people to make awaful music using synth saxophones, and I hope mine isn't. However, this is my first try with it, modifying basic notes from a score with articulations (CCs).

Yes, this is pop music from the early 1970s. But it stretches some of my other sounds: Saxphone, Valen Tines Rhodes Piano, Acoustic Rhythm Guitar (and Guitarp Bass)

https://soundcloud.com/user-128602629/noodle-019-saxophone

#synthesizer #synth #music #billyjoel

2/2

Second, a couple of pipe organ patches that you can use to compose ranks of a large pipe organ.

I've included a demo of Toccata in F, as played in a large cathedral-like building.

It's included in the full download of Surge XT, a free and open source synth plugin.

https://johnvalentine.co.uk/index.php?art=surge_pipe_organ

#music #synth #SurgeSynth #SurgeXT #classical

1/2 Next up: I've updated documentation for two of my Surge XT patches:

Grand Piano is first. It's synthesized and mimics the mechanics of the hammered strings. It's configurable, so you can adjust the sound to your playing style.

It's included in the full download of Surge XT, a free and open source synth plugin.

https://johnvalentine.co.uk/?art=surge_grand_piano

#pianobook [tagged for interest, as a free piano]

#music #synth #SurgeSynth #SurgeXT #classical #piano

This evening's content wrangling: I've documented my latest sound [1], which music creators can use for free. It's like a Rhodes piano [2].

I like sound design, and making good instruments and music-making more accessible.

[1] https://johnvalentine.co.uk/?art=surge_valen_tines
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_piano

I hope to document more of my sounds in this format.

Image credit: CasinoKat (from the Wikipedia page)

#SurgeSynth #SurgeXT #music #synth #VST #piano #pop

A demo of my Rhodes-alike electric piano, created in Surge XT. This is synthesis, not samples.

Remember how coveted Rhodes pianos were years ago?

This demo is based on a MIDI of "I'm not in Love". originally composed by 10cc.

Sound-designed, (slightly) arranged, and mixed by me. This Noodle is a segment of around 30 seconds, as fair use.

https://soundcloud.com/user-128602629/noodle-018-surge-epiano-rhodes

My "Sound Noodles" are snippets of experimental sound design or techniques.

#pop #synth #SurgeSynth #SurgeXT #music

It's been a while since I tried making music. Now that I've built up a collection of orchestral sounds I've designed (for Surge synthesizer), I can make more ambitious pieces.

This is Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

I could keep chipping away at this, but it's good enough as a demo of unexpected shenanigans.

https://on.soundcloud.com/z8T5m

#classical #music #synth #synthesizer #surgeSynth #cakewalk #orchestra

#Introduction and some made-up hashtags of my interests, which I will get wrong and then edit:

* #theoreticalPhysics #philosophy #maths
* #sff #writer
* #synthesizers #music #musicComposition #surgeSynth #surgeSynthTeam #dsp
* #digitalart #krita #digitalpainting #blender #photography #landscapes #architecture
* #gaming #VintageStory #tableTopGames #boardgames
* #gameDev #javaScript

I might occasionally post my creative explorations.