Category: Musical Malpractice

Warning: technicl nerdyness ahead. Brace yourself… I love music from older video games. I especially love music from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) which used a custom Sony designed sound chip that was really advenced for its day. bASICALLY, YOU CAN DEFINE A SET OF SAMPLES (A NOTE ON A PIANO, A DRUM HIT,…

I noticed that the drum track from one of the songs in the Streets of Rage soundtrack lined up perfectly with the Duran Duran song "Come Undone." This is the result.

So this was the first thing I experamented with using Melotron samples on. For those who don’t know, the Melotron was a 60s era analog tape based sampling device, its the instrument that gave The Beatles’ "Strawberry Fields Forever" that distinct sound. I had also just adjusted my audio interfaces’ latency compensation so there was…

I found MIDI soundfont with samples ripped from the Linn LM1, a classic 80s drum machine. So I decided to put it to the test with my synth, and I decided to use some different synth sounds. I’d prefer a Linndrum soundfont since I prefer the sounds of the Linndrum to the LM1, but beggers…

So on my internet radio station, I have top-of-the-hour station identifications, similar to actual broadcast radio stations here in the United States. Well I decided that I wanted to create the music for all of them myself, and that’s what this is. There’s two other tracks that were briefly used but they’re not in rotation…

So this was recorded while I was at the West Virginia School for the Blind, this was either in 2021 or 2022, but I’m leaning twoards 2022. I was in the school’s rock band on keyboards, and would sometimes do drums. On this day our drummer was out sick and so was our second guitarist.…

How this happened I haven’t a clue. Recorded in 2021. The cheap USB MIDI interface I had at the time was prone to glitches, but this particular file sent it over the edge for some reason.

So this isn’t really something that’s shite blog matterial but whatever you’re getting it. So as a child I had a Casio LK series keyboard of some variety, and I was wanting to hake a little trip down memory lane. Now I’ve not had this keyboard in like 10 years, and I wasn’t gonna order…