All hail the subsequent machine spirit
Liner Notes
Electronic spacey synth music, made with a Moog Subsequent 37, stock Ableton Echo, and Valhalla Supermassive. Duophonic mode and the sub oscillator make for a huge sound.
Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash.
#fawmtronica #synthesizer #moog #subsequent37 #valhallasupermassive #twovoices #duophonic
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Beautiful job. So much power and drama in that opening crescendo. Don’t think I’ve ever heard an electronic song with such an ancestral primal old world feel.
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I clicked Random and was not disappointed with what I found here. love the massive spacey sound, makes me want to get into synths. Just the right amount of power without overdoing it. And great title, the music really fits it
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I highly recommend Vital, it's a VST synth that works in any DAW and the free version is very full featured. It's very visual, and there's hundreds of hours of tutorials on YouTube for it. I made dozens on songs on it before getting into hardware synths.
And thanks for the lovely feedback
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You weren't kidding about the massive sound, were you? The low end on this is fantastic ('cos Moog know just how to put the sub in Subsequent, after all). This is EXACTLY the sort of track that 11-year-old me would have utterly geeked out about after discovering Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. This is giving me goosebumps even now, some fifty-five years later. Reminds me of some of Nils Frahm's recent stuff. Absolutely gorgeous.
E,L,&P's "Fanfare for the common man" was a real mind expander for me as a teen, blew me away.
Also thanks for the tip on Nils Frahm, hadn't listened to his stuff but it's great.
There's a live concert of his recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris that's well worth watching. He starts off playing a glass armonica (as invented by Benjamin Franklin) but ends up rocking out with a Moog model D, a couple of Juno-60s and a ludicrous number of Roland Space Echoes. I saw him play the same set in Bristol a couple of years ago. So good!
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Simple but massive sounding...love the atmosphere you've got going. It's like taking a ride through space. Killer sounding patch, nothing like a Moog filter for sure...
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The Subsequent sounds great, really nice patch! The fx are very tasteful as well
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About 2/3 the way through, there was a huge swell with a kind of buzzing tone, then followed by another bass swell...I really enjoyed that. If I'd been able to listen on a "real" sound system, that would have rattled the floor in a satisfying way (stuck with ear buds here at work). I like the wandering almost atonal high synth, you never know where it's going to go. The ending is a good buzz fizzling off into the ether...