Today's project (in the short time I had for music) was laying down a somewhat lengthy Minimoog-type solo. Tried a number of things for the sound...a few Nautlius patches, a Virus patch or two, the Behringer D, and a few patches I'd done with u-he Diva in the past.

Finally pulled up that Softube Model 72 plugin I bought quite a while ago but hadn't gotten around to using yet. Boy, that really does nail it for a classic Mini solo vibe...seemed to be the clear winner out of the lot in this case. Guess I shouldn't have let that collect (virtual) dust.

Finally got this one out on YouTube. It's getting some great traction. Used some Moog, PolyBrute, Prophet 10 among others.

Acolyte Walk - Waterway

I'm lucky my country has/had lots of music scenes. My guilty pleasure is old school latin freestyle. I tried incorporating a bit of that vibe. I felt like my bass had a Ladytron vibe, went and listened to Ladytron and nope. Vocals aren't me.

I've been playing with my meds lately, so a lot of what I do when I'm not at work is struggle to not fall asleep. I was actually successful last night in making it to the studio and doing stuff! I forced myself to stick to the current layout of the Mantis because I could spend the rest of my life tweaking it. Spent a couple hours creating patterns on the Circadian Rhythms and drum sounds on the LXR. I'm not 100% happy about the LXR because I had envisioned a system where I would be adjusting the drums in real time, but the LXR packs a lot of punch in a small space, so I'm just sticking it out. On the bright side, I'm getting pretty familiar with patch creation on it, so I can knock out a new kit pretty quickly. Fun stuff!

Absolutely loving the 80's goth vibe. It's slightly reminiscent of The Cure, but with a different vocalist. I'd totally pay for a record full of this.

Don't you hate when you miss the mark on a goal? No worries though, because this one is still really good. Definitely got that freestyle vibe to it (btw, Cover Girls are my fave; who's yours?) and the vocalist kind of makes me think Italo Disco for some reason. Please share with us what all went into this track because I'm really digging it.

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Some patterns.

Derp, hope you get your meds figured out. That seems like it can be a frustrating 'hold period'.

Favorite freestyle is probably Debbie Deb. I wonder what it would have felt like walking into a club way back with freestyle playing.

It's hard to find latin freestyle vocals and because I'm italo focused not surprised what I picked sounds that way. Here's the link to them if you want (got them from Loopcloud):
Vocal Here

Please don't kick me out for posting this here, it's mainly ITB.

Base high layer is Acustica THING layered with DX7 lower layer with reverb and bitcrush pushed through IK's Comprexxor to force it into a single cohesive bass. Before that is some Little Radiator. Lot's of automated filter to give it micro movement. Then through Acustica's Daisy and Lime3 to place it in space.

Latin Freestyle stabby synth in two sections is Diva on it's own.

Strings with the vocals is an EKO Stradivarius emulation in VPS Avenger's String Machines (a must have if you can't afford real!). Ozone Imager to give it just a little more modern stereo image and again Daisy and Lime3 for placement.

ARP synth at the end is Diva again. Little Radiator. Acustica Secret. Comprexxor. Daisy and Lime3.

Lime3 is really good if you are into that sort of thing. The Bus compressor C for sidechain makes synthwave/italo sidechain sexy and not so cliche/tackie, even if you just add it after normal pumping sidechain it can turn it sexier.