Farewell, Bluey

I just sold my Roland SH-32.

Great, portable, powerful instrument, but well, gotta make some space and that kind of virtual analogue module was getting a bit redundant among real analogue instruments like the Prophet 08, so...

In any case, I'll do a farewell review these days.

Casio au Naturel

When folks out there use cheap Casio, Yamaha or Bontempi toy keyboards, they usually drive them into bad distorsion to hide the supposed low quality of the sounds, or worse, circuit-bend them...

Me I proudly record them in their natural, lo-fi glory.

Drums are Roland SH-32 through Small Clone analogue chorus through Moog filter.

All the other parts are Casiotone MT-11, with a little bit of reverb.

Casio au Naturel

Unearthing Oldies : Electribe EMX and SH-32

I did this as a jingle for a (now defunct) design company.

Almost all Electribe EMX, including the crazy arpeggio, and probably (memory's a bit fuzzy) a touch of Roland SH-32 as well. The melody was re-used on the "Uniforms of Snow" album.

Inlandis

Sounds from the not-so-distant Past

This is a remix of an oldie... probably recorded around 2003 when I first got the Electribe EMX.

On the first part of the tune, the ambient and FX sounds are mostly Roland SH-32, which is a fine, underrated synth module. I'll do a review eventually, but let's just state right here that it's a good virtual analog synthesizer, sporting great filters and effects.

From 3.05 on, the EMX's on its own, recorded in a single take without external processing.

The 2009 additions are some more analogue-sounding bits from the Prophet 08 on the first half.

Hang on in Gibraltar