synthwave - Hardware Experiment 038 (MicroFreak, minilogue, Nova, PO-133, etc.) #Jamuary2022

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I'm so happy I felt well enough again today to bust out my hardware. I had been looking forward to this one for a while. I'm not sure it turned out as well as I'd hoped; there is a time constraint here, both in terms of having my gear set up without a studio and in terms of the jam being a daily one.

...almost daily. I skipped yesterday, felt too sick.

This synthwave jam is also a response to a community challenge ("make synthwave"), so yay!

I definitely was inspired by the "Replicant xd" preset and its sequence in the minilogue. In fact, that ran while I set up the rest, so the melody is still mostly in there as well; I just played it by hand instead. The minilogue xd isn't sequenced at all here, the MicroFreak is sequenced 80% of the time, while the Nova is always sequenced and is the one providing the bass and the pad (it's multitimbral).

Gear list, roughly left to right:

Arturia MicroFreak
tc electronic JUNE-60 (chorus pedal)
Novation Nova (old but awesome virtual analog)
Zoom H1n (for limiting)
1010music bluebox
Korg SQ-64
Korg nanoKONTROL 2
Korg minilogue xd
Korg NTS-1 (doing the shimmer reverb)
Teenage Engineering PO-133 (drums)

Happy synthwave-ing 🤩

Oh, in case you're wondering: The Shoryuken samples in there are legal. They can be used in tracks provided it's the PO-133 that they came with that plays them. Woot!