Created using MuseScore 4 and an instrument from the LABS collection. Bits and pieces reminded me of the old Tron video game, so the name of this one was almost "Arcade".

Alternate version using LABS instruments.

Last-minute electronic doodad I threw together with three instruments from the free Tyrell N6 synth plugin. I mostly just wanted to try to maintain momentum from February's RPM Challenge and walk through the REM completion process.

Our niece came to visit one night during February and helped me test out some new synths I'd picked up for RPM Challenge (volca Keys and Sampler 2). We added a nice drum track from the old Suzuki RPM-40 drum machine my dad gave me several years…

Input the chord sequence from a Spice Rack Collective song I wrote on guitar, converted a bass take from that song into MIDI, added a couple of VSTs, programmed some drums, and added some royalty-free voice samples I found online somewhere. Pretty…

Listening back to this one, I was struck by a trio of mental images. The first was a memory from a flight back from some business trip. The clouds and the angle of the sunlight formed what looked like a blasted landscape over which towered…

More fun with plugins and MIDI controller.

The music is canned chords and patterns I pulled from EZKeys, then filtered through a plugin (Wires by AudioThing). The story comes from a silly cartoon a buddy posted on social media, followed by my addition about saltines. The last line is…

At the beginning of February, I tried to learn to use VCV Rack, but never really took the time to learn properly. Instead, I took the couple of patches I managed to create, slowed them down, mashed them up with drums and canned percussion from…

When I used to work third shift at Kinko's, I'd sometimes leave the weather radio on, and the automated voice and cadence (though different now from the one 20+ years ago) still has a comforting tinge of nostalgia. I have a weather radio on my…