Music
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Bought this beauty just before New Year, and now rabidly stack new patches for it. While it can read (with limitations) patches and soundbanks from Access Virus TI, it goes way further: aside from VA oscillators there are Multisaw, Wavetable, Grain and Formant oscillators, and you are not limited to Virus’ hardwired selection of waveforms,
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Finally managed to revive Absynth 5 in my system. Native Instruments dropped it from their active roster, and even those who have purchased it earlier may have hard times installing it on Windows 10. In my case it was kinda outrage: Native Access (a controlling/licensing/updating software) would download an .ISO file, then report installing it…
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‘Chromatography’ is the presets pack for Cherry Audio Rhodes Chroma software synthesizer. The demo below features several instances of Chroma. Other than a master bus limiter (ReaLimit from Cockos Reaper), no external effects are used. Rhodes Chroma was a seminal instrument from early 1980s developed by ARP shortly before their demise. The design was purchased
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‘The Day of Life Forgotten,’ the experimental electronics net-label, have released black-sided sun’s latest album ‘Summa Timorum’ (The Sum of Fears). As per label’s message: ‘Dark ambient, post-industrial, experimental electronics. New album by black-sided sun delivers exceptionally dark and precisely detailed sound scape. An epic, and hopeless, sound canvas, both startling and attracting at the
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Developers of Surge XT, a fantastic software synthesizer that I use religiously these days, have included a bunch of my patches into nightly builds, which means they will be featured in the next version of the synthesizer. Many of those patches have been used while making the next album by black-sided sun due to arrive
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Autumn hits hard: temperatures are down, if it rains, it pours, and the intense live season is basically through, although Sombra Del Mar isn’t going to slow down: we’ve booked for a month ahead. I believe over these recent months I’ve played more live shows than ever before – I mean, probably more than throughout
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Static Apparitions has hit 202 collections on Bandcamp now. The highest score, however, still holds 2023: The Longest Road, part I – 312 collections: Its followup landed in 274 Bandcamp accounts: The long-in-the-work Aurtengwl is in 280 collections so far: Other than that there was Detritus, the album released by Russian net-label ‘The Day of
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Dropped the first track from the next album last night. The track is called ‘Sleep’, and the album – ‘Summa Timorum’ (Lat. ‘The Sum of Fears’). Genre: Noise, Dark Ambient, Industrial.Release: TBA The track has been created using Surge XT and Vital, custom-made patches only.
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Just dropped another preset library – this time for DCO-106, Cherry Audio’s take on Roland Juno-106. Get it here: https://blacksidedsun.gumroad.com/l/pj106 These timbres are re-implementation of my earlier presets for TAL U-NO-LX synth – PJ-6. The initial idea was to set the sliders in the same positions and see what holds. But that just did not
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Back in 2020, during the COVID pandemic, I’ve completed one of the longest of my projects – an LP ‘Equinox: The Rite of Spring’. It tells about a catabasis-type journey through the night of Spring Equinox, i.e. March 20. A journey that followed a catastrophe. It started out in 2011 with a very grim two-part
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PHI MU LABS: ORIGIN is a collection of timbres created specifically for FM synthesizers. These patches have been also used to produce PHI MU LABS, vol. II library for KORG WAVESTATE and are included in that package as well. ORIGIN also includes the patches in Native Instruments FM8 format. All patches had been dialed up
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Finalized a track yesternight, did some rough mixing-up earlier today. The electric guitar parts are real: awfully recorded four layers. I’m getting somewhat better with guitar tremolo, but it’s way too far from ideal. Well, it’s a demo, anyway.
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The weekend is going to be busy: Quite unfortunately I’ve been hit with nasty flu, so I’ll have to perform wearing a medical mask this time. Not an enjoyable experience. Elsewhere, it is utterly enjoyable to see how many people come to download Luminophore pack. And it looks like it’s not only about being free
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Recently looked into my – quite multiple – bandcamp accounts and discovered that the very first album by my first band had been released around this time back in 2007. 18 years ago. I was 18 years old myself when this project – Lacklustre Mirror – started out. Had zero comprehension how things are done
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Earlier today have uploaded a free pack for Surge XT synth to Gumroad (as freeware). And within hours got 5 downloads, with sixth extra – someone picked another freeware pack I’ve made for WhispAir previously. Looks like at least some interest is there. I guess, I know which synth I’ll be making patches for next.
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Music by Lacklustre Mirror (my old band). Lyrics by Alexandr Blok. Translated to English: How often do we all, me and you,Bemoan our life’s misery!Oh, if only you, my friends, could knowThe chill and darkness of the coming days! Now, you cuddle your dear’s hand,Play with it joyfully,Then cry, once you notice lies,Or discover this
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Uploaded my bank for Full Bucket Music‘s ‘Code Zero-One’ to Gumroad as a freebie. Code Zero-One is the free bank, which also contains custom wavetables created with AUDIOTERM software. They can be used separately. The winner of the KVR Audio Developer Challenge 2021, WHISPAIR is a 3-osc wavetable synthesizer with significant modulation capabilities, written in
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Messed up miserably yesterday uploading wrong files to Gumroad. Fortunately, fixed the issue before anyone purchased the libs. Aside from this converting the source DX7-compatible patches to FM8’s own format adding bells-n-whistles like filters and effects.
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The months-long work is done: Phi Mu Labs, vol. II – the FM-synthesis based sound library for Korg WAVESTATE synthesizer has been completed and published at Gumroad along with the first one. And here goes the video demo of several performances created with those multisamples I’ve been rendering and looping over all that time: Please
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Second cinematic library for KORG WAVESTATE NATIVE plugin and hardware WAVESTATE synthesizer is coming – with a bonus.
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…If/when you do right, every gig is a celebration. At least it should look like the one for the audience. It’s nice if it feels like the one for the performers – a better rapport with the audience is invoked then…
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With Sombra Del Mar band. Same place, later time: Sinori Pub, Batumi; starting at 21:30. Hopefully it will be as fun as it was last time. Besides, I’m going full steam ahead with completing Phi Mu Labs II library for Korg wavestate AND FM-based synths that can read SYSEX from Yamaha DX7. This is pretty
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It was a year of hardships for me. Don’t expect them to go away next year either, but somehow under pressure I’ve yielded more than, probably, ever: Written in memory of my friend Manticore, who suddenly passed away in late October last year. I knew him for 20 years… A sort of chronicle of the
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The independent web-label ‘The Day of Life Forgotten’ (Rus) have just released its seventh VA compilation from ‘Journeys, Wanderings and Immersions’ series. It features a track called ‘1000 Days’ by black-sided sun. The composition had been created using only custom-made timbres for Dexed (a Yamaha DX7 emulator), SurgeXT, Full Bucket WhispAir, and NI FM8. Below
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In May 2006, i.e. just under 19 years ago, I self-released the second LP with my project Decembered. It was called ‘A Treatise on Eschatology’. I was pretty much into Gnosticism back then, and basically that’s what the album was all about. Re-listened to it recently. Although those weren’t the brightest days of mine, the
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…Those are totally great about gigging: first is seeing people burst into dance to a classic rock music – I didn’t expect the old rock-n-roll is still that popular. Second – a blissful hush afterwards. A relative one, of course, – in the streets even past midnight there are still cars, some people and the
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Will play tomorrow late evening with Sombra Del Mar band in Batumi. For the first time. Wish me luck. We start at 21:30. Sinori Pub, 14, Marjanishvili str. Come to see us and listen to some real rock’n’roll!
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Just read somewhat a troubling news that My Dying Bride seems to have parted ways with their vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe. Or, rather, they are coming out of their hiatus (which saw them cancelling all the shows in 2024) next year and doing at least one festival with Swallow The Sun‘s frontman Mikko Kotamäki. It is,
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