Music News – New Album Release; Festive Winters

November 22, 2022

MUSIC NEWS

22/11/2022 - New Album Release; Festive Winters

FESTIVE WINTERS

This year’s winter/Christmas album and a free download on Bandcamp if you want it for on the go. It’s more of the winter wonderland vibe it’s snowing looking at the window music and at a nice relaxing pace with some upbeat tracks in there too. I love to make seasonal winter it’s my favourite time of year or one of them and love to spend time making winter music to relax at a later date as it’s good for my system. There are no carols in the album and I try not make carol tracks as I’ve already covered them in an old album I did ages ago but I’m trying to make time to practice on my keyboard again and learning carols is one of those things I want to do but I am waiting for Christmas to be closer. I’m not sure what I’m doing this Christmas not a lot I don’t really do that much around Christmas time I used to go to London but I don’t go any more but I think I’ll make more music and relax and do something but who knows what. My favourite parts of Christmas were actually going down to the church on Christmas Eve and singing and listening to the carols and also TV used to be good but I heard it is dire now as it’s all repeats. I also enjoy Christmas dinner even though I don’t eat a lot I always love the food and sometimes it can be overpowering looking at all that food on that table but less is more as they say lol. Once again the time has gone so fast and once again I can’t believe we are nearly 2023 I’ll have to remember the year when writing it down I always forget at first then cross it out and rewrite it. I don’t know what I’m doing new year I know I’ll be at home but I feel like I want to go out but don’t know where to or even if that’s what I want as I’m getting older now I’m nearly in my 40s lol. I called the album Festive Winters as it’s festive and wintry throughout which I thought suited the album and the cover is an art I made that I re-photoshopped to something without anyone in the picture. It was just going to be an EP but I wanted to do an album as I felt it was Christmas and had to be longer than an EP so, in the end, I did 12 tracks which make up the album and I always make a winter or Christmas album so I keep up with the shenanigans but as always I enjoyed making it.  I would like it to be closer to Christmas before making winter music as I get more in the mood but I know people won’t listen to Christmas music after Christmas so I do it early way before the rush so it’s all up and running but I might make a quick EP around Christmas and try to release it around the same time if I can get it booked in that is. I would say this year has zoomed right by but it’s gone kind of fast even though the months do fly by but I think I’ve been counting down the days which makes the days go slower but I have noticed that since COVID everything has slowed down. If you want more festive stuff and looking for something to do please check out my interactive page under Hub>Test Site>Interactive where you will find my advent-style interactive post with games, quizzes, music and more, I tried to make it entertaining as possible adding some surprises in there too but it’s all based on DVD menus and advent calendars.

Synergy Synths – Harmony VST Plugin

November 21, 2022

I made another plugin and this one is going to be a series called Synergy trying to get that synth word in there somehow lol. The VST is for Windows and Mac and I made the sounds myself using Serum, I also made the GUI too which I’m now happy with. I had quite a few sounds already from what I had over the years of making sounds but I did add 20 more which I made from scratch. Once again some I am happy with and some I’m not but it is a free VST and I’m still a beginner so not all the sounds are perfect. I did add extra knobs like a filter, delay, reverb, chorus and some other knobs as I found some of the sounds were a bit dry but there are always knobs in the synth anyway. This VST was going to be a sampler from one of my old keyboards that aren’t midi and is a Yamaha but I am not sure if they would be happy if I resampled the whole collection on the keyboard and gave it away for free and I think is copyright infringement so I decided to make the sounds myself which I will be doing plenty more of in the future with various of plugins that you can make sounds from scratch with, with the right guide that is. My favourite part of making the plugin was doing the GUI and making the sounds which took some hours but is fun doing and as I said, lucky I had a bag full of sounds already which I tried to make  better and upgrade a little.  I tested it on Windows and it works on Windows but I haven’t got a Mac computer so I’m not sure if it will work on Mac also I used FL Studio as my DAW so it works in FL but I’m not sure if it works on other DAW so please respond and let me know if it works on your DAW and computer.  This is a free download and feedback will be appreciated it’s partly what I like about synths dark, melodic and light and thick and comes with synths and basses.  

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Synergy Synths – Melody

This is the demo EP to my also free download VST plugin which I made the sounds myself using synth hardware and my Tascam audio recorder which is a bit of a puzzle putting it together. I would call it synth music and is something I just put together as a demo but you can have it. The plugin can be found under the Free Downloads page under the G.N.L. Hub>VST Downloads where free VSTs await.

Cassette Tape Keys Vol. 1

This is the demo EP to my also free download VST plugin which I made the sounds myself using audio and a cassette player to record the sounds with and straighten them out after and it took some work. I would call it experimental and is something I just put together as a demo but you can have it. The plugin can be found under the Free Downloads page under the G.N.L. Hub>VST Downloads where free VSTs await.

Cassette Tape Keys VST Plugin

November 18, 2022

I made my first VST plugin all thanks to software called Romplur which is how I made the interface and the actual plugin itself. The sounds I got from my loops I made I once again got my cassette player out and recorded the loops onto the tape and then onto my Tascam which is how I managed to get the sound out of the cassette onto my computer I used male to male jack to connect the two for sound. Some I’m happy with and some I’m not, but I’m giving it away as a free download as this is my first and not my last making of plugins, which I look forward to doing in the future. There are some things to be aware of it might need a stereo balance plugin like the one in FL Studio for the balance of sound as it has been recorded on cassette tape so it is a little muffled but with stereo balance you be able to make it a lot cleaner sounding, also a limiter would also be needed. As mentioned before I designed the GUI from scratch and used Gimp and the Rompur website for the artwork as me and Adobe photoshop don’t get along but I will keep trying lol. I decided to make a plugin and find something suitable as I was bored and looking for something to do but as always something that would hopefully come into use I thought a plugin maker would be great. Romplur is a drag-and-drop base software for that non-coder like me who rather design than code and have more fun as the trial and error isn’t for me but it’s a great software I suggest you should check it out if designing and music-making is your thing or you like the sound of it. It’s very easy to use and works a treat inside FL Studio the DAW I’m using I’m not sure about any other as I only use one but hopefully, it should work. Please let me know if it works in any other DAW and for anything else I would love to hear your feedback.

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Don’t Be A Dummy Mix

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1. Says Charlie
2. Live Wires
3. Give Fire A Chance
4. Nobody Told Me
5. More Lead In Paint
6. Unnecessary Locks
7. Farmyard Frolics
8. Prance & Suffer
9. Live Wire
10. Quarantine
11. Hot & Dangerous
12. State Of Emergency
13. Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water (House Remix)
14. Fun With Electricity
15. Charlie Killjoy

Halloween 2022 Mix

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1. Pandemic (Chernobyl Alternative Mix)
2. We Live In Peace
3. Working At The Serpentine
4. Prance & Suffer
5. Music Is Music Dumb ****
6. Mist (Alternative Version)
7. In Need Of Good Vibes
8. Micro Specks
9. No Justice In The World
10. More Lead In Paint

Dream Nuclear Mix

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  1. Rusty Ferris Wheel 
  2. White Ashes
  3. No Justice In The World 
  4. Mist (East Beach Alternative Version)
  5. Micro Specks 
  6. Oi Monkey (Where’s Your Organ Grinder)
  7. Open Gates
  8. Sickness 
  9. Gas Mask
  10. Teddy Bear

Synthia’s Mixtapes – The Collection

All the volumes part one, two, three and four with 60 synthy beats to keep you entertained for a while. I had this idea of having a synth bot which plays synthesizer beats from internal speakers and this is what it was playing. The mixtapes are from all old synthy beats from albums I made from 2018 which I can’t release again so I thought I’d give them away as a free download so enjoy the free music.

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Synthia’s Mixtapes 4

Part four of four of synthy beats to keep you entertained for a while and a special mixtape. I had this idea of having a synth bot which plays synthesizer beats from internal speakers and this is what it was playing. The mixtapes are from all old synthy beats from albums I made from 2018 which I can’t release again so I thought I’d give them away as a free download so enjoy the free music.