Slapback , performed on a Roland JV30 sound canvas synthesiser keyboard

Here's a piece of music that I composed and produced in late 1992.
This was my first attempt at creating music, using the Roland JV30 "Sound canvas" synthesiser. In fact, it was my first attempt at creating music, full stop!

"Slapback" came about after some experimentation with chord progressions, using some of the handful of chords that I was familiar with, at that time. After finding an "ear catching" chord sequence , I added a bass line, percussion, auxiliary parts and finally, a melody line!

Here,the JV30's 24 note polyphony and 16 part capability is being used to the utmost. A considerable amount of note priority assignment was required, to avoid sounds being cut short.

To put it all together I used an Atari STe computer running Cubase midi sequencing software (no Pc's or Mac's here !). Despite the Atari's very modest 8mhz (yes, 8mhz) CPU and 4 meg of memory, it got on with the job, without all the "whinging and whining" that's so typical of today's Pc's.

This music was all played by hand.

I have used a Ryan Geiss visualisation, to produce the accompanying video.

Gordon.




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[gordonthegoat]

@audiotrax2000 Hi, thanks for your kind comments. I used avs type presets on winamp. There are tons of these, but in my opinion there are only a handful worth using. To capture these, I used fraps software. Hope this helps.

[audiotrax2000]

Great music! You have the gift. What program did you use to produce those incredible visuals??

[gordonthegoat]

@Penguindog55

Thanks for your comments. I agree that the JV sounds were and still are great. I would not class myself as a musician, as such. I owe it to the JV and Atari for allowing me to "have a go". Me and many others no doubt !

[Penguindog55]

Keep up the good work, the JV synths and Sound canvas were and are still the best synths to date, well and the groovebox, better than what you get today and still as modern and crisp as it was back then, some things are never old.