Holst Mars on Sound Lab Mark II and ULTIMATE

Gustav Holst has fired my imagination since I first heard "The Planets". If you haven't heard it by a symphony you don't know what you're missing. I really hope you think of this as true "Music From Outer Space". Doing this song with my synths was like a challenge to me. I was set on this path by artists like Wendy Carlos and Isao Tomita. Don't be afraid to crank that volume knob.

This is multi-track MIDI driving MIDI to CV which drives the MFOS Sound Lab Mark II and the MFOS Sound Lab ULTIMATE. The MFOS Gate and CV Distributor and MFOS Delayed Modulation Module were also used in the production. Since both synths are mono all MIDI was broken down to mono tracks (no chords allowed) and each MIDI track played through the MIDI to CV convertor/synth combination one at a time. I set each patch to what I thought sounded good in the position and I think in the end it seems to work. I tweaked and mixed and tweaked and mixed and tweaked and... I'll stop there. ALL sounds are purely from the MIDI driven synths (drums, tympanis, you name it). I wanted it to sound analog synthetic but not too "cheesy" (you'll have to be the judge). Reverb and panning were applied during mix down. I used SONAR 8.0 Producer to mix down the tracks (well over 60 stereo). Sorry about the sucky quality of the video. I forgot to mention that I designed and built the analog synthesizers. The plans and schematics are here...

http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/index.php?MAINTAB=SYNTHDIY&PROJARG=SOU...

and here

http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/index.php?MAINTAB=SYNTHDIY&PROJARG=SOU...

Cheers Ray

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• wilson
• sound lab mark 2
• sound lab ultimate
• The Planets
• Mars Bringer of War
• Gustav Holst
• Recording
• Music
• Space

[rhoggard76]

awesome! wizards of zen says so !!!

[theraywilsonshow]

@rhoggard76 I appreciate the encouragement, thanks.

[GruithuisenCityMan]

Impressive piece of work and great results too ! Wow !

[colejolley]

Good work!