Synth magic with Vongon Replay, Sequential Prophet Rev2, and more
Jay Hosking Jay Hosking
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 Published On Jun 29, 2024

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A live jam on the Replay and Prophet Rev2, with more added in multitrack.

This song comes from one of my community's regular collaboration events, where members send song fragments to one recipient and are themselves the recipient of a different song fragment. These starting points are used as inspiration for creating a piece. Here, I had the amazing Jan Steiner send me a very cool drum loop, and Kumie created a generated cello texture. After slowing down one and speeding up the other, and matching their pitch, I knew just what I wanted to go for.

At the heart of the song is the Sequential Prophet Rev 2, where I wrote and performed the main chords of the song. I had the keys version briefly but am very grateful to have switched over to the module. I love the binaural sounds on this thing.

For a melody/lead sort of thing, when I'm not singing, I used the Vongon Replay. I'll be completely honest that I didn't think I'd ever by the Replay, but a member of my community was selling it for a very, very good price, and I was curious. I think the Replay has its problems (like an almost unreadable set of labels!) but it sounds good and the form factor is surprisingly useful in a table-top setup, when you want to play but real estate is at a premium. So despite my initial thoughts, I think the Replay might stick around a while.

Sequential Prophet Rev2 - "Keys" (polysynth)
Native Instruments keyboard - MIDI controller for the Prophet Rev2
Vongon Replay through Walrus Sloër - Melody pad thing
Electro-Voice RE-20 - vocal mic
Godin Stadium '59 and Ernie Ball St. Vincent guitars through Strymon Iridium
In-the-box elements:
Drum and cello loop starting points (thanks, Jan and Kumie!)
Addictive Drums 2 for acoustic drums
Teletone Audio Retrograde for bass
Reason 13 for extra sweetening

As ever, thanks for listening.

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