This is my story of how I discovered the power of pure noise, how to design and use synth noise to inject excitement into my music productions, and even how I use synth noise to add experimental energy. I create a special synth noise patch on my Behringer Neutron that imitates the sound of a crowd cheering with different levels of excitement and show you how to tune it in and play it on a keyboard. Then I use that patch in a synthpop track I programme my dawless setup on my Squarp Pyramid under time pressure and do the whole thing in less than 20 minutes. Then I do two live performances, one of which is a solo where I play the noise like an instrument using one of my Drawmer DS201 noise gates.

00:00 Intro

MY NOISE STORY
00:01 Seeing The Smiths Live in 1985
02:13 The Beatles did it in 1967
03:03 What this video is about
03:26 My 'power of pure noise' story
04:24 A tip from Rush (Spirit of Radio, Distant Early Warning)
06:02 Ian Stanley (Tears for Fears)

SYNTH PATCH
08:39 Neutron 'crowd noise' patch
12:19 Patch sheet

DAWLESS PROGRAMMING
12:34 Timer starts
12:57 Cinematic 'doom' hit
13:14 Disco hi-hats
13:40 Moog bass
14:06 Setting up the trigger key for the gates
14:39 Bass pad
16:36 Kick
16:57 Snare
17:30 Snare fill
18:34 More cowbell
19:17 Clap
20:03 FM bass
21:10 303
23:33 Assembling the sequences
26:39 Lead
27:25 Setting up a second gate trigger key
29:47 Adding noise for excitement and energy

DAWLESS PERFORMANCES
32:34 'Theme for Bob Ross' - with live gated noise
34:35 Noise solo with live gates

AFTERWORD
37:17 Original vinyl copy of Sergeant Pepper's in mono!

Many thanks to Crisis for letting me film. www.crisis.org.uk