Category: Music

Making music is very much a new thing for me, I’ve always played a little on guitar/keyboard – but I have decided to make an effort to produce and release something, because, what’s the point if nobody has the chance to hear it?

I use Ableton Live, Renoise and Reason along with an AudioBox 96, Elektron Syntakt / Digitakt / Model:Samples / Octatrack, Polyend Medusa, Polyend Tracker Mini, OP-1, Korg Volca Drum, Maschine, Pocket Operator PO-33 / PO-32 as well as various Android and iPad apps. I post videos to YouTube.
BandCamp and on all the usual streaming services. (Spotify, GooglePlay, Amazon, Tidal, iTunes, Deezer).

Elektron Digitone Bass Samples / Sysex

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I made a few patches on my Digitone along with some samples of the patches to use for those who don’t have the hardware that can be used in any DAW or sampler hardware/software that works with wav files.

Head on over to my new Gumroad to grab them -> https://gumroad.com/l/gYcIt

All samples are free to use – except for in, or as part of another sample pack.

All sounds made from scratch on an Elektron Digitone.

There are two versions, 32 mono samples in the mono folder, 32 stereo samples in the stereo folder, both are 44.1khz 16bit rendered. And a Digitone sysex file with 6 patches in it.

Mono are good for the Polyend Tracker, Elektron Digitakt/Model:Samples; Stereo for Octatrack, or the DAW.

Hopefully they are useful!

Brian.

@sfxBrian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9ReBsUBFA – these patches being used.

Pocket Operations Album

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An album of my Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator PO-33 jams is up on BandCamp and all the usual streaming services.

https://brianbar.bandcamp.com/album/pocket-operations

https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Operations-Brian-Barnett/dp/B07NL9R2NF

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/pocket-operations/1455003006

https://play.google.com/music/m/Btylqruex5arrajkwkvgscbdzhi?play=1

https://www.deezer.com/en/album/87064722

https://listen.tidal.com/album/103960020

Making some music

Brian BarnettLeave a comment

I’ve always been interested in music, and have on and off played guitar, keyboard, and various other instruments over the years – just never particularly well or long enough to release anything. This year, I decided that I would try to actually make some music I would listen to (and hopefully others!), so I picked up a PreSonus StudioOne upgrade to Pro from the “Artist” version that came free with my external sound card (an AudioBox 96).

My first tune, though not great – isn’t too bad:

My second tune is all based on a running joke at work and was a little more upbeat and lo-fi (mostly due to the quality of the vocal samples I used).

So far, I’m having fun making this stuff – even if nobody listens; and it’s quite the stress reliever after a busy day of programming!