The Music.

Americana Electronica

My first “song” created. Used Voyetra Digital Orchestrator and the stock AWE64 wavetable originally. This recording is about a decade later rendered using Cubase. I’ve since lost the original MIDI files, otherwise I’d probably go back and render it again with the proper AWE64 soundfont.

Insanity

Another one of my gen 1 songs, still on Orchestrator and the AWE64. Also re-rendered in Cubase, original MIDI also lost.

Modity

The last of the gen 1 tracks I still have. Also Orchestrator/AWE64, also a Cubase re-render, also lost the source.

Left Out

From an intermediate phase - first learning Cubase and dabbling in ACID as well. Two versions - first from Cubase, the second a different mix in ACID. This was never finished, although there is a remnant of some vocoded lyrics in the v1 render.

Pure Garbage (also called SL Overture)

This was someone playing with too many effects and generic sequences, with a poorly constructed and poorly mastered result. It’s here simply because I hate it so much.

Gen 3 (trafalgar)

At this point, I was starting to get very pretentious, and decided to create an “album” of sorts, referred to in file and folder names as “project trafalgar” for no real reason.

Here starts my gen 3 stuff. First music fully using Cubase and nothing else. Most of it is pretty solid - one track is omitted because it’s a remake of a gen 2 track (also omitted) that I actually really like, but has too many flaws for me to be happy with and will eventually get properly finished, lyrics and all.

Alpha is solid. Not perfect, but solid.

Beta was a commissioned work that the person who paid for it never finished - it was written around lyrics, which are not preserved here.

Gamma is a good one, probably one of my favorites.

Delta has two versions - I don’t remember why. Differences are subtle.

Epsilon is junk. Here just because.

Zeta was inspired by a few episodes of 80s Dr Who.

Eta is omitted here - this is the one mentioned above that is a rework of an also-omittted gen 2 track. It’s my personal best, my personal favorite, and actually has fully written lyrics. One day I will come back and finish it.

Theta is mostly filler, but there are some bits I like about it.

Iota is probably my overall favorite complete track. Very Kraftwerk, nice for ringtones as well.

Kappa is a track I plan to revisit at some point.

Lambda is pretty chill, and I like it.

Mu is…something different. And it has a few neat tricks. I like this one.

Gen4

Gen 4 only has two tracks - an abandoned concept album, meant to have all the lyrics in Latin. After wrangling with my rusty Latin, the piss-poor nature of Google translate, and wrestling with Cassell’s dictionary and ending up with sensible-sounding gibberish for the first track, I gave up on the effort. What remains is below.