Jonathan Shaw

   Taking a small detour from acoustic composition, this little track here was my first exploration of electronic music using synthesizers.

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     After being introduced to synthesizers in my first year at University, mainly through “Reaktor” (probably not the greatest choice for a beginner!), I decided to pick up a synthesizer to experiment further. The one I decided on was Native Instrument’s “Massive”.

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     After fiddling around with some parameters and presets, I loaded up my workstation and messed around with playing a very generic harmonic progression:

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• C major 7th

• G major sus 4

• A minor sus 9

• F major sus 11

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     The result can be found (and downloaded!) on my Freesound account.

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     I was very pleased with the result (even though it was incredibly basic) as it was my first dive into synthesizers, and have since heard it used in a bunch of songs, videos and other projects across the world from people downloading it over on Freesound.