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A Weather Report for the Common Man (Dreamsynth x 9) | Desktop
Nine instances of Cherry Audio’s 80's inspired hybrid analog/digital Dreamsynth DS-1 featuring a selection of presets a very organised friend of mine highlighted as his favourites. Showing off my prog and fusion roots, with preset names like Zawinula, Marcus Fretless Solo and a First Light Berlin rhythm patch, the track built itself around the sounds.
I’m also using a Mozaic script I wrote on iPad to enable those pentatonic harp glisses towards the end. Just a bit of fun.
Dreamsynth is currently on sale for $25.
Comments
Perfectly titled! This really captures the essence of Weather Report when Jaco first joined the band. It feels a lot like Black Market, but you have made it your own. Zawinul had a very unique style that you really tapped into. I was jumping back and forth between this and the original. This could be a “lost” Black Market session. Very well done!
That’s some accolade Paul (@paulieworld). Thank you so much. It was all improvised with some trimming after. I was just inspired to play something evocative of the band. I struggled with the title trying to include something that would also nod to the Tony Banks / Keith Emerson / Vangelis section in the middle. Pleased that what I went with caught your eye.
Just bought Dreamsynth today along with their takes on Jupiter 4 and Polymoog. Will listen to your track tomorrow properly on my monitors
yeah that got my foot tapping! liked the last 5th the best when there is less going on - this synth does have some rather thick sounds! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the listen and the comment. I’m a big fan of Cherry Audio’s products. The Dreamsynth stands out for me with the inclusion of PCM samples but none of them are exactly shy and retiring. Enjoy your new acquisitions.
Yes, Cherry Audio synths seem really good, especially given the cheap prices. I did buy some GForce, Arturia and UHE synths too, so totally spoilt for sound choices now lol. The Dream Synth is definitly an interesting synth. Hope you post some more tracks using it.
Love Cherry Audio synths and I'll be listening to this later... the Dreamsynth is one of the CA synths I just haven't taken to yet. I don't like the layout of the UI and I told them it needed a clearer sense of workflow, preferably with sections divided by color. Regardless, looking forward to listening to what you've done with it.
Joyful uplifting music, expertly executed 🙏
This must be at least 15 tracks now since 2020 😊
I've not tried any sound design from scratch - just tweaked some of the presets. Know what you mean though - there are a lot of knobs and buttons on that panel. Guess that's how it makes such a wide range of very useable sounds.
Have to say that I find the Dreamsynth so easy to get my head around. Its synths like the Arp Odyssey that I struggle with!
It's interesting how different people really take to different kinds of synths. Modular I will never understand and I'm OK with that. I have enough familiarity with the basics of synthesis to be able to create any sound I need now, so I'm good. And I have the Cherry Audio version of the Odyssey (they call theirs the ODC 2800) and I know which few sliders I need to tweak to get what I want out of it.
Yeah I see a lot of people going for one 'super synth' approach, and I have a few of those, but when you listen to synth presets, those libaries of sounds show that people tend to program with 'if its there I will use it' approach! By this I mean that synths like Dreamsynth that have a lot of sounds to mix in are mostly dense sounds, even though you could simply use less Oscilators. Thats why mixing and matching synths for those that are preset tweakers mostly (like mys3lf now) - say a Dreamsynth next to a Mercury 4 and a DX7 clone.
I can program quite well, but I mostly tweak presets as it keeps me in the mood. I now have quite a selection of synths and each one serves a purpose - I grab them each time I want a particular sound: rythmic evolving sounds I grab Massive X. OB1 for most leads or Mercury 4 for softer synth sounds. Pigments or Minifreak V for fx and interesting oddities and so on.
So from my perspective its interesting to listen to a different approach like where the OP has used many sounds from one synth to good effect.
Yes, I’m on a roll. Another 600 and I’ll be nipping at your heels!