Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Matt Hill, captures a synth jam, Interzone, that recalls the classic synth music of the 70s.

Here’s what Hill has to say about the technical details:

Drums are Volca Beats through the Minibrute’s filter being modulated by the ‘brute’s internal arp and lfo and controlled in real time. The 4 on the floor kick that comes in later is from the Electribe ESX-1.

There are 2 main arpeggiators running, both using Logic X’s arp midi effect but with different settings:

One controls the Voyager, Volca Keys and Volca bass, (the Volcas being used as sound modules, not using their internal sequencers), but all 3 have different mod sources affecting their cutoff freqs and different delay effects.

The second controls the Doepfer Dark Energy which makes the throaty glassy distorted sound, and also has its filter contolled by the Dark Time sequencer. The Dark time sequence also controls the cutoff of the Voyager but inverted using the Moog CP-251.

The pad is Omnisphere, using the Orb interface on the iPad to make it swirl. I’m not ashamed to say it’s a preset, because Spectrasonics’ presets are works of art – it’s called Mercury Rising if you want to play around with it yourself.