138bpm – I started out with Tal-U-NO-LX and found a good phaser/chorus-y preset which I tweaked to have even more sawtooth, filter open, with a chorus sound. I came up with a melody, but it wouldn’t be the main, first melody in the track like what’s often the case.
Next I found a pad (PD Traumstation BT) in SynthMaster 2 with bubbling accents. It would be a good soundscape to end the piece with.
I added three synths and came up with varying counter melodies: Mela 2 with a Bleass chorus and two SynthMaster 2 instances. Those plus another SynthMaster 2 pad made the count 6 different synthesizers to control, mute, and start, part of the time 2 off, 1 on at once, multiple fingers moving in AUM in every direction.
It took a while to figure out the placement of the layers, a lot of practicing, testing things out. It’s just over 6 minutes, but there’s a lot of motion, changing things up, and it’s not the build up and break down structure I used much of the time in tracks that came before.
That first melody? It ends the song sounding like an anthem chorus, and the Traumstation pad completes the dream. — Listen with headphones!