u/SaltaSoles

I finally bit the bullet and picked up a used Korg Wavestate (mki). It was in great condition, came with an unredeemed plugin licence, and even included a matching carry bag.

I felt like a kid at Christmas. As soon as I got home I watched the XNB tutorial, installed the Librarian, updated the firmware, and started exploring the presets. I even made a few simple multitimbral patches (no wave sequencing yet), and... woah. What a machine!

This isn't my first synth, and I wouldn't call myself a beginner. I already own a Microfreak, I've used several of other synths, and I've even built a few myself. But this is hands down the most complex hardware synth I've ever owned.

I make dark ambient (with some dungeon synth influences), film and game soundtracks (often orchestral), and I also perform dark ambient live.

So, what tips or tricks would you recommend? Any must-watch tutorials or creators worth following for inspiration? And to those who own it: anything you wish you knew when you started this adventure?

Cheers

https://cazataire.bandcamp.com/album/litha-live-performance-at-ludicae-domus-2026

This live recording was captured on 20 June during Ludicae Domus 2026, where I performed the first EP of Cazataire. It was the day before the summer solstice (Litha), a time in which pagan bonfires still lit up the Spanish skies nation wide.

This recording is also dedicated to my good friend Juampa (aka Cels), whose birthday was that day, and who passed away five years ago, after a long battle with COVID.

Hail the Traveller.

Tomorrow, on the eve of Midsummer, I'll be playing live in my hometown for the second time and introducing my first EP, Storm over Aneto, available on a very limited DIY cassette run.

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I'm hoping to record the set and release it at my Bandcamp page afterwards. (You can listen to the EP there)

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I'm very excited! To be honest, I don't think I'd have got this far without this community. Your support keeps me motivated to keep pushing this project forward.

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Cheers! 😊

Hi y'all! Here's my contribution to the Shamble with the following parameters:

• total instruments/patches: 5 (in my case, 5 hardware patches)
• total songs: 7
• total album length: 13-20 minutes (~19 min in my case)
• style: battle synth
• theme: wars, battles, and other bloody clashes

I've been developing a small live project called Cazataire focused on field recordings, synths and spoken fragments inspired by landscapes and local legends from the Pyrenees.

This EP in particular (the very first one under the project) grabs inspiration from the legend of the confrontation between the giant Netú and the Pyrenean gods, and how the famous Aneto mountain came to existence. In the lyrics section you can find what part of the legend corresponds to each track.

This EP was built from rehearsal fragments of the live performance, and it is purely instrumental. I went fully DAWless (no computer was used) and is intender for live performance. In fact, in my socials you can find some videos of me performing the tracks.

Here's the Bandcamp link:

https://cazataire.bandcamp.com/album/storm-over-aneto-ep

You can find codes in the comment down bellow. Feel free to DM me if you want more. It would be great if you could write a comment in Bandcamp too!

Feedback is always welcome!

Hi everyone! Ive always wanted to try making a patch similar to the brass sound from the Terran 1 theme in StarCraft 1. Pretty iconic sound. And since I now have a Microfreak, I might as well try.

I know it’s probably based on a rompler sample, and it would obviously be easier to recreate loading that sample into the sample oscillator. But as a fun challenge, I'm curious how close you could get using other algorithms instead of starting from a brass sample.

How would you approach it? And if it's basically impossible to get close without samples, does anyone know where that original sound actually came from?

You can find the sound I'm referring to at 00:36 in this video: https://youtu.be/mD4GbGmvNRc?is=mOKs4X7Aq39Ks66i

Hi there! I'm a musician/composer/sound designer with track record of released game titles and short movies.

I focus mainly on dark hybrid soundtracks but I can compose many genres. Prices start 10€ up.

Check out my Bandcamp for examples of what I do:

https://saltasoles.bandcamp.com/

You can find me on saltasolesrol@gmail.com

I'd like to recommend this album by Raudvik. They usually make ambient hardware synth jams and I enjoy all of them, but this one really stood out to me.

Since it's a genre quite adjacent to DS and also the theme fits right in, I thought some people here might appreciate it too. Moreover, it is almost 3 hours long lol! enjoy!

https://raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/langa-fer-in