Winter Harrison - Acid Saws -- Unknown Album

Cut from a live coding session in SonicPi. My mind needs to wander a bit. It’s just some scaling, some notes and two synths (tb303, detuned saw waves), but somehow reminds me of 80’s songs.

Unfortunately I can’t give you a video of me playing it, but you can find a small canovaccio to start experimenting.

live_loop :arp do
  #stop
  play (scale :e3, :minor_pentatonic).tick,
    release: 0.20,
    amp: 0.25
  sleep 0.125
end

live_loop :acidsawloop do
  #stop
  var_use_tb303 = false

  n = (ring :e2, :e3, :d3,
       :c2, :c3, :d2,
       :e3, :e3, :d2, :d3, :d3, :f3,
       :e3, :e2, :d2, :c2, :c1, :a2).tick
  if var_use_tb303 then
    use_synth :tb303
    play n, amp: 0.50,
      #decay: 0.25,
      decay_level: 0.2,
      release: 0.25,
      cutoff: 90,
      wave: 0
    sleep 0.250
  else
    use_synth :dsaw
    play n, amp: 0.5,
      #decay: 0.25,
      decay_level: 0.2,
      release: 0.25, cutoff: 90
    sleep 0.250
  end
end