{"id":12209,"date":"2026-07-11T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=12209"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:20:29","slug":"how-i-got-into-synthesizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=12209","title":{"rendered":"how I got into synthesizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, I always loved prog and synths and all that as a kid. But couldn&#8217;t afford them<\/p>\n<p>With VSTs, the cost dropped to zero (including making some fof my own)<\/p>\n<p>Guitar pedals are boring and expensive compared to synths, especially free VST synths and effects.<\/p>\n<p>I use more variety of sound in one album (maybe one song, sometimes) than a lot of guitar players in a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode said early on that&#8217;s why they got into synths, (and samplers), because guitars just sound like guitars no matter what pedals you use.<\/p>\n<p>You know what really got me into making music with synths and doing BipTunia in 2017? The opening chords of this song. I thought it was a guitar with some really odd effect, but it&#8217;s a glitchy Jupiter-4 synth patch modulating a rhythm pulse through that synth&#8217;s arpeggiator.<\/p>\n<p>Is the drummer from the Black Keys, Patrick Carney , and his uncle Ralph Carney (Tom Waits&#8217; former sax player)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just 2 guys and they did it over the mail \/ internet. And they&#8217;re cousins.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BoJack&amp;apos;s Theme (Full Length)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkhHY7U3LwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, I always loved prog and synths and all that as a kid. But couldn&#8217;t afford them With VSTs, the cost dropped to zero (including making some fof my own) Guitar pedals are boring and expensive compared to synths, especially free VST synths and effects. I use more variety of sound in one album&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biptunia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12210,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions\/12210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}