Warmest thanks to all for these encouraging and enlightening comments.

@John,
I tend to agree with you – if I were going to tinker around any more with this it would be to add a drum pattern

@Noel
The question is, after 2 listens are you humming it in the shower?

@Josie
Thanks – I’m not a “tencho-head” myself, but you would be surprised how easy it is, using simply the tools we already have in our studios, to produce music like this

@ Pat
I was very interested to read your comments Pat. My original plan was to feature just one note in this piece (varying the octaves of course!) but I was not brave or mad enough to carry that out (which is not to say that I may not have a go in the future). I guess the question is to what extent varying the patches, soundscape, velocities and tempos can cover for a lack of melody.
My guess is that this can only go so far. Kraftwerk (naturally enough my preferred Electronic group) are characterised as much by their wonderful tunes as by the mind-blowing sounds they use.

@Mario
Thanks a lot Mario – just the 2 chords in fact. You know how I like to keep things simple!

A word of warning though to those who enjoy playing and find ‘tinkering around’ with computers a necessary evil. In this piece I played almost nothing – just the melody lines, and the sustained minor chords and then only once. Even the rhythmic patterns are mostly straight out of my synth’s ‘arpeggio’ sequences.

I’m really glad so many of you enjoyed it – I would recommend (even if you have no parricular affinity with electronica) to try this sort of thing yourself. If nothing else, you will learn many features, shortcuts and windows of your software that you don’t generally use.

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