Rebuild a Boards of Canada Classic

We love the synthwerk of Reverb Machine, and what could be better than a Boards of Canada track rebuilt using the GForce OB-X?! 'Everything you do is a Balloon' is covered in this blog post, with details on making the Pads, Leads, and Ableton Project - all of which are available for free here. You may be one of the 6 people who HAVEN'T uploaded a rip of the new Boards of Canada VHS to your youtube channel recently - there is talk of some new material.

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"Everything You Do Is a Balloon" comes from Boards of Canada's Hi Scores EP, released in 1996 before their debut album Music Has the Right to Children. It's one of their early tracks that really established their sound: murky analog production, nostalgic vintage synths, and trip-hop drums. The main track is preceded by an almost 2-minute synth intro, then settles into a looping four-bar chord progression that continues for the rest of the song.

Pad 1
The main song opens with a drifting pad that plays slow minor third intervals. You could create this patch by tuning one oscillator up +3 semitones and playing with one note, a trick used in the '90s and often heard in BoC's fifth-based sounds, but in this case I just programmed the MIDI part in thirds.

More Boards of Canada goodness from Reverb Machine

And a great breakdown of their Music Theroy from ixi music. 
 

Read the full GForce / Reverb Machine blog post here: https://www.gforcesoftware.com/blog/boards-of-canada-everything-you-do-is-a-balloon-article-by-reverb-machine/

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