Most pertinent to this song was a long drive at night listening to Robert Rich.
It is all done with a tiny monophonic analog synth. Layering is your friend...
 
Hope it is a pleasant 12 minute break from your current activities.
 
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For me the base drone needs a little more movement and probably is a little to long before anything else happens.  Good base though I am sure you could develop this further.

Thank you for the comment! I am glad that the sounds itself seems to be a good base. The arrangement of this kind of music is something I have to figure out...
Btw: The original base drone has way more movement. But I did a rookie mistake: after mixing all the time via headphones, I totally forgot that there is the "Monitorizer"-Plugin in the mixbus. Great one! But this fx-chain is such a nice tool, that you completly forget it. I figured it out in the car...
 

Very dark... Much foreboding
 
I think that it is this "darkness" that, for me at least, makes this interesting. Yes, it could have been shorter, but the length kind of adds to the darkness of the piece.
 
Which synth is it? Perhaps a little bit of knob twiddling would be in order for the next one...
 
 
cheers
 
andy

Hello Andy,
 First of all: Thank you for the support! It is great to read that the intended atmosphere is recognized.
 I am afraid that there is nothing interesting about the stuff used for this track:
 The synth is an Arturia Microbrute. Compared to other analog mono synth, there is only a tiny sweetspot. As a result it is easy to let it sound strange. I think the Steiner-Parker filter makes the difference. It doesn't try to sound like a Moog - and that is good. Using it with a DAW is handy, because you can sync the LFO to MIDI clock, as well as the internal sequencer.
 The effects are just the PC-EQ, PC-Breverb, Console emulation, and Tape emulation (all stock SONAR). I am not sure what the Console Emulation actually does, but I think it is a different feel to the mix if I A/B it without this plug-in.  The Tape emulation is used to smooth everything up.
 

Ah, yeah, I should have spotted that in your signature. Cool synth that, like a lot of the Arturia hardware synths.
 
I gave up with console emulation a long time ago to be honest. My ears are knackered anyway. Same with the tap emulation... All a waste of time for me and I got fed up trying to hear what the things are doing. That's just me though, so take no notice haha!
 
cheers
 
andy