Homeshake is the project of Peter Sagar, a chilled synthpop musical artist from Montreal, Canada. I previously looked at how he creates his sound in my article HOMESHAKE Synth Sounds, where I concentrated on songs from 2017’s Fresh Air and 2015’s Midnight Snack. He has since released a new album, entitled Helium, which continues Sagar exploration of R’n’B influences and takes the chilled out aspect of his music to new lengths of chill.

In a recent interview with Red Bull, Homeshake’s studio is shown to be centred around a Roland Juno-60, replacing his previously used Korg Poly-61, a Dave Smith Prophet 08 REV2, replacing his OG Prophet 08, and a brand new Elektron Analog Rytm MKII handling drum duties. Another key piece of gear that Hagar relies on is the Roland SP-404, which he used to use for drums, but still uses for processing his voice and triggering samples live.

For this article, I’ll listen to some of the new sounds on Helium, and dive into how they are created. For the patches, I’ll use Arturia Prophet V and TAL U-NO-LX, emulations of the SCI Prophet-5 and Roland Juno synths, respectively. Note that you can get similar sounds from both synths, especially when you use the chorus in Prophet V, so it’s likely that some of the article’s Prophet V sounds originally came from the Juno, and vice versa. Feel free to follow the walkthroughs using whatever synth you feel comfortable with. Enjoy the article and check out the free patches download at the end of the article!