Gregg Janman's Modular Noodlings

Gregg recently posted this MP3 on the Analog Heaven mailing list, as an example of the Metalbox 8008, a Roland TR-808 kick drum clone. The MP3 also includes a Blacet and Wiard modular. I asked him if it would be ok to post the sample as I thought it was really good, it's very clean so you can hear each instrument clearly. He gave me the go ahead and a whole lot more. Below are some notes by Gregg and a few more samples and descriptions of each. Very, very cool. Thanks Gregg!









"i post a lot of info about my modular to the black dog forum here.

i have a 37 module (and still growing but nearly complete i feel) frac
rack system with a mobius and fat controller sequencer, and a
moogerfooger mf-101 lpf. apparently it's the only frac rack modular in
japan ;)

that dimension c track is two modular voices (one blacet pwm wave into
moog filter, one blacet/wiard miniwave into blacet stonz phaser into
wiard boogie filter, both sequenced by the same cv from the mobius) plus
effects (2 blacet time machines plus a boss dimension c pedal) tweaked
and recorded live in one take and then post processed digitally with a
little reverb, compression, limiting and eq. the weirdest thing is that
if you listen to it for a while, it REALLY sounds like a grand piano!!!

here are some other modular noodlings:

1. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-ChineseLantern.mp3
   
   an example of putting the feedback signal of a delay through a phaser.
   the main patch is the wiard noise ring output quantised by the miniwave
   to a pentatonic scale set to "play" the vco's randomly, through the
   above mentioned effects.



2. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/OneDropDrums&Acid.mp3
   
   slow and dubby acid with the heavily modded tr-606.



3. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-VeryPhat.mp3
   
   an excercise in phatness.



4. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/DoubleDelaySweep.mp3
   
   how BIG can those blacet time machines sound?



5. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/3SquDroneEndorphin.mp3
   
   a long drone, nice but boring? would make a good "bed" for other stuff.



6. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/Babaluma-TheKindThatWinds.mp3
   
   techno track, lots of modular, 606 and 8008.



7. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma&Decadnids&Elf-Maggie-YamatoFluteMix.mp3
   
   splitting a stereo mix digitally into m/s components, then processing
   the m and s signals through DIFFERENT modular patches, back into the
   digital realm where the m and s signals are recombined into stereo...
   mmmmm....



8. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-HymnForJohn.mp3
   
   a complete track featured on the http://www.darkwinter.com/ album "full
   cold moon", a tribute to john balance of coil, and featuring tangerine
   dream/coil style modular sequencing.



9. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-TsunamiTidalWaves(PowerAmbientRemix).mp3


a full track, and one that i'm very happy with, even though it's old and
was made almost entirely in the digital domain (audiomulch on the pc). i
hope to be able to make stuff like this with just analogue gear in the
future.

anyway, feel free to post any of this stuff on your site. i'm always
looking to collaborate or master other people's stuff when my schedule
allows.

best wishes and thanks for listening and commenting, i really appreciate it!

gregg janman."

Thank you Gregg!

NAMM 2006 Pt. 2 on Retrosynth

Title link takes you there. Full set of pictures are up.

PAiA 2006 Catalog Available Online

Title link takes you there.

Roland SH-201 Video on Sonic State

Almost missed this one. According to the video it uses the same analog modelling section of the VSynth. Title link takes you there.

Metasonix Wretch Video on Sonic State

Title link takes you there. That is one nasty sounding synth. 1950s technology. : )

Analogue Haven Booth Videos Pt 2 on Sonic State

Title link takes you to Part 2 of the Analogue Haven set with Ken MacBeth, Dieter Doepfer, and ModCan. I just started on Ken MacBeth. I'm not going to spoil it, but man... It has to be seen to be believed. Absolutely amazing.



Also check out another batch of Sonic State videos including Line6, Nord, Waves, Analog stuff, Quantum Leap, Korg, Muse Research.

NAMM 2006 via Pigpen Digital Update

Final set is up. Title link takes you there.

Manikin Schrittmacher

Future Retro XS Just Might Get MIDI Afterall

Via Jared on the yahoo group.



"We will try and add MIDI input for control of the XS before the unit goes
into production. This would allow a stock Revolution to control the accent
times of the XS. For those who prefer to control the XS with the CV and Gate
outputs, we have come up with a simple modification which allows the output
of a gated accent signal. We will post more information on how to do this as
we finalize the designs of the XS.

We will try and add MIDI input for control of the XS before the unit goes
into production. This would allow a stock Revolution to control the accent
times of the XS. For those who prefer to control the XS with the CV and Gate
outputs, we have come up with a simple modification which allows the output
of a gated accent signal. We will post more information on how to do this as
we finalize the designs of the XS."

NAMM 2006 via Retrosynth

Title link takes you to the report. Link to the picture set is at the end of the post.

Roland SH-201

Synth pr0n - Flickr Set

Title link takes you to very nice Flickr set by gentle bakemono. Korg electribe on the left.

Buchla and Buchla NAMM 2006 - New Flickr Set

Don Buchla at NAMM 2006. Title link takes you to more in bdu's set.