The following was sent in via Jon. I've personally experienced Lostore and Loostore and a couple of very difficult yet amazing patches. Just love the feeling.
Two of which are pretty much lost forever. One day I will make them again, well, one of them I'm not so sure due to Fucknob. The Matrix-6 definitely suffers from Fucknob, yet... it has no knobs. Go figure.
Via Jon:
"during the mid-eighties there was a line of humor books called "sniglets". A sniglet being any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should. the books had words, and pronunciation guides and some of them had cute little illustrations. lately i've been thinking about snigletizing our world of synth. i don't have anywhere good to actually post this stuff, but i figured you'd get a kick out of it.
Danqueue: The mysterious 3 second difference between the german and english versions of a kraftwerk song.
Lostore: any act during the process of saving a patch (fumbling with buttons, forgetting to hit "store" a second time, ect.) which causes the edits you just spend 2 hours working on to be lost.
Loostore: one's feeling of self worth immediately following a lostore.
Duplisynthous: any synth you own whose functions are completely subsumed by a more powerful synth you also own.
Fucknob: a parameter that, when altered, causes your patch to change in a way so that it never sounds quite like it did, even though the parameters value has been reverted. also any global parameter change which can neither be remapped nor turned off.
Knihl: an alteration to a parameter that causes the patch to become inaudible.
DODaist: a person who uses his synths internal effects on every patch.
Bypastist: a person who never uses internal effects.
Burchlay: the alternate universe where buchla designs became the dominant synth paradigm.
presetlude: the ditty played while demoing patches
fourier-1-k: planning your retirement on the assumption that by the time you hit 65 softsynths will be good enough that you can sell your hardware."
Feel free to add or modify the list in the comments.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
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Unipoly: Any synth you only own for the use of one patch on it.
ReplyDeleteUnimono: Same as Unipoly, but a monosynth.
Unipatch: The patch in question
Unipatcher: Somebody guilty of always using the same damn patch.
/autobiographical
Good one's dave. Some sounds are just that good. : )
ReplyDeleteLFake: to wiggle one's finger on the key while triggering vibrato even though it's the LFO, just so it looks cool.
ReplyDeleteBlooper: finding out too late you've got your sequencer programmed wrong.
Symitation: Trying to make patches on one synth sound like they're from another synth. [Coming from a Microkorg owner that spends hours listening to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer so he can fake Moog noises... ^^;;;]
Ambience: Holding down one key and leaving your sequencer playing for an hour or so. [Guilty!]
ADSouR: Sub-division of Fuknob, the one mistaken bump or twitch that turns a saved lead into a pad just before you solo.
Soniority: When playing a chord on a velocity-sensitive polysynth, the influence one note exerts on the others just so it sounds louder.
War-ble: Any patch that sounds like a gun or explosion.
Monopolize: To only ever use one polysynth even though you have a roomful.
Divocoding: The late 1990s practice of feeding a well-known singer's voice through a pitch-shifter to make an otherwise horrid pop song sound unique. See also: Cher.
Cat-cophony: Letting a domestic feline walk on your synth.
Clingy-Clang: One who is inseparable from their portable recorder, just in case they should come across a sound they'll rave about but never actually use.
Patchatory: The realm in which all patches one never uses reside.
Damn, those are some good ones Mügi! Funny stuff.
ReplyDeletei've done the lfake. ambience is practically my entire m.o.
ReplyDeletePresetlude Non-Grata - Any tune played so often that the store has banded it from being played while testing gear; e.g. - The opening riff from "Just can't get Enough", "Axel F." or "Stairway to Heaven"
ReplyDeleteDemisynth - a unit that due to being too preset based or a string machine or an organ simulator, isn't considered a "Real Synth"
Logasnob - Someone who thinks it isn't a real synth unless it is true analog.
Modulasnob/ Monosnob - same as above except modular or monophonic
Presetic Curve - The arc of time between making your first synth preset and the day every patch in the user bank is actually written by you. Varies from synth to synth, can be ininite for some models.
Trophy-Mogue - any synth you own more because of how cool it looks than how much you use it or how it sounds.
The Cat Tone - for some reason almost all analog(ish) synths seem to be able to make some sort of cat sound. Sometimes it is a simple meow, othertimes "Space cat jugglers from Saturn". This is also the tone that you will accidentally call up when trying to impress any guest in your studio.
urnster