Title link takes you to shots via this auction.via Johan
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Restoring Patches From Tape
Good tip from David Hillel Wilson, curator of the New England Synthesizer Museum.
"There is an issue with downloading synth patch tapes from the Internet, and it goes like this: The Human ear can't hear absolute phase, so that an up sawtooth sounds exactly like a down sawtooth. However, the cassette input circuits on most synths CAN hear absolute phase. Many of the .WAV files are inverted, either by the sound card the poster used to digitize them, or the sound card you used to play them back. The answer here is crazy, but it works: After trying with no success for several hours to load up an OB-Xa from an Internet wave file, I tried this: I took two alligator clip leads and an extra patch cord, and used them to swap the ground and the hot on the EAR output jack on the cassette tape recorder. It loaded on the first try! You can also run the sound through any inverting mixer (such as on the ElectroComp 200). I have tried to send this info (and the Sequential Split Eight factory sounds as an .SYX) to the website that hosts these files, but my messages keep bouncing back."
Update via swissdoc in the comments: "Why not just inverting it in your soundeditor before saving from the soundcard to tape?"
"There is an issue with downloading synth patch tapes from the Internet, and it goes like this: The Human ear can't hear absolute phase, so that an up sawtooth sounds exactly like a down sawtooth. However, the cassette input circuits on most synths CAN hear absolute phase. Many of the .WAV files are inverted, either by the sound card the poster used to digitize them, or the sound card you used to play them back. The answer here is crazy, but it works: After trying with no success for several hours to load up an OB-Xa from an Internet wave file, I tried this: I took two alligator clip leads and an extra patch cord, and used them to swap the ground and the hot on the EAR output jack on the cassette tape recorder. It loaded on the first try! You can also run the sound through any inverting mixer (such as on the ElectroComp 200). I have tried to send this info (and the Sequential Split Eight factory sounds as an .SYX) to the website that hosts these files, but my messages keep bouncing back."
Update via swissdoc in the comments: "Why not just inverting it in your soundeditor before saving from the soundcard to tape?"
Friday, April 20, 2007
primitive two-oscillator synthesizer
flickr by jgb."two WaveTek signal generators connected in series. For crunk jamz. The last one in the chain drives a 1" speaker. It will easily deafen you. The front panel is set in Univers, BTW."
VAC: Toxic Coma
"All tracks were made with Renoise Tracker. No hardware. All software and samples."hefix93 of Velvet Acid Christ
Title link takes you to more info on the album including full downloads for each track.
Renoise Tracker
"Renoise is the next generation of music tracker software, combining studio quality sound and virtually infinite expandability with a clear and concise interface putting every parameter and option literally at your fingertips!"Title link takes you there. See this post for an album made with nothing but Renoise.
Mellotron EMI
Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Details:"MELLOTRON (produced by EMI, serial n°26 out of 100 !!!) *** 1973 *** These Mellotron have differents looks than the original, if you look under the keyboard, you'll see that you have more space for your legs, also the black plate is domino style, it can be inverted to the white side. sounds are the 3 classics: 8 choir, Mk2 Violins, Brass B."
via Johan.
Gristleizer
YouTube via masqueradeNpurple.
"Playing guitar through the gristleizers VCA for a slow chop and some self oscillation near the end causing octave down jumps."
Previous post with details. Note this is up for auction.
Max Mathews Remixed
In case you missed the update to this post, thumbuki sent the following in via the comments:"There is also an event for Berklee alumni the following evening in San Francisco:
Monday, April 30, 2007
Max Mathews Remixed
6:30 PM-9:00 PM
Recombinant Media Labs
763 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA
Monday, April 30, 2007
6:30 - 7:30 PM Alumni Reception
7:30 - 9:00 PM Performance/Interview
Join the Berklee community as we celebrate the 80th Birthday of The Father of Computer Music - Dr. Max Mathews. The event will take place at Recombinant Media Labs and will feature: Dr. Richard Boulanger and Dr. Max Mathews reminiscing, demonstrating, performing, and jamming on Wireless Radio Batons, the $100 OLPC Laptop, and Wiimotes control Csound via OSC. The event will also showcase Berklee Alumni remixes of Max Mathews 1957 Computer Music Classics!
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact Brian Grzelak.
To register for this event, click here
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Berklee Events"
Red Roland SH-101
Title link takes you to some nice shots via this auction. Click the image for a larger shot. via loscha
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