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Blovachord - Novachord Emulation on the Waldorf Blofeld

via Boele of SCD on the Waldorf list:

"This sound is trying to emulate the Hammond Novachord, a pre war *synthesizer*. Yes, pre-war synthesizer, you're reading that right. Besides my Blofeld blabla, it's quite an interesting view/read.

http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/nova/intro.htm

The sound I am talking about (but all Novachord sounds have that moody athmosphere) is here:
http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/nova/mp3/nova3.mp3

The Blofeld is producing this one:
http://www.synthmusic.info/mp3s/blovachord.mp3

Specially in the low regions of the keyboard is getting so darn good!
And remember, this is a bare Blofeld. No FX, no compressing/limiting or whatever. Pure Waldorf!
It's modulated wavetable stuff, it's nice filters in series, it's Waldorf! I mean, play one of Stefan's teasers after this one and you understand the enormous amount of sounds possible with this white thingy!"

Stockhausen RIP

Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away this Wednesday, Dec 5, 2007. He was a pioneer of electronic music. You can find his official website here and you can read more about him and the influence of his work here.

Stockhausen Interview

YouTube via racon.

Some of the musicians Stockhausen influenced via wikipedia:
"Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992), Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and Anthony Braxton (Radano 1993, 110) cite Stockhausen as an influence... The Beatles included an image of Stockhausen on the cover of their 1967 Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Rick Wright and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd also acknowledge Stockhausen as an influence (Macon 1997, 141; Bayles 1996, 222). San Francisco psychedelic groups Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead are vaguely said to have done the same (Prendergast 2000, 54), though Stockhausen himself merely says the former band included students of Luciano Berio and both were "well orientated toward new music" (Texte 4, 505). Founding members of Cologne-based experimental band Can, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay, actually studied with Stockhausen[citation needed], as did German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk (Flur 2003, 228). New York guitar experimentalists Sonic Youth also acknowledge Stockhausen's influence[citation needed], as do Icelandic vocalist Björk (Guðmundsdóttir 1996; Ross 2004, 53 & 55), British industrial group Coil[citation needed], and British techno artist Aphex Twin."

Access Virus Ti

images via this auction via cynep on the Matrixsynth Forum.

MOOG Opus 3

images via this auction

Rapture 1.1 Overview

YouTube via CakewalkSoftware.
"Get an indepth look and listen at the new Rapture 1.1. Cakewalk's Brandon Ryan guides us through some of the new features and demonstrates the awesome sound making (and sound mangling) capabilities of this revolutionary virtual synth. Full range speakers are recommended or you will miss some of the fun."