"What is your favorite piece of hardware? Jason: Korg MS-10. I've had it for five years or so and it's the perfect synthesizer. Brian: I just got a Moogerfooger freqbox, so I am pretty excited about that. My Synare PS-1 is probably still my favorite though."
YouTube via bigcitymusic "Here's the new L.L. Electronics 5-voice Polyphonic Rozzbox running into a vintage Roland RE-501 Chorus Echo (tape echo). Sounds amazingly cool, huh? bigcitymusic.com"
YouTube via Analogger "This was just a happy accident I came across today. I was getting ready to do another video and I engaged the Pigtronix Attack Sustain pedal with the volume and harmonics knobs turned up. My guitar wasn't plugged in so I got this loud hum...made even louder by the Attack Sustain's massive compression. I engaged the HOG and it generated perfect harmonies relative to the hum. Instant drone. Pretty cool. I fed that into the Echolution and messed with the HOG's lowpass filter.
If you don't have the expression pedal plugged into the HOG then you can use the Expression Button which will alter a parameter depending on which expression mode you are in. I did all this before my wife got home from work. She has not yet discovered the zen-like quality of drones. Oscar, however, admits his very feline being has been immesurably enriched by the noise. I gotta go with Oscar on this one."
I finally got around to watching this video in entirety. Yes, sometimes I don't even get to see everything I put up. :( Anyway, for any Skinny Puppy fans out there, check out the update.
Synth Ollie sent me a motherload of 82 scans of various synth articles. I spent a good chunk of the day organizing them into individual flickr sets. Click on the following links for each corresponding one.
YouTube via Analogger. "I used the external trigger input on the Attack Sustain to trigger the decay envelope - which gave me a rhythmic gating effect on my guitar. I fed that into the HOG which I had set to give a sort of organ sound. I used the expression pedal to open and close the filter on the HOG. The result is kind of like what Townshend got when he ran his Lowrey organ thru the VCS3. My expression pedal was taking the place of the VCS3's lfo.
On one midi track on my sequencer I triggered 8th notes on the Virus which was set to a bass drum patch. That was fed into the trigger input on the Attack Sustain - you don't hear that bass drum - it was just used to trigger the envelope on the Attack Sustain. On another midi track I wrote the drum pattern which was in sync with the 8th note trigger sequence.
I had just put new strings on my guitar and had not clipped the ends. The guitar is just out of frame but you'll see my cat Oscar as he climbs up on a table and starts playing with one of the strings. Sometimes Oscar will just lay there and watch me twiddle knobs. He also likes the blinking lights."
"What is your favorite piece of hardware?
