zimmifryl

zimmifryl from Stephen Drake on Vimeo.
"Here's some noodling I did on my homemade synth on New Years day. It's not a real composition, as it's improvised throughout, and I can't/couldn't reproduce the settings I found along the way. Most of the sound is sourced from my klee sequencer.

And, so there's no mystery - there are no industry secrets here...

This patch was put together over several days of basically a few minutes here and there of fooling with it. I also didn't have enough patch cords to finish it, so had to make new ones during the process. And there are still some odd ones in there.

Clock is the blacet binary zone, picked because it's about the only clock source that'll run the mfos sequencer. Clock into the klee, and also into the cgs pulse divider - woops, first big problem - the mfos sequencer doesn't want to work after the clock has been through the pulse divider. Yikes. Through some strange experimental urge, I try plugging the pulse divider out into the motm 510 wavewarper, and for some reason the mfos sequencer works that way. Odd.

The original idea with the mfos sequencer was to have a fixed sequence of bass bell tones, which I had set up at one point, but was never really happy with it, and kept on devolving it so finally it was just popping the gate on a fixed pitch triangle wave every 16 clock ticks - doh... doh... doh... doh... doh...

Pitch setting on the klee are basically very simple - just 4 basic intervals - 2 seconds, 1 minor third, 2 fourths, and 1 fifth. Tuned precisely with a tuner so the intervals will add up to diatonic pitches (I know, how boring, but I'm a classically trained musician, what can I do...). The gate bus switches are mostly in the center position, with just one or two up or down, and I changed them on the fly during the noodle. Mostly the thing is in 16x1 mode, invert off, although there are times when I change things. I also flipped the merge switches on and off at various points.

The klee driven sounds are pretty straightforward - the fixed pitch outs (all three) are all going to motm 300 vco's 1v/oct ins, saw outs, and the vco's are all tuned to the same pitch, except one thats up an octave. All of these through standard motm vca's controlled by my modded motm eg's, driven by the 3 gate outs. The first entrance is going through a motm 480 filter, the second voice is through a mankato filter, and the third voice is through the tellun doomsday machine and then a motm 440 filter (which is a really delicious sounding combo). I finally have a real mixer (motm 830), so no wierdness there this time. Some little fiddling that occurred during the thing - I ran cables from the various glide outs from the klee to the freguency mod ins on the various filters - mixed them up, so filter freq is different than the vco freq, and the various knobs that control all this are turned on during the piece. I also turned on a bit of bleed on the vca's near the end - I like that effect, and meant to do it earlier, but forgot.

Video is an attempt to have 2 cameras going - a stationary one on a tripod, and a handheld, my little flip thing. The handheld one was mostly useless - I couldn't really run the synth and keep the camera focused on anything except for some brief moments. Edited in Final Cut Express, my first time using it, and there was a steep learning curve, hence no niceties such as cross-fades and titles. Maybe next time. Had to get some help from the apple support forums along the way - very handy resource! The audio was captured seperately in cubase (stereo this time!), and a little reverb was added, but that's all.

That's it!

[no LPG's or wogglebugs were used in the production of this video. Rats.]"

TheRainbow - KMS StringsOfLife

YouTube via BIM0X. monome-like
"TheRainbow plays Strings of Life by Kevin Saunderson through Ableton Live 6"

Update: more vids:

TheRainbow - Sweep

"Présentation of my new MIDI controller : the Rainbow.
Soft touch buttons Monome like, each one has a RGB Led inside.
64 buttons, 7 colours available. Based on midibox (www.ucapps.de)
Powered by PIC18F452. Completly indépendant, it doesn't need a computer to work.
Midi and output via MIDI messages"

TheRainbow - Tests functions


TheRainbow - MIDI Feedback

"Playing the Rainbow with Live 6 and Battery 3 as it was a midi keyboard."

TheRainbow - Demo with Ableton LIVE #1

"playing the Rainbow as a midi controller and a midi keyboard with Live, FM8 and battery.
Totally MIDI, using feedback midi functions of Live and a routing inside the midi tracks (no thrid part software like Max/MSP, ONLY ABLETON!)"
"Testing the Test functions of the Rainbow : A, B and C.
Various sweeping of colours and positions"

Whacking out a pattern on the ESX in less than 10 minutes - M4M

YouTube via muzik4machines
"just for fun i started the stopwatch and settled to make a whole "song" in exactly 10 minutes, what you see here is what i did from start to finish, no edits or trickery"

Acid take 2 - Roland TB-303, Jomox 999 & Analogue Systems

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"We love the Roland TB-303 (who doesn't?), so we went nuts with some Analogue Systems rs95 oscillators, triggering them with the CV and Gate outputs from the 303. The sound of the 303 is given additional balls by processing it through the Malekko B:Assmaster Germanium pedal...sacrilege. You can hear the TB-303 without extra balls at the very end between 6:12 - 6:18.

Along with the A.S. rs95 oscillators we're also using the rs110 Multimode Filter, the rs120 Comb Filter, and the rs100 Low Pass Filter.

The drums sounds are from the behemoth Jomox XBase 999 and we're using the Kenton Pro Solo MIDI-CV converter to sync the 303. One of the cymbals from the Jomox is running through the A.S. rs310 Reverb/Chorus module, which is being modulated by the rs80 LFO's triangle wave. The rs290 Sample/Delay module is providing the delay for that cymbal as well. All of these sounds are being mixed by the rs165 Signal Mixer."

Roland V-Synth Jupiter Roots

YouTube via Gtechture
"This is a video I made to demonstrate the rich and more classic sounds the v-synth can produce. The programs are original. All sounds coming from a Roland V-Synth 2.0 VA-Engine"

ULT-SOUND DS-4

YouTube via denha
"Movie of ULT-SOUND DS-4 Yuuki plays."

Mondo Modular Episode 7

YouTube via scootermccrae

x0xWASP 2 - Kompakt intro

YouTube via BIM0X. It pics up about a minute in.
"an intro made with the x0xWASP #2 :)
Bassdrum at the beginning is produced by the x0x
X0X+Korg EM1"

Gösta Berlings saga recording Mini Moog

YouTube via RothHandle
"For the first session of 2009 I was very lucky and happy to have swedish prog band Gösta Berlings saga come to the studio to do some overdubs for their second album which is due out in March. The band is a four piece.

During this first day of recording we did a lot of really fun classic prog stuff. Mellotron MK II Brass section, Male choirs and even a moog melody line for good measure. The Moog we used in this clip is the old Abba Mini Moog as used by Benny Andersson. That is why it is painted white. But we also recorded some pastoral Celeste stuff, pump organs as well electric guitar noise walls. Well if you are curious about this band please check out their myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/gostaberlingssaga They are a really solid good band and we had a lot of fun throughout the day.

These little snippets were recorded at the Roth Händle studios in Stockholm. This is where I spend my days recording and producing bands. The studio started 1998 in my apartment with a akai dps-12, an acoustic guitar, a Mellotron and some stomp boxes. Since then it has been steadily growing and the studio is now housing Orchestrons, Optigans, Pipe organs, modular synths, Stylophones et.c et.c The idea of sorts is to blend good songs with unusual sounds so both sound better. If you are curious about the studios or the recordings that are made there please stroll by www.roth-handle.nu or www.myspace.com/Molesome If you have any questions about the studio please dont hesitate to drop me a line.

Take care and have a wonderful 2009.

// Mattias"

Furmitt the Krog - Mister Right

YouTube via ionraygun

"Furmitt the Krog, a lovable green puppet made out of foam rubber and felt sings a song about all of the good girls and what they appear to be looking for in mister right... apparently it is not him.

Nice guys finish last.. but do Krogs even finish at all?

Shot on a Nikon D90 in my home studio with a backdrop of modular synthesizers and various toy keyboards and drum machines."