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YouTube via digitaldave1234. via FakeBook. We know R2D2 was made with an ARP 2600. I'm curious what other synths, software or hardware were used in some of these. "Roger Ebert has said that for some people, movie history begins with Star Wars. George Lucas has said that sound is "half of the picture". The sounds from the Star Wars series sit between those two quotes. Ben Burtt became the world's most influential sound designer by creating the sounds for the Star Wars series.
This list was created by factoring how famous or influential a given sound is, and also considering the sound from a sound designer's point of view. For example, the Darth Vader sounds are simple to create, yet the voice from James Earl Jones became one of the most influential sounds of the series. Compare that to the voice of Poggle the Lesser, which is not as famous, but a masterpiece of cutting and pasting phonetic sounds together."
BTW, be sure to see this post for more synths in film.
Update: One sound that stood out for me in the first of the new films and not on this list is the sound of the engines in the canyon race. The Star Wars films really did have some great audio effects. Sound makes a movie.
YouTube via caloriewarp "Charles Cohen and his Buchla Music Easel vs. Chrome Genie NoBuchla Lung Sucker and his vibra-troupe... Cohen KO's Genie in 1st round. live improv at the Cohen residency in Philadelphia: 1/3/09"
"Special Model: two Kawai synthesizers build into one organ case.
After my K5000S went down to the floor, a part of the plastic case has broken into 1000 pieces. I had to learn, that Kawai service does not have any replacement parts for this synthesizer any more.
I have had several other synthesizers and something what I always was unhappy about, is the bad ergonomics: if you want to play with two of them. A double keyboard stand is ugly and the keyboards are too separate. I think, two stacked keyboards like an organ is quite the best, like the Prophet 10. After some planning, I bought a second used K5000 with the same excellent keyboard action and made a new case for both of them, even a 13-note Midi pedal is now attached."
YouTube via sonicstate. Also see the nanoPAD review by Sonic State here. "Sonicstate.com takes a look at the mini USB keyboard from Korg. More reviews on the site. Check out our upcoming NAMM show coverage"
YouTube via toborexperiment "Sneak preview of the forthcoming v3. Sound is live output from the footage. Samples used are 3 acoustic pianos loop passed trough gleetchlab 3 processors. No post editing.
YouTube via toborexperiment "Deep House session with the mighty Tenori-on Everything is coming from it. Some samples were made with Gleetchlab 2.3 and uploaded on the tenori via SD card.
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