Monday, November 29, 2010
26 Q127 Filterbank Showcase
YouTube via 7thDanSound | November 29, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikes
"This is a showcase of the Synthesizers.com Q127 Fixed Filter Bank, fed with just a single VCO pulse wave. It has a very nice sound and the settings of the individual filters are virtually endless. The bass sound and percussion come from an Elektron Monomachine and so does the sequence driving the oscillator
NEW! HQ Audio Flac file available at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ATGXVI22"
ether^ra RUPTURED NIGHT
YouTube via potterpaint2000 | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
"an improv featuring my Buchla 200e live and looped. http://etherra.blogspot.com/"
SOMADRONE - Providence
SOMADRONE - Providence from Skinny Wolves on Vimeo.
via Peter:
"I thought you might like this video. It features synth cakes!
The song is from the record Depth Of Field, it was recorded using Moog Source, Prodigy, Voyager, 73 Rhodes, Doepfer 100, Buchla Series 100 Modular, Serge Modular, Juno 60, Hohner Pianet, Indian Drone Machine, Space Echo and many non synth instruments. Parts were recorded at the Institute of Electro Acoustic Music, Stockholm and at various studios in Dublin, Berkley and San Francisco.
Hope you like!
Peter
Record is available to order here from Friday 3rd on Vinyl, Cassette &
Digital.....
http://skinnywolves.bigcartel.com/products"
Additional details: http://vimeo.com/16881766
Have your synth and eat it too.
Stop the time
YouTube via attorks | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
"This evening I was not that lucky with the recordings. The first take wasn't that good, the second I liked very much but it appeared I forget to start the audio recording and the third take was somehow distorted again. Then I had a webcam meeting with my friend and walked the dog. After that I decided to try one last take because it was getting very late. And the result is a 23 minute video of which you see the first 15 minutes.
The music starts with two 4-step sequences in Dm from the self-built Modular and the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO combined which the Blacet MiniWave. Some chords on the Roland XP-80 are played and after that an arpeggiated chord on the Waldorf Q Keyboard is heared. The volume of the sequence of the Synthesizers.com Modular is turned up which sequence length is varied during the track. Again some chords on the XP-80 where after the length of the first two sequences is altered to 8-steps. Then a bass note is played on the iPad using an Eden synth voice in NanoStudio (preset A02, 7th Heaven). The arpeggiated bass on the Waldorf Q keyboard is introduced accompanied by notes from the NanoStudio voice and the sequences are transposed to Fm, Am and Cm. I use the two X-Y pads in NanoStudio to alter the sound of the voice. After a while the solo is played on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. At the climax the music is brought back to a minimum and the individual synths are heared.
The title refers to a phrase my friend and I sometimes use when we are together."
NanoStudio - Blip Interactive Ltd
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Synths for a Good Cause
via Metrosonus who has contributed to posts on this site. He's looking for donations for a friend in need. You'll find the details on this HC thread. You can reach him there or directly at moscowbuzzer@gmail.com.
Silicon Breakdown's Interview of Emu's Dave Rossum
Full interview here.
Some excerpts:
"My first encounter with Dave Rossum was over the telephone some nine years ago, when he prevented me from purchasing sight unseen thousands of dollars of E-mu equipment. Dave instead encouraged me to purchase a few submodules and test them out. I did and I was hooked. Dave is an original. His first E-mu modular system has set the standard by which all other modular systems will be judged. Brilliant and witty, Dave is a new breed of electronic music pioneer whose contribution to the design of equipment for other manufacturers may have shaped the nature of the synthesizer as much as did Robert Moog's original thinking...
JL: Your influence in the design of both the Prophet 5 and the equipment of Oberheim Electronics have been grossly overlooked. Would you care to comment on what you've done for both companies?
DR: Let me talk first about Tom Oberheim, whom I met at an AES convention in the spring of 1974. We both liked each other immediately and started talking about ideas. He was talking about his phase shifter, and said something to the effect that he knew it could be done with a 3080 transconductance amp, but didn't know exactly how to do it. So I scribbled out a circuit and said here's how you do it. He said "I bet that�s patentable", and I said "I'm sure it is". He asked how would I feel about patenting it and sharing the rights under the patent? I thought it was a great Idea, and that was the beginning of our association...
The involvement with the Prophet 5 was very similar. Dave Smith had come to us for design help with other projects, when he decided to get into a synthesizer, he came over and basically started picking our brains from the beginning, which was an intelligent thing to do. We did some specific circuit designs for the Prophet 5,reviewed virtually everything in it, and gave him access to lots of E-mu documentation. Again, we had a royalty arrangement, the product went over well, and we made a lot of money...but of course had the Prophet not gone over, we wouldn't have gotten anything for our time so essentially, we again invested in the company. Still, royalties are not a trouble-free way to conduct business. One reason why we have a bit of trouble right now in our relationship with Oberheim and Sequential Circuit* - I can't say I'm close friends with, or see a lot of, either company - is because of this arrangement where they're still paying us royalties for things we did a long time ago. Sometimes, people forget how much they appreciated you a long time ago. So we've learned that royalties aren't always best, not so much because they're not financially lucrative, but because they destroy friendships - and as far I'm concerned, friendships are probably more important than the money itself..."
Do check out the full interview. You'll find tons of interesting nuggets of synth history.
Some excerpts:
"My first encounter with Dave Rossum was over the telephone some nine years ago, when he prevented me from purchasing sight unseen thousands of dollars of E-mu equipment. Dave instead encouraged me to purchase a few submodules and test them out. I did and I was hooked. Dave is an original. His first E-mu modular system has set the standard by which all other modular systems will be judged. Brilliant and witty, Dave is a new breed of electronic music pioneer whose contribution to the design of equipment for other manufacturers may have shaped the nature of the synthesizer as much as did Robert Moog's original thinking...
JL: Your influence in the design of both the Prophet 5 and the equipment of Oberheim Electronics have been grossly overlooked. Would you care to comment on what you've done for both companies?
DR: Let me talk first about Tom Oberheim, whom I met at an AES convention in the spring of 1974. We both liked each other immediately and started talking about ideas. He was talking about his phase shifter, and said something to the effect that he knew it could be done with a 3080 transconductance amp, but didn't know exactly how to do it. So I scribbled out a circuit and said here's how you do it. He said "I bet that�s patentable", and I said "I'm sure it is". He asked how would I feel about patenting it and sharing the rights under the patent? I thought it was a great Idea, and that was the beginning of our association...
The involvement with the Prophet 5 was very similar. Dave Smith had come to us for design help with other projects, when he decided to get into a synthesizer, he came over and basically started picking our brains from the beginning, which was an intelligent thing to do. We did some specific circuit designs for the Prophet 5,reviewed virtually everything in it, and gave him access to lots of E-mu documentation. Again, we had a royalty arrangement, the product went over well, and we made a lot of money...but of course had the Prophet not gone over, we wouldn't have gotten anything for our time so essentially, we again invested in the company. Still, royalties are not a trouble-free way to conduct business. One reason why we have a bit of trouble right now in our relationship with Oberheim and Sequential Circuit* - I can't say I'm close friends with, or see a lot of, either company - is because of this arrangement where they're still paying us royalties for things we did a long time ago. Sometimes, people forget how much they appreciated you a long time ago. So we've learned that royalties aren't always best, not so much because they're not financially lucrative, but because they destroy friendships - and as far I'm concerned, friendships are probably more important than the money itself..."
Do check out the full interview. You'll find tons of interesting nuggets of synth history.
Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Synthesizer Ver 3.3
via this auction"Rebushed keyboard plays beautifully. Original machine was upgraded to Version 3.3 and had MIDI installed, according to SCI gurus at Wine Country Sequential. "G" key below middle C needs a contact adjustment, the key plays, but has to be "babied" - a light touch gets it, more pressure on the key causes an intermittent cut-out. No other issues with this machine. The original manual is included, along with a power cord."
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