"here is a sneak peak at part of the next system i'm taking on the road.. the panels were finished today and await fitting switches, pots, and jacks... update soon................. i know some looking at this will probably lose their minds when they see a "destroyed" Crumar Spirit. no keyboard??? why did you ruin a Spirit??? well i didn't.. it's not... i wouldn't... my Spirit actually rides in 1st class while i suffer in economy. the truth is the Spirit has had the keyboard and the wooden case removed for two reasons. the first.... so the case doesn't get destroyed by using it on the road. the second... it shaves about 25 pounds off of my flight weight. i don't use the keyboard. i use sequencers and a ton of external modulation on top of the already crazy routing it has. it behaves very similarly to a modular. i like. i use it. and all it it needs to be returned to original is pop it back in the case and plug the connectors back in. it's a synthesizer that rarely gets seen and even more rarely heard.... it needs to played not placed in a museum.. it needs to be heard and not be treated like a Unicorn...."
YouTube Uploaded by SolarLuneTube on Sep 7, 2011 All parts here. "SunVox Tutorial Part 5 goes into the new DrumSynth module, as well as how to play more than one instrument at a time."
SunVox Tutorial Part 6 - Multisynth
Uploaded by SolarLuneTube on Sep 7, 2011
"SunVox Tutorial Part 6 speaks on using Multi-synths to trigger more than one module at a time. Very useful for more complex sounds. I notice that I completely glossed over the Multisynth's Velocity parameter - that controls how loudly the attached generators are played.
Find SunVox source songs as well as more tutorials on http://sunvoxsolstice.blogspot.com"
(c) 2011 One Little Indian, Ltd and Well Hart, Ltd., used with permission"
"Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album’s theme song Cosmogony. All of the album’s songs gradually become available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences, currently including the first three singles Crystalline, Virus, and Moon.
via Lace: "The sequential Drumtraks uses common B20k potentiometers (pots). You can buy a replacement pot from your local electronics/hobby store. In this case we used a B20k pot. You simply take off the black caps of the face side, then unscrew the top inside motherboard. The pots are bolted directly to the motherboard. Unbolt them first then de-solder them, their design makes it hard to use a solder sucker so you may need to heat all three pads by quickly passing your soldering iron over them, and wiggle out the pot while the lead is molten. Just be careful not to be too hard, take the time. You can clean the pads properly once the pot is removed. There's plenty of space between solder pads.
Bend the pins upward on the new pot then bolt in place and solder it once it is secured. Screw the motherboard back in, be careful to make it fit. Don't force anything. Close the lid and put the front screws back in. Put on the caps and you're done. Weee. Sequential knobs are tough to find. If you need sequential looking caps, Futurlec sells the closest approximation I have found so far. They have 4 sizes, black and silver aluminium and other styles like roland/boss 80's looking plastic caps, with colored tops. Good for DIY/repairs. On the final shot you see four of their black aluminium pots mounted on the drumtraks.
Drumtraks manage to always sit nicely in a mix. The sounds seem basic on their own, but when played against each other in a live pattern the result shines. It's definitely a machine you want to make a pattern with and record, rather than sample.
I made a down tempo track called "ballad of sin" for the b-side of my next 7" release with the drumtraks and the CZ5000, you can hear both dry together at the beginning. The pumping reverb and effects on my voice are the compressors in the tascam DM4800 being over driven. Regardless of what goes on around, the Drumtraks just sits in there and pushes the whole track through like a John Deere tractor. The beat I made is simple yet the machine's tone makes it very compelling. That's not an easy task for a 27 year old 8bit digital drum machine with no effects."
Ballad of sin by lacedj "A chill out down tempo track I wrote after a shitty weekend of stress at the club. I used the Casio CZ 5000 with pitch modulation to get the wide moving chords, and the sequential drumtraks for the main basic beat. The beat sample is a reconstruction. The voice sample is my voice treated and detuned in ableton."
"Moog Freqbox 1 VCO out to Freqbox 2 in Freqbox 2 VCO out to Freqbox 1 in FB out's to 2x Analogue Systems RS 100 to Make Noise Optomix Freqbox CV in from Renè via Toppobrillo Quantimator Freqbox env in ,fm in and wave in from Moog MP 201 ( Midi sync) clocked by Logic via 4ms RCD trigger for Optomix from Renè ( XY ) and Kenton clock out mixed by CP251to ADSR from Sherman filterbank 2 Drum Logic Ultrabeat 3 tracks"
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