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Kawai K5000S Wicked Soundscapes

YouTube Published on Aug 4, 2012 by gstormelectro

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"This synth was literally rescued from a garbage heap. I have refurbished it w/ a new LCD, reconstructed the shattered end caps, and performed exhaustive deep-cleaning of the programming interface boards. The sounds presented in this video mark my first work programming Additive. All sounds are coming directly from the K5000S, no other processing added.

The Kawai K5000S is quite the under-rated Additive synthesizer. It is unbelievable to me a piano company like Kawai have turned out such a stellar vehicle as this one. Programming Additive requires a great deal of persistence, but the reward of huge sonics are smashing as digital sounds go.

The on-board effects engine is first rate. The ensemble chorus is a surprisingly faithful vintage emulation which I haven't really noticed available on any modern hardware synth @ 0:36

The K5000S has a precise formant filter for dialing in choirs @ 0:10, 1:28 and 3:06.

Sounds @ 2:13 and 2:31 feature prominently on my forthcoming track "Polar Shift".

Vintage electronic organs of the day used additive techniques to generate their sounds through electro-mechanical tone wheels. Similarly in programming the K5000S, organ sounds are always pulling at you like gravity. Most of them are static and some are quite interesting such as @ 2:56.

The last three sounds starting @ 4:22 were patches downloaded from the internet Chroom + Stucco (which use the on-board PWMs), and Microvox (additives)."

Inside a Moog Minitaur

via Till Kopper's website where you'll find additional info and pics.

"There are two funny additions seen on the board:

1) There is a tiny ladder printed on the board next to the SMD components that build up the transistor ladder filter.

C129, C132, C148 and C149 are the capacitors of the filter. The original Moog Taurus used a transistor array chip CA3045 for the top and bottom transistor pair. The Voyager uses a CA3086 transistor array for all 5 pairs of transistors of the filter ladder. On the Minitaur they (Q15, Q16, Q19, Q20 and Q22) are discrete transistor pairs.

The Moog Taurus III uses through-hole capacitors (C103-C105) for the filter ladder. And SMD transistor pairs (Q06-Q10). So the Minitaur filter is not exactly the same as on the Taurus III. But who cares, if the sound is right.

2) At about the middle of the board, there is the inscription "ENTER THE LABYRINTH ..." printed on the board. This is referring to the Greek mythology of the Minotaur. -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur"

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Pollisynth for iPhone, scan a picture, make a sound, share it

YouTube Published on Aug 4, 2012 by Ashley Elsdon

"I like this app. I like that it scans a picture then makes a sound from it. I'd quite like to see it get a few more features, but hopefully it'll just be kept alive."

"Mission: To more fully understand the colors that surround us we must engage an additional sense.

A Pollisynth takes a picture of something, and then translates that picture into a unique sound-wave. As stated above, in order to fully understand the colors that surround us we must engage an additional sense. A Pollisynth can be the gateway to your mindbrain, and can give you a good time doing it.

Remember that the spark to take a picture begins in the MIND, and funny enough, ends in the MIND once a song is made. There are a lot of ways to play with a Pollisynth - two people taking a picture of the same thing and then playing it, a gang of kids taking pictures of SLUSHIES and then making a harmonized song out of the soundwaves...

By logging into Facebook with Pollisynth you can post your sound-waves to your timeline as Presets. Your Facebook friends will be able to see and try out these Presets with their own Pollisynth and listen to your imagery. You can also re-download Presets you have uploaded and use Facebook as a Pollisynth sound bank online. For those who have reservations about Facebook, SMS and Email can be used to share images from your photo library that you know to generate worthy sounds. This works because the sounds are not random but entirely derived from the image, so rescanning an image will always result in the same sound so long as it hasn't been manipulated. Your photo library will always serve as your offline sound bank.

Pollisynth was first developed by Thomas Ruby in 1987. After having passed away in 2006, Salisbury's son, Jamie, continued his father's work. As a company we stand by the Pollisynth and we stand by the Rubaic principles of Oneness, Honor, and Good Times."

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