Korg Minilogue & Boss RV6 Reverb

Published on Nov 21, 2016 3rdStoreyChemist

"Minilogue - RV6 (Mono in, Stereo out)

No further processing used except for normalisation."

Dave Smith Instruments "In the Spotlight with the Tempest" with Bear’s Den

The 3rd in the Dave Smith Instruments' "In The Spotlight with the Tempest" series is currently up with BEAR’S DEN here.

"Inspired by, among other things, the paintings of Edward Hopper, the short stories of Raymond Carver, and film director Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, Bear’s Den is both erudite and intensely personal, defying trends and easy labelling. Musically, it also sees a startling progression. Following the amicable departure of guitarist Joey Haynes they are now a six piece touring unit built around a nucleus of Andrew Davie and multi-instrumentalist Kev Jones. While the band’s folk roots are still evident, they now come cloaked in the lush alchemy of ‘70’s and ‘80’s FM rock: Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, and in particular, the nocturnal ambience of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town, alongside more contemporary artists such as The National, and Sufjan Stevens."

You can find previous posts featuring DSI's Spotlight series here.

Improvisation LXXIII for DSI Prophet '08 and Poly Evolver

Published on Nov 21, 2016 Sacred Synthesis

"This improvisation makes use of a soft metallic digital pad on the Poly Evolver, a string pad on one Prophet '08, and a flute-like solo patch on another Prophet '08.

The digital pad is either mellow or shrill, based on the position of the filter cut off frequency, which is controlled by the modulation wheel. Its extreme upper range has much aliasing.

The Prophet '08 string pad uses a 2-pole filter setting with a high resonance level,, and its filter is similarly controlled by the modulation wheel. This creates a somewhat tinny sound when the filter is opened wide. That's okay; these pieces are only musical experiments. Live and learn! Also, as always, the filter is very slowly modulated by an LFO. This creates a slight crescendo whenever a note or chord is sustained and gives the pad a slight heaving/breathing quality.

The flute sound seems simple enough, but it is deceptively elaborate. It consists of a narrow pulse and a square. The pulse width of each wave form is very slightly and slowly modulated. In addition, an LFO slowly modulates between one oscillator and the other. This means there is a subtle chorus effect from the PWM, a changing of timbre as the narrow pulse changes to a square and then back again, a faint beating of oscillators when the two briefly meet in the middle, plus a delayed vibrato which is either maintained by a smooth connected playing technique or retriggered (and thus, delayed) by a broken disconnected playing technique. its filter, too, is controlled by the modulation wheel. Of course, these effects are detectible only when a long note is heard, and that's fine, because they're meant to be musical nuances that don't overly attract attention to themselves.

Last but not least, the bass patch is changed according to the dynamics of the music. This is not always so easy to achieve, since it requires a free hand during a section that is also not using the pedalboard.

One further note. Since I'm playing with both hands and feet, I rarely have a limb free for making dynamic changes with a pedal. As a result, I program dynamic changes into the sounds themselves. One only has to sustain a note or chord in order to open up the volume and timbre. In this piece, I often do this after holding a note on the upper Prophet '08, which has the flute-like patch. This is always at the end of a phrase and in preparation for a change of keyboards. As I sustain the note with one finger, I simultaneously reach down with my thumb and press a note on the lower Prophet '08. The effect is that the flute sound slowly merges with the string sound, which then slowly opens up by means of its LFO, completely overtaking the flute sound. It sounds like I've got a tasteful sound engineer, or have done some carefully mixing after the recording. Nope! It's all automatic.

Instrumentation:
DSI Prophet '08 Keyboard (2)
DSI Prophet '08 Module
DSI Poly Evolver Keyboard
DSI Poly Evolver Rack
DSI Evolver Desktop
Hammond XPK 200L Pedalboard

Effects:
Lexicon MX300 for reverb
Alesis Nanoverb 2 for delay

Performed and recorded live and directly to CD

ALL MUSIC PROPERTY OF SACRED SYNTHESIS 2016"

Roland RS-505 Paraphonic SN 730150

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Vintage Moog 1130 Percussion/Drum Controller

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"The Moog 1130 Drum Controller from the 1970's. Was an analog drum pad controller marketed as an accessory for Moog synthesizers, including the Mini Moog and Sonic Six, according to the original ad, the 1130 'actuates unique musical tones with drumsticks'."

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Synth Brochures for the Roland JP-8000, Yamaha AN1x, MU90R and Kawai K3m

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• Roland JP-8000: 6-page fold out
• Yamaha AN1X: 4-page fold-out
• Yamaha MU90R: 4-page fold-out
• Kawai K3m: 4-page fold-out

Kind of cool to see what these looked like.

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Erica Synths Pico Drums & Pico DSP Sound Demo

Published on Nov 21, 2016 Erica Synths
Update: new video title, previously titled Dimitrios Sismanis.

"All sounds are generated just by the Pico Drum and Pico DSP modules.
When the red wire is plugged into the Pico DSP module first parameter of selected effect is being modulated by the Black LFO.

Sample packs on Pico Drum by:
Nero Bellum
Otto Von Schirach"

Limbus

Published on Nov 21, 2016 Dimitrios Sismanis

"Voices:

Intro voice: Spectrum 1 into Optomix and then Rainmaker. Sequenced by two channels from Temps Utile, one modulated by Octocontroller, both into Plog. Pitch from Wogglebug quantized by ADDAC 207.

Bass: Spectrum 2 into Polaris and Veils. Sequenced by Rene clocked by Knit Rider. Envelope from Dual ADSR.

Clicks, pops, drones: Piston Honda into MMG and then DLD followed by Clouds , sequenced by Turing Machine, quantizing by ADDAC207, modulated by ADDAC501 into WMD SSM.

Kick: Basimilus Iteritas Alter sequenced by Knit Rider.

Snare: Grandpa into Chronoblob, sequenced by Knit Rider, modulated by Bastl CV Trinity.

Hats: Noise from Turing Machine into Polivoks VCF, modulated by Octocontroler.

Clocks from Temps Utile and Pamela's Workout. Modulation by Octocontroller, Wogglebug, ADDAC 501 int"

Murmux2 Oscillator Study - Ned Bouhalassa

Published on Nov 21, 2016 NedOnAnalog

"I'm so happy to have this wonderful synth! Thank you, Greek masters! Here is the first of a series of studies of this analog wonder, starting with the oscillators."

All tubes by Weinglas

"'All Tubes' is the latest release from European noisemaker Weinglas. All tracks from this strange ride into darkness were created with the help of modular synthesizers and sound machines made with tubes. Thanks to Brian from Zerosum Inertia, Eric from Metasonix and W.T. from Trogotronic, who designed and produced these strange machines, Weinglas could turn the warmth and rawness of these old fashioned elements into never-before-heard walls of noise, sounding modern and vintage at the same time."

The following is a video for Tubemaster 2, the 10th track on the release on Vicmod Records.



Published on Nov 19, 2016 Wein Glas

"A Strange Electronic Sequence from a Buchla 200e Skylab with a Zerosum Inertia ZIMM03 Tube Module installed.

This is another track from my release "All Tubes" on vicmod records: https://vicmodweinglas.bandcamp.com/a..."