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DSI Prophet REV 2 - Custom Patches 76 to 100 - GEOSynths.com

Published on Jul 11, 2017 GEOSynths

"Another 25 custom patches for the Dave Smith Instruments REV 2. Just 28 more and we have a full Bank! Yay!!! Is an interesting and challenging Synt, it's definately a Prophet 08, but...more!"

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Art + Music + Technology Podcast 183: Dave Rossum Interview

You can find the full transcript on Synthtopia here.

via Art + Music + Technology:

"Dave Rossum has quite a history. From helping to start up E-mu Systems, managing its acquisition by Creative Labs (and working with them through a 10-year run of amazing designs) and the creation of Rossum Electro-Music, Dave has been designing the heck out of music instruments. I was really excited when the Synthtopia folks we able to pull this interview together, since I've been a fan of E-mu devices for a long, long time, and have been mesmerized by the new modules he's been developing.

In our chat, we talk in detail about the development of the early E-mu modular system, the move into sampling technology, the effect of the Creative purchase and the technology developments behind the Proteus lineup. We also go into detail about Dave's design work with the new series of modules that he's working on, as well as the upcoming sampler module that has everyone humming.

This was a lot of fun, and super-educational; I learned an awful lot about the various technological advances behind samplers and sample-based systems. Given my renewed interest in sampling, that was very interesting to me. But his views on analog and digital modular designs, and his willingness to take on impossible projects and find a way to make 'em work - it was inspirational."

Korg Polysix SN 399436 w/ Custom Oak Wood Side Panels & Case

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Why everyone with a Minilogue should have a Volca Keys

Published on Jul 11, 2017 Flohr

"Minilogue x Volca Keys. Mono recording with an iRig. No external fx. I turn the Volca Keys up at 0:18."

Two Verbos Complex Oscillators & two Dual Four Pole Filters

Published on Jul 11, 2017 Boele Gerkes

"Live recording with two Verbos Complex Oscillators en two Dual Four Pole filters driven by two independent arpeggiators. Modulation from Random Sources and Batumi LFOs."

RAVE-O-LUTION309 & TORAIZ AS-1 懐かしの309で遊んでみた！

Published on Jul 11, 2017 SHINGA Instant techno

#Arduino Cube at ROTE FLORA. LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER ON THE ROAD

Published on Jul 11, 2017 LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

"I played at ROTE FLORA in Hamburg! sadly we couldnt shoot the show. :(. But managed to ask Till Schlemmermeier Who built the amazing Arduino Light Cube on the Ceiling with Yannig Gicquel.

Till said if you want to ask him any questions fire over an email:-

till.schlemmermeier(AT)gmail(DOT)com

#roteflora #tour"

RICHARD D. JAMES (Aphex Twin) Interviews Korg's Tatsuya Takahashi

korg funk 5 [Audio] Published on Jul 11, 2017 Korg

First an all KORG track from RICHARD D. JAMES that accompanies the interview.

"© 2017 RICHARD D. JAMES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The all korg track created using:
Korg Monologue x3
Korg MS-20 kit
Korg Poly-61M
Korg Volca keys
Korg Volca beats
Korg Volca sample
Korg Minilogue
son on vox

Read the full article with Richard D. James and synth designer Tatsuya Takahashi here:
http://found.ee/aphex-korg

Graphic by Ryo Asakura (Seventhgraphics)
http://seventh.graphics/"

You can thank Richard D. James for the mircrotuning on Monologue.

"RICHARD D. JAMES: I really enjoyed working on this with you. I know I only joined the project near the end, but I found it really exciting. Like a proper job, ha.

TATSUYA TAKAHASHI: Richard, it was amazing working with you on the monologue. And now to be interviewed by you?!? That's crazy. But also a lot of fun. The monologue was also the last Korg synth that I was involved with directly, so I guess it's a nice conclusion to things.

RDJ: It is now the only synth on the market currently being made to have full microtuning editing, congratulations!

TT: Thanks! But it was completely because of you that we included microtuning. If you hadn't insisted on it, I definitely wouldn't have discovered how powerful it was. Did you ever have a moment of realisation, or some kind of trigger that made you discover microtuning?

RDJ: The first thoughts that I had about tuning in general happened with my early noodlings on a Yamaha DX100, one of the first synths I saved up for. I remember looking at the master tuning of 440 Hz and thinking I would change it, for no other reason apart from it was set by default to that frequency and that it could be changed."

Be sure to read the full interview. It's a fascinating read and it reminded me of why I got into synthesis back in 1986 or so myself. My first synth was the Oberheim Matrix-6, hence the whole "matrix" thing. The appeal wasn't to play conventional music, but rather to explore sound - to explore moods.