"Sequential Circuits "Choice of the month" centrefold colour advertisement featuring the Prophet-10, Prophet-5 and Pro-One from page 42 and 43 in the May 1982 issue of International Musician and Recording World."
"The theremin is the only instrument played without touching it! Watch this video to get a theramin lesson with electronic pop artist Clara Venice.
The theremin is the oldest electronic instrument that's best known as a science fiction or horror movie sound effect. Clara Venice is an electronic pop artist who can play 72 instruments, including the theremin. In this video, Clara Venice gives CBC Arts a lesson in playing this complex electronic instrument."
"my journey into modular synthesis has taken me through another interesting waypoint. there's something about the tactile wires-out rawness of this interface that i can connect to. i manipulate intuitively, i move functionally, i think expressively.
though the eurorack system i own is extremely limited in its capabilities, the more i am forced into corners, the more i enjoy the results. minimal square waves that drone unforgivingly; sine waves that beep along like a morse code machine stuck on a single letter; it's a gas.
this ep, "inventions for 3u 104hp eurorack" was not planned, just like the synth patches that make up its tracks. i found it fitting to place it in series after the previous eurorack album, mainly because of the ambience and approach that was used within the creative process.
"All sounds you can hear are generated by the Stylophone Gen X-1, with a little help from the Linn Drum and TR808! Download a free sample pack of sounds from the Gen X-1 here www.dropbox.com/personal?preview=…N_X-1_SAMPLES.zip
"ChamberTron-RE is our Rack Extension for Propellerheads Reason users and is based on the sounds of Chamberlin Tape Replay instruments.
Effectively, the forerunner to the Mellotron®, Chamberlin instruments were conceived and built between the 1950s and 1980s by a US inventor of note, Harry Chamberlin.
Because of a dislike of Rock & Roll, Harry recorded instruments that (with the exception of the shared Three Violins sound) differ markedly from those of the Mellotron, and many claim that the Chamberlin recordings are more 'open' and 'natural' sounding
ChamberTron-RE combines the best tapes from the archive of original UK tron makers, Streetly Electronics, together with those from the GForce Chamberlin instrument collection. All in an easy-to-use and highly versatile Reason, Rack Extension instrument."
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Playlist:
01-The Dubreq Stylophone Gen X-1-Introduction
"Here is a song created with multitracked Stylophone Gen X-1 analog synthesizers. All tonal elements, including effects, were created with the Gen X-1. The drums are the same tired loops from GarageBand that I like so much."
"Oberheim Matrix 1000 in full working order. Delivers huge, classic analog power. Calibrated, smooth, and quiet. Front looks good. Some rack rash on top. Includes hard-to-find working spare CEM3396 voice chip. Two sets of preset lists included (one printed on card stock). AC Cable."
Which one of the following analog synths from the 80s has the best pads and strings?
Elka EK22
Roland JX-8P
Korg DW-8000
Roland Alpha Juno 2
Roland Juno 6
What effect does the in-built chorus have on the sound?
We find out here in this shoot-out where I put them up agains each other.
These are all synths I use when I make my tracks and I love them all for their respective strenghts.
I've given each synth the same chords and intervals, both with and without the in-built chorus.
This is not a "science" test, but a musically test where I just play some pad and string sounds that I've created to be as similar as possible. There is some differences between the sounds as the internal structure of the sound engines differ. I've chosen a saw wave for all the synths (the Korg has a digitally stored saw) as an oscillator and the first three of the synths can have two oscillators, where as the last two (Juno 2 and 6) only has one.
As you can hear in the shoot-out, they can sound remarkably fat regardless.
Some reverb from the Strymon Bluesky is added on all synths. The Korg DW-8000 is given a slight stereo delay and some chorus externally to get the same amount of modulation as this do not have in-built chorus.
Listen to more of my music on: http://www.espenkraft.com"
