"Customized Korg KP2 Kaoss Pad. The original casing was replaced with distressed barn wood giving this KP2 a unique style like no other. The main purpose for this customization was to allow for additional room within the box for further modifications. As you likely know, many mods can be made to these units. This one has had a hold switch added to the right side to allow for an effect to be kept on without having to hold down the spring lever. This free’s up your hands to work with other instruments effects as you make your music.
Another mod that was attempted was to add a 1/4” input and output. However, this mod seems to not function properly. The standard stock input and output connections do work perfectly fine."
"Prophet X Sound Demo Part 3. DSI Prophet X sounds being demoed by me. Just going through some of the Prophet X Synthesizer Presets and 8dio sample patches."
"This is all getting very serious. I feel like I'm at church. Give it another day of this and I'll be feeling guilty for no reason whatsoever. I think I'd better have a lie down and play some Jefferson Airplane in the morning.
Some notes RE the Chorale: Liszt worked on the set at the end of the 1870's, with the plan being to make a collection of piano arrangements of sacred songs, the set written for Cardinal Gustav Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst - but Liszt only partially completed the set. Still, the pieces are worth a look.
A few here will likely be familiar with the surname Hohenlohe - especially so if you know the poetry of Rilke.
RE this recording: I assume it goes without saying that the score doesn't indicate a filter sweep on the final chord! But it sounds good. At least, to my ear it does. SEM filter very obvious on this patch.
"The Kawai SX-210 is a very rare synth. It's an 8 voice poly synth with 4 poly stack mode as well as mono mode and chord mode. Built in chorus gives you the ability to hit those Juno sounds as well as polysix/MonoPoly sounds. It's got Sub Osc, PWM, LFO routing/trigger and more. It's a very capable and great sounding synth. It has a very large patch name display which is unique as it lets you write words for patch names rather than just a 2 or 3 digit number."
"The AX60 is a 6 voices VCO analog poly synth from 1986. This synth offer a lot of interesting modulation possibilities like pulse width modulation on every waverforms, 2 ADSR enveloppes per voices, amplitude modulation, filter modulation and exponential FM. The instrument is also bi-timbral, meaning you can split the voices and run two different patch at once. There is two selectables chorus an arpegiator and an powerful unison mode. There is a lot of knobs and sliders so the synth is very easy and fast to program."
"Did you know Morgasmatron can be used as a 2-Op FM Synth Voice? How about as a 4-Pole Low pass filter? This video walks you through a few more techniques to try with Morgasmatron that may have been overlooked.
2-OPFM:
1. Set the filters to parallel and turn Q for both all the way up.
2. Switch A to DRY and turn input A down.
3. Feed the MIX out to filter A’s FM1. This allows you use XFADE as the FM Index. Now Filter A is the Carrier and Filter B is the modulator.
4. Experiment with using Q-drive and filter A’s distortion, or feeding the Filter B output into other parameters like the 2 FM inputs. Also be sure to try modulating the XFADE input.
5. Because the left 1v/oct input controls the the pitch of both filters, they will track together and you can use the cutoff of B to create different FM ratios.
Combining Poles:
1. Set Morgasmatron to SERIAL.
2. a) Set both filters to LP2 to create a 4-pole low pass filter.
b) Set both to HP2 to create a 4-pole high pass filter.
c) Or set A to HP2 and B to LP2 to create a 2-pole bandpass filter.
3. Feed a control signal from something like Planar, Quadratt, or Tetrapad to filter A’s FM2 and set their cutoff and FM2 identically to control the two filters in tandem."
"Not to everyone's taste, but this certainy shows a completely different side to the Obi. I'm going to record the entire Chorale - but not one video after another, as that would likely be quite dull for my subscribers, and also for myself.
The edition I'm playing from is the Editio Musica Budapest new edition of the complete works. Really great edition. You'll know it as the blue hardback set with the gold writing.
When a teenager, I saved my pocket money to buy these editions. The local music shop was the long-gone Mackays music in Ayr - I'm sure many locals remember it. I'd phone Mrs. Mackay almost every two weeks and ask her to order me a new edition. I think the process became quite tiring for her!
This was back in the pre-internet days, where music awareness was through magazines, and whatever was on the shelf. I remember at the time, when purchasing these books, wondering why almost every Liszt CD was Mephisto Waltz/Hungarian Rhapsody etc when clearly he had composed a huge volume of music - with the scores easily available. Nothing much has changed in this respect i.e. most Liszt recordings are of the standard works.
I always had an affinity for late Liszt. Many of his late works still remain quite obscure.
The Chorale is vocal - but it translates well to the synth. As anyone with an Obi will know, the Obi is 6-voice. The Chorale will be fully translatable to the synth - bar one work - where there are a few 7-note chords. With the exception of that specific piece, the set will be faithful to the score.
I couldn't sleep last night, hence an early morning recording. I also wanted to get my run in before Scotland once again becomes an oven. Running in our present daytime heat is madness.
I though specifically of the Chorale as I'm presently having a good debate with a friend RE certain aspects of the Bible. Most of my conversations end up on the topic of religion/philosophy, and most of my free time (when not playing music or running up mountains) is spent arguing with pastors/ministers/anyone who is open enough to the discussions.
I'm trying to win him over to the idea that the 'glory' ('kevod') of god is a vehicle/craft i.e. spacecraft. Hence Moses came down from the mountain with a burnt face i.e radiation burns, no different from sunburn. And hence the animals had to be cleared i.e. the engine would have roasted them. Which also explains the 'roaring like the sea'. But he's having none of it.
I'll win him over eventually :)
The OB6 actually works well as an organ. Perhaps churches should get them as alternatives. And if the congregation drift off, they can be woke up with a highly authentic rendition of Van Halen. That'll inject some life into the old dogs. Follow that with a sermon on Genesis 6:4 i.e. aliens having sex with the local women, and I guarantee you're on to a winner.
Van Halen + alien/human sex as mentioned in the Bible = bums on seats, for sure.
