MATRIXSYNTH

Best Synth Solo Ever Recorded // Note by Note

video upload by Starsky Carr

"In 1979 Gary Numan toured 'The Touring Principle' in which Billy Currie played a stunning synth solo during the performance of On Broadway, which appears on the Living Ornaments 79 album. This is widely considered as one of, if not, the best synth solos ever. It's musically accomplished and technically brilliant moving from organic orchestral style tones to worm hole ripping screeching electronic sync tones and back again.

It's a wonderfully emotional and very clever performance. In this I break it down note by note and show each of the tweaks on the synth (the Arp Odyssey) to get those dramatic changes in timbre."

0:00 A Little Bit of History
2:55 What's So Good About It?
5:22 How to Recreate the Basic Tone
7:23 Breaking Down the Solo
14:07 THE SOLO - Putting it All Together

960 Sequencer Advanced Techniques #2

video upload by O.Z. Hall

Part 1 here

"This is the second video on advanced techniques with the 960 Sequential Controller. We'll be using the Behringer System 55 with two 960 model sequencers in Eurorack format.

We'll highlight some features of the 960 sequencers, as well as a limitation of the Step Gate Input and Output jacks. We'll also begin to explore how to implement Rests on the 960.

TIMECODE
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - 960 Features and
2:04 - Limitation on Step Gate Input/Output patching
2:44 - Technique 1 - Fix for Step Gate Input/Output patching Limitation
4:37 - Technique 2 - Create a Rest
5:33 - Use Row 3 as Velocity Control
9:18 - Gater Effect using Velocity
10:32 - Conclusion"

Radikal Technologies Accelerator soundscape II - Mists of yesterday

video upload by MIDERA

"Wow - I didn't realize how hot the Accelerator can run, and I ended up clipping the sound a few times. This is what happens when I use the string filter (karplus-strong synthesis). You can get really plucky sounds, but it can also do pretty good strings. Was fun to make - just wish I hadn't clipped the track so bad.

I had turned on the accelerometer - and found it to add some random interesting changes (in case you're wondering why I hit the side of it a few times).

No external FX used."