Dave Rossum on audio Companding a SynthSummitShow special

video upload by Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"The SynthSummitShow is series of interviews with the people behind the music tech gear we love. This special episode was not intended to be a typical SynthSummitShow episode. Dave Rossum is a long time pioneer of the audio industry. Please check out the previous SynthSummitShow episode 8 [below] for a more direct interview. you can also catch the last interview we did with him on the BEATPPL episode 70. [posted here]

This conversation stems from me trying to better understand audio companding as was used in E-MU's early samplers. diving into wikipedia and other online resources, I found inadequate. Most of these online resources just assumed that the companding was the same as done in early days of telecom. This however I found to be inaccurate. So I reached out to Dave to ask him some details and what follows is the result. I can't thank Dave Rossum enough for sharing his knowledge and time with not just myself , but the community as a whole. This industry would not be the same without him and I am humbled everytime I get to speak with him."

The SynthSummitShow Episode 8 Dave Rossum : from sp1200 to modular

The SynthSummitShow ep 7: Dave Rossum of Rossum Electro-Music

Scheduled for Mar 19, 2016 Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

Check back around 2PM Pacific time for this one.

"The SynthSummitShow is a live show dedicated to synthesizers and those who make them so awesome. This week's guest is a legend amongst both the Synthesizer world but also the digital sampling world.

Dave Rossum has a long legacy as the founder of E-MU and his return to the music industry with his new company Rossum Electro-Music heralds the return of one of the truly great minds in music equipment history.

Hosted by Flux of Fluxwithit.com and sonicXpansion.com as well as special guests Ben Davis of Malekko and Jacob Waters of Roland Canada. for more info on this show and others please visit Fluxwithit.com"

The SynthSummitshow episode 8 Dave Rossum the end

The SynthSummitShow Episode 20: Taiho Yamada Synth designer

Streamed live on Jun 11, 2017 Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"The SynthSummitShow brings you interviews and discussion on the people who are responsible for the synths and gear we love. Taiho Yamada is a Synth designer and is responsible for many synth designs we know and love today. His new Company MOK has a new synthesizer released with Tracktion and is available now!
Host Ken Flux Pierce is a sound designer, synthesist and all around music tech lover."

http://fluxwithit.com/synthsummitshow-episode-20-taiho-yamada-mok-giveaway/

Taiho was the project manager behind the Alesis Andromeda A6, M-Audio Venom, as well as other synths. A search on Taiho here on MATRIXSYNTH will bring up previous posts featuring him and his work.

The SynthSummitShow episode 3: Audio Damage

Started on Nov 6, 2015 Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"The SynthSummitShow is a Live google hangout show focused on synthesizers and Musical gear. Often with interviews and an general shenanigans. Come watch live, join the Facebook group "the producers hangout" for live chat and feedback, and generally make sure you like subscribe and support all those who make this possible.

This episode has a very special guest. Christopher Randall of Audio damage. known for excellent VST effects such as Rough Rider and just as excellent Eurorack hardware modules such as the recently released Neuron FM drum synth"

Tony Rolando of Make Noise Music and Scott Jaeger of the Harvestman get a nod for helping Audio Damage get going with eurorack. Audio Damage of course were making software plug-ins prior to hardware. Chris also calls out that they partner with WMD for manufacturing.

The SynthSummitShow Episode 10: Glen Darcey Arturia

Published on May 28, 2016 Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"This is the full spliced together episode!
The SynthSummitShow is a live web show dedicated to synthesizers and the audio geeks that make it all happen. find out more at Fluxwithit.com

Hosted by Flux of Fluxwithit.com - Flux is a sound designer, Music technologist, consultant, and music producer.

Guest hosts today include : Corry of Bboytechreport.com - Corry is a hip hop producer and music tech blogger
Bryce aka Upright - Bryce is a hip hop producer, modular synth enthusiast and blogger.

Our Guest: Glen Darcey is VP of Product Management at Arturia. his career spans 4 decades in the music industry. Responsible for iconic products like the MPK and APC-40 controllers as well as the MiniBrute, beatstep series and much more."

The SynthSummitShow Episode 24: Percussa

Streamed live 3 hours ago Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"The SynthSummitShow is a live streamed show focusing on music technology and the people behind it.
For more info about Percussa please visit https://www.percussa.com
Host Ken Flux Pierce is a Sound designer, producer and music tech consultant. Follow along at Fluxwithit.com
you can support by liking , sharing and also visiting shop.Fluxwithit.com. Sound packs are also available through Sounds.com and BigFishaudio.com"

The SynthSummitShow Knobcon 2016 Live special

Streamed live 7 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"The SynthSummitShow discussing all wonderful synth thins. This episode we are live from Knobcon 2016 with Paul Schreiber of Synthesis Technology and Ben Davis of Malekko"

The SynthSummitShow episode 11: Electro-Acoustic Research Peter Grenader

Streamed live 3 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"Fluxwithit.com presents the SynthSummitShow , a semi weekly show dedicated to Synths and the people behind them. This week we have Peter Grenader of Electro-Acoustic Research (formerly Plan B modular)"

The SynthSummitShow Episode 17: Hyve touch synth Skot Weidmann

Streamed live 2 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"the SynthSummitShow is a show dedicated to introducing gear lovers to those who create the gear they love.
This week we have Skott Weidmann of Hyvesynth.com to discuss his new 60 voice analog touch synth and its kickstarter campaign"

The SynthSummitShow episode 7 Malekko heavy industries

Streamed live 2 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

Previous episodes of the SynthSummitShow.

The SynthSummitShow episode 6 Guest Paul Soulsby synthesizers

Streamed live 20 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

Http://Fluxwithit.com

"The SynthSummitShow is dedicated to bringing you interesting discussion about synthesizers and music gear ranging from modular to stand alone gear. This weeks guest is Paul soulsby of Soulsby synthesizers."

The SynthSummitShow episode 18: John Bowen synth designs

Streamed live 5 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

Fascinating bit of synth history with John Bowen who started his career with synths during the early days of Moog Music, followed by Sequential Circuits. Dave Rossum in the early days of E-mu is mentioned as well. John now of course runs John Bowen Synth Design, and is the creator of the Solaris. You can find previous interviews with John at various synth events in the archives here.

Interesting little bit of trivia at 41:55 regarding John drawing some of the Prophet-VS waveforms as estimations of the waveforms on the front panel of I'm guessing either the KORG DW-8000 or DW-6000. It's interesting to know they are in there. It's worth noting all of the Prophet-VS waveforms and Waldorf, and therefor PPG waveforms, are in his new Solaris x 4, meaning four independent oscillators capable of having separate waveforms or wavetables from each. The Prophet-VS vector synthesis of course made its way to Yamaha's SY-22/TG-33, followed by Korg and the Wavestation where it morphed into vector sequencing. He also worked on the original version of the KORG OASYS which turned into the PCI card version. He then left to work with Creamware on Scope, on some of the first software models of vintage synthesizers. It's pretty incredible when you think of all the connections between synths John has not only influenced, but created over the years.

Note the Solaris 1U rackmount at 1:11:48. Two were made a couple of years ago but the idea was scrapped. John spoke with Axel Hartmann on it and they agreed that the lack of UI made it not worth it. The Solaris has over 1200 editable parameters and part of the magic behind the Solaris keyboard is the UI which makes it all easily accessible.

Funny note regarding the Yamaha DX7 at 1:23:00. John is referring to the Jellinghuas controller for the DX7 after that, and Flux is referring to the DTronics DT7 based on it.

Video description:

"The SynthSummitShow is a live streamed show dedicated to Synths, music technology and the people who make the gear we use possible.

Todays guest is John Bowen. http://www.johnbowen.com/about.html

John was instrumental in many of the products we all know and love, from the prophet 5 to the solaris John has been a staple in the music industry.

Host: Ken Flux Pierce is a sound designer, Music technology consultant and blogger you can find me at Fluxwithit.com"

The SynthSummitShow episode 12: Animodule (Jesse McCreadie)

Streamed live 3 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"The SynthSummitshow is a semi weekly show where I interview synthesizer manufacturers and those in the audio industry.
you can find out more at Fluxwithit.com
check out Animodule.com for more great modules."

The SynthSummitShow Episode 2: Paul Schreiber (Synthesis Technology) and A.Dapt (music producer) ...

Streamed live on Oct 2, 2015 Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

"The SynthSummitShow is a weekly show devoted to all things Synth and gear. interviews, tips and tricks, reviews, candid banter and much more.

This week I bring in to the show Paul of Synthesis Technology. Paul has a long history in the world of synths and a great set of new modules in Eurorack format to discuss

Also joining is A.Dapt a california based electronic music producer who specializes in DSI synths and modular usage."

The SynthSummitShow Episode 23: Vintage Synth Lab

Streamed live 3 hours ago Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"The SynthSummitShow is a live interview show dedicated to putting a face to the gear we use and love.
Vintage Synth Lab is a eurorack module manufacturer who focus on creating usable musical modular devices.

Host Ken Flux Pierce is a Sound designer, producer and music tech consultant. Follow along at Fluxwithit.com
you can support by liking , sharing and also visiting shop.Fluxwithit.com. Sound packs are also available through Sounds.com and BigFishaudio.com"

The SynthSummitShow Episode 27: Jorg Schaaf Radikal Technologies

Published on May 26, 2019 Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"The SynthSummitShow is a show dedicated to shedding light on the creators behind the gear that we know and love."

The SynthSummitShow episode 25 Metasonix

Started streaming 28 minutes ago Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"The SynthSummitShow is a Live streaming Interview show by sound designer Ken Flux Pierce for FluxWithIt.com where he interviews Both Industry legends and upcoming creators of the musical gear that shapes the way we create.

This episode we welcome Eric Barbour founder of Metasonix. Eric has a long history as one of the premier Vacuum tube synth designers and has had his work featured on countless albums."

The SynthSummitShow Ep. 34 Gary Chang

video upload by Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

Beautiful Wiard system in the backgroud.

"about Todays guest : Gary Chang is an American composer of scores for film and television. Working primarily in the action and thriller genres, he has composed the scores to over seventy films, including Under Siege, Sniper, and The Island of Dr. Moreau. He is also a long-time collaborator of directors John Frankenheimer and Craig R. Baxley. For his work on Under Siege, he won a BMI Award.[1]"

You can find additional posts mentioning Gary Chang here.

The SynthSummitShow Ep 30 Twisted Electrons

Published on Apr 26, 2020 Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"On the show we have Alex of https://twisted-electrons.com/ to discuss the MegaFM, Deton8 and Acid8 desktop units."

The SynthSummitShow episode 22: Warm star Electronics (eurorack module manufacturer)

Streamed live 23 hours ago Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"A Live show focusing on Synths, Modular, and all things gear related including interviews of some of the most interesting people in the industry and much more.
Hosted By Sound Designer and Music Technologist Ken Flux Pierce (I have severe ADD and it shows in this episode)"