Pressure

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Jun 19, 2010

Note this one is from 2010. I thought I posted it before, but couldn't find it. Click here for all posts featuring attorks.

"I don't like watching the world cup soccer so I am having a bit of fun with this improvisation. I only had the sequence dialed in and just made up the intro. Then I thought lets record a video. And this is the result which is all done in one take. I hope you like it. Rows 1 and 3 of the Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer are connected to the Synthesizers.com Modular doing the high sequence. I alternate manually between rows 1 and 3 with the Q962 sequential switch. Row 2 is connected to the self-built Modular doing a bass sequence. Intro, outro and chord are played on the Waldorf Q Keyboard. The solo is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1 and the Mellotron strings on the Roland XP-80."

The making of 'Missing You'

YouTube via attorks | January 20, 2011 |

music comes in at 4:14

"Last Monday evening I made a video with the title 'Missing You'. But for some reason I am not able to upload it to YouTube. I tried 4 times but after a while I get the message 'Failed (upload aborted)'. So this evening I thought, let's make a video explaining the actions I did in that video. I had to keep my voice somewhat low because my daughter was sleeping in a room on the floor below me. The video 'Missing You' and the music of that video are available on my website." http://www.attorks.nl/html/main.html - video link on the left.

Purple MOTM-510 For Attorks ;-)

YouTube via JohnLRice

"Just some fun trying to rework a patch using a Synth Tech MOTM-510 WaveWarper module to sound more like the opening of Deep Purple's song Space Truckin'. inspired by Attorks! ;-)

It really does sound much better played extremely loud!!!!"

ZOOM RhythmTrak RT-323 Rhythm Machine

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via this auction

"One of the RhythmTrak series, the interface has been dramatically improved from the previous model, and the data visibility has been enhanced with an LCD display. It comes with 400 preset patterns and 100 user patterns, 64 preset drum kits and 64 user drum kits, and 377 built-in sound sources."

Note this is the first post to picture the ZOOM RhythmTrak RT-323, however, it was used in a few videos by attorks previously posted here.

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A humble theme

YouTube via attorks

"The self build Modular (MFM) doing the african drum like sound and the Synthesizers.com with the CGS Steiner filter and the Ian Fritz 5-Pulser doing the odd note. Some improvisation on the AX80, the theme on the Nord Lead 1 and a singing G on the Kawai 100F completes the music."

Merry-go-round

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YouTube via attorks | July 24, 2010

"It all started last Thursday evening when I saw the 'Comparing PPG 2.2 & Hermann Seib PPG WAVESIM Software' videos on the MATRIXSYNTH website. I downloaded the VSTi from a somewhat confusing website and I tried in in Ableton Live. Very soon I came up with a 4 track sequence with 3 PPG voices (Buzz, Bells and Bass) and some CR78 drums. But at the end of the evening, when trying to save the session, Live hang. The next day I tried to recover the session, which worked. But trying to save the session made Live hang again. After some investigation I found out that the PPG VSTi caused the problem but I could not fix it. This evening I added 2 MIDI tracks for the Creamware MiniMax ASB (track 6 MIDI) and the Waldorf Q Keyboard (track 7 MIDI). I had to decide what to video; me playing the strings and solo or the Live screen. Sorry, but I choose the easiest way. What you see in the video are clips in Ableton Live which are pre-recorded in a loop. I added the strings on the Roland XP-80 and the solo on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. The strings and solo are both played live and not by Live.

The video and music is about 13 minutes long. You can download them from the video section of from my website."

Tenderness

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Jan 14, 2012

"I recently bought the Camera Connection Kit for my iPad and an ESI MIDIMATE II MIDI interface which has two cable which both can function as out- or input. And here a video using Little MIDI Machine sequencer App on the iPad. One ESI MIDI cable is connected to the Creamware MiniMax ASB which MIDI Thru is connected to the Waldorf Q Keyboard. The green 16-step sequence screen is driving the MiniMax and the orange 8-step one the Q. The second ESI MIDI cable is connected to the Doepfer MAQ16/3 sequencer to synchronize it. The 8-step sequence on row 1 of the MAQ16/3 is driving the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO which is driving the Blacet Miniwave. The 4-step sequence on row 2 is driving the self-built Modular. The gate of row 3 is shifting the Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer which has an 8-step sequence for the bass with only step 1 active on the Q963 trigger bus and later on also step 7. The Mellotron flute sound is played on the Roland XP-80 and the solo on the Clavia Nord Lead 1.

The video is filmed by my girlfriend Anne using my iPhone 4."

Another simple theme

YouTube via attorks.

That's the Kawai 100f on top and Akai AX80 on bottom.
"Another simple theme; still no keyboard wizardry here. The first sequenced sound is a MFM VCO through an Ian Fritz 5Pulser through an Oakley Equinoxe Phaser. The second sound is a MFM VCO through a CGS Steiner Filter. The bassline is done by the Synthesizers.com modular. The MAQ16/3 is not visible in this video but is on top of the cabinets."

A Saint Valentine's Day theme

YouTube via attorks

"Happy Valentine's Day to you all. For this occasion a somewhat romantic theme. Row 1 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 drives the Synthesizers.com Modular, row 2 the self built Modular and row 3 the Creamware MiniMax ASB. The solo's are performed by the AKAI AX80 with the P1 piano preset and the Korg 900PS wih the Voice and Clarinet presets. The cello like bass is performed by the Clavia Nord Lead 1."

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

AKS Jam Session 18-02-2012

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Feb 20, 2012

"On Saturday 18-02-2012 the living room of my house in Dordrecht was changed into a synthesizer Walhalla. That day my YouTube friends Skoulaman (Hans van Kroonenburg), KeesVangelis (Rene de Bakker) and me planned to get together to see if we can make some music. I know Hans for a few years now because I like his music on YouTube very much and we occasionally met at his place or mine to talk about synthesizers and make some music. I am a big fan of the music of KeesVangelis on YouTube and I met Rene last year at the E-Day festival in Oirschot. Hans was also there and we decided that we three should try to make some real live music without the use of laptops as most performers at E-Day did. We only did not know how to realize this because we don't live in each others neighborhood. And things got quiet then. At New Year 2012 one of my objectives were to see if I or the three of us could perform live at E-Day/Live sometime. So I mailed Hans and Rene to see what was possible. Because the three of us never played together we first wanted to see if we could cooperate to make music worthwhile. We did very little preparation for this session so it was a real jam session interacting to each other. And I think it worked out very well. This video was made at the end of the day and shows 3 ideas: at first a sequence of mine on the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the Creamware MiniMax ASB, second a sequence of Rene on his MAQ16/3 driving a Waldorf Blofeld and third an arpeggiator sequence of Hans on his Moog Little Phatty. Anne filmed the session using an iPhone 4. Hope you enjoy the video and music as much as we did enjoy that day.

PS: the laptop you see in the video was only used to record the music."

Incredible

YouTube via attorks | November 11, 2010

"Yesterday evening I was dialing in some sequences and it sounded very nice. But after recording a video it appeared that the sound recording was not alright, very distorted. So this evening I made a new video after first testing the sound recording. Now it is OK and the session is way better that yesterday evening so I guess this was meant to be. The song starts with an 8-step sequence on the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO/Blacet MiniWave voice and a bass tone from the Synthesizers.com which is driven by the Q960. The Q963 is used to turn on and off individual stages for the bass tones. After that arpeggiated tones from the Waldorf Q Keyboard are introduced. Then the volume of the 8-step sequence from the MAQ16/3 for the self-built Modular is turned up. Strings are played on the Roland XP-80 and the solo on the Clavia Nord Lead 1.

The title refers to my friend Anne; she is a truly incredible woman.

The whole video is just over 20 minutes long and will be available soon from my website."

A sliding theme

YouTube via attorks

"I wanted to show off with a second hand Doepfer R2M ribbon controller I bought 2 days ago. I hope you excuse me for the odd false note because it is not easy to get the pitch right. I have put some marks with a pencil on the side to have some guidance.

In the beginning you hear the 8-step sequences from the self-built Modular and the Creamware MiniMax ASB (not visible). After that the 3rd sequence is added which drives the Clavia Nord Lead 1 generating a brass-type sound. This is a 12-step sequence but the timing is different as for rows 1 and 2.

The Solina-like strings is produced by the Waldorf Q keyboard. The solo comes from the Synthesizers.com Modular which is driven by the CV1, CV2 and gate outputs from the Doepfer R2M. The CV1 is for the pitch and CV2 (pressure) is for the pulsewidth of the pulse wave. The bass in the last part also comes from the Nord Lead 1."

Looks like I posted this one already here.

Translucent

video upload by Martin Peters

"Sometimes I get a melody or sequence line in my head and I record it humming in my iPhone. And sometimes I program that in the Cirklon. Most of the time it appears that it hasn't got the potential that I thought it would have. Then I start changing bits and then all of the sudden I think it is going somewhere. That's how this track was born and recorded in about 2 hours.

The track starts with sequences from the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator, the Tom Oberheim SEM and the Synthesizers.com Modular doing the bass-line with some randomness. After that a sequence on the DSI Mopho is added. An FM-like tone from the Waldorf Q Keyboard is used for the melody followed by the Roland JD-800 for some Fairlight-like chords. After that the Verbos Harmonic Oscillator doubles the sequence from the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator.The track is recorded live on the X-Live SD card of the Behringer X32 Compact and mixed afterwards in Studio One.

You can download the track on Bandcamp:
https://attorks.bandcamp.com/track/tr..."

One Hundred

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Sep 24, 2011

"Uploaded my first video to YouTube in May 2008. And now 3 years later I upload the hundredth video. I was a little worried after doing video 99 because I wanted video 100 to be something special. And I think it is. Hope you will like it to.

At first you hear a 5-step sequence on row 1 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO and the Blacet Miniwave. The percussive noise sound comes from the self-built Modular and is driven by a 16-step sequence on row 2 of the MAQ16/3.

After that the CS Saw Pad from the Roland XP-80 comes in whereafter the 4 step sequence from the Synthesizers.com Q960 is introduced but only steps 1 and 3 are active on the Q963 at first. The Q960 sequences drives the Synthesizers.com Modular. The Q962 sequential switch is triggered by row 2 of the MAQ16/3 to alter the sequence between the 3 rows of the Q960. Row 1 contains an Em, row 2 an Am and row 3 a Bm sequence. But the chords played on the Roland XP-80 don't follow those chords exactly which gives interesting variations. After that the arppegiated sound on the Waldorf Q Keyboard is added, varying the sound with the modulation wheel. Somewhere along the line steps 2 and 4 on the Q963 are activated so you hear the full 4 step sequence from the Q960. The Sunrizer App on the iPad is used to add some chorded sounds using the Lifeforms [JD] patch. The solo is performed on the Nord Lead 1. The audio is recorded with Pro Tools 9 using the Alesis MultiMix16 FireWire. Again my friend Anne used my iPhone 4G to video this session; thanks for that.

I dedicate this video to you, my dear YouTube friends, subscribers and channel watchers. Your comments and support encouraged me to go on. Thank you.

You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website soon."

A warriors theme

YouTube via attorks.

BTW, any video that mentions MATRIXSYNTH gets an automatic post.

"I always wonder where the inspiration come from but again I think this video is different then all the previous ones. It began this evening when looking at new items on MATRIXSYNTH website when I looked at this video of the FabFilter Twin 2 virtual synth. I liked the demo and downloaded the trail at there website. I began to play with it in Ableton Live as VST and when browsing through the drums presets, I found an interesting snare drum. I altered the sound somewhat and the idea was born. Apart from the 5 MIDI tracks for controlling the Doepfer MAQ16/3 using the Novation Launchpad in Ableton Live, there are only 2 MIDI tracks with 3 clips each: one for the FabFilter Twin 2 drumsound and one controlling the Creamware MiniMax ASB with the bass sound. Then I dailed in two 8-step sequences on the Doepfer MAQ16/3 and it sounded very interesting. Added some Mellotron strings from the Roland XP-80 and there you have it. The full video is about 13 minutes which I will upload soon to my website."

The reunion

YouTube via attorks | August 17, 2010

"Last Friday I got some new Synthesizers.com modules for my 50th birthday which are used in this video: A Q171 quantizer bank, a Q963 trigger bus, a Q128 switch and a Q109 envelope generator. The Q960 sequencers drives 2 voices on row 1 and 3 using the Q171 quantizer bank the quantize the CV's. Row 1 drives the Synthesizers.com Modular. Row 3 drives the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO which is connected to the Buchla 282c clone Resonant LoPass Gate which is modulated by an Ian Fritz All-In EG. The 8 individual steps of the Q960 are switch on and off with the Q963 trigger bus. In the refrain of the track I switch the scale switch of the Q171 from scale to triad to change the pitch of some steps. The strings are performed on the Roland XP-80 with a CS imitation. The solo is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1 and some additional notes are played on the Waldorf Q Keyboard."

An apocaliptic theme

YouTube via attorks — May 13, 2010

"This afternoon I came up with a sequence with 3 voices on the Doepfer MAQ16/3 which sounded rather nice. The 3 voices are the Synthesizers.com Modular, the self-built Modular and the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO fed to the Resonant LoPass Gate. This evening I programmed Nodal to transpose the 3 sequences on the Doepfer MAQ16/3 and add another sequence for the CreamWare MiniMax ASB. I hooked up the Zoom RT-323 drum machine and in the video you see the result of the improvisation. The solo is played on the Clavia Nord Lead 1, the Mellotron strings on the Roland XP-80 and some additional chords on the Waldorf Q Keyboard."

Traveling by train

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Apr 5, 2011

"This time some music without using the Modulars. The song starts with the Zoom RhythmTrak RT-323 drummachine. After that the arpeggiated chords on the Waldorf Q Keyboard join in. The arpeggiator of the Q is clocked using MIDI from the drummachine. The solo's are performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. The Mellotron choir sound comes from the Roland XP-80 which MIDI input is connected to the MIDI output of the Q so I can play the Q and the XP-80 from the Q's keyboard. All in all a very compact piece of music but I hope you will like it.

You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website soon."

Trust me (excerpts)

YouTube via attorks | July 06, 2010

"This video starts off where the last video ended with more or less with the same setting but different sequences and some different voices. The whole video is almost 25 minutes long and this video shows 4 excerpts from that. Row 1 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 has an 8-step sequence for the self-built Modular. Row 2 is used to transpose the 2 VCO's of the Synthesizers.com Modular. Row 3 of the MAQ16/3 has a 5-step sequences and is shifting the Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer. Because some steps are turned off and on, the shifting of the Q960 is irregular which provides and interesting feel of rhythm. Row 1 of the Q960 sequencer is driving the Synthesizers.com Modular. Row 2 of the Q960 is connected to the Q150 Transistor Ladder Filter to modulate the frequency level. The Waldorf Q Keyboard and the Roland XP-80 with Mellotron string voices provide the accompaniment and the soloing is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. The original video and music can be viewed and downloaded from my website soon."

Another symphonic theme

YouTube via attorks.

"This theme is somewhat like the symphonic theme I uploaded in February of this year, yet it is also quite different ;-)

The 3 rows of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 sequencer drive 4 voices. The first voice you hear is one Q106 VCO through the CGS Steiner Synthacon VCF and the Oakley Equinoxe phaser. The second voice one Q106 VCO through the Q150 transistor ladder filter. These first 2 voices have the same 4 step sequence running on row 3. Then you hear the self build Modular running on row 2 and after that the Creamware Minimax ASB running on row 1. These 2 voices start each with a 4 step sequence which after a while is varied between 5 and 8 steps manually. Then the bass and the theme are played on the Waldorf Q keyboard with a PPG-like sound. The Mellotron-like strings are played on the Roland XP-80. The solo is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1.

I noticed the video is gradually getting out of sync with the sound; I don't know what caused that and I also didn't know how to fix that when editing the clip. So, sorry for that."