http://www.keithemerson.com/MiscPages/RememberingBobMoog.html
Click through for more.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Another nice one from Heath Finnie
http://www.heathfinnie.com/media/song51.mp3
From Heath:
"This song uses the following. Weird noises throughout are a Alesis
Andromeda, the bass is a Minimoog and the main lead is an ARP 2600.
Some of the more mellower sounding leads are from the minimoog. Let me
know what you think! Hopefully we will have some shows coming up soon."
From Heath:
"This song uses the following. Weird noises throughout are a Alesis
Andromeda, the bass is a Minimoog and the main lead is an ARP 2600.
Some of the more mellower sounding leads are from the minimoog. Let me
know what you think! Hopefully we will have some shows coming up soon."
Yamaha VL1 Sample from Colin
http://www.members.optushome.com.au/blitzforce/Temp/CCJ_VL1_BreathBow.mp3
I just got done listening to it. Wow. Check it out.
Notes form Colin.
"man there is a big difference between the standard factory bank patches of
the VL1-M and the full control bank ones!
The former sounded really flat and bad! Then when I loaded the full control
one, this BreathBow patch just had me playing emotive lines even with no
breath control, just usining the mod wheel 2 instead.
Sorta stringed, blown instrument. Instant flm score stuff.
You can play with so much feeling and sensitivity. I admit I even shed a
tear while playing it : ) nice VL1 reverb too!"
I just got done listening to it. Wow. Check it out.
Notes form Colin.
"man there is a big difference between the standard factory bank patches of
the VL1-M and the full control bank ones!
The former sounded really flat and bad! Then when I loaded the full control
one, this BreathBow patch just had me playing emotive lines even with no
breath control, just usining the mod wheel 2 instead.
Sorta stringed, blown instrument. Instant flm score stuff.
You can play with so much feeling and sensitivity. I admit I even shed a
tear while playing it : ) nice VL1 reverb too!"
Electronic Composer Luc Ferrari Passes Away
Via Create Digital Music. Click through title for more.
"Paris-born composer Luc Ferrari was a pioneer both of electronic and instrumental avant-garde music. He was the founding director of the Groupe de Musique Concrète in 1958 and was, along with Pierre Schaeffer, one of its leading practitioners. As a documentary producer, he profiled composers from Varèse to Cecil Taylor. He continued as an active composer, teacher/lecturer, and "sound hunter" throughout his life."
"Paris-born composer Luc Ferrari was a pioneer both of electronic and instrumental avant-garde music. He was the founding director of the Groupe de Musique Concrète in 1958 and was, along with Pierre Schaeffer, one of its leading practitioners. As a documentary producer, he profiled composers from Varèse to Cecil Taylor. He continued as an active composer, teacher/lecturer, and "sound hunter" throughout his life."
NPR - Bob Moog on Fresh Air
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4811694
A third from NPR. If you missed the other two, just search for NPR on the right there).
A third from NPR. If you missed the other two, just search for NPR on the right there).
Vintage Synth Docs: Manuals, Schematics, etc.
Wow. You never know what you'll find out there. This site has scanned docs of the following. Very cool. I love when people share this stuff instead of trying to make a buck.
- Oberheim OBXa Service Manual 1st Edition Text
- Oberheim OBXa Service Manual 1st Edition Schematics
- Oberheim OBXa Service Manual 3rd Edition
- Oberheim OBXa Factory Patches
- Oberheim DSX Owners Manual
- MOOG Sonic 6 Service Manual part1
- MOOG Sonic 6 Service Manual part 2
- MOOG Sonic 6 Operations Manual
- MOOG MICROMOOG/MULTIMOOG Service Manual
- ARP SOLUS Operations Manual
- ARP QUADRA USER Manual
- ARP QUADRA SERVICE Manual - TEXT
- ARP QUADRA SERVICE Manual - SCHEMATICS
- Sequential Circuits Prophet5 Service Manual,Rev 3.3
- DR CLICK Operation Manual
- KORG MS10 Service Manual
- Music Percussion Computer (MPC) User Manual
- EML 101 OWNER’S MANUAL
- EML 101 SERVICE MANUAL:- TEXT
- EML 101 SERVICE MANUAL - SCHEMATICS
- DIGISOUND ADSR, VCO, VCA Build Notes - (schematics, calibration)
- SSM Datasheets 2030 VCO, 2020 VCA, 2040 VCF, 2050 VCTG
- DIGISOUND PRICELIST Jan 1980
- DIGISOUND PROJECT 80 CATALOGUE ~1984
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
ARP Quadra Retrofit
A common problem with the ARP Quadra is that the membrane switches can go bad. These guys replaced the membrane switches with buttons. They also got a mention in this Sound on Sound article on the Quadra (look for Frankenstein in the More Reliabilities blue box).
Before
After
The Tannerin and Theremin Like Devices
It is a common misconception that the instrument used in the Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" was a theremin. It instead was an electro-theremin, a theremin like device with a keyboard. It was built by Paul Tanner in the late 1950s.
Paul playing the final version of the electro-theremin.
The Tannerin is a similar device recently built by Tom Polk for the Brian Wilson Tour.
Via Francois Dion on AH:
"That's definitely a very very crude martenot keyboard. Looks like one of the 1926 early revisions of the Martenot keyboard. Missing all the tonal and expression parts as found in the "drawer" on the later martenot. Missing also the floating keyboard (for the vibrato), and the references for the slider.
It is interesting to note that by 1931, there were at least 4 commercial instruments with heterodyne oscillators:
1- the theremin
2- the Ondes Martenot
3- Clavier a Lampe (Armand Givelet)
##### Update: The 4- Trautonium (Franz Trauntwein) did not use a heterodyne Oscillator. See comments link below. Also neither did the Tannerin according to another thread.
(The Audion Piano was never available commercially)."
The Ondes Martenot (it had a ring device on a string that scaled the entire range of the keyboard).
The Trautonium:
I couldn't find a picture of the Clavier a Lampe and we all know what a theremin looks like right? : )
Also check out the Theremax. Some good sound samples there as well.
For a controller similar to the Ondes Martenot, check out Analog Systems The French Conncection:
Via Francois Dion on AH:
"That's definitely a very very crude martenot keyboard. Looks like one of the 1926 early revisions of the Martenot keyboard. Missing all the tonal and expression parts as found in the "drawer" on the later martenot. Missing also the floating keyboard (for the vibrato), and the references for the slider.It is interesting to note that by 1931, there were at least 4 commercial instruments with heterodyne oscillators:
1- the theremin
2- the Ondes Martenot
3- Clavier a Lampe (Armand Givelet)
##### Update: The 4- Trautonium (Franz Trauntwein) did not use a heterodyne Oscillator. See comments link below. Also neither did the Tannerin according to another thread.
(The Audion Piano was never available commercially)."
The Ondes Martenot (it had a ring device on a string that scaled the entire range of the keyboard).
The Trautonium:
I couldn't find a picture of the Clavier a Lampe and we all know what a theremin looks like right? : )
Also check out the Theremax. Some good sound samples there as well.
For a controller similar to the Ondes Martenot, check out Analog Systems The French Conncection:
Synth Polyphony Broken Down
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan01/articles/synthsec.asp
Carbon111 sent this to me. It's a great article from Sound on Sound that covers how digital technology was used to overcome the high expense of analog polysynths. It covers the Crumar Trilogy's cut-down paraphonic approach which I refered to in this post. The SOS article is a long and semi-technical read, but well worth it if you've ever wondered about how the different approaches to polyphony works on an analog synth. In pure laymen's terms you can essentially have a bunch of mono synths hooked up in a box to make a polyphonic synth or you can cust costs and increase stablity by having polyphony shared accross boards, this is the paraphonic approach. You start with one board for one note, say C, that covers all octaves of C. When you play more than one C, that same board is triggered. The obvious problem is the Envelope stage as well as other components are shared. So if you want a short attack while sustaining a C on a lower octave, it won't quite work as they are not independent. But you could have some interesting triggering effects which Gordon Reid notes in the article regarding the Crumar Trilogy. Note that most poly analog synths have separate components for each voice, so you esentially have x number of mono synths digitally controlled to keep them sounding similar. The great polysynths including the Prophet 5, Jupiter 8, Memorymoog and Andromeda A6 for example did this.
Carbon111 sent this to me. It's a great article from Sound on Sound that covers how digital technology was used to overcome the high expense of analog polysynths. It covers the Crumar Trilogy's cut-down paraphonic approach which I refered to in this post. The SOS article is a long and semi-technical read, but well worth it if you've ever wondered about how the different approaches to polyphony works on an analog synth. In pure laymen's terms you can essentially have a bunch of mono synths hooked up in a box to make a polyphonic synth or you can cust costs and increase stablity by having polyphony shared accross boards, this is the paraphonic approach. You start with one board for one note, say C, that covers all octaves of C. When you play more than one C, that same board is triggered. The obvious problem is the Envelope stage as well as other components are shared. So if you want a short attack while sustaining a C on a lower octave, it won't quite work as they are not independent. But you could have some interesting triggering effects which Gordon Reid notes in the article regarding the Crumar Trilogy. Note that most poly analog synths have separate components for each voice, so you esentially have x number of mono synths digitally controlled to keep them sounding similar. The great polysynths including the Prophet 5, Jupiter 8, Memorymoog and Andromeda A6 for example did this.
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