MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, August 05, 2011

Roland JD-800 + SCI Pro-One + Drumtraks

YouTube Uploaded by retrosound72 on Aug 5, 2011

"vintage synth track by RetroSound

lead, fairlight voice and pad sounds: Roland JD-800
bass sequence: SCI Pro-One internal sequencer
drums: SCI Drumtraks"

Jupiter 80: Editing & Creating Analog Synth Sounds

YouTube Uploaded by DanKrisher on Aug 4, 2011

"The Jupiter 80 has over 1900 synth tones. This video discusses how to create, edit and save analog synth patches."

Roland JP-8000 Demo | Roland JP 8000 Programming Session

YouTube Uploaded by VisceralVoids on Aug 4, 2011

"Starting from a patch I made, looking for sounds on the JP-8000 getting lost along the way. I was looking for a sound and found it after this recording was made.

I am using the 12db band-pass filter alot, as well as the 24db low-pass sometimes to find the base of a sound. Sometimes I use RPS to get sound ideas when going during this rough programming session. Once I got the JP to sound like a CR-78 beat but I made a mistake and ended up not saving it like a JP-8000 noob.

JP-8000 tricks:
In the performance options you can detune the parts from one another aside from the detuning that goes on in the oscillators. So I have both parts stacked like this with polyphony set to 4-4 in the performance options. This gives you four oscillators and four LFOs. LFO 2 is tied to the mod stick and I have not even set it up yet in this video. One thing I have not tried is the splittable arpeggiator. I used the supersaw on alot of this video.

The DVD Owner's Manual is worth checking out, it will also give you a good ideas on how to program sounds you want.

Velocity assign and ribbon assign are two more insane things about this synth, and I am still learning many of its features. For example you can assign PWM Shape to the ribbon controller or velocity. The manual is easy to understand and it's where I learned about the performance part options that can be detuned and set seperate from the oscillators altogether. This is how you can get four different LFOs or two different arpeggiators happening.

Final thoughts:
Many synths have an interface that blocks you from attacking the impulse to edit sounds - with the JP-8000 I feel you can really create patches easily. I thought the JD-800 was great for electronic music but the JP-8000 is incredible in this regard. It is more more modern and aggressive than the beautiful digital JD-800. Within a day of starting to learn programming on the JP-8000 I made once of my favorite synth sounds from a 1981 Genesis song, which is the first patch used in this video.

Roland's JP-8000 is very good for 80's, progressive, electronic, ambient, hardstyle or hardcore techno, industrial or dance, or wild experimental synth sounds."

Polyoptics: audioDoodles - MachineDrum, MonoMachine.

YouTube Uploaded by Axiomatick on Aug 4, 2011

"A silly beat, playing around on the MachineDrum, backup on the MonoMachine."

TR909 and TTA Station 252

YouTube Uploaded by GM1ify on Aug 4, 2011

"Few techno lines with the modular doing some twisted 303-style patch triggerd by the TR909."

triple wavefolder eye candy

YouTube Uploaded by squeakyfromme69 on Aug 4, 2011

"low quality sorry."

kinect

YouTube Uploaded by kuiphoff on Aug 5, 2011

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Sgt Pepper's Synthesized Hard House Track

Sgt Pepper's Synthesized Hard House Track by Von Holt
""Sgt Pepper's Synthesized Hard House Track" by Von Holt is licensed under a Creative Commons License"
"Done in ableton. Operator, Analog and Drum Rack"

What was interesting about this mix for me is that it brought the vocal intonations out a bit more than the original. I heard them independent of the music. People usually associate synths with the synthetic, but in this case they draw out the vocal.