"Buchla 250e Dual Arbitrary Function Generator. Calling this thing a sequencer is not even close to doing it justice, but on the surface it's basically two sequencers in one with 16 stages, each of which offers direct and immediate access to control and timing voltages. You're only limited by your imagination with this unit as it has a plethora of options on top of what your typical sequencer usually offers."
"Excerpts from an improvisation, modulating Fusebox (Patternator) via Makenoise Maths/Doepfer LFO and VCO, syncing Korg Volca Sample. Fusebox is very versatile and gets unique sounds by CV in, making it also a perfect directly sounding Techno/Dance-Machine . Hear some small clips of strange rhythms and sounds."
"Have a cup of coffee with us as we explore some of the sounds of the Toraiz AS-1. It has so many sweet spots, and it's inspiring to start with a factory sound and tweak it to perfection while the sequencer or arpeggiator is running.
The weird white thingy that occasionally feeds it MIDI grooves is a FutureRetro Zillion, and yes, that will get a video of it's own in due time.
Hope this gives you a little taste of some of the sonic possibilities of the AS-1 - we'll be back for more!"
"Short preview of my upcoming SamPlight 2X+ VST which accurately model the whole Fairlight CMI IIX
The playing itself involves 16 Times oversampling and zero interpolation + analog circuit emulation.
All the quirks of the original are there, including some "JUSTIFY" glitches, loop points scanning artefacts etc..There were some refinement on the usability but do not expect a super fast modern workflow, I tried to kept it as close as can be for a reason!
What is currently done:
PAGE 2 - DISK CONTROL(done: load and save real original .VC files and attached .CO files, version 4.3 and 4.4 including MODE 1 params aka FFT, loading .IN aka Instruments files is in the works..)
PAGE 3 KEYBOARD CONTROL(almost done)
PAGE 4 HARMONIC ENVELOPES(done)
PAGE 5 WAVEFORM GENERATION(done but needs some additional GUI work)
PAGE 6 WAVEFORM DRAWING(done but needs some more work)
PAGE 7 CONTROL PARAMETERS(done)
PAGE 8 SOUND SAMPLING(done, include importing .WAV Files for resampling through the emulated circuitry)
PAGE D WAVEFORM DISPLAY(done, include some other views like POLAR view in addition to the iconics Fairlight ISO an LINEAR views)
PAGE F USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS(done but needs some GUI work)
Lot of things are added within the limitation of what the Fairlight could have done with some extra memory:
- FM Synthesis capabilities, including using waveform memory as a modulator.
- Spectrum Convolution (convolve between 2 spectrum)
- Spectrum Resynthesis manipulation(Harmonic Frequency bins offsets per Harmonic etc..)
- Two ways TimeStrech ( the CMI IIX allowed to increase the duration of the waveform memory only, now you can also reduce it)
"I made this video back in 2011, but my hard drive crashed and I thought I had lost it. I recently recovered some files off a render drive. This is about 60% of the review I had planned to make."
