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OTHER DISCUSSIONS => General Synthesis => Off Topic => Topic started by: Sacred Synthesis on September 24, 2019, 07:54:00 AM
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This thread is for single-track recordings of any length and complexity made with a single synthesizer.
- Any brand or model can be used, monophonic or polyphonic
- Only one instrument can be used, although multiple units of the identical synthesizer can be linked together
- The recordings must be made with a single track, from one keyboard and panel
- External and onboard effects can be used
- Each synthesist can contribute any number of recordings
- This is not a competition, but a friendly sharing
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Doepfer Dark Energy- which is a little mono synth. Controlled by a Linn 128 controller. Styman BigSky plate reverb.
Not much of a song to speak of- but it's about the longest I can play without making a mistake :)
https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/sound-sample-of-doepfer-dark-energy-synth
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http://razmo.ziphoid.com/MoonScreamer.mp3
Made with Poly Evolver Rack... a single preset, taken in one go, with a heavy dose of realtime modulation. FX unit is a Lexicon MX400. Some will find this to be serious noise, but it shows some capabilities of the PE that is not often heard I guess.
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http://razmo.ziphoid.com/MoonScreamer.mp3
Made with Poly Evolver Rack... a single preset, taken in one go, with a heavy dose of realtime modulation. FX unit is a Lexicon MX400. Some will find this to be serious noise, but it shows some capabilities of the PE that is not often heard I guess.
I really liked that, better even than some of the multitrack experiments. Very musical, despite the noise-y character. How much is the filter versus moving between oscillators?
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http://razmo.ziphoid.com/MoonScreamer.mp3
Made with Poly Evolver Rack... a single preset, taken in one go, with a heavy dose of realtime modulation. FX unit is a Lexicon MX400. Some will find this to be serious noise, but it shows some capabilities of the PE that is not often heard I guess.
I really liked that, better even than some of the multitrack experiments. Very musical, despite the noise-y character. How much is the filter versus moving between oscillators?
Filter is heavily modulated, but actually a lot was modulated, not just the filter... I used both aftertouch, modwheel, pitchwheel plus both Distortion, AM and FM... It was basically one big chaotic modulation preset... I think I actually still have the preset somewhere on my computer.
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Some will find this to be serious noise, but it shows some capabilities of the PE that is not often heard I guess.
I found this to be worth repeated listens. If it demonstrates the synth's capabilities, that's secondary-- which is good. Noise or not, there's a musicality to it.
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I played around with this patch for about a month. The performance is on a Tetrapad, and the oscillators are a pair of Make Noise STOs.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/october
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I played around with this patch for about a month. The performance is on a Tetrapad, and the oscillators are a pair of Make Noise STOs.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/october
That is a fine little piece of music - simple, somber, and reflective.
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A quick (literally) spin-off of Marc Charpentier's prelude to the Te Deum (also known as the Eurovision theme).
I might as well post it here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIT_RvdRJbk
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Prophet '08 Keyboard and two Modules, with pedal board, recorded live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbuydINfxI&list=PL-CSFEgC2tTydFcvrBITryRPZHg4tUde5&index=3
Prophet '08 Keyboard, two Modules, no pedal board, recorded live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IotEYek6gv4&list=PL-CSFEgC2tTydFcvrBITryRPZHg4tUde5&index=9
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Poly Evolver Keyboard, Rack, and Desktop, with pedal board, recorded live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2uBYTDCaeU&list=PL-CSFEgC2tTzYa70uOirGHIWGu72Pui8l&index=20
Poly Evolver Keyboard and Rack, no pedal board, recorded live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0jc7Ux8pOM&list=PL-CSFEgC2tTzYa70uOirGHIWGu72Pui8l&index=5
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All Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf27fGrG3i4
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All Prophet '08:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf27fGrG3i4
Very nice, I love the big brassy punctuation in this one.
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Thanks, Chysn.
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Decided to record myself doing some sloppy improv after finding some nice chords and a (stock :-[) patch to suit. Recorded with my MoTet. In some spots I'm out of time with myself, and in others you can almost hear the cogs turning in my brain. Nevertheless, I'm kinda happy with it. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_i5y5CDfAU
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Decided to record myself doing some sloppy improv after finding some nice chords and a (stock :-[) patch to suit. Recorded with my MoTet. In some spots I'm out of time with myself, and in others you can almost hear the cogs turning in my brain. Nevertheless, I'm kinda happy with it. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_i5y5CDfAU
will.taylor, I learned that making yourself happy with it is the most important step. What's the instrument?
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What's the instrument?
I recorded that track by polychaining a Mopho Keyboard + Tetra together. It was mostly for me to practice my keyboard skills and improvisation.
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will.taylor, I learned that making yourself happy with it is the most important step. What's the instrument?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9r-_EBsCsg
I pushed out some interesting textures and sonic effects with the Tetra today, which has recently been keeping me company at my desk, serving as a boredom-buster on my days off.
The patch was made in combo mode, but I only used two voices with almost identical parameters for some layering. I wanted to keep a clean sound while I added audio modulation over the top. I absolutely love squeezing functionality out of the sequencer and mod matrix. After all this time it's still a bit mind-boggling to me that this can sound 99% the same on a mopho.
The part of the patch I'm most happy with is the wailing I created by mixing a healthy ratio of filter settings, some noise and a bit of audio mod. This comes in around the end of the piece.
In future, I would probably make more dramatic variations to the sound while recording, since I find it a bit boring and repetitive right now. I'd be curious to hear other opinions though. :)
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With Shout Factory releasing that awesome Friday The 13th Boxset (Which I preordered of course) I went back and started listening to some of the soundtracks of the later films. While Harry Manfredini's frantic score is better known of some of the later synth works by Fred Mollin are quite impressive. Fred Mollin did the synth work on Part 7, the entire score for Part 8 and even scored the F13 series. He also scored the series "First Knight" as well. His tool of the trade? The Kurzweil K250.
While in the studio last week I tried my hand at programming some "Mollin-esq" patches on my Sequential Prophet X. This is all done in a single take. No overdubs in split mode. Nothing fancy just a quick que.
Some female vocals saying the word "Resurrected" (symbolizing Tina resurrecting Jason) with some tubular bells being hit with mallets and some filter sweeps on the low square waves on one side of the split.
The other side of the split has some strings symbolizing the delicate parts of Tina's scenes and some heavy Simmons esq percussion hits symbolizing the ever approaching Jason Voorhees.
And just like the 80s....there is chorus on EVERYTHING lol
I am seriously considering the new Kurzweil PC4 but really do wish Kurzweil would come out with a module version of their sounds. If I do manage to go that route, you can sure bet you'll hear some more Fred Mollin style stuff on this channel.
Enjoy! Ki ki ki Ma ma ma
℗Everett Dudgeon 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6p3bLGvF3c
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Finally I finished one of my "Rev2 only" ideas to share it with you. It's not much, as always, but I had a lot of fun trying to get my Rev2 playing some drums, while using the other layer for chords and melodic stuff.
This is recorded live in one single take with no cuts or overdubs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgPadn0svZY
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Impressive, Jok3r. You got a lot of music and sound out of one take.
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Impressive, Jok3r. You got a lot of music and sound out of one take.
Thanks a lot.
I hope I didn't miss use the term "single take" ... in fact there were more takes, but they have not been edited into one video. I think this was the 5th or 6th version that I recorded "in one take". Just to be clear...
It's a pretty simple piece of music, but for me there were some new experiences to make nevertheless.
1. Starting of the onboard sequencers in such a way, that the square lfo that switches between snare and base is in sync was a little bit tricky. You can see in the video, that I have key sync (and clock sync anyway) enabled and disable it directly after pressing play and before the second base note hits. Perhaps the whole drum thing would have been easier if I used the gated sequencer for it, but I wanted to use the poly sequencer for having the chance to fire extra notes manually as I did two times in the video.
2. Having used workstations like Kronos for every multi layer setup I played in my whole life, it was pretty hard to not forget pressing the Edit B button for editing single layers during the performance. On a workstation I would map these 3-4 parameters I used to the faders on the frontpanel and everything would be fine ;-)
3. Overall it was pretty interesting to try making a bitimbral instrument playing more than two sounds in one patch, while still sounding musical "in the classic sense" and not only making noises. Well, I admit the drum part was the easiest to try this, but now I would like to try if I can come up with something else that uses drums again, but also uses more than one sound on the other layer by clever timing and clever modulation. I guess there are a lot of people out there, that have a lot of experience with that, especially when using gated sequencers, but for me it is something completely new.
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All Prophet '08 - one keyboard and one module combined. And no bass pedals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9stc7-WGNF0
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Keepin' the PO8 legacy alive. nice.
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We're still out there, the P'08ites. We're ostracized from society due to our preferences. We're considered Luddites and loners. But we look just like you. We dress in the same way, eat at your restaurants, and shop at your malls. We live next door to you, and our children ride your busses and attend your schools. Aside from the synthesizer hidden in out basement studio, we are entirely unrecognizable from the masses of normal people. But we, the P'08ites, are everywhere.
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Love it ;D
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No overdubs, all Tempest in real time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIjdJ83B3s
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This piece uses only the Prophet '08, but a keyboard and module version paired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR-Wp5i1svI
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Sacred Synthesis, You believe you did an all brass track via PO8 track a few years ago that I really liked. This one is equally interesting. I'm assuming most of this is done with just one patch, but the sound just naturally varying color when playing upper and lower registers?
That "tuba, trombones, baritone" type sound at 1:09, 2:09, 4:09 etc... it really sounds convincing.
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Thanks, Soundquest. The sound is a combination of eight oscillators of PWM per voice - four from the keyboard version and four from the module. And this, of course, in stereo. The patch includes a slight opening of the cut off frequency as you climb the keyboard, but the main dynamic changes are due to the use of the modulation wheel to control the filter. The immensity is also due to the tuning of one of the oscillators down an octave.
I would love to hear someone reproduce this patch on a Rev2 sixteen-voice. I say that as a slight skeptic that the new instrument can perfectly reach the analog rawness of the old one.
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Made this patch on the PEK where the sequencer can be set up to change clock speed throughout. That and the other modulations that are doable on the PEK, makes for a lot of variance capability. I liked what came out of this patch so much that I decided to try my hand at doing a short single track. Actually I used the Summit to do the string-like drone at intro and ending. Other than that, its all that sound from just the the PEK doing it's thing.
https://youtu.be/Uw8EROchtWE
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All Poly Evolver Keyboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea2hDlUre9k
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Talk about an example of divergence in sound between the last two posts ;D Fun to see both sides of its character. I haven't searched Youtube for Poly evolver lately, but years ago some Techno guys were using these and were nursing some interesting sounds in that realm. I'm sure there's some gems out there that never make it to YT. We need to encourage more music posting in general on all the music threads on this forum.
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This one is single-instrument (Prophet 5), single pass into Ableton, single patch, no effects, monaural. Sort of an improvisational thing, in the sense that I haven't committed it to Finale. I don't usually record things I play live, when I record at all, so it's a bit of a departure. But I enjoyed the range of the patch.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/so-long-callisto
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Nice piece of music, Chysn. Gee, those very deep notes are glorious.
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Nice piece of music, Chysn. Gee, those very deep notes are glorious.
Thanks for listening! I’m still a Prophet 5 beginner, but I’m starting to come around to the idea of “what else do I need but this?”
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Nice piece of music, Chysn. Gee, those very deep notes are glorious.
Thanks for listening! I’m still a Prophet 5 beginner, but I’m starting to come around to the idea of “what else do I need but this?”
In the beginning was the Prophet, and the Prophet was GOOD.
Very nice! And a gorgeous presentation of this gorgeous synth...
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This one is single-instrument (Prophet 5), single pass into Ableton, single patch, no effects, monaural. Sort of an improvisational thing, in the sense that I haven't committed it to Finale. I don't usually record things I play live, when I record at all, so it's a bit of a departure. But I enjoyed the range of the patch.
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/so-long-callisto
"Are you playing some Final Fantasy game?" were the words of my wife, when I listened to this with speakers on. And I must say, there really are some video-game-running-through-an-open-world-vibes to your track. I enjoyed every second of it.
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Very nice! And a gorgeous presentation of this gorgeous synth...
"Are you playing some Final Fantasy game?" were the words of my wife, when I listened to this with speakers on. And I must say, there really are some video-game-running-through-an-open-world-vibes to your track. I enjoyed every second of it.
Thank you for the kind words and for giving it a spin! I've recently been writing a lot of music for my sons' mobile game. This isn't part of that project, but I'm not surprised that video game music is where my head is right now.