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Off Topic / Re: Your Music
« Last post by LoboLives on Yesterday at 10:53:57 AM »
One of my favorite horror monsters of all time is The Mummy. I absolutely loved the Universal series with Lon Chaney Jr as Kharis slowly stalking and terrorizing the defilers of his princess' tomb.

But it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Lot 249" which the first piece of literature to portray a re-animated mummy as dangerous. The story inspired the subgenre heavily and there were countless adaptations.

One such adaptation was a segment from Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (1990). The adaptation actually was more humorous and featured a lot of slasher-esq elements. Almost a parody of the sub genre.

The music for Tales From The Darkside: The Movie was actually composed by no less than 5 composers. One of which was Jim Manzie doing the music for the Lot 249 segment. I've spoken about Manzie in the past on my Pumpkinhead 2 and Leatherface videos.

This was approached much more as a suite rather than a specific cue. Lots of ethnic type sounds, acoustic bass from the Prophet X's library as well as some EMU samples of strings and modified PX's samples mimicking some of the sounds Manzie was using constantly on his scores (the string plucks and scrapes with chorus and delay, filtered choir sounds etc).

I think it turned out pretty good.

Hope you enjoy

℗ Everett Dudgeon 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bWBdyI4PQ
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Off Topic / Re: Your Music
« Last post by Soundquest on Yesterday at 10:04:15 AM »
Usually recordings I make are multitracked, but while experimenting the other day with the Moog Matriarch driven by a sequencer, I was able to roll the Hydrasynth into it too and do the tune in one take.   I've enjoyed the Moog last few weeks.  Its refreshingly back to basics.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvJWOyuABw
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Many thanks for your work, Kris.

Is it possible to overwrite the factory banks with KnobKraft Orm?
Is there a manual or is it not necessary because it is self-explanatory?
I have only found the short video.

Greetings Ralf
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Prophet-5/Prophet-10 / Re: How accurate should I expect tuning to be?
« Last post by dangerous on Yesterday at 06:09:43 AM »
Hey, i have a question , folks.

My Prophet 10 arrived two days ago. I love everything about it. There is something I am concerned about though :

In order for the synth to be at correct pitch, i need to turn the Master Tune knob somewhere about + 1. If it is at center detente, it is out of tune . Is this a problem ?

I've updated to Main OS 2.0.1 and Panel OS 1.1.1, already hit the Tune button about 7 or 8 times, and cleared the calibration tables once.

Is it normal to need to adjust the Master Tune knob in order to get to correct pitch ?

in other words

shouldn’t a tune of ‘0’ be in tune? Or is it normal to be somewhere other than ‘0’ in order to be in tune. Tune meaning A3 pitch is 440 hz?

Yep 0 should be in tune - I think it's very likely your pitch wheel needs calibration.  Follow the pitch wheel calibration process from the manual (pasted below), and this will correct your master tune so that it's in tune at 0.

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To calibrate the Pitch and Mod Wheels:
1. Set Mod wheel to its minimum setting.
2. Hold the Pitch wheel at its minimum setting.
3. While still holding the Pitch wheel down, press and hold the globals
button and press program select button 6. The low points of both
wheels are calibrated.
4. Release the Pitch wheel so that it returns to its center position. hold the
globals button and press program select button 7. The center point of
the Pitch Wheel is calibrated.
5. Set the Mod wheel to its maximum setting. Hold the Pitch wheel at its
maximum setting. While still holding the Pitch wheel at its maximum
position, press and hold the globals button and press program select
button 8. The high points of both wheels are calibrated. You can now
can play the Prophet-10 again.
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OB-X8 / Re: Firmware update feature requests/bugs
« Last post by Supernaut on Yesterday at 04:12:04 AM »
Like to add a second feature request. Be able to save global tuning per patch. Global tuning is global as it is now and per patch tuning in page 2.

I second this request. I've been experimenting with the alternate tunings and while I love the feel that some of them create while I'm improvising, non-equal temperament is about as application-specific as features get. Ideally, I'd like to be able to have a bank of patches that each utilise an alternate tuning of my choice. This would facilitate experimentation, and do away with the necessity afterwards to return to the Global menu to reset the X8 to 12-tone.
On a related note, I have to commend whoever it was in Sequential that collated and implemented these 64 tuning schemes. It seems like a real labour of love and I for one really appreciate it, because they're fascinating to explore.
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Prophet Rev2 / Expression Pedal Moog EP-3 not working
« Last post by djsoufeggio on March 27, 2024, 07:54:33 PM »
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I'm unable to get any results from Expression pedal.

Also the TRS cable somehow doesn't "click" fully into the socket. I can push it all the way in, and it pops back out by like 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch. Is this unit defective?

I find for example a patch with large sound change from Mod Slot 1 Modwheel (such as F1 P25) and change the Modulation Source to Expressn and nothing happens when I "give it some gas"
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Prophet Rev2 / Re: help! My Rev2 note will disappear!
« Last post by natalie321 on March 27, 2024, 07:50:43 PM »
For example, if I play C E G B, these four notes will harmonize normally, but if I continue to add a D, the lowest C note will disappear. If I continue to stack notes, those lowest notes will also disappear one by one. If I press a bunch of notes at the same time, such as Am11, it will randomly disappear some notes, most of the time the root note disappears, I thought it was something wrong with my fingers, so I tried another  MIDI keyboard controls the Rev2 and everything works! This problem only occurs on the Rev2 keyboard, then when I was learning some patches on youtube, we all use the same Sawtooth, but our voices are always different, their voices always sound very fat, I sounds like a malnourished guy, I don't know why! But I'm pretty sure I'm doing exactly the same as in the video, just press Dow+Up+Hold, then our voice sounds different, I just started learning prophet rev2, some very simple questions, hope someone can help me up Please!!~~

The Prophet Rev2 is an 8-voice polyphonic synth so adding a fifth note D in your example might cause the lowest C to drop out if all 8 voices are already being used. You can try playing fewer notes at once or adjust the patch settings to use fewer voices.
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And v1.5.2 seems to have brought this bug back. sigh.

Mark thanked for the report and wrote he would "get this checked and fixed (again)."
Hopefully, the newly released v1.5.3 has the fix for your issue.
Still no release notes and the release date sticked to March 15th.

Thanks!

I'll connect it to my Take 5 tonight after work but just running 1.5.3 on its own that issue doesn't appear to be addressed, at least not on the Mac.

Yup, no change when hooked up to my T5. Wonder what issues have been addressed. in v1.5.3?
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Sequential Prophet X / Re: Copy only one layer to another program
« Last post by Derek Cook on March 27, 2024, 01:18:27 PM »
Are we talking about the same thing? MIDI note reception as opposed to SYSEX reception?
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Espen sampled over 20 different classic vintage synths and just made them available for the Prophet X at a very reasonable price of 35 USD.

The samples (about 1.5 GBytes) sound amazing and also contain several multi sample patches to stretch across the keyboard. He also included several samples with multiple velocity layers.

https://youtu.be/rOilZ1vXLxM?si=s6tKNC9uNooct04e build now gg

This video demo had me hooked, the sounds are lush and dripping with character. I am gonna grab this sample pack ASAP.
Great news if you don't already have it - 50% sale on for Easter  !!
https://youtu.be/rDIeR8pez-w?si=1YzUQNUYhN7fGfRj
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