Wednesday 31 January 2018

Drummish


Mojo Working


Nice little feature in this months MOJO Mag. The secrets out. (Ps - I took those pictures!)

Saturday 13 January 2018

Coral Sitar


This is what the future was supposed to sound like:

Friday 12 January 2018

NA at MT


Its been a good start to the year, Neil Arthur has been down already, working on some new material with Rothko, and some other animals (VCS3, Minimoog, etc)



UPDATE: Neil sent me this panorama he took in the studio. Its quite Cubist in its style:

Thursday 11 January 2018

Six Million Dollar Piano




Trying out a patch idea for a piano sound on the Moog 3C. (Patch idea based partially on an article by G.Reid, 'Synth Secrets', SOS magazine, October 2002)

Modules used (all RA Moog from around 1968): 5 x VCO, 1 x Noise, 1 x LPF (for tuning the noise), 3 x 4 :1 Mixers, 1 x Fixed Filter Bank, 1 x Spring Reverb, 2 x VCA, 2 x Env Gen, 1 x VCLPF, 1 x Multiple, Keyboard, Output Mixer with EQ

The patch is as follows: 3 square wave VCOs tuned to unison into a mixer and out into a fixed filter bank for fine-tuning the tone, then into a VCA/envelope with a very long decay (this models the piano strings)

A second bank of 2 VCOs and some tuned noise go into a second VCA/envelope with a very short decay then into the reverb module (this models the hammer hitting the strings)

These two signals are mixed into the LPF and the long envelope controls the frequency of this

No other sounds or effects are being heard

I only wish it was 88 note polyphonic! To buy the required 88 Moog Modulars to accomplish this would cost about 6 million dollars

Sunday 7 January 2018

Aberesque


A Serge Modular patch - self playing! With a Roland TR505 added in too

Friday 5 January 2018