Moog Music Forum

That wood looks sweet. Mahogany? Beautiful grain. It's cocobolo from South America. I owned a Yamaha DX27 and love FM synthesis because of it. The presets were awful but after digging deeper into the architecture I got some pretty incredible sounds. I made this in 1992: http://www.artistserver.com/...

Do you know Pink Floyd at all? Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFrobmC7fs Listen around 1:42 to "sheep". There is a simple sequence of sounds here it works really well. The sound of the vocal is crossfaded into the sound of the Minimoog which is then modulated. Then the gu...

Everyone tells me that modulars are fun and flexible. I suppose they are but can I make good music with them. If you wanted to...why not? It's just a tool. You get out of it what you put into it just like any other instrument. If you couldn't make music on a modular using the same basic VCO-VCF-VCA...

Frankly, I am not one to see myself either in the analogue or digital camp or for that matter the semi modular or modular camp. Each are their own animals. I'm all analog at this point. I'd love to pick up another Yamaha FS1R. That's one synth I never should have parted with. It's a very beautiful ...

Lux_Seeker wrote:Jon,

I listened to a few of your tracks.

How'd that happen they're supposed to be hidden? Hmmmm...

I was interested in the KARMA at one point. I wish they'd release the KARMA (not the synth itself just it's 'brains') as a plug-in. Regarding Cortini: I like the post here. One thing however I do notice about modular users is that they all seem to rely on a sequencer. I can't speak for Cortini but i...

It's probably my mixing. I rolled off a lot of low end and over compressed it...among other things. It's not just your example, it's video clips I've seen of modulars in action as well. Maybe it's just a matter of inserting the right effects to beef up the overall sound, but I've always thought tha...

The only thing that bothers me is the modular sounds sound cheap, like a synthedit VSTi. :roll: It's probably my mixing. I mixed with headphones. I rolled off a lot of low end and over compressed it...among other things. Read below. And btw, I never said you can't make dance music with modulars, on...

None of the above. Alesis Andromeda. 16 analog voices. Very flexible mod routings.

Thanks Jon. Cortini is quite good, and that was a nice video link. I'd like to hear some more of your tracks. M is for Modular is a very cool track. If you haven't already, check out my last performance: http://cityskies.com/Jul2009/july2009recordia.html It is one of my more minimal sets and is hea...

Hey Mark...I just checked out your reverb nation site. Beautiful! I particularly enjoyed Beyond the Vaulting Sky, Gravitational Sling, Sailing Into Calm Remembrances and The Subtleties Between Desire. Well...I like them all really. :D My stuff is more along the unsettling and minimal lines but I've ...

I just checked out your soundcloud site... very nice stuff! I actually don't do dance music either. This dance thing was a demo for Subtronik who says you can't make dance music with a modular. I'm also not really into glitchy stuff. Mostly textures and drones that I can layer on top of each other a...

This is about using a modular in a more musical context. It's not about my musicianship or mixing abilities. Speaking of mixing we have a baby in the house and I'm forced to mix through headphones. This sounds great on my AKG K271s...it sounds like crap on my car stereo. It sounds like crap on my la...

This is perhaps the most interesting quote: I'm wondering if when artists go modular they over complicate things and the music suffers. I think it depends on the artist and how complicated they want to make things. You can actually achieve a lot with very simple patches and the workflow (believe it...

I picked up a copy of Expert Sleepers Silent Way (the poor man's alternative to MOTU Volta) last night and now have MIDI control of my modular again. I started working on a short all-modular dance track. If I have time to finish it when I get home form work I'll post it here tonight. If not then pro...