Great tutorial, I did a similar one using the Nord Lead... so people having a Nord, check out my channel for a similar tutorial but with the Nord layout :)
Anyone who thinks a soft synth (that is not a sample/copy) can make sounds like this, clearly has deficient hearing. This is pure sound. Thanks for a great tutorial!
@DameHaha2011 Depends on the synth. You don't need to deal with patch cords at all with something like a Yamaha Motif, just run some cables to an amp or powered speakers. For a modular synth, you need to wire it yourself, because there's no presets as such.
I think modular synths sound really nice but I think that's mostly due to the fact that they mostly (always from what I've seen) have good oscillators and good filters. I don't really see much advantage to the patch cable system, surely it must be possible to have the routing options controlled by switches and circuitry in a way that makes possible for patches to be stored and recalled from digital memory....
@sinetravel that would require a basic microcontroller, analog switching chips and it wouldn't be that hard, I guess purists would rather just have everything in the analog domain and the cable system offers that flexibility where space and asthetics isn't at a premium.
I'm actually hoping to design an analog synth based on the MFOS ultimate but doing away with all the cabling. My solution uses only three two-way slide switches which together would allow eight different signal routes!
Can someone answer me this question I've always wanted to know! I'm in a band okay and I've been around music all my life, when I record I have multiple synth sounds (by the way I'm the guitarist), how would a keyboardist play all the sounds live? Do you play it through a computer or through a analog synth? I sometimes think you could use a loop effect pedal and play all the other sounds. PLEASE ANSWER!!!
@Khampower synths work with midi or cv gate so when you record your actually not recording sound but information... you basically need a sequencer like computer or a hardware version and then you can do as many layers as you want..
@pyka246 How make a lot of variations with soft synthesizer? I try self but i can do little sounds , and sounds quality is so ****...i dont understand how professional makes very cool synth sound. how much i tried always be a bad sound. Becouse my sound aplitude a lot of 20 sound variations if u know what write for me PM thank you very much ...
@rtermini I apologize for the bluntness, but what the hell do these things do exactly? I've probably watched every video I can find on modulars, but I can't quite figure it out. How does one go about programming a modular synth? Is it capable of making sounds/tones/textures similar to say, a daft punk record, or can it only bleep and bloop on random intervals? Thank you!
Well you don't really 'program' this kind of machine. I has no memory. You simply connect or patch on thing to another and build a sound via those devices or modules. It is not unlike starting with a guitar and then running it through flangers and fuzz and wha and eq etc... 'cept here the starting tone is electronic via our tone generators or oscillators. On a typical machine like this you can play the resulting sound using a keyboard to drive it as i do in this demo.
Im going to study your Videos if I just went out and got a Soft synth I would not understand it even if I watch a million videos on the soft synth I need to learn the ins and out out Synths ...
@DarkShroom Yeah...and there are sounds you can't get out of digital shit that you can out of analog. Don't be doggin Moog, you'll make yourself sound like an idiot.
just get a synth man...nothing beats haiving a knob, cable, touch ribbon to alter the sounds you're trying to a\make... i mean seriously, don't you get tired of clicking a mouse all damn day?
Just keep ripping off software makers, and eventually they'll all go out of business and the decision will be easier to make I guess. People don't stop to think about how destructive their actions are to the people who are working hard to create good software. It's pretty sick.
That's a very small 22 space portable unit. Put it on a table. Mount it on the wall. It's worth it's sonic value in gold, and will put any plugin to shame.
His system is in the $2000-US range. They're very expensive, but also very awesome. I want one!
If you're new to synthesizers I recommend starting with a cheaper, simpler non-modular. You can pick up old synths from the 70s and 80s on Ebay for much cheaper ($300 to $1200 depending on the model you want). The Korg Polysix and Roland Juno-60 are good ones to start with.
Not at all - if your good at the piano or keyboard, this should be easy. In fact easier (for some at least), because you can only play one note at a time, since it's a monophonic syntesizer.
Patching up the synth isn't that hard once you grasp the basics, and remember that there just about isn't anything you can do wrong. Only real problem is that they're hella expensive.
The system in the video costs $2550 without keyboard.
I have a question about the effect of technology on musical activities- is music going back into a more 2-dimensional 'thing' with the ever increasing use of technology, and is this technology taking away musicianship?
u have written excactly the same to another video. No it isn t, u still have to know music in order for people to make sense of your composition, and u can explore sounds that cannot be produced by conventional means. A tool is as good as the one that uses it. Either a violin, a moog, a knife or whatever
Yeah for me anyway electronic music provides relief from the boringness of most instruments which have existed so many centuries that pretty much everything has been done with them.
Id like to get the 960-62-63 and stick that in one of these portable units with some basics, ie 2 osc's 1 envelope gen, a filter, a mixer, amp, midi interfce and power.. but dont know if I could get away with it.. the 960 clone is like 8 spaces, Id probably be missing the multiplier and something else essential to do it.. what do you think?
With the 960 and the proper control modules for it, you would be down to 11 modules for the synth itself. 4 for two oscillators, 2 for a filter, 1 for an amp, 1 for an EG, 1 for a mult, 1 for a midi and 1 for power - that's it, no space for the mixer, for instance. Would be unusable, IMO.
I'm sorry... you lost me after patching it through the filters. I think I'm going to stick with digital for now. I'm way too ADD for analogue, but damn I love those warm sounds.
Well the old school analog stuff is never too cheap but if you want a modern digital machine or an analog digital hybrid you could look online 'ebay' whatever for anything by Korg or Roland or Yamaha. You should be able to find one of those cheap and used. The US or UK made stuff tends to hold higher value used. Look around. You will find something fun to work with.
thanks for the reply. what kind of prices are you talking about? i have no idea about music or electronics. what do you think's a sensible price for a beginner to pay? or any particular model? apologies for asking more of you but being a 1st timer is a *****! thanks
Try the microkorg they're about 400 dollars new, and you can get one for about 300 used. A lot of people say its not that good (they call it a toy), but if you're just starting out I think it is a good choice. You don't have to mess with patch cables but you can still modify the sounds, it even comes with a simple sequencer.
There are many machines that have preset connections. In fact there are modules you can get for this system that presets some basic connections too. This system is set up the way a machine might look in the late 1960's. That is one of the cool things about it. Raw and basic.
You just can not go wrong with a small red blinking light. If it is say a really big light- it just is not the same. It has to be just the right size of smallness to hit the spot just right. And it has to blink at a nice rate. Not too fast and not too slow.
A very great (and usefull) tutorial about modsynths, I myself am not wealthy enough to own one (I'm a mere student :-) ), but one day will come when I shall experiment with this or that. And when that day comes, I won't forget this tutorial :)
I don't think it will be too comlicated, just think where the input and the output goes.
Btw, on 04:42 you talk about a low-pass filter, what is that if I may ask?
Thank you very much. A Low Pass Filter is as its name implies. It is a filter that allows frequencies below a certain point through but filters out frequencies above that point. The point of cutoff is called 'the Cutoff Frequency'. On a synth the cutoff frequency can be set and or swept by the user. It can get a bit more complicated than this because the slope or rate of change of the filter can vary and this is one variable that can give a filter its character. (MORE)
But in general just think of it like this: if you set the cutoff to say 1000Hz than everything below 1000Hz will be heard and everything above will be cut out of the sound. So why not call it an High Cut filter? Well some people do but think about light. A Red filter passes RED and cuts everything else out so an audio filter follows this tradition therefore a Low Pass filters Lower than the Cutoff and Cuts everything above the Cutoff.
In 1897 Thaddeus Cahill patented (pat no 580,035) what was to become the "Telharmonium" or "Dynamophone" which can be considered the first significant electronic musical instrument . The first fully completed model was presented to the public in 1906 in Holyoke, Mass.
I hope to add a few more basic tutorials soon. Sample and Hold should be a good one. ADSR/envelopes seem to confuse people so I will do a thing on that too. Thanks very much for the comment. Cheers.
I just ordered the larger studio 66 from SynthesizersDotCom. I should be getting it in a couple of months. I will be doing ADSR and more with that machine. Thanks very much and cheers. Richard
Maybe we should call the Modular synths the ORIGINAL synths unless you want to go back to the Telharmonium in 1906. Calling Thaddeus Cahill's machine a synth might be pusing it though. I think the journey of electronic music is partly about not having a fixed standard but rather pusing things further along and adding to the vocabulary or the art.
Excellent! Thank you for posting this in the Analog Synthesizers group! This is just the sort of thing I had hoped would be posted! Aren't .com modulars great?
Great tutorial, I did a similar one using the Nord Lead... so people having a Nord, check out my channel for a similar tutorial but with the Nord layout :)
LESDT 3 weeks ago
@LESDT Thanks very much.
rtermini 3 weeks ago
Very good, I am starting to build one...now!
1vootman 1 month ago
*starts building custom modular synth right now*
keoni29 1 month ago
great video mate, very informative
JoobSensei 1 month ago
Anyone who thinks a soft synth (that is not a sample/copy) can make sounds like this, clearly has deficient hearing. This is pure sound. Thanks for a great tutorial!
timewilltell101 1 month ago
Any one no where i can buy a basic start kit ?
TheDom820 2 months ago
LOL this is great, haha, and in these times...there are fierce competitor software plugins for this bad boy
AeonFlexMusic 4 months ago
Lol, love "Get a kit and build one RIGHT now.."--that's what it's all about, actually DOING it.. Great vid..
Freshkid2070 5 months ago
Could someone explain something to me? Do you actually NEED to do all this stuff with wires in order to create your own sounds on a synthesizer?
DameHaha2011 6 months ago
@DameHaha2011 Depends on the synth. You don't need to deal with patch cords at all with something like a Yamaha Motif, just run some cables to an amp or powered speakers. For a modular synth, you need to wire it yourself, because there's no presets as such.
MichaelJHuman 4 months ago
so how exactly is an oscillator generated. is it feedback, signal, what? what is the basic core of an oscillator?
gtjoesalutes 9 months ago
I think modular synths sound really nice but I think that's mostly due to the fact that they mostly (always from what I've seen) have good oscillators and good filters. I don't really see much advantage to the patch cable system, surely it must be possible to have the routing options controlled by switches and circuitry in a way that makes possible for patches to be stored and recalled from digital memory....
sinetravel 10 months ago
@sinetravel that would require a basic microcontroller, analog switching chips and it wouldn't be that hard, I guess purists would rather just have everything in the analog domain and the cable system offers that flexibility where space and asthetics isn't at a premium.
I'm actually hoping to design an analog synth based on the MFOS ultimate but doing away with all the cabling. My solution uses only three two-way slide switches which together would allow eight different signal routes!
xesionprince 8 months ago
Can someone answer me this question I've always wanted to know! I'm in a band okay and I've been around music all my life, when I record I have multiple synth sounds (by the way I'm the guitarist), how would a keyboardist play all the sounds live? Do you play it through a computer or through a analog synth? I sometimes think you could use a loop effect pedal and play all the other sounds. PLEASE ANSWER!!!
Khampower 10 months ago
@Khampower synths work with midi or cv gate so when you record your actually not recording sound but information... you basically need a sequencer like computer or a hardware version and then you can do as many layers as you want..
jetset808 8 months ago
too complex to control :-D
Benqwithstyle 10 months ago
how much many ?
ALEXKIBORG 11 months ago
Before you Put the CV into the oscilators, how was pitch being created?
GibsonRocks12 11 months ago
The .com systems are so great. This is very helpful for beginners.
SynthPlaysYou 11 months ago
I've been trying to wrap my head around synths for a week. Thanks for the straightforward explanation. I get it now lol
pyka246 1 year ago 3
@pyka246 Cheers. Happy to help. Now make some great sound.
rtermini 1 year ago
@pyka246 How make a lot of variations with soft synthesizer? I try self but i can do little sounds , and sounds quality is so ****...i dont understand how professional makes very cool synth sound. how much i tried always be a bad sound. Becouse my sound aplitude a lot of 20 sound variations if u know what write for me PM thank you very much ...
MintyFrutzOfficial 1 year ago
that's a lovely synth, nice filters, still i can't really be dealing with hardware anymore i need polyphony, lots of it lol :)
are those oscillators analogue to?
DarkShroom 1 year ago
@DarkShroom @DarkShroom Yes these synths are all analog.
rtermini 1 year ago
awesome
YEE941 1 year ago
helped me a lot, thanks!
TimeIsTheMatter 1 year ago
@TimeIsTheMatter Glad you liked it. Cheers.
rtermini 1 year ago
@rtermini I apologize for the bluntness, but what the hell do these things do exactly? I've probably watched every video I can find on modulars, but I can't quite figure it out. How does one go about programming a modular synth? Is it capable of making sounds/tones/textures similar to say, a daft punk record, or can it only bleep and bloop on random intervals? Thank you!
stutwostep 1 year ago
@stutwostep Hi-
Well you don't really 'program' this kind of machine. I has no memory. You simply connect or patch on thing to another and build a sound via those devices or modules. It is not unlike starting with a guitar and then running it through flangers and fuzz and wha and eq etc... 'cept here the starting tone is electronic via our tone generators or oscillators. On a typical machine like this you can play the resulting sound using a keyboard to drive it as i do in this demo.
rtermini 1 year ago
I still have that shirt.
rtermini 1 year ago
I still have that shirt.
rtermini 1 year ago
what the shit, why is that thing such a beast, i want one.
and why do i suddenly feel like styling my hair like flock of seagulls...
xBASSBOOMx 1 year ago
Im going to study your Videos if I just went out and got a Soft synth I would not understand it even if I watch a million videos on the soft synth I need to learn the ins and out out Synths ...
simplistiCI 1 year ago
Could you provide a the parts list to yours? I'm looking at a DotCom synth or the Doepfer A-100.
dland95 1 year ago
nice
z3z4z3z4z3z4z3z4 1 year ago
!@#! I hate my soft synth plug-ins even more now.. thanks dude!!
cafe50s 1 year ago
@DarkShroom Yeah...and there are sounds you can't get out of digital shit that you can out of analog. Don't be doggin Moog, you'll make yourself sound like an idiot.
baughskeet 1 year ago
What is a good keyboard to use that has a CV out?
dland95 1 year ago
Hey! Thank you! Everything was pretty clear!
jericho123456 1 year ago
Rule 34
unfeared11 2 years ago 2
But I can't download that from a torrent. : (
AleksWest09 2 years ago
just get a synth man...nothing beats haiving a knob, cable, touch ribbon to alter the sounds you're trying to a\make... i mean seriously, don't you get tired of clicking a mouse all damn day?
llieske 2 years ago
Just keep ripping off software makers, and eventually they'll all go out of business and the decision will be easier to make I guess. People don't stop to think about how destructive their actions are to the people who are working hard to create good software. It's pretty sick.
Truthzilla 1 year ago
sounds great but where the fuck do i put it????? look at the size of it!!!! Pluggins are where its at im afraid!!!
intent1 2 years ago
yes, be afraid. your plugins sound like shit compared to this :-)
toranamunter 2 years ago 31
you are so right my friend...
try forever... youll never bet real hands on analog..
PlanetSynth 2 years ago 3
@toranamunter, nah uh. Plenty VSTs can reproduce these sounds and better
heard of albino? absynth? predator? just to name a few
JahLoveOnline 2 years ago
@toranamunter
fishybishbash 1 year ago
That's a very small 22 space portable unit. Put it on a table. Mount it on the wall. It's worth it's sonic value in gold, and will put any plugin to shame.
Voltor07 2 years ago 13
@Voltor07 Ha ha! Love it. Tell it to a software type like Bill Gates, I would love to see the reaction on his face!
dvamateur 1 year ago
Dude, I want some synth porn on that shit!
misterDtD 2 years ago 4
andromeda rules but old modulars are awesome
geojones69 2 years ago 3
im a complete noob to this. how much would one of these cost?
rawrcalumx 3 years ago 2
His system is in the $2000-US range. They're very expensive, but also very awesome. I want one!
If you're new to synthesizers I recommend starting with a cheaper, simpler non-modular. You can pick up old synths from the 70s and 80s on Ebay for much cheaper ($300 to $1200 depending on the model you want). The Korg Polysix and Roland Juno-60 are good ones to start with.
Envergure 2 years ago 4
I cried. Freakin awesome man.
omanafire 3 years ago
software,software...NOW THIS IS haRRdWARE!
Lightotronic 3 years ago 4
We want more!
tristanbaz 3 years ago 4
"just for fun.." hahaha cool tutorial
securinx 3 years ago 4
Oscillators generate the wave forms and output those signals. You then route the Osc out to where ever you like.
rtermini 3 years ago
great video man, thanks
filladellfea 3 years ago
good tutorial
leokimvideo 3 years ago
thats awesome only if I could figure out my alesis fusion!
schizoflux 3 years ago
EXCELLENT! Well done! (But more should have been mentioned about the envelope generators).
rickysfamily 3 years ago
are theese hard to play?
buccoi123 3 years ago
Not at all - if your good at the piano or keyboard, this should be easy. In fact easier (for some at least), because you can only play one note at a time, since it's a monophonic syntesizer.
Patching up the synth isn't that hard once you grasp the basics, and remember that there just about isn't anything you can do wrong. Only real problem is that they're hella expensive.
The system in the video costs $2550 without keyboard.
BSODslayer 3 years ago 2
nice !
MAFlOTU 3 years ago
I have a question about the effect of technology on musical activities- is music going back into a more 2-dimensional 'thing' with the ever increasing use of technology, and is this technology taking away musicianship?
Dannysince1985 4 years ago
u have written excactly the same to another video. No it isn t, u still have to know music in order for people to make sense of your composition, and u can explore sounds that cannot be produced by conventional means. A tool is as good as the one that uses it. Either a violin, a moog, a knife or whatever
aberotter 4 years ago
Yeah for me anyway electronic music provides relief from the boringness of most instruments which have existed so many centuries that pretty much everything has been done with them.
DarkShroom 4 years ago
@ Dannysince1985:
To some, it does.
To others... it only grants more possibilities :)
AppA 4 years ago
Music is music. Made up of bars. Electronica is just another genrea of music made of 16-32 beat loops. thats the most basic answer lol
wogboy555 3 years ago
are slew limiters and oscillator aids absolutely necessary to have in a basic system?
ktownwreck 4 years ago
Nope
rtermini 4 years ago
Nope - although a slew limiter IS pretty useful for portamento (note slide)... amongst other things ...
PeterCatLovesYou 3 years ago
Id like to get the 960-62-63 and stick that in one of these portable units with some basics, ie 2 osc's 1 envelope gen, a filter, a mixer, amp, midi interfce and power.. but dont know if I could get away with it.. the 960 clone is like 8 spaces, Id probably be missing the multiplier and something else essential to do it.. what do you think?
ktownwreck 4 years ago
It CAN be done, but it'd be almost too cramped.
With the 960 and the proper control modules for it, you would be down to 11 modules for the synth itself. 4 for two oscillators, 2 for a filter, 1 for an amp, 1 for an EG, 1 for a mult, 1 for a midi and 1 for power - that's it, no space for the mixer, for instance. Would be unusable, IMO.
BSODslayer 3 years ago
Wow, that must be some instrument.
Boogyster 4 years ago
For a digital solution for not being able to affort an analoge synth I would recomment
Timewarp 2600 it's marvelous.
Vaz Modular is great too.
SurvivalOfTheHippest 4 years ago
Thanks Richard. I appreciate the demo. Love to see a part two.
Also, if you do another, one suggestion would be to zoom in on the modules so that the viewer can see the labels, inputs and outputs more clearly.
cheers,
snuf
snufflerstormpig 4 years ago
I'm sorry... you lost me after patching it through the filters. I think I'm going to stick with digital for now. I'm way too ADD for analogue, but damn I love those warm sounds.
Rabbelrauser 4 years ago
what's a cheap simple synthesizer to start with? no point in me buying an expensive one if a blow it up right?
panickingjuggler 4 years ago
Well the old school analog stuff is never too cheap but if you want a modern digital machine or an analog digital hybrid you could look online 'ebay' whatever for anything by Korg or Roland or Yamaha. You should be able to find one of those cheap and used. The US or UK made stuff tends to hold higher value used. Look around. You will find something fun to work with.
rtermini 4 years ago
thanks for the reply. what kind of prices are you talking about? i have no idea about music or electronics. what do you think's a sensible price for a beginner to pay? or any particular model? apologies for asking more of you but being a 1st timer is a *****! thanks
panickingjuggler 4 years ago
Try the microkorg they're about 400 dollars new, and you can get one for about 300 used. A lot of people say its not that good (they call it a toy), but if you're just starting out I think it is a good choice. You don't have to mess with patch cables but you can still modify the sounds, it even comes with a simple sequencer.
DoctorPorkButt 2 years ago 3
Are there Korg modules available that have a lot of the synthesizer sounds that the synthesizers from the 1980s have?
dgontar 2 years ago
I have one, had it for over 7 years, and I love it, rock solid.
jimmybrite 2 years ago 3
@panickingjuggler or you can build your own synth!
Cds56 1 year ago
wow technology has moved on to think i have packed all of that into my guitar pedal haha!
Jonnyblakey 4 years ago
What a sound!!
Splash1964 4 years ago
great video, now my modular softsynth is so much more fun!
whoneedsanameanyway 4 years ago
Software is great. I sill love the hardware stuff a bit more. The digital emulation of analog is often well done but as they say, it is not the same.
rtermini 4 years ago
Very good video! I have a Rack 24 on its way-I'm very excited! :D
BTW... Is it just me, or is there something weird about your sample rate and signal processor gain knobs? Are they missing caps?
invalidbuffalo 4 years ago
The thin cap that tops off the knob came off. Nothing functional so I never got around to gluing them back. You got good eyes.
rtermini 4 years ago
It's a shame I can't order these, since my country is in the EU etc.
Oh well, since my room doesn't have much space... a eurorack has to do.
shleedance 4 years ago
As I understand it the Doepfer has a default CV and trigger which saves having to patch a CV to each osc.
spoddie 4 years ago
There are many machines that have preset connections. In fact there are modules you can get for this system that presets some basic connections too. This system is set up the way a machine might look in the late 1960's. That is one of the cool things about it. Raw and basic.
rtermini 4 years ago
The coolest thing about this was the tiny red blinking light at the bottom. That was awesome! Can't wait to get one of those.
Pradiip79 4 years ago
You just can not go wrong with a small red blinking light. If it is say a really big light- it just is not the same. It has to be just the right size of smallness to hit the spot just right. And it has to blink at a nice rate. Not too fast and not too slow.
rtermini 4 years ago
I loved this! Thank you.
RockstarOfNazareth 4 years ago
very well done. funny thing is, I actually understood everything!
podars 4 years ago
one hit of acid per ocsillator
computercurtis 4 years ago
HI, just had 1 question. Has anybody actually included these effects as part of a song like GOA genre?
ALEXJRZ 4 years ago
Yes, of course. But it tends to be the earlier stuff.
sabamacx 4 years ago
Wow! That sounds so hardcore. How much does something like that cost?
slavagrigoryan 4 years ago
This unit cost about $2,500.
rtermini 4 years ago
TERMINI IS A LEGEND IN THE MUSIC PRODUCTION CIRCUIT IN NY. He was my teacher at IAR. "I'll kick your ass!" ....lol
ReggaetonMaker 5 years ago
Now your talkin! How the hell are ya?
rtermini 4 years ago
Explained signal flow very clearly!! Thanks Much!!
ItsMedicationTime 5 years ago
thats cool sounding
chefd907 5 years ago
Thanks much.
rtermini 5 years ago
A very great (and usefull) tutorial about modsynths, I myself am not wealthy enough to own one (I'm a mere student :-) ), but one day will come when I shall experiment with this or that. And when that day comes, I won't forget this tutorial :)
I don't think it will be too comlicated, just think where the input and the output goes.
Btw, on 04:42 you talk about a low-pass filter, what is that if I may ask?
AppA 5 years ago
Thank you very much. A Low Pass Filter is as its name implies. It is a filter that allows frequencies below a certain point through but filters out frequencies above that point. The point of cutoff is called 'the Cutoff Frequency'. On a synth the cutoff frequency can be set and or swept by the user. It can get a bit more complicated than this because the slope or rate of change of the filter can vary and this is one variable that can give a filter its character. (MORE)
rtermini 5 years ago
But in general just think of it like this: if you set the cutoff to say 1000Hz than everything below 1000Hz will be heard and everything above will be cut out of the sound. So why not call it an High Cut filter? Well some people do but think about light. A Red filter passes RED and cuts everything else out so an audio filter follows this tradition therefore a Low Pass filters Lower than the Cutoff and Cuts everything above the Cutoff.
I hope this helps.
Thanks again Termini
rtermini 5 years ago
In 1897 Thaddeus Cahill patented (pat no 580,035) what was to become the "Telharmonium" or "Dynamophone" which can be considered the first significant electronic musical instrument . The first fully completed model was presented to the public in 1906 in Holyoke, Mass.
rtermini 5 years ago
What's a Teleharmonium? I know about the Theremin. But then again the pipe organ has been described as the origina; synthasizer from time to time.
dulcimoo 5 years ago
Check it out
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/telharmonium/index.html
rtermini 5 years ago
that was useful, i have only used standard synths, not modular - cheers
LF0 5 years ago
I hope to add a few more basic tutorials soon. Sample and Hold should be a good one. ADSR/envelopes seem to confuse people so I will do a thing on that too. Thanks very much for the comment. Cheers.
rtermini 5 years ago
ADSR would be great.... differences in filters too! band pass vs. low/ high pass... that sorta stuff... :)
Wyrehedd242 5 years ago
I just ordered the larger studio 66 from SynthesizersDotCom. I should be getting it in a couple of months. I will be doing ADSR and more with that machine. Thanks very much and cheers. Richard
rtermini 5 years ago
Modulars ARE "standard" synths. The rest are the nonstandard ones.
dulcimoo 5 years ago
Maybe we should call the Modular synths the ORIGINAL synths unless you want to go back to the Telharmonium in 1906. Calling Thaddeus Cahill's machine a synth might be pusing it though. I think the journey of electronic music is partly about not having a fixed standard but rather pusing things further along and adding to the vocabulary or the art.
rtermini 5 years ago
OK but what the heck is a Telharmonium? I guess you could almost think of pipe orgrans as the original. I sit cowrected.
dulcimoo 5 years ago
Check it out
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/telharmonium/index.html
rtermini 5 years ago
Excellent! Thank you for posting this in the Analog Synthesizers group! This is just the sort of thing I had hoped would be posted! Aren't .com modulars great?
AutomaticGainsay 5 years ago
Thanks much. Yes DotCom synths are fantastic. I intend to expand my system soon. I also use vintage Oberheim gear circa 1975.
I hope to be adding more tutorials soon. Thanks again for your kind words.
rtermini 5 years ago