magazine 15/08 mag4musicians news & infos

magazine 15/08 mag4musicians news & infos

Our first video tipp shows a Roland Alpha Juno 1 being edited by a Behringer BCR 2000 MIDI Controller unit which is one of the very few USB MIDI controllers being capable of handlig SysEx data for remote edting. Thus this unit can be used for realtime knobbing on quite a lot hardware synths without having knobs. Explanation: SysEx data are in contrary to common MIDI CC unit dependant commands mainly to handle soundpatch or system data of a specific model.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPsqoUsc9pI
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysex

You can say what you want but a real analog synthesizer is still in advance as of vividness in sound related to VA emulations. As vintage synth of this issue we want to point to the Korg MonoPoly and two videos by Mark Doty. On the Youtube page of this issue you'll find even some more video links on that synth.

Korg MonoPoly MP-4 by Marc Doty aka Automatic Gainsay
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8EZunNCzNU
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIsv_SkKAY

more video links for Korg MonoPoly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFknjSIMvOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66JbIgFtezM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc0ET8joTbg

Currently there is another analog synth in production having 4 oscillators, the DSI Mono Evolver. Ok, in a way it's a hybrid as two analog oscillators are accompanied by two digital ones with the waves of the Prophet VS but the filter pure analog. Of course there are several differences between the Mono Evolver and the MonoPoly as only the latter one can be played 4 voice polyphonic while the advantages of the Mono Evolver are it's capabilty to store a lot of patches, very flexible modulations, stepsequencer, and it's built on current technology.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2trgm_mono-evolver-demo-video_music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyLBDiuzj34

While programming an analog synth is quite comprehensive this is a lot different with synths based on FM synthesis, which does look quite abstract even on a 2nd glance. William H did a neat video providing a really comprehensive access to the basics of FM synthesis which should make programming much easier.

http://www.sonicstate.com/articles/article.cfm?id=148

If You'd like to experiment yourself with FM synthesis but have not appropriate synth around you might still use SynthEdit a software for Windows(TM). This is a very comprehensive modular development environment to create VST effects and instruments. As SynthEdit is Shareware there is a fully functional trialversion available via http://www.synthedit.com.


Now back to the MIDI laserharp which is really an impressive unit esp. for live performances. Stephen Hobley created the circuitry and the diagrams are available from his website so it can be built by others too. Also there are more videos on this topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCgMsrSaYwY
http://www.youtube.com/shobley
http://www.stephenhobley.com/

Have fun
HGF

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mag4musicians
• Behringer
• BCR-2000
• DSI
• Mono-Evolver
• Roland
• Alpha
• Juno
• Yamaha
• FM-synth
• Korg
• MonoPoly
• Laserharp
• MIDI

[peter47a]

Ihr habt euer Studio umgeräumt :)

[mag4musicians]

Etwas Abwechslung kann ja nicht schaden ;-)

[vukproject]

fantastic

[DodgyVideoz]

u cant add ID's on msn live messenger can u? lol

[felmoe]

schön wie sie keien ahnugn hat und nur abliest .. is ja billig ;) aber das was sie sagt is schon vom inhalt ok

[Visionism]

I strongly recommend against "realtime knobbing" on your synth unless you have a very strong and stable keyboard stand.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Hey, thanks for featuring my work!

[djsmithy]

Hey mag! thanks for adding the English Scrolling Translation down the bottom!

Now i can understand all your videos.

And youve done some really good showcasing of videos on youtube i must say!

Keep up the good work