Zenitram

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&v=m65rAfsjllw&x-yt-ts=1421914688"]http://www.youtube.c...t-ts=1421914688[/url] I quote: In an unprecedented gesture of good will, Yamaha Corporation and its President, Takuya Nakata, have granted possession of the Sequential brand back to its original owner and company founder, Dave Smith. “To say that I’m grateful would be putting it mildly,” said Smith. “Generosity at this level is almost unheard of in today’s corporate climate.” Like the other pioneering American synthesizer manufacturers of the late 1970’s and 80’s, Moog and Oberheim, Sequential’s fortunes declined when digital instruments eclipsed their analog counterparts. All three company founders subsequently lost the rights to their own company name. When Sequential ceased operations in 1987, its name and assets were acquired by Yamaha. For a number of years following that, Smith worked as a consultant for Yamaha and Korg, and was largely responsible for Korg’s successful Wavestation series of vector-synthesis-based instruments. Instrumental in restoring the Sequential name was Roland’s Founder, Ikutaro Kakehashi, a longtime colleague and friend of Smith’s. “I feel that it’s important to get rid of unnecessary conflict among electronic musical instrument companies,” said Kakehashi. “That is exactly the spirit of MIDI. For this reason, I personally recommended that the President of Yamaha, Mr. Nakata, return the rights to the Sequential name to Dave Smith. And I’m glad to see such a wonderful result—a new product with the Sequential name.” Kakehashi is referring to Smith’s timely debut of a new analog poly synth bearing the Sequential name: the Prophet-6. “I wanted to celebrate the return of Sequential in the best way I could—by building the most awesome-sounding, modern analog poly synth possible,” said Smith. “The Prophet-6 is a tribute to Sequential’s most famous instrument, the Prophet-5. I think of it as vintage with a modern twist.” The new instrument features voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers. Its emphasis is on vintage analog tone with modern reliability. Kakehashi, now CEO of Atelier Vision Corporation, is no stranger to such altruistic gestures. He was the original bridge and facilitator in the cooperative effort between Smith and Japanese instrument manufacturers Roland, Korg, Yamaha, and Kawai to develop the MIDI standard. The goal of the MIDI standard was to ensure compatibility between synthesizers from different manufacturers to the mutual benefit of all. “Kakehashi-san is right,” said Smith. “This is really what MIDI was originally about—encouraging cooperation between companies that make the world a more creative place. One can only hope that Yamaha’s kindness inspires others to show the same generosity. The original spirit of MIDI lives on. And because of that, Sequential is back!”

More crazy Belgians wot do music: Front 242 CJ Bolland Wim Mertens Toots Thielemans Vaya Con Dios

http://www.gumtree.com/p/pianos/free-to-a-charity-good-cause-or-young-person-in-need/1096508616 Nothing to do with me; I just saw it and thought I'd post it here, in case any of you know of a good cause or a young person in or near Leeds that would benefit.

I'm less than two minutes in and it's absolutely lovely.

Yes, the RNC has unbalanced ins and outs. Not sure how you'd use it for the final mixdown if you're recording individual things into your computer (through the interface), as they'd all be digital tracks, but maybe I've misunderstood, or it's a fancy interface that can do that.

Man, I had a pillow, a blanket and half of my wardrobe in my bass drum. My toms had huge wads of padded gaffa tape on them, and my snare was no different. It sounded amazing. Or rubbish. I can't remember. These days it's a Triggera Krigg and a pedal with the beater removed: http://triggera.com/kick-pedal-trigger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZ1xn2ml10

Thanks very much! It's been slightly reimagined since I first uploaded it.

Is Jaco any good for metal? Full Metal Jaco, perhaps. (probably not the first time that gag's been made)

All done now. Probably made it worse.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1416833724' post='2613986'] Can I just quickly check that this is something you’ve composed for the Challenge, or a track you’re putting out there for general listening pleasure?[/quote] Yes, as odd as it might seem, I really did come up with that based on the photo. Although it was more the title of it, the bit about the last days of something... I was imagining a thing (disco itself, why not), or a life, a relationship, coming to a drawn-out end of what had been a glorious time, and there was sadness and beauty in that, as well as a bit of determination not to die just yet, to keep fighting. So, er, not very disco at all, or very dancingey, but that's where I ended up. All in about five or six notes. Oh and the title just came from something about the feel and mood of the first few notes of piano and Rhodes that I put together at the very beginning, and when I went to save the project I had to give it a name. I have a silly policy where I save projects with either the very first thought or phrase to come to my head, or the first words I see when looking around me. With a certain degree of licence, but hey, at least it's a system, right? And those three or four notes going round and round felt like the sort of music a very introspective, romantic, unlucky-in-love spy might have playing in her head.

I, er, I'm just putting the finishing touches to mine... will be done in an hour or so...

https://soundcloud.com/gingerosity/espiatriste

Oh I see! I was playing each line as a chord. Sounded awful.

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1416436119' post='2610315'] Oooh yes . I used to have one . Select the brass pre-set and play ; ( ^ means higher pitch , ie go upwards , if not go down ) g ^c ^g c ^g f ^a f c g f ^a ^c c (same note ) ^e ^g f ^a ^c e g c ... and that was that sound on the record [/quote] I just tried that, I think, and have no idea what song it was supposed to be. My own shortcomings, no doubt, just to be clear.

That's a Solina-shaped oooh.

Oooh.

What synth is it?

You, er, you wouldn't fancy making two of those cases, would you?

That's fab. Where does one go about sourcing all the parts for this sort of stuff? And what are you going to do for a case? I'm ever so impressed with the Shruthi, it really can do some wild things. I'd love to get more of them, or the Ambika. I also wish I had the knowledge and skill to do all the soldering and understand what does what, and why, and how, and all that stuff. I suppose it's just knowledge you accumulate over time, once you get started on these things.