Video Description:

The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create ‘new kinds of sounds’. Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake’s Seven and Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, and charts its fading away in 1995 when, due to budget cuts, it was no longer able to survive.

There are interviews with composers from the Workshop, as well as musicians and writers who have been inspired by the output. Great archive footage of the Workshop and its machinery is accompanied by excerpts of the, now cult, TV programmes that featured these sounds.

First broadcast October, 2003. Last Broadcast May, 2005.

This includes some awesome shots and segments of Delia Derbyshire.

PS – Does anyone know who the guy is in the dark standing behind everyone getting interviewed?!?!?! LOL

I forgot to post about this one. I uploaded a nice little sfz sample instrument collection. Including one of my favorite Bass patches from a certain FM Synth Module. Pure FM goodness!

The sfz sampled pack features:
- 3 velocity layers
- vibrato on aftertouch
- highpass filter sweep on ModWheel

Yamaha TX81Z Lately Bass Download:

sfz LatelyBass!

Now for the fun part of exploring this Classic Synth. That’s the funny part about this synth. You either love it, or hate it’s sound. It’s got that ‘early 90s production/pop’ sound written all over it. Not that Roland early 90s ROM/PCM sound, but a bit more distinguished and mystical. The sounds are nostalgia for me.

Korg M1 Resources and Links

Many of the older M1 and korg resource pages are full of deadlinks to geocities pages, or yahoo discussion groups long gone. But here are a few worth browsing:

M1 patches, old sys-ex utilities. Related links, and Dr Evil.
Doctor Evil and the M1 Universe

Indy Korg User Forums, resource links, and downloads.
Korg User Forums

Good resource for instructions on battery replacement, and other tutorials.
Korg M1 Source

Just Bought A Used M1?

On your M1…
• Make M1 MIDI ready: GLOBAL, 5, +, UP, D, UP, F, UP, H, UP.
• Remove memory protects: GLOBAL, 6, DOWN, +, B, DOWN, +, B, DOWN.
• Put M1 in 100/100 memory: GLOBAL, 6, +, +, +, DOWN, G.
• Check M1 is working: PROG, 00. Check volume. Play keyboard with headphones.

Data dump from M1 to computer…

• From the software sysex utility or librarian’s File menu look for “New…” or “New Bank…” to open a blank sound bank file.
• Click a “Receive” or “Capture” button to receive the M1′s sound bank through your MIDI interface into the computer.
• The program will wait while you manually send the data dump from M1 to computer: GLOBAL, 7, UP, UP, UP, UP (for “All”), G.

Send data from computer to M1…

• From the software sysex utility or librarian’s File menu look for “Open…” or “Open Other…” or “Open Any…” to open an existing sysex sound bank file.
• Click a “Send” or “Transmit” button to send the sound bank through your MIDI interface into the M1.
• Click the M1′s “UP” button, then the “DOWN” button. The first 00 sound of the new bank should be visible in the display.

Korg M1 Patches, Banks, Combis, and Downloads

24 banks collected from Korg User Forums

Collection of 8 COMBI banks!

Francois Rossi Collection

DrEvil Patches

M1 Software Editors and Librarians

Most of the M1 editors are really dated. I may try and make a quick editor within Bidule or Max4Live. Let me know if you have any suggestions on where to start. Thanks for reading. Let me know if you have any other M1 sites I should visit.

Very well put together and arranged. The best part is no computers, really inspiring to see more artists doing things just inside their boxes or hardware. Very inspiring. Keep up the good work.

Eric (alt_mode) has shared his flickr set for the AHNE 2012 meeting this past weekend. Check out some of the great shots here:

alt_mode’s AHNE 2012 pics!

From Eric:

Thanks to all who made it to AHNE yesterday. It was a good turnout with 31 people signing in. Lots of good folks and good synths. The evening jam sessions were particularly great this year.

Wish I could have made it, maybe next year!

I’m a 17 year old producer from Irvine CA
I’m into any kind of music, mostly electronic, hip hop, chill-out, dance, that kind of stuff.

Check out my first two EP’s and one full length i made at www.alperatrek.bandcamp.com which you can download for free.

This week’s feature. 2 free EPs from a 17 year old producer from Irvine CA. Kids these days… Pretty Impressive. Keep up the good work Alper Atrek!

Description of this video demo:

Short demo track made with the DSI Evolver + 2 additional sounds.
Bassdrum : Roland Jupiter 4, additional snare : Roland TR 808. As always multitrack recording with some external fx. I also used the internal delay from the evolver.

DSI Resources and Links

If you are new to the Evolver be sure check out these points of interest on the web:

All of the official banks, OS upgrades, firmware, support documentation, and downloads:
Dave Smith Instruments Support & Downloads

One of the most amazing resources for DSI audio demos and patches, an inspiration:
STrippler’s Sounds and Patches Page!

DSI online community, very active, discussions for all DSI synths!
EX5 – DSI User Forums

The definitive DSI resource page. Make sure to download Anu Kirk’s PDF there.
Carbon111′s DSI Resource Page

Rozzer.net – Studio Blog with DSI Cubase MIDI Device Panel & Patches
Rozzer.net

Darren Richard’s Evolver Wave Dump Utility. The easiest way to transfer custom oscillator shapes to your Evolver!
Darren Richard’s Wave Dump Utility

(screen shot of the wave dump utility here)

Evolver Programming Tips Excerpts:

• “Warmer” Sounds

The Evolver can make many ultra-bright and buzzy sounds due to its extensive feedback and distortion stages but sometimes people miss the subtler side of the beast. For a warmer sound use little or no distortion, close the filter just a bit and turn off the feedback and delay lines. I’ve managed to get dead-on Prophet5 timbres this way.

• Adding “Punch”

Set the envelopes to linear, and use a Mod to modulate AmpEnv All by itself (lin through log responses with positive and negative self-modulation).
This is of course fun on the filter envelopes as well.

• Fatter Bass/Pad Sounds

Set the same sound in both channels (detuned saws, for instance). With the filters at the 24dB setting, increasing resonance cuts the passband as on the Moog filters. Set Envelope 3 to minimum attack, maximum decay and release, and sustain to maximum. This “creates” an offset, a continuous “on” signal while the keys are gated. Modulate one filters’ resonance up (just one), or of the overall resonance level is high, us it to modulate one filters’ resonance to its minimum. You get the resonant character plus the size of the non-resonant filter. Use Tri and Sine waves on that side too.

• Don’t forget the Noise!

Adding subtle amounts of the noise generator can add another dimension to your patch. Also if you are using a sequence patch try experimenting with a variety of noise gen levels for each step, works wonders when used with the built in Delay.

DSI Evolver Patches, Downloads

Ugo DSI Set

Rozzer Evolver Sound Bank

DocT Evolver Banks

Evolutionaries 2003

Happy Sequencing and Programming your Evolver!

This is a demonstration of a few patches I made on the V-Synth XT. You can now download the sound bank on www.jaybmusic.net. My patches re just as versatile as the synth itself. You’ve got vivid pads, aggressive leads, crushed basslines, even small arrangements with drums and also a guitar amplifier. And there’s even more to come!

V-Synth Patches Download

Visit jaybmusic.net for more:
JayB Music

Free downloads and patch collection for Waldorf VSTi.

Finally had time to go through Waldorf Largo, it is a very powerful VSTi, capable of a wide variety in tones and textures. If you haven’t checked it out yet. Waldorf offers a 30day free trial here. A great way to get started with these excellent patches:

Helges Waldorf Soundset demo:

Find more great presets from Helges at his website here:
http://www.zeitaugen.de/

Visit the Waldorf Site for more info and the free 30 day demo here:
Waldorf Largo Official Website

Helges has released a new z3ta+ bank titled “RADIO TRANSMISSIONS”. Click the image above to visit his website, he has also created tons of other free patches and banks for various VSTis.

PatchArena loves z3ta+.

Download

Cheers!