From . . Sent Wed, Jun 20th 2007, 22:50
From . . Sent Wed, Jun 20th 2007, 22:50
Very nice. I especially enjoyed the Polymoog/Multimoog sounds. -sv ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Elhardt" <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx> To: "analog(ue) heaven" <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:45 PM Subject: [AH] My ancient recordings from tape, plus Doepfer >I opened up my old Fostex 8 track reel-to-reel and took care of the belt > problems. As a result I recorded a few short audio files from my historic > recordings where you can hear some synths I've not used in other demos, each > between 1:00 and 1:30 minutes long. > > 1) This is my first multitrack recording ever, done in 1982. I hadn't even > bought tape for my Fostex yet so just used some stuff that wasn't properly > biased for the machine I had laying around to test the thing out with. 2 > tracks of Polymoog pseudo piano, 2 tracks of Polymoog strings, 1 track each > of Multimoog flute, oboe, bass. Noisy do to a lot of treble boost and low > recording levels. > > http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/Polymoog_Multimoog_1982.mp3 > > 2) This is my last Fostex recording. I was using Finale music notation > software to write a piece of music and have it play back part of it in this > audio file. The Roland S-50 sampler was my only multi-timbral keyboard, so > it's all being sequenced in real-time from Finale. Then I played over the > top of that with a Jupiter-8 electric guitar sound at the end. One reason > for posting this was I've had several people insinuate that my JP-6 Freebird > guitar impression was faked somehow. As you can hear I was doing similar > things 15 years ago, and theS-50 sampler doesn't have a sound like that. > > http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/JP8_Guitar_S50_Sampler.mp3 > > 3) Battlefield Vietnam is an exercise in speed synthesis and is also from > about the 82 to 83 era. The entire thing was synthesized and recorded in > about 20 minutes using my Roland SH-7 (which I eventually sold to Big City > Music). > > http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/SH7_Battlefield_Vietnam.mp3 > > > 4) This is my first multitrack recording using a computer and my newly > purchased Doepfer Modular, plus a spring reverb, from 1998. It's a > synthesized version of the last half of Leopold Mozart's (father of the more > famous Amadeus) Toy Symphony. It was a good piece for putting in different > kinds of toy-like sounds. > > http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/Doepfer_ToySymphonyPart2.mp3 > > -Elhardt