[sdiy] synthi/dark side of the moon

Dave Manley dlmanley at sonic.net
Mon Nov 20 19:47:56 CET 2006


Watch the video on YouTube.  Gilmour uses a finger not a squirrel :-) 
and his synthi sounds properly scaled.  My remaining question is how the 
snare track is set up/modulated - there's a comment to the effect "it 
comes for free".


Tom Arnold wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:05:10AM -0800, Dave Manley wrote:
>> A while back I carefully watched the video where David Gilmour enters 
>> the sequence into the AKS.  This is the sequence I saw/heard and 
>> verified at a keyboard:
>>
>> C2 C1 Eb1 G1 F1 Eb1 F1 Bb1
>> 8  1  3b  5  4  3b  4  7b
> 
> To be fair, its a Synthi so you coulda just hit the keyboard randomly with a
> squirrel and you'd get something close.[1]  :-)
> 
> ( tuning, yeah, we've heard of it[2] )
> 
> 1. You would of course have to hit it with the squirrel the correct number
> of times.
> 
> 2. No slight on the Synthi, I'm just saying that scaling wasnt exactly a
> design requirement...
> 




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