[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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