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Re: [AN1x] richy

2011-05-05 by Jeff

Hello !
i've tried your patches, some are amazing !
the nr 2 mellotron sounds very close to the motion picture "The song 
remains the same" soundtrack
with the 22 you can play a reasonable imitation of the final part of 
Yes' "Gates of Delirium". Not the same, because the solo synth is dubbed 
by Steve Howe playing a pedal steel guitar , but i think Rick Wakeman 
would be happy with "Diamonds" if his fellow was on strike...
Some prog-rock stuff, thanks !
Cheerzs.
J.F.

richardon a \ufffdcrit :
> Hi Jeff
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>> You have a job in electronics engineering ?
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> Yes i studied electronics and sound engineering.
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>> grab an oscilloscope to look at the waveforms ...
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> You can use your soundcard for this and will be totally surprised what kind of Init Waveforms An1X is producing. Without feedback only peaks. Therefore the fundamental waves are damped.
> Around feedback=30 you get the signal spectrum of the mathematic functions. But you won't see that, because the overtones are typical yamaha out of phase. But in www you get Spectral
> analysers for free. Thin Waves with damped fundamentals or signal Generator functions produce a modern Sound, but sometimes you like it more musically like a minimoog. Look at minimoogs waveforms, There is a sine Wave added. The fundamentales emphased.
> An1X is a great machine . He can even produce this with the feedback function.
> With a spectral analyzer you will see it best.
> It must be an accident, that presest sounds were programmed with feedback set to zero.
> Of course this thin sounds are modern. But AN1X is a CS80 clone, vintage.
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>> sometimes emulations of "traditional" instruments can be very useful.
>>      
> Yes, and if you programm e.g. the breath of a flute seperate you can controle it better than a
> Rom player can do. Roland D50 had an little VA machine. So AN1x is able to produce D50
> sounds. Only the spectral functions must be emulated via FM/Sync. Its also an interesting
> execise to emulate other synthesizers. AN1X can do this with its feedback edge functions
> very well.
> Its Filter changes with feedback too and is very vocal. Together with FX/SYNC, Dely as Comb Filter and breath spectrals he can produce very authentic vocals. I hope so :-)
> And he can spaek more words than "we all die". The AN1x fun examples show this. And of course he can even speak more words.
> Of cause i like this crazy AN1X sounds too. Some examples in this group are really great.
> EG this Atari emulations and of course JayB's great tecno Sounds. Aggressor and Accelerate
> for example. Thats great work.
>
> I have a question. If i upload my sounds to the yahoo An1x group. Can i change them in future ?
> I want to keep them up to date.
> Ciao, au revoir
> richy
>
> Sorry my bad english
>
> Nice sounds
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Jeff
>    To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
>    Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:30 PM
>    Subject: Re: [AN1x] richy
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>    Welcome !
>    very impressive theoretical work : grab an oscilloscope to look at the
>    waveforms ... You have a job in electronics engineering ?
>    Nice sounds totraditional" instruments o, sometimes emulations of "can
>    be very useful.
>    Cheers.
>    J.F.
>
>    richardon a \ufffdcrit :
>    >  Hi
>    >  My name is richy an i live in Karlsruhe /Germany. I am new in AN1x Group.
>    >  Thank you for the lot of sounds that can be found here. Wow great stuff !
>    >  I own the An1X since 1996. A great flexible synthesizer. But in the beginning
>    >  i had some problems to understand and programm it in all details.
>    >  E.g. I didnt knew, that the AN1X only produces thin Pulswaveforms,if FEEDBACK ist
>    >  set to zero. So i didn't use it for a while on stage.
>    >  To get the parameters FEEDBACK and EDGE under controle i started to emulate waveforms
>    >  of other synthesizers on AN1X. Using an Oszilloscope, Spectral Analyzer and my ears.
>    >  BTW: AN1x never produces straight Wavepictures like SAW or REC. Because overtones
>    >  are out of phase. So you have to use a Spectral Analyzer or your ears.
>    >
>    >  Some results of this work. Perhaps the list is useful for you.
>    >  http://home.arcor.de/richardon/2011/an1x_waves.txt
>    >  (My sounds file contains some templates for feedback and edge parameters)
>    >  Next step I created some tuned FM sprectrals to emulate D50 Sounds.Spectrals are also
>    >  useful for Voices, Flute Breath, Melotron, Arco Strings and so on. The PEG can be
>    >  used as second polyphonic AEG or FEG in such spectral sounds.Thats good, because
>    >  LFO and EG are not polyphonic. Controling PWM via PEG you have for all waves a simple
>    >  second polyphonic AEG.
>    >  Of course for Organs its better to use the Free EG for typical B3 Legato Pecussion.
>    >  I used another PW Trick in my Organ Sounds to get 888 up to Full Drawbars plus Legato
>    >  B3 Percussion and Keyclick in one Scene. Template was my old and new CX3.
>    >
>    >  Now her are my sounds :
>    >  http://home.arcor.de/richardon/2011/richy_5_11.an1
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>    >  I tried to opimize my sounds for stage, therefore they are more traditionell.
>    >  For example I like to play the Vibraphone Sound during Dinner Music Gigs.
>    >  An1x can do this as good as a rompler machine. A simple sound, but it was a lot
>    >  of work to create it exactly like the template. With some classical Drum machines,
>    >  left hand base you can even play Jazz Standards on AN1x :-)
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>    >  Hope you like it. Dont wonder about some delay settings e.g. in mellotron or
>    >  vocal sounds. The Delay FX can also be used as an "Comb Filter"
>    >  Very good to emphasis Formants or simulate Phase Errors of older Instruments.
>    >
>    >  With best regards
>    >  Thomas Richardon
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