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Re: Crazy Who sounds

2006-01-17 by Linda Dachtyl

>

A tremolo stomp box with a square wave form works like a charm on this.
I found this out after spending hours on programming a Kawai K-3 
patch....with only 6 note polyphony:-(

Linda
>    From: "Scott Murrell" <bjork01@...>
> Subject: Re: Crazy Who sounds
>
> My Motif has those sounds pretty darned close but I need them for the 
> AN1X just for a backup.....
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: uralmoto2001
>   To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:38 PM
>   Subject: Re: [AN1x] Crazy Who sounds
>
>
>   Yeah, it figures that "Baba O'Riley" was also played on the organ.
>   Funny; there's a quote from Pete Townshend on the back of the Arp2500
>   owners' manual where he says how suitable it is for stage work. Makes
>   me wonder how often they used it on stage. I had forgotten that
>   there's also an Ion preset called "Baba O'Riley". Very similar
>   to "Won't Get Fooled" in that an lfo square wave is used to mod VCA.
>   The key to this Ion patch though is that it uses key poly reset for
>   the lfo; I think the an1x only has key mono reset. May be another way
>   to get the same effect
>   though.                                                              
> -
>   --
>   Steve
>
>   --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Edwards" <edward.edwards@v...>
>   wrote:
>>
>> "Teenage Wasteland" (actually named Baba O'Riley) has a lot of
>   references if you
>> Google it.  There is an audio interview with Pete Townsend
>   somewhere out there
>> where he reveals the entire process.  Don't forget to listen
>   carefully, Townsend
>> is moving around a lot on the keyboard -- this is not just a simple
>   hold down
>> the keys and let the arpeggiator play it song.
>>
>> Google kindly provided this excellent site:
>> http://www.wbtracks.co.uk/synths.htm
>>
>> Here's a snip:
>> I'd always thought this was programmed into Pete's huge modular ARP
>   2500
>> synth/sequencer. It certainly sounds like it could have been! It's
>   hard to
>> believe that the sound we hear on Baba O'Riley is really a Lowrey
>   home organ.
>> The model Pete used was a TBO-1, but for anyone wishing to recreate
>   Baba O'
>> Riley, just pick one up the following models to do the same job:
>   TLO, DSO, TLS,
>> TSO 25 and HR and GAK (seems to be the nearest). Pete is using a
>   setting called
>> "marimba repeat." <SNIP>
>>
>> ... go on and read the rest yourself.  Also download the audio demo
>   of the banjo
>> repeat on the Lowery - amazing stuff for 40 year old technology.
>>
>> eee - Edward Edwards
>> http://www.ezekielswheel.com
>> http://www.untiedmusic.com/ezekiel
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