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Good info Peter. I love the ³Mort Lore². When you mention the Blacet
Miniwave do you mean using it as just another VCO in the mix? I thought two
Model 15¹s would do the trick due to the tri-core. Could you elaborate on
what the Wave Mult would do? I remember reading something where you said
basically a Model 15 + a Doepfer Wave Multiplier would do a pretty good
approximation of a Buchla 259. I¹m not ultra familiar with the 259
functionally but I do love it¹s sound. Can you just explain what the Doepfer
would be replicating in regards to the functions on the 259?

        Thanks,
        John

On 10/11/06 12:47 PM, "(i think you can figure that out)"
<peter@buzzclick-music.com> wrote:

> Basically you need a Dual Timbral Gate set to 'both' for the ringing.
> Or a Lowpass gate of course.  Very short envelope (all settings to 0
> - REALLY short) - output of EG opens Timbral Gate -and- puts a
> frequency transient on the VCOs you're gating  This in tandem with the
> Timbral gate ringing is key. Two or more VCOs in unison are better.
> The phasing really adds a zing to the timbre.   The Doepfer Wave
> Mutiplier will also give you some interesting varitions, as wil a
> Blacet Miniwave.  But start with saws and then try sine on sine FM.
> 
> In any event,  I've asked Mort the same question because at first i
> thought he had a bit of noise in there as well. His reply was:
> 
> "I used a mixture of oscillators...but I did not use any noise. What I
> did was put an envelope follower with a transient up and v quick,
> almost transient down mixed with another voltage which gave it its
> pitch...I had voltage mixers [I think they became standard]. That is
> what created the transient at the beginning of the sound...it was a
> transient!"
> 
> As to how he created the triggers for that piece, this gets really
> interesting.  I've got a page on it on my Buzzclick site. It speaks
> about Cloudless Sulfur specifically.  If any of you haven't read it,
> you may enjoy it:
> 
> http://www.buzzclick-music.com/mort_lore.html
> 
> enjoy (or not!),
> 
> - P
> 
> --- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:PLAN_B_analog_blog%40yahoogroups.com> , "j_inform3r" <inform3r@...>
> wrote:
>> >
>> > I received 2 Model 15 VCO's a few days ago and I'm completely blown
> away by them. 
>> > Everytime I plug in I seem to get something new in terms of
> modulating them in various
>> > ways. I was just listening to the first part of "A Sky of Cloudless
> Sulfur" by Morton Sunotnick
>> > and I was wondering how he got those tones in the very first part. I
> understand the track was
>> > made using a Buchla and the Model 15 core is very similar to that of
> what Morton probably
>> > used. Anybody have any idea of how Mort abused those oscillators to
> make them sound like
>> > that?! What waves do you think he started with? Intereting.
>> > Thanks,
>> > John
>> >
> 
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