Return of the Robotmakers
2009-02-23 by rogerpellegrini
Ever since the last Robotmakers clip ended up as a "featured video" on Youtube, I'd been plotting the follow-up. With the distractions of the financiapocalypse intervening, it's taken a very long time, but "Crush Kill Destroy" is finally done. There are some interesting synth bits, many with the Cynthia Sawtooth Animator or Zeroscillators: - At 0:59 to 1:11, and 2:15 to 2:30, there's a synth line that's played without envelope generators or triggers. Instead, the VCA (and VCF) are controlled by the X-axis of a Novation RemoteSL xy pad. The Y-axis is vibrato. A footpedal through a MOTM pedal interface controls the rate of downward glide of a MOTM lag processor. It's a revelation how different it is to play this way - like driving a manual transmission car in London (for an American). The sound is a Moog 921AB through a Dotcom instrument interface (for gain) through a Cynthia Sawtooth Animator (a very useful tool), Moog 907, 904a and a JH String Filter (expertly built by www.krisp1.com into a MOTM panel). By altering the gain on the instrument interface, you can fine-tune the sawtooth animator sound. - The bass in the chorus is the Sawtooth Animator through a Moog 904a panned to one side and an RA Minimoog panned to the other. The horns in the chorus were the result of more modular sampling (regular VCO's and FM'ed Zeroscillators) into Kontakt and tedious pre-sampling EQ to match the frequency spectrum analysis to some (real) brass samples on a sample by sample basis. - Background arpeggios and bubbly synth bits are all Sawtooth Animator. - The guitars are guitars (sorry). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZsmLluFTUs Can be watched in HD, as well (!) I very much hope you like it and sincere thanks for all your support. Best regards, Roger