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Hi Tobin,

 

Never played an Ondes Martenot but from what I heard and read it's basically
a valve-based oscillator with a VCA. Timbres resemble your standard
waveforms: triangle, square etc. 

 

The real diffentiating factors are the loudspeakers. You have four: A
traditional one, one that uses a gong as diaphragm, one with a spring reverb
and one with strings for resonance. Of course you also have the playing
mechanism (the AS French Connection was developed expressly to copy that). 

 

Patching up the first part should be straightforward: OSC - VCA (controlled
by an envelope). 

 

Part two is more difficult. The VCA output must be routed in parallel to a
spring reverb and a ring modulator (for the metallic overtones). Harmomic
resonance is more difficult to replicate but you could try using several
filters tuned to different frequencies (I've had surprisingly good results
using the Doepfer A-127). The outputs of all three building blocks are then
summed together in a mixer to provide the final output.

 

If you don't have a French Connection you can approximate the playing style
using a ribbon controller (such as the Doepfer R2M). 

 

Hope this helps,

 

York

 

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Von: analogue_systems@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:analogue_systems@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von jones_tobin
Gesendet: Montag, 11. April 2011 13:22
An: analogue_systems@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: [analogue_systems] ondes martenot

 

  

Hey guys 

I am new to synthesis but am really keen to learn more.
At the studio I work at we have an AS Systems 8500 and a Sorceror Keyboard.
Just wondering if any one has a patch Diagram for making an Ondes Martenot
type sound, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Tobin





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