MOTM Renaissance Music (full versions) - mp3 files
2004-09-01 by elhardt@att.net
No midi files or sequencers were used in any of these MP3's. Every single note is played by hand. Here are some pieces by the renaissance composer Ammerbach performed on the motm synthesizer. Other gear used was an ART 15 band graphic EQ, Lexicon PCM-41 digital delay (for comb filtering), and T.C. Elec M-ONE reverb. Since these came from a book of keyboard works I improvised in the drums/percussion and also the high soprano pseudo recorder or irish whistle parts that show up in the 1st and 2nd pieces. They contain imitative, non-imitative, and mildly suggestive synthesis. Since many renaissance instruments such as shawms, crumhorns, racketts, and regals produce primitive nasal, buzzy sounds I used a lot of buzzy hardsync sounds, some with the 1v/oct patchcord yanked out to create hardsync fixed formants. Note: These are headphone mixes. Do to a left/right channel delay on the kettledrum in piece #2, if listened to on speakers its timbre may be detrimentally altered, lack punch and realism, sound distant, or all of the above. Related picture: http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/Switched_On_Renaissance.jpg Time to create: 1 night File size: 700920 bytes http://home.att.net/~elhardt2/MOTM_Renaissance1.mp3 Time to create: 1.5 days File size: 1512562 bytes http://home.att.net/~elhardt2/MOTM_Renaissance2.mp3 Time to create: 1.5 days File size: 1083979 bytes http://home.att.net/~elhardt2/MOTM_Renaissance3.mp3 This partial piece is by the renaissance composer Sweelinck. It's a test to try to get a small portable primitive pipe organ sound with a small boxy, flutey, pipe character. Voltage controlled filter overdrive and comb filtering help with the realism. Stops are changed about halfway through. Time to create: <1 day File size: 506117 bytes http://home.att.net/~elhardt2/MOTM_Positive_Organ.mp3