@SethGreene531 I think so...its not a real synth...more like a mix of a key board and a pipe organ setup. Btw do you know the difference between a synth and a keyboard?
@CyberSmurf Keyboards are instruments targeted to those wanting to emulate certain instruments or vocal sounds, like a grand piano.
Synths are for pure sound creation. Able to be connnected by MIDI to production software, or studio compressors, etc. They're not an instrument in themselves.
Do you own any keyboards or synths? I've been wanting to get a synth setup and do some amateur productions.
@SethGreene531 Yes I do I own two digital Korg mini synths with sequencers and one of them has a built in 8-bit vocoder: Maybe in a near future I will buy a third analogue Behringer MS-5
@CyberSmurf Beautiful equipment. I always liked Korg. I'm very new to the scene so my knowledge is limited. Someday I hope to have a little studio setup.
Have you composed any tracks?
Not sue if you've heard of Tycho the artist. Here's an interesting tour of his setup. He's got a nice mix of analogue and digital.
@SethGreene531 I am not that talented yet but when I was a teenager I went a keyboard course in Sweden and then I could play pretty good and even play intros just by listen to the tones. I was very fast in my hands that time. I like to create sounds with synths and I wished I was a sound designer but I am not. Here is maybe my third analogue synth - a canadian Behringer MS-5.
@CyberSmurf Beautiful MS-5! I hope you have the opportunity to get one.
You obviously have talent, and perhaps will regain the skill you had as a teenager, with practice. Yes, sound design is a very specilized ability. Requiring an almost innate perception.
What you described...being able to play intros by ear....reminds me of what some live electronica DJ's do with multiple synth boards: [media=https://youtu.be/TRCQmNMOqUY]
Good you continue to create. It must be a wondeful pastime!
@SethGreene531 I have enough money to buy one but I dont have enough space to have all my synths on. I wished I had a studio like JM Jarre has. I remember my keyboard teacher said to me that it´s pretty uncommon that you can listen to an intro and then play exactly the same tones on a synth or a keyboard. Its called "musical ears".
@SethGreene531 I just live in a small flat with one room and a kitchen. I also think that if you are a real educated sound designer you probably need much more than only one single synthesizer. I have heard that JM Jarre has more than 50 different synths! but he also has his own private studio in Paris. And...you also have to be pretty rich to buy all that equipment.
When he created his first album Oxygene he began with only one single synth - a minimoog created by Robert Moog-that synth costs almost 74 000 SEK !!
@CyberSmurf From my school days, in music class; I'm guessing it's the ability to involve or overlay many different notes, chords, or voices at once. Versus a singular voice, monophonic.
Analogue synths came first and with them you could only play one single tone. A few years later the polyphonic analogue synths came and that was a revolution in music creation because with them you could press two or more keys at the same time and get one or more tones. Now there is digital pian os, synths and keyboards but the analogue polysynths comes back again. Behringer MS-5 is an example of polyphonic synth.
Question: people with an acute ear often prefer analogue over digital items. LP's vs. CD's etc. Claiming it produces a richer sound. Does the same hold true for analogue polysynths?
@CyberSmurf That MOOG monophonic reminds me of the rock piano Pink Floyd did some their iconic albums on. A Fender Rhodes Piano. They used a mini moog also, apparently.
@SethGreene531 Yes that´s true...analogue polysynths have a more direct raw and rough sound that is similar to Raw files from DSLR cameras where the files are "raw" and comes directly out from the sensor
@CyberSmurf Oh okay, yeah that makes sense, given the era and their signiture sound.
Theremin too, wow. I've not had much exposure to that one. It comprises a wand and a base unit with an antenna, rising or falling in pitch as you approach or receed. Its supposed to be very hard to play.
Those early groups were very innovative. The music equipment industry quickly caught up to offer a greater range of accompaniment.
@SethGreene531 I think its the same thing as many photographers prefer to use analogue DSLR cameras but the problem is there´s not many analogue cameras left today.
@SethGreene531 Yes but some synth musicians still use it today. JM Jarre has one and I saw a video once when he introduced the Theremin. Yes Leon Theremin was from Russia 1929. Here´s two vids when JM Jarre plays theremin in Monaco and in Beijing.
@CyberSmurf Agreed. I totally get that. Good analogy!
Talking cameras, Ddigital is prolific compared to analogue SLR. Unfortunate since on-the-spot setting controls and overall quality are better with the SLR, and even the DSLR vs. all digital units. There is hope, though; there is a niche market growing for the SLR purists.
I was in a high end audio component shop. I stopped to look at an unusual stereo amplifier or tuner(??), that used vaccum tubes instead of solid state signal processing chips. The salesman explained they produced a richer, authentic sound.
@CyberSmurf Fascinating. He manipulates the pitch and rhythm like using a whammy bar on an electric guitar or a fader. His palm moves into the field and oscillates to create the effect. Overall, he melded the theramin flawlessly into the instruments.
A powerful effect when combined with lighting and backing synths.
