System 100m Series Teaser
A series dedicated to exploring the Roland System 100m modular synthesizer, the most elegantly designed modular in history.
Grieg’s In the hall of the mountain king on Synthesisers
Background video description:
Just a Bit of fun, I decided to remake an old favourite on my synthesisers. in the hall of the mountain king by Edvard Grieg. recorded using Moog Theremini, Moog Phatty, Moog Sub 37, roland TR-8 & TB-3, & the Maplin 5600s, Maplin Spectrum Synth & a Bass guitar. Uploaded June 27th 2015. The Original music from Grieg has expired its copyright. This is my Synthesiser interpretation Based on this piece. also in WAV format on soundcloud (markusfuller)
Monty Python’s Argument Sketch performed with two vintage speech synthesizers
Michael Palin is played by the Dectalk Express
(Perfect Paul modified to sound more like Stephen Hawking)
John Cleese is played by the Intex Talker
(Votrax SC-01A)
Communication with the speech synthesizers is done with CoolTerm:
http://freeware.the-meiers.org/
The Voder – Homer Dudley (Bell Labs) 1939
The Voder by Homer Dudley (Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey) was the first device that could generate continuous human speech electronically. The flowing composition of the many speech sounds had to be done manually in realtime on a special keyboard shown in this video.
In 1939, Alden P. Armagnac wrote in “Popular Science” about this speaking device: “He hasn’t any mouth, lungs, or larynx—but he talks a blue streak. His name is Pedro the Voder, and you may see him in action at the New York and San Francisco world’s fairs. His creation from vacuum tubes and electrical circuits, by Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers, crowns centuries of effort to duplicate the human voice.
To manufacture Pedro’s conversation, his operator employs a keyboard like that of an old-fashioned parlor organ. Thirteen black and white keys, fingered one or more at a time, produce all the vowels and consonants of speech. Another key regulates the loudness of the synthetic voice, which comes from a loudspeaker. A foot pedal varies the inflection meanwhile, so that the same sentence may state a fact or ask a question. About a year’s practice enables an operator to make Pedro talk glibly.”
And the “Time” wrote on January 16th, 1939: “The Bell Telephone demonstrators took pains to make it clear that Voder does not reproduce speech, like a telephone receiver or loudspeaker. It originates speech at the touch of an operator, synthesizing sounds to form words. The men who built it were able to do so because in their telephone researches they had made a close study of how speech sounds are made by the human larynx, mouth, breath, tongue, teeth and lips. With electrical filters, attenuators, frequency changers, etc. they found that they could produce 23 basic sounds; that intelligible speech could be synthesized from various combinations of these sounds, controlled by a skilled operator manipulating a keyboard and foot pedal.
The machine’s possible sound combinations are so various that Voder can imitate the inflections, overtones and shading of human diction. By altering pitch it can change from a man’s voice to a woman’s or a child’s. It can mimic animal sounds, locomotive whistles, the noise of an airplane engine. Since the fluent production of speech on a keyboard is not so simple as pounding a typewriter, Bell Telephone picked 24 of the cleverest telephone operators from 300 candidates, gave them about twelve months’ intensive training as Voder operators. Like concert pianists, they have to keep in trim by practicing several hours a day. The most difficult speech component they must coax out of Voder, and the one that sounds least natural, is the letter l. When someone at last week’s demonstration asked for the words ‘Bell Telephone’, they came out something like ‘Behrw Tehwephone’.”
The Voder was to some extent a by-product of the Vocoder, as S. Millman stated it: “In conceiving the vocoder, Dudley recognized the carrier nature of speech. He observed that the speech signal is formed by modulating (with the slowly changing vocal resonances) the spectral shape of the sound produced by vocal sources. The vocal sound sources may be periodic, as produced by vocal cord vibration, or aperiodic, as produced by turbulent airflow at a constriction.
The modulations in shape of the speech spectrum could, therefore, be measured in terms of the relative energy in contiguous filter bands, and the periodic (voiced) or aperiodic (unvoiced) sources could be characterized by a ‘pitch’ detector (a frequency meter). The signal could be reconstituted (synthesized) from these data by allowing to amplitude modulate the respective outputs of an identical filter bank which was excited by either a periodic pulse source or a noise source.”
M. D. Fagen, S. Millman, Amos E. Joel, G. E. Schindler, A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: Communications sciences (1925-1980), Vol. 5, Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc, p. 101 f.
Alice In Videoland – Let Go
Alice In Videoland – Let Go
Made by: Andreas Johansson & Anders Printz
Diket Records
http://diket.tictail.com/products/dik…
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/3X5yJj…
RENATE – Higher We Rise
Music video by RENATE performing Higher We Rise. ©2015 LaCarr Music
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/RENATEHWRiTunes
Google Play: http://smarturl.it/RENATEHWRGoogle
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/RENATEHWRAmazon
https://www.facebook.com/RENATEpage
http://www.renate.me
Produced by Douglas Carr & Jonas Kröjtz.
Mixed by Douglas Carr at Strike Studio.
Mastered by Douglas Carr & Jonas Kröjtz.
Video directed by Kristian A. Söderström http://www.kristian-a-soderstrom.com
Analog Drum Kit M01- new drum instrument plug-in for Windows and Mac
Greynote Music has announced the release of Analog Drum Kit M01, a drum instrument plug-in for Windows and Mac.
“Analog Drum Kit Generator” (model 1) is a vintage inspired drum module plugin!
It contains 10 kick sounds, 10, snare sounds, 4 hi hats along with additional noise & snap sound generators. It has an unprocessed sound, so you’ll have the opportunity to shape its sound using your favorite plugins.
Analog Drum Kit M01 features
- Unique Samples.
- Straightforward Interface.
- Round Robin Playback.
- 10 kicks, 10 snares, 4 hi-hats.
- Noise generators, “Wide Snap” functionality.
- 32/64bit Audio Unit & VST Mac/Win compatibility.
Analog Drum Kit M01 is available for purchase for £4.99 GBP.
Listen to the new material from a-ha – Under The Makeup
a-ha “Under The Makeup”
Listen/download here: http://a-ha.lnk.to/UnderTheMakeup
Five years after a-ha released their last single, they now return with “Under The Make-Up”, the first single taken from the band’s upcoming album “Cast In Steel”
Arturia BeatStep Pro – First Look
Taking a look at the Arturia Beatstep Pro. The new CV/GATE/Trigger sequencer and MIDI controller. From this presentation, it looks like this could be the ideal solution for integrating your analog electronics, drum modules and MIDI gear into one unit.
Arturia Beatsep Pro takes the original Beatstep concept and adds a whole load of new features in a compact, affordable unit. With two CV/gate and MIDI sequencers, plus a 16 part drum sequencer which outputs 8 channels of trigger for driving modular kit. This is quite an impressive achievement considering its powered by a USB input – which if you didn’t know, only supplies 5V – not sure how the heck they do that!
With 16 velocity and pressure sensitive pads, and a real-time looper/slicer not only can you get busy with your modular kit, but also highly complex MIDI control setups – with physical MIDI io and over USB.
Time machine: Sequential Prophet-600 Analog Synthesizer (1982)
All synthesizer sounds: Sequential Circuits Prophet-600 Analog Synthesizer from the year 1982
The Prophet-600 was the first synthesizer with a MIDI interface.
no multitracking.
drums: Roland TR-808
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