Synth programming explained

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Synth programming explained

Post by nebulae » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:56 am

"How To Make A Noise" by Simon Cann is now published on Amazon. Great book (in its original form, it is freely downloadable, first edition is 100 pages) that is now for sale in a much enhanced second edition (300 pages). Great guy, great knowledge. Highly recommended.

http://www.noisesculpture.com/htmanframe.html

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Post by Oscar F » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:12 pm

nebulae wrote:"How To Make A Noise" by Simon Cann is now published on Amazon. Great book (in its original form, it is freely downloadable, first edition is 100 pages) that is now for sale in a much enhanced second edition (300 pages). Great guy, great knowledge. Highly recommended.

http://www.noisesculpture.com/htmanframe.html


:D Great Post Nebulae :wink: .
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Post by forge » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:32 pm

nice one

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Post by nebulae » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:01 pm

BTW, if you don't want to buy the book, the first edition is still available for free on the website. For $10, you get the patches for the VSTIs used, and the book from Amazon is only $15. If you ever wanted to stop being a preset-whore, this is a great first step!

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Post by beats me » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:19 pm

this looks quite excellent but I learn better from video tutorials. Is there a video available with the pages scanned that turns the page about every 3 minutes?

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Post by nebulae » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:22 pm

beats me wrote:this looks quite excellent but I learn better from video tutorials. Is there a video available with the pages scanned that turns the page about every 3 minutes?
Yes. And if you get the "A-Extension" for $29.95, there's a mechanical arm that comes out auto-wipes your ass too.

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Post by beats me » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:27 pm

nebulae wrote:
beats me wrote:this looks quite excellent but I learn better from video tutorials. Is there a video available with the pages scanned that turns the page about every 3 minutes?
Yes. And if you get the "A-Extension" for $29.95, there's a mechanical arm that comes out auto-wipes your ass too.
Better yet, is there anything out there that comes with sounds already made for you, maybe a couple hundred of them or something. Like you would get the synth module and the sounds would already be in it. Not sure what you would call them. I'd pay for something like that.

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Post by nebulae » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:31 pm

In the Matrix, I think that's called a "virtual studio technology instrument". In the real world, it's called a "music synthesizer". These are very new things that you should read up on.

Personally, I think they're total fads and will soon be replaced by things that actually record sounds and play them back. Something that takes a sample of a sound...

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Post by aburgener » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:42 pm

I need this.

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Post by aburgener » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:42 pm

fucking double post... sorry

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Post by beats me » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:21 pm

nebulae wrote:In the Matrix, I think that's called a "virtual studio technology instrument". In the real world, it's called a "music synthesizer". These are very new things that you should read up on.

Personally, I think they're total fads and will soon be replaced by things that actually record sounds and play them back. Something that takes a sample of a sound...
This "synthesizer" thing as you call it sounds stupid. What would really be ideal if there was some kind audio recording device that you could record snippets of music that has already been recorded at a professional recording studio by somebody else and then somehow sync them together and stack them on top of each other. We could then talk over these snippets and tell stories. That way every single person could write music. Then there should be some kind of website where people could share these songs with the world. Utopia.

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Post by nebulae » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:28 pm

and even better, there might be some technology that records images frame by frame over a set period of what we call "time". Then when the frames are run in a "sequence" they recreate what happened as a visual "diary" or "recording". We could then put these visual recordings on a series of tubes. Those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

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Post by beats me » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:37 pm

nebulae wrote:and even better, there might be some technology that records images frame by frame over a set period of what we call "time". Then when the frames are run in a "sequence" they recreate what happened as a visual "diary" or "recording". We could then put these visual recordings on a series of tubes. Those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
That's just crazy talk. Next you're going to be talking about having a room in your house where you can take a shit. Disgusting.

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Post by nebulae » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:39 pm

oh no, I was doing legal work for a new Texas startup called Outhouse v2.0, but apparently someone has already "leaked" the info.

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