KVR Audio

arakula · Post by **arakula** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:49 pm

12 oscillators and dividers (separately tunable, beat that, Polymoog

), yes... but it really has 48 VCFs, EGs and VCAs.

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:56 pm

Wow! Had no idea such a beast ever existed! Sounds great!

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:40 pm

http://www.admiralquality.com/mp3/Camou ... uality.mp3

OK, I'm TOTALLY cheating now. But this song is 17 years old, so it still feels like a "first" to me. I was 20 or 21. It's all me, no Momo on this one, I had moved away to go to film school in Toronto at this point. Been here ever since.

It actually represents the cut-off point for me, shortly after this I gave up trying to do big studio productions in shit home studios. It became too self defeating... I'd go to all this trouble, but then still not have something that was radio-worthy, because of the quality of the recording equipment. Within a year after this all my music became strumming acoustic guitar and singing, and I didn't return to being a keyboard player until I joined a band in the mid 90's, and didn't return to recording for myself until computers got fast enough to do it right, not too many years ago.

This one's very early 1989 I believe. I was borrowing a friend's studio. He had a Teac 4 track reel to reel. And I was using another friend's Tascam 4 track cassette (a nice one that ran the tape at double speed) to mix down to, then I'd still have 2 more tracks free for vocals and overdubs on that.

Much of the sound is my friend's Korg M-1. The piano and drums and bass are M-1 for sure. I was sequencing all that stuff on an IBM-XT with the original Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface and a very early version of Cakewalk (back when it was JUST a MIDI sequencer and ran off a floppy disk... most computers didn't even have soundcards yet!)

The "organ" is my JX-3P, that was a favorite patch I made... it would fall in and out of tune with itself creating something like the effect of a Leslie speeding up and slowing down.

Guitar is my crappy Korean Squier Strat, had been playing guitar for about a year at that point. Friend had a Morley wah too that I'm using here. I still use a wah to mask my shitty guitar playing!

No amp, straight into the board. (Oh, very likely through a Boss Heavy Metal pedal too.) Any reverb or other effects are from my Yamaha SPX-90.

And the singing, including "the girls", is all me. The "Mike Threes".

As you can see, I was finally getting past the 80's stuff at this point, and starting to get into other styles of music. And music that sounded like it might have actually been recorded by actual human people, instead of a pile of gear (even though, it was a pile of gear.)

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:06 pm

Ok..here goes

PORKY PIG

http://www.wusik.com/song.php?id=1367

From 1969. Some friends and I formed a "band" . I think I was 11 or so. Recorded on a cheap cassette recorder, and converted to Mp3 a few years ago.

I hope it makes you laugh..ITS SO BAD!!

Oh..I play the lead guitar

Tim

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:10 pm

tconrardy that's WICKED! Are there little vocal bits in the spaces that we can't hear? Oh! I heard some definite counting near the end.

11 years old? Really? Hehhee.. more 11 year olds should form bands. And not JUST in Japan!

Anyway, I think that's the oldest submission yet. You win!

Thanks for that.

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:47 pm

tconrardy wrote:Ok..here goes

PORKY PIG

woohoo! great post tim.

finally something thats right up there with some of the stunning gems i posted.

Borogove · Post by **Borogove** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:01 am

arakula wrote:First song I ever made? Impossible. No recording equipment back then. Anyway, here's the first thing I did and recorded in 1981 or '82 [edit: 1983. Memory's fading...] (ping-pong using 2 cheap tape recorders, Roland SH-101 + Korg PS-3100).... and kept. Be warned - 5.5MB. Have some fun at my expense

I like it -- it's really only one crappy distorted drum machine away from Cabaret Voltaire or Throbbing Gristle! Hmm, 3-4 minutes in it reminds me of Devo's E-Z Listening album...

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:22 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:tconrardy that's WICKED! Are there little vocal bits in the spaces that we can't hear? Oh! I heard some definite counting near the end.

11 years old? Really? Hehhee.. more 11 year olds should form bands. And not JUST in Japan!

Anyway, I think that's the oldest submission yet. You win!

Thanks for that.

yeah..we were so tight..we counted in between the breaks so we come in on time

but hey..does not sound too bad on these computer speakers

Tim

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:23 am

MotorMind wrote:Here's mine
Completely made in Buzz. Oh yeah, I remember it well.

That's Buzz?! Very nice, I like that.
How on earth did you get the syncopated kick and what's making the guitar noise?

Noteably, I've used Buzz for maybe 2 days before.
But I like this. Gratis.

*edit* Admiral - I like Camouflage

You're embarassed by that? The singing is actually in tune for long stretches. The change between the reggae and rockier parts is really nice. In susprisingly good taste for 1989 lol.

Thanks for sharing that one.

& TC! How cute! Man, you had some hillbilly swing for an 11-year-old! That's some ancient history for you; I'm glad you still have it. I think you've got us all beat in this little thread for having a recording from when you were 11 at all!

loveless · Post by **loveless** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:39 am

tconrardy - I love listening to old reecordings like this. Thanks for sharing it.

Admiral - Nice work!

Arakula - Very Numan! Which, happens to rhyme with Gary Numan.

beers · Post by **beers** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:13 am

veery cool topic!

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:05 pm

TC! How cute! Man, you had some hillbilly swing for an 11-year-old! That's some ancient history for you; I'm glad you still have it. I think you've got us all beat in this little thread for having a recording from when you were 11 at all!

and theres more where that came from

We were really into Creedance Clearwater Rivival at the time..and I thought they were Hard Rock! LOL . (As a matter of fact, Creedance was my first concert I went to) I remeber to get fuzz..I plugged my guitar into a cassette player with an input on it..turned up the gain, and pluged THAT into my amp. I think I really fried that recorder.

although..I DO have some of my first electronic music recordings from around 1979..or was it 1982? All done with 2 tape decks pingpong method. Maybe I'll post an except, but the actual song is 31MBs! Done with my EML200/300, Roland 100 system, ARP Odysee, a Yamaha organ and other nick-nacks.

Tim

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:17 pm

I'd love to hear that Tim! (Big CCR fan here too. Though I was only 1 or 2 at the time.

)

I too roasted lots of transistor preamps to get distortion. Like that Traynor PA to get the distorted '606 drums and JX3P guitar in my "2nd 4 track" post.

31 MB as an MP3 you mean? Heh, half an hour is a nice length for a piece.

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:04 am

Holy crap I'd love to hear it.
Bounce from tape deck to tape deck...
Man, I did that some but I met some people back in the late 80s/early 90s that had their own home-brewed psychotic masterpieces that the world is much poorer for never discovering. Entire epics about the nations of ants!

If you send up your song to SampleTorrents, TC, that'd make it easy to send off as a .wav and I'll do my best to clean up and remaster that (I imagine there's a storm of tape hiss on those bounced tracks!).

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:36 am

runagate wrote:Holy crap I'd love to hear it.
Bounce from tape deck to tape deck...
Man, I did that some but I met some people back in the late 80s/early 90s that had their own home-brewed psychotic masterpieces that the world is much poorer for never discovering. Entire epics about the nations of ants!

If you send up your song to SampleTorrents, TC, that'd make it easy to send off as a .wav and I'll do my best to clean up and remaster that (I imagine there's a storm of tape hiss on those bounced tracks!).

Here is an excerpt. Parts 1 and 2

O C E A X E

http://www.wusik.com/song.php?id=1368

Inspired by Edgar Froesa's AQUA..an aqualic journey.
EML200/300. Arp Odysee,Roland100 system with sequencer, An autoharp, Processed Yamaha Organ( this one had the vibrato by moving your fingers back and forth on the keys..very cool!)

The EMLs and Arp does the bubbles. I remeber having all my patch charts for these, as it was somewhat a very planned out composition. Its actually 3 more parts after those two.

Its pretty ambient at the beginning, but then dives into Roland 100 sequences..had about 4 of them going at once, along with white noise percussion! Some of the lead was done on my EML 300 matric keyboard controller as well as the Arp. I was not a very good keyboardist then..just mostly doing sound.

This was done at the DeAnza colledge ( Cupertino, CA) Electronic music studio when my prof.. Allen Strange was there. I was the tutor for the class at the time as well.

I think this was 1979. Not too bad quality. I have everything on reel to reel tape..I just got to get a "real" tape recorder some day so I can revisit this stuff. I was lucky at one point when I transferred this piece to cassette from the reel to reel. Then I found the cassette, and did a soundforge job on it.

ENJOY!!

EDIT: actually, you might see a patch called PAD OCEAXE in a number of synths I've done work on, and it was to try to re-create this piece..basically that cool yamaha organ and bubbles. I don't think I could ever get it exactly like that however.

Tim

The thread to post the first song you ever made!!