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Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:33 pm

EDIT double post

LtZ

dougsyo · Post by **dougsyo** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:37 pm

mkastrup wrote:Try listen:

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemo ... semble.mp3

I'm completely baffled by this... (Yeah i know i'm a show off, but really)

WHOA, that is NICE!

Doug

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:41 pm

Hi,

Just listened to the demos. Very nice.

I feel the old deep and invincible spirit of music vibrating in the presets as well as in the demos. (ohh how Ilove that kind of woodstockish hippie talk

)

Good job Mike

Dunno if this is oldschool, to me it just sound like music.

LtZ

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:05 pm

Lotuzia wrote:Hi,

Just listened to the demos. Very nice.

I feel the old deep and invincible spirit of music vibrating in the presets as well as in the demos. (ohh how Ilove that kind of woodstockish hippie talk )

Good job Mike

Dunno if this is oldschool, to me it just sound like music.

LtZ

Oldskool was a term i decided for since its no secret that my main target for the sounds are people who was around when the synth era started in 70-80's + i'm getting an old fart myself (46)

The 90's Supersaw era was fun but i'm trying to get back to my roots and hope to drag alot of you with me

/Michael

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:06 pm

mkastrup wrote:
Oldskool was a term i decided for since its no secret that my main target for the sounds are people who was around when the synth era started in 70-80's + i'm getting an old fart myself (46) The 90's Supersaw era was fun but i'm trying to get back to my roots and hope to drag alot of you with me

/Michael

Good plan! I love the musicality of the 'Oldskool' time.

amoeba · Post by **amoeba** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:26 pm

mkastrup wrote: Oldskool was a term i decided for since its no secret that my main target for the sounds are people who was around when the synth era started in 70-80's + i'm getting an old fart myself (46) The 90's Supersaw era was fun but i'm trying to get back to my roots and hope to drag alot of you with me

/Michael

heh - some of us never left, but i don't see why soft sines and supersaws can't get along...

it's all vibration, maaaaaan.

thanks for posting your ensemble arp ( ha! zebra - the only synth where patches can be considered 'beta'! )

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:40 pm

Today... heh heh Today i sat down and wanted to create som typical sounds for the NEW WAVE (not NEW AGE) genre, everything was fine until i had to come up with a theme...yikes, somehow i mannaged to confuse 3 genres in the end, but it was fun and a few new good sounds saw the light.

Fasten your seatbelt this is the longest ever Zebra song made by me, hmm 3:30 or so

Oops and its straight out of Zebra with a little limiter/EQ on the final output so the volume is not that high.

I used 17 instances for this, so no guessing game this time

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemo ... yZebra.mp3 ( didnt know what to call it

)

/Michael

codef0x · Post by **codef0x** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:41 am

... gimme!

Very nice work... as always. Oof, want.

funkychickendance · Post by **funkychickendance** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:33 am

I hope you'll take it the right way when I say that 'Happy Zebra' reminds me very much of ABBA, and also many other excellent Euro sounds. Nice composition and production, too.

/fnx

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:04 am

funkychickendance wrote:I hope you'll take it the right way when I say that 'Happy Zebra' reminds me very much of ABBA, and also many other excellent Euro sounds. Nice composition and production, too.

/fnx

I'm fully aware that it sounds outdated and corny but its supposed to do just that, lovely corny pop synths

Now that you say ABBA i can see what you mean, dont recall the track thou but the theme synths do sound a bit like that.

I'd love to smack it up with full mixing and full control of all individual tracks but then it would be cheating, so i stick to DIRECT out of Zebra with no fuzz and just have to imagine how it could sound if it was put up as a regular mix. On the other hand Zebra is very capable of making a raw mix sound useful.

Thanks for the comment

/Michael

chardin · Post by **chardin** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:42 pm

Great job Michael!

Wow, 17 Zebras at once. An entire herd running in your computer.

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:45 pm

Today its about a Strummer like patch, a spectral pluck pad and a lead guitar.

The strummer gives me a hard time because i cant remove a saw buzz sound from the pattern, the spectral thing needs more body and the lead guitar needs a ALOT more body.

Here is the setup i currently use to check these patches:

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemo ... Pop_01.mp3

Its been %&#? raining for almost a month now in denmark and i got 2 more weeks of summer vacation, damn i hope next week will be better. On the positive side, well it speeds up my Zebra work

/Michael

musicall · Post by **musicall** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:21 pm

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh michael there is one patch you've just got to post off of that happy zebra mix...at 0:37 seconds a theremin type patch comes in...how in the world did you make that? i posted a question about that on here earlier (how would you make a theremin sounding patch on zebra)..no one knew. Could you pretty pretty please post that patch?

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:32 pm

musicall wrote:ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh michael there is one patch you've just got to post off of that happy zebra mix...at 0:37 seconds a theremin type patch comes in...how in the world did you make that? i posted a question about that on here earlier (how would you make a theremin sounding patch on zebra)..no one knew. Could you pretty pretty please post that patch?

Hi musicall, hmm that patch i use there is a rogue patch which SOMETIMES comes out as a whalesong, i have no control of it yet other than it produce a random bended pictched sound every time i trigger a note. So the patch is really of no use until you control the bended pitch. But now that you mention Theramin, hmm i better look into that. You got any special reference soundwise/modulationwise ?

/Michael

musicall · Post by **musicall** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:51 pm

yeah i have a patch that i made in imposcar that sounds kinda like a theremin...but that one in your mix has a really cool different character than mine...i'll post my patch ina bit. I would love to see how you made that patch!!! maybe i could work on getting it to not be random.

so that sound is called a "whalesound" ?

thats cool...heh.

u-he

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