Zebra Oldskool Project

[mkastrup]

Ooops i fell into the minimalism pit again but consider this as a little bump for radio stations like Soma FM with Drone Zone and Bluemars with Cryosleep. Without them the world would surely be missing something about synthesis which we seldom see or hear.

To me, this is what synthesis is about, simple evolving textures which moves you and helps you reaching for the switch off button of the daily life. 1 Patch no automation just a min 7 accord running thru some harmonics.

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

EDIT: Eeeeek, what happend to Bluemars ??? www.bluemars.org

/Michael

[Howard]

Eeeeek, what happend to Bluemars ??? www.bluemars.org /Michael

Couldn't pay the stupid 10,000% (or whatever) higher bills?
See this http://somafm.com/support/
and Rusty's blog http://somafm.com/blogs/rusty/

[mkastrup]

Hmm offtopic rant.....

Looks like the music businees found a way to kill alternative radio stations by having them pay an insane amount of money which i bet dont go to the artist played on those station but to the general music business and the stars they have produced because the money follows those who is being played the most overall.

In this case we have 1 radio playing anything else but superstar X and 1000 other radio stations playing superstar X, so the artist on that single radio gets 0.001 and the superstar gets 999.9 or something of whatever that single radio station is paying pr. month for broadcasting. In most cases 99/100 the artist dont get anything because many of them are independant people who are not (inside) the music business.

A reasonable scenario in 3 years is the same 100 superstars getting played everywhere and the music business clap there hands because they have control again. In the (old days) people made the superstars, today the music business can manufacture a superstar overnight and have it ready by the morning.

/Michael

[spaceman]

let them destroy their own business.. it will give us something to laugh about soon

[mkastrup]

I know or at least i think i know that Urs is pretty fond of Zebra doing drums and percussion so i created a homebrew of various drums and percussion which let you hear things more clearly:

Now many of these drummy things could use some EQ love on certain frequencies but as usual i stick to EQ the sum of it all knowing that IF i wanted to EQ each instrument i could do it because each of them have enough body to work with. Its not ALL percussion you will hear but most of it.

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

I think by now there should be enough drums and percussion to get any project started using Zebra only as a (drummachine)

/Michael

[funkychickendance]

Michael, that's pretty amazing stuff. You are probably the guy who could give us something that most drum machines lack: convincing, human-sounding handclaps (meaning less-crisp timing and synch).

And come to think of it, you're probably our man for the authentic-sounding tambourine of the Motown flavor.

I'll let someone else ask for the perfect cowbell...

/fnx

[pdxindy]

Some impressive percussion there! (as usual)

the only thing I'd like to hear is a bit more variation in repeated hits.

[mkastrup]

Hmmm claps, not long ago i remember seeing a library with 1000!! claps, so i guess claps is hard to get right but the claps in Oldskool Volume 1 can be altered a bit to fit taste by some EQ and decay i guess.

The tamborine and cowbell, well i HAVE tried at this but the recipe didnt work so i have to wait for another opening.

Variation in hits, well most things have variation but its not much just a tad and that tad variation might drown in a mix but its a comprise of staying within the target sound and adding a little variation. If i was to emulate each sound down to the tiniest detail it would probably take me a year to complete a full drum and percussion set. I dont have that patience Got to keep the FUN factor active all the way

/Michael

[chardin]

You want cowbell? Check this out...

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179240

[HunterKiller]

Remember the days where fairly long haired guys would sit and perform knob twisting while psychedelic colours was on display. I'll save you from the sounds of the Space 1999 serie with Moonbase Alpha and take a little leap forward.

Now this kind of music hmmm lets say sound needs full attention with no noisy surroundings.

K, heres what i did.

I took a patch (Called Organism) i was about to finish up and thought, hey how bout taking a trip wayyyy back to that kinda performance. So i assigned some bits to aftertouch, modwheel and to 3 XY controllers, and then it was performance time lol. I hit the record button and this is what came out in that first take.

This hmmm sound presentation takes 7 mins or so and is VERY minimalistic since i only use VERY few notes and only 1 patch. I dont expect people under 40 to see anything fun in this So bare with me, this is for the old timers out there.

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

/Michael

HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

What a trip!

I swear to God, if Jarre and his pals heard this they's get straight back into what they do best! Not the crap they've been releasing for the past couple of years.

mkastrup, this is synthesis at it's best!

The other demo, Z2_Singularity is decidedly more new-agey, and just doesn't have the attention grabbing power that Z2_Minimalism has.

[mkastrup]

You want cowbell? Check this out...

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179240

Okies roger that Chris

HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

What a trip!

I swear to God, if Jarre and his pals heard this they's get straight back into what they do best! Not the crap they've been releasing for the past couple of years.

mkastrup, this is synthesis at it's best!

The other demo, Z2_Singularity is decidedly more new-agey, and just doesn't have the attention grabbing power that Z2_Minimalism has.

I think i know what went wrong , Jarre probably had to pay for his instruments + the car + the house mortage + private jet etc.. and 15000 sound hippies worldwide would not cover that bill. Besides that, Earl Grey is about the only legal drug by now and this kinda music (soundscape) mostly talks to calm and relaxed people. Not many of those people around these days Hmm perhaps Yoga or something could fix it

/Michael

[HunterKiller]

LOL!
The interesting thing is that there are people out there willing to give this type of stuff a listen, except this type of stuff never ever gets played on any known radio stations, you'll never see CD's of this stuff - even in the big CD stores. So practicaly it doesn't exist to the majority of the population.

It's like someone purposely wants to erase "soundscapes" and the "analog epics of the 70" out of music history.

[Howard]

It's like someone purposely wants to erase "soundscapes" and the "analog epics of the 70" out of music history.

[Sascha Franck]

Haha!
That's just great.

[codef0x]

Well, there's this...
http://darkduck.net/store_ddp.html

There are people hiding out there hiding in the corner making extended tracks of synthtweaking...