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You™ · Post by **You™** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:48 am

...xander wrote:If anyone needs a particular 'custom' moog sound, lemme know. I won't be entering this months contest due to time constraints, etc., but I am happy to help out if I can.

Can you record my song for me? You ever try to tune the oscillators on the circuitboard? I have no idea what I did to mine. When I hard-sync the oscillators, it plays about 2 or 3 octaves higher than when I don't. My pitch wheel is broken and so is the lower A key.

I wish I was more handy with the soldering gun...

xander · Post by **xander** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:57 am

You™ wrote:
...xander wrote:If anyone needs a particular 'custom' moog sound, lemme know. I won't be entering this months contest due to time constraints, etc., but I am happy to help out if I can.
Can you record my song for me? You ever try to tune the oscillators on the circuitboard? I have no idea what I did to mine. When I hard-sync the oscillators, it plays about 2 or 3 octaves higher than when I don't. My pitch wheel is broken and so is the lower A key. I wish I was more handy with the soldering gun...

Dummy

Answer to First Question: Sure, for $.

Answer to Second Question:
Touch those oscillator bias coils without a good dual trace scope, freq meter, full schematics and kid gloves and yer fooked.

But if you wanna sell it gimme a shout.

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:30 am

I haven't read the whole thread so i don't know if it has been mentionned but :

http://glenstegner.com/softsynths.html

can be interesting this month...

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:59 am

Just mucking about, I thought I'd doctor a MIDI of Pulstar. I know the big V used pretty much anything he could get his hands on, so I did as well.

I might even do it properly one day, but not for this comp..

DSP

Marc JX8P · Post by **Marc JX8P** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 8:08 am

WoJ wrote:
or do a 3fold TD/kraftwerk/Jarre influenced tune
Lol, that reminds me, has anyone seen Bill Bailey live, he does "hokey cokey" ..in a krafwerk style...

I got that on DVD, it's brilliant!

You™ · Post by **You™** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:12 pm

...xander wrote:Touch those oscillator bias coils without a good dual trace scope, freq meter, full schematics and kid gloves and yer fooked.

But if you wanna sell it gimme a shout.

I didn't know you had to have a fookin' triple-E degree to play thinthithizer.

I got this thing at a garage sale in high school from some dude in a metal band who was fed up with his mates harassing him for having some dorky synth. The only thing he probably ever did with it was the solo in Edger Winter's "Frankenstein."

I think I'll try to work that into my song too. It's kind of a Frankenstein pirate song: Frankenpirate. Sans MIDI.

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:23 pm

You™ wrote:
...xander wrote:If anyone needs a particular 'custom' moog sound, lemme know. I won't be entering this months contest due to time constraints, etc., but I am happy to help out if I can.
Can you record my song for me? You ever try to tune the oscillators on the circuitboard? I have no idea what I did to mine. When I hard-sync the oscillators, it plays about 2 or 3 octaves higher than when I don't. My pitch wheel is broken and so is the lower A key. I wish I was more handy with the soldering gun...

You talking about a Minimoog? Mine has a kaput power supply . . . I'd really like to enter the one and only all-hardware-Minimoog song I ever did but . . . #1 it wasn't done for the competition, #2 it's over 20 minutes long! One damn fine piece of dronology, though, I can tell you that! It got used as part of the Field of Drones project in the 2003 Om Festival.

xander · Post by **xander** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:35 pm

You™ wrote:
...xander wrote:Touch those oscillator bias coils without a good dual trace scope, freq meter, full schematics and kid gloves and yer fooked.

But if you wanna sell it gimme a shout.
I didn't know you had to have a fookin' triple-E degree to play thinthithizer. I got this thing at a garage sale in high school from some dude in a metal band who was fed up with his mates harassing him for having some dorky synth. The only thing he probably ever did with it was the solo in Edger Winter's "Frankenstein."

I think I'll try to work that into my song too. It's kind of a Frankenstein pirate song: Frankenpirate. Sans MIDI.

Oh...

You said "circuit board" so I assumed you had the back off, the skirt up and the trowsers down...

If it's a moog (it's a mini moog yeah?), those bias coils on the PCB are way finicky and you really do need the right test gear to tweak them. I know because I made that very same dumb mistake a few hunnert years ago. It ain't like tuning a piano George...

Trouble is, I'm wondering now how many decent music repair shops are actually up to the task these days? Those aren't plug n' play modules and chips under that hood, those are genuine all-transistor analog oscillator, bias and filter circuits that require, not so much technical savvy, as sheer, unadulterated love and a certain sense of 'feel', to set 'em up proper-like.

You™ · Post by **You™** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:49 pm

emdot_ambient wrote:You talking about a Minimoog? Mine has a kaput power supply . . . I'd really like to enter the one and only all-hardware-Minimoog song I ever did but . . . #1 it wasn't done for the competition, #2 it's over 20 minutes long! One damn fine piece of dronology, though, I can tell you that! It got used as part of the Field of Drones project in the 2003 Om Festival.

No, I've got a Prodigy - I know, it wasn't exactly designed by Bob Moog himself, but the teach said it didn't officially have to be Moog stuff - and we only do whatever he says right? Besides, I'm on a budget

About your Minimoog: There's a place in Kensington, MD called Prototypes that might be able to help you (I just called them and they said they could probably fix mine). $65 per hour. I had some work done there back in the 80s on some other gear. I remember they had a pretty cluttered but cool shop full of vintage gizmos. Here's their contact:

Prototypes
4213 Howard Ave.
Kensington, MD 20895
Phone: 240.223.0020

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:01 pm

You™ wrote:
emdot_ambient wrote:You talking about a Minimoog? Mine has a kaput power supply . . . I'd really like to enter the one and only all-hardware-Minimoog song I ever did but . . . #1 it wasn't done for the competition, #2 it's over 20 minutes long! One damn fine piece of dronology, though, I can tell you that! It got used as part of the Field of Drones project in the 2003 Om Festival.
No, I've got a Prodigy - I know, it wasn't exactly designed by Bob Moog himself, but the teach said it didn't officially have to be Moog stuff - and we only do whatever he says right? Besides, I'm on a budget

About your Minimoog: There's a place in Kensington, MD called Prototypes that might be able to help you (I just called them and they said they could probably fix mine). $65 per hour. I had some work done there back in the 80s on some other gear. I remember they had a pretty cluttered but cool shop full of vintage gizmos. Here's their contact:

Prototypes
4213 Howard Ave.
Kensington, MD 20895
Phone: 240.223.0020

Cool! Now . . . do I have any spare $ laying around? Uh . . . nope. When I do, I'll definitely look into 'em. I've got two Arp Axxes, an Ensoniq EPS, a Roland SR-202 and JX-3P that could use some care as well. They probably can't do too much for my poor old Crumar Performer

I really miss that thing but it's got really bad problems and parts for it are a bugger to get . . . 'less I buy some old ones for parts.

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:11 pm

You™ wrote:...I know, it wasn't exactly designed by Bob Moog himself, but the teach said it didn't officially have to be Moog stuff...

Oh, and on that point, I've started my entry for the month and though I'm using a bunch of Moog Modular V in it, I'm also using the amazingly cool and splooshy KarmaFX Synth . . . why does that thing sound SO good? And I don't think it's just the FX on it, which are really sweet.

Anyone who doesn't have Moog emulations and wants a killer modular synth for free should check this out. Not that it sounds so much like a Moog . . . frankly I think it's better

It's just a damned hoopy synth!

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:17 pm

UTM wrote:but the teach said it didn't officially have to be Moog stuff - and we only do whatever he says right? Besides, I'm on a budget

pHz wrote:note to ALL contestants ...
... IGNORE anything i say about how to interpret the theme for any given month ...
... or not

...

slainte

rob

You™ · Post by **You™** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:20 pm

pHz, Did you just say something?

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:27 pm

I'm interpreting it as "mook", and thus will be composing mafia-held Italian restaurant dinner music.

- m

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:32 pm

I thought I'd make a psychedelic guitar version of Popcorn (probably the first hit single with Moog synths), but then I found out that Crazy Frog has just done it, so that's canned... Damn that frog.

september theme ... GOSSIP