Making the exception on this one as specific gear for the most part isn't discussed. This one is more about sound design, processing and use of plug-ins. Starts with the light cycles and use of filter, resonance and pitch sweeps. Avid's reNOVAtor gets a mention about 20 minutes in for cleaning up audio. Avid of course is the company behind the new M-Audio Venom. Vocal processing and effects come in around 31 minutes but no mention of what was used. De-rezzing and disk audio effects come in around 40 minutes. Light cycle formation sound is revealed right after the one hour mark. See if you can guess what it is.
"Explore the sound and music of "TRON LEGACY", the long awaited sequel continuing the adventures through the world inside your computer.
The sound team behind the film will take you behind-the-scenes of the science fiction epic, presenting special excerpts from the movie. Watch how the sound team approached various elements of the mix and edit while they tell you the stories behind them.
Guiding you through their digital realms will be Supervising Sound Editor Gwen Whittle, Sound Designer Steve Boeddeker, Music Supervisor Jason Bentley, Re-recording mixer Gary Rizzo, and Film Editor James Haygood, ACE.
Filmed on January 12, 2011 at the Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, CA.
via http://www.4mspedals.com/: "We're coming out with a new Eurorack module, a playable 4x4 VCA Matrix. The mockup is of the prototype and is subject to change before production. Four inputs can be routed in any amount/combination to four outputs, using the 16 CV jacks, knobs, and mute buttons. Features include:
* 4 CV/audio inputs and outputs (dc-coupled) * 16 VCA's using high quality SSM chips * Playable surface with 16 LED latching "Punch In/Out" buttons to mute each VCA (mute button disconnects CV jack and Offset knob, and silences the VCA) * LED brightness indicates sum of CV jack, Offset knob, and mute button * 16 knobs to set the offset (center gain) of each VCA * 16 CV jacks for VCA level. Jacks are normalled together in columns, and along row 1 * Expandability: VCAM's can be connected to form a larger matrix (4x8, 8x8, 12x4, etc). Also a gate header on the PCB will allow for connection to forthcoming programmable/sequencable control surface module * Suitable as a 4x4 mixer, spliter, as well as dynamic signal router * CV jacks go well into the audio range for FM-type sideband effects
Our next module is a Pingable Envelope Generator, which takes clock/gates from an RCD/SCM, for example, outputting envelopes to the VCAMatrix which will smoothly vary signal routings/levels at clockable rates."
YouTube via voicetospirit | January 15, 2011 | Remember you can set the resolution on the bottom right of the player. follow-up to My King "Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire, covered by Voice to Spirit
"This is a circuit comprised of one Boolean Sequencer with tempo control feeding into two chained Karplus Strong circuit boards. The first KS board generates sound and the second one acts as a resonator. Please listen to audio sample for additional information."
"This is called THE KATRIC ARK and it is one of a series of 12 compositions for Vulcan harp and theremin. Since the Vulcan harp was introduced by artist and visionary Wah Ming Chang more than 40 years ago, it has evolved considerably, along with the technology involved with its manufacture. It is acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic (it is the electronic component that permits such things as the playing of complex harmonies, glide pitch shifts, etc.).
As a sculptor, Chang molded the instrument to fit the human body, and it is great to hold because it is so wonderfully ergonomic. This particular harp has 26 strings (copper, brass and silver) and is played with finger picks. There are no steel strings and the instrument does not use magnetic pickups like electric guitars. It also does not need to be plugged into anything so there are no annoying cables to get in the way. It transmits directly to its amplifier and speakers by means of an antenna integrated into the pin column (the extended curved vertical arm that holds the tuning pins). The two speakers you see in the video are JBL JRX-125 monitors.
As a concept, the characteristics of "Vulcan music" are determined by the remarkable capabilities of the Vulcan harp which include many of the possibilities of the classical instruments of India. The sound of the Vulcan harp has been described as a combination of harp, lute, violin and sitar. If you add to this everything that is possible with the use of the shift disc and the harmonic valves (the seven button controls - one for each note of the diatonic scale - riding above the brass plate) you have an extraordinary number of combinations that can be explored. The harmonic valves are all level-sensitive (each responds to three degrees of left hand finger pressure applied to them: touch, half, and full) and this determines the harmony applied to the vibrating strings. Octave displacement is played by multiple valve configurations depending on the register in which the harpist wants to play.
There is also a "tapper control" incorporated into the Vulcan harp for generating complex polyrhythms but it is not used in this particular composition. The "tapper" is the knob that sits just behind the lowest bass strings on the upper edge of the instrument facing the harpist. It can be silently programmed just before a piece is played by drumming the fingers of the left hand on the knob in the exact rhythm combination you want to hear applied to your sound once you begin to play. The instrument will loop the rhythm continuously throughout the piece (or until you squelch it).
The theremin in this video is the 1929 RCA that once belonged to Hollywood thereminist Dr. Samuel Hoffman. It was used by Dr. Hoffman on the soundtracks of many classic science fiction films of the 1950's, so I thought it would be appropriate to use it here. If you are curious about this 1929 theremin, I am featured in the 20TH CENTURY FOX 2-disc DVD "special edition" of the re-issue of the original 1951 science fiction masterpiece, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. There are already several videos on YouTube of me playing this instrument (and some from the 1950's of Dr. Hoffman as well) so after the solo theremin section at the beginning of the composition, I concentrated entirely on showing the Vulcan harp. There are very few Vulcan harps in the world and even fewer musicians who can actually play them, so I thought people might might like to see it.
PLEASE NOTE: the recording of this composition was done directly to a Roland VS-2400CD. There were no FX added to the instruments other than the usual EQ and a small amount of reverb. No peripherals, no MIDI modules, overdubs or computers were used at any time in the recording process."
"The Mixer is a 5-input mixer with a transistor-based make-up gain stage and topology based on the model CP3 mixers from the modular electronic music systems built in Trumansburg NY by the RA Moog company. Its features are low noise, minimal slew, and massive asymmetric distortion on demand.
Each input has an input amount level, and there are three outputs. Two outputs are unattenuated positive and negative outputs, and the third is an attenuated output controlled by the sixth knob on the panel. Its normal operation is bipolar from negative to positive, but when the "negative kill" switch is engaged the attenuator works from null to full positive. In addition, channels four and five are normalised to positive five volts and negative six for CV offset or distortion "pulse width" effects.
As calibrated to factory standard, 2 o'clock on the dial is approximately unity gain, at 3 o'clock it begins to clip and then distortion presents itself above that input level (from 10V p-p input signals.) This is adjustable to the taste of the customer and if your application needs a predictable unity gain position for clean mixing applications it can be provided for you on request. (obviously if you want to live dangerously it can be calibrated in a more extreme fashion.)
The positive and negative outputs are not only necessary for control signals and other phase-sensitive applications. Because of the circuit topology of the gain amp the positive and negative outputs actually have different distortion characteristics. The negative output is more of a straight clipping, but the positive output has some interesting waveshaping to it which also means that when the output attenuator is in bipolar operation it is actually possible to isolate only the difference component between the two different types of distortion. This is a feature which was not available on the CP3 (or any other mixer that I'm aware of based on it, which until now have only been privately built for the most demanding of enthusiasts.)
You may ask "why on earth would you want such an old circuit? why go so far as to model the power rails of that old stuff for what anyone else would just throw a cheap dual opamp chip in there? are you nuts? the cheap dual opamp would give you another 10 volts of headroom and would bring your circuit cost to a tenth of what it is now!!"
The answer is of course, the sound. The sound of those old modular systems (the ones on albums like Tarkus, Rubycon, Mirage, Halo, Switched-On Rock ... those albums that make us want these sounds) wasn't just a matter of a certain lowpass filter which everyone and their brother has made a copy of. The sound started with simple animal-like unijunction-core featureless oscillators, was mixed in distortion-heavy mixers, filtered with the aforementioned filter (and other filters people never bother to copy), and then level-managed by a transistor-based VCA. one of those four stages is the mixer, and in my opinion it's more than a quarter of the sound.
Here is a meandering sound example with 2 Synthesizers.com Q106 VCOs into the Mixer, then the MOTM-490 LPF, and an STG Soundlabs VCA"
"Thesys and Consequence are now available in brandnew versions, with incredible new features. The new Midi Drag and Drop feature allows to drag the pattern directly into a midi track or to your desktop! That makes work a lot easier and invites to new experiments. In Consequence you can even create a multitrack midi file, to trigger different sound generators with the individual Consequence instruments. It has never been so easy to create driving chords, rich string ensembles or intelligent, polyrhythmical harmony structures. Thesys will amaze you with the new Gate Time Multiplier and a overhaulted modulation section and the Standalone turns your computer into a Step Sequencing Monster with lots of Midi related features, Audiorecorder and the "Check for Updates" function that will keep all your Sugar Bytes products fresh.
Effectrix 1.4.2 is now available. All known bugs are fixed and a standalone version was added."
http://www.sugar-bytes.de/index.php?lang=en via brian comnes: "Sugarbytes just upgraded Thesys - for the life of me if you get this VST multi-track sequencer and drive a MIDI/CV engine (or use Silent Way) - it puts an end to any desire for a hardware sequencer of any stripe for CV patterns - unless of course you just want to bow down to the gear lust genie"
YouTube via Novamusik | January 18, 2011 | http://novamusik.com/ "We take a peak at the Korg Kaoss Pad Quad with the help of Korg Product Manager James Sajeva!"
"Going through a couple of my gesture variations for the Stutter Edit plug-in. Using only one instance for this example and processing a single drum loop with no other plug-ins. The gesture effects are triggered by a M-Audio Oxygen-8 MIDI keyboard while changing to different banks in real-time.
"Did not get to shoot as much synth stuff this year, but what I did capture my Brother Marc, who helped with Final Cut editing this year at the show, put everything into one video for me. Enjoy."
Signal Arts Tetra Maps & TouchOSC on iPhone sequence Waldorf MicroQ. Eurorack modules in Monorocket case. Livewire, Buchla, etc.
"MIDIBOX TYPE CONTROLLER. IT WAS USED TO CONTROL A NORD G2. SO THE LABELS AND GRAPHICS WERE RELATED TO THAT. BUT YOU COULD EDIT AND PROGRAM IT FOR WHAT EVER YOU WANT. THE LCD SCREEN DISPLAYS THE PARAMETERS AND CUSTOM LABELING ANYWAYS. PROGRAMMED THE ARCADE BUTTONS TO ACT AS A 2 OCTAVE KEYBOARD."
"HERE'S A LINK TO THE BILL OF MATERIALS. AS YOU CAN SEE IT AIN'T CHEAP TO BUILD ONE. IT'S CHEAPER THEN A OB SEM AND YOU GET WAY MORE FEATURES. I AM PROBABLY THE CHEAPEST IN PRICE FOR A MODULAR SYNTH.
THE PANEL WAS MADE USING THE MFOS TECHNIQUE. IT IS VERY CLEAN AND PRO LOOKING. TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES. THIS ONE IS REALLY SHOCKING PINK.
THESE ARE THE MODULES:
(2) 'BLUE DEMON' VCO'S WITH: SAW/RAMP/SQUARE/TRANGLE/SINE AND LINEAR,FM,SYNC,PWM, AND 1V/OCT CV INPUTS.
(1) MODULAR PORTABLE BI-POLAR POWER SUPPLY WHICH HANGS OFF THE PANEL WITH BUILT IN MULTIPLE CV BUFFER.------>16VAC PWR INPUT(WALLWART) 2.1mm JACK
(1) NOISE GENERATOR : 4 NOISE FLAVORS!
(1) AC MIXER.
(1) LFO WITH S&H AND TAP TEMPO. SAW/RAMP/SQUARE/TRIANGLE/SINE/S&H
(2) ADSR ENVELOPE GENERATORS WITH MANUAL TRIGGER BUTTON.
(1) OB VCF WITH HP/LP/BP OUTS. WITH LINEAR/FM/EXPO CV INPUTS.
(1) MIDI 2 CV CONVERTER WITH (2) PITCH CV OUTS AND (1) GATE OUT, (1) TRIG OUT, (1) CC #100 MIDI --> CV CONTROLLER OUT
(2) JACK TYPE CONVERTERS
(2) ATTENUATORS."
via this auction "16 high quality endless rotary encoders (alpha dials) * solid silver-grey coeated metallic housing made of 1 mm steel * measures about 25 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm * black knobs, about 18 mm diameter * distance between the knobs about 30 mm (from center to center) * 4 banks that can be selected very fast via 4 buttons and blue LEDs (thus 64 "virtual" controllers are available) * 32 presets (with 4 banks each, i.e. 128 presets altogether), selected via DIP switch at the rear panel * program change button (as long as this buttons is pressed the encoder below no 8 transmits program change messages for fast preset changes of the unit controlled by POCKET DIAL) * master channel button (for fast adjustment of the MIDI master channel, same function as Pocket Control) * 24 detents/pulses per rotation, i.e. the data change is +/-24 per turn (if the encoder is turned slow, see acceleration) * acceleration function, i.e. the data change increases if the encoders are turned faster"
