Kwangmyong (original song by James Cronin - live performance)

YouTube Uploaded by EnvelopeGenerator on Dec 16, 2011

"Take a listen to the rest of my EP here: http://soundcloud.com/envelopegenerator/sets
Or check out my Facebook page! http://facebook.com/EnvGen

A "live" performance of one of my new songs - Kwangmyong (광명). I know it's not technically live, but I performed both halves of the video live on the first take and stitched them together in After Effects, so it's more-or-less a live performance by two people... kinda.

Pad: Roland Juno 6
Bass: Moog Little Phatty
Strings: Akai S1000 (Mellotron samples)
White noise: Korg Microkorg
Vocal percussion: Akai S1000
Drums: Roland TR-707
Sequencing: Alesis MMT-8
Recorded into Cubase via an Alesis Multimix 8 USB 2.0 FX interface (what a snappy name for a mixer).

To hear the studio version of this track (along with my other new songs from the EP) beautifully mixed and mastered by Sam Binstead and Jason Parker, head on over to http://soundcloud.com/envelopegenerator/sets and let me know what you think!"

YMO - FOCUS (cover with English lyrics)

YouTube Published on Jul 9, 2012 by EnvelopeGenerator

"EnvelopeGenerator on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EnvGen
My tracks on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/envelopegenerator/sets

My favourite song by my favourite band - I've been meaning to do a cover of this for years! It's a little bit more gritty and industrial than YMO's version.

Super mega awesome thanks to Helen for translating the lyrics - the original song is in Japanese (with a little bit of English), so I figured it might be fun to try it in English (with a little bit of Japanese). Sorry if my pronunciation's terrible, I don't speak any Japanese :P

Also, this is my first video with my fancy-pants new DSLR. Totally abusing shallow depth of field here - give me a break, the song is called "Focus" after all! Completely destroyed my computer though - a 4 minute video took up nearly 500GB of disk space, made my video editing software crash at least 20 times, and caused my computer to overheat and reboot twice.

Oh, and finally - happy belated birthday to Haruomi Hosono!

Equipment:
Bass - Moog Little Phatty
Drums - Alesis HR-16B
Pads - Roland Juno 6, KORG Microkorg
SFX - Commodore 64 computer with MSSIAH synth cartridge, Nintendo Gameboy Color with LSDJ cartridge
Fender Lite Ash Stratocaster
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi distortion pedal"

YMO - Solid State Survivor (cover)

YouTube via EnvelopeGenerator | September 29, 2010

"Blank tongues ablaze!

Here's a fancy version of Solid State Survivor (ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー) by Yellow Magic Orchestra, complete with a very silly video of greenscreen, some of my film photos, Super 8 footage, video feedback and a few shots of YMO I found on Google Images.

This is also my first HD video despite the fact that I still don't have an HD camera - the video clips are stitched together from multiple SD shots (if you look closely at the first shot you can see the seams). This is also probably going to be the last video I make for a while because I'm going to university next week, so enjoy - it could possibly be the last ever Envelope Generator production!

Song by Yukihiro Takahashi with lyrics by Chris Mosdell."

Moog Prodigy synthesizer demo

YouTube Uploaded by EnvelopeGenerator on Apr 14, 2011

I'm selling this Moog Prodigy synthesizer on eBay, so here's a little demonstration of what it can do! Here's a link to the auction:"


via this auction

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NYAN NYAN SYNTHSPLOSION

YouTube Uploaded by EnvelopeGenerator on Jul 14, 2011

"It might help if you watch the original first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 [below]

This is just a silly video of me playing along to the Nyan Cat song on synthesizers while the tempo gradually increases from 110 to 255bpm and my playing gradually gets worse and worse. This was the first and only take!

Featuring a TR-707 on drums, Microkorg on bass, and a Moog Little Phatty and Roland Juno 6 duetting on nyan."

Nyan Cat [original]

"Firecracker" (by YMO) - played on an ARP Axxe

YouTube Uploaded by EnvelopeGenerator on Sep 14, 2011

"I recorded this two years ago using only analogue equipment. The audio is entirely digital-free, except for the transfer to PC and YouTube's compression. No sequencing here!

I reluctantly sold the Axxe earlier this year (but she's gone to a good home!), so I dug out this old recording and added some very silly images for a quick video to put on YouTube as a tribute to this great beast of a machine.

All parts played on an ARP Axxe monoophonic analogue synthesizer
All effects from an Electro-Harmonix Memory Man delay pedal
Recorded and mixed on a TASCAM Portastudio 414 mkII 4-track cassette deck

"Firecracker" performed by James Cronin, written by Martin Denny, based on the cover by Yellow Magic Orchestra."

CousinSlewey

Published on Mar 3, 2013 Dmitri SFC·78 videos

"Serge Dual Neg Slew, Peak & Trough, Voltage Controlled Slew, Tripple Wave shapers, 73 Envelope Generator, 73 Filter, CGS VCA ...and 4 step Programmer.________
_The Two NEG slews are the Oscillators, They are each patched into a Wave Shaper, The Wave Shapers are being VC modulated by the 73 Envelope Gen and the V.C.Slew. One of the sounds is being Gated on the way into the TWS using the CGS VCA rather than after the TWS (Thanks to Doug Lynner for that tip !!). A pulse coming from a step on the Programmer or some where is pinging the 73 Filter into self oscillation to make a low rumble bass drum/ giving this patch its third sound. The bass won't be very noticeable on small speakers. The V.C.Slew is used as an Attack Release Envelope and simultaneously its End Pulse Out is clocking the Programmer. The 73 EG and V.C.Slew make great funky clock dividers with VC control. When using the Pulse In on the V.C.Slew it functions like the 73 EnvelopeGenerator, Meaning it won't start a new envelope until its done with the one its working on so, If you feed it a clock that is fast while the 73 EG has a long Envelope setting... The Envelope starts at funky times making cool rhythms. One might think being adjusted by a pot with no time quantization that it would be random but its not. Its pure funk bubbling out of the electrolytics inside. Kind of hard to not fall into a rad syncopated poly-rythm."

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Slewster
Published on Mar 3, 2013 Dmitri SFC·79 videos

"SERGE POS, SSG, DVG, 73 VCF, 73 EG, CGS VCA , VCA___________
_Each Positive slew is cycling and used as a VCO they are both also gated by a VCA. One half of the Dual Voltage Processor is used to mix the two Gated audio signals before being patched into the 73 Filter. The 4 step Programmer VCs one Positive Slew while the Stepped section of the SSG samples A row of CV from the Programmer and in turn pitches the second half of the Dual Positive Slew. SSG is SAMPLE AND HOLD. the other half of the DualVoltageProcessor mixes CV signals from the EG and SSG, the Output its patched to CV the Filter. The 73 EG is generating an Envelope that controls a Gate, Also the END Pulse out of the 73 EG is clocking the Programmer in one direction. The CYCLE out of the SSG clocks the Programmer in the other direction a couple steps here and there."

Blade Runner Synth Jam

YouTube via EnvelopeGenerator. via Nusonica.
"The opening titles from 'Blade Runner' by Vangelis on a microKORG and an ARP Axxe. I can't make an Axxe sound like a CS-80, of course... but then again, who does? :P"

ARP Axxe synthesizer demo

YouTube Uploaded by EnvelopeGenerator on Apr 14, 2011
via this auction
"I'm selling an ARP Axxe synthesizer on eBay, so I've made a little video just to show off a few features of the synth! Here's a link to the auction (ends 21 April 2011)"

YMO Synth Jam - Rydeen

YouTube via EnvelopeGenerator | September 16, 2010

"A slowed-down ambient-ish cover of Rydeen (ライディーン) by Yellow Magic Orchestra, written by Yukihiro Takahashi. Played on a Roland Juno-6 with a Korg Microkorg providing the 'percussion'."

Kraftwerk Synth Jam - Computer Love

YouTube via EnvelopeGenerator
"A dancey synth cover of Computer Love by Kraftwerk played completely live. (Apologies to all Kraftwerk fans!)

Bass - Microkorg (arpeggiator mode)
Pad - Commodore 64 (MSSIAH sequencer)
Lead - Roland Juno 6
Drums - Alesis Performance Pad (which was also midi clocking everything)
Filter sweep - ARP Axxe
Delay - Electro-Harmonix Memory Man (pad), Microkorg (bass)

Everything going into the many inputs of my TASCAM Portastudio with a stereo output into my computer and recorded into Cubase.

Mastered by my good friend Sam."

80s Synth Medley (3 guys, 6 keyboards)

YouTube via EnvelopeGenerator
"Three guys, six keyboards, fifteen hits of the 1980s. All played live!

Keyboards:
ARP Axxe
KORG MicroKORG
KORG Triton Extreme 61
M-Audio Axiom 61
Roland Juno 6
Yamaha SHS-10 Keytar"

And the original ALL-STAR Medley. :)

Synthesizer Medley 1985

Crease (Original Song by James Cronin)

YouTube via EnvelopeGenerator — April 05, 2010 — "Here's a song I wrote. It's a little cheesy, a little creepy, a little bouncy, a little ambient.

(Sorry about the sound, YouTube screwed up the audio!)

And here's the synths I used:
Drums - Alesis Performance Pad (sampled through Akai S1000)
Bass - Moog Prodigy and ARP Axxe
Arpeggio - Juno 6 (sampled through the Akai)
Hook - Juno 6 (sampled through the Akai... again)
Pizzicato thing - Juno 6 (guess what? sampled through the Akai)
Brassy synth - Microkorg
Doot-de-doo riff at the end - Juno 6 (not sampled! holy crap!)"