[sdiy] my musical ideas & my guitar synth

[Ingo Debus]

Am 20.11.2006 um 00:22 schrieb Magnus Danielson:

> The Synthi-A could have DK-1, DK-2 or KS keyboards. That is Dynamic  
> Keyboard 1,
> Dynamic Keyboard 2 or Keyboard Sequencer. The KS has the infamous  
> capacitive
> keyboard and a sequencer up to 256 notes.

Hmmm...  as far as I remember the sequencer is realtime-input only.  
It has 256 memory locations but when recording a sequence the address  
counter is free running, so its difficult if not impossible to record  
a different note into each memory location. Am I correct? It's been a  
while since I played with it.
Anyway, I also tried to recreate "on the run" back then but I didn't  
get anything that sounded remotely similar. My daughter said my  
results sounded like a didgeridoo played underwater:-)


>> But that still
>> begs the question: why didn't Roger Waters use it more? I think I  
>> found the
>> video you are referring too and he is indeed messing with a  
>> Synthi, but he's
>> in a room full of other stuff.
>
> Maybe all of the toying around didn't make it into their musical  
> concepts?

Or because it's so difficult to get something useful out of it? ;-)

Tim Parkhurst wrote:
> There's actually a neat little "hi-hat"
> thing going on that has an accent about when the sequence repeats.
> Perhaps the hi-hat is triggered by the clock with the accent triggered
> by a reset pulse?

Hey, in the days of DSOTM hihats were triggered by drumsticks and the  
built-in pedal only!

Ingo
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