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Subject: Re: Crazy Who sounds

From: Linda Dachtyl <lindaleed@...>
Date: 2006-01-17

>

A tremolo stomp box with a square wave form works like a charm on this.
I found this out after spending hours on programming a Kawai K-3
patch....with only 6 note polyphony:-(

Linda
> From: "Scott Murrell" <bjork01@...>
> Subject: Re: Crazy Who sounds
>
> My Motif has those sounds pretty darned close but I need them for the
> AN1X just for a backup.....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: uralmoto2001
> To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [AN1x] Crazy Who sounds
>
>
> Yeah, it figures that "Baba O'Riley" was also played on the organ.
> Funny; there's a quote from Pete Townshend on the back of the Arp2500
> owners' manual where he says how suitable it is for stage work. Makes
> me wonder how often they used it on stage. I had forgotten that
> there's also an Ion preset called "Baba O'Riley". Very similar
> to "Won't Get Fooled" in that an lfo square wave is used to mod VCA.
> The key to this Ion patch though is that it uses key poly reset for
> the lfo; I think the an1x only has key mono reset. May be another way
> to get the same effect
> though.
> -
> --
> Steve
>
> --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Edwards" <edward.edwards@v...>
> wrote:
>>
>> "Teenage Wasteland" (actually named Baba O'Riley) has a lot of
> references if you
>> Google it. There is an audio interview with Pete Townsend
> somewhere out there
>> where he reveals the entire process. Don't forget to listen
> carefully, Townsend
>> is moving around a lot on the keyboard -- this is not just a simple
> hold down
>> the keys and let the arpeggiator play it song.
>>
>> Google kindly provided this excellent site:
>> http://www.wbtracks.co.uk/synths.htm
>>
>> Here's a snip:
>> I'd always thought this was programmed into Pete's huge modular ARP
> 2500
>> synth/sequencer. It certainly sounds like it could have been! It's
> hard to
>> believe that the sound we hear on Baba O'Riley is really a Lowrey
> home organ.
>> The model Pete used was a TBO-1, but for anyone wishing to recreate
> Baba O'
>> Riley, just pick one up the following models to do the same job:
> TLO, DSO, TLS,
>> TSO 25 and HR and GAK (seems to be the nearest). Pete is using a
> setting called
>> "marimba repeat." <SNIP>
>>
>> ... go on and read the rest yourself. Also download the audio demo
> of the banjo
>> repeat on the Lowery - amazing stuff for 40 year old technology.
>>
>> eee - Edward Edwards
>> http://www.ezekielswheel.com
>> http://www.untiedmusic.com/ezekiel
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