From: Miguel Mendoza
>>Please, let me recommend also Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls by Allen Strange. It's a very difficult to get book, I bought mine on Ebay for 100$ many years ago but I have seen a pdf scan to download sometimes around the net.<<
I found a copy of that on the net, but like all synth books, it covers the basics. You're not going to be able to patch up a realistic cymbal, violin, human chorus, piano, diesel train passing by, or symphony orchestra on an analog synth from any book that's out there.
From: George Kisslak
>>I think there was a rough patch diagram for one of Robert Rich's signature glorp sounds shared long ago that helped me a lot as well.<<
I remember there was some random talking patch of his that was interesting that I thought was on the Synthtech site, but it later disappeared.
>>You're still working on that hardware project??<<
I'm working on the software for several software and hardware projects. And there's the possibility one of them may end up being used by Google in the viewing of youtube videos.
From: Argitoth
>>I asked some hypothetical example question of what a book might answer, and Ken didn't hesitate to answer them, and I didn't know a +oct sawtooth would help fill out clarinet harmonics.<<
A real clarinet has predominant odd harmonics in the lower frequencies, but the higher you go, the more the even harmonics come up in amplitude. So if you want to be accurate, that's a way to do it.
>>I strongly believe I have you beat in the synth rain department, and when I have my modular synth complete I will have to recreate it and share my method, although it was originally created on VSTs.<<
Sounds very good (If I were on my PC I wouldn't be able to hear it because SoundCloud doesn't work on that computer. More of that incompetent website programming I mentioned before). I'm not sure what of mine you're comparing to because I don't think I have mine online anywhere except Youtube where they bumped my hi-fi stereo audio to lo-fi mono now sounding crappy (Yet more of that idiotic website programming by incompetent morons that I mentioned earlier). Mine probably sounds more flat like rain on concrete, but it could be post filtered to sound different. It was a simple patch on a Supernova synth with its modulation and filter limits.
>>also wanted share my synthesized warfare with you (all digital synth)<<
Some of that sounds kind of like a warfare pinball machine in places. Fun to listen to though. I have some synthesized warfare sounds in the game Beachhead 2000 I did, including bullets hitting a metal shield that sound quite good (Roland JP-8080), and also an old warfare thing done in about 20 minutes on a Roland SH-7. One day I want to sit down and do a very realistic one on my MOTM so I can dispose of my SH-7 one. That could be a patchbook right there.
Now I'll post this to the MOTM list and it won't show up in my mailbox do to incompetent website programming by idiots (That's Yahoo, Youtube, and SoundCloud so far that don't work). Before it was duplicate posts showing up, now it's no posts. Why don't people ever get fired for this?
-Elhardt