If you are using an EMS, just set up the guitar or keyboard stock patch
and plug right in (or bump it with an eq or compressor) and off you go.
Almost thirty years later the Hawks are still turning people on to synths
G. Wong
baron swodeck wrote:
>
> So does that mean that if I had a pitch/CV converter I could play my
> guitar the same way? If so where can I get one?
>
> >From: improv@...
> >Reply-To: motm@egroups.com
> >To: motm@egroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Del Dettmar's double headed synth wood-axe
> >Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:09:52 -0800
> >
> > >Hello Barry,
> > >
> > >I think Al's answer covers most of the details on Del's axe. I got
> to
> > >check it out (and play it a bit!) at soundcheck in San Jose on the
> first
> > >('94) SR tour. Just a pickup -> Pitch/CV converter -> EMS Synthi.
> Del
> > >said that he'd owned that Synthi since '73 or '74, when they toured
> Europe
> > >and his original VCS3 was blown out by the different power supply
> there.
> > >I've greatly enjoyed using the pitch/CV converter on my MS-20, both
> for
> > >melodic/pitched and "weird" stuff. Definitely a good way of adding
> human
> > >unpredictability to synth work.
> >
> >Cool! So whe are we going to see a MOTM Pitch->CV? Is it possible to
> get a
> >Pitch->CV out of existing modules (I've converted bass to an ugly
> square
> >wave via the octave divider, but it's not exactly the same thing.
> > >
> > >And, in the interest of on-topicality, I'll point out that I played
> MOTM
> > >(as well as Prophet 600, MS-20 and Triwave Picogenerator) in the
> Hawkwind
> > >cover band (Ad Hawk)
> >
> >Great band name!
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes,
> > >Hawkwind are (one of, if not THE) main reason(s) I love analog
> synths ...
> > >
> >Yeah, I spent my fair share of early college smoking pot and
> listening to
> >Hawkwind and Gong. Ahh, the daze.///
> >
> >____________________________________________
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> >
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