MOTM

strohs@... (strohs56k) writes:

Peanut gallery comment: I remember somewhere Carlos stated that to 
achieve those fast ornamented lines on the Moog, the part was played 
at half tempo, an octave down, and with the tape recording at half 
speed.  (As such, when the tape was played at normal speed the desired 
tempo and pitch resulted.)  I don't recall the exact reasons - but the 
Moog modular did have difficulty with the fast playing.  I'm trying to 
remember where I read this - it might have been in the booklet that 
comes with the Switched on Boxed Set.

Carlos used half speed recording on some of the really fast parts like 32nd 
note runs and such and maybe a few other place.  He/she noted that things 
such as trills were a little akward to play on a monophonic (and clunky) 
keyboard and they, like most other stuff, were done and normal recording 
speed.  Perhaps Carlos' keyboard worked in single-trigger mode instead of 
multi-trigger.  It's easy to do really fast trills on the MOTM with 
multi-trigger.  Just continuously hold down one note and trill with a second 
finger, just as a violinist does.

-Elhardt