MOTM

Amazing, innovative work as always. Even better that you use the "pawn  
shop" SE-70 for processing.

On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Kenneth Elhardt wrote:

> I was testing out my new Zoom H2 recorder that I was going to use  
> for some
> synth tutorial videos. For the hell of it I recorded a few tests of  
> what I
> call effects device synthesis. I do a couple of videos showing more  
> and
> going into more detail. It's all about using effects devices to take
> worthless, cheap sounding, boringly simple, synth sounds and providing
> either massively impressive Tomita-like results or something closer to
> acoustic realism. 3 out of the 4 sounds only use 1 oscillator, and the
> harpsichord uses 2, but could use one for 8' only sounds. That means  
> even
> near useless synths like Junos and SH-101s can sound impressive.  
> Each demo
> below plays a dry sound first followed by the processed sound. A  
> Jupiter-8
> was the synth used. Description of what you're hearing followed by  
> the MP3
> below:
>
> 1) First sound is a single oscillator pulsewave which then gets  
> turned into
> a huge pipe organ using 10 pitch shifters in the Roland SE-70 effects
> device. A mild chorus plus reverb was added with a TC Electronics M- 
> One.
> (Note that I meant to provide a completely dry sound first, but  
> realized
> later that I had recorded with the mild chorus and reverb already  
> turned on)
>
> 2) Sound sound is a single sawtooth oscillator with a little vibrato  
> which
> turns into thick Tomita-like strings using 12 pitch shifters in the  
> Roland
> SE-70 plus similar TC Electronics chorus and reverb. Gets kind of  
> muddy in
> places, but you get the idea.
>
> 3) Third are two pulsewave oscillators tuned to 8' and 4' going into  
> a Boss
> SX-700 for a harpsichord sound. This uses a technique I came up with a
> couple of years ago that uses the complex phase shifting and delays  
> in the
> early reflections of reverbs as a complex filter plus some EQ. It  
> removes
> most of the synthetic quality and is good for harpsichord and clavinet
> sounds plus other things.
>
> 4) Fourth is a very complex Boss SX-700 patch that uses pitch  
> shifters with
> feedback delays, EQ, and maybe some other things to turn just about  
> any
> input sound into a crash cymbal.
>
> http://home.att.net/~elhardt4/EffectsDeviceSynthesis.mp3
>
> -Ken Elhardt
>