Return of the Robotmakers
2009-02-23 by rogerpellegrini
Ever since the last Robotmakers clip ended up as a "featured video" on Youtube, I'd been plotting the follow-up. With the distractions of the financiapocalypse intervening, it's taken a very long time, but "Crush Kill Destroy" is finally done. There are some interesting synth bits: - At 0:59 to 1:11, and 2:15 to 2:30, there's a synth line that's played without envelope generators or triggers. Instead, the VCA (and VCF) are controlled by the X-axis of a Novation RemoteSL xy pad. The Y-axis is vibrato. A footpedal through a MOTM pedal interface controls the rate of downward glide of a MOTM lag processor. It's a revelation how different it is to play this way - like driving a manual transmission car in London (for an American). - Throughout there's a hammond-esque organ that's actually 4 synch'ed Moog921AB VCOs producing sine waves, sampled into Kontakt. The sound is then processed in Cubase with distortion and rotary vst plug-ins. - The horns in the chorus were the result of experiments into imitative synthesis discussed here in April, 2007. - The guitars are guitars (sorry). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZsmLluFTUs Can be watched in HD, as well (!) I very much hope you like it and sincere thanks for all your support. Best regards, Roger