MOTM

just a quick question is a search for similar tastes...

Who on the list produces dance music if anybody? What type of listening do 
you all like and hope to emulate with your modulars?
Is anybody working on a polyphonic MOTM yet (four voice or so?) like a Korg 
Monopoly type polyphony? If so, how complicated is it in actuality? Thanks 
for your help

Thomas White in California

PS High Jeff! Welcome to the freak zone


>From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
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>Subject: RE: [motm] Re: Milestone reached, Part #1
>Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:11:48 -0500
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>
>Welcome, and congratulations, Jeff!
>
>I'm Ken from chilly Connecticut.
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My own tastes range from "classical" (or at least Carlos/Tomita type stuff)
to something more bizarre ( "Forbidden Planet" soundtrack).

I have a monopoly; to imitate it with MOTM components (assuming you have the
MIDI-2-CV converter, etc) would require 4 VCOs, 2 LFOs, VCA, 2 EGs, the
Noise/SH module, and the OTA filter. I guess you can fake the S&H in for the
arpeggiator. Naturally you end up with a synth that's a lot more flexible
than a Mono/poly, having a ring modulator, potential velocity sensitivity,
more flexibly VCO sync options, and many patch points.

I guess I have almost enough modules to do that. Don't forget, the Mono/Poly
was really not polyphonic-with only one filter & VCA, and an EG for each...
the 'Poly' part was really a gimic and hardly useful, in my opinion.

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	thomas white [mailto:djthomaswhite@...]
		Sent:	Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:18 PM
		To:	motm@onelist.com
		Subject:	[motm] Anybody making dance music?



		What type of listening do you all like and hope to emulate
with your modulars?
		Is anybody working on a polyphonic MOTM yet (four voice or
so?) like a Korg Monopoly type polyphony? If so, how complicated is it in
actuality? Thanks 
		for your help

i guess you could dance to my music, but maybe its more suited for root
canals.  i am biulding a processor system with the MOTM.  the machines i
have make great sounds, but they can become stale or the generation can be
limiting.  adding a next dimension to the sound is important in creating new
sonic textures.

my mono/poly is used for those weird bleeps and grinding terror noises it is
so wonderful at creating.  the mono/poly is a great machine on its own,
because it has enough components to have fun with.

i run my 303 thru a 420 filter which is modded by an 800 eg.  fun things can
happen when you take a sound that is well known and then twist it slightly.

unfortuately, thedance realm depends on cliches.  i try to stay away from
running my beats thru a filter because, like a distorted 909 and 303, it has
been done, to death. the modular route lets you explore new ground and i
think that is the point.  to move past the simple or "easy" sounds that are
so abundant.  it's time for the perculator.

-steve

Hi Thomas,

A lot of what I write is dance music, but I'm not really trying to emulate
anything with the modular gear. I just got sick of the limitations of my
other synths. Because I have no oscillators in my setup, I think of it more
as a big toolbox to alter the sounds of the rest of my gear. I *have* used
self-oscillating filters as oscillators, but it's not my intention to make
that a regular habit.

I've recently put up some of my tracks on mp3.com -
http://www.mp3.com/baldbastard In the credits for each track I list the main
instruments used, so you can see what I used MOTM on. If you listen to
"undercover," the mechanical, rhythmic loop near the beginning (and running
throughout) is a sample of some modular madness, and two synthesizers are
filtered through a 420 LPF. I just put up a track I was working on the other
night ("aurora heads," and it uses the LFO to sweep two filters into which
were input white noise and a 303).

As far as "dance" listening, my current faves are Luke Slater, Jammin' Unit,
Boards of Canada, Meat Beat Manifesto, anything on UR (esp. Drexciya and Mad
Mike's) and related (Robert Hood, Jeff Mills) and Planet E, most Richard
Kirk, and pretty much any electro old or new. Overall, I actually listen to
just as much folk and singer/songwriter stuff (Nick Drake, Skip Spence, Roy
Harper, Mark Eitzel/AMC). They don't use modulars a whole lot ;)

David.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thomas white [mailto:djthomaswhite@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 11:18 AM
> To: motm@onelist.com
> Subject: [motm] Anybody making dance music?
>
>
> From: "thomas white" <djthomaswhite@...>
>
> just a quick question is a search for similar tastes...
>
> Who on the list produces dance music if anybody? What type of
> listening do
> you all like and hope to emulate with your modulars?
> Is anybody working on a polyphonic MOTM yet (four voice or so?)
> like a Korg
> Monopoly type polyphony? If so, how complicated is it in
> actuality? Thanks
> for your help
>
> Thomas White in California
>
> PS High Jeff! Welcome to the freak zone
>
>
> >From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
> >Reply-To: motm@onelist.com
> >To: "'motm@onelist.com'" <motm@onelist.com>
> >Subject: RE: [motm] Re: Milestone reached, Part #1
> >Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:11:48 -0500
> >
> >
> >Welcome, and congratulations, Jeff!
> >
> >I'm Ken from chilly Connecticut.
> >
> >
>
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