{"id":53940,"date":"2018-12-02T14:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=53940"},"modified":"2018-12-05T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:00:33","slug":"more-noises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/more-noises\/","title":{"rendered":"More noises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another batch of quickie tune arrangements using the Arturia V Collection<\/a> synths. As before, every sound in each is made with the named synthesizer emulation, though there may be some occasional manipulation with equalization, compression and delay. “Captain Sudley” is a Carolan<\/a> tune; the others are traditional.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dashing-White-Sergeant.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

“The Dashing White Sergeant,” Matrix 12<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Captain-Sudley-Solina.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

“Captain Sudley,” Solina<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tulloch-Castle.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

“Tulloch Castle,” Fairlight CMI<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lai.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

“Lai,” ARP 2600<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Captain-Sudley-B3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Bonus: “Captain Sudley” on the B3 emulation.<\/p>\n

Trivia: the ARP 2600 was the voice of R2-D2.<\/p>\n

Along with the earlier batch<\/a>, I’ve now made inexpert use of half of the Arturia collection. With a few exceptions, the remaining keyboards are of less interest to me. While I can always use a good, accurate grand piano, electric pianos have never appealed to me, and transistor organs sound cheap.<\/p>\n

Working with these new toys confirmed a couple of observations.<\/p>\n

1. After a while, all subtractive synths start to sound the same. Someone with a good ear might be able to tell a hardware ARP from a Moog on a recording, but once you’re using computer emulations, with all the electronic and mechanical quirks cleaned up, one sawtooth wave sounds much like another.<\/p>\n

2. The more novel the sound, the harder it is to use. In a piece with many voices, the plainest patches work best. The Buchla Easel is an amazing noisemaker, but I doubt that I’ll ever use it much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another batch of quickie tune arrangements using the Arturia V Collection synths. As before, every sound in each is made with the named synthesizer emulation, though there may be some occasional manipulation with equalization, compression and delay. “Captain Sudley” is a Carolan tune; the others are traditional. “The Dashing White Sergeant,” Matrix 12 “Captain … Continue reading “More noises”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-e20","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53940"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54053,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53940\/revisions\/54053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}