This entry and the last will give you an idea of the analogue synth sounds I’ll be using at our upcoming Ostracon performance Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at the Honey Lounge in Minneapolis.
GMS Practice Phrase 2
This entry and the last will give you an idea of the analogue synth sounds I’ll be using at our upcoming Ostracon performance Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at the Honey Lounge in Minneapolis.
GMS Practice Phrase 2
GMS Practice Phrase 1
Here’s the unprocessed version of the sound I used in the entry Nice Evolving Arpeggio in Seven.
Unprocessed Evolving Arpeggio in Seven
The Oberheim OB-8 and Roland MKS-80 are two massive vintage polys, each sporting dual oscillator, eight note polyphony provided by sixteen VCOs. There’s a lot of similar functionality between these machines. The switchable two or four pole filter and modulation routing is a little more flexible on the OB-8 but the MKS-80 makes up for it with cross modulation, velocity sensitivity, and after-touch. The technology used in the MKS-80 seems much more advanced even though it was made only one year later than the OB-8. The MKS-80 is a compact rack-mountable device, while the OB-8 is a massive behemoth that currently dominates my studio space. Ultimately comparing these two machines is not really a productive thing to do. They both sound fantastic. The MKS-80 is better for me because my musical style generally requires the expression possible through velocity and after-touch, but the OB-8 is easy and fast to program with lots of luxurious feeling knobs.
I recorded a little freeform jam session with Unearthed Music‘s graphic designer, Ben Montag, experimenting on the OB-8 while I twisted knobs on the Bitstream 3X driving the MKS-80. See if you can identify which sound is coming from which synth.
OB-8 Versus MKS-80
Unearthed Music just got a new run of cassettes made of my release, Unauthorized Modifications by Ostracon (me and Graham O’Brien). We will have them at shows and select local record stores including Shuga Records in Northeast Minneapolis. Checkout unearthedmusic.com for more details.
A great place to get your tape is at our show this Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at the Honey Lounge in Minneapolis. Master modular maestro, Low-Gain, shares the bill with us. Doors are at 9:00pm and music starts at 10. The new cassettes will be on sale at the show for $5, which includes a free download code (normally $8 just for the download) and if you are one of the 25 customers who bought the previous cassette that was recorded only on one side, bring it to the show and I’ll swap it with a new one for free!
Here’s a sample from our release show on June 24, 2011:
Ostracon Release Show Segment 3