Today I have been programming and testing some new bass patches on the MKS-80. I’m not quite there yet, but here’s one that’s pretty close to what I’m after.
New Bass Patch
New Bass Patch
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Tag Archives: Analog Synthesis
Computer Freak Out and Crash
Remember the old cliché in movies, tv shows, and skits where someone asks a robot some irrational or illogical question and the robot starts to freak out exclaiming, “does not compute! does not compute!”? Here’s the sound I imagine that makes programmed on the Roland MKS-80.
Computer Freak Out and Crash
Dreamy New Age Synth Harp
Having finally started using the Roland Super Jupiter MKS-80 for the last two Ostracon performances my next goal is to utilize hardware synths for the majority, if not for all, of the instrument sounds during these shows. I have another repair necessary on the MKS-80 to make it performance ready, but other than that I should be in business soon. In preparation I have started weeding out some of the sounds in the MKS-80 internal memory, replacing them with my own programmed patches. Here’s an example of a nice harp-like patch I came up with during my last session. I created the passage by routing MIDI to the MKS-80 from Ableton‘s arpeggiator.
Dreamy New Age Synth Harp
Dark Polyphonic GMS Phrase
I lifted this dark polyphonic phrase that was generated by the GMS driving the Roland MKS-80 from a recent Ostracon set at Honey.
Dark Polyphonic GMS Phrase
MKS-80 Clip Lifted from Ostracon Release Show
MKS-80 Clip Lifted from Ostracon Release Show