The Technology of Old Skool Rave

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Well that and the pole position sound

(& haha k-thanx for starting this thread, don)

You mean the early '90s bleep stuff - LFO etc. ?? It really is nothing more complex than a sine wave (for both the very low bass and the high melodies). The high ones would generally have reverb and/or delay on as well. The Akai sampler range conveniently supplied a default sine wave 'test tone' sample that was ideal for the purpose. The Yamaha DX range can also be set up very easily to generate a pure sine wave. I'm surprised that you couldn't figure that out.

(I have no idea (or, currently, access) whatsoever about the technology or the music theory involved.)

for yr more rave bleeps - n joi, altern 8, strictly underground etc., the roland sh 101 was the main source.

You mean when it has an almost brassy rasp to it (not the tinkly, pure sine sound)? Yes an analog synth (or sample of one) would be used to produce that raspier sound. Not necessarily an SH-101 though. Could be anything.

Isn't it? I couldn't believe my luck when I first stumbled across it...

By the way, if anyone is using an MPC, Hollow Sun also have a bunch of classic drum machine / beatbox kits with pgms already laid out and made available for the MPC1000 via akaipro.com. Should work on the 2000 / 2000xl / 4000 as well as the 1000.

https://themagusproject.bandcamp.com/

2 eps of old school rave noise that have been extracted from recently found DATs by one of the folks from The Auteurs ('The Cellist').
despite the age of these tracks, they still sound wonderful.

as per thread title :

Made with: Cubase, Sequential Circuits Pro-1, Roland JX3P, Akai S1000, Roland S760, Yamaha FX500, Roland Juno 60. As far as I can remember.