The main reason why synths like these were used so much in early 90s house / techno / hardcore is that they were already old (and therefore relatively cheap to pick up second-hand) by then. Now that they've achieved cult status the prices have gone way back up. I saw a Prophet 600 (like the 5 but with MIDI) going for $600+ recently.
― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― don, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link
No, Cubase or Notator.
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link
Liam Howlett famously basing his whole set-up around the Roland W-30 sampling workstation, right up until after the recording of The Fat Of The Land
Urban Shakedown's 'Some Justice' was recorded using two Amigas with tracker software (sourced sounds via MIDI ala Atari ST)
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
If you are using cubase there is plenty of stuff out there to try, I use reason with distortion to create some NASTY sounds. Although it takes patience, you learn to do with what you got though, and milk it for all its worth.
― hector (hector), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link
an old atari 1040 will still give the tightest midi of any computer ever made. seriously, on the midi side it'll out perform a g5 hands down. try programming triplet hi hats and hear the difference!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
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― don, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link
― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
Well that and the pole position sound
― hector (hector), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
(& haha k-thanx for starting this thread, don)
― etc, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― David (David), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
(I have no idea (or, currently, access) whatsoever about the technology or the music theory involved.)
― etc, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link
for yr more rave bleeps - n joi, altern 8, strictly underground etc., the roland sh 101 was the main source.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― David (David), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago) link
― don, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― winterland, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link