Clavia Nord Electro III Clavinet + WahWah Improvisation

Etude For Piano  No. 5,  composed by Philip Glass in 1994.

Live video: http://youtu.be/2ebI17EIAx0

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Bösendorfer upright piano, with some delay and reverb.

Video

Philip Glass - Etude For Piano No. 5

Sounds and music demos created by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/boskamusic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">boska</a> except where noted. 
All sounds recorded directly from the Nord Drum with no overdubs or external processing.

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Materials

Sounds and music demos created by Boska (<a href="http://soundcloud.com/boskamusic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">boska</a>)
All sounds recorded directly from the Nord Drum with no overdubs or external processing, except for the delay effect where noted.


Moods

All sounds are recorded directly from the Nord Drum with no external processing, except a old trusty delay pedal effect where noted.
Sounds and music created and performed by Boska (<a href="http://soundcloud.com/boskamusic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">boska</a>) except where noted.
See <a href="http://Norddrum.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norddrum.com</a> for more info.


Bonus Beats

Multisampled layered synth pianos from classic 80's and 90's keyboards, mixed with vintage EPs and Grand Piano.

Ballad EP 1 - Soft Demo

Since its launch in 1976, the CS-80 is still considered one the fattest sounding analog synths on the planet. With its 8-voice polyphony (with two independent synthesizer layers per voice), split functionality, patch memory storage and polyphonic aftertouch it was a real powerhouse (but also weighed like one).

In addition to playing a pivotal role in Vangelis's classic soundtrack for Bladerunner it has been used by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Jean Michel Jarre, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Brian Eno and Toto.

Download the sounds at <a href="http://www.nordkeyboards.com/main.asp?tm=Sound%20Libraries&amp;cllibr=Nord_Sample_Library&amp;clslib=Synth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nordkeyboards.com/main.asp?tm=Sound%20Libraries&amp;cllibr=Nord_Sample_Library&amp;clslib=Synth</a>

The Nord Sample Library is compatible with the Nord Stage 2, Nord Piano 2, Nord Electro 3 and the Nord Wave.

CS-80 Demo

This nod to the Greek sun god features watery percussion (courtesy of the Nord Drum and some custom programming) as well as audio samples of Solar phenomenon.

It was composed on the iPad (in NanoStudio) and realized in Ableton Live 8.

Hinterland

Helios

iTunes

Eine kleine improvisierte Soundauswahl des Nord Electro 4D 
Direkt on the fly über eine Q-DI Box in ein RME Babyface über Cubase Stereo aufgenommen.
Ohne Nachbearbeitung!
Hall und Fx aus dem Nord

1 Studio Grand 2 Yamaha lrg
2 Rhodes Bright Tines trem
3 Romantic Upright Schimmel
4 Rhodes Sparkle Top Chorus Delay
5 Rhodes Mk2 Shallow
6 Wurlitzer clean/small amp
7 CP80 mit fx
8 Clavinet Da P-Wah 
9-10 Hammond split 
11 Vox 
12 DX7 Sample 
13 Pianet N mit Phaser
14 Pianet N Soft
15 NL3 Warm Pad
16 Marimba
17 Harmonica Yamaha PSR3000 Sample 
18 Logan String Melody Phaser
19 SynthPad2 Stereo
20 MM3 Octave Synth Lead
21 Philcordia 1
22 Philcordia 2
23 Studio Grand 2 Yamaha 

Clavia Nord Electro 4d-emo

(Controlled) chaos reigns supreme in this piece, which started life as a pattern in Stochastik Drum Machine (iOS). Moving to Ableton, further elements of randomness were added, with several chaotic patches from Reaktor as well as a "stable",  repeating figure courtesy of AAS's Chromaphone.  Processed rhythmic cameos from the Nord Drum and Ableton Live 8 serve as variations on the original drum pattern.

Celemony's Melodyne was indispensable in this track to remove background sound from one of the speech samples (see related post here: http://danielottinimusic.tumblr.com/post/34171893488/melodyning), as well as extracting a MIDI groove from Stochastik (which is currently audio only), and creating rhythmic variations on the Stochastik audio. 

The result has a rhythmic, dubby, subterranean feel - enhanced (perhaps blatantly!) with judicious use of delay and reverberation.

What was it that the Joker said in "The Dark Knight" - Introduce a little anarchy...  :-)

The Cave of Fallen Angels

Nord Keyboards is a Swedish manufacturer of hardware keyboards and synthesizers dedicated to creating the best sound- and building quality and has received multiple awards for their innovative and user friendly products.