Kurt Kurasaki - Live Buchla Performance - Synthplex 2019

ID700 piano preset used for this Improvised piece performed on a Sensel Morph MPE controller.  

More information available at:  https://modo.sc

ID700 - Alternate Tuning/Morph Composition

Three tracks of ID700 presets layered to generate experimental tones and textures

More information available at:  https://modo.sc

ID700 Experimental Patches

25 different presets - this was about the limit of instances I could run simultaneously on this Logic session.

ID700 Twenty-Five

gotta have more cowbell!
drum and percussion presets for modosc designs ID700.
https:/modo.sc

ID700 Bongos & Cowbells

Just some random tweaking of Sting's vocals.  Designing some custom effects bays to achieve all of the processing in a real time performance.

Roxanne [Glitch Remix]

Programs submitted for consideration in the Sequential Take 5 factory set.  Recorded directly from the instrument with no additional processing or effects.

Sequential Take 5 Programs

experimenting with different mod formats... euro sequencing to banana is a bit tricky.

idea sketch BVM 13.06

Recorded (with Record) and Produced this session with Rick Silvestri.  Happy Christmas!

What Child is This (Greensleeves) - Rick Silvestri 

Testing out a rhythmic patch created in the Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave.  The Drum sounds are a sample of the great Bernard Purdie recorded at a performance in Berkeley, CA.  A loop was converted to a wavetable on the 3rd Wave, and a patch was created based on scanning through different indexes to create the rhythmic section.  

The synth part is a patch on a Sequential Prophet 10

3rd Wave Drums + Prophet 10 Pad

Noesis

Encoded Quadraphonic Audio Test Patch.  Requires QUARK for quad listening playback.  This is a test to hear how QS encoding translates to stereo.

BE - 21.179 - QUARK Encode Mixdown

Dry and Effected demos for consideration in the Oberheim OB-X8 Factory program bank.  Development of this instrument has gone to extensive lengths to perfectly reproduce sounds from the originals, so new programs have adopted features unique the OB-X8 including panning modulation features, special Xmod control, and the incorporation of velocity and aftertouch modulation.

Reverb is Strymon Big Sky

OB-X8 Programs

paradigm shift

The 3rd Wave Synthesizer from Groove Synthesis is a hybrid system with digital wavetable based oscillators and analog filters.  This piece is comprised of 8 different patches that I've created.  Each part is recorded with the built in effects printed which include distortion, delays, tape delays, and reverbs.

3rd Wave Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer Demo

Buchla composition mixed in quadraphonic and processed with the Dolby Atmos binaural encoder.  Test for playback on different systems, but the rendering is targeted for headphones.

BE - 22.193.4.atmos.binaural

Sequential Trigon 6 Patch Demo.  These patches are submitted for consideration as factory presets.  The audio is recorded directly from the instrument using the built-in effects and pan modulation features.

The Trigon has a lot of character especially with sequential's take on the 3 osc + low-pass ladder filter architecture.

Sequential Trigon-6 Programs

A montage of presets that developed for the Buchla 208c using the new Program Manager Card for Buchla 208C Music Easel/Easel Command.  The 208C is tracked with multiple layers of quadraphonic effects printed before being mixed down to stereo.

This bank of 48 presets will be made available with the release of the Program Manager card from Buchla.

Buchla 208c Presets [BE - 22.195.3.s]

test recording of the drip REDD.47 tube amp build.  
Goh Nakamura


REDD.47 mic pre test - Goh Nakamura

Quick run through of the Pro 2 Patch Templates. Audio Demo is not processed.  Available here:
http://www.peff.com/journal/2015/02/17/dsi-pro-2-patches/

Pro2 Patch Templates

first piece using the Thomas White Quad Low Pass Gate

idea sketch ES 15.80 part II

Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6 program and sequence demos.

level and balance test 6dB headroom (-6dBFS)

ref: Prophet6-kurt_k-051315.syxOS6


DSI Sequential - Prophet 6 - Program Test -f1

Part of my presentation for the Propellerhead Software Producers Conference in Las Vegas, NV.Track contains sounds and effects programmed for the Reason 6 Factory Soundbank.
<a href="http://theproducersconference.com/2011-10-01-LasVegas/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://theproducersconference.com/2011-10-01-LasVegas/index.html</a>



patch demo for ProCon Las Vegas

patches for consideration into the Oberheim OB-6 Factory Programs

DSI/Sequential Oberheim OB-6 Programs

patches for consideration as Sequential Pro 3 factory presets.  All sounds and effects are from the instrument itself.  The wavetable selection is changed during playback to illustrate variations that can be quickly created during a performance.  Polyphonic sections are either demos of paraphonic mode patches, or monophonic programs with offset tunings of the three oscillators.  Rhythmic sounds are based on sequences embedded in each program, arpeggiator patterns, or a combination of both.  Some of the drum programs are based on sequences constructed with the wavetable oscillator.

Sequential Pro 3 Programs Demo

The Forest Listens

Composed for the BUCHLAÏSMS compilation, this piece is developed around two patches created with the Buchla Music Easel.  The first patch is a 15 minute performance recorded to tape.  The recording is then connected into the Preamp Envelope Follower which then modulates various aspects of the second patch which uses randomized and sequenced elements in combination to build on the prepared textures.

© 2020 Kurt Kurasaki / PEFF Records (BMI)
id:  BE-20.160b

The Forest Listens

Kurt Kurasaki - Synthplex - Movement 5

Kurt Kurasaki - Synthplex - Movement 4

Kurt Kurasaki - Synthplex - Movement 3

Kurt Kurasaki - Synthplex - Movement 2

Kurt Kurasaki - Synthplex - Movement 1

some of the patches i've created for Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12.  There's no treatment.  The bass drum is pretty massive, so i didn't track sounds in the lower register.  

prophet 12 sound design test

Piece composed with a Buchla & Associates 208/218 Music Easel and Buchla USA Easel Command.  Quadraphonic recording mixed down to stereo.

BE - 21.169 Part 2

sound designer.  synthesizer patcher.  experimental electronic musings.  synthnerd.  occasionally producer of rock albums.

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