Name: Now One (Synthetik FM Mix) by Purveyor Music in synthpop
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: This track is from the album Disaffection and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/purveyor

synthpop

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

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Cloud Boat - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Smiths Cover)

Machine Language (Regeneration X Remix)

Very disco, very electronic.  Breaking down the barriers. :)  The latest confection from Synthetik FM, featuring the awesome vocal talents of Aidan Casserly, ex-Empire State Human, and these days involved in the electro project Glass Dancer.  

Synthetik FM - Disco Head (featuring Aidan Casserly)

Cover of the music from the 70's sci-fi movie and TV series Logan's Run.  This version features elements from the TV theme, the movie title theme (at the beginning), and the movie's love theme.  This is an instrumental mix.  It seems there were lyrics written for this, so a vocal version is currently underway, and will be posted when finished!

Synthetik FM - Theme from Logan's Run

A new slice of electro-pop for the ages, with a strong 90's Erasure influence, lots of Arp 2600 VST madness, and some excellent vocal work by isunray, from across the pond in New Zealand. :)

Synthetik FM featuring isunray - Come Back To Me (All Is Forgiven)

Popit 2015

Why Me 2015

A New Track from us in Vision Talk. We will give you more tracks this year and hopefully a new album and some liveshows.  
Let us know what you think.....

Vision Talk - Come With Me 2016

**NB: To all those who have asked for these patches - sadly the sysex backup for this sound bank was lost some time back and I no longer have the DS-8 in the studio.

Trying out some sound patches I programmed on a KORG DS-8 digital synthesizer.   I was quite taken by this inexpensive little beast.  The DS-8 was unusual in that although it was based on a 4OP Yamaha FM chip set it was presented with a somewhat more intuitive and user friendly programming interface which is quite a lot more inviting to experiment with than a classic FM user-interface!  The synth also featured a detuned unison mode and some useful built in effects such as chorus and flanging which give the instrument quite a different feel.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2018

1986 KORG DS-8: New Sound Patches

I was trying to figure out parts of the functionality of the Cwejman RG6 and “accidentally” came up with this little patch. It’s based on three cross-FMed sines that are “sequenced” from the three S/H outputs of the RG6.

Three QMMF4 bands (tuned in unison) are used for the oscs. They go out to the DAW via a FSH1 for some stereo “flanging” - low frequency shifting on the FSH1, with the up and down outputs used for stereo, the mix out for feedback (to audio input 1) and a sine LFO from a PH4 modulating the mix. Cross-FM on all of the oscs: Band 1 FMs band 2, band 2 FMs band 3, and band 3 FMs band 1. 

At the center of the modulation is the RG6. As mentioned, the three S/H outputs modulate the three oscs. The gate output triggers an ADSR-VC2, which controls the overall QMMF4 VCA. Furthermore, I’m not using the internal noise of the RG6, but a cycling CTG-VC envelope at the external signal input (to get “staircase” modulation). The attack and decay of the CTG are modulated by two slewed S/H signals from a D-LFO (slightly attenuated on the attack CV with a VCA4MX). That’s almost the whole patch already, very simple.

Now, on the RG6, the random saw is used to self-modulate the clock rate (which is prepatched on the module). I did the patch initially to find out whether the random saw is influenced by an external input (or whether the external input only goes to the S/H signal input), and it most definitely does: The random saw sort of “kicks in” according to the amplitude of the external signal. So, the RG6 clock tends to get faster with higher inputs from the cycling CTG (but not consistently, as it’s still a random saw). To further add to this effect, I’m using the inverted random saw to modulate the ADSR decay and release, so that they get shorter as the RG6 clock gets faster.

For the recording, I’m mainly jamming with the CTG output level to bring the random modulation in and out, and the three attenuators for the cross-FM on the oscs. Occasionally, the RG6 clock and intensity of the self-modulation from the random saw are also changed manually. Recorded in one take to Ableton without any edits, plus of course a ton of super long Valhalla Vintage Verb plate, some delay, compression and EQ to spice it up a bit and bring up the levels. 

Still a few mysteries with the RG6, for example I’m not exactly sure what it does with negative voltages only present at the external signal input… Not what you’d expect from a S/H normally. More like just offsetting the outputs negatively. Not sure whether there’s some rectification going on with that input, maybe… Also, I discovered doing this that the three S/H outs are slightly offset from each other with the knob at zero, respectively it could also be that they still bleed a tiny bit with the signal knob all the way down and all have an offset (slightly varying in amplitude between the three outs). (I had to retune oscs two and three after applying the - “fully” attenuated - modulation.) The bleeding would make some sense, given that we know that the S/H input signal bleeds a tiny bit into the clock out as well. Gotta investigate that further.

Well, hope you enjoy the patch despite it being pretty simple bleeps and bloops :)

Cheers

July 17: Triple Random FM

this is a selection of tracks from the upcoming ['ramp] release "no sleep 'til wilmersdorf", the 11th album in the history of ['ramp]. this time it's going even further back, and faster, heading for the mood and setting of berlin in around 1978/79.

to be released on 2nd may 2018 in a limited edition of 222 copies. taking preorders now through stephen at parsick dot com if you want to make sure you'll be first in line and receive your copy before everyone else does. 

order your copy here (or treat yourself to a digital FLAC download):

https://ramp1.bandcamp.com/album/no-sleep-til-wilmersdorf

['ramp] -- no sleep 'til wilmersdorf excerpts

This track is from the album Disaffection and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/purveyor

Now One (Synthetik FM Mix)

Okay alright doooo! 
An Angus/John duet.
All instruments and production by Angus Rudd, soundcloud account: The Death of Pop

Now One (Synthetik FM Mix)

Purveyor Music

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