Name: SSP Tape wow experiment by thetechnobear
Duration: 15 s
Description: quick experiment using SWAT as a modulatable delay on the SSP to create an old tape like effect.

From a live performance by me (aka Mage of Machines) at City of Refuge UCC in Oakland, California, on April 19th 2014.

Three Hours Agony

This simple tune is a demonstration of an Eigenharp Pico setup which simulates an accordion. The Pico is split into two keygroups. The top keygroup generates accordion chords. The bottom keygroup sounds the melody notes (the piano keys). Even though both keygroups only have a few keys special fingerings allow minor chords and sharp notes, greatly enhancing the range of the Pico's keyboard. Sucking and blowing on the Pico's breath pipe simulates squeezing and drawing of the accordion's bellows, and each direction produces a slightly different sound. The base sound is Melodica in Omnisphere.

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

This is a short cinematic track I made by combining percussive instruments with sounds I recorded on the Saddle Peak hike trail near Calabasas. The idea behind this track was to use sounds both in their raw and processed forms, creating a hybrid of evolving timbres and foley elements functioning as rhythmic counterparts. 

For this piece I used my Rhythmic Processing and Convolution Processing techniques to process each element and decided to use only Impulse Responses derived from those natural sounds and ambiences I recorded.

If you wish to learn about my processing technique, here's the bundle: https://diegostocco.gumroad.com/l/FFS123

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Percussive Echoes

Somewhat imperfect experimental Eigenharp Pico setup, using key-roll for accidentals...

We Have All The Time In The World

My first recording using the ROLI Seaboard Grand. It‘s an arrangement of the main title music from “Game of Thrones,” by Ramin Djawadi.

My version is meant to sound as if it had been composed in the style of Philip Glass. Instead of 6/8 as in the original, this version is in 21/8, divided 5/5/5/6.

All tracks were played on the Seaboard, with the exception of a few of the drum tracks which were played on a Korg Wavedrum Global, using the “Viking War Drums” patch.

It's not the best demo of the Seaboard‘s capabilities, as it was just meant to be an initial test of the Seaboard as a studio production tool. It passed with flying colors; just wait until I begin posting my original work!

Game Of Glass

Windrush / Sunpush

The Continuum Fingerboard probably has got the world's best violin synthesis. This unique key-less soft surface lets you push your sounds to life slowly, or quickly, depending on how you interact with the surface. Here's an experiment where I'm playing the opening of Mozart's widely known K465 string quartet known as Dissonance, due to it's, at the time, challenging and out of the ordinary harmonics. I wanted to see if this type of music is possible to play on a synth. And with the Continuum Fingerboard, I think it is possible!

As you can hear I'm playing without any auto tuning aid, to get the most authentic fretless sound. It takes some concentration to play in the right pitch - but it's also opening up for deliberately playing low, high, tempered, clean, with a personal vibrato etc. The sound becomes an extension of your fingers.

Mozart K465 Dissonance Continuum Fingerboard

DPO Modulation Jam

Demo of a polyphonic synth patch made with Softube Modular.

Poly Korgasm

3 osc

quick experiment using SWAT as a modulatable delay on the SSP to create an old tape like effect.

SSP Tape wow experiment

thetechnobear

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