Vocoders
Vocoders are the synthesiser version of bagpipes. They make me cry and I’m not thinking of bonnie Scotland. There are three reasons why a vocoder might be acceptable – It’s…
Vocoders are the synthesiser version of bagpipes. They make me cry and I’m not thinking of bonnie Scotland. There are three reasons why a vocoder might be acceptable – It’s…
I hear much about oscillators: the unstable VCOs of yore, the digital waves of the 90’s, wavetables, geo-blends, samples… so many great ideas – but this luxury of waveforms is…
Here are some things I no longer need, but don’t really want to lose. The original welcome from 2016 Ladies and Gentlemen, when one has progressed in years it is…
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’Though they’re disapprovin’Keep them dogies movin’Rawhide! In recent months my studio has started to look like a Roland showroom. That could be taken as some kind of…
A little phrase that sums up something odd you will notice in synthesis land – the machine that is crafted with attention and love and yet at the last moment…
Build your own Edison Style Phonograph seems like a great idea – and there’s lot of other sound related experiments to try. But the phonograph looks like it inscribes a…
Teenage Engineering OP-1: a horribly expensive toy that approaches some interesting processes while never quite mastering them. The synthesis is made unwieldy and mysterious by tiny ‘keyhole’ parameters – a…
I’m sure you can’t wait to hear my take on Behringer. I know everyone else has had a stab at it but they aren’t me. There is a difference. Christmas…
I’d like to put forward three major eras in the cultural development of digital sound sampling. You can slice it many other ways but this trio will be useful here.…
My name is Tom Ellard and my first synthesiser the Kawai 100F, for which I swapped a tape recorder and $250 in 1979. I thought it was a normal instrument…