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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: March 04, 2013, 04:31:01 pm »

Ok I have uploaded some Nord Modular G1 patches to share…finally.

If you haven't got a G1 and have a G2, you could still open these in an old editor and have a peek… you never know you might be encouraged to copy them to G2 format

So these patches are based on those pesky Roland machines, the TB-303, TR-606, TR-808 and TR-909.
The 606 and 808 are probably the best, the 303 is interesting and the 909 is…pretty err…yeah.

Anyway, I am sure there is lots to learn form all. Feel free to modify them and send them back to me, show me how I can improve etc.

I hope you enjoy them.

http://www.mono-log.org/patches

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: March 03, 2013, 08:11:19 am »

Hey all

Thought I would share two things.

The first is I will sharing some patches on my blog from my Nord uploads at www.mono-log.org soon. These will be the emulation patches mainly, Tr-606, Tr-808, Tb-303.

Although I have used the original machines sound as a reference I would say they are more about making good sounds and variations more than accurately copying…although obviously the originals sound pretty amazing.

I will post back when they are up, I am to get it done today.

The second thing is for those who enjoyed following my blog uploads, which incidentally is still going, although using additional gear to the Nord G1…my partner (and future wife :D:D) is doing her own blog for similar reason as me, and is revisiting many of the uploads I created while she is back in Taiwan seeing family. During this time you can hear some of the more textured and tone like uploads created this time last year, but re-worked by Lucia using various software.

I think what she does to the sounds is incredible, and for those familiar with her sound, I think you can really hear that tense and building quality that nobody does better than her.

I think it's definitely time something happened with these more textured and tone based uploads, and this year will be the year it happens, even if it is me releasing it.

Have a listen, it's very Nord Modular sound, but tweaked within software.

http://smallmimosa.wordpress.com/

Thx

M

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: Lucia H Chung. (one half of Mimosa Moize) upload a day smallmimosa.wordpress.com

« on: January 20, 2013, 05:09:58 am »

thx Karl

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: Lucia H Chung. (one half of Mimosa Moize) upload a day smallmimosa.wordpress.com

« on: January 18, 2013, 02:45:00 pm »

Hey Darren

Thanks for your support, appreciated.

Hope your good?

M

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SELF PROMOTION / Lucia H Chung. (one half of Mimosa Moize) upload a day smallmimosa.wordpress.com

« on: January 17, 2013, 07:20:44 pm »

Hi all

I just wanted to share Lucia's daily upload project. She is a bit shy about sharing it, but it is really incredible and I want to give her all the support I can.

Much like my Mono-log upload, Lucia is creating/re-working small tunes for share each day, and writes an incredible post to support it.

I hope all of those who supported my blog, can drop by and have a listen to Lucia's.

Thanks everyone.

http://smallmimosa.wordpress.com/

Martin

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: November 28, 2012, 08:15:19 pm »

Hey dhaugen, Taylor

You both got me remembering some older uploads, and so I decided for tonights upload on my blog to create some tones and textures.

Hopefully it is enjoyable, and thought I would share it with you.

I also thought it is a nice timing in welcoming back the 12k forum.

http://www.mono-log.org/snd_333/

Thanks again

M

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: November 28, 2012, 05:45:21 pm »

Thanks dhaugen

Appreciate it

I would love to work on more sounds like this, but I often feel the city has a feeling of noise that is hard to escape. I need to get away from the city and maybe rent a nice cottage by the sea and create some delicate music there, would be nice.

Yeah, the Nord is amazing. Actually a good friend of mine has just bought the Nord G1 keyboard off e-bay today after I convinced him
I love the keyboard version, I think I need to maybe get one myself next year.

Thanks again

M

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SELF PROMOTION / 12 release Pokk! E.P on SonuoS, remix by Mokira (selected from mono-log.org)

« on: November 28, 2012, 06:47:40 am »

Hi all

Happy the 12k forum is back!

I thought I would share the news of my first 12inch release is out now on SonuoS, a new record label run by the very talented and ever so friendly Finn Albertsson, aka Dj Finn of Tomland.

http://www.facebook.com/sonuos.records

To explain a little background for those of you who don't know.

I started a blog called http://www.mono-log.org/ on Jan 1st this year, whereby I upload a Nord Modular G1 sound each day. This was partly to learn better the machine, but also to get myself better disciplined, focused and puting more of my music out there for people to enjoy. After what has been nearly some 24 years of making electronic based music, with relatively little available to listen to, I figured its time to change that.

The blog is still going strong, within currently 332 free downloadable sketches, tracks, sounds, call them what you will. Even as I type this I am debating on continuing into the next year as it has been such an amazing experience…still undecided.

Through my blog, I have meant some amazing people, many through this 12k forum in fact. One person I was introduced to back in April was Finn Albertsson, resident DJ at Culture Box in Copenhagen.

Finn was starting the SonouS record label, and having enjoyed my uploads selected a few for me to work on and release with him. One of great things about this for me was he picked sketches that fell in a style I have been always wanting to release under an alias Pokk!, an experimental dub-techno direction. I never thought I would ever see this project begin, so am obviously extremely pleased to get it off the ground with the support of Finn and SonuoS.

The 12 inch release comes on white vinyl, and has 3 tracks, 2 by me as Pokk!, and a remix by Andreas Tilliander as Mokira, which is pretty special.

Rather surprisingly for me and Finn, Andreas had already been following my blog before even being contacted by Finn for the remix, and so this was a very nice coincidence.

Thanks to all the support here, and thank you for reading all this

M


S~S001 Pokk! - Pokk! EP
SonuoS

http://soundcloud.com/sonuos

http://www.facebook.com/sonuos.records

Available online through Subwax via discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=3848622&ev=rb

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: November 27, 2012, 08:03:56 pm »

Pleased the forum is back, glad you got it sorted.

Happy you enjoyed the upload, thanks for listening

Hows your Nord treating you?

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: October 02, 2012, 04:46:33 pm »

Hey Everyone

I just created something in tonights upload that immediately made me think of everyone over here at the 12k forum. I wanted to share it with you all :)

I hope to be back on this forum more than I have been, putting up some Nord Modular bits to share, I have just been crazy busy with starting a new job and because of this its been a time of learning, adjusting and today came as a reminder of whats more important :)

Its the more textured sound that I done a spell of a few months ago, so thought the listeners here might enjoy it.

http://www.mono-log.org/snd_276/

Thanks

M

 

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: July 05, 2012, 10:27:28 pm »

Here is Snd 187's patch.

I created this using much of what I have learned along the way, making lot of use of the logic modules in various ways.
It sounds a bit rough at I done it between 2am-4am, I really should sleep :)

Still, I hope its useful.

http://www.mono-log.org/snd_187/


The patch screen grab can be seen larger here:
http://www.mono-log.org/images/uploads/187-grab.png



M

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: July 05, 2012, 08:27:39 pm »

Hey Taylor

Yeah that schematic was like a holy grail when I found it. I believe the site has other papers on other machines, although I haven't looked at any yet. Might be worth investigating.

As for the Logic modules, yes I have been using them on pretty much everything if I can. I was exactly the same and avoided them finding them intimidating, but they are actually really not bad at all. You should definitely get stuck in, your'll wonder as did I, why you avoided them.

I looked into the logic modules first as I like the idea of starting with all frequencies and then filter that down, and using them for patterns too. Its the classic technique they would have used back in the day. And it makes sense as both areas kind of n one module, time and frequency.

You can do really nice shifting of multiple patterns, in beats or panning or anything really. As always it is just a case of finding those modules that work with others well enough to suit the sound your after.

All the logic modules basically do is alter trigger signals, delaying, or altering a pattern, inverting the signal. Its like the gate of cv and gate.

Its really versatile I find.

Actually I have had a really slow day and just about to do the next upload, its 2am here so it has to be a quick one. I will do something basic with them and post the patch on here, as was thinking to do this anyway, I have a good reason to now.

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: July 05, 2012, 06:36:40 am »

Here is the screen grab for the emulation of the Roland TR606 BD, SD, LT & HT.

The patch has lots of room for improvement, I will be working on it some more when I get the time, but anyone does any let me know :)



For a bigger image in your browser you can see it here:
http://www.mono-log.org/images/uploads/BDSDLTHT.jpg


Here is the HATS. I cheated/was lazy so this is one sound, not the HHC & HHO as it should be. But I will do that sometime.



For a bigger image in your browser you can see it here:
http://www.mono-log.org/images/uploads/HATS.jpg

And lastly this is the CYMBAL, which is very similar to HATS. The real TR606 uses the same bunch of 6 Oscillators, and just has different Envelopes and Filters I think.



For a bigger image in your browser you can see it here:
http://www.mono-log.org/images/uploads/CYMBAL.jpg


Also the schematic for the TR606 sounds is found here:


For a bigger image in your browser you can see it here:
http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Roland/TR-606/schematics/roland.TR-606.schem-4.gif


Get patching :)

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: July 05, 2012, 06:26:26 am »

Hey Taylor

Thanks. I gotta say I was pretty pleased with how this one come together, just stunned at the machine. I think I would like to get the patch a bit better and put it up for download. The patch needs some work, as the triggers don't quite work as well as they should.

I found more about the the hats online than the other sounds, although they needing tweaking. The TR606 was an amazing box, especially for the hats, so its great to know what it was that made these sounds and the great thing within it is the way its set a simple change of one dial and it is a very very different metallic sound, really useful, and really good to learn about all these old sounds.

I am going to attach some screen shots to the next post as its not to bad patching it really, the guys at Roland just had a magic combination, getting those sounds as they were. :)

I wish I had a G2 too…haha.

Oh, I just see, you said 'had' a 606, you sold yours too?

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Nord Modular/Modular G2

« on: July 04, 2012, 07:44:45 pm »

Hi all

Its been a while since I have posted here, but I wanted to share the recent post with you at my Mono-log blog, that many of you have been kindly following. :)

So…I took my first step in emulating my favourite piece of equipment, the Roland TR606 Drumatix Drum Machine.

All I will say here, as it is all said at the blog, is something I and others have said many times…is there anything this Nord Modular wont do.

Amazing machine, I hope you like the post.

Thanks everyone.

Best

Martin

http://www.mono-log.org/snd_186/