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Peake

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    Analog Synth Geek
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    LA, CA, USA
  1. I just spent 12 hours in front of my small Buchla 200, a Manley Vari-mu and Digital Performer. Some minimal techno/ambient sounds as follows: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/mikepeakemusic.htm "Impart/Tangent_Buchla200.mp3" Easier, -Mike
  2. Hey, listen to my weird music, done without a keyboard using self-playing patches on analog modular synths, and edited into coherence. "Seance" Technosaurus Selector analog modular "Sunday in the Park with Borg" Moog modular New URL: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/mikepeakemusic.htm Very little EQ, no compression/limiting/mastering, just the raw tone of each synth. Some echo and reverb, though. To Enjoy!
  3. Without a keyboard? Sorry man but then we have to disqualify you! Oops, this IS the Keyboard Corner Okay, Keyboard Corner "unplugged"? And a small Moog Modular at that. A couple of filters are the key. Heh.. No, having LFOs fire the envelopes, etc. The machines are set up with a sound and then trigger it themselves, sometimes randomly.
  4. Hey, listen to my weird music, done without a keyboard using self-playing patches on analog modular synths, and edited into coherence. 1. Technosaurus Selector analog modular 2. Moog modular Very little EQ, no compression/limiting/mastering, just the raw tone of each synth. Some echo and reverb, though. To Enjoy!
  5. Might as well plug for a friend while simultaneously waving my own flag... Played Technosaurus Selector and Buchla 200 and did a bit of engineering on Erik Norlander's recent tour-de-force double CD "Music Machine" earlier this year. Soundbites: http://www.thetank.com/audiofiles.htm
  6. Hey folks. Mike Peake... I built a PAIA modular synth in 1980 and by 1987 was doing synthesis full-time with my own 3rd-party sound design business, TECHNOSIS. Those sounds, although out-of-date, are still around at soundengine.com. Did some factory sound programming and a tad of sampling for Korg, Yamaha, Ensoniq, Kawai, Peavey, etc. Did a few interstitial sound-alike tracks for the HBO Emmy Award-winning documentary series "Taxicab Confessions". Mixed the music for a few commercials and also most of the soundtrack for Wes Craven's film "The People Under The Stairs". Ended up doing six years at Alesis and among other things, was part of the specification and realization team for the MIPA award-winning Andromeda analog polysynth (as well as voicing and standing at NAMM and Messe with our outstanding moderator). Wrote four reviews of analog products for Electronic Musician magazine. Analog synths are my thing and I'm lucky to have a small Moog Modular, a small Buchla 200 modular, and a Techosaurus Selector System "C" modular in addition to my ADAM S4c monitors (got the third set of ADAMs in the States, after Rupert Neve and David Bryce- David and I saw them together at Messse, and were instantly sold) and a couple of Manley Labs pieces. Life is good. Currently looking for a new gig. Hello to everyone! I am often found with coffee in hand. Click on the second pic from the left, second row down. http://www.bigcitymusic.com/pics_namm2003.asp
  7. The "bass" sound in Front 242's "Headhunter", late 80s, is the most amazing FM sound I've ever heard. At least I'm guessing that it's DX FM. I'm probably the only person here who was unimpressed by the DX7 (excepting the tuberupt sound) and never bought one. I barely remember the flexidisk that came with Keyboard and wondered at the anemic sax etc. Then came the page in Keyboard about gray market sales... Wasn't that in Keyboard? I definitely got into FM when the TX81Z and the SY series came out. Part of my dislike of the DX involves its ubiquity in recordings and the trend it started toward "piano" instruments versus true synthesizers. Give them what they want and they'll buy it, and us freaks will suffer ;-) Back in that day, it seemed as though you could always tell when it was dinner time as the tempo of the tracks on the radio would slow and the DX Rhodes sound would appear. Ad nauseum.
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