Dave Bryce

Gotcha beat. I was in a band once where the keyboard player (me), guitar player, bass player, drummer and sax player were all named Dave - only the singer wasn't. We almost called the group Johnny and his band of Daves...but then we came to our senses... On a different note, I wish I looked like DeNiro...Jeff's a bit more on point with the Tazmanian Devil thing... (with Taz voice) "If you not Rabbit, how come you got powder puff tail?" http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif When I worked for Miles Davis, he never bothered to learn my name - he just called me John, because he said that I looked (and behaved a bit) like John Belushi. Actually, his exact quote was (with Miles' voice) "you the same muthafucker". He was a funny man... dB

I'm sorry folks, but we've reached our limit of folks here named Kevin. Now there's an unusual turn of events - it's usually too many Daves. There's even a Dr. Seuss story by that name... dB

Thanks to Memo, MZeger and Kevin for sounding off...glad to have you guys! Hey, Kevin - for a beginner still in the experimental stage, you've got some pretty nice toys, mah brutha... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif How'd you fry the SR16? dB

Cool idea!! Dave, may I blurb you, also? Once again, absolutely! 'Specially since you asked so nice... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I take back all those nasty comments I made about sample libraries. They're all great! (Yes, I'm sucking up big time!) No need to suck up, my brutha - I wasn't even slightly offended, nor did I take any of yoiur comments as being even slightly nasty...I'm actually way digging that other thread. I hope that you didn't take any of my comments the wrong way - you know what they say: You can take the boy out of Philly, but you can't take the Philly out of the boy. (see Curve Dominant, figure A). I'd be much more bummed if you felt that there were any restrictions on what you can and can't say here. By the way, I just posted a complete three movement concerto done on nothing more than a single JV-1080. Kids, don't try this at home. http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif Uh-oh...a concerto? You don't go by the pseudonym Jarl Sigurd, do you?? http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/laughing/yelrotflmao.gif Sorry - inside joke for people who read rec.music.makers.synths... I'm all over it. I'll definitely listen to that puppy this weekend. dB

Thanks for your compliments! Can I post a quote from you "Michael, you are an electronic animal" on my web site? Absolutely! I'd be honored to be blurbed... http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/happy/book.gif dB

???? What's that? Sounds like a Korg organ... BTW - http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/party/birthday.gif Dave!! I am also an Aries. I turned 40 on April 2nd. dB

Man - folks are coming out of the woodwork! Thanks, and a generous modicum of appreciation to Jon, D-kay, Kev...ummm...I mean Synthfool, Jeremey, Dr. Martin, Bill, Kevin, and David Frost. 'Preciate you guys taking the time to post. It's really nice to be able to hear more about you than just your opinions on keys. dB

It is truly amazing to see how many different folks from so many diverse places and backgrounds are posting here! Jim B, Todd, Graham (my Crack's smilies brother), Jim S and Joe - thanks for poking your heads up. Nice to know you guys - thanks for taking the time to participate... dB

Well, I am certainly glad I pirated this thread - it's good to "meet" you guys! Thanks to Jeff D, StevieB, Rod, Gustavo, Jeff K (What??? You work for Tascam??? ;D ) and Richard for sounding off - glad to know you guys! Keep 'em coming... dB

Excellent! My thanks to Robert, Steve, Lennart and the Tusk-man for getting the ball rolling. Glad to have you guys here! dB

Welcome to the Keyboard Corner! Please use this thread to tell us about yourself. If you're so inclined, take some time and read through it - it's a way interesting chronicle of KC members past and present. dB

Okay, I started at the top of the page... StevieB- that is some seriously minimalist tonal exploration. Not exactly my cup of tea, but still interesting enough that I played a few of the tunes. I particularly liked Why are Black Holes Black? Very tasteful use of space...it's amazing how much detail you can hear when there's just a few things happening. F7Sound - Michael, you are an electronic animal - I checked out the Regurgitron stuff. The first two tunes have more squeaks and beats than I think I've ever heard in that short a period of time - very cool...you and StevieB ought to do a piece together...my taste definitely leans more towards the second two pieces than the first two - especially "Regurgitron's Love Song #1". JamFree - Steve, are there Hi-Fi versions of these files? I liked what I was hearing, but it was very muffled. I'd love to hear higher fidelity versions. Nice Rhodes work, BTW... Nocturne - very dark, very nasty, just like the name suggests. Really cool and appropriate use of synths - they compliment the sound of the band very well. "My Bitch" caught my attention, but "Waiting for Anything" really worked for me. Nice job. I agree with you how cool it is that there are so many different styles represented, BTW. istyle - I love the way that you use synthesizers...very tasty programming and playing. Sounds and lines weave in and out of each other in a manner that just pulls you along. I particularly liked the solo you did after the robot voice on JuliaROBOT. With the exception of the Jugular tune, though (which had some kick-ass drumm programming that I thought worked perfectly), I'd love to hear a real drummer cut loose on your tunes, though. DanSouth - Mike Oldfield meets Tomita with Alan Parsons rolled in...very cool shtuff. Loved the juicy sample and hold groove in "Rain Dance", and the drums and bass were excellently done as well, and really drove the tune nicely. The fugue is over the top, though...talk about a different style! I am a big Bach fan, so I totally dig this one as well - loved the touch of the bass playing the third voice. Sounds a bit quantized here and there, though.... Man, there's a bunch of talented folks posting on this forum! I am deeply honored to have all y'all here! Keep 'em coming... http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/happy/rainote.gif dB

Wow! Extreme and humble thanks to both istyle and dansouth! You are both way too kind... i, I didn't do the music to that game, unfortunately. All I've ever done for video games is a couple of character voices (one of my hobbies). Anybody got Star Control II - Masters of the Ur-Quan? I did four different characters in that game... There are a bunch of folks' MP3 files that I want to listen to - I have fallen behind due to some...issues with i-tunes (system 9.1 is bummin' me out...), but I have returned to good ol' SoundJam, and hope to get to a bunch of them this weekend. For any of you Forumites who haven't gotten into the posting and/or listening side of this MP3 thing - it's a whole lot of fun; plus, I think that it adds a whole other dimension to the forum. I heavily recommend it. You can find any of the tools that you need at MP3.com Thanks again, guys! http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/realhappy/biggrin2.gif dB

David - There's a bunch of tunes at the URL you posted - which ones are the ones you recommend? dB

Wow! Dig it! Nice piano playing, sir! You are quite right - these tunes would fit nicely in the right film...Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks sort of thing, yes? Wining and Dining - no Sinatra influence there... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif Loved the piano and the muted trumpet. It's nice to know that there are still people playing this sort of stuff. Forever Shining - beautiful song. Great arrangement. The vocals are quite evocative and expressive. The sax solo is the perfect touch....but the little oboe parts really make it work for me. Is that all you? dB

Nice tune - the opening tone and riff reminded me of Pete Towshend's "You Better You Bet" a little bit. I liked the way the tune evolved, and I really liked the sounds that you chose. My particular favorite was that warbly synth line at 1:49 where the LFO is synced to the tempo of the tune. I also really liked the production - very open...it was quite easy to hear all of the aspects of all of the sounds that you used. Nothing really stepped on anything else. What instruments did you use? dB

Pim - Can you please post a direct link to the tune? Thanks, dB

: At 25 seconds you have a (sorry for the comparisons) Tomitaesque synth vocalization. How do you do it? What do you do it with? It's a Jupiter-8. The JP8 has the ability to map both the pitch and the filter to the pitch wheel simultaneously, each with it's own amount. That's why the fall offs and bend-ins sound so real. At 2.05 you have a similarly evocative synth voice. Can you tell me more about this synth? It's two synths - I love to double synths together. I used the Prophet VS layered on top of a QS7.1 playing a program called Quixotie from the Alesis Vintage Synths QCard. That program is made up of made up of a 303 sample, a highpass wave that I'm not sure what synth it came from, and a clav type sample from Emerson's GX1. Ciao Cacao. Ok, so there is a story behind this jam. I'd like to hear the story. The short version - I took Andromeda #1 to Brazil for a trade show last August. One of the people who I went to visit had a band that played jam sessions at a club in Sao Paolo. He liked my playing, and so he invited me to come, bring Andromeda and sit in. I believe that it is the first live recording featuring an Andromeda. The track was recorded with two GT Electronics AM62 mics pointed 90 degrees from each other, each one pointed 45 degrees away from center of the stage (I think that's called a Blumlein configuration, isn't it?), and ART stereo mic pre and a Masterlink. No other mics or recording techniques were used. We actually recorded two full CDs worth of music that night...man, that was fun. Talk about the universal language. I had never met these guys, nor do I speak Portuguese...and they spoke very little english. And yet, we managed to play some pretty funky tunes. I am really glad to hear that this translates to someone listening. Thanks for taking the time to listen, Jerry. I will be most psyched to hear some of your material! dB

: Your mp3s sound great! What do you use for encoding? Domo, dude... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif I use SoundJam for the Mac - I use it to rip the tracks off of CDs that I've made with the MasterLink. dB

Yo, j... First off all, let me say I really liked the way your tunes were mixed. Nice space. I also really like your string arrangements, and the synth/patch that you used for them. What is it, pray tell? Although I really liked Can I Come Over, I would really like to hear a version of it without the drum machine (is it an SR16 on this tune?). I think that it makes it sound a bit like a demo...conversely, I thought that the electronic drums were used on Christine worked very well. Lookin' at the Moonlight is a great tune! Very nice wah wah guitar, really interesting shakuhachi part, and that watery burbling synth sound is excellent! Love Ballad - deceptive name! Great little groove, nice Hammond sound. Loved the horn arrangement - hated the sound that you picked for them. Sounds like a single brass patch...you might try playing the horn parts one horn at a time with the correct individual patches, if polyphony permits...your voice is very well complemented by the feel of this tune...at least, I assume that's you singing... Had a problem downloading Mean Mistreater... Deja vu - I thought that Witchita Lineman suffered from the same fate as the first tune...nice song, well recorded, great strings, but the drum machine just didn't work for me (the SR-16 is back...). Once again, conversely I really liked the electronic drum groove of You Are Always on My mind - and the fat little bass line as well...matter of fact, I think that it's one of the best ones on your collection. In the Heat of the Night didn't really work for me - not my kind of tune. One other note - the fact that each tune needed to be downloaded made it more difficult to listen to all of your tracks...it would suck for people to get discouraged before they make it to You Are Always On My Mind...I suggest you post them somewhere where they could be streamed.... dB

My stuff can be found at www.mp3.com/subspace First of all, can I just say how cool it is to sit here reading the forum listening to the music from the people who post here...thanks. Jonathan - lotta tunes! Nice stuff...a lot of the ambient stuff reminds me of the Ligeti compositions that Kubrick used in 2001: A Space Odyssey...if I was ever walking in space, that's exactly the type of music that I would want to be listening to! The little sub-bass burbles that show up in a bunch of the tunes really made my ear keep listening. Eno would be proud of you, sir! The tunes that most appealed to me were the most groove-oriented ones...All Robots Are Safe and Rectifier (!) from the LFO disc, and Khoruun form the other disc with the long name http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif. Voltaic was my favorite of the more ambient tunes. dB

Man! Aggressive tune, dude! The groove and distorted production style kinda reminded me a bit of Squarepusher - specifically the Big Loada disc... What did you use for drum sounds? dB

MP3.com They should have everything that you need there...I knew next to nothing about how to do this a week ago - I got the software and all of the instructions that I needed there, along with a pretty interesting education about the process and possibilities as well. Neat stuff. Go here to get a player/ripper/encoder This will take you to the new artist sign-up area dB

http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/confused.gif I was sure that there'd be a flurry of people posting their music...I'm quite surprised. I was under the impression that I was behind the curve not having the MP3 thing together for myself... do you guys just not have MP3 files of your stuff? I find it hard to believe that y'all are just shy... I thought I would post the original directions that Craig put at the top of his thread: 1. If you want reactions to your music, tell us where to find it. 2. If you want to check out some new music and comment on it, go for it. This could be a lot of fun if we get a decent level of participation. Ever wanted to be an A&R person? Ever needed some good quotes for a promotion? This is the place! I couldn't have said it better if I had tried. dB

As some of you may know, I had previously threatened to start a thread where we could all listen to and critique each other's music, a la the "Is your music any good - find out here!!" thread in Dr. Anderton's forum - it's by far the most popular thread that I've seen on any of these forums. I didn't feel that it was cool for me to do so until some of my own music was available for downloading, though... ...which it now is: Updated with new 2006 link to my music web site... dB