Mastodawn

Sometimes recording my own attempts at music feels like the positive side of writing a thesis:

I'm not trying to learn something new here, I'm trying to combine everything I have learned so far into one big new thing.

Like: Oh, this perhaps could do with some piano in the background, so let me just try this piano here… not playing anything fancy, aiming at playing everything easily. And a drone would be nice, so which synth is the one with the fat bottom? It's the Juno 106, usually. Replacing the noisy chorus by TAL Chorus 60, adding some stereo delay by Harrison, which I configured to be a replica of the Yamaha 01v96i stereo delay I use when playing things live for myself at home. I only use processing that has become a routine some time ago.

Results are going to end up on #Bandcamp somewhen this year, see https://nielsonaut.bandcamp.com

#Recording #AmbientMusic #NoiseMusic #Music #Musik #Piano #Microphone #Shure #ShureKSM141 #ExperimentalMusic

🧵 Yet another way to #drone… feeding a #YamahaPSR 36 via an #octaver by #tcElectronics into a #SomaCosmos.

This is perhaps the most stupid and most shitty #synthesizer I own and it's fun. In fact, most people would not even dare to call it a synthesizer. Its drums are poor samples, but its “digital synthesizer” actually is a very stripped-down and noisy #DX7 that even allows for some sound tweaking!

I found this thing by accident when my wife and I were invited to play at an event, and it turned out there wasn't anything like the piano they had promised, but there was such a PSR and a mini guitar amp. I was so intrigued I kept watching the used market for months until I found one for not even the price of the flight case surrounding it.

I really love high end audio, but I think one also has to get over this and go back to “whatever works” – there's so much fun to be had.

Follow me on Bandcamp, there's gonna be a release including this later this year. https://nielsonaut.bandcamp.com

#yamaha #recording

Herr Irrtum! 🔊4d ago

@nielso

Ah shite.
Just 5 chars of alt text missing Nielso. Can't be that hard cannit? ;)

It'd make this post (and place) so much more friendly, it won't hurt and on top of it I'd boost it like crazy as a total Yamaha PSR freak that I am.

At least you're not copy-pasting the very same passive-aggressive text that reminds me of Jehova's Witnesses door-to-door mission, reading the very same bible verse to you over and over again.

Which, if the only reply to my toots about making music, shows that these people do not really care about my toots at all, they just want to be on their mission.

Having been an editor for simple language however I think it's way harder to do this in a way that acually does help, so those on their mission actually don't care about visually impared folks either, they're just… on their mission.

So it's not about boosting toots, it's about ego mostly.

Morten Mosgaard 3d ago

@nielso I found my only real synth in a dumpster.

Which is… a Moog Modular? 🤪

Morten Mosgaard 3d ago

@nielso that would nice! But no, it’s some kind of Yamaha, but honestly I have never really made use of it. It sits in the garage until the day I have room enough for it in the studio :)

Alison Wilder 3d ago

@mosgaard @nielso don't leave us hanging on the model of your Yamaha dumpster synth!

@alisynthesis @mosgaard

We could make bets.

My bet is Yamaha AN1x.

Morten Mosgaard 3d ago

@nielso @alisynthesis I should never have looked it up! Turns out it’s an electrical keyboard, but with a pretty cool built in digital synth :)

Love the “Custom Drummer”!

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Alison Wilder 3d ago

@mosgaard @nielso they must have sold about a billion of those PSRs! ❤️

@mosgaard @alisynthesis

The engine is likely very similar to the one in my PSR 35, but obviously with fewer tweaking options.

Later on, Yamaha went all "AWM" (Advanced Waveform Memory, ahahahaaa), I had a PSR 310 when it was new and I was a teenager and it was quite a bad start into playing keyboards. Later I had a used PSR 6700, which was a flagship model, and I tried to compose songs with its built-in sequencer that would back up to diskette…

These younger sample-based PSRs aren't exactly cool, they just sound like cheap samples, but not in a fancy way such as the Korg M1 would.

The old OPL/FM-synthesis PSRs are low-fi of course but there's something special in their sound.

Default Media Transmitter 3d ago

@mosgaard We should start a Yamaha dumpster synth club.

@nielso @alisynthesis

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵3d ago

@defaultmediatransmitter yeahh we had this exact one back in the day! demo tune is still etched in my brain lol

poetaster 3d ago

@defaultmediatransmitter @mosgaard @nielso @alisynthesis I have that one :-) not from a dumpster,but a yard sale. My 1960s jazz guitar was sitting on a pile of garbage by the side of the road, though. And the cajon. Bit of work, but worth it ...

Jack Saturn 3d ago

@nielso A friend brought one of these over in the mid-90s and I recorded a handful of songs with it on #4Track. Honestly loved the warm FM tones!

Decades later I knew it was a Yamaha, but not which model number. I think seeing a YouTube video helped me figure it out. (The vertical "Digital Synthesizer" sliders were my only visual memory of it.)

I've found used ones for sale twice in the past year during trips to Tennessee but passed on them both times — next time I see one I'm claiming it!