Boss Dr. Pad 3 Circuit Bending
Here is a picture I took while bending a Boss Dr. Pad III, highlighting some cool spots. Here’s the...
read moreOzric Lead
by Carlo Castellano In this tutorial I will explain how to recreate a lead sound I realized inspired by Ozric Tentacles sounds. Technically speaking, this lead is very simple to achive (is a sync-based lead) and do not require particular skills to program it. This lead can be extremely metallic and “spacey” but it requires realtime controls to play at it best. For the creation of this lead sound I’ve used a VA, XioSynth from Novation Ingredients 3 oscillators (even 2 are good enough) sync between oscillators a 4 pole (24db/Oct) Lowpass filter 1 LFO some realtime...
read moreErotomania Organ on Korg X-50
An easy and effective guide, posted by Ultima, on programming the classic Erotomania (Dream Theater) hammond sound on Korg X-50. As you know, Korg X-50 provieds sound banks also available on other Triton/etc models so this sound should be easy to recreate even on those keyboards. What we are going to do: we will reprogram an existing program so it will sound as we need. START Go to soundbank “D”, program 106, and find a sound named AMSFeedback Lead (if you don’t find it, try a category search under Synth Lead). Open ED-BASIC page. Voice Assign: mono –> Change to...
read moreCircuit Bent Boss DS-2
This bent gives you the opportunity to change your old Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion from an old pedal to Pure Evil. You’ll need: * Jumper wires * 100K Linear pot * SPST Switches (On/Off) WARNING: This bent will permanently change your pedal sound. There is no bypass here. First of all, open your Boss DS-2 and pull out the PCB paying attention to the wires inside the box. Now you can see both “Input” and “Remote” jack sockets. If you want to put a knob inside the box, you can remove the “Remote” socket to free space. As you can see, there are two black...
read moreJen SX-1000 Sub-Oscillator
This is a simple tutorial for add a Sub-Oscillator to a Jen SX-1000, a little monophonic synth of late ’70s. by Carlo Castellano. MODIFICATION AND SOLDERING For this modification we need a single integrated circuit, a 4013, and a soldering iron, solder and wires. As for every integrated circuit we count pins counterclockwise positioning the little “U” shape, on the IC surface, on top. We can plug the 4013 directly on a perfboard or using a piece of carton to keep it, let pins out. Let’s soldering some 4013 pins in this way: pin 7 to pin 8 and pin 10 pin 9 to pin...
read moreHammond Organ Emulation
Prepare yourself for remake the sound of the most popular electromechanical instrument in the world. In this article we will explain you how to emulate the famous Hammond organ on your synthesizer. The Hammond Organ is the most famous electromechanic instrument we know. It is an electric organ designed to give a low cost alternative to church pipe organs. How it works The Hammond Organ uses additive synthesis to generate its sound via tonewheels instead of electronic oscillators. Each of the 91 tonewheels generates one of the pitch of the fundamentals or overtones, of the many stops. Each...
read moreJordan Rudess Liquid T Lead
This time we are going to talk about Jordan Rudess’ Liquid T Lead and we will try to reproduce it. As you know this tone was made on a Kurzweil K2*00 keyboard using its VAST synthesis engine. VAST uses a semi-modular approach to synthesis combining algorithms with variable DSP blocks. Hi all and welcome to this new issue of Lead Sculpting. This time we are going to talk about Jordan Rudess’ Liquid T Lead and we will try to reproduce it. As you know this tone was made on a Kurzweil K2*00 keyboard using its VAST synthesis engine. VAST uses a semi-modular approach to synthesis...
read moreDerek Sherinian Monster Lead
In this lesson we will speak about how to recreate famous Derek Sherinian Monster Lead on your synthesizer. Even if the lesson is based on Korg Triton/Karma series, the concepts explained can be applied on every modern synthesizer. In this thread we will speak about how to obtain a Wah lead (famous for Derek Sherinan Monster Lead) for Korg Triton/Karma. This topic will be also “axiomized” for apply the tips i found tweaking to all “general” synth. So thanx to “uncle” Axiom (Luca Capozzi) in advance. NOTE: When you see quotes in this color, are...
read moreJens Johansson Lead
Welcome to Lead Sculpting. In this issue we will talk about Jens Johansson lead tone. We will analyse his sound, highlighting its core characteristing and trying to use them on our synthesizers. DISCLAIMER: The following material is not intended to be “How Jens made his sound”, because only Jens knows. We are – however- going to analyse his sound in order to make our own using those core characteristics. All the following is mine interpretation of Jens lead sound. Feel free to criticise, blame and give your contribution. ************** * Jens tone Lead * ************** Check...
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