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The Modular Piano

Posted by Luca Capozzi on Mar 19, 2010

If sampling is like a photography, sound synthesis is like a painting. The Modular Piano is an oil portrait of a never existed piano; an illusion of reality, aware of the illusion.

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Modular Piano Experiment

Posted by Luca Capozzi on Nov 18, 2009

While programming my first library I ran into the need to have an acoustic piano sound. Since I don’t have a real piano to sample, I decided to synthesize it from scratch...

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Boss Dr. Pad 3 Circuit Bending

Posted by Luca Capozzi on Nov 18, 2009

Here is a picture I took while bending a Boss Dr. Pad III, highlighting some cool spots. Here’s the...

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Progsounds Roland TR-707 Samples Pack

Posted by Luca Capozzi on Mar 25, 2007

Roland TR-707 samples pack features over 16 sampled drum sounds (44.1KHz/16bit) for your favorite...

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Circuit Bent Boss DS-2

Circuit Bent Boss DS-2

Oct 28, 2007

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...

Jen SX-1000 Sub-Oscillator

Jen SX-1000 Sub-Oscillator

Jul 31, 2007

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...

Progsounds Roland TR-707 Samples Pack

Progsounds Roland TR-707 Samples Pack

Mar 25, 2007

Roland TR-707 samples pack features over 16 sampled drum sounds (44.1KHz/16bit) for your favorite sampler.

Progsounds Roland TR-505 Samples Pack

Progsounds Roland TR-505 Samples Pack

Mar 5, 2007

Roland TR-505 samples pack features over 16 sampled drum sounds (44.1KHz/16bit) for your favorite...

Progsounds Korg Triton Collection v1.0

Progsounds Korg Triton Collection v1.0

Mar 4, 2007

26 new sounds for your Korg Triton series keyboard programmed by our community users.

Jordan Rudess Liquid T Lead

Jordan Rudess Liquid T Lead

Sep 25, 2005

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...

Derek Sherinian Monster Lead

Derek Sherinian Monster Lead

Sep 17, 2005

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...

Jens Johansson Lead

Jens Johansson Lead

Aug 21, 2005

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...

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