[A6] Anyone actually doing anything?

[Scott Juskiw]

Sorry for crossposting, but it is on topic, and the demos are done 
very well. This originally appeared on the MOTM list. The original 
author is Kenneth Elhardt <elhardt at worldnet.att.net>, not me.

>Note that I have been almost completely offline since June something, so if
>I haven't returned any email that's why. And now I have about 16,000
>messages that will take days/weeks to finally go through. My PC was being
>used in the downstairs for music stuff over most of the summer. Then one day
>I turned it on and got missing or corrupt dll erros that wouldn't let me
>boot and that was the start of my dark period. Those dlls were neither
>missing nor corrupt. I finally found another way to boot up around that
>problem and use my computer and eventually one day the problems disappeared.
>Then a month later I was ready to record an Ion Western demo, turned on my
>computer and then got a missing or corrupt hal.dll and I was back in hell.
>My will to live and my interest in synths flew away as I sat their in anger
>and disgust being anally raped by Microsoft for the millionth time. I'm now
>out for revenge. Suffice to say, after going through a bunch of crap which
>eventually led to Windows running a routine to find all the hardware in my
>computer from scratch, my USB ports now don't work among other things, and I
>still don't know if I can do a cold boot without problems. So I'm posting a
>bunch of demos now just incase I need to restore my computer to its brandnew
>state when I bought it.
>
>The demos are not MOTM, but I know there are a few people here who want to
>hear them. Besides, synthesis is synthesis no matter what synth. There will
>be two separate posts, one for Andromeda demos, and one for Ion demos.
>
>The first 5 here are some Carlos/Baroque style demos. The last 3 are sound
>effects/misc. All were done on the Andromeda. The only onboard effect used
>was delay, the only post effects were reverb, bass/treble, and some EQ on
>the Timpani. The time for each is given, so you can figure out the file size
>from there if download time is an issue. About 512K for 0:30 seconds. And as
>always, every note was played by hand. No sequencers, midi files, or half
>speed recording was used.
>
>(1:30) I get annoyed when people repeat pieces Carlos has already done
>instead of something new, but I had to use one of those Scarlatti sonatas
>myself because its structured in a way that seems to best allow a variety of
>timbres to be shown. This is the most colorful of the lot. The point was for
>me to try out my Andromeda W.Carlos soundset and see if I'm on the right
>track. 2 oscs per voice and subpar filters are quite a limitation when doing
>Carlos impressions, though mix mode does help in the few places I used it.
>Please ignore the slight flub at 0:47.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Scarlatti.mp3
>
>(0:20) I don't have the music score for this one, so I faked it.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Monteverdi.mp3
>
>(0:39) The point of this piece was to go from the solo instrument to full
>out complex and energetic polyphony that hits you at 0:13.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Bach_Fast.mp3
>
>(1:50) I wanted to try a slow movement that's kind of loose sounding.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Bach_Slow.mp3
>
>(0:39) Timpani is the only acoustic mimicry here.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Bach_Gavotte.mp3
>
>------ Sound Effects ------
>
>(0:06) This is your head sticking up just above some stereo boiling liquid.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Boiling_Liquid.mp3
>
>(0:04) Here is in impression of somebody pouring a bit of water into a cup.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Pouring_Water.mp3
>
>(0:24) I was creating a string sound for a Greek style folk dance I was
>making up when I did a few mods to make it more sitar-like.
>
>http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_SemiSitar.mp3
>