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From:
James E Thomas
To:
jon anderson ,
Date:
Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:21:37 -0600
Subject:
RE: [idm] boards of Canada
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Mike Paradinas tells me Marcus and Mike use two SH-101's. They just only recently bought a computer, so just imagine what the new album will sound like (if they use it for the album, that is). Regards, Joyrex www.joyrex.com <http://www.joyrex.com> - The Aphex Twin Resource. -----Original Message----- From: jon anderson [mailto:pyrrhonist2@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 8:22 PM To: idm@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: [idm] boards of Canada While I don't know exactly what they use to make those sounds, it's pretty easy to make a close approximation by doing two simple things: dulling the sound of your synth (cut out the higher frequencies) and adding an LFO (the depth and rate - especially the rate - should be pretty low). so you have a muffly tone (make sure your envelope has a healthy sustain/release time) that bends the pitch up and down slightly. if you do this to just the right sound, you will say to yourself, "holy boards of canada". i've only actually tried this on a juno106, but i'm betting just about any synth that allows you to control these parameters could be made to sound BoC. I suppose there must be other features that BoC synths have in common (aside from the fact that they probably have some secret hardware-hacked synth) which could be easily imitated. if anyone else has experimented with producing BoC-like tones and has further advice, please share. jon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org