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Never Gonna Do It Without The Phase On
May 2006

You heard it straight from Donald Fagen on page 36: If Steely Dan’s sonic signature hangs on one thing, aside from stellar musicianship and songwriting, it’s a Rhodes electric piano through a phaser. This sound anchors many keyboard ...

Yamaha Motif and Motif ES
February 2006

When you change sound programs on most synths, any notes you’re holding at that moment get cut off. Kurzweil’s K2000 and its successors were notable exceptions to this status quo; road warriors loved the ability to sound-hunt while ...

Roland V-Synth XT
January 2006

Processing external audio over USB.
One of the coolest features of the V-Synth XT is the fact that it’s a USB audio interface as well as an amazing synthesizer. Let’s set it up to accept audio from a computer via USB. We’ll use ...

Using re-sampling to create perfect, elastic custom loops.
January 2006

Ever wanted to make loops of beats and bass lines with out the mess of truncating and finding loop points? The Fantom-X’s “Re-sampling with stop trigger” trick makes perfect loops that can be seamlessly used in the Audio Track section ...

Creating phase-shift effects with filters.
January 2006

We all understand how filters work — they allow some frequencies to pass while stopping others and most can generate resonant peaks as well. But it’s a little-known fact that there’s something else going on, too: frequency-dependent ...


 

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