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Crudman: A Homemade Walkman-Based Synthesizer
- gtani 11y agoThis was pretty entertaining, altho i always like to see a simple graphic laying out oscillators, LFOs, filters/effects or routing matrix or whatever. my weak tl;dr, updating the mellotron with everything that musician/hacker knows about MIDI, samplers, sequencers and Eurorack modules. ________ (also recommended, the thread yesterday about MIDI piano looper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149025 ____________ also fun, reading about frippertronics, how the flanger effect came to be, and Pink floyd's tape effects http://www.kitrae.net/music/Music_mp3_DSOTM.html http://www.kitrae.net/music/Music_mp3_DSOTM.html (you can google the first 2
- vortico 11y agoI don't think there are any oscillators, LFOs, filters, whatever, unless you're talking about the synthesizer used to pre-record the tapes.
- acomjean 11y agoFor those who don't know what a Mellotron is, it was an old synthesizer that literally played a piece of tape of a sound when you hit the key. One piece of tape per key. This new one is interesting, but as someone who lived through the magnetic tape era, I can't get away from them fast enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron
- Vexs 11y agoHuh, that's pretty cool actually; I've never heard of that. I love early synths, there's some wonderfully convoluted systems.