Vintage Ads - Part 3

Fairlight CMI Series 3 - Herbie Hancock	Roland Juno 6
Linn 9000	Ensoniq Mirage
Korg Mono/Poly	Sequential Max
Sequential Circuits (SCI) Prophets 1, 5 & 10	Sequential Max, Tom and Multi-Trak

New Kontakt project

I've started on a more ambitious Kontakt instrument this time. My last based on my Boss Dr-110 drum machine was fun, but this time I'm basing it on some of my vintage synths - the first being my Oberheim Matrix-1000.

Dr-110 Kontakt Instrument

All the samples are created using the excellent (but no longer available) Autosampler. All sounds are captured over 4 seconds per 4 notes with low and high velocities. The looping facility of Autosampler is amazing creating seamless loops every time.

Any cable noise has been cleaned up using Izotope's RX2 software.

Here are some images of work in progress...

Korg SQD-8

Some pictures of my first sequencer, the Korg SQD-8. A great bit of kit (shame about the quick Disc format). I pretty much used this to death, in fact I probably did more with this than I have with any DAW so far with only a Akai X7000, Kawai K1r, Roland MKS-70 and TR-505. Coming up with ideas seems more intuitive when you're using hardware or something physical to interact with other than a mouse and a screen.  - well in my opinion anyway, I'm sure there are people that will disagree.

It wasn't short of features either - certainly comparable to most DAWS of the time - Logic 4 I think? and it was great for gigging with. One disk could hold up to 16 tracks of midi drum files, more than enough for a pub gig :-)

Enjoy the pics..

Vintage Ads Part 2 - Samplers

Some old sampler ads from the 80's