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After a quite long break – I apologise for that – my series about FM and PM synthesis continues. Workshop 4 is available now: https://youtu.be/Egoiby5eNuk In column 1 of workshop 4 I introduce ImageLine´s FM/PM/RM synth “Sytrus”, compare it and its sounds to DEXED and talk about transfering data between DEXED, Sytrus, the DX7 and the Korg Volca FM. In column 2 I talk about second order frequency/phase modulations, about modulating with waves others than sine waves. And in column 3 I analyse an orchestral FM preset in Sytrus. Timeline: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:02:50 COLUMN 1 0:02:50 Sytrus, the GUI (Overview) 0:03:20 The Main Tab 0:04:12 The Matrix 0:13:09 The Line Editors and Envelopes 0:17:55 Sytrus and DEXED (compared) 0:22:34 Comparing Modulation Envelopes 0:30:08 Transfering data between Sytrus, DEXED, DX7, Korg Volca FM 0:35:28 COLUMN 2 0:35:28 ...

Granular Extractions for Sample Players (CrusherX Part 19)

Tutorial 19 about granular synthesis with CrusherX is available now. https://youtu.be/y2y8_kNrs5c It deals with the question: how to extract new exciting future sounds for our sample players from all kinds of sound sources (including field recordings) using granular processes. After a bit more than 98 hours of work this video has got the longest one I´ve ever made: 3 hours and 12 minutes (I´ve split the video in two parts to make downloading easier). And it´s packed with approaches, rules, facts, tricks and hints and a lot of practical examples including a complete case study. Here´s the Timeline: Part A 0:00:00 Introduction 0:02:25 First Approaches 0:04:22 Finding the Right Parameter Constellations 0:05:43 Manipulating Sine Waves 0:09:49 Dealing With Volume Oscillations and Aliasing 0:22:16 Which Type of Grain Window? 0:37:32 How Many Generators? 0:41:18 Some Tricks to Make Life Easier 0:44:51 Dealing With Saw ...

May I Ask You In? It´s a matter of love and it´s my jewel box of sound and sound design. My little students helped me out with the voices. They are still too young to go to school, but they are already in love with sound and they have a fine intuition of which sound fits in a composition and which doesn´t. See more at http://www.rofilm-media.net Enjoy your day" Rolf

ome fFirst Results of Working with my "Sonic Electron Microscope" or: Extracting Sounds for Sample Players Just a short preview of a little example, which I demonstrate and explain in my next tutorial about granular synthesis. It´s about granular extractions from field recording for sample players and it´s going to be tutorial 19 in the series about accSone´s CrusherX, but it contains a lot of basic methods and techniques, which are quite independent from a certain granular processor. The tutorial is about 3 hours long and will be available around the end of June 2018. Please visit http://www.rofilm-media.net from time to time to stay up to date. Enjoy your day! Rolf

An Old Radio, Short Wave Sampling and the Beauty of the Ages I found this old radio on a garage sale about two weeks ago and got it for about 8 dollars. I thought of using the speaker and the case, but when testing it at home I found out, that it worked perfectly. It is about 60 years old and sounds really good. I´m thinking of doing some short wave sampling to feed my granular processor with new raw material. I will have to make an antenna though. There is a terribly bad radio reception in my flat. And while thinking of the best way to build such an antenna I came upon a second old radio of the same brand (just a few years younger). There are some problems with the volume knob. I opened the case therefore and I´m fascinated by these old electronic parts in it. They are simply beautiful! (By the way: there is even the skeleton of a dead spider in the radio.) I´ll keep you informed about the whole project, which you can also follow on ...

How´s Grandpa Soundstone doing? Some of you might have noticed, that the series about grandpa Soundstone hasn´t got new parts for some time. http://www.rofilm-media.net/web2018_094.htm Has the series – which was announced as “100 parts of making mistakes” - been cancelled after only 3 parts? No, it hasn´t. Grandpa Soundstone (aka Rolf Kasten) is already busy working on part 4. But it needed some conceptual changes. The series is still … … about crossing the borders between art and science … about learning and about documenting the process of learning … about the mathematcal, technical and physical foundations of music and sound … about coding software, which shall process sound … about building hardware modules to produce sound, to controll software and to operate other gear … about looking under the hood of computers, learning their structure and how they work in depth But the series won´t be a live documentation, a one...