From Steven.Collins@cs.tcd.ieMon Jul 3 14:53:33 1995 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 14:30:12 +0000 From: Steven Collins To: analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: Yamaha CS Series getting a bad rap? As an experiment last night, I decided to take the plunge and create a full piece using only 1 Yamaha CS-15 and a sampler ie: the CS-15 would be the only sound source allowed. To start I created lots of drums on the 15 and sampled 'em all in. Its very easy indeed to get good throbbing bass drum drones (better than any 909/808 SAMPLE I have) and some cheesy hihats plus a weird resonant snare using which I created a drum loop, interspersed with some CS-15 made tom sounds... basically some square waves with resonance and a tiny noise spike to give them an edge. Next, I took a good few sample&hold type rhythms, tweaked the LFO speed until they were close enough to the track's speed (arounf 130 bpm) and triggered them at each bar-start. These were also panned using the samplers pan LFO to give a very spacey type whirly effect. Next was the bass sound. Easy stuff. Lots of resonance and a low cutoff and a bass drone is no problem. Used 1 OSC for the drone and a second for a sharp Yamaha FM type bass spike. Next were a few leads type sounds. Used some square PWMs, lots of Rez and a good bit of LFO speed tweaking to get good sounds that mixed well together. Finally loads of FX and swirls which was most enjoyable to do. Set your sampler and tweak the hell outta the machine. Got about 8 serious slides, VCO LFO sweeps and Filter S&Hs before I ran out of sample memory (8Meg). All samples were mono, 48Khz. Then just sequenced up the lot in VISION and came up with one of the more interesting pieces (sonically) that I've ever done. Funny. Its all from the 15. So don't ANYBODY try to tell me that this machine doesn't cut it. Steve --- | Steven Collins | Steven.Collins@cs.tcd.ie | | | Image Synthesis Group | Phone: +353-1-7021436 | $ Hello Worl% | | Trinity College Dublin | Fax : +353-1-6772204 | "Drat"! | | http://vangogh.cs.tcd.ie/scollins/scollins.html | |