YAMAHA E1005 reverb test

YouTube Published on Jun 20, 2012 by canmarcvancouver

"A quick test demonstrating the delay and modulation features of the Yamaha e1005. It's a great sounding old school effect."

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Ensoniq SD1 audio test june 12 2012

YouTube Published on Jun 11, 2012 by canmarcvancouver

JD 800 test june 11 2012

YouTube Published on Jun 11, 2012 by canmarcvancouver

"A brief demonstration of the Classic Roland JD800 from 1991."

How to make electronic music. Part 4 the orgasmic filter sweep.

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Mar 5, 2012

"A lot has been said about the engaging nature of synthesizer filter sweep sounds. But little study has been done on the subject. Part 4 of our series investigates the matter with DJ lace. Here we witness the direct impact of a sequential circuits prophet 600 filter."

meeblip synth first test

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Nov 2, 2011

korg delta test

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Sep 26, 2011

"This Korg delta had a non working synth section. After a few new capacitors and ICs it's back to it's original funky bass glory. Still have a couple scratchy pots in the mixer section but that will be easy to fix."

springreverb

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Aug 22, 2011

"We found and dead guitar amp in a field. This one had a spring reverb tank inside. We pulled it out and hooked it up and it sounds awesome. So if you go looking for old junk to make cool sound effects with, an old spring reverb is always a fine choice."

"The synth is an sh101 has the filter closed, 100% keytracking, 100% enveloppe, zero attack, half decay, zero SR. It's a sequence Jesse came up with on the fly so we could test out the reverb.

The signal path is = Sh-101->DI->reverb tank->DI->Focusrite ISA1

We added the DI box (black box in the video) to properly isolate the tank. We used a clean gain stage (focusrite ISA1) because we have it, but it's not necessary. Reverb tanks can be used with super cheap gear and still will be a great effect and there are dead guitar amps everywhere, and they themselves are super clean, but you either need to hit them hard or crank their gain cleanly. Most musicians will hit them with a lot of signal instead and get a lot of signal out them so the high end pre-amp isn't vital. Because they are passive devices you can nail them with a ridiculously loud signal.

This tank also has two small isolation transformers on it, visible in the tank at both ends so we didn't really need our DI box in there. You should always isolate a reverb tank though. Check the tanks you find, they don't always have transformers in them. If not, a stereo DI box is $20, or a pair of audio transformers at the local shop is $5."

Trouble by DJ Lace, early version

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Aug 2, 2011

"This is an early render of "Trouble", one of the live PA tracks in my august 20th live show at Open Studios, Vancouver. The original footage is public domain from archive.org. all the music and video is triggered in realtime using Ableton, jp8080, A-station, and Midividgpu."

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"The live rig consists of a laptop running Ableton/APC40, a rack case containing JP- 8080 , A-station, Supernova2, the Canmarc XOXbox, and a custom video PC with a gtx560 gaming card running midi controlled video (Midividgpu) software with it's audio output going through a boss re-20.

Although I have the edirol m-16dx mixer, I'm just using it at as an audio interface and all the hardware synths are mixed in Ableton, using the session view and dummy clips controlled by the APC40.

Everything is triggered via midi in realtime including all the audio and video clips, and the whole thing is mixed live audio and video the way I'll be doing it onstage august 20th at Open studio here in Vancouver BC. I hope you enjoy it."

DJ Lace - This video tape

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Apr 12, 2011

"Mixed on April 12th 2011 at Canmarc in Vancouver BC with a DM4800 console & Yamaha HS 80 monitors.

Produced with the following hardware:

Roland TR-808, Roland TR-33, Univox JR5, Korg KR55, Sequential Circuits Pro-1 (w/Doepfer a190-2), 360 systems midibass, Kurzweil k2000, Kawai SX-210, Akai Ax60, Korg DW6000, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Oberheim Matrix 6, Sequential circuits Prophet 5, Deltalab DL-5 harmonicomputer, Korg DVP-1, Intersound RV100, Systech 4000A, Roland RE-20, and a quad 2.6ghz XP pc running the following:


Ableton live 8 for all midi sequencing and audio recording
Vegas 10 for all video loops & post render.
MidividGPU Hardware accelerated Midi controlled video module for realtime clip triggering & pre mix render.
Wavelab/SSL Duende for audio mastering.

Production Notes:

The 808 is the backbone of the composition. It runs synched in song mode for the whole track.

The KR-55 has a midi trigger mod. The TR-33 and Univox Jr-5 cannot be synched so they were sampled.

The pro-1 is layered with the 360 midibass. The Seinfeld slap is also from the 360. The 60s reverb tail on the bassline is from the intersound spring reverb.

The systech is used to flange the KR-55 in various parts of the song.

The chorus bells are the Korg DW6000 and Ensoniq ESQ-1 Layered together.

"Pay attention" is my voice through the Korg DVP-1 vocoder and stretched in Ableton.

The Deltalab harmomicomputer is used to pitch modulate the effects send of the female lead vocal in the bridge.

The "80s" reverb on the main 808 drum mix is from the TC electronics engine in the DM4800.

The prophet 5 is used to make the filtered counter melody in the bridge, and the climbing synth at the end of the bridge.

The Kawai sx-210 is used for the main melody in the bridge using the synth internal chorus & slightly notched to fit with the female vocal.

The big string chorus line is from the K2000. The ping pong delayed organ riffs are from the matrix 6.

The "Hey" are my voice sampled from another one of my tracks, with the RE-20 doing pitched tape delay effects.

The final Mix is 31 tracks wide spread over two layers on the dm-4800."

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xoxbox test 1.MOV

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Oct 21, 2010

Oberheim Strummer demo

YouTube Uploaded by canmarcvancouver on Dec 3, 2010

"Here is an idea of what the classic Oberheim Strummer from 1991 can do to single notes playing a metal drum sound on a TX7.

The strummer is was designed to sit in between a midi keyboard controller and the desired midi sound device. In this case a dx7 and a tx7.

The Strummer's midi input "listens" to what a keyboardist plays and the midi output plays it back out modified to sound like a guitarist had strummed it instead. From a 3 note chord it can makes a 6 string riff. You can edit to make all sort of riff strokes.

Obviously nothing can sound as authentic as a real guitarist & the Strummer is no exeption.

However, The magic happens when it is used to trigger sounds it was not designed for, such as the metal drum sound here."

CanMARC Studio Synth Pics and a New Track From The Passenger

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2011 canmarcvancouver

"An ambient piece using a Roland JP-8080, Waldorf micro-q, Oberheim Matrix 6, Kawai sx210, Tr-606, Tr-808, systech flanger, Korg DVP-1 vocoder. The video was created in Vegas and synced to ableton."

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