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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject:
My Andromeda demo songs and sounds |
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Finally got around to dumping my old demo songs onto Youtube - enjoy or not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcftmANc4k
Everything is from the Andromeda, even the drums!
All fired live over midi with the multi mode. No processing used except for the onboard effects.
There is only one Andromeda used, even though the pics show two
More to come - mainly just all the demo sounds I did a while back. There is a ton of em! |
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purpurkatten
Joined: May 27, 2005 Posts: 131 Location: right here
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:18 pm Post subject:
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I´ve heard most of them hundreds of times before, and still hear them from time to time for inspiration.
Actually, your A6-mp3:s was one of the reasons I realised the potential of the A6 and bought the synth in the first place some 5+ years ago!
I never thanked you then for that, so I do it now instead! THANKS! _________________ All A6 programming pros, don´t hesitate to put together your best patches and make them available on the Internet! If you´d like to charge a reasonable fee for others to download them, that is fine by me! The more attention and patches and community for the Andromeda, the better! |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject:
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Coming up to a decade old now |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:04 am Post subject:
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Audio Montage clip is up - trying to be a little more creative video wise
pads, drones, things and FX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszjVmPWGOo
Just a collection of my fav banks/patches from the Alesis site, way back then, somehow seemed to fit together when I played them in that order
Youtube auto tag suggestion somehow came up with - horror, psychedelic keyboard "synthesized music
Does it actually scan the audio and video content? hmmmmmm |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:49 pm Post subject:
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I was playing around with a hard sync patch I did and I somehow managed to turn it into a basic physical modelled wind instument patch
If you play on the top end of the range it sounds like a whistle/flute/recorder, the middle kinda like an oboe and clarinet. Low end a bit like French horn etc
I'll get an audio clip of it one day - would be even better if I can use some pedals and breath controller on it
This patch was originally creating a convincing string/guitar type pluck sound, so it's pretty interesting how I was able to do another subset of sounds just by changing the amp and filter envelope |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:34 am Post subject:
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Here is a quick audio clip I whiped up of my PM attempts on my Alesis Andromeda
It has lost a lot of fidelity compared to the original 24 bit 96 kHz files.
Even the 16 bit 44 kHz intermediate file had a lost a lot of top end
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/alesis-andromeda-plucked
Bare in mind they are very basic - not much modulation going one for expressions etc
But they serve as a nice template for further experimentation
I own a Yamaha VL-1 although I haven't done too much on it
Although I think the analog tone of the Andromeda feels a bit more cosy
The click/thump on the string attack is a bit annoying, I can't seem to remove it no matter what I do Slower engine optimiser settings don't help much |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:11 am Post subject:
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CoolColJ wrote: | Here is a quick audio clip I whiped up of my PM attempts on my Alesis Andromeda
It has lost a lot of fidelity compared to the original 24 bit 96 kHz files.
Even the 16 bit 44 kHz intermediate file had a lost a lot of top end
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/alesis-andromeda-plucked
Bare in mind they are very basic - not much modulation going one for expressions etc
But they serve as a nice template for further experimentation
I own a Yamaha VL-1 although I haven't done too much on it
Although I think the analog tone of the Andromeda feels a bit more cosy
The click/thump on the string attack is a bit annoying, I can't seem to remove it no matter what I do Slower engine optimiser settings don't help much |
Here are the patches in Sysex format
MidiOX is a good program to use to send them to the Andromeda
Plucked string and hi wind
http://www.mediafire.com/?i2tb1otqmi1vq
If someone improve on them, please pass on the goods |
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sunny pedaal
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 735 Location: netherlands
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:06 am Post subject:
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thank you , i look forward to trying them out |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:14 pm Post subject:
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I had both oscillators turned off at the mixer, and the filter is up, but no resonance.
But a sound is still made when you route VCO1 to modulate Filter FM.
VCO1 modulated by the Sample and Hold, via a slow random LFO
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/alesis-andromeda-osc-filterfm |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:01 pm Post subject:
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Horror Drone experiment on the Andromeda
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/alesis-andromeda-horror-drone
I created 4 variants of the sound and changed patches as the things progressed along.
Turned on filter feedback here and there. You'll know when I do so
Just has some A6 delay and Lexicon exterior type reverb[ |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:29 pm Post subject:
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Some new sounds, I did them to demo the LFO options to someone, but they sound cool anyway
This sound uses both filters in series, but the 12db SEM filter doing all the filtering, and with filter feedback at 50%
Oscillators set very low on the pre filter mixer
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/andromeda-lfo-jam
Saw Pad Vibrato - single saw VCO, long release free running LFO vibrato
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/alesis-andromeda-saw-pad
Andro CS pad - variation of above, I got carried away and ended up here
This time with 2 VCOs, 1 postive saw, and one negative - an old trick from the Minimoog to create a phase cancellation and make it sound like Pulse Width Modulation. Some white noise
12db SEM Low pass filter, and a little Band pass filter into the 24db Moog filter at 12 Khz
Then the VCO sine waves mixed in post filter ala Yamaha CS synths
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/alesis-andromeda-andro-cs-pad |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 7:41 pm Post subject:
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Just a quick rough test, proof of concept
Minimoog, SH-2 and Andromeda tracked live into Presonus Studio one.
The Minimoog and SH-2 went through the Speck Xtramix first, while the Andromeda went directly into the audio interface
And then "mixed" in the box with a reverb on the Andromeda, and delay on the SH2. Minimoog is dry.
64 bit mode. No EQ or compression. Off line render to wav file
I've never worked like this before. I used to be all midi, fired live.
Andromeda sits pretty well with these other two 70s vintage monosynths.
I used one of the "Yamaha CS" type patches I did a few weeks back.
Although having all three at once gobbles up all the mix space!
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/ccj-minimoog-sh2-a6 |
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Mefistophelees
Joined: Mar 06, 2011 Posts: 77 Location: l'Angleterre
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 3:22 pm Post subject:
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Great track. A bit Bladerunner-ish. |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 12:23 am Post subject:
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Mefistophelees wrote: | Great track. A bit Bladerunner-ish. |
Thanks, it was all improvised on the spot |
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CoolColJ
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Mefistophelees
Joined: Mar 06, 2011 Posts: 77 Location: l'Angleterre
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kola
Joined: Jun 20, 2009 Posts: 29 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:59 am Post subject:
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Great to see what the andy do all by itself. |
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Mefistophelees
Joined: Mar 06, 2011 Posts: 77 Location: l'Angleterre
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:41 pm Post subject:
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I have found the Andromeda's oscillators have a tendency to lock to each other and phase cancel.
A byproduct of the too accurate auto tuning perhaps, which tunes every octave on the board.
So even when you detune then oscillators they still don't sound quite right.
Contrast that with old analog synths which usually have a single scaling trim pot for the whole keyboard range.
And they are never tight because of that, the top and bottom of the keyboard is always out a bit, but they sound better for it.
Here is a way to get that creamier sound out of the A6 - knock the scaling out by modulating oscillator pitch with key number!
+0.02, with an offset of -0.01 does the trick
as heard here
But Soundcloud's processing did some weird crap to the audio :/
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/a6-creamier-sound |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:46 pm Post subject:
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Gorgeous Arpeggiator sequence on the Alesis Andromeda!
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/a6-gorgeous-arp-sequence
I've been experimenting with using the red noise to oscillator linear FM, and it adds a lot of life to the sound, without wasting an LFO to do the same. Around 0.5 to 0.75 is enough. The difference is pretty dramatic, suddenly the oscillators don't sound "static" anymore
Latched arpeggiator sequence.
A single PWM oscillator, then doubled up in the middle, and then back to single. 24db Moog filter used. The delay is also from the Andromeda. |
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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CoolColJ
Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Posts: 112 Location: Australia
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:10 pm Post subject:
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http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/alesis-andromeda-mellow-groove
I did this test clip a decade ago, to try out the Andromeda with other synths.
I didn't intend it to, but it ended up sounding like a Boards of Canada track
I've always felt the Andromeda has that ethereal BOC quality without any processing and I guess this is proof of that
The bass and pad sound is Andromeda.
The drums is an unreleased drum synth VST. There is a TX416 lead sound, using one TX module. Basically a DX7
And some MKS-80 rev5 strings |
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worldwide
Joined: Sep 22, 2011 Posts: 2 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:24 pm Post subject:
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Thanks CoolColJ and Mefistophelees for the very nice music/sounds. |
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