Synthtopia » Add new tag http://www.synthtopia.com/content Synthesizer and electronic music news, synth and music software reviews and more! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:43:25 +0000 en_us hourly 1 © synthhead@synthtopia.com () synthhead@synthtopia.com() Electronic music news, synthesizers, reviews and more! synthhead@synthtopia.com No no http://www.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Synthtopia http://www.synthtopia.com/content 144 144 Moog Little Phatty Tutorial With Jordan Rudess http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/07/13/moog-little-phatty-tutorial-with-jordan-rudess/ http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/07/13/moog-little-phatty-tutorial-with-jordan-rudess/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:55:15 +0000 synthhead http://www.synthtopia.com/content/?p=15491 Click here to view the embedded video.

This is a comprehensive collection of video tutorials for the Moog Music Little Phatty synthesizer.

In the first part, Jordan Rudess gives a quick overview of the sonic magic possible with a Moog Little Phatty, FreqBox and CP-251.

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Rudess shows off the incredible functionality of the classic Moog filter in the Little Phatty.

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In this segment, Ruddess gives some tips on using the LP’s note triggering options to develop your playing technique.

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Ruddess shows some amazing tricks using the Little Phatty’s ergonomically placed octave switches.

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Ruddess explains how the Little Phatty lets him take advantage of his favorite pitch-bending techniques.

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In this segment, Jordan shows some great Moog Bass techniques.

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Ruddess give some great tips on using glide (portamento) in lead lines and explains how the Little Phatty’s unique features connect players to this important expressive capability.

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Finally, Ruddess demonstrates the powerful sonic and expressive uses of oscillator sync.

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This is a short teaser video for the Radikal Technologies Spectralis 2.

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Radikal Technologies Spectralis 2; It’s more fun than computers…

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This video demos WiiAmbient, a free new ambient music program for the Wii from Gleetchplug.

It’s not available yet – but it looks like it will be very cool.

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iPhone Synth, though is real and available for download. Here’s a video of it in action:

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The synth uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to change the cutoff and resonance of its filter.

iPhoneSynth is a very simple synth for the iPhone. Version 0.02 includes a 16 step sequencer with the ability to change length and oscillator type (sawtooth, square or noise) individually for each step. It also includes a lowpass filter.

Not only can you set each note in each step of the sequence, but the type of oscillator per note (ie square, sine or white noise for snares/claps), the volume of each step, and the octave.

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