arpeggio

Sunday Synth Jam: This synth jam, Synth Blues Improv with Alesis Micron, is “is a blues jam obviously inspired by Vangelis Blade Runner, but it isn’t a cover. It is to show the Micron’s amazing capabilities.”

Nice, but watch out for the abrupt ending…..

via hdebbache2000:

The sounds are custom, and I’m especially proud of the brass patch.

In a while I’ll start doing some more rythmic pieces like jarre and such, for now I just wanted to master this synth, so here is a relatively simple improv. Enjoy!

In case you didn’t get enough shredding from Maybe The Best Electronic Keyboard Training Video Ever, here’s some fast keyboard synth shredding with arpeggios. 

via TonsOfChill:

I thought that it would be worth mentioning that this keyboard patch/sound is NOT “monophonic” which means that you can only play a single note/strike on the keyboard at a time. That is how a player gets the “hammer on” sound of a guitar on a keyboard (Van Halen/Malmsteen).

You have to play with better technique to get the fingering crystal clear when using a polyphonic patch/sound as I am using here in this video. Regardless, this is a quick solo, at first I wanted to see how my technique was on camera and then thought it was cool enough to post after checking it out. If people dig it then I’ll do some more, maybe something more on the funk/blues side.

Do you dig it?

KEYFAX NewMedia has announced the world’s first arpeggio editor for the Motif ES, S90ES, and MO series workstations.

ArpManager, an independent application written in France and exclusively distributed by KEYFAX, enables users to compile and create brand new arpeggio collections on a PC.

Featuring a simple user interface, you can drag and drop individual arpeggios from one collection to another, re-naming, editing, and re-positioning them along the way – capabilities totally impossible on the instruments themselves.

ArpManager is especially for S90ES owners who are currently unable to even create a User Arpeggio bank on the S90ES. ArpMananger lets you assemble a bank on the PC and then load the completed file into the S90ES.

User Arpeggio sources include people’s own creations, plus collections of drum loops, and guitar strums.

ArpMananger is available for download direct on www.motifator.com for $29.95.