This video, via atoooy, is a comparison of the Korg MS-20 Mini and the original Korg MS-20.
As a comparison, it seems flawed because of some small volume and setting differences. But the second half, which puts the two Korgs to work with a little ‘switched on’ style Bach sequencing, highlights how great they both sound.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a performance by Aaron Andrew Hunt of Bach’s C Major Prelude & Fugue, Book 1, BWV 846, on a Tonal Plexus keyboard.
Hunt’s performance both the use of an alternative keyboard and Just Intonation.
Here’s what Hunt has to say about the performance:
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via HALmotohashi, captures a performance of Bach’s Cello Suite #2 In D Minor, Prélude, on a DIY electronic musical instrument that named TAO.
Here’s a preview of Shredder for iPhone, featuring a little ‘switched on’ style Bach, using guitar-controlled software synth.
Shredder is designed to translate the audio signal from a standard electric guitar into MIDI and into guitar synth.
It’s $9.99 in the App Store (but it’s discounted to $4.99 as of this post).
If you give this a try, let us know what you think of it!
Details below.
The StringStation is a new electornic instrument that, according to the developer, “advances the new science of Digital Sound Modeling to allow the expressive dynamics of human touch on strings to be the catalyst for any sound imaginable.”
Here’s the official summary on the Stringstation:
WHAT: The Stringstation is a custom 40-string music instrument designed to allow tactile strings to advance future music in Surround Sound.
WHO: Developed by Passport / Audion recording artist Jim Bartz. Bartz was signed as a guitarist pre-StringStation by Larry Fast of Peter Gabriels band while he was an engineer/producer at one of the midwests premier recording facilities.
WHY: Discoveries in the late night recording studio led to invention of this stringed instrument that could be split into a matrix of separate outputs, allowing the 3D resonance and layering of many different sound colors from one source with the ability to play bass, rhythm, melody and orchestrations simultaneously with two hands.
WHERE: In Seattle.
HOW: The StringStation utilizes every playing technique known to stringed instruments and many new ones evolved from the combination of 3 customized 8-string steel guitars, one 6-string, a 10-string Chapman Stick.
Check out the video demo below and let us know what you think of the Stringstation.
Jose Silva sent in this video, via the Submit A Store page, capturing an elegant Bach performance on the Eigenharp Alpha:
Wonderful Instrument, just “lightly touching” it’s capabilities and expressiveness ( goes way beyond just playing one sound)
I am without words to describe how much I am fortunate enough to live this present times and play the Eigenharp’s ( ALPHA and PICO)