This video, via DJ Tech Tool’s Ean Golden, captures a recent interview with electronic music pioneers Dave Smith (the Prophet V, MIDI) and Roger Linn (the LinnDrum, the MPC).
The interview focuses on the key technologies that Linn & Smith have been involved with and their uses for making electronic music.
In this video, techno pioneer Carl Craig and drum machine guru Roger Linn discuss the evolution of drum machines.
Saturday Synth Porn: Pioneering electronic instrument designer Roger Linn this week released a collection of renderings for instrument designs that never made it into production.
Above, Linn’s LinnDrum controller - a drum-oriented control surface for use with computers.
While these designs, for various reasons, never made it into production, Linn’s rejected designs manage to be cooler than most gear that actually does make it into production.
Here’s a series of videos that demonstrate that the Dave Smith Instruments Tempest drum machine is more than meets the eye.
Each of the Tempest’s six analog voices has two analog oscillators, plus two digital oscillators (with a large bank of included samples). They also feature a classic Curtis analog lowpass filter with audio-rate modulation, an additional highpass filter, analog VCA with feedback, five envelopes, two LFOs, a variety of analog modulation routings.
Smith notes, “Although optimized for drum sounds, it excels at tuned sounds as well, and even doubles as a six-voice analog keyboard synth.”
Check out the video, via dreamprobe, that show the Tempest being used for pads, basses and leads, and let us know what you think!
Richie Hawtin offers his take on the 2012 NAMM Show, talking with Dave Smith, Roger Linn and many other manufacturers, getting their take on this year’s introductions and sharing his own thoughts.
Dave Smith and Roger Linn have released a new demo compilation for their Tempest drum machine.
The Tempest is a professional drum machine that generates its sounds using six analog synthesis voices. It features a performance-oriented operating system that lets you create, edit, arrange, and manipulate beats in real time, without ever stopping.
Each of the six analog voices has two analog oscillators plus two digital oscillators (with a large bank of included samples), the classic Curtis analog lowpass filter with audio-rate modulation, an additional highpass filter, analog VCA with feedback, five envelopes, two LFOs and a large variety of analog modulation routings. Although the synth engine is optimized for drum sounds, it can do more traditional synth sounds as well.
The compilation offers a variety of examples that demonstrate the range of what the Tempest can do.