This CD is the follow up to a project that started in 1990 with the release of the book SYNTHESIZER VON GESTERN and the CD VINTAGE SYNTHS VOL.1. Again each of the compositions was realized with just one kind of synthesizer and again we tried to work out the most typical sounds for each of the instruments. With those instruments which offered
the possibility to be controlled via MIDI - either because they were already equipped with MIDI or by means of an external MIDI interface - we made use of an Atari MEGA ST computer with C-LAB's NOTATOR Software. Where MIDI was not available all the tracks were "handmade", i.e. produced without the help of an external computer. In comparison to our first CD we did more frequently make use of sampling
- for instance if we had to get noises of non- midified instruments into the right groove. All the samples we used were only of the "one shot" kind - no looping or editing was applied. The sounds used were always the genuine ones taken directly from the original historical instruments. The
different timbres and parts were recorded onto a 24 track machine, mixed down to stereo and mastered onto R-DAT recorder. For sweetening on mixdown we made use of digital reverberation units, digital delays, multi- fx devices, exciters, noisegates, compressors, analog flangers and phasers
and the superb psycho acoustic processor SPL SX- 2. Our special thanks go to Oscar Sala, the 82-year-old Berlin pioneer of Electronic Music, whom we could persuade to participate in our project. His composition CAPRICE NO.4 FOR MIXTURTRAUTONIUM SOLO is the only take on the CD that was played completely in realtime and on which you
will hear no overdubs at all. Hats off to Oscar Sala!
VINTAGE SYNTHS VOL.2
Matthias Becker/Klaus Stühlen/Ralf Weber/Oscar Sala
01. roland jupiter 6 (3:08)
02. korg sigma (3:18)
03. arp 2600 (1:43)
04. osc oscar (2:19)
05. oberheim ob-xa part 1 (3:37)
06. roland system 700 (3:28)
07. sci prophet 5 (2:26)
08. fairlight cmi (3:44)
09. mixturtrautonium: caprice (4:32)
10. roland system 100m (2:42)
11. oberheim ob-xa part 2 (2:24)
12. roland promars (1:59)
13. dk synergy i (2:39)
14. arp pro soloist (2:23)
15. ems synthi 100 (2:36)
16. advanced memorymoog (3.15)
17. korg ex-8000 (4:13)
18. roland jx-10 (3:12)
19. rsf kobol (2:33)
20. edp wasp (3:10)
total playing time (59:55)
details about the separate tracks
Matthias Becker/Klaus Stühlen/Ralf Weber/Oscar Sala
01. roland jupiter 6 (3:08)
02. korg sigma (3:18)
03. arp 2600 (1:43)
04. osc oscar (2:19)
05. oberheim ob-xa part 1 (3:37)
06. roland system 700 (3:28)
07. sci prophet 5 (2:26)
08. fairlight cmi (3:44)
09. mixturtrautonium: caprice (4:32)
10. roland system 100m (2:42)
11. oberheim ob-xa part 2 (2:24)
12. roland promars (1:59)
13. dk synergy i (2:39)
14. arp pro soloist (2:23)
15. ems synthi 100 (2:36)
16. advanced memorymoog (3.15)
17. korg ex-8000 (4:13)
18. roland jx-10 (3:12)
19. rsf kobol (2:33)
20. edp wasp (3:10)
total playing time (59:55)
details about the separate tracks