Thanks so much to SMEM for hosting this talk and posting it, and thanks to all of you who watched it. For due diligence, I made one minor gaffe when talking about the PAIA system, as I was moving through all this a bit quickly. The control-voltage to frequency mapping in the PAIA VCO was linear (like the very early Buchlas), not exponential - the PAIA system at that time used an exponential keyboard, hence you couldn't voice multiple oscillators together across a musical interval - this is what I learned from my trip to Aries. Accordingly, I changed the resistors in my PAIA keyboard (which I still use a lot today) to be linear with key number, and put exponentiators into the control-voltage inputs to my oscillators, which is the way it's properly done. I've changed those original oscillators out twice - in the mid 80s with my cloned Aries VCOs, and then in the late 80's replacing all of my oscillators with circuits I designed based around the CEM 3340 VCO chip - I still use those today - they work beautifully. Again, it was a wonderful experience to have given this talk, and thanks again to the crew at SMEM, and especially Vic for doing such a wonderful job in production! And an appreciative nod to all of you who still work with and enjoy modular systems in the current era! I wrote a paper for an event at Berklee a few years back that muses about why these things are coming back with more detail about my modular - it's here - paradiso.media.mit.edu/ModularSynthsVoltageConnect-17-ReallyFinal.pdf - the citations are a bit mixed up in the last half, so I will probably post a revision in the next couple of weeks...
@mickeyx674611 ай бұрын
Love the pic of Flora Purim!!! That was a great concert!
@swyveu11 ай бұрын
Love the use of the Logistics Map !!
@KirkDilley11 ай бұрын
wow! So imaginative, and inspiring! Best advertising for modular 😂
@aramb11 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting the talk, Joe!
@magickmarck11 ай бұрын
Great talk, mind blowing synth(s). Glad you could finally afford some knobs. This is really inspiring.
@danieleden185611 ай бұрын
awesome talk!! had me dialed in the entire time
@SuperChaoticus11 ай бұрын
Very interesting. He and I had many of the same inspirations in music. i would add Isao Tomita to that list, though. His interpretations of classical music are just brain-melting, especially for that era.
@toitoitoy11 ай бұрын
Very inspiring person, thanks for sharing the talk. This is Look Mum No Computer's Dad.
@mickeyx674611 ай бұрын
I like that speech synth piece a lot!
@TheScreamingFrog91611 ай бұрын
This is wonderful! I can relate to so many aspects of this man's journey. No one else I knew, was into electronic music, the way I was. So glad we now have the internet, to share our stories and information 🎶🎹🌎☮