On two prior sifts, I've posted my Tony James story so I won't do it again. But I too was a big fan of SSS and Gen X and Billy Idol and Sex Pistols and The Clash and PiL and B.A.D.
Carbon/Silicone? ...eh, not so much: the music doesn't really grab me...but never mind.

Italian music producer and composer Giorgio Moroder, who stole the Oscar away from John Williams in 1979 for the score to Midnight Express, produced SSS's debut record Flaunt It in 1986 and it's one of the best-sounding bad records of all time. He also won two more Oscars: one for the title song to Flashdance and once again a couple years later for the song Take My Breath Away from the homo-erotic movie Top Gun.

Moroder, who was a synthesizer pioneer in the 70s, was the man responsible for the SSS sound, although Tony James would surely disagree.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'talks, docu, song, roland, 303, ten, acid symphony orchestra, synthesizer, experimental' to 'talks, docu, song, rolandTB303 synthesizer, ten, acid symphony orchestra, experimental' - edited by chicchorea

Jesus christ I hate this fucking music and this is why I also hated the creation of the "Electrionica" channel. This is POP MUSIC. It is not "electronica". Just because something has synthesizers in it doesn't mean it's "electronica". It just means they used synths to make shitty pop music.

I would definitely remove this from that channel, but then all of you would start pooping your internet pants. So, whatever.

http://geek.videosift.com/video/Pete-Townshend-discusses-writing-with-synthesizers-ext

>> ^swedishfriend:

This is great in a great way! If you call this trash I feel sad for you.


Yep, cool synthesized tune!!

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Whoa. The arpeggiator really makes this one. It would not sound C64-like without one. Having a program mode is pretty damn nifty as well.

His website says it uses an 8-bit (heh) microcontroller programmed to synthesize 8 channels in realtime. I guess this makes sense since using real hardware would have required alot more circuity and complexity. Apparently it generates samples off a 38khz interrupt so that probably greatly simplifies timing (for correct tuning) on such a thing as well.

Thanks for the quality!

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
That's a top *quality bit of *engineering.

Cheers for the mega promote!

In reply to this comment by djsunkid:
Total win! *doublepromote this is going to the top of the charts for SURE!

So awesome!

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>> ^KnivesOut:

Is this meant to (eventually) be an alternative to synthesizing tones with software?
Also, the nose thingy above the mouth is hilarious. I guess they had to put that up there so it didn't look so much like a talking vag.


Well, that and the fact that when you speak a certain portion of expelled air goes through the septum and adds to the waveform.

Is this meant to (eventually) be an alternative to synthesizing tones with software?

Also, the nose thingy above the mouth is hilarious. I guess they had to put that up there so it didn't look so much like a talking vag.

hey bud.
i figured i would run this by you first considering this your site.
now that i am ruby and can make a channel i dont want to make some redundant channel but one that will actually be used.
i am thinking electronica for a few reasons:
1.we dont have one
2.while it is a sub-genre of music it does give the ability to specify WHAT kind of music.
3.electronica covers a broad range of music and if we consider that synthesizers started in the late 50's and early sixties the channel will have a pretty large potential to actually be used.
examples:
steve miller band-fly like an eagle-electronica/classic rock
flock of seagulls-i ran-electronica/new wave
pink flowd-several different species of furry animals gathered together in a cave grooving with a pic-electronica/acid rock
NIN-wish-electronica/industrial/punk
sasha and digweed-remake of enjoy the silence-electronica/techno/trance

i could really go on forever but any music that uses a synthesizer,samples,loops,digitized media to create music with or without organic instruments would fall under this category.considering that farhad,myself,stingray,eklek and volumptuous all have a pretty large archive of electronica i dont feel the channel would be empty by any stretch.
i noticed you have a vote up for the community to vote on possible channels.that is a good idea.i will be voting yes but i still would like to hear your thoughts on my suggestion.
thanks in advance.
till next time.
namaste.

*edit* ok..blankie changed my mind.i voted no he is spot on.

Okay..since my sarcasm didn't quite drive the point home, I'll explain why this is a misguided idea:

Tanning Salons
-Vitamin D is synthesized in the body after exposure to sunlight. Anyone living far enough from the equator is bound to be deficient in Vitamin D. In fact, go ahead and plot cancer incidence by latitude and you'll see what I mean. Vitamin D prevents cancer and heart disease.

Beef
- Read about Vilhjalmur_Stefansson. In the early 1900s he underwent a scientific study where he ate nothing but meat for a year...and came out healthier than when he went in. Also read about all-meat diets and ketosis. Prolonged ketosis is a cure for diabetes, heart disease and cancer - not to mention periodontal disease. In scientific studies, terminally ill patients who were so far gone they were beyond "medical science" had their tumors go into remission and even clear up completely on a ketosis diet. Cancer cells have a lot of insulin receptors - they respond to glucose, take away the glucose and the cancer starves. Read about it.

Pork
- Same as beef.

Alcohol
- In many countries, 1 in 3 people have some form of mental illness sometime in their lives. Alcohol helps a lot of people cope with society. How the hell do you think I cope with all the (50% of the population) sub-100 IQ zombies walking around?

Oil used for deep-frying
- Fat is not unhealthy. Cholesterol does not cause heart disease, nor is it a good predictor of those who will get heart disease. Only ~3% of arterial plague is cholesterol by composition - the vast majority is calcium. Vitamin D helps regulate calcium...this goes back to the tanning salons.

Gasoline -- especially because it gives people an incentive to WALK when they're going less than 2 miles to a store, instead of driving.
- I don't think the cost of gasoline has ever factored into a lazy persons decision of whether to walk. The burning of fossil fuels and the creation of air pollution is a national health hazard (akin to me walking up and dumping toxic waste on you) and so YES this should be taxed because pollution is a hidden cost of industry; but the funds shouldn't go to Medicare they should go to giant air-scrubbers which help de-pollute the air.

Coal
- Same as gas

Natural Gas
- Same as coal.

Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup, Junk Food in general, & Cigarettes
- Okay, maybe you have some kind of argument here because these are legitimately detrimental to your health, but only used in excess. So unless you find a way to tax "excess" or define "excess" I can't see an argument for taxing the stray cigarette or potatoe chip.

After the PS video the other day, I grabbed the Resynthesizer plugin and tried it out in a number of different situations. At no point did it produce even mildly believable results. Let me clarify that... The synthesized imagery can sometimes be very good quality and very believable, but doesn't fit in with the surrounding picture. In some cases the synthesized imagery is just terrible all on its own.

The good news is, I think the work done so far on Resynthesizer is good work and it just needs to be developed further to catch up with Adobe. The buzz Adobe has created around CAF is also likely to get Resynth some new developers as it hasn't been in active development for a couple years, I think.