[LAU] What was the audio generator used by Hawkwind?
Sebastian Gutsfeld
segoh at gmx.net
Wed Apr 4 03:34:54 EDT 2007
Hi Damon,
Damon Chaplin <damon at karuna.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> Does anyone know what the "audio generator" was that Hawkwind used to
> use on albums like Space Ritual (one of the best albums ever!).
>
> It produced sweeping, oscillating tones. I'd be interested to know
> exactly what it was generating.
I don't know Space Ritual, but "sweeping, oscillating tones" were often
synthesized with EMS VCS3s (http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/vcs3.shtml).
Brian Eno and Pink Floyd used those.
> Is there anything like it on Linux?
You could try Steven Cook's VCS3 emulation for Csound:
http://www.csounds.com/cook/
Here are some patch sheets with example sounds for the EMS Synthi A
(http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/synthi.shtml) which is nothing but a
portable VCS3: http://home.online.no/~tom-rf/EMS/
regards,
Sebastian
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