4 Apr
2007
4 Apr
'07
5:35 a.m.
Hi Damon,
Damon Chaplin <damon(a)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