On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 12:29:10 +0000 Bill Purvis <bill(a)billp.org> wrote: Yoshimi can cover quite a wide range. In 'Controllers' Set it to 1200 and it's +- 1 octave. The smoothness is very dependent on the control source. Here, out of 3 keyboards only the ancient SY35 gives a really good response :o -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:00:04 +0100, Dominique Michel wrote: Unfortunately there seems to be no English information about the A-178 Theremin Control Voltage Source on the Doepfer website. But the German page provides some nice pictures (and dead links). There's a note in English: "It's not possible to connect the antenna via an additional cable to the antenna socket. Antenna and hand form a variable capacitor with a very small capacity in the pico Farad range. The electronics of the module is puzzled out just for this capacity range. If a cable is added the capacity range changes totally and the module will no longer work ! But it's possible to mount the complete module with antenna at the desired position, e.g. into a small case that holds one or two of the modules. For this a longer bus cable is required." http://www.doepfer.de/a178.htm -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-securityink,-cornflower,-pussytoes}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.20.arch1-1 4.19.10_rt8-0 4.19.8_rt6-0 4.19.5_rt4-0 4.18.16_rt9-1

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:49:22 +0100, Dominique Michel wrote: Me too! Friends owned and still own CV/gate instruments, but they just used it before we made music together, the Prophet 5s of a friend for example are all MIDIfied. I started with the first DX7 and even my Oberheim Matrix-1000 doesn't provide CV/gate anymore, but it provides a guitar synth mode, each voice of a sound could get its own MIDI channel. Until now I didn't use the Matrix-1000 with my Roland GR-55. I guess it takes more than just a MIDI channel for each string, to get the full guitar synth experience. Nowadays a lot of new synth provide CV/gate again, but I tend to buy proprietary virtual synth instead of new hardware synth. On proprietary platforms, unfortunately not on Linux, they work nearly as good as CV/gated modular rack synth when using a host such as Cubasis on iOS and they nearly sound as good as Curtis CEM Chip based hardware synth, while some of them emulate real synth quite good.

Le Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:40:23 +0100, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> a écrit : To learn that instrument, I am following Kip Rosser's lessons: http://kiprosser.com/ I like his approach based on experimentation. The first lessons present the fundamental techniques. As example, the lesson 12 show a left hand technique which allow to make a vibrato like effect with the volume, resulting in successive pitches. Lesson 20 show the vibrato technique for the pitch. I think the main difficulty when playing a theremin, as we get a concert piano range into something like 50 to 60 centimetres, and no other mean to know where are the notes than our earring, is the resulting constant imprecision of the pitch. A good theremin player will succeed very well to mask it. Another difficulty is than for a guitar player like me, pitches in the C1 to C2 range or C7 to C8 range are very extreme ear training. The C7 to C8 range is the worst because the antenna cease to be linear at that distance (only a few centimetres from the antenna) and that octave is shorter than the others. At the same time, this is what make that instrument so fun. With the null of the pitch, you get a barrel like shape at 50/60 cm from the antenna, it have a few cm more width at the center of the antenna than at its extremities. This is our instrument and when playing it, it will react from all directions and with any part of your body. I can change the null and set it at only a few centimetres from the antenna. With such a setting, it is very weird to play, also because I can add pop like sounds between the pitches by touching the pitch antenna. Also it seam to have a terrific sound, because a neighbour tell me than he can ear me when I play it in the basement, with him in the house opposite making music with a computer and his headphones. For that, to play a theremin is worst than to play bass, you get a powerful sound but on the whole audio range. -- If you have a problem and you are not doing anything to fix it, you are at the heart of the problem.