3 Apr
2007
3 Apr
'07
5:36 p.m.
Hi,
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.
Is there anything like it on Linux?
Damon
3 Apr
3 Apr
5:46 p.m.
Circa 1971-73 my guess would be a big tube one. I used to have one
which is a long story... Wonder how they would tour like that though.
Robert
On 4/3/07, Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
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.
Is there anything like it on Linux?
Damon
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5:58 p.m.
On 03/04/07, Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
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.
Is there anything like it on Linux?
Damon
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I think it was homemade?
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rc
4 Apr
4 Apr
3:49 a.m.
Damon Chaplin wrote:
Hi,
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.
Is there anything like it on Linux?
Well, I think in 1973 it was probably a Moog synthesizer.
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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
9:26 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:34 +0200, Sebastian Gutsfeld wrote:
It doesn't look much fun trying to write .sco files for it though. If I
ever figure out how to write a MIDI-based synth on Linux I might have a
go at it. (I'm glad I bought a MIDI keyboard with lots of knobs and
faders on now!)
Thanks very much,
Damon
Hi Damon,
Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
Yes, I think that's probably the one. They are listed as users of it:
http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/emsstory.html#users
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/
9:54 a.m.
Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:34 +0200, Sebastian Gutsfeld
wrote:
Oh damn, I didn't want to post Steven Cook's VCS3 Csound .orc and .sco
but Ben McAllister's FLTK GUI for Steven's Csound instrument.
I couldn't find a working link for Ben's version so I uploaded my
tweaked version to
http://home.in.tum.de/~gutsfeld/other/vcs3_csound_gui.tar.gz [13K]
You probably have to adapt the CsOptions and sampling rate (sr) at the
beginning of the .csd file to your system.
regards,
Sebastian
Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk>
writes:
It doesn't look much fun trying to write .sco files for it though. If I
ever figure out how to write a MIDI-based synth on Linux I might have a
go at it. (I'm glad I bought a MIDI keyboard with lots of knobs and
faders on now!) Is there anything like it on Linux?
You could try Steven Cook's VCS3 emulation for Csound:
http://www.csounds.com/cook/
1:12 p.m.
On 04/04/07, Sebastian Gutsfeld <segoh(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
Possibly slightly OT but http://www.spaceritual.org/crew/crew_del.html
--
rob
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over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-- Matt Groening
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:34 +0200, Sebastian
Gutsfeld wrote:
Oh damn, I didn't want to post Steven Cook's VCS3 Csound .orc and .sco
but Ben McAllister's FLTK GUI for Steven's Csound instrument.
I couldn't find a working link for Ben's version so I uploaded my
tweaked version to
http://home.in.tum.de/~gutsfeld/other/vcs3_csound_gui.tar.gz [13K]
You probably have to adapt the CsOptions and sampling rate (sr) at the
beginning of the .csd file to your system.
regards,
Sebastian
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Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk>
writes:
It doesn't look much fun trying to write .sco files for it though. If I
ever figure out how to write a MIDI-based synth on Linux I might have a
go at it. (I'm glad I bought a MIDI keyboard with lots of knobs and
faders on now!) Is there anything like it on Linux?
You could try Steven Cook's VCS3 emulation for Csound:
http://www.csounds.com/cook/ 
5 Apr
5 Apr
11:24 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 12:12 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:34 +0200, Sebastian Gutsfeld
wrote:
They used a VCS3, but that wasn't the audio generator! They are listed
separately.
At some point over the weekend I'll dig through my books and find the
one that mentions what it is.
Gordon
Hi Damon,
Damon Chaplin <damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
Yes, I think that's probably the one. They are listed as users of it:
http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/emsstory.html#users 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. 
4 Apr
4 Apr
6:44 a.m.
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 20:33 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote:
Hi,
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.
Is there anything like it on Linux?
It's described in a book I have about Hawkwind as a piece of test
equipment. This makes me wonder if it was perhaps just an audio
function generator - maybe sine, square and triangle wave output.
The sounds were achieved by passing its output through various effects
like fuzzboxes, wahwah pedals and tape echoes.
Gordon
6:45 a.m.
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 20:33 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote:
Hi,
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.
Is there anything like it on Linux?
It's described in a book I have about Hawkwind as a piece of test
equipment. This makes me wonder if it was perhaps just an audio
function generator - maybe sine, square and triangle wave output.
The sounds were achieved by passing its output through various effects
like fuzzboxes, wahwah pedals and tape echoes.
Gordon
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