![]() ![]() The next stage of Eno’s system is a graphic EQ, which was his sound manipulation input during the Discreet Music recording process. The tape was old and didn’t reproduce high frequencies the ‘wow and flutter’ produced by the slippage of the tape created a gentle and sporadic chorusing effect on the echoes it delivered. The Echoplex used a loop of magnetic tape which rather erratically circled round a series of playback heads. The Graphic Equaliser was slightly the worse for wear and some of its faders crackled, so I didn’t use those frequency bands during the recording of the piece. The synthesizer tended to slide gradually out of tune as it warmed up and anyway the keyboard was not a standard ‘equal temperament’ keyboard such as you’d find on any commercial synthesizer now: you began work with it by tuning the octaves, which, along with the sliding pitch, left some leeway for variation. I made Discreet Music using (by today’s standards) the primitive tools of early electronic music: an AMS synthesizer, with a simple sequencer, a graphic equaliser (this allows you to modify the timbre of the synthesizer’s output), a Gibson Echoplex and 2 Revox tape recorders. Eno also would have likely added some built-in reverb from the Synthi, which will add ambience as well as darkening the sound, so raise the reverberation mix knob to 9. I also added some subtle vibrato by patching oscillator 3’s triangle to the oscillator 1 & 2’s control inputs ( I8 and J8), setting oscilator 3’s frequency nice and low, and the triangle’s volume level low to control the amount of vibrato modulation. Set the filter by lowering the blue frequency knob in the filter oscillator section to just below halfway (0.472). Balance the volume of the sawtooth wave by lowering oscillator 1’s saw level knob down to the 3 mark. #Studio sync music shelf PatchOscillator 1’s sawtooth is patched by default, and we can also patch oscillator 1’s sine wave and oscillator 2’s triangle wave by placing a pin on the matrix dots 3H and 6H, lining the oscillator sources on the left with the filter input above. On the Synthi, each oscillator outputs two different waveforms, which are routed to the filter via the patchbay grid. Start by initialising Synthi V by opening the menu and choosing New Preset… to start a fresh patch.įor oscillators, the sound is a mellow sine/triangle wave made more interesting by mixing a small amount of sawtooth oscillator. The Discreet Music patch is relatively simple to patch, and makes use of oscillator blending and the onboard reverb. #Studio sync music shelf softwareArturia recently released a software version of the EMS Synthi, called Synthi V, which recreates the EMS Synthi, with some welcome modern additions. ![]()
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