synthesizer dreams

martin · Post by **martin** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:55 pm

one night last week i had a dream about a modular synthesizer (not a moog one though. (i could tell you the brand if anyone really wants to know...) that for some reason had a faulty amplifier or a vca and the sound didn`t come out loud enough. although this was annoying, it was cool to patch sounds and hear tweeps and swoops in the dream. kind of like a virtual subconscious demo.

no idea what that dream meant (apart from don`t eat rich food for dinner) but does it occur to you moog and synth fans that you actually dream about synths? what was your weirdest dream (this doesn´t include daydreaming/drooling/sending blueprints to your favorite manufacturers...)?

does that ever happen to anyone?

monads · Post by **monads** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:06 pm

Don't think I've had any dreams about synths. But that could be because i spend soo much time on the ones I have I hardly get time to sleep and dream

tunedLow · Post by **tunedLow** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:52 am

Recently I dreamt that my wife's snoring was a sound I was making with a synth.

Indeed · Post by **Indeed** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:52 am

i had a dream about a synth about a year ago. I was fantasizing about polyphony, I was also really wanting a Clavinet. I had a dream that I got an 'Andromeda', but you know, in the dream it was it, but it was something very different. It felt kinda like a Wurlitzer, but had lots of faders on its white panelling. The whole thing was white, with blue trim, and silverish knobs & faders.

Another dream I had a few months ago:
It was a Fender Rhodes synthesizer/organ on friggin steroids. It was HUGE, maybe 8 feet wide, 12 feet high...the inner chamber was visible. It had hammers & tines like a real Rhodes, but they were HUGE like vibraphone plates and AMPLIFIED!!!! Plus it had all these knobs and places to patch cords...I think there were oscillators that were triggered upon the hammer striking the vibe-plate...It was like an ill-ass psychedelic organ, but it was WAAAYYY more fresh and badass and devastating of a HOT-ROD. Before my dream was awoken from, some little birdie told me that that Rhodes belongs to Jerry Garcia. I like the Dead, but I'm not a huge fan by any means...in the dream that idea fit like a glove, I felt I understood Jerry a lot better...

Thought maybe I should make one someday...

this_poison · Post by **this_poison** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:34 am

I tend not to dream exclusively about synths, but they often creep in, especially when it's a synth I really want.

In one dream, an incidental encounter with a modular in front of an audience turned bad as the jackplugs on the patchleads turned into jellybabies (and naturally refused point blank to fit into the sockets)

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I've also had a few where I woke up and ran into the studio to play with my new MoArpRolerheim monster only to find I'd dreamed of it's ownership

In another my Polymoog worked perfectly, but that one was a bit silly really

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martin · Post by **martin** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:34 am

tunedLow wrote:Recently I dreamt that my wife's snoring was a sound I was making with a synth.

upload the patch to squarewave!

not synth related but in a similar vein...

one night i had this dream about some person laughing like a madman. couldn't see who it was in the dream. the laughing kept repeating, over and over again.

then i woke up and heard that noise again - it was a construction worker hammering around on a piece of metal out on the street, a clanging that echoed into the night.

ebg31 · Post by **ebg31** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:26 am

One time, probably eight years ago, I had a dream about buying a synthesizer that was huge by comparrison to my Alesis QS6. It had knobs and other real-time controllers, but I seem to recall that the front panel was triangular, for some reason.

In the dream, I wasn't there when the synth arrived in the mail. I must've been out somewhere, and it was after dark when I got home and the synth was waiting for me. I think someone had already taken it out of the box. I've tried to think of an actual synthesizer with realtime controllers and a triangle-shaped front panel. Does something like that exist?

[I remember seeing a cheap Casio keyboard with that shape, once. Could I have been dreaming of that?]

endocrine · Post by **endocrine** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:26 pm

I once dreamed I was running my guitar through my Juno 106. But that isn't possible.
-Tyler2000-

ebg31 · Post by **ebg31** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:43 pm

Yes it is. Now, you can buy a Brian Moore guitar with a 13-pin RMC connection, plug it into a Roland guitar-MIDI converter and run that out to the Juno.

endocrine · Post by **endocrine** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:24 am

No it's not. I'm poor. Cool to know though.

Wait, wouldn't that just give me guitar controll over the internal oscilators, instead of actually using the guitar as an external osc?
-Tyler2000-

ebg31 · Post by **ebg31** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:16 am

The idea of the guitar synthesizer is merely that the guitar DOES act as a controller. That was the original idea of the ARP Avatar's hex pick-up. It ran from the guitar straight into the synth, though.

The system I'm describing is actually more affordable than it seems, even if you don't have the money for a new guitar. Roland makes a pick-up that is especially good with guitars that don't use whammy bars. You can insert the pick-up under the strings, its own wire will connect with the same pitch-to-MIDI converter I mentioned above, and you can run this out to the Juno synth, or even a Minimoog Voyager. YEAH!!

And, to think, all that comes with the name "Roland" attached to it. That kind of dream will keep you awake for a long time.

endocrine · Post by **endocrine** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:43 am

The dream was an external input, not a midi system. I have a friend with the Roland system. I need to hook that up to the synths sometime.
-Tyler2000-