+1! Great job, CZ!Spaceman Seven wrote:Nice job! Very cool, now can you do Space 1999?
I loved UFO as a kid, great show. It's nice to see someone covering that theme song with an old Moog Modular.
It just makes sense somehow.
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Ahhh you beat me and did a good job on nice gear. I was meaning to do a cover of some sort and might even have played that MIDI file live once or twice with VA sounds.
Lets see... the percussion works. Some nice patches. I think you are having a poly to mono problem at 8 seconds. The melody has the same note twice but a whole bunch of times I'm hearing one longer note on your cover. I've run into this myself. You need to edit the note duration shorter manually if you are trying to play back the file (or not use the MIDI file). From an artistic side I would have mixed differently. What's cool about Barry Grey theme is there is a lot of contrast and a sort of call and reply of the instruments. You have things more just even balanced. Perhaps using velocity more in the patches would help besides bringing out certain lines.
The show aired in 1969 and a couple years later in the U.S. but they started shooting a year or 2 before. The Duncan Jones movie "Moon" is kind of amusing since they were clearly influenced in some respects. But UFO has that groovy score and moon women with purple hair.
The original theme has that combo organ but no synths. The show itself had quite a bit of Ondes Marenot on other cues. I love the BBC material but Anderson's shows have little in common with the Radiophonic Workshop imho. After the BBC Radiophonic got synths you had some great music but generally it wasn't as original and creative as the years before.
I remember seeing those shows on Voom but they drove me nuts because they cut the top and bottom off to fill the wide format. Cablevision seems to have suddenly pulled the plug on all of those stations in a dispute with a pay TV partner who didn't want them any more. I'm not sure, maybe that strategy looked good on a lawsuit involving damages from the partner, or more likely they'd make more money with them shut down than they were paying stuff over and over.
The RCA Synthesizer (Mark I) was a research machine to electronically realize music via punch cards. There may have been good motivations but I'm sure one motivation to fund it was RCA had lots of conflicts with the Musician's Union. It did coin the word "Synthesizer". There was also a Mark II where they built a new one using what they learned. They consulted with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Lab in the new one and they eventually were given it likely as a tax writeoff by RCA. It definitely forwarded the art of electronic music. By the way, it had no performer interface like a musical keyboard. You'd create scores programmed on paper punched ribbons that would be fed in and the music would be realized in realtime from the program and recorded.
One common misconception is a lot of people consider any or most electronic musical instruments to be "synthesizers". It boils down to how you define a synthesizer and if the person discussing it knows how it makes sound and the ability to control it, not just that it makes different electronic sounds. The Telharmonium was producing electro-mechanical sound. It was very groundbreaking and could make many different sounds. It's an ancestor of the synthesizer but not one.
Lets see... the percussion works. Some nice patches. I think you are having a poly to mono problem at 8 seconds. The melody has the same note twice but a whole bunch of times I'm hearing one longer note on your cover. I've run into this myself. You need to edit the note duration shorter manually if you are trying to play back the file (or not use the MIDI file). From an artistic side I would have mixed differently. What's cool about Barry Grey theme is there is a lot of contrast and a sort of call and reply of the instruments. You have things more just even balanced. Perhaps using velocity more in the patches would help besides bringing out certain lines.
The show aired in 1969 and a couple years later in the U.S. but they started shooting a year or 2 before. The Duncan Jones movie "Moon" is kind of amusing since they were clearly influenced in some respects. But UFO has that groovy score and moon women with purple hair.
The original theme has that combo organ but no synths. The show itself had quite a bit of Ondes Marenot on other cues. I love the BBC material but Anderson's shows have little in common with the Radiophonic Workshop imho. After the BBC Radiophonic got synths you had some great music but generally it wasn't as original and creative as the years before.
I remember seeing those shows on Voom but they drove me nuts because they cut the top and bottom off to fill the wide format. Cablevision seems to have suddenly pulled the plug on all of those stations in a dispute with a pay TV partner who didn't want them any more. I'm not sure, maybe that strategy looked good on a lawsuit involving damages from the partner, or more likely they'd make more money with them shut down than they were paying stuff over and over.
The RCA Synthesizer (Mark I) was a research machine to electronically realize music via punch cards. There may have been good motivations but I'm sure one motivation to fund it was RCA had lots of conflicts with the Musician's Union. It did coin the word "Synthesizer". There was also a Mark II where they built a new one using what they learned. They consulted with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Lab in the new one and they eventually were given it likely as a tax writeoff by RCA. It definitely forwarded the art of electronic music. By the way, it had no performer interface like a musical keyboard. You'd create scores programmed on paper punched ribbons that would be fed in and the music would be realized in realtime from the program and recorded.
One common misconception is a lot of people consider any or most electronic musical instruments to be "synthesizers". It boils down to how you define a synthesizer and if the person discussing it knows how it makes sound and the ability to control it, not just that it makes different electronic sounds. The Telharmonium was producing electro-mechanical sound. It was very groundbreaking and could make many different sounds. It's an ancestor of the synthesizer but not one.