This track is the result of a collaboration between Richard Courtel and myself. It was entirely produced on KORG’s workstation flagship - OASYS. Richard and myself exchanged either stereo tracks or the whole “project” as an OASYS file, which was made available as download.
All synthesizer and electronic percussion sounds are OASYS sounds. All effects, e.g. Delays, Reverbs, Chorus’, etc. are internal OASYS EFX.
Voices (for example mine) were either recorded with a Brauner Phantom microphone or taken from dedicated sample libraries.
Final mixdown was made with Digital Performer and a little treatment with Sony Oxford EQs.
Based on one of my older tracks recorded together with Ebse, and being available meanwhile on The Headroom Project’s record “Dominus Illuminato Mea” on iTunes, the below posted demo is a remix project together with Richard Courtel. Richard aka “RC” is a French OASYS user who recorded some very nice OASYS demos. Find out a bit more about RC and also about his collaboration with KARO at the end of this entry.
The audio demo has an abrupt end because it is far from being finalised.
If you hear a crash after 32s then this is not in the recorded audio file… it probably was a bat crashing against the window of your studio…. aliasing?
this is a current picture of the original MS-20 box in which I received the small black devil more then 25 years ago
So here is another iRandom audiofile. Everything was played in one piece. I made a lot of mistakes to prove this!
iRandom Xsample III
But seriously, everything was played in a row. Sometimes you can hear it when I switched to the next sound which is using completely different IFXs. I did not edit much, but there are two or three short sequences in which I decided to fade them out quite fast for obvious reasons. Furthermore I used a little bit of compression on the single stereo audiofile by using PSP’s Vintage Warmer PlugIn. For the sounds… yes, there is also some KARMA.
Most of the sounds are results of my work with Daz’s iRandom. Interestingly most of them are using distortion which is not the result of randomization… sorry, this was me. Usage of delays? Guilty, my Lord!
At around 5 mins (when you really listen that long..) you can hear my actual favourite sound. It is a single MS-20 sound using PWM + Ring. This sound comes to live by usage of the controllers. In this case it was Ribbon, Pitch Bender and of course the VJS. For this sound you really need the left hand to move the bender, the ribbon and the VJS. I made a “_pmm version” and a “_dolby version”, the latter playing the chords. The next song “sad ganges” is one of two STR-1 sounds.
At the end there is one.. no.. not “one”, it is my favourite STR-1 sound. And again VJS and Ribbon got used a lot. The sound starts as a kind of Dulcimer can become kind of Koto (not plugged enough I know! therefore “kind of..”) and in the lower range when you decrease decay and sustain its like a DX-7/TX-x16. All in one program..
Somewhere at the beginning you can hear a flanging sound like the one used by Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran in “planet earth”. But to be honest, this sound was programmed by Peter Schwartz aka “ski”… after some iRandomization it changed a little bit its character, but still benefits from the original programming which is using several (!) controllers. By the way, I used the controllers a lot.. but of course you realised that already. OASYS is a performers keyboard, we know it.
At the moment I have 17 iRandom sounds and 13 convential programs. The later are the result of my work, the first mostly, too but with one or the other exception (see above). As I was asked by several people if they can get the sounds I would like to announce the following. As soon as I have a complete bank full of sounds I will make it available. Details to be announced.
BTW - thanks to all the people who sent me their feedback for the iRandom demos.
As you probably meanwhile know… I am big fan of Daz’s iRandom software. Somewhere here you can find already an audio example and here comes another one:
iRandom Xsample II
The ambience consists of iRandom sounds only.
The “melody” sound is my favourite at the moment - a very expressive MS-20 solo sound. Unbelievable how you can influence the sound by just using the Pitch Bender together with the Ribbon. Completely forgot what the MS-20 is capable of!
In the short intro comes a kind of “synth chor” sound that reminds me a little bit on “Gina X”. By the way, now I know why Mr. Daz names himself a “Victim of LFO Abduction”. The chor sound is followed by a karmafied MS-20 program which is moving thru the stereo field. Last but not least comes the STR-1 “bass”.
…. and that’s how it can sound together with some KARMAfied drums - for some probably to much KARMAfication on the drums;).
iRandom Xsample II + KARMA
oops.. forgot - everything was performed “live”. Which means I looked for a fitting drum kit, for the right KARMA, pressed the record button of dp5.1 and triggered the drums. During playing I switched “a little” around, jumped between drum patterns, moved the faders… everything in real time. I did NO editing afterwards, no quantization, etc. as you can hear easily at the end of the file, where the drums are getting a “little” chaotic, sorry for that. That is what can happen within 30mins when you start playing on the OASYS and dig into KARMA.
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this is a current picture of the original MS-20 box in which I received the small black devil more then 25 years ago
