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Article from Music Technology, December 1987
More sounds from creative readers; this month LA meets FM as the Roland D50 and Yamaha CX5 are the favoured instruments.
Rudi Cazeaux, Whitstable, Kent
We think these are the best of the four useful patches Rudi sent, the first, 'Emutar', being a "steelish-guitarish sound inspired by an Emulator II demo disk". As well as being very easy on the ear, it has a convincingly guitar-like attack. The second patch, 'Orchime', is described by Rudi as "a strong orchestral sound, very powerful at the lower end". As the name suggests, it has some intriguing bell-like tones over a lush string base.
Tony Tory, Cirencester, Glos
According to Tony, this "gives a really raunchy, sizzling, powerful sound for slow or fast work", and he suggests using a hint of the D50 preset 'Resin Bow' in the lower register to enhance the bass. Although he's been using this sound for a couple of months he only sent it in to us when he "got round to reading the fine print about free subs!"
Can you provide audio examples and/or preset files for any of the patches in this article? More Info
For all the patch charts published in these magazines, we'd like to get audio demos, and if possible, sysex files, or plugin presets, so users can easily preview the patches alongside the chart and download them for their synths, without having to transcribe them first.
So, it would be helpful for the hardware we don't own, if others could transcribe some patches, and create a short audio demo of the patch, and if possible, sysex and/or plugin preset files for those patches, and upload them using the form on the articles featuring those patches.
Audio previews:
Max 4MB, preferably 5-20 secs in length, MP3 format only. You can make previews using the original hardware, and/or plugin emulations. Let us know what they are in the comments of your upload.
Sysex files:
Zipped *.syx files, containing just the patch entry (or entries) for one patch listing.
Plugin presets:
Many synths have plugin emulations which can recreate or import sounds from the hardware. Zip up a file of the formats you can generate, and let us know which instruments they are for in the comments of your upload. Host/DAW files such as FXB/FXP and AUpreset are fine, as are proprietry file formats for particular plugins. The more formats we can provide, the more useful the files are. If you can just download some patches and create some formats we don't already have and upload them, that's also helpful.
We'll be transcribing and providing what we can, but we'd be grateful for people who'd like to help with this - thanks!
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> Roland D50 (1) MT May 87
> Roland D50 MM Aug 87
> Roland D50 Synthesiser (2) MT Jun 87
> The CX5M Revisited EMM Mar 85
> Yamaha CX5 Computer 12T May 84
> Yamaha CX5 computer 12T Oct 84
> Patchwork EMM May 86
> Patchwork MT Feb 87
> Patchwork MT Jun 87
> Patchwork MT Sep 87
> Patchwork MT May 88
> Patchwork MT Jul 88
> Patchwork MT Sep 88
> Patchwork MT Jan 89
> Patchwork MT Feb 89
> Patchwork MT Mar 89
> Patchwork MT Apr 89
> Patchwork MT Jun 90
> Patchwork MT Oct 90
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