Sound designer Paul Schilling shared this video, which explores recreating the lead sound from Talking Head‘s Burning Down The House.
Schilling demonstrates the patch with the Sequential Prophet-5, but provides tips for recreating it on the Prophet-6, as well.
What he say about it:
“I only mention this at the end of the video, but the way I hear it in the original, the filter in this sound is wide open. The character comes mainly from the combination of pulse waves, detuned unison, and oscillator sync. I focus mainly on the oscillator, unison and glide settings but the envelope settings are also quite simple…fast attack and release, sustain all the way up.”
Tips for creating this on a Prophet-6:
To get a fresh “init patch”: While holding down the PRESET button, press the WRITE button
To set the number of Unison voices: Hold down UNISON button, use the BANK/DECREMENT and TENS/INCREMENT buttons to set the number of voices
To set Unison detune amount, use the SLOP knob
To get Osc A to have both saw and square/pulse waves, set the SHAPE knob to 2 o’clock (halfway between saw and square shapes)
Sound Workshop shared this sneak preview of the Quord drone synthesizer.
Quord is described as a “harmony exploration machine”, with 4 sawtooth waves on long pitch sliders that flow into a mixer, filter, and distortion. This video discusses some interesting behaviors that emerged from it.
Details on pricing and availability for the Quard are to come.
It looks like Moog’s still-to-be-announced new polysynth may be called the ‘Muse’, rather than the ‘Mirror’.
In the last month or so, several teaser images for a new Moog synth have been shared on social media – including some images via Andrew Huang, and a glimpse in one of Moog’s official videos. The speculation has been that the new synth would be called the Moog Mirror, because the company had trademarked that name.
Moog has not officially made an announcement on this yet, but a new image, shared by @therealmikedean (via reddit), teases the Moog Muse, an 8-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer. The Moog Muse promises to deliver something a lot of people have been asking for – a more affordable Moog polysynth. Official details for the Moog Muse are still be to be announced.
In the meantime, share your thoughts on the Moog Muse – and the possibility of a ‘midrange Moog’, in the comments!
