Prelude for Synthesizer in 13 Equal « Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil

[Vaisvil]

Prelude for Synthesizer in 13 Equal was performed on the above pictured midi controller using Albino as the soft synthesizer running in Sonar X1.

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[Bluesberry]

That sounds wicked good.  What is this strange looking guitar shaped midi controller you speak of.  I am very interested in that little beast.  How does it play/track/feel?  Lovely sounding piece.

[Vaisvil]

Thanks for the comment Bluesberry!

The midi controller
http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Mustang-PRO-Guitar-Controller-PlayStation-3/dp/B003RS1A7Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330187247&sr=8-1

http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/10/22/rock-band-3-fender-mustang-pro-guitar-controller-review

I found mine for $6 at Goodwill. I'd suggest looking there - at $100-150 it is a dubious buy - at $6 it is a no brainer.

I used a usb to midi adapter to get the signal to Sonar. An interesting property of the guitar is that is sends each string on its own midi channel - so in theory you could play 6 synths at the same time. I've done that with my Roland GR-20 and that is way cool.

[Ferryman_1957]

Interesting, nice stuff. I have a You Rock guitar (which is similar but different) and I keep meaning to play more synth stuff. For a guitarist these are great ways of doing something a bit different and I enjoyed what you did here. The controller seemed to work pretty well.

Cheers,

Nigel

[SteveB]

VS - Sh*t, that seems to have everything in there, doesn't it??
Certainly has potential. 

[Vaisvil]

VS - Sh*t, that seems to have everything in there, doesn't it??
Certainly has potential. 

I'm sorry - I don't follow your comment.

[Hook]

This was really interesting, I have a ? Chris, how do you approach a composition like this? Is this scored and would/could you perform this in that matter again (on another microtonal instrument perhaps) or is this improvisational experimentation to reach an end piece and then possibly score? Not that it matters one way or another, both can create fine pieces/compositions; I'm just interested.
That midi controller is an interesting guitar approach to synthesizers, very cool!
Rock on!

[Vaisvil]

While sometimes I do an improvisation "tuning unheard" sort of to speak in this case I approached it in a jazz fashion by laying out the framework and then improvising around that. I could repeat something like it it but not exact. But then that is how it is in most jazz too.

[Vaisvil]

I am very interested in that little beast.  How does it play/track/feel?  Lovely sounding piece.

It is a bit stiff - I felt like I had to work at it - but probably you can get around that by tinkering with the settings of it and the synthesizer you are driving with it. Or it could just be dying batteries seeing how I didn't bother to replace the ones that came with it.