Release year: 2020
Manufacturer website: Sonic Academy
Author: Matt Thomas (a.k.a. King Unique)
Duration: 2 hours 39 minutes 21 sec.
Handout type: Video tutorial
English language
Sample files: present
Video Format: TS
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920×1080 30fps
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 183kbps
Description: King is back with a brand new “How To Use” course, and this time he’s testing Arturia’s legendary ARP2600 emulation – a bit of a beast!
It’s divided into 3 sections: synthesizer, keyboard, and sequencer, and Matt carefully delves into each control of these sections, explaining how they function, using audio examples to demonstrate. , and this time he’s checking out the legendary ARP2600 emulation by Arturia and this one’s a bit of a beast!
Divided into 3 sections – the synthesizer, keyboard and sequencer Matt meticulously delves into each control within these sections explaining how they function using audible examples to demonstrate.
Content :
Tutorial 01 – Introduction and History (07:38)
Tutorial 02 – Overview (10:47)
Tutorial 03 – Oscillators (10:45)
Tutorial 04 – Filter (08:54)
Tutorial 05 – Noise Generator (02:09)
Tutorial 06 – Ring Mod, Pre Amp and Envelope Follower (10:52)
Tutorial 07 – Envelopes (08:47)
Tutorial 08 – VCA (05:56)
Tutorial 09 – Mixer (05:10)
Tutorial 10 – Effects (03:37)
Tutorial 11 – Voltage Processors (08:50)
Tutorial 12 – Sample and Hold (08:43)
Tutorial 13 – Tracking Generator (05:51)
Tutorial 14 – Tuning and Polyphony (05:42)
Tutorial 15 – LFO (03:31)
Tutorial 16 – Keyboard Controls (04:28)
Tutorial 17 – Sequencer (18:00)
Tutorial 18 – Preset 1 (09:27)
Tutorial 19 – Preset 2 (09:01)
Tutorial 20 – Preset 3 (12:34)
GREAT thing to stumble upon. King Unique’s videos are tuned just right for novice synthesists……. (made that word up…….. there’s bassist, pianist, why not synthesists?). Re: synthesizers……. my friend’s elder brother Philip was director of research & development at ARP since the early 70’s. He used to come back to his hometown of Annapolis for weekend visits. He’d set the 2600 up in his room then split for a few days to catch up with friends. Of COURSE we couldn’t suppress the urge to fool with this beast. This is the synth you hear on Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein”. Phil taught Edgar, Pete Townsend, Joe Zawinul and plenty others how to play and set up sounds from imagination.
It’s really interesting how many approaches there are to synthesis; subtractive, additive, etc. I was maybe 17 years old when Philip explained on a dinner napkin “velocity sensitive” keyboards they were developing. A sensor records the length of time ittook for a contact beneath the key to travel the distance from 0 to its contact with another contact below. Or if the contacts were at back end of keys, the contact would be above. The point is that the harder you play the key, the faster it traveled from its highest to lowest. Doing all that computation to determine pitch, loudness, timbre, etc. in the blink of an eye and using that velocity (speed of travel) to modulate loudness, resonance, etc. etc. All this development going on when the wheel wasn’t even invented yet…… revealing my age here π
Thanks amigo for the generous educational value of your site. No way of knowing your heritage or customs but regardless I hope Christmas brings joy and the coming year brings reward.