On The Run

modular · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:03 am Post subject: On The Run

An emulation of the famous Pink Floyd "On the run" sequencer in The Dark Side of The moon.

Play the Note A2 with low dynamic then move the Wheel up to opening filters and active aftertouch for the LFO's

This performance isn't still perfect but i hope enough close to the original,
main problem for me was capture exactly the tuned notes played on the VCS3 by Roger Waters, because i don't know well how build a note sequence yet.

Feel freely to suggest tips of course

On The Run II.prf2

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An Emulation of Famous starting sequence in Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon

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blue hell · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 12:37 pm Post subject:

If you want to see some 'on he run's (for NM Classic), maybe to see how others did it :

http://nm-archives.electro-music.com/010_NordModular/011_Patches/Smart_Mark/

http://nm-archives.electro-music.com/010_NordModular/011_Patches/Trawinski_Aka_(Radek)/

There are a few more that I catalogued under 'Grant' but I can't find those in the archive.

Jan.

ian-s · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 1:38 am Post subject:

It seems like doing 'on the run' is some sort of G1 tradition.
I just spent some enjoyable time researching the little EMS synthesisers, the VCS3 and the suitcase-like Synthi-A. I never played one but always admired the design.
They have a quirky envelope, capable of self-triggering but otherwise, an AHR type. The 3 oscillators (#3 is biased toward LFO type use) each have two mixable waveforms and a shape control. Oscillator 1 has ramp and a variable sine, the alternate sine shape is simply a full wave rectified sine.
The filter is (reportedly) a little bland and unassuming, early (pre 1974) units had an 18dB slope and they all had a slight slew problem (frequency slow to change with fast CV).
And must not forget that wonderful patch panel, where replacement pins cost more than decent patch cords and you have to retune the oscillators after making a new connection Shocked

So armed with all my research and a fresh copy of Dark Side Of The Moon, I have done a little G2 'on the run'. It sort of takes care of itself but if you feel the need, Filter cutoff is morphed to the mod wheel.
I think the origional was multitracked unless he had 3 or more synthi-A's

DARKNOODLE2.pch2

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On The Run for G2

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modular · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

This exactly is!

Thanks one time again g2ian Wink

blue hell · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:34 am Post subject:

Very very close Ian !

The highhats might need some extra tweaking, guess it's a real drummer on the record (the speed seems to vary a bit ?). And then of course the scratches and ticks my record has :-)

I tried putting in a metal noise osc instead of the regular noise, but that one costs a bit too much unfortunately.

This patch brings my laptop to a grinding halt, it's almost untweakable for me - maybe it thinks it to hot to compute (it would be quite right about that).

Jan.

ian-s · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:19 am Post subject:

Thanks for the comments guys, and the advice Jan. I just updated the post (DARKNOODLE2) with some minor changes.

Shifted the HiHat and background noise into the FX area, freeing some dsp and allowing small improvements. The hats now use a separate metal oscillator and are humanised with slow random lfo waves for velocity and timing (using mod delays). The background noise gets just a little more complicated with a randomB generator.
In the main section have just added a couple of modulated pan modules to shift Synthi 2 and 3 around in space. The timeline LFO has also been slowed to about a minute.
Hopefully it will be more tweakable now as well Smile

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blue hell · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:22 am Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject:

[quote="Blue Hell"]

derekrevell

PHOBoS · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:21 pm Post subject:

hmm I'd love to hear it but even if it would ~~on the run~~ run on the demo (no idea) the demo doesn't really run on my computer.
However I don't know if there would be any copyright issues with it. If not than I have a version somewhere myself I could
upload (not G2 though) and I know Blue Hell played with it too.

varice

varice · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:20 pm Post subject:

ian-s · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:45 pm Post subject:

This patch predates the G2 demo by quite a while. I think that the Demo is strictly a one dsp deal. If the total VA + FX > 100% then it won't work.

Here is a stripped down demo compatible version. No reverb and the randomization of the high hat-ish sound has been removed (not required anyway Wink

). Also some other stuff.

If you don't have the demo even, you can see the patch here

darknoodle2-demo.pch2

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stripped back for G2 demo compat

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