Posted on 01/10/1986
Posted on 23/07/1986
Getting the timing right With the progress of MIDI during the 80’s, this technology became increasingly essential in recording studios. In the first 10 years of MIDI, the prevalent audio recording method was still analog or digital tape. So an absolute key factor was the ability to synchronise the recordings on tape, with the MIDI sequencers. Being […]
Posted on 06/07/1986
The coherent and semi-magical mojo sound of a hot level recording to analog magnetic tape is generally considered attractive in the audio community. King of the lot I have had a range of analog tape recorders through the times. From the Sony first TC-270 2-track and Revox B77, over the Teac 4-track, Tascam PortaStudio, to the […]
Posted on 03/06/1986
After recording many albums in Denmarks internationally recognized “PUK” Recording Studios in the 1980s, and using the many devices in tha studio, I fell in love with one of the first professional digital reverberators – the Quantec Room Simulator. It featured some wild ambiences and reverbs, which could sound both very natural and very artificial […]
Posted on 01/04/1986
For a large MIDI setup there is no better way than to have a good programmable MIDI patchbay to take care of signal routings. Especially one, that can process the MIDI data on their way through the device. With the myriad of keyboards, controllers, synchronisers, mixing desks and other units with MIDI, it would be […]
Posted on 01/04/1986
The Oberheim Xpander was a very ambitious synth for the time (1984). It features a very flexible analog subtractive engine, and adds a Modulation Matrix that gives it a lot of extra flexibility compared to fixed signal path synths prevalent of the period. It’s 6 voice can be split in 6 fully independent monophonic synths, […]
Posted on 31/01/1986
Stack in a box While not exactly a Marshall stack, the diminutive Rockman Sustainor Distortion unit was actually quite a game changer when launched in the mid 1980’s. It allowed you to produce decent guitar tones, without the hassle of setting up a stack and miking it up. This gave smaller project studios a way […]
Posted on 09/11/1985
The Emu Emulator II is a nice machine, but originally came with a semi-hefty price tag that limited owners to recording studios and wealthy musicians. The sound library was available both on Floppy Disks and CD-ROM. The CD-ROM version is much more practical, since it contains a large library on each disc, with only little swapping of […]
Posted on 06/08/1985
The Roland MKS-70 is a rack mount version of the quite well-specified Roland JX-10 Keyboard. The JX series has a somewhat different architecture from the Juno and Jupiter series. It started with the JX-3P keyboard which had a different sound and approach. The JX-3P was followed by the JX-8P which expanded the feature set, and features a […]
Posted on 01/06/1985
This unit was one of the first commercially available MIDI-to-CV Interfaces to be produced. It has several operating modes, including Mono (4 Mono voices on 4 MIDI Channels) Poly (Up to 4 voices on 1 MIDI Channel) Used to control the Fluxic Modular System from Logic Pro X on the main DAW. Manufacturer: Roland […]