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PHI MU LABS: ORIGIN is a collection of timbres created specifically for FM synthesizers. These patches have been also used to produce PHI MU LABS, vol. II library for KORG WAVESTATE and are included in that package as well. ORIGIN also includes the patches in Native Instruments FM8 format. All patches had been dialed up
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Have my hands full with rehearsals and gigs – we’ve got some kind of a residentship with a local venue, which is an Irish Pub. The only problem for me is that it’s located on the other end of the city from our appartment, heh. On the other hand, walking just under 3 miles one
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Finalized a track yesternight, did some rough mixing-up earlier today. The electric guitar parts are real: awfully recorded four layers. I’m getting somewhat better with guitar tremolo, but it’s way too far from ideal. Well, it’s a demo, anyway.
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The weekend is going to be busy: Quite unfortunately I’ve been hit with nasty flu, so I’ll have to perform wearing a medical mask this time. Not an enjoyable experience. Elsewhere, it is utterly enjoyable to see how many people come to download Luminophore pack. And it looks like it’s not only about being free
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Recently looked into my – quite multiple – bandcamp accounts and discovered that the very first album by my first band had been released around this time back in 2007. 18 years ago. I was 18 years old myself when this project – Lacklustre Mirror – started out. Had zero comprehension how things are done
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Earlier today have uploaded a free pack for Surge XT synth to Gumroad (as freeware). And within hours got 5 downloads, with sixth extra – someone picked another freeware pack I’ve made for WhispAir previously. Looks like at least some interest is there. I guess, I know which synth I’ll be making patches for next.
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Music by Lacklustre Mirror (my old band). Lyrics by Alexandr Blok. Translated to English: How often do we all, me and you,Bemoan our life’s misery!Oh, if only you, my friends, could knowThe chill and darkness of the coming days! Now, you cuddle your dear’s hand,Play with it joyfully,Then cry, once you notice lies,Or discover this
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Uploaded my bank for Full Bucket Music‘s ‘Code Zero-One’ to Gumroad as a freebie. Code Zero-One is the free bank, which also contains custom wavetables created with AUDIOTERM software. They can be used separately. The winner of the KVR Audio Developer Challenge 2021, WHISPAIR is a 3-osc wavetable synthesizer with significant modulation capabilities, written in
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Messed up miserably yesterday uploading wrong files to Gumroad. Fortunately, fixed the issue before anyone purchased the libs. Aside from this converting the source DX7-compatible patches to FM8’s own format adding bells-n-whistles like filters and effects.
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The months-long work is done: Phi Mu Labs, vol. II – the FM-synthesis based sound library for Korg WAVESTATE synthesizer has been completed and published at Gumroad along with the first one. And here goes the video demo of several performances created with those multisamples I’ve been rendering and looping over all that time: Please
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In 1983 YAMAHA Corp. released DX7, the first successful digital synthesizer and is one of the best-selling electronic instruments in history, selling more than 200,000 units. DX7 and its derivative models utilized the Frequency Modulation sound generation technology developed by John Chowning at Stanford University and previously deployed, although with little commercial success, by Don Buchla.
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Second cinematic library for KORG WAVESTATE NATIVE plugin and hardware WAVESTATE synthesizer is coming – with a bonus.
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The latest gig was kinda alright, although the venue left a very unpleasant impression due to an abundancy of trashed barflies who appeared to be dying to put on some cheap-sounding muzak right after our performance. One of them – a particularly drunk and probably stoned – slammed us loudly for the refusal of playing
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…If/when you do right, every gig is a celebration. At least it should look like the one for the audience. It’s nice if it feels like the one for the performers – a better rapport with the audience is invoked then…
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With Sombra Del Mar band. Same place, later time: Sinori Pub, Batumi; starting at 21:30. Hopefully it will be as fun as it was last time. Besides, I’m going full steam ahead with completing Phi Mu Labs II library for Korg wavestate AND FM-based synths that can read SYSEX from Yamaha DX7. This is pretty
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It was a year of hardships for me. Don’t expect them to go away next year either, but somehow under pressure I’ve yielded more than, probably, ever: Written in memory of my friend Manticore, who suddenly passed away in late October last year. I knew him for 20 years… A sort of chronicle of the
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The independent web-label ‘The Day of Life Forgotten’ (Rus) have just released its seventh VA compilation from ‘Journeys, Wanderings and Immersions’ series. It features a track called ‘1000 Days’ by black-sided sun. The composition had been created using only custom-made timbres for Dexed (a Yamaha DX7 emulator), SurgeXT, Full Bucket WhispAir, and NI FM8. Below
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For some of my projects I used (somewhat maligned, occasionally) Z3Ta+ 2 synth by Cakewalk. The migration is always painful, but with this thing it is a whole new dimension of torture and misery. :-) Thing is, activating it is a very non-straightforward process, and having proper CD keys for Steam-based version in my case
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In May 2006, i.e. just under 19 years ago, I self-released the second LP with my project Decembered. It was called ‘A Treatise on Eschatology’. I was pretty much into Gnosticism back then, and basically that’s what the album was all about. Re-listened to it recently. Although those weren’t the brightest days of mine, the
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…Those are totally great about gigging: first is seeing people burst into dance to a classic rock music – I didn’t expect the old rock-n-roll is still that popular. Second – a blissful hush afterwards. A relative one, of course, – in the streets even past midnight there are still cars, some people and the
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Will play tomorrow late evening with Sombra Del Mar band in Batumi. For the first time. Wish me luck. We start at 21:30. Sinori Pub, 14, Marjanishvili str. Come to see us and listen to some real rock’n’roll!
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A photograph surfaced at Facebook, dating 12 years back. 2012 wasn’t easy for me. Two creative endeavours I’ve invested a lot of efforts in crashed, I’ve lost an ability to sing and compose music for many months, and it had become totally evident that I wasn’t going to become a professional actor. Even though later
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Just read somewhat a troubling news that My Dying Bride seems to have parted ways with their vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe. Or, rather, they are coming out of their hiatus (which saw them cancelling all the shows in 2024) next year and doing at least one festival with Swallow The Sun‘s frontman Mikko Kotamäki. It is,
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Joined a cover band as a keyboardist. The Beatles, Joe Cocker, Pink Floyd, Stray Cats, etc. I guess 20 years ago I’d object doing something like this out of pride – and illusions. Now it’s just another job to sustain myself in emigration. And by all means, the good and honest one.
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Going full steam ahead with making the second installment of my Phi Mu Labs – the FM-based timbres library for Korg wavestate. Cherry-picking or dialling up the timbres are fun, adapting them for the synth – much less so. Basically I render 14-16 .WAV files – two per octave (C and G notes). Some timbres
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Finally looked a bit more dilligently into a bunch of SBI files on my hard drive, and discovered a ‘golden lode’ – a number of timbres from Dune II: Building a Dynasty (aka Battle for Arrakis), the ‘mother of all real-time strategy games’. SBI stands for Sound Blaster Instruments: those are tiny files of instructions
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Will improvise some dark ambient with my #blacksidedsun project later tonight. If I get lucky, I’ll be able to record some stuff too. Not sure yet, though.
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