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    New: Pictures at an Exhibition on a Korg Radias Synth

    Hi all,

    I have 3 different bands I write and release music as: Mutiny in Jonestown is my progrock/rockprog band, WytchCrypt is my doom metal band, and Morpheus is for projects based on classical or synthesizer only approaches. I've just uploaded my newest Morpheus project to youtube. It's my orchestration of the complete 14 piece Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition suite performed solely on a Korg Radias Synth. All the sounds were created from scratch using the subtractive synthesis engine of the Radias. You can hear the work here:


    Hope you like it!
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    Kompletely Korg-o-licious! But seriously, very well done!

    Thank you for sharing!

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    Thanks, I had a blast recording it
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    The Radias has such cool sounds. I have the Radias card in my M3 so I can get many similar sounds but of course the actual Radias has more control.

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    Cool. Before the Radias was introduced I had a pair of MS-2000R's - they had this cool interlace mode where you could connect them and double the polyphony. I had them for a few years then I saw the Radias and was blown away. Unfortunately, I didn't have the right situation to buy a Radias until 2012 when they'd been long discontinued. Luckily I found a used one in perfect condition online at a Guitar Center in Miami for under $600. I bought it on the spot and had them ship it to me on the west coast and have been loving it ever since! I've had a couple pretty cool analog-digital hybrid synths (Waldorf Q, DSI Poly-Evolver) but the Radias is my fave. Besides a great synth engine it has tons of knobs to play with, a decent display to see what's going on, and a pretty extensive patch bay routing feature. I hope mine keeps running forever
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    A great score!
    You are so right, having lots of knobs and other controllers really makes a synth, especially something like the Radias.

    My first experiences with synthesis were on a friend's Arp 2600 (back in the early 1980's). He also had a Mellotron 400d and a 1887 Steinway.

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    Cool...I never got my hands on a 2600 (or any true modular synth for that matter). In the late 70's I did play with this keyboardist who had an M400 white tron that I used to drool over
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    Quote Originally Posted by WytchCrypt View Post
    Cool...I never got my hands on a 2600 (or any true modular synth for that matter). In the late 70's I did play with this keyboardist who had an M400 white tron that I used to drool over
    Trons were still relatively common in the late 70's and early 80's. There was a Bay Area band that had two. That way, there was generally one that was working! (They specialized in doing Crimson covers so they needed a Mellotron.)

    I always liked taking the back panel off of my friend's 400d so that we could see the springs return the tape to the top of the travel...it made such a cool slithering sound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gizmotron View Post
    Trons were still relatively common in the late 70's and early 80's. There was a Bay Area band that had two. That way, there was generally one that was working! (They specialized in doing Crimson covers so they needed a Mellotron.)

    I always liked taking the back panel off of my friend's 400d so that we could see the springs return the tape to the top of the travel...it made such a cool slithering sound.
    Which bay area band? I played bass in Elfhouse in '78/'79 and we were in the San Jose area - we did some Crimso covers but we didn't have a tron...the only other local prog bands of that time I knew of that could have had a tron were Full Fathom and Netherworld...possibly Hush, Paradox, or Marathon.
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    Dang, I cannot quite remember their name. I have a flyer from the gig at home. I'll check tonight.

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    After searching my files I could not find the flyer. I'll keep looking!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gizmotron View Post
    After searching my files I could not find the flyer. I'll keep looking!
    Oh no! Definitely continue the search, I'm dying to find if it was a band I knew
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    If i can find the darn thing i am sure you'll know them.

    (I was visiting my old college roomie at the time and he took me to the show...he cannot quite recall the band but he sees tons of shows and since it was so long ago I guess we cannot fault him for not remembering. But I recall that at the time he said they were a fairly well-known local band. The singer was slender, smoked lots of cigarettes, and could nail Wetton's vocals. The drummer had the early Crimson style down. The keyboardist was very talented.)

    I'll find it!

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    This is excellent - good job!
    What if the Hokey Cokey really IS what it's all about?

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    i like the song very much, thanks for sharing!

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    Thanks SuperTed & jarmsuh...I've finished some new pieces (Night on Bare Mountain, Mars) and am currently working on Danse Macabre by Saint Saens...I'll probably post them on youtube...
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    Quote Originally Posted by WytchCrypt View Post
    Oh no! Definitely continue the search, I'm dying to find if it was a band I knew
    Hey WytchCrypt! I finally found the flyer! So it was the band NETHERWORLD and they played at Flapper McGee's on August 7, 1980. I just now ordered a CD of their only recordings. And there is a nice fan site that comes up right away when doing a search on the band. Fascinating stuff...to me, bands like these truly define "passion for music" since they worked really hard to play their music because they LOVED it, whether they became successful or not.

    (The cover charge was 80 cents and beer was 25 cents!)

    So did you know them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gizmotron View Post
    Hey WytchCrypt! I finally found the flyer! So it was the band NETHERWORLD and they played at Flapper McGee's on August 7, 1980. I just now ordered a CD of their only recordings. And there is a nice fan site that comes up right away when doing a search on the band. Fascinating stuff...to me, bands like these truly define "passion for music" since they worked really hard to play their music because they LOVED it, whether they became successful or not.

    (The cover charge was 80 cents and beer was 25 cents!)

    So did you know them?
    Sorry it took so long to reply...haven't been around for quite awhile

    Oh ya, everyone who played in late 70's Bay Area prog bands knew of Netherworld. Scott Stacy was pretty much considered the best prog guitarist in the bay area (along with a guy named Tim Alexander). They were the 1st - and only - of us local prog bands to get an album on the shelves of Tower Records. I was so naive at 18 that I figured with an album in Tower Records they must be rich and touring the world! So how are you liking, "In the Following Half-Light"? There's some amazing stuff there...Son of Sam, A Matter of Time, and Sargasso are my faves.

    After the prog scene blew up around '79/'80 I had my 'prog bassist seeking band' ad up in a music store and I got a call from the Netherworld keyboardist. I was super excited until he told me the band broke up and he and the drummer (maybe...don't remember for sure) wanted to go in a new wave direction and was I interested. I still wanted to play prog even though there was absolutely no chance of a record deal so turned them down
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    Nice work. Great stereo-effects.
    Thanks Rarebird! I love using the stereo field as much as possible and think it makes for a much more interesting listen. I just wish quadraphonic hadn't died so I could mess with front to back and right to left
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    I once played with the idea to do something simular myself. Even have all sheet-music on the computer, but considering how much time I needed to do an arrangement of Italian Concerto, I decided to leave it.

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    I hear you. From finding an arrangement I liked, to defining the Radias patches, to actually recording and mastering took a solid 4 weeks. Pictures is my all time fave orchestral piece though so it was well worth it once completed. All I can say is if you have a lot of passion around the piece you're considering, it might be worth beginning a new project to see how it goes. You can always walk away if you're not feeling the magic
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    Quote Originally Posted by WytchCrypt View Post
    I hear you. From finding an arrangement I liked, to defining the Radias patches, to actually recording and mastering took a solid 4 weeks. Pictures is my all time fave orchestral piece though so it was well worth it once completed. All I can say is if you have a lot of passion around the piece you're considering, it might be worth beginning a new project to see how it goes. You can always walk away if you're not feeling the magic
    My arrangement of Italian Concerto took a bit more, I think in total, with pauses something like a year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WytchCrypt View Post
    Sorry it took so long to reply...haven't been around for quite awhile

    Oh ya, everyone who played in late 70's Bay Area prog bands knew of Netherworld. Scott Stacy was pretty much considered the best prog guitarist in the bay area (along with a guy named Tim Alexander). They were the 1st - and only - of us local prog bands to get an album on the shelves of Tower Records. I was so naive at 18 that I figured with an album in Tower Records they must be rich and touring the world! So how are you liking, "In the Following Half-Light"? There's some amazing stuff there...Son of Sam, A Matter of Time, and Sargasso are my faves.

    After the prog scene blew up around '79/'80 I had my 'prog bassist seeking band' ad up in a music store and I got a call from the Netherworld keyboardist. I was super excited until he told me the band broke up and he and the drummer (maybe...don't remember for sure) wanted to go in a new wave direction and was I interested. I still wanted to play prog even though there was absolutely no chance of a record deal so turned them down
    So good to hear from you! I really hoped you'd surface to see that I had found the flyer.
    I very much enjoyed the CD and chatting with one of thew guys from the band (I sent him the flyer and I think he put it on their website).

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