David’s Adventures Through the World of Music Creation and Sonic Exploration

Just read on Waldorf Music’s webpage that Largo is under way.

It seems to be meeting all the previous specifications and my expectations are high!

KVR says it’ll cost you $299 / €165 (+VAT) to get your hands on this little bugger.

There are some sound clips available in this post over at Waldorf.

My remix ended up in third place, which means that you’ll soon be able to buy it at Klicktrack and iTunes and hopefully be able to stream it via Spotify.

HUGE thank you to everyone who voted for me!

My Pretorium remix of Emmon’s track “Lips On Fire” is one of five to win the remix competition over at Release Magazines site.

You can listen to the five final remixes in the player to the right at the site and then vote via e-mail.

Now I need Your help to reach what could be my, and Cut & Paste’s, big break!

We’re still working on the tracks for the upcoming mindXpander live gig at Norbergfestivalen. It’s extremely fun and we’ve just re-written a track from 1994. It’s called “Out of Gas” and features one of the best basslines ever written in the history of Space-synth and italo-disco ;o)
Excitement is starting to build up now. Really, really, need to practice!

Get your tickets here.

Beside that, I’m trying to work in parallel with the long awaited Ypsilon 5 album. Bare with me…

New picture up at Xpanderland as well! Big shouts to Estethia for the magnificent camera work, lighting and retouch.

Track of the week is Thermostatic with “Driving” (Spotify link). If you’re reading this - can I remix you guys?

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One of the things that I truly love about the Clavia Nord Lead 2 is its filter section. It has got four filter types, as I can remember: LP, BP and HP, all at 12 or 24dB. Correct, that’s only three. So which is the fourth? It’s called LP+Notch and it’s got a LP filter (duh!) with a setting of 12 or 24dB in serial with a notch filter (or band rejection, or band stop) at a fixed roll-off of 12dB. As far as I can remember, the lower roll-off of the notch filter had the same frequency as the LP filter’s roll off frequency. Modulate them both for best effect.

FabFilter released Twin² a couple of months ago. Seriously, it’s fantastic so grab the demo and try it out. It’s worth it! Read about the specifications here.

- “So, what about the trick?” you may wonder. Well, here it goes.
I wrote to FabFilter requesting a notch filter. In the current version, 2.01, it got LP, BP and HP - and you have two of them in either serial or parallel operation. You can build a notch filter using both the filters but then you’re one short for the Nord Lead 2 filter setup. FabFilter gave me a hint of using the filters in the delay section (there’s actually a delay section with two filters just as powerful as the main filters - nice work FabFilter!), so I tried it.
The patch kind of explains itself, so put it among the rest of the presets (preferably in a folder named David since there might be more patches from me and perhaps you’d like to keep them together to not clutter up the preset list) for Twin², fire up an instance and load the sound. Use the modulation wheel for filter cutoff frequency and after touch for some vibrato.