Hi Damon, Damon Chaplin <damon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Does anyone know what the "audio generator" was that Hawkwind used to > use on albums like Space Ritual (one of the best albums ever!). > > It produced sweeping, oscillating tones. I'd be interested to know > exactly what it was generating. I don't know Space Ritual, but "sweeping, oscillating tones" were often synthesized with EMS VCS3s (http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/vcs3.shtml). Brian Eno and Pink Floyd used those. > Is there anything like it on Linux? You could try Steven Cook's VCS3 emulation for Csound: http://www.csounds.com/cook/ Here are some patch sheets with example sounds for the EMS Synthi A (http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/synthi.shtml) which is nothing but a portable VCS3: http://home.online.no/~tom-rf/EMS/ regards, Sebastian _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
