On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:34 +0200, Sebastian Gutsfeld wrote: > 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. Yes, I think that's probably the one. They are listed as users of it: http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/emsstory.html#users > > Is there anything like it on Linux? > > You could try Steven Cook's VCS3 emulation for Csound: > http://www.csounds.com/cook/ It doesn't look much fun trying to write .sco files for it though. If I ever figure out how to write a MIDI-based synth on Linux I might have a go at it. (I'm glad I bought a MIDI keyboard with lots of knobs and faders on now!) Thanks very much, Damon _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
