John Keston of Audio Cookbook sends in a fascinating project: he’s producing one sound each day from a different synthesizer. Sounds like a great way to build up a library of sounds. He writes:
On January 5, 2011 I started a new project on AudioCookbook.org called “One Synthesizer Sound Every Day”. It’s in the vein of the “One Sound Every Day” project I did from July 2008 to 2009, except focused on synthesis. Last week I surpassed my fiftieth article in the project.
I’ve been posting self-produced sounds from a wide variety of hardware and software synths including: Casio CZ-1000, Roland D-50, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Roland Juno-106, Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08, Roland MKS-80, Korg Monotron, Korg MS2K, MFOS WSG, Max, Max for Live, and Cableguys.de Curve Community Driven Synthesizer with more to come.
Some of John’s favorites, he says:
Eerie Pseudo Oscillator Microtrack
Juno-106 Bad Voice Chip Glitch
Roland Juno-106 with Bad Voice Chip Restored
Synthesizer Noise Jam #3 Though Master Effects Chain
Music Technology Soul Searching
Check out the whole collection:
One Synthesizer Sound Every Day [tag]
So far I'm drawing from about thirteen hardware synths, and a handful of virtual instruments (including what's in Reason, Ableton Suite 8, and a few odd things I'm building in Max or Max for Live). Suggestions on areas to explore are more than welcome. Thanks!
Great idea, but why do the sounds come as MP3 files?
try making a complete song with only one audio source per day. Pretty cool.
@Pavel So that you can listen and read at the same time on a non-HTML5 browser. Every so often I upload the .wav files to freesound.org, but it’s a time consuming process. Where’s my intern?