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Meeting held October 24, 2013 at Shoreline Community College, Shoreline Washington.

AES PNW Section Meeting Report
State of the Art in Modular Synthesis
with Steve Turnidge
Author, Mastering Engineer, co-Founder Mostly Modular Trade Association
Ars Divina/Ultraviolet Studios, MMTA, PNWAES
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Steve Turnidge with James Husted of Synthwerks.

Audio recordings of the meeting:
48k mp3
Part 1 (55.4MB mp3)  
Part 2 (41.4MB mp3)  

Photo by Bob Gudgel


Steve Turnidge, mastering engineer, author, and co-founder of the Mostly Modular Trade Association (MMTA), brought us up to date on the current trends in the re-emerging world of modular synthesis, on the eve of their "Synthfest" Oct 26. 13 AES Members and 16 non members attended.

Steve introduced James Husted of Synthwerks. James described the basic components of modular synthesis, how sounds are created, and a brief history of East/West coast synth evolution.

There was a short jam session with Steve demonstrating how a guitar can be used as a sound source in a modular synth.

Also demonstrated was a more complex sequencer module from Division-6.
Next up, a video demo of an innovative sequencer module designed Mickey Delp of Delptronics was shown.

A Skype discussion followed, with Danjel van Tijn of Intellijel Designs in Vancouver, BC about their latest synth modules.

After a break, door prizes were awarded, including a Quneo t-shirt, and the Steve Turnidge books: Desktop Mastering and Beyond Mastering.

Continuing, Christian Heilman explained the features of the Mcmillan instruments touch pad controllers and gave a short performance demonstrating its capabilities.

A short discussion and performance was given by Greg Campbell (aka "Pressure Suit"), who integrates several software programs and video triggers to produce Dub Step / Glitch music.

Lance Hayes (aka "D.J. Drunkenmaster") provided a short history of his background and discussed how he uses Reason software to compose/design sound tracks for video games and his most recent work with Forza Motorsport games in particular.


Reported by Greg Mauser, PNW Committee Member


Last Modified 7/28/2015 08:50:15, dtl