Digidesign Turbosynth
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Digidesign Turbosynth
This is not a necropost. I actually found turbosynth and got it working with sheepshaver under osx 10.6.7 and OS 9.0.
Does anyone have a manual for this thing?
Any cool tricks?
Any stupid tricks?
Any duck sounds?
edit: LOOK WHAT THE FUCK I JUST FOUND!!!!
http://theviirus.files.wordpress.com/20 ... manual.pdf
Does anyone have a manual for this thing?
Any cool tricks?
Any stupid tricks?
Any duck sounds?
edit: LOOK WHAT THE FUCK I JUST FOUND!!!!
http://theviirus.files.wordpress.com/20 ... manual.pdf
Last edited by steampoweredsequencer on Sat Aug 31, 2013 10:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I recently dusted off an old tune and re-worked it with my current studio and bandmate. The only sounds that we re-used were the ones I made by running an old Univox drum machine through Turbosynth. I still have an old OS 9 G3 iMac just for Turbosynth and Infinity.
One of my favorite Turbosynth techniques is to sequence a bunch of waveforms, plumb them through some waveshaping and then wrap a multisegment envelope around the output. The result is then loaded into a sampler (usually an old Mirage) and looped. I still have a few Turbosynth things on Mirage disks. Maybe I'll post a couple of examples.
One of my favorite Turbosynth techniques is to sequence a bunch of waveforms, plumb them through some waveshaping and then wrap a multisegment envelope around the output. The result is then loaded into a sampler (usually an old Mirage) and looped. I still have a few Turbosynth things on Mirage disks. Maybe I'll post a couple of examples.
Here are four examples of Turbosynth doing its thang:
http://www.theelectronicgarden.com/Scot/TurboMirage.mp3
It was a long time (decades!) ago, but I remember a bit about how I made them.
The first is the Univox being ever-so-slightly treated (from the song I just re-did).
The second sound is the same Univox sample being heavily violated by Turbosynth's waveshaper and maybe something else (ditto).
The third bit is all made in Turbosynth with some wavesequencing and multistage envelope modulation.
Finally, there is a bit of dialogue (saying "Attack/Decay") that has been thoroughly wrecked by TurboSynth.
http://www.theelectronicgarden.com/Scot/TurboMirage.mp3
It was a long time (decades!) ago, but I remember a bit about how I made them.
The first is the Univox being ever-so-slightly treated (from the song I just re-did).
The second sound is the same Univox sample being heavily violated by Turbosynth's waveshaper and maybe something else (ditto).
The third bit is all made in Turbosynth with some wavesequencing and multistage envelope modulation.
Finally, there is a bit of dialogue (saying "Attack/Decay") that has been thoroughly wrecked by TurboSynth.
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some versions did-not all, just found the old floppies for mine. It's sad that there were never any major significant updates for this and most other software I bought, kinda turned me off from buying software... modules are better, mostly...fishphacurr wrote:Doesn't it require Digidesign hardware? Or was it only some features required Digi gear? Man, that was on my first Mac, with 8 megs of ram. Fun times!
Now up and running and playing.
Tempted to try and recreate some vintage NIN Guitar sounds for nostalgia
Tempted to try and recreate some vintage NIN Guitar sounds for nostalgia
KB: Did you mike the guitar cabinets, or go direct?
TR: I never mike cabinets. I've tried it, but I just don't like the sound that much--versus just going direct or through amp simulators. Broken, for example, had a lot of that super-thick chunk sound. Almost every guitar sound on that record was me playing through an old Zoom pedal, direct, and then going into Turbosynth. Then I used a couple of key ingredients to make it sound unlike any real sound in the world, and layered about four of them together. By then, it wasn't a guitar anymore. It's an awesome sound.
KB: What are those 'key ingredients' you mentioned in Turbosynth you mentioned a minute ago?
TR: Usually I call up the Waveshaper and click through a few of them, or "convert sample to oscillator" sometimes. A real low pitch can get you some insane sounds. I also use the modulator: Taking the sound as one input, getting the oscillator module, taking something with a real low frequency that has a bell tone or some odd harmonics, and modulating those two can actually produce some awesome death vocal or guitar sounds.
Also, for guitar, almost everything was put through a Zoom 9030. I don't like the distortion stuff in there---it's too traditional sounding ---but I really like the amp simulator. So I take the direct out of that through the amp simulator in the Zoom, and you can get a pretty good, almost Pantera-ish power metal sound. I use that as a basis to start with, and since everything's recorded into the computer, it's easy to take it into Turbosynth and fuck around with it. Sometimes in real-time, too.
Quick 2 sec clip to get buzzy NIN type distortion with the Waveshaper, must admit dont know what im doing lol. Now need to figure out some mangling to screw it up more
http://soundcloud.com/kultschar/wish-nin-piss-about
http://soundcloud.com/kultschar/wish-nin-piss-about
I think it has to be 44.1 and 16 bit, at least the version I'm running. I don't know if there are any file size restrictions. I tend to feed it shorter loops...Kultschar wrote:Im guessing to import audio it has to be AIFF format?
Ive tried a small AIFF format file and it imported the sample ok however a bigger sample (11MB) I had no luck
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LOOK WHAT THE FUCK I JUST FOUND!!!!Kultschar wrote:Forgot I had a copy of this program hence got it running on my brand new Macbook Pro Retina via Sheep Shaver.
I guess there is no manual online in existence? Found loads of threads around the web requesting manual but no one seems to have found success.
http://theviirus.files.wordpress.com/20 ... manual.pdf