This 2-LP set is how I first learned about analog synthesizers, along with a Moog IIIp studio machine I rented at Mills College with my buddy Dave; an excellent tutorial even today!

Track Listing

1. Peace Three
2. Signal Generators: Sine Waveform: Slow-Motion Audible Example
3. Sine Waveform: Composition
4. Sine Waveform: Harmonic Synthesis
5. Sine Waveform: Non-Harmonic Synthesis
6. Sawtooth Waveform: Slow-Motion (Neg And Pos-Going)
7. Sawtooth Waveform: Composition
8. Rectangular Waveforms: Slow-Motion Audible Example
9. Rectangular Waveforms: Composition
10. Triangular Waveform: Slow-Motion Audible Example
11. Triangular Waveform: Composition
12. White Sound Composition
13. Control Generators: Transient Generator, Amplitude, Frequency And Timbre Modulating In Slow Motion
14. Sequential Voltage Sources, Composition
15. Frequency Modulation: Keyboard Control: 12-Tone
16. Quarter-Tone (One Real Octave: 2 Keyboard Octaves)
17. Ditone (Four Real Octaves Played In Keyboard Range Of One Octave)
18. Untitled
19. Portamento: Ribbon Control
20. Periodic: Vibrato (S) (Speed Increases As Pitch Rises)
21. Periodic: Sine-Higher Frequency
22. Periodic: Sawtooth-Swept
23. Periodic: Rectangular 1/2-Swept (L2)
24. Periodic: Triangular-Swept
25. Periodic Combined: 3 Triangular Waves At Different Frequencies
26. Periodic Combined: 3 Triangular Waves At Different Frequencies
27. Periodic Combined: 4 Different Waveforms (2L), (2N), (2V), (2S) At Different Frequencies
28. White Sound
29. Transient: Up An Octave, Back To Pitch
30. Transient: Up A 3rd, Back To Pitch
31. Transient: Down An Octave, Back To Pitch
32. Transient: Down A 3rd, Back To Pitch
33. Amplitude Modulation: Keyboard
34. Ribbon Controller
35. Periodic: Tremolo
36. Periodic: Sine-Higher Frequencies (S Sweeping S)
37. Periodic: Sawtooth (Neg-Pos-Going Swept)
38. Periodic: Rectangular-(L2) Swept
39. Periodic: Triangular-Swept
40. Periodics Combined: 4 Square
41. Periodics Combined: 3 Triangular
42. Periodics Combined: 4 Different (S), (N), (L2), (V)
43. White Sound
44. Transient: Slow
45. Transient: With Rising Pitch
46. Transient: (Graphic Jagged Lines)
47. Ring Modulation: Sine Waves: Series Of Sub-Audible Constants
48. Sine Waves: Tune In Parallel
49. Sine Waves: Tuned In Opposite Direction
50. Sine Waves: Sawtooth
51. Sine Waves: Rectangular (L2)
52. Filtering: White Sound-With Fixed Filters Selected 3rd Octave
53. White Sound-Tuned Filters: Broad
54. White Sound-Tuned Filters: Sharp
55. Low-Frequency Sawtooth-Tuning Through Harmonics
56. Composition-Tuning Through 2nd, 3rd, 7th And 16th Harmonics
57. Swept With Ribbon Controller
58. Periodic: Sine-Timbre Vibrato Effect
59. Periodic: Sine-Variable Rate And Depth
60. Periodic: Sawtooth (Descending And Ascending)
61. Periodic: Rectangular (L2)
62. Transient (Sawtooth With Transient Controlled Filter): 1
63. Transient (Sawtooth With Transient Controlled Filter): 2
64. Transient (Sawtooth With Transient Controlled Filter): 3
65. Transient (Sawtooth With Transient Controlled Filter): 4
66. Tape Delay: Single Repeat
67. Tape Delay: Multiple Repeat
68. Peace Three (Recap)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72733 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-16
• Number of discs: 1

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Customer Reviews

A Fundamentals Classic
If you are interested in the building blocks of analog synthesis, this is an essential tool. Even if you are into digital synthesis, it is a great primer for the fundamentals of electronic music. The record begins with a short, pleasant piece and then proceeds to sonically illustrate what sounds are and what they sound like. To some, once they get past the full piece, the rest will be tedious. To others, the rest will be like being taught the ABCs and will become a point of departure for conscious and knowing listening and composition. Like the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" boxed set, you hear the finished product, and then you get to hear it deconstructed and put together. Hopefully the CD will have the book that accompanied the record. It augments visually what the record demonstrates aurally. Originally an LP-based boxed set released by Nonesuch when it was a leading edge budget label headed by the honorable Teresa Stern and when synthesizers were still exotic, mine is a worn, battered and valued part of my record collection.