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 - Beaver & Krause, Paul Beaver, Bernie Krause
2. Signal Generators: Sine Waveform: Slow-Motion Audible Example - Beaver & Krause, Paul Beaver, Bernie Krause
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 (1/8-1/2)
9. Rectangular Waveforms: Composition (Using 1/8, 1/7, 1/3, 1/2)
10. Triangular Waveform: Slow-Motion Audible Example
11. Triangular Waveform: Composition
12. White Sound Composition
13. Control Generators: Transient Generator, Amplitude, Frequency and ...
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. Portamento: Ribbon Control
19. Periodic: Vibrato (S) (Speed Increases as Pitch Rises)
20. Periodic: Sine-Higher Frequency
21. Periodic: Sawtooth-Swept
22. Periodic: Rectangular 1/2 - Swept (L2)
23. Periodic: Triangular - Swept
24. Periodic Combined: 3 Square Waves at Different Frequencies
25. Periodic Combined: 3 Triangular Waves at Different Frequencies
26. Periodic Combined: 4 Different Waveforms (2L), (2N), (2V), (2S) At ...
27. White Sound
28. Transient: Up an Octave, Back to Pitch
29. Transient: Up a 3rd, Back to Pitch
30. Transient: Down an Octave, Back to Pitch
31. Transient: Down a 3rd, Back to Pitch
32. Amplitude Modulation: Keyboard
33. Ribbon Controller
34. Periodic: Tremolo
35. Periodic: Sine - Higher Frequencies (S Sweeping S)
36. Periodic: Sawtooth (Neg-Pos - Going Swept)
37. Periodic: Rectangular (L2) Swept
38. Periodic: Triangular - Swept
39. Periodics Combined: 4 Square
40. Periodics Combined: 3 Triangular
41. Periodics Combined: 4 Different (S), (N), (L2), (V)
42. White Sound
43. Transient: Slow
44. Transient: With Rising Pitch
45. Transient: (Graphic Jagged Lines)
46. Ring Modulation: Sine Waves: Series of Sub-Audible Constants
47. Sine Waves: Tune in Parallel
48. Sine Waves: Tuned in Opposite Direction
49. Sine Waves: Sawtooth
50. Sine Waves: Rectangular (L2)
51. Filtering: White Sound - With Fixed Filters Selected 3rd Octave
52. White Sound - Tuned Filters: Broad
53. White Sound - Tuned Filters: Sharp
54. Low-Frequency Sawtooth - Tuning Through Harmonics
55. Composition - Tuning Through 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 16th Harmonics
56. Swept with Ribbon Controller
57. Periodic: Sine-Timbre Vibrato Effect
58. Periodic: Sine-Variable Rate and Depth
59. Periodic: Sawtooth (Descending and Ascending)
60. Periodic: Rectangular (L2)
61. Transient (Sawtooth with Transient Controlled Filter): 1
62. Transient (Sawtooth with Transient Controlled Filter): 2
63. Transient (Sawtooth with Transient Controlled Filter): 3
64. Transient (Sawtooth with Transient Controlled Filter): 4
65. Tape Delay: Single Repeat
66. Tape Delay: Multiple Repeat
67. Peace Three (Recap)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135515 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.