Scott From Canada
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I am always working on new music but I’m pretty slow. I do have 2 new CDs in the works though and hopefully they will be released in the next year.
This is a central location with blog posts about my synthesizers and guitars, as well as links to music and photos. Sorry about having to sign up to post comments but without that I get thousands of spam posts every day.
I ordered a couple of CDs from Amazon in Japan and wow are they fast! 2 days delivery time! I got a copy of Tomita’s Claire de Lune – Ultimate Edition. It’s an SACD with (I think) 5.1 mixes of his Snowflakes Are Dancing album. I’m only listening in stereo so far but it sounds …
Well my tech did amazing work again and the ob-8 is back in business. Hopefully nothing else goes wrong for a while!! We’ll be replacing most of the capacitors in the next few months and then it should be set for quite a while. Now lets hope my other synths don’t decide to start blowing …
Wow. I just checked pending comments and it turned out there were over 4000! Almost all spam. I might have to set the blog so only registered users can post. More info later.
Another year gone. And not much to show for it. Just some new songs. Hopefully someday they will pay off but for now they are just part of my musical education leading me to bigger and better things. My Korg Monotron Delay arrived and I have to say it is an amazing little synth, mostly …
I was going to do a short post just to mention that I’m working on a few new songs and then I turned on the OB-8 and… nothing happened! Dead again! Another dead cap probably. I can see why you really need to replace ALL of the old caps. If you don’t it’ll just keep …
The Oberheim OB-8 is fixed!! Thanks to a brilliant tech and a few new capacitors it’s better than ever! hopefully I’ll have some energy to write some new songs now.
Just thought I’d mention that I upgraded the system drive ( C: ) in my computer to an SSD drive for a little extra speed. I got a Crucial 128gb M4. This is definitely the best simple upgrade to speed up your computer without spending a lot. So far I’d say things are moving about …
Yay! The replacement VCO chips for the Yamaha CS-40m arrived. I plugged one in, tuned up all the oscillators (what a PAIN!!!) and it works great again. What a relief to have that fixed. Now I just have to get the OB-8 fixed and I’m all set again. Thanks to Doug at www.synthparts.com! Also, I …
New videos are up for Cutoff Frequency. I didn’t spend any time on them this time, and even shortened the songs a bit. I’d rather spend the time and energy moving forward, working on new songs.
Ok, the new CD, called Cutoff Frequency is available on CDBaby and soon on iTunes and lots of other places online. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/scottfromcanada3 Now I’ll put short versions on YouTube with basic black videos. It’s too much work to make even simple videos so that’s all I’m doing this time. No one is watching them anyway …
Well today FOAD radio played Thousands of Miles to it’s expansive audience of over 14 people! I’m sure this will have immense implications in the very near future. In other news, I’m making a few more mix changes to that song, and Relax and then hopefully I’m DONE! Also, the Dave Smith Instruments Mopho showed …
I don’t know if I want to post all the videos in here or not. You can find them on youtube in this account: http://www.youtube.com/user/scott2eh/featured I guess I’ll post one for now. Dream Fuel is the most popular so far, although that’s not saying much! Also, I may have the Mopho finally tonight!
I added up the times of the songs I have and it turned out I had 67 minutes, just right for a CD. But since I have a few spare minutes I think I will add a rock song I did last year to fill it out. It’s called “Thousands of Miles” and kind of …
And now for a new post in this blog. The new CD is coming along very nicely now. I have 5 songs finished plus 33 minute ambient thing currently called Relax. I should check the times because I might already have too much for a single CD! Now I need to think of a title …
Originally Posted: MONDAY, 13 AUGUST 2012 A new interview with Tomita, my hero! http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1586
Originally Posted: TUESDAY, 7 AUGUST 2012 After doing some calibrations on the OB-8, all of which went fine, I swapped 2 of the VCO chips from osc 1 to osc 2 and the problem moved as well. That means that 4 vco 1 chips on that voice card all died at the same time! I don’t …
Originally Posted: SUNDAY, 22 JULY 2012 Patrick Holder (at Teletech in Markham, ON) does it again! Alesis DMPro is repaired and so is my t.c. electronic M-One. Both had power supply problems. The CS-40m, on the other hand, is still there. We spent some time testing the oscillator circuits on friday and it looks like the …
Originally Posted: SUNDAY, 22 JULY 2012 Ok, the rack gear and the CS-40 have gone to Patrick for repair. Hopefully he can fix them. The rack stuff probably just needs new power supplies, but the cs-40m is going to be a bit tricky. He was busy re-capping an old Neve console for Daniel Lanois at the …
Originally Posted: MONDAY, 16 JULY 2012 Well the good news is I’m working on a song now I think is my best ever. I have 4 or 5 in progress and along with my long 33 minute ambient thing that should be the next CD. I’m pretty happy about it, but it’s hard work! Also this …
Originally posted: FRIDAY, 27 JANUARY 2012 Well, I will have to post a lot more about the Moog Voyager after I’ve had more time with it. So far I think it’s the most amazing synthesizer I’ve ever used. Really incredible how punchy and versatile it is. However I have discovered another small problem: The release …