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  1. See http://www.kentsandvik.com/2011/02/13/kent-loop-collection-vol-7-cheezy-machine For all the free loops, see http://www.kentsandvik.com/free-stuff
  2. OK, here's what he said. The decision to go high speed or low speed is based on a chirp protocol that is electrical in nature. The controller (Mac or hub) resets the device and uses the chirp protocol to see if the other end understands it, if not it switches to low-speed mode. In most cases it has to do with the device itself if an USB 2.0 device shows up as a 1.1 device. Sometimes there's an issue with cheap hubs, too. It would be rare if the Mac HW controller has problems. It helps sometimes to insert the device multiple times to see if that helps.
  3. I could ask a college who is an ex-USB device driver programmer if he knows what's going on. I still suspect a bad Flash drive that tricks the driver to switch to slower mode.
  4. Also, to set the record straight, the electronic instrument heard on Beach Boys' Good Vibration is not a theremin, it's an electro theremin. It mimics the sound of a theremin to some degree, but different construction as well as timbre. It's neither classified as a synthesizer in the popular music literature.
  5. Yes if this is a multitrack case... Maybe switch to Hyper draw mode and draw the MIDI volume settings with the pencil tool for the original MIDI region as a fade out, would that work out?
  6. But that's not how FM synthesis works. http://www.clavia.se/nordmodular/Modularzone/FMsynthesis.html
  7. If a theremin had two oscillators that modulated the output from the tone generators (oscillators) I would classify it as a synthesizer, as that's FM synthesis. If not, it's just a tone generator. Otherwise you need to call beepers, electronic door bells, car horns (modern ones), elevator door bells et rest synthesizers.
  8. You know, a guitar pickup produces sound waves with frequency and amplitude -- so let's classify electric guitars as synthesizers, too.
  9. OK then... Well, putting the Monkee's example I posted above to the side for now, I can't come up with an earlier and more clear cut example of a synth solo on a rock record than Lucky Man. I'll concede that. But maybe you should quit while you're ahead when it comes to discussing synthesis... I'm the first to admit I'm no synthesis expert, even after working in startups with software synthesis algorithms. But using false analogies to prove something is not exactly logical. I could classify a theremin an electronic instrument, but not as a synthesizer. That's how it's usually classified, as well.
  10. So do you want to delete the filter section on that web site to fit the theremin in?
  11. Yes you can. Just say, "an oscillating circuit where you control the frequency and amplitude with your hands, sculpting sound in the process, is the epitome of modulation". Or write it on the blackboard 50 times, as you have to stay after class here at Synth Skool. Tubes and circuits don't count? If so, why not? I don't consider pitch and amplitude exactly sculpting an original sound generator output as that's what the generator should do, provide pitch and amplitude levels. What happens after that is synthesis. Before that it is a sound generator, nothing else. The tube circuits case it where you could use some kind of legal means to try to make a theremin a synthesizer in a court case, indeed.
  12. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synthesizer http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/synthesizer http://www.yourdictionary.com/synthesizer http://www.answers.com/topic/synthesizer (this was a lame one) http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=synthesizer&i=52367,00.asp http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Synthesizer (best one imho) In all those definitions it would take a stretch to insert the theremin into the definition.
  13. Uh-huh J. It's indeed one good statement in a debate. Not.
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