superiorinferior Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 This is great! I've always wondered how to get this sound without downloading a plug-in. Great stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 A little late replying... @ jon king, these are original patches which I created "from scratch" @ everyone else, very glad you're finding these useful! Best Regards, Ski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRobinson Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Thanks for the sounds Ski. Loving the MIDI 101: MIDI Demystified movie, it's amazing! Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Hi David, great to see you. Long time! And thanks for the kind words about my tutorial. You can prolly tell I had fun making it. Best, Ski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRobinson Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Hi Ski, Yes, it's obvious you are in your element and it makes the learning experience a breeze for a newbie to keyboard playing like myself. Much of it is way over my head but I'm sure after many many views the penny will drop. Love the sound of the Kontact software and the tecnique of splitting the score part "brilliant". I have SL MkII, M-Audio key station 61es and a Yamaha digital piano p-85 and the chapter on Midi Interfaces has opened my eyes to the possibilities. For now though I'm re watching CC Chapters. The Theremin sounds you've supplied here should integrate with the learning in your movie when I figure out where to start. Cheers! Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRobinson Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Start! Chapter 34. Multi-Timbral Instruments Logic (Voice to Channel). Using Theremin sounds create a score (chord) and use voice to channels function. Guitarist 45 years, keyboards (midi) 12 months so my hands are still looking for the frets when i turn them over to play keys new avatar pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Now THAT's an avatar worthy of some spooky Theremin accompaniment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRobinson Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 hehe 8) It represents Golden Geometry and Harmonic Structure. (Luthier history). The quality of the avatar is poor but I'll get it right eventually. Your movie has really got me inspired here. Woke up a couple of hours ago with all sorts of ideas, just got to figure out how to go about setting up the project now. There's not enough hours in the day to learn all this new OS X Logic world. Here's a taste of the mechanism I do understand. Be good to create a soundtrack! Cheers! Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armenjc Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Ski and Francken, thanks for your Theremin patches! Snowden, thanks for starting this thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillo jr Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Thanks for these presets guys! How appropriate, I just saw this a couple of days ago........ some Autumn Leaves on Theremin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillo jr Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Couldn't resist, made one of my own! I was kind of going for the sound of that theremin in the video and I've added my version to Franckten's modified ski song file. (This may end up like one of those stories that get passed around a circle.) This one's another ES2 variation. I started with ski's "ES2 theremin 2" and ended up with a tone somewhat closer to Franckten's ES1 preset. Control vibrato speed with the Modwheel from almost zero to full on and volume with the Pitch wheel. theremin basix 3.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Nice on Camillo! I'm liking the variations a lot, everything from whacky sci-fi to more refined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael2 Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 you have no idea how much I use this sound. I also sounds neat playing it lower than a theremin would play; really great for melodies. here's another track I used it on. I layered it with some choir vocals at 1:30 and it made the whole thing sound really warped (in a way that I find appealing): I also used the Pink Floyd "ping" patch that Higgs F. Boson posted in this thread. http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=66088 you guys are such an incredible resource; I have learned so much from LPH and am really glad that I stumbled across it. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iaresee Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 @ski: just wanted to say thanks for the patches. I used one to nail the haunting theremin thing Nick Rhodes has going on in the background of Leave a Light On, off the new Duran Duran album. Worked perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillo jr Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 By complete fluke, while I was over at macProVideo yesterday, I discovered that ski has greatly expanded his original theremin set to a couple of dozen presets..... so if anyone here hasn't recently DL'd the song file at the top of this thread I'd advise you to grab it again since it's been greatly expanded! Great stuff ski! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 @ iaresee, thanks for letting me know about how you used them. Great! @ camillo, yep, indeed! I expanded the collection to 25 theremin patches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Steele Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Very beautiful sounds. I am new to synthesis and wondered if there is a way of controlling the rate of LFO1 during performance in the two ES2 patches? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I am new to synthesis and wondered if there is a way of controlling the rate of LFO1 during performance in the two ES2 patches? Yes. Set up a modulation routing with Lfo1rate as the Target and your controller (for example ModWhl for modulation wheel) as the source. If you don't want to use one of the standard controllers the modulation router offers as a choice, you can set the source to Ctrl A: Then at the bottom left of the ES2, click MIDI, set Ctrl A to "- learn -" and move your controller's knob/fader: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Steele Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Thanks that's very useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 No problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbentler Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 These sound great but I'm still struggling to move them from Logic Pro 9.0 to mainstage 2. Any help on that would be greatly appreciated as they sound great in logic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 These sound great but I'm still struggling to move them from Logic Pro 9.0 to mainstage 2. There should be no moving required: MainStage 2 and Logic Pro 9 both have access to the same plug-in settings. You can check for the presence of the setting under your home folder/Library/Application Support/Logic/Plug-In Settings/ Both Logic and MS should see the settings saved there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Lorentsen Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 @ camillo, yep, indeed! I expanded the collection to 25 theremin patches Hello, I´m a bit late to the party (5 years or so), but I just discovered this thread while looking for theremin sounds. I have downloaded the original file in the top of this thread, but I can´t find the set of 25 (or so) sounds, also suggested by camillo jr. When I open the Logic 8 project, I can only see the 3 original sounds that ski referenced early on (to be fair, that´s all I need - I´m just curious ). Great stuff, by the way. Andreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 I can´t find the set of 25 (or so) sounds, also suggested by camillo jr. They are at: https://ask.audio/articles/mpv-free-stuff-theremin-patches-for-logic-pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0msar Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Thank you so much! This theremin was exactly what I needed for a project. Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDuser Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 10 years later and this still works like a charm. Thank you ski! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayUK Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Years later, that theremin still works a treat. You guys are geniuses! Big thanks from the UK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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