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Stars at Dawn is the musical project of writer and producer Brian Baron. By blending sound design with traditional musical instruments Stars at Dawn has become a powerful artistic expression of Brian’s mind. By exploring topics such as consciousness, death, emotion, loss, and the journey each person takes through life, Stars at Dawn hopes to elevate the listener to a participant in the process of artistic creation.
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TSTNAM 8: One of the most impressive DIY sound systems I've seen.
In today's video I'm interviewing Cameron of Stink City fame. Over the last few years he has been building the Chillmaxx system, which is one of the best sounding rave PA systems I've ever heard. This is especially impressive considering that it was mostly built from bargain components which he has modified and finessed going as far as building a custom front of house software system for tuning and controlling everything.
00:00: intro
00:41: how the Chillmaxx system got started
03:09: the impressive thing about the system
03:30: how he achieved this sound quality
04:47: What makes a good system
05:20: How to tune a system for phase
07:20: knowing a system by heart
07:31: the custom software
11:21:...
00:00: intro
00:41: how the Chillmaxx system got started
03:09: the impressive thing about the system
03:30: how he achieved this sound quality
04:47: What makes a good system
05:20: How to tune a system for phase
07:20: knowing a system by heart
07:31: the custom software
11:21:...
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I built a crazy ambient groove box that plays for hours.
Просмотров 1643 месяца назад
In today's video I'm going to be explaining how my new ambient groove box works, how I built it out of stuff I already had, and why I think you should build one too. 00:00: intro 01:57 The role of the tenori on 03:00 explaining the channels and how I'm using the edge and strega 04:34 music starts 05:21 explaining channels 2-16 05:55 korg nano pad 06:45 the cassette player 08:13 changing key 09:...
37 minutes of relaxing ambient music.
Просмотров 1504 месяца назад
Chill out and watch me play some live improvisational ambient and experimental music. Follow Stars at Dawn: Patreon: www.patreon.com/likestarsatdawn Instagram: likestarsatdawn Twitter: likestarsatdawn Email: Inquiries@likestarsatdawn.com
We FAILED To Make a Lofi Album in a Day!
Просмотров 704 месяца назад
I spent a day with the awesome guitarist Ian Hughes trying our best to create a complete lofi album in a single day. We failed, but maybe the lofi was just the friends we made along the way. Sit back and watch our creative process as we go from nothing to complete track. Check out Ian's music, performance schedule, and classes at: www.ianhughesmusic.com/ 00:00 Intro 02:48 Setting Up 04:19 Track...
The Behringer Edge In Depth
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The Edge is a lot of features for the price, but is it worth the buy? It's a strange instrument that has made me need to think outside the box in order to fit it into my creative process. Grab something to drink and come with me to explore all the knobs and switches. 00:00 Intro 02:36 Oscillators 09:12 The Sequencer 13:08 Noise, Filter, and VCA 19:08 What I've been using the Edge for 23:26 Outr...
Quick Techno Jam For Spring
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As I've been utilizing more and more hardware into my setup I've been having a lot of fun experimenting with how much I can do with very little. In this video I'm using CV tools pitch control to create a very simple progression and then the rest is just me jamming out. It's amazing how much can be done with so little, but the ultimate goal is to fully integrate these tools into my workflow for ...
TSTNAM Episode 8: Ian K
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Stars at Dawn sits down with another home town hero of the Seattle music scene, Ian K. As a master of Hardcore rave music production and DJing Ian has headlined some of the biggest and most important shows in the Hardcore rave scene. This is a long one, so grab an beverage and join us for a great conversation. 00:00 Intro 01:34 What make you pursue this crazy path? 04:26 The influence of MCing ...
Getting to know the Make Noise Strega and the Behringer Edge
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Getting to know the Make Noise Strega and the Behringer Edge
How I Sync Ableton to Cassette Tapes
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How I Sync Ableton to Cassette Tapes
Guzheng, Harmonica, Tape Loops, and Tenori-on
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Guzheng, Harmonica, Tape Loops, and Tenori-on
Stars at Dawn - Driving with you (Feat. Myles Lawrence)
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Stars at Dawn - Driving with you (Feat. Myles Lawrence)
Stars at Dawn - A Creature's Words (feat. Roger Fisher)
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Stars at Dawn - A Creature's Words (feat. Roger Fisher)
Sound Design With Tape: Tape Adds Bonkle.
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Sound Design With Tape: Tape Adds Bonkle.
TSTNAM Episode 5: Rock and Roll Legend Roger Fisher
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TSTNAM Episode 5: Rock and Roll Legend Roger Fisher
TSTNAM Episode 4: My Arch-Nemesis, Subaqueous
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TSTNAM Episode 4: My Arch-Nemesis, Subaqueous
Vaudeville Vice - Under the Street Lamp
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Vaudeville Vice - Under the Street Lamp
TSTNAM Episode 3: Exploring The Traditional Guzheng With Yashar Garzan
Просмотров 2502 года назад
TSTNAM Episode 3: Exploring The Traditional Guzheng With Yashar Garzan
TSTNAM Episode 3.1: The Story of the Tea Tasters
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TSTNAM Episode 3.1: The Story of the Tea Tasters
TSTNAM Episode 2: Saxophone, Musical Metaphysics, ASMR, and the Dangers of Dog Ownership.
Просмотров 522 года назад
TSTNAM Episode 2: Saxophone, Musical Metaphysics, ASMR, and the Dangers of Dog Ownership.
Yeah, this is a great overview the Edge. Thanks for this..
This is best tutorial
Thank you so much!
Short answer: yes. If you can show constraint 🎉
Thanks for the great demonstration of the Edge features. Nice music too 🎶🔥
Your voice is sooo relaxing. THanks for this!
You're welcome!
I've had my Strega 2 years and never really been able to get into it.
I love the rainbow ...
During a particularly dark time in my life I was out on a walk with my wife and she told me that everything was going to be alright and she encouraged me to pursue music as a career. I decided to follow my passion and right at that moment this immense double rainbow appeared right in front of us in the field we were walking through. She took a picture of it, and I've made music with it on my desk ever since.
Great vid! Quick question: how exactly did you set up the CV Clock In and Out in Ableton? I tried following along but got a bit stuck. Any chance you could break it down a bit more? Would really appreciate it!
There are two tools that I'm using. The first is CV Clock Out, but honestly you could just get a sample of a CV pulse. Once I have that I run it at a BPM I want along with any other audio I want on my tape and record the entire length of the tape. This is best on a 4 track cassette deck because it gives you three tracks to record music to. I want to do this with a reel to reel at some point as well. (but my reel to reel's write head is busted sadly.) The next step is to bring the tape audio back in using your preamps. The track with the CV pulse will have a utility on it called CV Clock In. This tool let's you set your BPM and transport using the CV in signal. Here are the tools I'm talking about: www.ableton.com/en/packs/cv-tools/ Also, if you ever want help you can join my discord and I can talk you through it more: discord.gg/YUzaEJxSNu
Thanks for this… I learned a few interesting things. I’ve been incredibly curious about this for a while. 👌🏼 Also… your cat looks SO adorable!
She's my studio cat. She increases audio fidelity when she lays on cables.
wonderful🤙😍🫡
Thanks!
What is the name of that wind instrument at the end?
That’s called the hulusi. It’s a wind instrument of several minority peoples in China. It’s most commonly associated with the daizu.
Enjoyed this a lot, got more and more interesting through the interview 👌🏻
Always a pleasure my dear friend.
This was amazing!! Thanks for doing this. <3 Way to go Cameron, Mike, and everyone involved in Chillmaxx and the stage.
One of the best, most talented crews that I've seen. Massive props to all of you.
Thank you so much for doing this, was good to talk to you about everything. Made my night for sure.
Thanks man, the pleasure was all mine!
Definitely sounds amazing for sounds other than percussion so i really enjoyed your demo. Btw the env knobs are +/- so 12 oclock is zero envelope 😎
Thanks so much! That's a detail I missed.
@@likestarsatdawn yeah i tried doing a few synth demo videos but got completely discombobulated and gave up. Its much harder than it looks. So much to remember!!! 😎😎
@@drstupid1 Working on the two I have done really makes me appreciate loopop's work a lot more.
@@likestarsatdawn yep he's a wizard. Starsky carr has some good Edge vids too 😎
Really love how you broke down the different parts of the synth, very helpful :)
Good music, I usually just skip over the introduction and listen to the music. Forgive me I really like your music, it's just your introduction is a bit long
I’ll keep it snappy for you in the next video, ;)
This is great! I really enjoyed how expressively you used the texture of the sounds👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Glad you liked it!!
Holy shit this is cool. Nice work man!!!
Thanks so much! As an electronic musician it is a struggle to make something that feels live and immediate. This thing has been awesome.
Great video dude, I have had the Strega for sometime now and it still continues to surprise me, I can get lost for hours with it, very unique piece of gear
Thanks so much and appreciate the sub.
I've had great fun experimenting with the edge so far, it's great to see what others are doing with it too and to really push it's possibilities.
I like this
Thanks so much!
Excellent video and i like rhat song u made toward the end. Thank you for doing this
Thank you and you're welcome. I've had a lot of fun.
Sounds good! Id love to try too, if I could connect Edge to my damn Novation Launchkey mini mk3 plastic garbage controller with the correct cables and channel settings but still refuses to do anything.
how about the activation knob?
2:14 - 2:17 no words..... loop, add beat = Bean bag in smoke filled room.
Thank you!
Brilliant
Thanks so much!
Cool
Thanks, I appreciate it!
@@likestarsatdawn 🙂
I'm waiting on mastering and then all our tracks for this project are going to go into a lofi playlist. Looking forward to sharing more with you all!
Cool idea, and it was fun to watch, but where are the tracks? It's a little anticlimactic to watch two people work on tracks that you never get to hear.
I was considering this as well. Part of me wants to release everything as a single album, but I do agree with you. (There are advantages to releasing in bulk, such as discounts on mastering and copywriting.) I think I’ll just add them to a playlist and link them with cards in the video.
There's no "u" in Moog.
I remember the song, personal jesus with Marilyn manson, with this sound.
Manson's music always had such great synth work. I was particularly inspired by Coma White growing up.
The one feature is missing that i really was hoping would be "added" to theirs is the midi ability to trigger each step like a drum machine. Sonoclast makes the device for the dfam called mafd.
Wouldn't a Korg SQ1 analog step sequencer be able to do this? Or would that be a different result? Oh yea you said MIDI. So that's not the same at all. I'm new to all this synth madness so maybe I'm way off base here. I have both devices. I just haven't tried pairing them together yet.
I was able to get around this by borrowing some features form the neutron. It's not convenient, but you can get around this with the advance patch point.
Bro this is so real
Thanks!
Probably worth? It’s worth a lot more than the going price! That’s not an opinion either, it’s most versatile piece of equipment I have. I want another and soo as possible!
Yeah, I love it. I want a 32 step version that lets me set the loop as 8, 16, and 32 steps. xD
I don’t know if I would define it as a sound mangling device, I use my IPad a lot as virtual eurorack. The program dedalus is an IOS Mangler and I stated using it with Strega and basically everything and anything! Great video, especially on a Strega! I just love it but man is it pricey! I think you’re on the right track though, I’ve commented on many Strega demos on RUclips that I use it as a noise oscillator and it really works great in that purpose! I plan on connecting the Behringer Chaos and something with a midi gate and see what I find! I find it hard to believe there is zero MIDI, you might have the whole set to make that function work, I’ll bet I can work around that though! peace!
I have used the neutron a lot for just the patch bay. Honestly, I'm considering building a little skiff for just utilities that make everything else a little (or a lot) more useful.
Super fun!!
Thanks!
One day ill be able to find one of these in stock at a regular price 🙌
Sweetwater put me on a waiting list, and it wasn't too bad: just a couple of months.
@@likestarsatdawn came back in stock today and copped immediately, watching this video was my good luck charm lmao
@@flazay_da Every minute of my videos is imbued with good mojo. Glad I could help!
Just FYI, it has a totally different VCO than DFAM. Edge has a 3340 curtis clone, same as most of their other "clones". In the case of Edge it works out pretty good, ends up sounding even more gritty than a DFAM, great on snares and hats, but the bass tones are def not the same. Crave is just way off from M32. Also, a Moog style ladder filter has been copied ad nauseum already, including on their own Model D and Poly D, so I assume it's the same on Edge and Crave, it's just the VCO that's totally different. Nice tune at the end.
Thanks so much for that information! I found comparisons of the ladder to be slightly different from the DFAM. Is the difference just from the way it interacts with the VCO? Can you explain the difference from the bass tones?
@@likestarsatdawn I haven’t tried running any audio from a moog through crave/edge filter. I should try that. But I have model d and poly d and next to my moogs (I have quite a few) the behringer filter is very close, as is the vco. I’ve always just assumed that crave/edge has same filter since it in itself doesn’t sound different to me. But the vco is glaringly different between crave/edge and a moog/model d/poly d. Crave/edge vco is same 3340 Curtis they have in pro 1, neutron etc. MS1 has it too, so their ms1 doesn’t sound like a Roland either. Behringer keeps teasing mk2 with Roland-like vco. As it is with the 3340 Curtis, many of those behringers sound like a sequential/Dave smith. So DFAM/m32/Subharmonicon has a buttery tone, whereas the 3340 synths have more presence, sounds like pro 1. I’ve found the crave/edge to be kind of a cool hybrid, just doesn’t sound like the moogs. It’s most obvious on the bass and lead sounds. But the edge can really dig in with some strident sounds so I actually like it lots. I don’t think most people would notice the difference frankly, but I’m not being a purist when I say they just don’t sound the same. Like, quite different to my ears. Sequential vs moog, but with a ladder filter. It’s weird how they sound, nothing like it.
I have edge, I also own moog32 Edge it self is fun and everything, but lacks the moog warmth, it’s too harsh and too gritty for my personal taste, it’s cutting too sharp through the mix, perhaps it pairs better with crave or any other behringer synths, Not with the moog,
@@robertbanys yeah there is a difference. I kind of like that grittiness on the edge, but it doesn’t pair with m32 or Subharmonicon like dfam can. Edge can add a certain character to drums on the high end that dfam doesn’t and can even kind of do a Berlin techno sound on low. With the moog trio, Edge works quite well I think, even if it doesn’t replace dfam, where crave is truly the odd one out. But edge and crave go well together. The moog trio sounds incredibly warm, beautiful even, with just a bit of fitting crispiness from dfam, where the Behringer stuffs are in your face, not as much as Arturia stuffs, but getting there (I'm talking the Minibrute 2S here, which is basically the same thing function wise). It’s like a middle ground but that CAN'T do the extremities (warm or harsh (and I mean really harsh)) of moog and Arturia respectively. Anyway, all said, there is an undeniable magic in the that all Moog ecosystem that can't be replaced by the others, which doesn't mean that that magic is the only magic, but it is magic, so gorgeous. Having said that, I'm most definitely keeping the edge and 2 craves I have, even on the lookout for another used edge. Again, I promise, I am not being a purist or a snob, these differences are obvious to anyone with an ear and the Minibrute 2S sounds absolutely nothing like a moog, but I have 2 of those.
@alexwestconsulting I have been finding a lot of use for it paired with pitch shifter/ octave pedals and delays. There’s something about the bright sound that lends itself well to this kind of manipulation.
In the video I said that the DFAM lacks the trigger and advance buttons. It has them. Its missing the scale feature, which changes the number of steps from 1/4 note to 1/8. 1/16 and gives an option for these as triplets.
This is really nice, and the song putting it all together was a great culmination!
Thanks so much, my friend!
600 euros pour ça, pas convaincu.
Ce ne serait jamais un premier achat pour moi. Je pense que c'est trop cher, mais c'était génial pour un projet très spécifique sur lequel j'ai gagné de l'argent. Je ne l'achèterais pas autrement.
Nice!
Thanks!
Good beat. I liked the mood, a little bit strong on the dissonance but I can see where it was going. How much pre / post did you have to do to make this? Like did you setup chord progressions, write a melody, put down a few backing tracks in your DAW?
Agree with the dissonance comment there. Nice and rubbery though. Made me tweak out a bit. 😜🍻
The dissonance was indeed a tad high! The daw is running reverb, a tad of compression, and the drums. The notes are also coming from the daw in the form of cv values using the max cv instrument. My main goal is to challenge myself with being as minimal as I can be while still making something musical. The Edge is an interesting piece of kit for this purpose since it has such a minimal feature set and doesn’t quite fit into any one position. Not quite a drum machine, not quite a synth, not quite a drone generator.
This is a party that never ends so you're never late. Welcome to the club!
Thank you!
Rubble Flintstones
You make a good point.
Ive just watched one of your strega videos and checked out your channel. Nice work tiger. 👍I was wondering what this was. Its so very Japanese.
Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot. The instrument is called the Tenori-on. It was (I believe) the first grid based controller layout, predating the monome. It was designed by a Japanese artist and is not the most functional piece of gear. It is very fun and playful however.
For some unknown reason, i always pick the black sheep. It seems, im not the only one. I find the strega community to be really kind and supporting of eachother. I think its because no one really knows what this thing is capable of. (Except Allissandro). I run mine with ocoast and ocontrol. They are all made for eachother. Great video. Cheers. 🎛🎚🙌
For me it was a clear choice because I have a limited amount of cash to spend on gear. As long as that is the case, I'm going to be choosing the gear that does things that I can't do in software.
@@likestarsatdawn -brilliant. 👍
hearing out of the sky back in like 2011 is THAT moment
Enjoyed the interview. Very inspiring !