Concert Mates (Videos)

Those who have been paying close attention to the long and winding road that is this project may recall that when I (or rather we, actually) bought the SS-30 it was part of a deal that came up in the supposed purchase of a Minimoog. The classified ad was wrong about the Moog. It was a Realistic Concertmate MG-1 by Moog Music. It also didn't mention the SS-30, but that came home too.

In my mind, the pairing of these two instruments has always been clear. The fact that they came as one deal and had evidently both been 'gigged' seems to suggest a back-story together. They belong together.

Here then, are some demonstrations of the two synths working together.

In each case the individual output I added for the Violin section is being fed through the filter of the MG-1. The Orchestra effect and output stage (with vactrol) of the SS-30 are completely bypassed.

Both synths are being triggered from the same MIDI notes.

At the start of this first video I begin by showing the SS-30M played from a keyboard and then switch to a sequence from Cubase and re-patch the output through to MG-1. After that it's fairly self explanatory. But, oh, I also throw in some pitch control.

 

In this second video, I'm playing an arpeggio from my Keystep. There's a bit more pitch control too.

 

The third and final video is again the SS-30M through the MG-1 all driven by the Keystep, but this time it's a sequence.