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This site is intended to be a presence on the web for South African artists making electronic music or individuals who like to listen to electronic music.
I have found that there are a lot of artists making electronic music mostly from home or as a hobby, but most of them are unknown in the community.
I hope this site will unite all electronic musicians amateur or professional and that all members will benefit from each other by sharing good advice and ideas.
Guitar Power Chords
Mon, 2007-10-29 11:53 — nebeToday I want to talk a bit about power chords in guitar.
A power chord is sometimes also called the fifth chord and is probably one of the most easiest and popular chords to play on the guitar.
A lot of Rock, Heavy Metal and Alternative and other genres of music makes use of the famous power chord.
Powerchords is almost always used with distortion on the guitar.
A chord usually consists of 3 notes or more to be considered a chord but the power chord only consists of two notes. The root and a fifth.
Synthesis Basics - Part 2 (Filters)
Tue, 2007-01-09 07:46 — nebeIt's been a while since I have written any articles so I hope that this one will satisfy your curiosity.
In this article I will be discussing Filters. Almost every synthesizer has a filter. Filters are sometimes called a VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter) but this is more common on analogue equipment.
What a filter does is it takes the audio or sound it receives from the oscillators (See Synthesis Basics - Part 1) and starts cutting frequencies of the top, middle or bottom frequencies.
A Free Solution to Soundfonts using VST
Thu, 2006-10-26 04:39 — twisted moleculeThis article discusses how to use soundfonts through VST if you:
A) Need free live instruments to add to your music, or just want to get started with a General MIDI sample bank.
B) Your application has VST capability but does not load soundfonts or others.
The Major Scale
Mon, 2006-10-23 18:43 — nebeWhen you are new to music it is sometimes a bit difficult to get started without knowing some basic music theory. Music theory can be usefull in many occasions and offers a great opportunity for you to test these theories and get familiar with what their end result sounds like.
I will start my first lesson with the Major Scale. If we inspect the C major scale we will imediatly notice that it is all the white keys on a piano or keyboard. It has no sharps or flats.
Synthesis Basics - Part 1 (Oscillators)
Tue, 2006-09-19 17:02 — nebeOscillators
In this article I will be discussing oscillators. Now to some of you this may sound like science fiction but actualy it's very simple.
A osscilator in a synthesizer generates a waveform. Since sound is produced from waves a synthesizer uses it's oscillators to produce these waves.
A synthesizer ussualy has 1 to 4 four oscillators which means that if your synthesizer has 2 oscillators it can generate 2 waveforms at the same time.
The frequency at which the oscilator resonates determines the pitch of the sound.
