Boards of Canada Tutorials!

Mason Bane · Post by **Mason Bane** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:18 pm

Two Boards of Canada tutorials. One showing how to replicate the Grudig tape effect and one showing how to make an instrument on the Poly 61.

Hemulen · Post by **Hemulen** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:34 pm

congrats, ur a real board of canada now

Waz · Post by **Waz** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:36 pm

How incredibly fucking depressing.

RAJVAC · Post by **RAJVAC** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:59 pm

That poly 61 synth sounds really really nice. Shame hardware synths are so expensive these days... Guess us laptop bedroom musicians are stuck with midi synths, hah.

Geogandhi · Post by **Geogandhi** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:17 pm

You can get great hardware synths cheaply.

vanlorne · Post by **vanlorne** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:20 pm

Waz wrote:How incredibly fucking depressing.

what's the depressing part?

RAJVAC · Post by **RAJVAC** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:20 pm

Geogandhi wrote:You can get great hardware synths cheaply.

Mind sharing the names of some of these? I'm really interested in getting one, haha!

vanlorne · Post by **vanlorne** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:20 pm

Geogandhi wrote:You can get great hardware synths cheaply.

cheap may be relative here

GH · Post by GH » Thu May 23, 2013 1:26 pm

That Poly61 looks like a real pain to program

Geogandhi · Post by **Geogandhi** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:30 pm

vanlorne wrote:
Geogandhi wrote:You can get great hardware synths cheaply.
cheap may be relative here

Of course but if you really want a hardware synth then anyone can save up a few hundred quid. Stop smoking weed for a bit and you'd easy do it. *generalisation*

I can't stand Softsynth interfacing and turning a knob with a mouse gets on my tits so even a cheap digital hardware synth like a Blofeld is 100times more rewarding than any soft synth even with the bugs.

MindElevation · Post by **MindElevation** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:35 pm

Yay. Let's all go make some really convincing tomorrow's harvest fakes and upload them to the interwebz.

Geogandhi · Post by **Geogandhi** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:35 pm

ABD mate

chorus · Post by **chorus** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:38 pm

RAJVAC wrote:
Geogandhi wrote:You can get great hardware synths cheaply.
Mind sharing the names of some of these? I'm really interested in getting one, haha!

Relatively is the word here yes.

The Roland juno 6/60/106 are still okish priced compared to manny others. Ebay is a pretty good indicator of the current market price.

But I would go for a brand new Korg ms20mini or Arturia Minibrute if I were to buy a synth today. Then you don't need to worry about breakdowns, and 30 years of dust.

WeHadNormality · Post by **WeHadNormality** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:45 pm

I'd quite like to get my hands on a MiniBrute. Not ridiculously expensive either.

vanlorne · Post by **vanlorne** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:46 pm

WeHadNormality wrote:I'd quite like to get my hands on a MiniBrute. Not ridiculously expensive either.

this

WeHadNormality · Post by **WeHadNormality** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:50 pm

This:

GH · Post by GH » Thu May 23, 2013 1:56 pm

Also, perfecting the bass sound for ROYGBIV does not a BoC clone make.

A) I don't think BoC use that bass sound for any other track.
B) He far from perfects it.

vanlorne · Post by **vanlorne** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:57 pm

WeHadNormality wrote:This:

Yeah, I saw that a while back. Love his collection (highlighted in another video)

WeHadNormality · Post by **WeHadNormality** » Thu May 23, 2013 2:04 pm

vanlorne wrote:
WeHadNormality wrote:This:
Yeah, I saw that a while back. Love his collection (highlighted in another video)

Oh yes. He's got some lovely toys.

Geogandhi · Post by **Geogandhi** » Thu May 23, 2013 2:31 pm

GH wrote:Also, perfecting the bass sound for ROYGBIV does not a BoC clone make.

A) I don't think BoC use that bass sound for any other track.
B) He far from perfects it.

Very true and I imagine they use the same synth for many bass sounds. Sh101 I am assuming.
I get 99% there with SH09.