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This web site has been a welcome creative outlet for me since I first put it up in the fall of 2002. I certainly don't make much money off of it since I'm giving away a lot of things here that took long hours of work. What I DO get out of it is appreciation from and interaction with people scattered all over the globe. Here are some nice comments I've received about the site. I've removed the email addresses to reduce spammage to myself and the senders.
(For personal emails, I always ask permission from the senders before posting their notes on here. For mailing list and newsgroup postings, I usually ask, but sometimes not, because the whole world can already see those anyway)
Subject: fenderizer Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 17:15:04 -0600 Hi Mark, Great site! (I got to it from your sdiy post). Is there any way I could get the schematic for your Fenderizer? Thanks, Scott
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:22:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: GR300 Site Mark: First and foremost, kudos on your site. It is comprehensive and easy to navigate... Fred Dawkins
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:57:36 -0600 Subject: Moog Great work on the Moog. Nice Multiple too :) How does that 905 sound? I find it interesting that so many of us synthesizer guys are also into robotics. Roger Arrick ---------------------------------------------------------------- Personal Page http://www.robotics.com/roger.html Automation and Robotics http://www.robotics.com Analog Music Synthesizers http://www.synthesizers.com ----------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:44:32 -0600 Subject: your email to me Hi Mark, Thanks so much for the information. I finally got around to listening to you. Nice playing! I think I'll try one of those Danelectro pedals that you use and see how it works. Thanks again for corresponding. Jack Grassel
Subject: Roland gp16
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:10:00 +0100
Hi mark,
I have just bought a second hand Roland gp16 and am keen to try out your
patches as the demos on your web site sound great.
Craig Watson
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:54:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Choir Message for Mark from Mike
Hi Mark - nice-sounding mp3's - thanks for putting them up!
Best Regards, Mike
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:54:36 +0100
Subject: From Italy
Dear Mark,
compliments for your music and sound's research.
Fabio Pianigiani
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: GR-300 Mr. Smart, Thank you for your informative GR-300 page. J
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:08:31 +0200 Subject: I need G202 /GR303 info Hii!! I'm javier from Barcelona(Spain) Your work on gr303 is wonderful!!. JAVIER ALBERTI
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:58:35 -0400 Subject: Baba O'reilly hi mark I stumbled across your site and heard the Baba O'reilly synth mp3. Very impressive! Bruce
Subject: SUPERB page on the gr300!
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 23:08:52 +0100
hiya Mark
just to say you got a SUPERB tech page on the gr300 :-)
fernando "make those vco's squeak with the pick!"
Portsmouth, UK
Subject: Digital Realization of the GR-300
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:45:18 +0300
Hi. I enjoy your web site a lot. Especially gear hacking and info on GR-300.
kdakan
Subject: Gk-2a-gk-1 interface Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:22:59 +0200 It was really interresting reading your articles, thanx. Svein
Subject: Great Site!
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:04:48 -0400
Hi Mark,
First of all I am glad you are not the tool for hanging pictures!
John Boccuzzi
Burlington, CT
PS I really enjoyed your website.
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:48:28 -0500
Subject: web site, music
Outstanding, Mark. What classic taste and soulful execution on "Shiny
Stockings." And thanks for the web site on your use of RC-20's etc.
Someone posted it in a discussion on the Fender Forum.
RT
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:15:28 -0400
Subject: great lessons
I've been spending some time at your site today and it has really been
an eye opener. The walking bass stuff was a great exercise having just
been through some different ones with Steve Adelson. Then I looked at your
chords for the high string tuned down and thought "What the heck, I'll try it".
Wow. I like that alot. I'm going to keep it that way for a bit and really
explore but I think I am definitely happier. Right now I'm glancing through the
right hand 7th chords and it looks great as well. Just what I've been looking
for.
Thanks again.
Steve Lemke
DATE: 8/13/04 9:54 AM [ SIZE: 0.951KB ] SUBJECT: No Subject Hi Mark I just wanted to thank you again for the great web site. You are really challenging me as a jazz stick player, thanks for unselfishly sharing the knowledge. Hope to jam with you some day. Brett Bottomley
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:58:06 +0200 Subject: Info Hello Mark I'm writing you since I found your webapges and I saw that you are a Gr-300 Expert. It happened to me to have a US GR-300 (110 V) since few days, but unfortunately my son plugged the power cord in my 220-110 V converter with the wrong settings. This means that probably (I'm not sure) the synth received 220 V instead of 110. Since I was not present at the moment, I asked what happened exactly and my son said that the lights turned on for a second, but then everything was "dead" I'm not expert in electronics so I don't have idea of the damages that he could do. Here in my town (Cagliari, Italy) I would find many difficulties in finding an expert to repair it (in case it was possible) I would ask you few things before to kill my son 1. Is there a fuse inside the unit? Maybe the fuse has been burned out but the rest of the unit is still fine 2. In your opinion what kind of damages we could make to the GR-300 supllying it a wrong voltage? Thanks in advance Massimiliano -- ******************************** Massimiliano Pau Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Cagliari Piazza d'Armi 09123 Cagliari, ITALY ******************************** "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity" Dorothy Parker
Subject: GR-300 Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:00:48 +0100 Hello Marc! Your website is very interesting! I live in france ( so, sorry for my poor english ) and I began electronics at 13 as a hobby (now I' m 51 years old ). I discovered Pat Metheny' s music in the early 80's, so I tried to get his sound (I play guitar ). I built a guitar with an hexaphonic pickup of my own idea, and a minisynth for each string, and 6 enveloppe-followers.It sounds very well and it's very fast and easy to play ( the pitch-to-voltage converters are of my invention, so I'm content. It looks like the Metheny sound except the attack that is not so squeaky. .... Yvon Roussel.
Subject: envelope follower Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 10:43:45 +0100 hello I live in Belgium I sought a envelope follower on Internet and I was very interested by your module envelope follower to gate converter and I would like to buy it how to make? a big tanks PS: sorry for my bed english collu luigi
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:16:56 -0500 Subject: Electric Sitar (Indian Duets) Hello there, I was doing a search on a replica company (Rogue's) version of the Coral Electric Sitar and came accross your site after much google and trepidation, I just wanted to tell you how beautiful the mp3 samples you have there are with you and Yeditha Mahalakshmi. I own a real sitar and while I'm pretty good at it, it is totally impractical for playing with my band (not to mention precariously delicate) and your sounds have me totally sold on the concept of electric sitar. Again, beautiful stuff, and thanks! Love from the States, Oweinama Biu http://www.besonic.com/BeSonic/User/0,4675,g0r0l0t0o0i766104,FF.html
Subject: suggest Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:15:58 +0100 hi, i've read that very intersting article on gr300 expanding sounds. i'll appriciate a lot to hear in the site some sample of new sounds thanks bye p.m.
Subject: Reaktor Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:29:45 -0500 Hi Mark, I really enjoy your site. Its especially gratifying to see someone with great tech skills _and_ great musical sensibility. Anyhow, I was greatly admiring the work that you have done with the big band reaktor ensemble, and was wondering whether yuo could make it available on the site in some way? Keep up the good work, and happy holidays, Rafi
Subject: Holy Neurons!
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 06:12:49 -0800
Hi Mark,
My name is Bob Memmo and you just made my day. I bought an ARP Omni 2 from from
a friend. I knew it had a little trouble but after poking around in it knew I
was in for a big research project gathering info on an orphan synth.
After a few Google searches I stumbled on your pages on the Omni 2. I'm
guessing I have tantalum probs as my keys sticks seem to be ENV/VCA in nature.
Thank you so much for calling it out to the component level. Do you happen to
know where I may obtain a service manual? I think I can get by with the info
you have been so cool to publish. Thanks again and if I can be of any help to
you in future please send me a line. I try to copy/scan schematics and service
books I find need for them. I'm happy to share them with folks in need of
them. My interests lie in machines and electronics that are 20-40 years old.
God help my neighbors.
Cheers, Bob
BTW I still have a VIC-20. I will have to try running your games on it.
Subject: Amazing Continuum ! Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:58:48 -0800 First, I'm greatly thankful for your e-mail and those absolutely fabulous soundtracks - fantastic! Enough vibration? In this case I feel a certain gap of my descriptions in English ( I'm Russian) to fully express of what I've got through during that wave was playing. My whole body was vibrating. Unspeakable... Stan Fomin
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:52:25 +0000
Subject: Question regarding your Roland GP-16 patches
Dear Mark:
First of all, thanks a lot for your page and your kindness by offering
your patches to anyone interested.
Antonio Ocon Carreras - CICEI Comms. Mgr.
C.I.C.E.I. - Edif. de Ingenierias
Campus Univ. de Tafira, S/N
Canary Islands - SPAIN
http://www.cicei.com/ocon
Subject: Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:44:44 -0000 Hi... Awesome choir sounds for the JD on your site... Thanks for the great pointers on human voice formants, lots of hard work there me thinks... well done! Best wishes, MartinF. Jarrelook... the UK Jean Michel Jarre tribute band... ************************************************************* Point your browser at: www.jarrelook.fsnet.co.uk
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:06:13 -0800
Subject: Jazz pedalboard
Hi Mark-
I saw your jazz pedalboard on the web and I'm very impressed with the
sound. Great way of getting a real bass sound and guitar in real time.
Very clever!
Dave Hanney
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:56:42 -0500 Subject: website - you rule.... seriously... i have ended up at your website on 3 separate occasions, just searching for things i'm interested in, purely by chance: guitar synths, Arp, Chapman Stick. i am amazed at the breadth of your interests. i believe the only difference between you & i may be that you actually have aquired some practical technical skills in life, while i have only aquired a taste for geeky things! i also really enjoyed checking out your Fenderizer pedal & your guitar looping setup. that killed me!! totally cool. & the sitar?!!?! you rock!!!! i was at NAMM this year & very sorry i missed the controller thing. i am now seriously interested in that too. mo' money, mo' money.... sincerely, brock walters tempe, AZ
Subject: Roland GP-16 Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 20:40:05 +0000 Hi Mark, I'm Arno Frericks from holland and I own a Roland GP-16 myself. I play guitar in Encircled. [www.encircled.tk] And I saw your page about the GP-16 on your website. I listend to the sound of 'Genesis - Firth of Fifth'. And I'm amazed. Thats exactly the sound I've been looking for for quite a while now. Now, is there a possibility that you could give me those settings? I would appreciate it very much! you would really help me out there.. Thanks in advance! :) -Arno Frericks
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: ARP sounds (and others) Hello Mark! I stumbled across your site in my attempt to do further research on Arp Omni 2's, of which I have one that's in the shop now getting fixed. Thanks a bunch for the tonal breakdown of the string chorus sound -- I too have a JD-800 (actually two of them!) and I was quickly able to duplicate the 'classic' sound after using your strategy. Very clever you are !! I've created a bunch of sounds myself (including a very good tornado siren) and at times wondered how this effect was done; I once created a patch that was a little similar but nothing like what I've now been able to do thanks to you. As I type this I'm listening to your Won't Get Fooled Again patch and it's very nice -- I created one of these as well a few years ago, which is quite similar to yours. The Pink Floyd one, however, sounds nearly 100% like the original -- how were you able to do this one so exact? (goodness, sounds like it's sampled it's that good!) I enjoyed your brass patches too (the brass patch waveform card for the JD-800 is great for brass section but not really for sax, so your info could come in handy for that). I've been tempted to get a wind controller, though I know nothing about how to play an actual brass/wind instrument, but I could teach myself I suppose -- which is all I've ever done. Anyway, thanks !!! Rick M. Florissant, MO
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:15 AM Subject: Re: GK2a controling the GR300 Dear Mark, Wow, you have no idea how cool it was to find out about you at the Yahoo midiguitar chat room. For years now, I have wanted to control my ancient 300 with my modern GK2A. I have searched everywhere. I have asked questions to the "pros" at the NAMM show, technical guys, you name it. I even found some strange little company in Japan that seems to have designed a box that will do this, but their website is all in Japanese, and they don't respond to my emails, and I can't find anyone who has ever used them or knows much about them. ... Any way, your "invention" seems cumbersome, but nevertheless, GREAT! ... Howard Barnett
Subject: VG8 Librarian Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:15:06 -0700 Hi Mark, I visited your website in search of the VG8 Librarian. Listened to your cool guitar samples - nice! Thanks, Dana Elston
DATE: 5/28/04 5:20 PM FROM: Tim and Connie Long SUBJECT: Won't Get Fooled Again Hi Mark, I stumbled on your sight. Very Interesting. Congratulations on your musical accomplishments. I've been playing music with a bunch of blokes in a garage band since 1969. This year we are playing for our 35th high school class reunion. We want to perform Won't Get Fooled Again. I sampled your wonderful synth patch (Great job!). Do you have any idea where we could find, buy, rent a copy of the synth patch for the entire song of Won't Get Fooled Again? Any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks and good luck, Tim Long
DATE: 6/1/04 1:53 PM FROM: A&T SUBJECT: GP 16 Hi mark, I found your site cause I just bought a GP-16 and I was surfing the net for patches. I downloaded the software your best ones and I like them (like your whole site) a lot. ... Of course after my expiriments I will send you the patches of my results. Thanks in advance Arnoud Kaptijn The Netherlands
DATE: 11/19/04 11:17 AM FROM: David Morton SUBJECT: Re: Jerry Jones Supreme Sitar .... P.S. I did enjoy reading your website. I also started out as an EE (in the Engineering Research Dept of the British Broadcasting Corp), tried to learn the Chapman Stick (gave up because I'm a fingerstyle guitar player and I couldn't work out a compromise nail length on my picking hand), once owned a Yamaha WX7, and have recently started experimenting with looper pedals. Keep up the good work, I seem to be following right behind you!
DATE: 12/9/04 8:37 AM SUBJECT: Direct String Pickup to Obtain Isolated Bass output Mark, You have a great web page!. I have been dabbling with guitar pickups for about 40 years... Joe Rogowski
From: toni Sent: 10/13/04 10:26 AM Subject: your reaktor patches... hello, i visited your homepage and i saw the arp patches for reaktor. and i heard the amazing sound examples... greets toni
DATE: 12/25/04 9:35 PM FROM: dave SUBJECT: Nice website I just stumbled on your webpage from a link in stickwire. Me being a new stick player, hearing your style is very encouraging.....shows what potential the stick has within.....Dave
DATE: 1/15/05 8:59 PM FROM: Robert Smith SUBJECT: Re Roland 13 pin pinouts. Hi Mark, Using Google I stumbled upon your website...very good. ... rgds, Rob
DATE: 1/27/05 2:51 PM FROM: P SUBJECT: Basement building Love that groovy set you built in your basement. Did you guys ever finish the movie or at least the screenplay? would love to know how it turned out. ... nagdabit, man, you're good!!!!! but then you knew that......
DATE: 1/26/05 12:54 PM FROM: Simone Caronno SUBJECT: Hi :) Hi Mark, sorry to disturb you. I wanted to ask you something about your patches to use with Wx 7 - Wx 5, as I heard on your page samples of your work and I like it. ... Wow, Mark. I am going to build a little mausoleum with your statue at the centre. Thanks a lot !! Ciao Simone
DATE: 1/7/05 11:12 AM SUBJECT: Bigband Synth Hi, Ive been reading your website and lsitening to your music examples, very nice stuff !! I was wondering if the Bigband synth for Reaktor is available somehow, i would LOVE to experiment with it -david
DATE: 12/25/04 1:46 PM FROM: Craig Mills SUBJECT: electric sitar Hello, Sir, I discovered your site while searching for info about electric sitars. The link from Google no longer led me to your article about you Jerry Jones mod, or whatever it was about. I did, however, listen to some of your music and was impressed. I would still be interested in your experimentation with sitar. Can you help me out? A fellow music enthusiast, Craig Mills, Columbus, Ohio.
DATE: 3/24/05 3:12 PM FROM: Benjamin Munhall SUBJECT: Re: Roland G-303 and 24-pin cable Hello Mark, You have a wonderful website, very educational. ... Ben Munhall Pacific Grove, CA
DATE: 3/28/05 8:53 PM FROM: David Joseph SUBJECT: WGFA synth Your synth part sounds great! How can I get a complete copy? My band would love to play it. Thanks, David
DATE: 3/30/05 3:14 PM FROM: Jeff Kuda SUBJECT: Came across your website. Hey. My name is Jeff and I live in Jersey outside of Philly. I stumbled on to your website searching the net for information about the best real-time looping pedal to buy. I��m probably just gonna get a Boomerang cause it��s easy to use and probably the best thing to use for what I��m doing. I play lots of reggae and groove music but I love Jazz. I know basic theory but am trying to use that more as a guide since my guitar leads have started to sound like I��m practicing my scales. Anyway I listened to Shiny Stockings and that sounded pretty good. I liked it a lot. I��m kind of wondering what the hell kind of chords your using. Are you building the chords around the melody you��re playing on the lead? Also, when you��re playing lead are you playing in a particular mode or scale? If you could give me any pointers I��d be very appreciative. Just some standard jazz technique or ideas would be great. Thanks a lot, An eager to learn more musician
DATE: 4/10/05 6:04 AM FROM: Thomas Moen SUBJECT: gr300 ? ... You have a great site, I really enjoy it!! Thomas
DATE: 4/9/05 6:48 PM FROM: matthew warnock SUBJECT: guitarist coming to CU Hi Mark, I was browsing through performance listing for CU and came across your website, I hope you don't mind my emailing you. I am moving to CU at the end of the month to start my DMA in jazz guitar perfromance at UIUC. I did my undergrad at Mcgill university in montreal where I'm from and just finished my masters at western michigan university. I've checked out your recordings and really like your stuff it sounds great. ... Matt
DATE: 5/12/05 6:58 AM FROM: Max Fazio SUBJECT: formant chart Hi Mark I have to thank you very much for the formant chart you published on your page...it helped me building a very close VP-330 Male and Female voices with my CS-80V!!! Many thx again! Max,Italy
DATE: 6/10/05 4:13 AM FROM: David Marshall SUBJECT: Big band Reaktor File Mark I have been enjoying you Reaktor ensembles having pick up the link from the midi guitar news groups The big Band thing you have sounds immense --- impressive mp3s best Dr David Marshall Senior Lecturer Cardiff School of Computer Science Cardiff University Wales, UK. Check out My Music Web Site: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/music
DATE: 6/16/05 FROM: NicewanderG by the way huge fan you rock my man!!!
DATE: 6/17/05 5:24 PM FROM: Steve Meiers SUBJECT: Fwd: [GR-50] Digest Number 67 Hi Mark, I jumped to your homepage from the link on the GR-50 Yahoogroup message, where I found your GR-50 Sustain Mod. Very good idea and excellent execution. THANKS a whole bunch. You are so right, this function is truly missing on the GR-50. ... Steve Meiers Hayward, CA
DATE: 2/7/05 5:13 PM FROM: Scott Kinsey SUBJECT: Re: NAMM/Harmonized wind synth Mark, Hey! My email was down and so I just got your message today. Good to meet you too. I'm happy you liked the Tribal stuff. Tav and I were pretty blown away by the Continuum. Pretty wonderful. We would both love to get one but unfortunately neither of us can justify the price right now. I guess Tav said James Raymond bought one. I'm jealous!!! I loved your Reaktor big band synthesizer. That's just great. Don't know how you did it! Would be fun to try it sometime. Hope all is well! Take care, Scott
DATE: 7/19/05 9:27 PM FROM: theremin SUBJECT: your site and music Very nice. I found you through the Continuum keyboard site. I enjoyed your Indian perfomance on your site as well. I took Surbahar lessons for about a year and a half, which, as you know, is just scratching the surface! If you know of any used Continuums, I am in the market for one! Bryan Seattle
DATE: 7/24/05 11:59 AM SUBJECT: Re: great playing Hi Mark. I'm always amazed when I come across people who are daring to go where no one has gone before. Thanks for the inspiration. Not only are you doing something technically advanced but the wonderful thing is that you make excellent music while doing so. Jack Grassel
DATE: 8/18/05 7:36 PM SUBJECT: Fellow GP 16 User... Hello Mark, My name is Duane and I was checking out your GP 16 web page. Really like your favorite patches. Nice tone indeed. Your rendition of 'Spirit' is really nice. ... Just spent about 2 hours with your patches. I really think I have left the potential of the GP untapped for about 12 years. Your patches have such incredible tone. I couldn't put my guitar down WOW~~!! Thanks for sharing with me... Thanks, Duane
DATE: 8/20/05 8:03 PM FROM: PeterJ SUBJECT: GR-50 & Prog Hi Mark! We found you on the web... my good buddy Monty has an old GR-50 and he is trying to get it back into service. ... We were playing your patches tonight... love Fifth Ave.! BTW: We are progholes like yourself... listened to some Iconoclast, sounds *great*! Looking For The Signposts, Peter J See us on the web at verticalalignment.com Old Vertical Alignment site
DATE: 10/9/05 7:17 AM [ SIZE: 7.123KB ] SUBJECT: thanks for your site Hi, my name is Maciek, I am from Poland and I play jazz too. Well I'm still learning to play it, but for about a year I have been thinking about using some looping devices to play solo performances, just like you do. Thanks to you, things cleared up a lot to me. I really appreciate the effort you put in building this site. Not only because it gave me some hints, but also because this kind of playing (or generally looping) is virtually unknown in Poland. ... like your mp3's a lot! I would like to play that style too. Your stick "noodling" impressed me very much. P.S. RoboTenor is SO funny! :) greetings, Maciek
DATE: 10/27/05 5:31 AM FROM: Fredrik Skeppholm SUBJECT: Thanks! Hi Mark! Just wanted to send a thank you for your excellent ARP Omni/Quadra patches for the NORD Modular. They sound great and I will for sure use them a lot. Thanks again and have a nice day! Fredrik Skeppholm ..................................................................... http://www.blip-blop.se
DATE: 12/3/05 2:09 PM FROM: loop.pool SUBJECT: thanks, Mark! Hey Mark, Someone sent your pedalboard setup with the angled Echoplex (very nice, btw) to Loopers Delight. I went to you page and listened to your version of 'Stolen Moments'. How beautiful. I just loved your version and wanted to thank you for 1) how beautifully you played it and 2) reacquainting me with this wonderful Oliver Nelson tune. ... Thanks for the inspiration. Be well, Swing on! yours, Rick Walker
DATE: 12/27/05 5:38 AM FROM: Owen Tromans SUBJECT: sitar I came across your mp3s of Indian duets by accident and they are wonderful. Excellent stuff. Peace, Owen Tromans, England www.sacredgeometry.cn
DATE: 1/13/06 10:36 AM FROM: A.A. SUBJECT: NM Hi Mark. Your ARP Omni patch for Nord Modular is just amazing - so emotional and natural! I have a question - did you ever try to create proper emulation of Rhodes piano on NM? It's not difficult to get the DX-ish piano type of sound out of it, but I was'nt able to create anyting more natural - gentle and smooth when you need it and with BARK when you hit it. Let me know if you have anything to say about it. Regards, Andrei (St.Petersburg, Russia).
DATE: 1/16/06 6:25 PM FROM: Mrten_Olsson SUBJECT: Nord Modular sounds. Hi! Found your website by accident and must say you sure make lovely patches! The ARP strings are really great (will try the other patches soon)! Do you have more? The trumpet and saxophone are also great but I can't find them. Thanks for great patches! /M�rten from Sweden
DATE: 3/25/06 12:27 PM FROM: Kevin Sprissler SUBJECT: Great site! I have loved the vintage Roland sound for years and recently purchased one. Its a great piece of gear. Your site has a load of information that I used to get all the sounds I need. Bravo!
DATE: 4/7/06 5:28 AM FROM: Justin White SUBJECT: Continuum fingerboard. Hi Mark, I enjoyed your continuum examples and also your reaktor jazz band thing. Really creative! Justin White
DATE: 7/22/06 7:14 AM FROM: Daryl Shawn SUBJECT: brag, brag! hi Mark, wonderful site! I especially enjoyed the music gear hacking page - absolutely fascinating stuff. And it's wonderful how more info you've put there just to share. Very well-done one-person jazz stuff, too, a more natural and utterly convincing approach than most. cheers to you - Daryl Shawn www.swanwelder.com ... p.p.s. -what a great Pearl S. Buck quote.
DATE: 10/4/06 8:54 PM FROM: dave SUBJECT: Hi Hi Mark. As always i enjoy listening to your audio clips of you playing stick on your website. Im an inspriing stick player and was wondering what substitutions you were using in the 12 bar blues on your noodling page. .........they sound really kewl! It sets such a relaxed and tasteful mood. Thanks, Dave.
DATE: 10/18/06 5:03 PM FROM: Simon Miller SUBJECT: Hi Hello, Firstly, congratulations on your site, I really enjoyed learning about your 1 man jazz band setup. I am very inexperienced in guitar modification, and so found it fascinating reading! I am in a two-piece rock band from England who are interested in using octave shifts etc to try and beef up our sound. (www.myspace.com/miyagitheband). I was wondering if you could tell me if it were possible to modify my Cort G Series strat copy (3 single coil) so that I have a secondary output of just the isolated signal from the low E string. ... Thank You Simon
DATE: 11/8/06 1:17 PM SUBJECT: won't get fooled again hi, my name is gareth hamilton and i live in the u.k. your wgfa is amazing my friend! gareth
DATE: 11/15/06 8:16 AM FROM: Jens Mayer SUBJECT: Gr50 Hi Mark just found your site on Gr50 nice hack you made. I use the FC100 footswitch for the hold function. Also have a GR1 but i get best sounds from my GR50 still Anyway just wanted to say nice job! My website is www.jcmusic.de Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen Jens Mayer
From: Mark Kostreba Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:45 PM Mark, You're a genius. I admire your modifications, etc. .... Raga On, Mark
DATE: 3/17/07 10:13 AM SUBJECT: Electric Sitar Question Hi I found your page through Wikipedia. I am very impressed by the sounds you get out of the electric sitar. Jim Jordan
DATE: 5/20/07 10:17 AM FROM: Evan Lorden SUBJECT: OMNI queries Mark, Hello! Firstly, just to say many thanks for the ARP Omni pages on your great web site. They seem to be an excellent resource for maintaining & modding OMNI synths. ... PS. Just watched your video from the NAMM show. Very cool! Loved the sounds and different ways of getting everything working so expressively. Evan.
DATE: 6/7/07 1:52 AM SUBJECT: ARP Omni - KUDOS! Hi Mark, I just checked out your website regarding your vast knowledge of the ARP Omni and wanted to extend my congratulations on your extensive work. ... Thanks, and all the best, Robert
DATE: 6/28/07 7:10 AM FROM: Paul SUBJECT: electric sitar Hi there! First of all: Great respect! Your body of work is amazing. You have worked in so many fields! Through your page I've discovered many things that I heard of, but never saw them in one place. I'd like to ask You about sitar... Sincerely Yours, Paul
DATE: 7/2/07 11:39 PM FROM: Kato So SUBJECT: I took your web page Dear Mr.Mark Smart, Hello. I am chapman stick player living in Japan. I took your web page very interesting. I wanted to always do play of stick like jazz guitar with walking bass line and comping. I think that your performance is splendid. As for my feeling disappointing, web page some of you are to be it for running out of link. I want to do a performance such as mp3 in a page of your blues noodling. I want web to improve if you have a page of a tab sheet of music of mp3. I am poor at English. I'm sorry. Thank you and Best regards, Satoshi KATO ... Hello Mark, I thank for your revising web. I look at the page that I was not able to look at so far. (about PHP page) What is brag page? I think that all the comment from you wants it. Originally I am bassist. I have little understanding about a cord of jazz. Like your mp3, it cannot play me, but I do my best and intend to practice it. Satoshi
Sent: 8/29/07 6:57 PM Subject: Sitar Hi, I just bought a Jerry Jones Supreme Electric Sitar and have been Googling around to learn more and found your awesome page. Do you still have you Master Sitar? I am very impressed with your music! peace
DATE: 8/24/07 6:02 PM FROM: Cullen Kushlick SUBJECT: jazz looper pedalboard ... If you don't mind I would like to possibly keep corespondance ask you to possibly a few questions in the future about your setup as I study it more. I apologize for the many questions but I think your the only guy on the planet who has devised such a setup and have provided information about it. Cullen
DATE: 10/12/07 4:37 PM FROM: Bone, Robert SUBJECT: RE: Genesis Firth of Fifth 'patch' question 1. It was absolutely FANTASTIC of you to be willing to help me with my quest to have the correct sound for playing the keyboard solo in the Genesis Firth of Fifth tune. 2. The sound you crafted for me for Firth of Fifth is the closest thing I've EVER heard to what Tony Banks used in concert. Bob Bone
12/4/07 12:41 AM FROM: Darrell Havard SUBJECT: a hello and a question Hi Mark. My name is Darrell Havard and I'm a Stickist. I'm from Mississippi but I just moved to the Dallas area. I think we've chatted through email once upon a time - through Loopers Delight I think. Somewhere in my web meandering I stumbled upon your 'blues noodling' page and the block chords example gave me a good kick in the pants. I consider myself a pretty accomplished Stickist and a decent jazz one at that, and I've been spending a lot more time on chord melody in the right hand lately. I was pretty decent at chord melody on guitar once upon a time, but I've had to make some adjustments to make it work on Stick. At any rate, that soundbite of yours got me reeling. I gotta ask, what sort of voicings are you using in that example? I've mostly been using closed voicings since I started working on it chord melody again, your example sounds more like open voicings. They sound really thick, too - are you using two hands to get those voicings or are they just in the right hand? I would appreciate any pointers you have. Peace Darrell http://www.darrellhavard.com http://www.myspace.com/darrellhavard http://www.youtube.com/octopusprime
DATE: 1/4/08 9:23 PM FROM: Barry McNaughton SUBJECT: question about 13 and 24 pin connectors Hi Mark, I just stumbled across your website and was totally blown away. The things that you are doing with electronic music are really impressive. ... Sincerely Barry -- Barry McNaughton http://www.barrymcnaughton.net
DATE: 6/23/08 2:50 PM SUBJECT: GR-50 PATCHES Hi Mark. I love the GR-50 patches you posted on your website. Many thanks David, Scotland (frustrated GR-50 user)
DATE: 6/29/08 6:22 PM FROM: Kerry Bradley SUBJECT: a few questions about your saxophone patches Hi Mark, I'm an AH-lurker, cheap 80's gear modifier, etc. Every once in awhile during research for my little projects, I'm led to your excellent home pages. This time it's the saxophone patches...
From: bert lams Sent: 7/15/08 3:04 PM Subject: 13 pin cable Hey Mark Thanks for posting your interesting finds and experiments on the web! Bert Lams
DATE: 7/13/08 5:08 PM SUBJECT: Copeland pickup Hi Mark, I ran across you site and I like what you're doing so I thought I'd drop you a line. I'm a jazzer around Pittsburgh Pa, mostly solo sometimes trio. I use some looping and divided pickup techniques and i'm interested in that copeland pickup. ... Keep up the good work and keep picking. Al Craigie
DATE: 8/12/08 12:27 AM FROM: Bob Christman SUBJECT: GR-300 Question Hello Mark. I'm extremely impressed with your website and the work you've done with the Roland GR-300. I'm was very interested in modifying a GR-300 to improve it just like what you have DONE ALREADY ! Your mods are very good especially the AD633 to keep the s awtooth wave at a constant amplitude and adding better envelope generation and the 1v/oct log gen (thanks!) etc. Bob
DATE: 8/22/08 2:12 PM FROM: Nathanael Fareed Mahluli SUBJECT: Windsynth Info I found your site and really enjoy your programming. I play EWI and I'm interested in creating a few patches. I really like your alto sax patch.
DATE: 8/24/08 6:23 AM FROM: gabby hayman SUBJECT: axxe hi Mark, i just wanted to say a huge THANKS!! for posting your axxe mods info.. i've had my axxe for ten years and use it nearly every day and that 10ms delay has been sooo frustrating because i love the sound of the axxe but would never have worked out how to make it as snappy as my other synths. today i added some more mods to my axxe mk1, first i did the lfo free run mod which i found on another site, i had done the noise reduction mod a few years ago and they are sweet.. i just did your simple fast env mod and now i am very happy! over the moon in fact :) next ill try your LFO speed mods. kind regards, gab (melbourne AUS)
DATE: 8/24/08 9:52 AM FROM: Jos_Paulo_Brito SUBJECT: Hexaphonic pickups Dear Mark: I'm sending you this e-mail after seeing your excellent website, congratulations indeed! ... It's only fair to recognize the good, helpful websites when we find them, as these days it's quite usual to find a lot of pretty websites with loads of nice design and Flash, Java, whatever tricks they put within, but lacking the most important, specialized, detailed, technical contents. This is where websites like yours excel, as well as some good forums. Keep up the good work, thanks once again Jos� Paulo
DATE: 10/1/08 6:25 AM FROM: Paul Censored SUBJECT: fedbackgenerator+gr300+sitar Greetings again Mark! It's me Paul from Russia. It's amazing, but as my needs develop, and I'm searching for a new and exiting peaces of gear, the final link that brings me simple (but yet very clever) solution is marksmart.net. First it was MIDIguit, then electric sitar, now it's sustainer. Thank You many times for that.
DATE: 1/1/09 3:16 PM FROM: Bob Christman SUBJECT: Guitar Feedback Generator Hi Mark. On your site you have a really nice section on your feedback generator. The soundclips were great. Reminds me of Hendrix at Woodstock. Here's a link to a site that has a feedback generator, where the transducer is mounted on a gooseneck. http://www.vibesware.com/vibesware_english.htm Best, Bob Christman
DATE: 11/21/09 6:53 AM FROM: Bill Ambrose SUBJECT: Wow ! Great site I chanced upon your site by accident (through a link to your Reaktor patch 'big band) and I couldn't believe you were generous enough to provide the Bornes midi patch for your JD800, that's invaluable! Thanks so much. It's a really interesting site as well.. you been busy ! Thanks again Bill (London, UK)
12/1/09 4:59 AM FROM: seamus blake SUBJECT: hi My name is Seamus blake. I am a sax and ewi player. I have made some patches for the nord micro modular. I liked your alto patch. Would you like to trade a couple patches? I wonder if your alto sax patch will work with the micro modular. keep up the good work. -seamus www.moosejaww.com www.seamusblake.com
DATE: 1/11/10 12:42 PM FROM: shellferrari SUBJECT: jd800 just like to say thanks for sorting out all the jd800 controllers into bome's midi translator....saved me hours and now I can sell my other midi controller as I badly need the money and besides it didn't have as many controls as the jd800 does. Thanks again, Tim Brighton UK
Sent: 5/9/10 3:43 AM Subject: axxe help Hi Mark- I was browsing your Axxe mods and I must say that I'm quite impressed. I'll definitely be borrowing a couple of your ideas. Chadwick W.D
DATE: 6/26/10 3:49 PM SUBJECT: AUTH -> info bass guitar Hi Mark, I'm Francesco from Italy...i was searching for hex pickup and i saw your website! you are very good player and your sound is very good too!!
Sent: 8/4/10 10:50 AM Subject: email me Hi Mark! I've just played your three Roland GP-16 patches and they're great! Could you please send me the patch parameter information? I've been getting back into playing and I'd like to have a go on my Roland. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Best wishes, Jeff Allan
DATE: 8/9/10 2:10 AM FROM: Gareth Whittock SUBJECT: Gr300 clone Hello there, My name is Gareth Whittock and I'm working on a guitar synthesizer plugin for my masters degree major project here in the UK. I'm grateful to you and your enthusiastic and knowledgeable insights into the GR300 synth. I'm interested in adapting some of the principles into a digital plugin version.... Many thanks for you insights so far Gareth Whittock
DATE: 9/1/10 3:45 PM FROM: Neil Nappe SUBJECT: GR System String Buffering Mark, Any time I google for GR-related info, your work, or some derivative thereof is generally near the top of the results. I'm hoping you can answer a simple question based on your work w/ the GR300... Neil Nappe
From: Alan Ayoub Date: October 12, 2010 9:22:58 AM EDT Subject: Hexing Hi Mark, My name is Alan Ayoub, I am a Detroit area professional guitarist. I have been enjoying your experiments on your site. Al
DATE: 10/19/10 9:49 PM FROM: patrick stolley SUBJECT: arp omni Hi. Your pages are proving really useful in my Arp Omni 2 rehab project. Question: Are the tant. caps marked "226" actually 22mf? Just wanna make sure. Thanks for your contributions to the synth world, sir. Patrick
DATE: 12/1/10 10:47 AM SUBJECT: Sysex Thank you for posting your GR-50 sysex file (I don't remember where - too much surfing) but I found them a lot more useful than the factory patches - again thanks - JB
DATE: 12/18/10 4:21 PM FROM: patrick stolley SUBJECT: it works! I got the synth section going. Various little bugs. It sounds awesome. I still have a couple little bugs, like a couple switches that don't want to turn off, but it's 99% functional. Thanks so much for all the info you have out there and your emails, I couldn't have done it without it! Patrick Stolley http://www.daytrotter.com (I helped Patrick repair his ARP Omni 2 synthesizer - MWS)
DATE: 12/30/10 6:19 PM FROM: marcelo madariaga SUBJECT: saludos I enjoyed your anaglyph buck rogers comic, really, you get a nice 3D effect....
DATE: 6/5/13 6:30 PM SUBJECT: Rush Hi there, I heard your soundsample of Rush, and it sound amazing. I bought a couple of moths ago a gp16 but I didn't find that nice flanger sound. Can you Please tell me the complete settings of the Rush patch? Regards from Anne Pieter in The Netherlands.
DATE: 6/9/13 7:03 AM FROM: gian andrea tabacchi SUBJECT: Continuum tuning downloader question Hi Mark, First let me congratulate you for your excellent musical work and your contribution to the Continuum Fingerboard development in all its aspects. I must confess that your demonstrations are amongst the best and more convincing (for me, at least) of the Continuum as a real musical instrument.
DATE: 7/1/13 3:52 PM FROM: Bernard Dawson SUBJECT: JD800 This is just a word of thanks for the zip file of translations for the Bome prog. It must have taken you a while to do it! I tried with a midi file using dimension as a plug in and had a big grin on my face when I moved the filter fader and could hear the immediate effect on the plug in. Thanks again, the wonder of the internet never ceases to amaze. Regards Bernie Dawson
FROM: jeffrey ambroziak SUBJECT: AUTH -> 3D Anaglyph question Mark: Your beautiful 3D conversions of Buck Rogers comics inspired me to pay a comic artist to create some comics for me with all of the elements on different layers so that I could make them 3D. ... Cheers. -Jeff
DATE: 11/17/13 7:36 PM FROM: Matt Fulks SUBJECT: Sci Fi set Hi Mark, So I was browsing google today looking for some sci fi set ideas and I came across your website/blog and I really loved the set you created for those sci fi projects. I'm currently building one myself for a project I have coming up and had a few questions I was going to see if you wouldnt mind helping me out with. Thanks. -Matt
DATE: 2/20/15 10:18 AM FROM: Bobby McAlister SUBJECT: JD800 sysex Bomes Hi just wanted to thank you for posting these presets. I was about to embark on the journey tonight, converting my JD800 to control Yellow Tools sampler by CC, and with delight found your page. Means I’ll be making music tonight instead of HEX! Take care, Bobby
I was honored to be nominated in the Jazz Blues category in the 2007 Local Music Awards, put on by WPGU Radio and Buzz Magazine. They gave me some nice write-ups:
There have been few radical shifts in instrumentation of music in all genres since guitar became the lead instrument of choice for a majority of music acts. Mark Smart is helping to end this trend.
Mark Smart has been playing all sorts of different music over the past 25 years, from playing guitar with the U of I jazz bands, to an experimental prog-rock group. Recently, Mark has spent time helping to engineer one of the most impressive innovations in instruments since synthesizers.
The Continuum Fingerboard essentially is a synthesizer. It has monophonic and polyphonic outputs, along with the ability to produce MIDI. What separates this instrument from synthesizers of the 20th century is how it's played. The fingers strike the surface of a long rectangle; the position affects pitch, timbre and volume. The resultant sounds can be as rich and textured as a brass ensemble, or as smooth and mellow as a fretless bass. Unfortunately, the learning curve and the price also separate Continuum from its predecessors. These problems will fade eventually, and Continuum will turn many more heads in the future.
To see and hear Mark Smart play the Continuum Fingerboard, the Champan Stick (which any stringed instrument fan should take a look at) or with any of his old bands, got to http://www.marksmart.net. The video of Smart playing Continuum blew my mind and sold my LMA vote for Best Jazz within five minutes. Enjoy.
-Josh Fisher
Mark Smart is a cool dude. I'd equate him to your father's old college roommate who maintained his sense of cool, while your old man went on to do something "safe" with his life. Basically he's Uncle Jesse, but with Joey's sense of humor (his website is pretty funny). Mark is a rare breed of Musician AND Engineer, so he's able to do cool stuff such as looping which enables him to play five instruments at the same time, creating the sound of a "one man band". Marks solo work is soft bluesy jazz, with a strong bassanova influence. It's the kind of music you got to listen to with one hear close to the ground if you're going to want to catch all the magnificent subtleties.
I didn't win the award. It went to Kilborn Alley.
Mark Smart's cool site full of guitar gear ideas, hacks, tricks Mark Smart's web site is chock full of interesting ideas, home guitar gear projects -- I haven't even seen it all yet, but I set my browser's home page to his site, so I will often be prompted to spend a half hour or more checking out yet another fascinating thing he's put there for all of us to learn from. Most recent cool discovery there: the homemade feedback generator. Looks dead easy and sounds like, well, feedback. I did something similar once just by using a small "Telephone Listener" battery- powered amp from Radio Shack *as a slide*. That is, while the sound was coming out of the little plastic box [about the size of a PB&J sandwich], I was using the box as a slide. Sustain and harmonic overtones forever. It sounded like a tiny My Bloody Valentine. Thanks, Mark, for keeping such an interesting site, and for making so many sounds available there, too. It's great to hear demos of the very thing you write about on the site. There's too much to see at one time, so I'll be visiting it off & on over the next few months, digging a little something different each time. --moonie
Sunday, December 04, 2005 PLATO IMS Synthesizer Now this is interesting. Mark Smart put up a site on the PLATO IMS Synthesizer. If you don't know what it is, check out the site via the title like to this post. The site is made to use the amber on black font of the PLATO. The site has history, samples and details on it's sythesis. Really impressive.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 How to Make Choir Voices without Samples From Mark Smart who brought us How to Make Arp Strings. The site gives you an example of how to create choir voices, sometimes referred to vox waves, on a JD-800, which can be applied to other synths with similar architecture. Amazing. I'm really impressed with Mark Smart's technique not only in creating these patches but also in how clearly he shares them via his website.
Thursday, September 15, 2005 How to Make Arp Strings Mark Smart posted this on AH. Super simple walkthrough with samples for each step. Really nicely done. Title link takes you there.
Subject: 3D Wireframe Graphics 26-03-2005, 20:55 Outstanding... it reminds me of my Flash 3D experiments - with sound. b.
Subject: 3D Wireframe Graphics lukash27-03-2005, 00:17 this is really cool! elite, anyone?
Subject: 3D Wireframe Graphics CList27-03-2005, 00:26 OK, now I want to see you remake BattleZone in Reaktor!
Subject: 3D Wireframe Graphics Rameau27-03-2005, 01:55 That is some crazy stuff...wow...
Mark Smart is a brilliant musician/engineer/innovator who has been kind enough to help me with my guitar synthesizer projects, and let me use some of his cool circuit designs in the RC-1324. Mark is fluent on guitar, Chapman stick, and a radical new controller, the Haken Continuum Fingerboard controller. In addition to his one-man jazz guitar gigs, Mark is a demonstrator for the Haken Continuum Fingerboard.
From: "Julian (Jools) Elliott" Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [AH] Re: Won't Get Fooled Again Evening folks Casual reader of the list How cool is that Pink Floyd patch!!!!!!! Very nice Sir:)
From: Gordon Reid Sent: Wednesday, Auguest 25th, 2005 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [AH] Arp Quadra/Gordon Reid 'Sound on Sound' article. I think that what you did is remarkable. It's one thing to have the opportunity to write about things, but quite another to have the skills to do the things that are worth writing about! Gordon Reid
From: fierce fish Date: May 22, 2007 2:17:24 PM EDT (CA) Subject: Re: [AH] More Analog Content at Haken Audio Goddamit! Can people stop the continuum talk! I've been trying very hard for the past 6 months to convince myself I don't want one (let alone can afford one), and then some joker comes along and provokes me with more demo's and weblinks, enough! Mark Smart - you have a lot to answer for buddy, with your fancy modded Arp Axxe and continuum, and your slick demonstrations. :) P.S anyone wanna buy a kidney?
Date: Jan 18, 2008 5:14 PM Subject Re: [AH] Reaction to Reaktor NOW i realize that you and the person who made the Reaktor Arp Ensemble are the same! I can only say that because of your Arp ens. i bought an Quadra ;-) Your Ensemble is an extremely good soundimitation of the real thing. Thank you Mr. Smart! Best, Christian
[NM] Little request. Wed Apr 9 23:30:16 PDT 2003 Hi, If anyone can help me here I would be really grateful. Wondering around the net last night, I happened on a couple of Nord modular patches for 2 Who songs that my band do (badly) - Baba O Reilly and Won't get Fooled Again. These patches had mp3 demos and sounded bang on. Now I want one. But I have seen the Modular keyboard and the micro modular, and think I get what the differences are. But could I recreate the sounds for these 2 songs with a micro modular or is it time to smash the piggy bank? Any help gratefully received!! Many Thanks Ady
From: "Clayton Gary Lehmann" Subject: RE: electric sitars--Your mod on the Jerry Jones Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:07:26 -0800 Mark-- Cool instrument, cool site, and I think just about everybody needs to level and hang. Gary
From: Tim Nelson Subject: Re: electric sitars Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:05:56 -0800 (PST) Wow, that's a great mod! I just put a link to it over at the Eccentric Luthiery Support Group site... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EccentricLuthierySupportGroup/ -t-
To: Loopers-Delight From: Louie Angulo Subject: Re: Jazz Looping Pedalboard Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 06:46:59 -0800 (PST) cool stuff smart! L.a
To: Loopers-Delight From: Scott Hansen Subject: Re: Jazz Looping Pedalboard Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:01:31 -0600 mark-very nice pic and a nice layout of your pedalboard. boy it looks CLEAN!!! ... s---
Subject: Re: Reaktor Loopers, anyone? From: rithma Date: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:06 To: Loopers-Delight Hey just wanted to send a big THANK YOU to Mark Smart for linking me to those (somewhat insane) Reaktor creations of yours! nice work my friend! hope everyones swell rithers
From: Joe Musician Date: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:44 pm Subject: Re: [reaktorBuildersForum] Introduction Oh. My. God. "some Reaktor sounds" he says casually. Your sounds are great, and that Big Band is incredible. It's got all the automation (and more) that I envision in my monster sequencer project. The recordings are remarkably convincing. You really nail the styles. Best of all though, I like the Ligeti sounds. I loved his 2001 work, and I have also built a formant synth (in Reaktor), so I can really appreciate the work it takes to track down good formants and work the whole thing out. The core of my architecture is fairly similar to yours, with some extra stuff, and I use PWM and Unison (with randomized LFOs) to get my chorus effects. Here's my VoxHumana ensemble: http://joeorgren.com/tech.htm
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 09:55:33 -0700 From: "Steven Lamphear" Subject: Re: [SW] Blues Noodling To: STICKWIRE Wow...those clips are great!!! I'm very impressed with the amount of thought that you can put into creating a very interesting melody, while still keeping a solid bass line going. The tone on all of these clips is great as well. Keep up the great work, and let me know when a CD is in the works :) Steven Lamphear
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:07:28 EDT From: Steve Adelson Subject: Re: [SW] Blues Noodling To: STICKWIRE Hey Mark. Nice work. Good perception of chord voicings, substitutions in the blues progression and comping. And it doesn't sound forced. Relaxed and groovy. Vijay Singhalongh
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:13:51 -0400 From: "Michael Baran" Subject: Re: [SW] Blues Noodling To: STICKWIRE Outstanding!!!! Great pedestrian lines and fluid melodys! I am not a blues/jazz player but I hear many hours spent over the strings. Thanks for the noodling and get a CD available of your material. Mike.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:33:09 -0700 From: "pete gonzales" Subject: Re: [SW] Blues Noodling To: STICKWIRE Thanks for the Tab and Tunes, really smooth! Great work! Pete G.
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:10:53 EDT From: "Brett Bottomley" Subject: Re: [SW] Blues Noodling To: STICKWIRE Mark Great stuff, can you tell us a little about your right hand comping? What voicings are you using? or what concepts are you using to voice them? Thanks Brett
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:26:34 -0800 From: pete gonzales Subject: Cool pages Was: A Practice Exercise Mark, thanks for putting up the Stick/music pages. I'm looking forward to trying your Two Handed Block chord technique. Also I really enjoyed your chords over walking bass sound bite. Sounds Great! Pete G.
Post Re: Hi all This is a very impressive tool Mark - I applaud your efforts. I have been able to successfully access the pages, but when selecting Grand Stick in Classic melody I am not able to hear the Bock to Bock midi. Let me know if you need any assistance with this effort as having a tool like this for the community would a tremendous asset. Can you imagine being able to feed in chords and melodies into this and have it arrange it in the format you have defined on your site? Amazing. Amazing work Mark - bravo! _________________ Gene Perry http://www.geneperry.com http://www.facebook.com/geneperrymusician
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:06:17 -1000 From: David Minasian Subject: Re: Reaktor Big Band Synth Wow, nice tracks. So, is this auto chord function you mention found in Reaktor? Have you used it on any live gigs? How does it function? Mark Minasian
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 03:31:17 -0800
Subject: Re: Reaktor Big Band Synth
DUDE. That is AMAZING if you'd done it with 10 tracks.
But it's almost unbelievable from just 2. WOW.
In the Star Wars books they dubbed the Cantina Band's
style as "Jizz Wailing". I think you've arrived!! ;)
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:24:10 -0800 From: Keith Bradbury Subject: Reaktor Big Band Synth Interesting. But kind of sounds like a Hawaian guitar.
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:59:00 -0800 From: Craig Rasband Subject: Re: Reaktor Big Band Synth ? What are you talking about? Keith Bradbury wrote: > Interesting. But kind of sounds like a Hawaian guitar.
From: Pat Smith Subject: Re: Jazz Looping Pedalboard v2.0 Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2004-11-08 16:52:02 PST wow... your site is pretty damn cool...I wish you lived next door so I could bug you
From: PartyDanceBand Subject: Re: Jazz Looping Pedalboard v2.0 Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2004-11-07 14:38:20 PST Very impressive, Mark. are you saying that with this rig you can do solo gigs with all that extra instrumentation. The Boss RC-20's allow you to loop recordings, but how many recordings can you loop and what's the difference of using that and a pre-recorded backing? Thanks, greg PS. Loved Shiny Stockings ... Also browsed through your site... crazy,man, crazy (as in cool). Greg
From: David Iwaoka Subject: happy birthday Jimi Hendrix Date: Mon, Nov 27 2006 3:01 pm Groups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz, rec.music.classical.guitar Boy, do you have some nutty ideas - Good for you! :-)
From: Jack Zucker Subject: Re: Tapping Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2004-06-25 12:37:30 PST Mark, I loved Dusk. You have that notated? Absolutely wonderful stuff. Was that stick or guitar? ... Incidentally Mark, I'd buy a CD of that stuff. Please record one! -- Web/Books: http://www.sheetsofsound.net Endorsements: http://www.sheetsofsound.net/endorsements.htm Soundclips: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/jackzuckermusic.htm
Subject: Re: Boss RC-20 Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2002-12-13 21:10:49 PST Sounds way cool Mark. Really, I'd like to hear more about it. I enjoy what you did with the sound on the bottom two strings. Great separation and then you add the "authentic" drum loops and it just works really well I think. Adam Gottschalk
From: Dan Adler Subject: Re: Drum machine recommendations Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2003-12-02 14:16:36 PST What an amazing setup: http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/jazzpedalboard/jazzpedalboard.html Can you explain more how the string splitting works? Also, how do you load the loops on the RC-20? This has to be the most inventive rig I've ever seen from a jazz guy :-) -Dan http://danadler.com
From: icarusi Subject: Why take two samplers onto your pedal board? Newsgroups: uk.music.guitar Date: 2003-01-27 16:08:23 PST It's jazz Jim, but not as we know it. http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/jazzpedalboard/jazzpedalboard.html Apart from the two RC-20 loop samplers, the Copeland hex pickup on the guitar is worth a detailed look. Icarusi
From: Adam Gottschalk Subject: Re: Realistic synth sounds? Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2002-12-20 13:12:58 PST I know nothing about this stuff, but I recently got a kick out of Mark Smart's exploration using an RC-20 loop station, splitting bass and treble string output, etc...and relying on Erskine samples, to produce a really "believable" sounding "one man band". Check it out if you haven't: http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/jazzpedalboard/jazzpedalboard.html A person could make a million dollars busking in Tokyo with this sort of setup...
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz From: Charlie Robinson Date: 06 Dec 2004 16:11:07 GMT Local: Mon, Dec 6 2004 8:11 am Subject: Re: Solo Jazz Looping on WEFT Radio Mark, You seem to have refined that approach quite a bit since the first time I heard you. If I were to hear something like that on the radio I don't think that I would guess that it was one person playing live. Charlie Robinson Jazz Guitarist, Composer You can hear and see me online (video) at: http://66.194.153.49/~ramon/RamonPooser.swf Soundclips: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/robinsonchazz
From: Jared R. McKinley Subject: Re: Jazz and electronics Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.jazz Date: 2003-09-12 18:55:41 PST Mark, This is going to completely contradict a lot of what I have said but I really kinda dig the mp3s you linked to. Maybe its the picture of that band from star wars on the page. The sound is kinda creepy and weird. Keep up the good work. I can't place what it is that makes it sooo...star wars like, but there is a really eerie quality to the sound. I hope you don't improve it much beyond this because its perfect. I would only say that the rest of the instruments (bass, drums) are too homogenous. You need another texture in there to get away from the total keyboard sound, to make it sound like a band instead of one person. Pretty cool. Jared
From: Adam Bravo Subject: Re: Jazz and electronics Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.jazz Date: 2003-09-13 19:15:07 PST Just IMO, but the synched vibrato really freaked me out.
From: Alan Subject: Re: A walking bass lines study plan - need advice Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2004-09-18 12:39:28 PST Mark--you certainly have an interesting variety of talents. Really found the Chapman Stick stuff interesting, as well as the Indian Duets, and your loop setup. Very cool stuff! alan
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:17:18 Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Subject: Re: Fender Stage 1600 2x12, SS amp From: GregD That's some cool stuff, Mark! Love the Fenderizer. there's some good music up on your website, too. Lots of recordings to listen to. .... I've been to your site in the past; that's some different stuff - Indian music - very interesting; cool vocals, too. I like your Chapman stick stuff. Greg
Subject: Re: The Stick Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz Date: 2003-01-23 11:56:47 PST Mark, this is a little bit off subject, maybe there should be another thread but while we have you here---- after going to your site and seeing what you do I'd like to ask the age old question: how you would set up a Fender Telecaster or similar guitar to get it to sound like an archtop? (If anyone can do this you are the one, I thought you were a lunatic who posted here once in a while until I heard some of the things that you are doing .) Charlie Robinson Jazz Guitarist, Composer You can hear me online at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/robinsonchazz or http://www.soundclick.com/bands/rmmgj_music.htm
