David Kronemyer

The first string synthesizer I recall was the Mellotron as heard on early Moody Blues and King Crimson records.  This would have been around 1968.  Of course the Mellotron isn’t a synthesizer at all.  It ingeniously plays back tape loops like a gigantic cassette deck.  There are two ways of mixing the Mellotron: one where [...]

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Recently there has been considerable controversy regarding alleged similarities between the Roland SH-1000, the Roland SH-2000 and the Multivox MX-2000.  In an effort to investigate the situation further we recently set up all three at a studio where I do a lot of synth programming, electronic composition and re-mixing.  The resolution of this vexing problem is [...]

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I keep getting asked questions about the transformer-based processing arrays I designed in the mid-1990s, so here’s the information.  The line output of most synthesizer modules sounds pretty lame.  It might be characterized as “thin” or “weak.”  It lacks spatiality and dynamics.  In the case of IC or chip-based samplers and romplers (ROM-based player devices) [...]

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I recently spent an afternoon at a colleague’s studio setting up the recent Roger Linn and Dave Smith instruments – AdrenaLinn I, AdrenaLinn II, AdrenaLinn III, Evolver and Morpho. The keyboard is a Midiman Oxygen 8; the mixer is a Midiman MicroMixer 18; and the patchbay is a Digital Music Corp. MX-28S. The AdrenaLinn I [...]

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Here is a song I recorded at a colleague’s studio entitled “Neurotica.”  It showcases the fabulous Resonator Neuronium designed by Jürgen Michaelis.  It all was performed live in real time (using a hardware MIDI sequencer) except the bass guitar part which I then overdubbed. The Resonator Neuronium comes in at bar 13 after the synth intro. [...]

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