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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

I (formerly) was knowledgeable about various issues involving the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”). I wrote the following paper – now long out-of-print – on various issues arising under Article 3 and Article 4. I post it for your delectation. You can download it as a .pdf. Here is an abstract. In spite of the remedies [...]

From my earliest days, I can remember my father telling me, “you are related to the man who killed John Wilkes Booth.” Booth, of course, shot Abraham Lincoln. The man who shot Booth – my ancestor – is Boston Corbett. What makes this interesting is, in addition to killing Booth, Corbett went crazy. After killing [...]

Here is another paper I wrote about bank law issues arising under Article 3 and Article 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”).  You can download it as a .pdf.   The Internal Controls Defense Abstract: Banks are often defendants in litigation involving an employee of one of the bank’s depositors who has altered his employer’s [...]

A fellow noisician and I spent a pleasant afternoon creating interesting and unusual sonic textures with these devices by Arius Blaze – Folktek; Electro-Harmonix; and Roger Linn – AdrenaLinn III.  Here’s a link to the Flickr set: A Noisy Afternoon  

I recently spent an afternoon with a colleague assisting with a complicated audio mix in Logic 8.  A lot of quadruple-tracked guitars going off everywhere, that sort of thing.  We decided early on that it would be necessary to establish a very strict timing reference for the beats, if the song was to cohere properly.  [...]