They are resampled into the Akai. I hear some clipping from the Akai. Also, I hear some desk distortion like from a Mackie console desk mixer. There is a warmth that the desk distortion gives it. The highs are warm in their music and this is likely a product of the normal analog equipment they undoubtedly used. You could use a saturation plugin on the high portion only. This could be Fabfilter Saturn or an equivalent that allows per-band saturation.
Possibly they also use tape for distortion, but the desk distortion and the Akai sampler distortion come through more. I used DAC on the various sampler settings, but in particular, the S worked well. Desk distortion can be had with the SoundToys Decapitator plugin. This does not impart much, though. Definitely, the pattern makes some sense and has the BoC vibe to it, but I tried other patterns and the drums still sound like BoC very well.
So it is not the pattern that holds all of the magic. The drumkit itself has the right sounds. I think the main point here is that these are real drum sounds and not from a drum machine. I believe most of what BoC does with drums is from real drums or sounds, and not programmed. Believe it or not, I have had some success using Glitchmachines stunning plugins to achieve the Boards of Canada drum sounds.
Their plugins are fantastic for mangling sounds and are wildly intimidating and complex. Rich effects from subtle to other-worldly can be made of the Glitchmachine plugins and are well-worth trying.
Sample Science used to make a drum machine called Pine Forest Drums and it aimed directly at recreating the Boards of Canada drum sounds. Fortunately, you can find it again after a long while being gone. They are not real drum sounds, but are synthesized so they are not accurate. But close is what is working for me now and it is good enough for my purposes. I used Microtonic and an Eventide H to get some delayed drum sounds like Whitewater.
Some tweaking could make them closer to the real thing, but here is a start see video :. Interviewer: What kind of special equipment do you use? I understand some of your machines are quite big.
We have more than one really. We use a mixture of old and new equipment. In the Societas x Tape, at one point there is a commercial segment for a Casiotone Could this be one of the mysterious secret weapon synths? If I look at a timeline, it helps to understand what synths they may have used and when they may have used them. It could be a reverb or some other equipment. Not sure how to describe it better.
But it could be an FM-type synth though and not just this reverb effect. For more, see a history of the Crumar brand here. Roland SH is used. Diva by U-He can be used and is very effective and realistic. Serum by Xfer can also be used to recreate the synth sounds of BoC but is not very effective.
I suggest if you concentrate efforts on any synth, it should be this one. Find out more in the blog post I wrote about these. Click here to download the owners manual for the SH rolandshownersmanual. It has 6 voices of polyphony — same as the Crumar Trilogy mentioned below. With two oscillators it has 12 VCOs total — also the same as the Crumar see below. The CS was an improved synth that came later and a good emulation can be the ME plugin.
The CSm is mentioned by their music publisher. Click to enlarge. It was quickly taken down soon after this screenshot was taken.
I hear auto panning on many tunes very prevalent on Whitewater and this leads me to believe it could be a synth with this auto panning available onboard.
Size is 44x7x20 and 65 lbs. Although it is only rumored to be used, a Crumar synth was identified as the synth they used in a concert by one guy who said their logo covered the Crumar logo.
This synth was reportedly misidentified as a Yamaha CS when in fact it may have been a Crumar. The DS-2 would be small enough to be purchased on a bus as it was mentioned by the band themselves. Made in , the DS-2 was polyphonic, and reasonably portable at 50 lbs. One of these may be the synth they purchased in although it could also just be the SH It is possible to recreate a lot of the BoC sound with these synths. I tried out the Crumar synth emulation of the Crumar Trilogy or similar, and more portable, Crumar Stratus synth via Kontakt and it definitely has the BoC synth sound to it.
So, I believe the Crumar synth could be a large part of the BoC sound or it is so similar to the CSM see above that it sounds like it. Either way, I would believe 6 voice polyphony and 2 oscillators are the correct assessment for the sound of BoC. The Crumar Stratus is the slimmed down version of the Trilogy.
Or, more likely, it could have been a Crumar Roady, Performer, or other similar synths in the Crumar lineup. I have tried the Crumar Roady and it sounds a bit like BoC. Hideaway Studio makes a good Kontakt version of the Rhodes Chroma. Synth Magic makes an excellent Kontakt version of the Polaris. Yes, believe it or not, a Poly can sound like Boards of Canada.
While not the synth they used, it comes close. I tried the emulation Esper Noir for Kontakt. Also, the ME works great and does not rely on samples. It definitely has the Vangelis sound and can replicate the Bladerunner soundtrack near flawlessly. It is a CS emulation. But the CS is expensive and it is hard to believe that Boards of Canada had one of these. You can emulate a bit of BoC on other synths, but they are just not exactly the same.
Click here to download the Juno 60 Owners Manual. The Korg synths sound a lot like Boards of Canada. The Poly and the Delta both can get you a BoC type of sound. But, maybe? Many have speculated about an Oberheim. The Matrix is an Oberheim with patches of Crumar, Korg, etc. Hollowsun has one of the best Oberheim Matrix Kontakt instruments in their M Our studio is full of wooden things covered with red LEDs.
We'll go to great lengths to get hold of a specific instrument just to get a particular sound. For example, there's a sound in Cold Earth that is something like only one second of audio.
It comes from an obscure old effect unit that cost us a lot of time and road miles to source, and it ended up being one second of audio on the record. As for our percussion, it's never just a drum machine or a sample, we put a lot of real live drumming or percussion in there, woven into the rhythm tracks, and it brings a bit of chaos into the sound that you just can't achieve any other way.
Do you have roles in the studio? Is it possible to divide the workload in any definable way? Sandison: "We throw tracks back and forward at each other. Sometimes we jam the core idea down as a take, or one of us will start something and hand it over, and vice-versa.
There isn't really one method or any particular strength for either of us because it changes from track to track. We both write melodies but at the same time we're both technicians in some way, so the process is quite unpredictable and messy. You've spoken in the past about how mathematics and science have been an inspiration on Boards Of Canada.
Another is called Jacquard Causeway, which seems like it might be a reference to the Jacquard Loom , a sort of rudimentary mechanical computer. Have you found more musical ways to integrate mathematics into the fabric of the music on Tomorrow's Harvest? Sandison: "Yes, it's loaded with patterns and messages. There are various tricks embedded throughout the whole body of this album, so it'll be interesting to see whether people pick up on these things.
Some things are just simple structural things. For instance, Come To Dust , the second-to-last track, is a musical reprise of Reach for the Dead , which comes in as the second track. There's a palindromic structure centred around the track Collapse in the middle. There's actually more use of subliminals on this record than on any previous album we've done, so we're interested to see what people will pick up on.
Reading this on mobile? There was a lot of speculation that the six-digit codes on the Records Store Day vinyl were a reference to number stations, short-wave radio broadcasts that are thought to be connected to international espionage. The cover appears to be a photo of the San Francisco skyline , shot from the vantage point of Alameda Naval Air Station, a now defunct military base operational during the cold war. Eoin: "Yeah, definitely — of course that's an ingredient of the theme on this record.
In fact if you look again at the San Francisco skyline on the cover it's actually a ghost of the city. You're looking straight through it. A spot of web sleuthing reveals that Tomorrow's Harvest is the name of an online clothing and supplies store that seems to cater for crisis scenarios — frozen and sealed food supplies, gas masks, solar power.
Its really rich sounding and warm. Also the sounds off "Julie and Candy" and "Alpha and Omega" has quite a bit of musical content to it as well. If you have any thoughts on that one, that would be great to. BoC's beats and chord progressions are a lot more essential and harder to mimic than the sounds themselves , which usually already sound BoC-like with a slow LFO on the pitch.
What you use is not that important. Also, the effect is not complete without background noise of some kind. My Studio. That plus one or two analog monosynths and you're good to go. Some tones are definitely more moogish than roland-ish. But the important part is not the source itself, but how the sound is processed to make it sound like it comes from an old record.
I think they sample a lot of air and noises from everywhere and layer those samples with their melodies and drums. Coincidentally, my friend mentioned to me just a few days back that they covered BOCs studio techniques on his college course. I also think a Siel DK or Opera is doing poly duty. Multiple generations of dubbing that create both noise and distance.
Their sounds are occasionally recorded to different low quality cassette tape recorders of the handheld variety and then they shake em' a little bit. I stayed with a friend who had 4 CD's of unreleased BOC years before all of that stuff leaked all over the net in various incarnations and I begged and pleaded and would not shut up about it I would like to see them drop the beats out or down to extremely "kraut" levels of inaudibility in upcoming releases.
That blue keyboard is a Yamaha CS-1X. Remix, ". BoC themselves have, in multiple interviews, mentioned the use of a "secret weapon" they use to generate their unique sound.
Many believe that it's a CS The back of an Akai S can be seen in this photo taken during a live performance of Boards Of Canada. Steel-string Acoustic Guitars. Top Drum Machines. Add Your Gear Setup. Boards of Canada. Music Producer.
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