Brandenburg Concerto Number 5 Movement 1

JovianPyx · Last edited by JovianPyx on Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:10 pm; edited 3 times in total

This is my interpretation and arrangement of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #5 mov. 1 using FPGA digital hardware MIDI synths that I designed.

I found the source MIDI file on the internet, but I do not know where.

There are three instruments used:

Xarp-56
56 string Karplus-Strong harp model

PolyDrum
55 voice State Variable Filter resonator drums (tonal)

FM Bells
16 voices of bells...

Each of these synths have a built in delay effect. There were no other effects used.

bach_brandenburg_concerto_5_mov_1..mp3

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Brandenburg Concerto Number 5 Movement 1 played on FPGA synthesizers.

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8.04 MB

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v-un-v · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:04 am Post subject:

Great!

It sounds like an ultra-futuristic modern musical box! Idea

JovianPyx · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:31 pm Post subject:

I thank you v-un-v! (it's one of my favorite Bach pieces).

v-un-v · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 3:08 pm Post subject:

It could be quite cool to enclose a small motherboard in Perspex or wood, with a kid that played each time one opened it

I always thought that would be a good thing to do to all redundant Nord Micromods too! Just set them up with 100 of Jan's best, to play at random or something like that.

I'm a big Bach fan too! I suppose I can blame Wendy for that?! Very Happy

JovianPyx · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 3:30 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I think it was Wendy for me too. But wasn't Wendy Walter at that moment? Anyway she's a genius. Of course I credit her mastery of the Moog in Switched On Bach for my interest in this piece. I love that album. My brother has the vinyl.

As a child, I didn't know this, but in church, I was always seated (by my parents) so that I could watch the organist (who was quite a musician) play a 2 manual with full bass pedals organ. Many many stops on the console. All tubes I found out. Beautiful thing. Anyway, Jack would play Bach just because he liked it. I was so amazed, but I could never do that. I would stick around and watch him mess around sometimes if my parents were yacking.

mosc

JovianPyx · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 3:08 pm Post subject:

Here is another mix of the same thing... I became aware (thanks to mosc) that the mix pretty much sucks. I want to do a new one, but I thought I'd see what processing a bit might do. The balance is horrible in the mix, so I fixed that and added some reverb. I think this is much better.

bach_brandenburg_concerto_5_mov_1_a.mp3