Name: AKS Exercise 25
Duration: P00H05M46S
Description: Maciek Polak’s professional life has been revolving around analogue synths for the best part of last 25 years but EMS have always remained his most cherished (or even default, “go to”) instruments. He released a few records as a member of a duo called Pin Park and a handful of Synthi solo albums, too, using either his own AKS or Synthi 100 at KSYME in Athens.

Maciek Polak - AKS Exercise 25

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Maciek Polak’s professional life has been revolving around analogue synths for the best part of last 25 years but EMS have always remained his most cherished (or even default, “go to”) instruments. He released a few records as a member of a duo called Pin Park and a handful of Synthi solo albums, too, using either his own AKS or Synthi 100 at KSYME in Athens.

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I remember it dawned on me one day that the stereo looper I was using of "Exercises", Boss RC-1, can actually play two mono loops when recording and playback channels are separated. That's where two dry, drone-ish sequences in left and right channel come from. What comes in the middle of the tune is a trick I often use: channel 1 of the KS plays a short, spring-reverberated sequence using since from oscillator 1, while I'm playing an ostinato melody by hand on oscillator 2, I'm guessing a filtered one. From 4:15 onwards the sequence becomes slgihtly more pronounced as I was changing the shape of sine. I had the Boss RV-6 on aux (all "Exercises" went straight to mixer with no later overdubs) so I'm sure both the sequence and melody got some reverb treatment.

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from Modulisme Session 078, released January 6, 2023

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