News: March 2021...
This web site contains, hopefully, some interesting stuff on my electronic music and my unique equipment designs.
Over the years I have both gigged and recorded with this home designed and built equipment. It has greatly helped me create my own brand of electronic music. I’ve composed and recorded 15 albums, some of which have been released by independent labels on cassette and vinyl. They are now all available on my own label from this site as CDs or high quality FLAC & MP3 downloads.
“Out of Control” was a unique electronic duo I jointly formed in the late nineteen seventies. I used a Synertek “Sym1”, one of the first microprocessor boards available in the UK, live as a third member. I added my own hardware and wrote software to create an interactive sequencing device we could gig with. It controlled a home built synthesiser and electronic percussion unit. Both the software and data for the gig was stored on cassette! Today computers aid live performances everywhere in so many many ways. OOC story here.
In the eighties I pioneered the simple physical modelling of several musical instruments, not with a big mainframe digital computer but using my unique extended modular analogue synthesiser. For comparison, I’ve recreated the models digitally in Native Instruments Reaktor. Details and many sound clips of both versions can be found in the acoustic modelling section on the above navigation bar.
I hope you find something of interest here musically, technically or even historically.
Best wishes,
Ron.
[ By the way, if you find my music for free anywhere else on the web, it’s pirated !!! If you have any respect the vast amount of effort time and money that goes into creating this music, please don’t steal it! ]
Site designed & maintained by Ron Berry, 1st posted 2002; last updated March 2021.
Site: General Information...
REAKTOR DIGITAL ACOUSTIC MODELLING PATCHES... String.zip (32KB, Gong.zip (61KB), Brass.zip (17KB, Wind.zip (36KB). See acoustic modelling section for details of what these free patches contain.
A web site promoting the unique electronic music of Ron Berry; an English musician who builds and designs his own synthesisers and recording equipment.