Alesis Ion Complex Synthesis - FM & Sync Feedback

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Demo of the Alesis Ion doing some rare complex synthesis you won't find on any Alesis demos. What's happening is both the oscillators' sync and FM functions are being used, making a feedback path of modulation around the 3 oscillators. This way you can find some pretty wacky sounds.
Please note there's a small echo in the sound as the direct sound from the Ion and the sound from my camera's mike are merging.

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My favorite thing ... ( 5 months ago by benjah0)

My favorite thing you did was with the feeding back high hat bit. And it does seem that they've been discontinued (or so says all the online music dealing sites I've been to). The good news is that they go for pretty cheap on used auction sites still (where I bought mine)

funny ( 5 months ago by elektrovolt)

funny

the nord lead ... ( 4 months ago by d3p3ch3mod3)

the nord lead series can do something like this, which i really wish someone would post a demo of because it sounds incredible... not putting this one down because the only synth i own is a micron and am going to rush upstairs and try to get these sounds right after i finish watching this

awesome im going to ... ( 4 months ago by fuzzydeer)

awesome im going to try this as soon as my ion arrives (I found one yay!)

Love the Ion, used ... ( 4 months ago by Derteufell666)

Love the Ion, used it on a few of our records, toured with it, and let another rather well known Industrial band use it live. REally good especially for the price. One can make lots of crunchy sounds and I liked wathicn this, but I think it needs English sub titles ;p.

lol I am English! : ... ( 4 months ago by futureimage)

lol I am English! :P sorry about the sound quality if that's what you mean, it's awful. we really need a better camera.

Only the sound ... ( 4 months ago by Derteufell666)

Only the sound qulity of you speaking (muffled) and the accent! ;p You know the joke, go watch "Snatch" and you will know what I mean.

Haha yeah that's ... ( 4 months ago by futureimage)

Haha yeah that's the camera. Snatch is a brilliant film.

noice! thats what I ... ( 4 months ago by thefunkycrew)

noice! thats what I call "nine inch nails noise". sweet.

I use this feature ... ( 3 months ago by fucinfulleffect)

I use this feature all the time - in fact its almost the only reason i use that synth at all! i like throwing the slapback effect on top of the feedback. you get some nice reverbarating crashes etc. which sound reminiscent of the synth effects used in a lot of broadcast songs

another cool thing ... ( 3 months ago by fucinfulleffect)

another cool thing to do with that sort of patch is to use it as the carrier signal for the vocoder -run some drums through as the modulator or, better yet, another feedback synthesis patch running out of the aux output and into the ext. in. give those a try and you'll be quite surprised by the result

Dude you rock at ... ( 3 months ago by djcondra)

Dude you rock at that shit.

doesn't the Yamaha ... ( 2 months ago by speier)

doesn't the Yamaha DX7 have FM like this too?

The DX7 doesn't ... ( 2 months ago by futureimage)

The DX7 doesn't have Sync or much variation on the waveforms used for each operator/oscillator.

This is the coolest ... ( 2 months ago by Kinor7)

This is the coolest ever... Love when you squeeze sounds out of machines you can't imagine. Big up!! :D

novation x-station ... ( 1 month ago by bigpun2g)

novation x-station vs. Alesis Ion, i need your opinion

Well I can only ... ( 1 month ago by futureimage)

Well I can only speak for the Alesis Ion, but IMO it's probably the best VA out there for the price. Go and demo them both out somewhere and see which one fits your taste more.

"novation x-station ... ( 1 month ago by djfakt)

"novation x-station vs. Alesis Ion, i need your opinion" ....Not even close. Ion crushes that shit...Especially in the sound dept...NOT EVEN CLOSE...It's the closest you can get to real analog besides buying an actual analog synth. Novation X-station isn't even in the same league. The only reason the Ion isn't bigger ( glad it isn't, actually) is because the Alesis name is junk. They are known for making shit products. Go read the Sound on Sound review of the Ion. Or any review, really...

As owner of both, ... ( 1 month ago by thedivinechemical)

As owner of both, the X-Station only has a couple of nice tricks up it's sleeve in that it does things it wasn't designed to do. The Ion on the other hand is incredible on all acounts, amazing filters, flexible oscillators, and most interestingly, (speaking as an owner of many analog synths) this is honestly the closest to analog that a VA has ever gotten. It's worth the money. Get it.

Great as a sound FX ... ( 1 month ago by Fretkillr)

Great as a sound FX machine but I don't hear any music. Someone send a link to someone making music with this box.

I hear music ! ( 2 weeks ago by theau61)

I hear music !

See I have aa ... ( 1 week ago by omnipitantlyoriginal)

See I have aa Micron and I hear the Micron is better than the Ion. Is this true, cos I've never played around on an Ion?

This is 100% wrong. ... ( 1 week ago by YuzoTibi)

This is 100% wrong. The Micron is more a "Ion light". Both are great and underrated VA synths though!

That's not quite ... ( 3 days ago by shaft9000)

That's not quite right, either. The micron has the same synth engine, and adds an editable arpeggiator+sequencer and a digital delay that is actually useful - the Ion's delay maxes at something pitiful like 100ms. The only things the micron lacks are the extra keys, knobs and modwheels

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