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<title>Saga Musix' demoscene blog</title>
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<updated>2023-12-14T18:50:31+00:00</updated>
<author><name>Saga Musix</name>
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<title>Synthesizer Repairs</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2022/11/07/synthesizer-repairs/"></link>
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<updated>2022-11-07T20:46:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[
I've been building my studio with lots of vintage synthesizers for more than ten years now.
There are some common faults this old hardware develops with age, many of which are easy to fix with basic electronics knowledge and basic soldering skills.



Often these repairs require purchasing spare parts, which can be rather expensive when bought from stores specialized in vintage synthesizers.
Of course I know that they need to make a living, too, and sourcing the parts, figuring out what are [...]]]></summary>
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<title>Sidewinder reloaded</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2021/10/15/sidewinder-reloaded/"></link>
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<updated>2021-10-15T14:25:00+02:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In an earlier blog post, I wrote about Sidewinder's music. Much to my delight, I found out a while ago that many classic Sidewinder modules have been remastered for his Timeless album, and they really sound fantastic. Exactly how I want a modern remake of classic MODs to sound. Go grab it!]]></summary>
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<title>S3M Format Shenanigans</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2021/08/21/s3m-format-shenanigans/"></link>
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<updated>2021-08-21T02:31:00+02:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Most people would probably expect that there's nothing left to discover in the most widespread legacy module formats in 2021.
And yet, sometimes little details are discovered that were apparently overlooked by everyone else so far, or simply noone cared about them.
This is exactly what happened not too long ago when I dug around in some S3M files, and while it is of course very well possible that someone else has made the same discoveries as I have made here, I am not aware of anyone documenting [...]]]></summary>
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<title>Roland D-50 key contact cleaning</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2017/01/03/roland-d50-key-contact-cleaning/"></link>
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<updated>2017-01-03T17:52:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Roland D-50 is an amazing synthesizer, but its keyboard circuitry also has some small issues that may show up after all those years.
To detect the key velocity, there is a pair of electrical contacts below each key. Due to their arrangement, the time between closing the two contacts varies depending on how hard you hit the key. The contacts are protected by rubber caps, but small dust particles (or as my case when I got my D-50 five years ago, a piece of tin foil ) may get below the caps and [...]]]></summary>
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<title>Why instrument plugins in IT/XM aren't necessarily a bad thing</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2014/04/27/why-instrument-plugins-in-itxm-arent-necessarily-a-bad-thing/"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:dc0feb76-26e6-5384-e87c-de6baa467473</id>
<updated>2014-04-27T19:45:00+02:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[People like talking bad about ModPlug's IT/XM format hacks, and quite often they are of course right - ModPlug shouldn't extend these formats to add features that will either crash the original program or that simply make the file sound completely different. But is this true for all new features?

I wouldn't say so. One feature where I feel that quite the opposite is true are, surprise, instrument plugins (VSTi)! Why would I say that, given that VSTs are probably the most criticized feature addition? [...]]]></summary>
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<title>A tracking scene thriller</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2013/07/18/a-tracking-scene-thriller/"></link>
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<updated>2013-07-19T01:59:00+02:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some of you may remember the story about A Scam Artist called Jay, a person that ripped of several well known modules by various tracker artists and sold them as his own on his band's CD. I'm not aware of many cases where people claimed to have written some tracked music that wasn't theirs, but recently The Mod Archive was contacted by two persons claiming to own the music released under the handle Timelord. Well, I was curious to find out who of the two was the real artist... So I did some research [...]]]></summary>
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<entry>
<title>Mod Library revisited</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2012/09/15/mod-library-revisited/"></link>
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<updated>2012-09-15T22:30:00+02:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some of you might be using my program Mod Library for performing searches on their module collection. It works great for finding sample texts and similar things. However, what do you do if you don't want to know which module contains a certain sample text, but rather which module contains a certain melody? I often have melodies playing in my head, most of the time I even know that they are from a module, and typically I even know the module format and the rough time frame in which it was written [...]]]></summary>
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<title>The jungle calls</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2011/09/16/the-jungle-calls/"></link>
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<updated>2011-09-16T02:53:00+02:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Hoffman of Unstable Label has released an awesome jungle musicdisk called 8-Bit Jungle at the Sunrise Demoparty last weekend. Although it's not entirely new material, you can safely say that this is one of the best music disks for the Amiga for some time. The download includes Amiga diskette images as well as the original Protracker MOD files as well as MP3 renders. Download and enjoy!]]></summary>
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<title>The Sound of SceneSat Volume 2</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2011/05/17/the-sound-of-scenesat-volume-2/"></link>
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<updated>2011-05-17T12:26:00+02:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Finally, The Sound of SceneSat Volume 2 musicdisk is available in high quality Ogg Vorbis and FLAC! This epic collection of 73 fine tunes is nothing less than awesome.]]></summary>
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<title>Chillout and Psy stuff</title>
<link href="https://sagamusix.de/blog/2011/02/28/chillout-and-psy-stuff/"></link>
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<updated>2011-02-28T21:54:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yersterday, I've come across some music by Maxus, and I was instantly captivated. On his website, you can find some really excellent chillout and psytrance music, all made with MadTracker. Some tracks I am especially fond of are:

Andromeda (also check out the MadTracker source file!)
Happy Flower
Something Positive
Colors of Life
Off-Line (also featured on the Drone musicdisk)

If you like this, you will probably like other compilations by New Age Beats as well. "Andromeda" is for example [...]]]></summary>
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