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Buried_Death
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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:51 pm 
 

Does anyone know what synth was used by Varg to record the Burzum albums, Dauði Baldrs and Hliðskjálf while his been in prison?

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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 3:28 pm 
 

Daudi Baldrs was MIDI not synth.
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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 4:55 pm 
 

Nolan_B wrote:
Daudi Baldrs was MIDI not synth.


:lol:

MIDI isn't a sound, nor is it a type of instrument. It's only data.
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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:32 pm 
 

Nolan_B wrote:
Daudi Baldrs was MIDI not synth.


MIDI is binary code being sent by a computer to the music device connected to the computer using a 5 pin din MIDI connection.

I'm pretty sure he used a synth to make these albums, and he has said in interviews he was allowed access to a synth. So i'm just wondering which synth he used to make these albums?

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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:03 pm 
 

I thought he did it all in a computer: software sequencer; software synth.
Didn't he say something like he was only allowed to have a computer or a synth/keyboard, but not both at once?

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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:39 pm 
 

korgull wrote:
I thought he did it all in a computer: software sequencer; software synth.
Didn't he say something like he was only allowed to have a computer or a synth/keyboard, but not both at once?


I know he had a computer for a couple of months because he wrote alot of text documents which can be found on his offical web site about pagan religion and about the killing e.g.

But i'm pretty sure he recorded using a Synth don't think he used computer software for the recording that i know of?

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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:02 pm 
 

I know this isn't really much help, but I located the interview I was thinking of....

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After a few months with a synthesizer in the cell in 1998, I had to choose between my synthesizer and my laptop computer, because the prison authorities didn't let me have both at the same time (for "security reasons"), and I chose to have the computer in the cell, believing I could make music anyhow, by using some music program. But the prison authority had other ideas, claiming I didn't have an "extraordinary need" to have a music program enabling me to make music on the computer. So without a music program I couldn't make any more music from then on. That is actually the main reason I haven't released any records since 1999; to install a music program I need a CD-ROM, and all CDs are banned in this prison (for "security reasons").


http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/interview02.shtml

I've sometimes wondered what synth or program he used for the sounds too.

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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:05 pm 
 

korgull wrote:
I know this isn't really much help, but I located the interview I was thinking of....

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After a few months with a synthesizer in the cell in 1998, I had to choose between my synthesizer and my laptop computer, because the prison authorities didn't let me have both at the same time (for "security reasons"), and I chose to have the computer in the cell, believing I could make music anyhow, by using some music program. But the prison authority had other ideas, claiming I didn't have an "extraordinary need" to have a music program enabling me to make music on the computer. So without a music program I couldn't make any more music from then on. That is actually the main reason I haven't released any records since 1999; to install a music program I need a CD-ROM, and all CDs are banned in this prison (for "security reasons").


http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/interview02.shtml

I've sometimes wondered what synth or program he used for the sounds too.


Oh thanks for that, so he had a synth and a music program or just a music program?

And does anyone have any idea what synth or music program?

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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:09 pm 
 

rexxz wrote:
Nolan_B wrote:
Daudi Baldrs was MIDI not synth.


:lol:

MIDI isn't a sound, nor is it a type of instrument. It's only data.


That's what I meant. Daudi was recorded with computer data, and Hlidskjalf was recorded with an actual keyboard. I took synth as another word for keyboard.
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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:20 pm 
 

Keyboards use MIDI data to control their synths, it's really the same exact thing.
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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:26 pm 
 

I'd love to know what kind of synths he used on the early albums. They're very mystical and ethereal.
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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:51 pm 
 

Buried_Death wrote:
Oh thanks for that, so he had a synth and a music program or just a music program?


A small clue about the Daudi Baldrs recording/composing equipment here:

Varg wrote:
The album is part of a BURZUM-planned trilogy. It was recorded in 1995 in Bergen prison, on a synthesizer with disk-station. The concept is the death of Baldrr, or better, my interpretation of the myth. Every song of the album is a musical interpretation of each part of the myth.


http://www.burzum.com/burzum/library/in ... hella.html

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Buried_Death
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PostPosted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:24 pm 
 

korgull wrote:
Buried_Death wrote:
Oh thanks for that, so he had a synth and a music program or just a music program?


A small clue about the Daudi Baldrs recording/composing equipment here:

Varg wrote:
The album is part of a BURZUM-planned trilogy. It was recorded in 1995 in Bergen prison, on a synthesizer with disk-station. The concept is the death of Baldrr, or better, my interpretation of the myth. Every song of the album is a musical interpretation of each part of the myth.


http://www.burzum.com/burzum/library/in ... hella.html


Seems you would have to ask Varg to know what he really fully used to make them albums.
At lest i know now he made them using a computer and Synth.

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