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Driving LA's historic Arroyo Seco Parkway – CA 110 | Original soundtrack

We take a drive along California Highway 110, the historic **Arroyo Seco Parkway**. This was Los Angeles’ first freeway, and part of US 66 until 1964.

Starting at the northern end …
of the Harbor Freeway, we cross US 101 under the “Four Stack Interchange” onto the parkway, which goes through a series of vintage tunnels before a junction with I-5. After this, we enter the older, narrower section of the parkway, which winds its way through northern neighborhoods of Los Angeles into South Pasadena, and finally into Pasadena, where it alights onto Colorado Boulevard (History US 66).

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Original music by Amanda Chaudhary. It combines the sound of California “west coast jazz” with more experimental synthesizer sounds.

Software synthesizers:
AudioModeling SWAM Alto Flute
BFD3 drums
Native Instruments SuperStarSaw
Rhodes V8 plugin
Cherry Audio Novachord & Stardust-201 Delay
Arturia Pure LoFi & Pigments
EastWest Ministry of Rock (bass), Stormdrum 2, Hollywood Orchestra Percussion

Eurorack modules:
Metasonix R-53 vacuum-tube waveshaper/ringmod
Buchla Red Panel 158 oscillator
Strymon Starlab reverb/delay
Sputnik Dual Oscillator
Serge Dual Universal Slope Generator
Malekko Wiard Noisering

0:00 Introduction
0:10 Starting in downtown Los Angeles
0:37 Entering the Arroyo Seco Parkway
1:16 Historic tunnels
2:05 The history parkway segment
5:29 The freeway ends in Pasadena
5:46 Conclusion
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Driving LA's historic Arroyo Seco Parkway - CA 110 | Original soundtrack
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Driving LA's historic Arroyo Seco Parkway – CA 110 | Original soundtrack
We take a drive along California Highway 110, the historic **Arroyo Seco Parkway**. This was Los Angeles’ first freeway, and part of US 66 until 1964.

Starting at the northern end …
of the Harbor Freeway, we cross US 101 under the “Four Stack Interchange” onto the parkway, which goes through a series of vintage tunnels before a junction with I-5. After this, we enter the older, narrower section of the parkway, which winds its way through northern neighborhoods of Los Angeles into South Pasadena, and finally into Pasadena, where it alights onto Colorado Boulevard (History US 66).

Please subscribe to this channel for cultural content coming out regularly, and please consider supporting us:
Store: https://shop.catsynth.com
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Original music by Amanda Chaudhary. It combines the sound of California “west coast jazz” with more experimental synthesizer sounds.

Software synthesizers:
AudioModeling SWAM Alto Flute
BFD3 drums
Native Instruments SuperStarSaw
Rhodes V8 plugin
Cherry Audio Novachord & Stardust-201 Delay
Arturia Pure LoFi & Pigments
EastWest Ministry of Rock (bass), Stormdrum 2, Hollywood Orchestra Percussion

Eurorack modules:
Metasonix R-53 vacuum-tube waveshaper/ringmod
Buchla Red Panel 158 oscillator
Strymon Starlab reverb/delay
Sputnik Dual Oscillator
Serge Dual Universal Slope Generator
Malekko Wiard Noisering

0:00 Introduction
0:10 Starting in downtown Los Angeles
0:37 Entering the Arroyo Seco Parkway
1:16 Historic tunnels
2:05 The history parkway segment
5:29 The freeway ends in Pasadena
5:46 Conclusion
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Hastening Westward  by Robyn Schulkowsky & Nils Petter Molvaer
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Hastening Westward by Robyn Schulkowsky & Nils Petter Molvaer
Today’s Daily disc finds us “Hastening Westward”, as the title of Robyn Schulkowsky & Nils Petter Molvaer 1995 recording suggests. It features experimental, evocative music with trumpet and percussion …that is sparse and lush at the same time, and brings out both the vastness of the American west and the calming undulation of the ocean.

This might be a challenging record to find, but we definitely recommend checking it out!
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SuperStarSaw: Far beyond conventional supersaws!
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SuperStarSaw: Far beyond conventional supersaws!
We present SuperStarSaws, a new instrument from Native Instruments and A. G. Cook that expands on the concept of supersaws. It has two supersaw oscillators, or swarms, where the …individual sawtooth partials can be spread both in frequency and space beyond the traditional detuning associated with supersaws to create dynamic swarms of sound, strange arpeggios, and more. The graphic morpher in the center allows one to quickly and smoothly change parameters between saved settings.

To find out more, please visit https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/superstarsaw/

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00:00 Introduction
00:21 What are “supersaws”?
00:49 Overview of the SuperStarSaw interface
02:11 A few factory presets
03:39 Swarm oscillator deep dive
09:38 The morpher
11:49 Filter, amp, and amplitude envelope
16:10 Effects
19:31 Modulation options
22:45 Randomization with the dice controls
24:34 More factory presets
29:25 Conclusion

Photo credits:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sawtooth_wave.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_JP-8000_front_panel.jpg
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