about

Hi,

My name is Stephane Garganigo, you may know me as 'Barb' on music forums.
I program synthesizers since 1987 and was a keyboard player in 2 bands back in the 90's. I always liked making my own sounds. It all started when listening to some classic electronic records from Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dreams, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and a lot of 80's and 90's bands.

From this time, i used a lot of synthesizers with different synthesis methods like the well known substractive used by classic vintages or modern hybrids and virtual analogs. I played later with FM synthesis, Linear Arithmetic and of course sample based machines. In the late 90's i started learning the Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology (VAST) from Kurzweil, and i kept using it for now 15 years .

Thanks a lot for coming , and i hope you will enjoy your time here !

Sound Packs

We are proud to be listed in the official Kurzweil website in the community / soundware section as a '3rd party developer' !
Thanks to the Kurzweil headquarter team !

Sound Design / Project Kurzweil K2061 / K2088

In 2024 we worked on some new programs and multis for the new K2061 and K2088 synthesizers.
We also composed some audio tracks and you can have a listen here :
https://soundcloud.com/kurzweil-music-systems
Once again, big thanks and congratulations to the developers team at Boston. What a great machine !

Sound Design / Project Kurzweil K2700

We worked on the new Kurzweil K2700 by developping a large number of presets for this workstation.
Thanks Kurzweil / Boston !

Sound Design / FM project for the Kurzweil PC4

In October 2019 we made about 100 programs using the new FM engine on the PC4 ! Thanks Kurzweil for this partnership...

Sound Design

Barb & Co worked on some sound design projects for the german company Steinberg.
We made some of the presets of the VST's Retrologue 2 and Micrologue
Many thanks to the developper team at Steinberg for this partnership

Barb & Co worked also on hundreds of presets for Halion 6 / Sonic 3
Thanks again to the team at Steinberg for this teamwork !

In the end of 2018, we worked on the new Cubasis 2.7 and we made all the presets of micrologue with the new arpeggiator function.

in 2022, Barb & Co has been asked to work on some presets for FM Lab, a powerful sound design tool based on an expanded version of FM synthesis.

Thanks Steinberg for all these projects !

Partnership ALGAM / Barb & Co

In summer 2021, ALGAM and Barb & Co had a partnership which was based on the Korg OPSIX soundset i created called 'Altered Core'
This partnership was called the OPSIX-FR operation. All Korg OPSIX bought in France had this soundset included in the presets.
Special thanks to Philippe Brodu, chief of products at ALGAM.
Also a big thanks to Michel Deutsch, official Korg demonstrator, for taking part on this project.

Sound Design

We had the chance to work for the company Baloran and we made the presets of the River, a great analog polyphonic multitimbral synthesizer, based on a Moog Source voice card.

This was a great experience and we send some special thanks to Laurent Lecatellier, the creator of this machine, for letting us work on this project...

Interview with Stéphane Boesel (In french)

I was honored to be interviewed by Stephane Boesel on his blog Synth Food. You can read the article here :

Thanks Stephane !