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

​Sound Design
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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
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​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.
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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 !