Synthorama - KORG Room

click here for images of the KORG room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set. An EMS Hi-Fli is also in this set.

Synthorama - Drum Machine Room

click here for images of the drum machine room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set. An EMS Hi-Fli is also in this set.

Update via Martin: "Around 60 Rhythm Machines are not placed and also all 90 Electro-Harmonix Effects are stored. You can see that the Synthorama has really a big space problem :-)

Synthorama - PPG, EDP, EMS, Skyway Lord Room

click here for images of the PPG, EDP, EMS and Skyway Lord room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set. No, I was not fortunate enough to hear the Lord synthesizer.

Synthorama - Roland Room

click here for images of the Roland room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set.

Update via Martin: "In the Roland room there are only a few synths from my stock. From Roland I have a lot of other models but there is no space left to expose them."

Synthorama - Italian, French and Russian Room

This is the next post on the Synthorma synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click here to see the Italian, French and Russion synthesizers in the museum. This is actually two adjoining rooms as you come down the stairs from the first floor. Be sure to click on the synthorama label below for all posts in this set. Note the labels for the various synth manufacturers in this collection.

Q119 Synthesizers.com sequencer in action

YouTube via marsupialmicron

"Here it is, my first night with the Q119 Synthesizers.com sequencer. The music is just to show the sequencer and the audio is from a camcorder, so don't expect too much. the other synth is an ARP odyssey and it is doing a melody taken from Philip Glass, The Hours, 2002. Enjoy "

DIY Analog Synth and Rhythm Sequencer MK3

YouTube via abstractjuz
"My newest synth.

Dual, 2 part, oscillators with hard sync and independent pattern generators for Pitch, PWM and Gating.

Just 1 quick routine here. The synth's clock is synced to Logic via an Audio Gate Input. I'm messing around with the PWM pattern and the balance between OSC1 and OSC 2's PWM."

Tune Juno 106-Alnitak

YouTube via Kobolnova
"Somtimes this must be done,tuning a older typ of synthesizer,is dul and boring to do,so i add some pictures i found on the internet of my hometown and around it,also a tip how to make connections to make a good music video,and you can have a view into my homestudio I hope it stays tuned for a while LOL ;-)"

"Flying" Gattobus LIVE Experiment

YouTube via gattobus
"Just an experiment to try running all my gear in sync.
Sorry for this cheesy music but I hope you'll enjoy the sound...

Instruments used:

- Access Virus TI Desktop
- Clavia Nord Modular G2
- Elektron SPS-1mkII
- Roland SH-101
- Moog Little Phatty
- Yamaha Tenori-on
- Korg TR-Rack
- Roland Alpha Juno 2
- Doepfer Ribbon Controller

;-P "

Roland Jupiter 8 acting strangely

YouTube via zibbybone
"I just received this JP-8 I purchased from a seller that stated "ALL ORIGINAL LOW HOURS. WORKS GREAT, LAST OWNER USED IT FOR ONES AND TWOS." First, it pwoers up and 4 of 8 voices play. Both Solo and Unison mode produce noise. Arpeggiator does not work. Later, the synth just wigs out. Any Jupe 8 owners out there ever experience this or have any input? Sorry, the audio is a bit overdriven. "

Video Modular Synth - Happy Knobbing Meeting 2008 by ACA

info and dowload on sequencer.de

pearly gates and take off

two flickrs by breath.sound
(click for more)

ARP 2500
NED Synclavier

Blade Runner on the Alesis Fusion (cover)

YouTube via FailedMuso. Follow-up to this post.
"Using a patch created by a guy who goes under the name of Electrique at the Fusion Club (http://fusioneer.proboards102.com/index ), here is the melody line from the Main Titles of Blade Runner by Vangelis. I made this as a contrast to my other brief demo of the same tune using Arturia's CS-80V."

Roland TR-808 and Jazz Chorus JC-120

via swissdoc:

"I recorded some examples of the Roland Jazz Chorus driven by a TR808 pattern.

This one is recorded in mono with a Sony F-VS7 Dynamic Microphone, I had to do some noise reduction to get rid of the prominent hum:




This one is recorded in mono with a Monacor ECM-100 Electret Condensor Microphone:




The dry signal is recorded directly from the TR808.

I then allways tweak the settings of the amp.

Volume is set to very low value, max 1 out of 10. Otherwise the house would explode.

The distortion of the amp is not the best one on this planet. They should have labeled it destruction or shredder :-)"

Vocoded Drums

YouTube via Nismology5
"Putting the drum machine on my boss micro BR throught the vocoder on my microkorg."

Bladerunner MainTitles (cover)

YouTube via Lovesign aka Failed Muso.
"Just me, Arturia's CS-80V and my MPK49. Simply the melody line with no backing."

MS-20 Analog Monophonic Synthesizer Playing Chords

YouTube via CZRider01
"A video demonstration of a technique to play chords with a monophonic synthesizer.
Using an MS-20 drenched in reverb to get ambient type pads."

Alesis Micron FM Algorithmic Synthesis

YouTube via Gtechture

Flower Electronics LBB Double and TSP Teaspoon

YouTube via thetonewrecker
"Just running 3 Osc on the Flower synth modulating each other a little bit. Signal passes through the Squarewave Parade Teaspoon lo-fi sampler/glitch/stutter box."

Eminent Solina P275 - Patly Working

YouTube via zibbybone
"Just picked this up the other day. Half the keys on the upper manual do not work nor does the low "C" on the bass pedals. The rhythm section does not work either."

Machine sludge one

YouTube via thetonewrecker
"Frostwave sending CV into the Flower Electronics LBB Double. Also has TSP Moles20r getting its filter altered by a cv signal."

Machines push more sludge

"Frostwave sending CV into the Flower Electronics LBB Double. Also has TSP Moles20r getting its filter altered by a cv signal. Bryan B's new Ulti Mult is in there as well, splitting the CV signal to all 4 Oscillators from the single cv output on the Frostwave. Fantastic box he's made!"

A Track done only with Novation K-Station instrumental ambient

YouTube via PlastikOD
"A quiet track done only with the novation k-station. The images are different gifs (medic, physics and so forth) :)"

Analogue Systems Eurorack Modular Sequence 1

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here is a demonstration of just a few possibilities using the Analogue Systems rs310 Reverb/Chorus, rs290 Delay/Sampler, rs200 Sequencer, rs100 Low Pass Filter and other modules.

First you hear the bass into the Reverb/Chorus module, then the reverb time is tweaked. Then a sequence is sent from the CV out of the rs200 to the CV in of the rs310 Reverb/Chorus giving us some great sequenced overtones.

Next a random sequence is brought in with the Signal Mixer module. This sequence is going into the Delay/Sampler module. The delay time is then modulated by the LFO module and you can see the digital readout of the delay time rapidly changing.

The final bass drone sequence is brought in which is running the Low Pass Filter module. Then we tweak the frequency cutoff.

http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/bigcitymusicdo...
http://www.bigcitymusicblog.blogspot.com"

unhappy prophet-600 needs help

YouTube via prinsenafprinsesseg
"help me repair my broken sequential circuits prophet-600."

Analogue Systems power supply & Eurorack Modular Synth Case

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here is a video showing features of the Analogue Systems eurorack power supply which is found in all current Analogue Systems cases.

Eurorack modules from a variety of manufacturers can be used in Analogue Systems cases as they come standard with both Analogue Systems sockets and Doepfer-style sockets. Analogue Systems power supplies are set up for both 115 volts and 230 volts (international power supply.

http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/bigcitymusicdo...
http://www.bigcitymusicblog.blogspot.com"

Zoom Sampletrak ST-224 - ZMF Producer

via Plutonik9:
"Hi, I'm not sure if this is useful for your blog, but I found (very randomly) something that Zoom Sampletrak ST-224 owners may find quite useful & fascinating. Put simply, it's an unreleased (lost) piece of software called 'ZMF Producer' (I've never seen it mentioned anywhere ever) from Zoom corp. which allows (though a GUI) creation/editing of .zmf banks via computer! It's hard to understate the importance of this piece of software because it allows ST-224 users to do things that have NEVER (ever) been possible;

-Create custom .zmf banks though software (win95/98/2000/xp) GUI. Allows importing of AIFF & Wave Files and drag & drop assignment to 24 pads.
-Graphical control of start/stop & offset points of samples via a waveform display window
-Exporting (extracting) of wave files from .zmf bank files (Previously impossible without re-recording the analogue outputs).
-(Almost) full control over sample parameters in software (tune, trigger mode, panning, reverse & effect on/off & start/end/offset sample position markers). *Only lacking midi note number assignment to the pads, this'll still need to be done from the unit itself.
-Importing/Exporting .smf song files (not editing unfortunately).

Up until this piece of software was discovered, all these things had tobe manually (and tediously) set from the ST-224 front panel. Wave &Aiff import was possible, but required so much work that it wasn'treally practical. The only additional piece of hardware required for it's use is a smartmedia reader (I've got a SanDisk USB one) to dump the .zmf files from your computer for loading into the unit.

The version number of the software says 'Version 0.0.13.4' copyright 1999 (sounds extremely beta). No reference to this software is on Zoom/Samson's site or in the manual & a Google search for "ZMF Producer" yields no result.

Anyways the Sampletrak has been discontinued for probably 10 years, what a surprise to stumble across this randomly all these years later. Makes you wonder what sought of attention this 'poor man's MPC' would have gotten had this been made available to the public?
Truly a mystery for the ages!

I've started a Yahoogroup for Sampletrak users and added this program (plus some shareable .zmf banks) to the files section @ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Sampletrak/"

"It occurred to me that this was perhaps what Zoom used internally (by development team) to create the demo bank (Jungle Man?) that is hard coded into the ROM (can be retrieved with factory reset). Hence, why it was created....and perhaps why it never was taken any further or released to the public?"

Trash_Audio: Modules with Dieter Doepfer

Trash_Audio: Modules with Dieter Doepfer from surachai on Vimeo.
"trashaudio.blogspot.com
Dieter Doepfer kindly showed us some of his modules at NAMM. They're new, old and often related to each other. His English is, not surprisingly, better than mine."