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Tuesday, May 02, 2017

jörg schaaf - signals from the past


Published on May 2, 2017 Jörg Schaaf

"Some footage of the last weeks with some synthesizer improvisations played on the Radikal Technologies Accelerator. Contains moving pictures from the Albach, Lich, Atomium and a Kohlekraftwerk."

020517 - Generative Modular


Published on May 2, 2017 zacharyradford

"Experimenting with the Roland Bitrazer as a quad oscillator."

The SynthSummitShow episode 18: John Bowen synth designs


Streamed live 5 hours ago Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

Fascinating bit of synth history with John Bowen who started his career with synths during the early days of Moog Music, followed by Sequential Circuits. Dave Rossum in the early days of E-mu is mentioned as well. John now of course runs John Bowen Synth Design, and is the creator of the Solaris. You can find previous interviews with John at various synth events in the archives here.

Interesting little bit of trivia at 41:55 regarding John drawing some of the Prophet-VS waveforms as estimations of the waveforms on the front panel of I'm guessing either the KORG DW-8000 or DW-6000. It's interesting to know they are in there. It's worth noting all of the Prophet-VS waveforms and Waldorf, and therefor PPG waveforms, are in his new Solaris x 4, meaning four independent oscillators capable of having separate waveforms or wavetables from each. The Prophet-VS vector synthesis of course made its way to Yamaha's SY-22/TG-33, followed by Korg and the Wavestation where it morphed into vector sequencing. He also worked on the original version of the KORG OASYS which turned into the PCI card version. He then left to work with Creamware on Scope, on some of the first software models of vintage synthesizers. It's pretty incredible when you think of all the connections between synths John has not only influenced, but created over the years.

Note the Solaris 1U rackmount at 1:11:48. Two were made a couple of years ago but the idea was scrapped. John spoke with Axel Hartmann on it and they agreed that the lack of UI made it not worth it. The Solaris has over 1200 editable parameters and part of the magic behind the Solaris keyboard is the UI which makes it all easily accessible.

Funny note regarding the Yamaha DX7 at 1:23:00. John is referring to the Jellinghuas controller for the DX7 after that, and Flux is referring to the DTronics DT7 based on it.

Video description:

"The SynthSummitShow is a live streamed show dedicated to Synths, music technology and the people who make the gear we use possible.

Todays guest is John Bowen. http://www.johnbowen.com/about.html

John was instrumental in many of the products we all know and love, from the prophet 5 to the solaris John has been a staple in the music industry.

Host: Ken Flux Pierce is a sound designer, Music technology consultant and blogger you can find me at Fluxwithit.com"

Tribute to Lee Curreri's Musics aka Bruno Martelli from Fame


Published on May 2, 2017 AnalogSynthMuseum

"Tribute to Lee Curreri's Musics aka Bruno Martelli from Fame

In the Fame show, we can se Lee using yamaha synthesizers for promotion but in reality, he used his home own Ob-xa and Linn LM-1 synths with a little bit of Pro one Sequential Circuits and Emulator."

Update via mark1814 in the comments: "Catch Lee performing in Italy with 6 other Fame Cast Members at the Fame For Kids 2017 Charity Reunion Concert. 2nd December Teatro Nouvo Salsomaggiore Terme. Tickets available through crowding funding campaign https://www.eppela.com/en/projects/12918-fame-reunion-2017"

Forgotten Sounds Part 9


Published on May 2, 2017 KWILLU

"A MELODY OF COMING ALBUM. INSTRUMENTS THAT WILL DOMINATE THE ALBUM IS EMINENT SOLINA 310 U AND KORG MS 20 .
AND MISCELLANEOUS OTHER INSTRUMENTS."

Roland TR-909 Through 4 Moog Minifoogers


Published on May 2, 2017 Perfect Circuit Audio

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"Running the Roland TR-909 drum machine with a modded kick drum through 4 Moog Minifoogers. The bass drum goes through an MF Boost in high gain mode for a little more distortion. The low tom is run through the MF Delay for a bass sound. The high end is the clap going through the MF Chorus and the ride through the MF Ring.

The Moog Minifoogers are available here: https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/p..."

Sequential Circuits Pro One

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via this auction

"Fully Restored, tuned, and calibrated. One of the top mono-synths ever made. Can be heard on countless 80s records. An absolute classic machine. This example was restored and sounds and looks beautiful and is as close as you'll get to a brand new Sequential Circuits Pro One.

The following was done:

Audio path:
Replaced oscillator chips,
replaced audio path transistors
checked outputs
calibrated VCA Keyboard
tuned and scaled to factory specs.

Additional:
keyboard (J-wire) checked and adjusted
newly refinished wood sides"

Moog Polymoog Synthesizer Model 203A SN 3294

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"Tested by certified tech, 100% functional and sounds great!
Very good condition, right walnut panel was replaced everything else original. The numbers on the blue section are fading. No Major cosmetic issues."

Arp Odyssey 2800 MK1 Pro Restored SN 232360

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"Vintage 1972 fully restored and serviced by anolog lab this was my fathers so the faceplate was kept the way he had it easily replaceable see photos but apart from that has been restored to specs it has new everything"

Vintage 1974 Minimoog Model D Synthesizer Serviced SN 5559

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"This is a very clean example of a 1974 minimoog model d with oscillator stabilizer and walnut cabinet, It's in great functional and cosmetic condition. Everything works as it should. The buss rail was recently serviced to take care of a few squirrelly notes and all of the potentiometers have been cleaned. All of the knobs are original and two of the oscillating volume knobs are missing the shiny decal in the center, but other than that this unit is clean. I've never played one in better original condition!! Included are some original setting saver sheets, a protective suitcase type case is available upon request as well. I'm offering this vintage synth at the same price you can buy a new one!"

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