Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Amazing Singing ALTAIR 231, russian minimoog, analog formant vowel synthesis - **Must hear!!**
Published on Dec 16, 2014 NoiselabCH
"The ALTAIR 231, a minimoog copy built in former sovietunion is a real 3-OSC synthesizer beast if not a monster! While trying out some extreme settings I found this formant vowel like sound. I thought a bandpass filter is necessary, but there's none on the ALTAIR 231 or ESTRADIN 230 (exactly same schematics) !
It's combination of OSC crossmodulation and high filter resonance. And it's just one crazy sound this great vintage analog monophonic synthesizer can produce.
No external effects or dynamics added, just pure analog synthesis!
One third of the vid is the singing ALTAIR 231, then the Abyss follows periodically, mostly squeezing, crunching, bubbling, rumbling, haunting, crashing, 1000-saws-try-to-break-the-safe-like, splashing interrupted by somewhat smoother intermezzos. Be aware of the angry bees...
Here's a vid I made a while ago using the midi-retrofit in our ALTAIR 231:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex78F... [below]
A vid with our ALISA 1387 (another amazing russian synth):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlP5h... [posted here]
Darth NoiseLab and Darth Digital Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-leTV... [below]
Be the synthforce with you..."
Altair 231 - Soviet Synthesizer in action - Russian Mini Moog! Amazing Estradin Synth!
Published on Mar 9, 2013
"Just a short vid, badly recorded, about the ALTAIR 231 Synthesizer (Estradin factory, Zhitomir). This one is from 1986 (maybe radioactive ;-) and has a retrofit Midi in !!
Midi-Arpeggio from Yamaha AN1X, first test with midi. This Synthesizer has similar options as the minimoog model D, it's a kind of soviet copy, however it's not a moog (I never had one, so I can't compare), but it sounds really amazing.
Same circuits as the Estradin 230, but in a more moog-like look.
Don't argue with me cause of dirty fingers, bad tweeking, shitty vid and sound-qualitiy. I don't see a lot af vid of the Altair 231 here, so a cheap one won't hurt ;-)"
And the Darth Digital Playlist:
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