Note it only has a single Tone knob from Soft to Hard on the left, and a vibrato switch on the right. Interesting piece of kit.
"Hillwood PO-500 Combo Organ Rare 70's Japan Vintage Analog Synthesizer - This unit has some scratches and paint chippings, but fully operational and functional in pretty good condition. We have maintained this unit, tested all keys, switches, knobs, in / outputs works perfectly."
"E-Mu Morpheus rack with red OLED screen and Acidtones memory card. Everything works great and sounds even better. It's not being used nearly as much as it should be, so it needs a new home."
"I haven't done a Nyborg 24 tweaking video so I did this one. I have to warn you it can get a bit rowdy sound wise with a few ear splitting frequencies. No real plan only than to tweak a few different sounds, which sometimes sound good and sometimes are just noise! hence the name of the video :)"
"For the next video in our Start Making series, we headed to a skate park to pull a load of samples and then used a Launchpad Pro (and only what comes in the box) to make a trap track.
What do you get with Launchpad Pro?
The sounds in the video are sampled using an iPhone and input into Ableton Live Lite, alongside the Bass Station plug-in, V-Station plug-in and an XLN Addictive Keys Instrument (one from a choice of four!).
"Using the eurorack RF Nomad by Evaton Technologies a Shortwave Eurorack Receiver, to spice up a techno/drone Jam,
This was recorded a while back (facebook live) and was one of my first jams with the Malekko Heavy Industry voltage block. I got stuck on a single channel single step because that was as much fun as I could handle at the time :) The voltage block is controlling the Fonitronik Thomas Henry 555 VCO with no filter or vca, just raw oscillator goodness.
Both the RF Nomad and the TH 555 are DIY builds from Thonk
voltage block pared with the varigate 8+ by Malekko Heavy Industry
video editing using iMovie"
"**TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS BELOW** Here's the stereo (linked operation) or dual Moog style transistor ladder low pass filter eurorack module from Strange Science Instruments. The F-1 gives you two filters with 2, 3 or 4 pole operation, options to link filters for more extreme filtering (up to 48dB per octave response), formant FX, audio rate modulation is lovely and I also show you how to make a high pass filter out of a low pass filter.
Published on Dec 6, 2018 Applied Acoustics Systems
Update: 2nd performance video added.
Note this is a follow-up to the earlier post today on String Studio VS-3 from AAS. Adam Pietruszko of KNOBZ.NET has a separate sound pack available for String Studio. Details follow. Note I updated the previous post with this as well. You can find an interview with Adam at AAS here.
Description
With String Theory, Adam Pietruszko takes meticulous advantage of String Studio VS-3's two-voice multitimbrality and MIDI-controlled sound variations features to deliver rich, complex, and refined sounds. From strings to a wide selection of basses, leads, plucks, pads, and keys, with tonal qualities ranging from acoustic, through electric, up to far-out synthetic, String Theory forms a sweeping collection that will tackle any musical genres with ease. Adam Pietruszko shares a tremendous amount of insight about synthesis as well as expert information to take full advantage of String Studio VS-3’s capabilities.
Who’s Adam Pietruszko?
Adam Pietruszko is a sound designer and audio engineer from Poland. Even though he specializes in cinematic and avant-garde sound design, his expertise also covers electronica, experimental music, techno, IDM, Synthwave, EDM, and many other genres. Additionally, Adam also teaches at the Academy of Audio Engineering and Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He provides lectures on sound synthesis, acoustics, electroacoustics, digital audio theory, as well as electronic music and FX production. Visit his website to find out about his latest projects.
The purpose of “TEST SERIES” is to focus on the sound design possibilities of various gear combinations. This series is not musical nor does it serve as an instructional video. It is all about sound potential.
Please consider supporting this channel by purchasing a sample pack or music download from www.outsidersounddesign.com"
"Changing Skulpt voices on the fly, Specular Tempus as the only effect in this jam. Fun drum pattern(s) with PO-12.
Skulpt synth is MIDI controlled by Lanuchkey. Am I pushing the drive too much?"
"Wave table is also an analog modeling synth of 16 voices that are mounted on the oscillator. 3 filter with a thick sound and strong personality of the oscillator is characteristic. 3LFO, 4ENV, 2 single multi-mode filters, a variety of modulation, step sequencer, equipped with such as the arpeggiator. It has been replaced with a display of white characters on a black back. System version is already updated to Ver3.02. Preset data such as tone color is reset already been to the factory default settings. Accessories: AC cable, Japanese manual, Japanese Supplement Instruction Manual"
"Rack-mount equivalent of the Super JX-10, last of the great analog-variety synths from Roland! Sound can be silky-sweet, hard-edged or crystalline - this synth has it all! Nice condition, works perfectly; all buttons and LED's working, internal battery replaced this year, kept in an environmentally-controlled home studio. M-64C memory cartridge and CD with sound library / sound editor included."
That is one physically deep rack synth. Check out the bottom pic.
"Legendary Emu EIII rack fully serviced, cleaned and in excellent working condition. It sounds incredible!!! All buttons, sliders, potentiometers, led's, ins outs, stereo LR, PSU, MIDI, HD, floppy drive, backlight, LCD etc. are all calibrated and working perfectly. Model 6080 with 8MB of RAM and brand new backlights installed. Also has the original O.S. to this particular machine, so the filter calibration is exactly where it needs to be, just like it was from the factory. The O.S. is also saved to the internal hard drive, so you can boot from either one. This particular EIII was owned by E-MU and is a "Service Model" which is shown by the extra SCSI port on the back. Extremely rare!!!"
Published on Dec 6, 2018 Applied Acoustics Systems
Update: two new videos added above: Working with layers and MIDI-controlled sound variations. Also see the sound pack from Adam Pietruszko of KNOBZ.NET further below.
"String Studio VS-3 is a synthesizer in which a collection of unique string oscillators replaces the traditional VCOs, DCOs, and operators as the main sound source in VST2, VST3, Audio Units (AU), and AAX formats for Reason, Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, Reaper, Cakewalk, Sonar, FL Studio, and many more. Try String Studio VS-3 for free.
Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS) was founded in 1998 and is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As a privately-held company, it specializes in software-based synthesis tools for professional musicians and sound designers. Since releasing Tassman, the first virtual instrument based on physical modeling, AAS has come to be recognized as the industry leader in this exciting new field of synthesis.
§ WHAT’S NEW §
We have streamlined String Studio and brought it to a whole new level.
NEW Two-Voice Multitimbral
String Studio VS-3 combines two independent timbres—either stacked or split—to create performance-friendly, texture-full, and spacious sounds that are sure to make a good impression.
NEW Modulators
String Studio VS-3 now boasts two performance modulators per layer that respond to user-defined MIDI controls. Each and every sound features effect and morphing assignments that can be played in real time for enhanced expressivity and sonic dimension.
PEPPED Factory Library
A long and fastidious process of fine-tuning went down in the AAS quarters. Each and every sounds went under the eyes of all team members to exit with a consistent gain-stage, unity-gain effects, better dynamics, and compelling real-time sound transformation assignments. This is our most perfected sound library to date.
"The Analogue Systems French Connection keyboard mimics the playing technique of the Ondes Martenot. The ring & wire control the pitch and the button on the left, in this instance, is controlling Volume, filter cutoff & PWM as well as the Morph X on the Morphing Terrarium.
The Roland System 500 is providing the main lead voice from the 510 module. The 555 module is doing the various CV modulations as well as the White Noise source. The dual filter 505 is treating the white noise & low drone. This drone is coming from the Synthesis technology Morphing Terrarium with Mutable Instruments Clouds providing the delay & reverb FX."
And promo video from Doctor Mix featuring the original hardware Voyetra 8:
How To Play "Video Killed The Radio Star" On The Voyetra 8
Published on Dec 6, 2018 Doctor Mix
"Here's the über rare Voyetra 8 vintage synth and how we used it to recreate Video Killed The Radio Star by "The Buggles". Discover UVI's PX V8. Download the Multi-Track of this video for FREE now: https://www.doctormix.com/video-kille..."
"PX V8 is based on an exceedingly rare American polyphonic analog synthesizer, the Voyetra Eight. Released by Octave-Plateau Electronics in 1982, this unassuming 3-space rackmount synth is a 78 lb. analog powerhouse sporting 8 voice cards and an incredibly deep modulation system. With 6 pages of parameters to customize the Voyetra Eight was nothing if not flexible, but in the end it's the sound that counts and it does not disappoint. Thanks to subtle differences in each of the voice cards and a powerful unison mode, the Voyetra Eight delivers a wonderfully uncompromising analog sound with rich, powerful leads, thick basses, warm, modulating pads, strings and more. A unique instrument with a sound greater than the sum of its parts, the Voyetra Eight packs a huge analog punch into a small frame that until now has largely been lost to time.
PX V8 has been a passion project, it took us 2 years to track down a Voyetra Eight, and even then it required significant work to restore to factory condition. Our sound designers spent over 6 months creating sounds with the Voyetra for PX V8; learning the instruments structure, designing patches, exploring possibilities, recording and editing. We tested numerous configurations of cables and converters to ensure you'd experience the highest quality sound before settling on Vovox and Prism, the results are clear.
PX V8’s sampling was made per-key for every patch we designed, both with and without unison mode engaged allowing you to enable genuine hardware unison on any sound in the library. Just like on the Voyetra Eight you can load two layers at once, and with the unison mode engaged you can create truly massive analog sounds without worrying about an 8 voice ceiling.
In the end we recorded over 25,000 samples from the Voyetra - packing PX V8 with a whopping 400 presets made from 176 layers, divided into 10 categories including bass, brass, keyboards, leads, misc, organs, pads, poly, strings and waveforms. Each of the sounds is fully customizable and can be used straight-away or as the starting point for a new sound. Raw waveforms are also available for those who want to create sounds from scratch.
PX V8's aesthetic was adapted to closely mimic design cues from the hardware, giving you the feel of the original instrument as you easily tweak and edit the oscillators, envelopes, multimode filter, LFO and step modulators, dual arpeggiators and a featured effect section including EQ, drive, Thorus, ensemble, Phasor, delay and Sparkverb.
Rare and relatively unknown, the Voyetra Eight is not the simplest synthesizer to master - but the sounds it can create are brilliant, making PX V8 one of our most unique and inspiring libraries yet.
"PX V8 is based on an exceedingly rare American polyphonic analog synthesizer, the Voyetra Eight. Released by Octave-Plateau Electronics in 1982, this unassuming 3-space rackmount synth is a 78 lb. analog powerhouse sporting 8 voice cards and an incredibly deep modulation system. With 6 pages of parameters to customize the Voyetra Eight was nothing if not flexible, but in the end it's the sound that counts and it does not disappoint. Thanks to subtle differences in each of the voice cards and a powerful unison mode, the Voyetra Eight delivers a wonderfully uncompromising analog sound with rich, powerful leads, thick basses, warm, modulating pads, strings and more. A unique instrument with a sound greater than the sum of its parts, the Voyetra Eight packs a huge analog punch into a small frame that until now has largely been lost to time.
PX V8 has been a passion project, it took us 2 years to track down a Voyetra Eight, and even then it required significant work to restore to factory condition. Our sound designers spent over 6 months creating sounds with the Voyetra for PX V8; learning the instruments structure, designing patches, exploring possibilities, recording and editing. We tested numerous configurations of cables and converters to ensure you'd experience the highest quality sound before settling on Vovox and Prism, the results are clear.
PX V8’s sampling was made per-key for every patch we designed, both with and without unison mode engaged allowing you to enable genuine hardware unison on any sound in the library. Just like on the Voyetra Eight you can load two layers at once, and with the unison mode engaged you can create truly massive analog sounds without worrying about an 8 voice ceiling.
In the end we recorded over 25,000 samples from the Voyetra - packing PX V8 with a whopping 400 presets made from 176 layers, divided into 10 categories including bass, brass, keyboards, leads, misc, organs, pads, poly, strings and waveforms. Each of the sounds is fully customizable and can be used straight-away or as the starting point for a new sound. Raw waveforms are also available for those who want to create sounds from scratch.
PX V8's aesthetic was adapted to closely mimic design cues from the hardware, giving you the feel of the original instrument as you easily tweak and edit the oscillators, envelopes, multimode filter, LFO and step modulators, dual arpeggiators and a featured effect section including EQ, drive, Thorus, ensemble, Phasor, delay and Sparkverb.
Rare and relatively unknown, the Voyetra Eight is not the simplest synthesizer to master - but the sounds it can create are brilliant, making PX V8 one of our most unique and inspiring libraries yet.
"Complete track, written and arranged using just the modular, sequencers and a mixer. This is recorded live with all audio from the modular recorded straight off the desk. Enjoy!
Complete tracks here: http://jackpatch.biz"
