Per Mike: "Looks like a 'nearly production' version as I see only 2 hand soldered jumper cables. Everything else looks neat. Even the PCMCIA card slot is there, even though there is no external plastic guide/surround."
Note the ALESIS S6 MAIN PCB REV. x5 dated 5-23-95 printed on the PCB in the 2nd to last image below, followed by a sticker found inside dated 9-5-95. It likely fell off a chip.
The QS6 was released in 1996, per Wikipedia: "In 1996, Alesis introduced the first of their QS series synthesizers. The first of these were the QS6 61-key synth and the QSR rackmount synth. Following these in quick succession were the QS7 76-key synth and the QS8 88-key synth"
Update via Mike: "Info from one of the original Alesis engineers around the time says that this was the only prototype made. They had done tests 'out of the box' but only 1 physical 6461 was made."
"Matriceal mode is a unique MODE of the OXI One sequencer, designed to strike a balance between generative sequencing and fine hands-on manipulation.
Matriceal was introduced in firmware 3.0 and it has been upgraded in the 4.0 firmware release. Don't forget to get the latest firmware here: https://oxiinstruments.com/OXI-one/UP...
"Noise Engineering’s Kris Kaiser and Stephen McCaul on building their eurorack modular synth company after leaving jobs in sound engineering and biology academia. What makes this process unique? How do they manage a squad of dedicated people? What is the best thing about being your own boss?
This video is NOT sponsored by Noise Engineering or anyone else
00:00 - Intro 00:39 - Why modular synthesizers? 02:43 - How is a modular synthesizer different from a more traditional synth? 04:18 - What does your job look like in 5 years? 05:51 - Does that uncertainty create a lot of stress? How do you deal with it? 07:13 - How did you decide to change careers to start Noise Engineering? What factors went into that? 09:08 - How did you know it was time to grow your company? What were you looking for? 11:00 - What are the pros and cons, in your opinion, for starting your own business? 12:46 - What are some major hurdles you and other eurorack companies are dealing with right now? 14:51 - How have these factors affected pricing? What goes into pricing your modules? 16:28 - What are some of your most important lessons from being in business all these years? 17:23 - What's one thing you did, or decision you made, that greatly helped you, your company, or your career? 18:25 - In your opinion, what are the keys to building and maintaining great relationships? 19:20 - When you have disagreements, or when things go wrong, how do you deal with that? 24:29 - What are your core values that you don't want to compromise? 27:52 - Walk us through your process from Idea to Creation? 33:41 - What's it like to finally release something (Xer Mixa) that you've been working on for years? 35:23 - So what happened to the Iteritas line (BIA etc) Why did it retire? 40:20 - Is the Versio line now the most popular product? 41:42 - What can be done about the lack of diversity in the Eurorack and modular synth community? 43:45 - What advice would you give a young person or someone seriously considering starting their own creative business?
Meet The Makers is a series of interviews and discussions about the creative forces behind small maker industries. These questions were created to help young artists and people new to the modular synth community discover more about the people who make the tools, their challenges, successes and lessons. Coming up 12/2/2023 we'll be live streaming a discussion with Steady State Fate founder Andrew Morelli.
Thanks Kris and Stephen for generously giving time to this project. And to Patrick O'Brien for providing amazing samples of Noise Engineering modules in action."
"A new patch bank for the Prophet X. Also available in the SF2 format for Logic and the Tal Sampler. 50 multi-samples from the Kawai K1 and Yamaha FB-01. Great sounds to add texture and depth to your music and productions.
The samples were originally meant for MY Prophet X, for my live needs. A way of having all my vintage synths in one keyboard when doing live gigs doing MY own songs as faithful as possible to my albums. Every sample in here has been recorded by me personally and sounds exactly how I want them to sound. They've all been recorded through the Yamaha DMP7 digital mixer for extra mojo. Many of the samples are velocity layered multi samples, some upwards of 30-50 samples per set. Be aware that this pack is the multi-samples only. IMPORTANT info for Prophet X users: This sample user add-on pack is imported like this : px/u01
If you want to purchase this bank, please send me an email and I'll give you the download details. Please specify if you want the Prophet X or SF2 bank. They cost the same.
My CONTACT email address is this: espenkraft69@gmail.com Price is $15 USD or €15 Euros if that's your preferred currency. PayPal only. * The above email is NOT the one to use for payment. That will be given upon ordering.
If you haven't already bought my big epic Prophet X sample- and patch bank from before, I'll be happy to offer both that AND this new one in a bundled price of $40 USD (or €40 Euros) combined. Let me know in the email."
Here is a demonstration of a male choir patch that I made on the Future Retro Vectra synthesizer. Even though this synth engine is normally layering the 4 voices (oscillator pairs with separate envelopes) as a single voice, it also has a nice paraphonic mode where you can play 4 voices simultaneously through the single filter. I assigned the xy joystick to the vibrato rate.
2. Future Retro Vectra Paraphonic trick
One thing about paraphonic synthesizer voices, is that the notes are retriggered through the filter and final VCA. This can be very useful in a patch or sound like this, where some of the voices are still playing the last chord until cycling through all 4 voices. The XY joystick in this patch changes a minor chord to a major chord by raising the third a half step. If the joystick is in the middle between the major and minor third, then you only play the blues with this patch, just kidding.
3. Future Retro Vectra Synthesizer: beat and sequencer example
The Vectra has a unique feature where the envelopes can be delayed for each of the 4 voices. By creating drum sounds then using this delay to create rhythms and sequencing a simple pattern using this drum loop, you can get some interesting rhythms. The mix joystick lets you control the balance between the drum sounds. the XY joystick is changing the delay on 2 of the voices.
4. Future Retro Vectra Synthesizer: Cello sound example
The Future Retro Vectra Synthesizer has a powerful voice architecture. Not only does it allow a similar wave blending engine like the famous Prophet VS or the ModWave, but it also has 4 joysticks to mix, filter, and adjust the sound as you are playing it. The XY joystick is assigned to vibrato rates and the aftertouch is assigned to the vibrato amount.
"This is a video to demonstrate the EML POLY-BOX. The POLY-BOX was created in the late 70's to allow polyphony and chords to the modular world. It takes an oscillator input and uses phase-lock loops and top octave divide down circuitry to give you all the notes of the western equal-tempered chromatic scale.
Using this as a processor for a Roland SH-101 is shown in this video. However, any synthesizer can be used, and one can even confuse it more when 2 or more oscillators are mixed into the input of the POLY-BOX."
"Full Disclosure: I occasionally take on freelance work at Sonicware on an hourly rate producing synth & sample sound design, beta testing, checking English text, video manuals etc. This video wasn't paid for directly but as a result of my work with Sonicware it is marked as Paid Promotion
I recently completed some new patches as part of the work I'm doing on the Sonicware ELZ_1 play so I thought it would be nice to demo them here as I've been asked quite a lot about it since it was first announced.
This is still prototype hardware though don't expect any radical changes at this point just refinements. Also this is unfinished firmware too so I'm not sure how many features will be added before release compared to what's shown here, but there are some nice additions like the unison setting that make playing around with the old synth engines fun too. The Super Osc is a one of the new engines so you'll see that throughout the video."
"Trying out 2 80’s/90’s Boss guitar pedals on simple synth notes using the 3-VCO MiniMod voice from AJH Synth for some fat Minimoog sound. This video was mainly to hear what the delay of the DSD-3 sounds like, but I thought I’d add the RV-3 on the end of the signal for some reverb too, to keep it all-guitar pedal. No post-processing, just the raw output of the pedals.
The 1987 Boss DSD-3 is apparently internally identical to the 1985 DSD-2, and shares the ‘long chip’ of the rack-mount SDE-3000. Here I’m just using it as a delay effect, but I’ll experiment with the sampling function in a future video. Excuse the typo in the on-screen titles - this was an 80's pedal, not 90's.
The 1994 Boss RV-3 however is quite a lot different from the 1987 RV-2 - a later and more advanced processor, so it’s bound to sound a little more modern, although it does seem to have that vintage digital metallic quality to the reverb tails sometimes, at least to my failing ears.
You buy these pedals for their character, not their realism, but for me they’re also pedals I wanted when I was a broke teenage guitarist back in the day, so there’s nostalgia and curiosity in them too.
The Synth: The MiniMod is a Eurorack modular synth system, accurately based on the vintage circuitry of the original R.A. Moog Minimoog. It has that huge, rich, warm sound, but with the open architecture/flexibility that modular offers.
"My latest changes for the Open Source TherapSID firmware includes full ARMSID & ARM2SID support plus other enhancements to ASID and the OS:
* ASID can play & remix C64 songs using up to 3 x SIDs including FM (OPL2, FM-YAM, Sound Expander etc)
* Configuration of ARMxSIDs can be done on the fly, using an updated @twistedelectrons8404 web browser tool
* Turbo MIDI support (using Elektron TM-1 MIDI interface) to handle speeds up to 8x regular MIDI
* DeepSID updates to support the above
* Support for the third ARM2SID SID emulation in the regular synth mode, supporting 9-voice SID polyphony
0:00 Intro & overview
0:35 Playing & remixing SID + FM songs, ASID enhancements
3:34 Multi-SID & multi-speed support with Turbo MIDI
4:20 DeepSID updated
4:32 In-device ARMSID configuration using web tool
5:15 9-voice SID polyphony (over MIDI)
5:50 Improved detune mode (over MIDI)
6:02 Outro"
"It's not like other synths... it's part of music history... it's complex.. it's unique... it sounds amazing... it's a thing. I've had this for a few months now, and created a couple of tracks, made a patch bank, tried re synthesis, samples, additive synthesis, single cycle samples... whole sessions and complex partials.
Here's a rundown of my experience, what it is, how it works and how to get the most out of it. We go through a number of phases
Fascination and intrigue, confusion, understanding, discovery, exploration, acceptance before finally landing on enjoyment
Googlish:
"Chalthemite is an 8-voice physical modeling synth.
Equipped with unique controls using Hall sensors and magnets, it produces organic wind instrument sounds."
"LICHEN is a synthesizer that is equipped with 5VCO, 4LFO, 5VCA, a reconfigurable touchpad, transmits audio via light, and is composed of a nonlinear fully discrete circuit including a single VCA.
First of all , I wanted to make a synth with only a jack hole (I'm sure it would be beautiful), but I ran into the wall that not being able to set constant values, which is normally the responsibility of a POT, was too much of a constraint for a synth.
Therefore, we came up with a structure that combined a plug and an LED, which we later named "peg." A peg is a structure that illuminates the underside with an intensity that corresponds to the voltage supplied from the jack. is equipped with a light sensor, and the inserted peg rotates freely, so the amount of light hitting the sensor changes depending on the rotational position
The peg transmits a signal using infrared rays, but the signal It glows even in visible light (so it can be used indoors in bright places).The light always shines in two directions, causing mutual interference when operated.Depending on the angle of light, there are 3 types (60°, 120°, There are pegs (180°), and the tone is determined by which peg you insert and where.
The peg is a structure that transmits light, and at the same time it is also a touch plate. By touching the metal part on the top, you can It transmits the signal through a resistor.
With the introduction of PEG, the 3.5mm jack has taken on a huge number of roles ・As a regular patching point ・By rotational movement Functions like a POT to set up ・Reconfigurable touch plate ・Converts and transmits audio signals to light ・Pedestal for placing 5mm LED And so on...
>This synthesizer rethinks the possibilities of the common interface of the 3.5mm jack
The structure of this strange synth is simple: 16 discrete sawtooth OSCs each sound at their own pitch. It doesn't even have volume.
The 16 oscillators are arranged in a 4x4 matrix, and the pitch of each OSC is determined by the relationship between the row and column POTs and the large petal-shaped master pitch in the center.
LED brightness indicates the pitch of each OSC
Each OSC is "chained" to each other by matrix connections and cannot be individually tuned or muted.
The player must control the instruments, which fluctuate slightly and behave freely depending on the temperature, etc., and search for the point that will make them resonate beautifully.
As we struggle in the midst of constraints and search for the point of forced harmony, we can come across unfamiliar, beautiful chords and perfect balance that suddenly appears."
"Thin module can control any knobs.
・eurorack
・motion recording
・motion CV IN/OUT
By using multiple modules, you can use it like a macro knob.
2016 ulcasiva"
▶ Patches for Synthesizers: https://limbicbits.com/ ▶ Book "Electronic Music Production": https://limbicbits.com/book-electroni... ___
0:00 Electronica Sequence 1 1:53 Father Bass 2:11 Melodic Techno Lead 3:07 Glitch Lead 3:31 Electronica Sequence 2 4:50 Chorder Stab 5:21 Indie Lead 5:49 Hypnotizer Lead 7:09 Dirt Collector Lead 7:59 Not even scary 8:11 Meet here elsewhere 8:27 Power Noise Movement 8:38 Wobble light 8:54 Wobble more 9:47 Sirens of Armageddon 10:05 Trance Pluck 11:28 Fat Stack 12:04 Low Profiler 12:12 Precint 12 12:40 Rubber Lead 12:59 Aggressively Detuned 14:17 5th Element 15:21 Metallizer Sweep 15:50 Cold Brew Lead 16:32 Outro Bubbles
"Vintage rare early 70's EML Electrocomp 100 analog synthesizer, tested and all keys and functions seem to be working fine and adjust sound, expect some scratchy pots so some cleaning may be needed. Formica case has some chips. extra holes on the bottom, extra stickers and school name etched on the face, other than that looking good with nice clean graphics."
"This is a Berlin School style jam where I explore how to use a MicroFreak Cloud Grains oscillator to provide different timbres across the keyboard. I familiarize myself with OXI ONE's matriceal sequencer. And finally, I get to know the Golden Master as an end-of-chain device for balancing levels, adding some polish and in general gluing the mix together. Jam and patch notes are included as text overlays in the video.
Thank you to Endorphin.es for sending over the Golden Master pedal for me to test out.
Here are ome pics of the inside of the prototype Alesis 6461 QS6 posted here, in via Mike. These pics have been added to that post as well.
