EMS Synth room walk through

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"The studios house a vast collection of vintage and state of the art electronic music instruments, equipment and facilities to suit to musicians, researchers, and artists with diverse creative practices and requirements.

In the studio’s 60 year history we have acquired a substantial assemblage of rare and unique electronic music-making, instruments, tools and technologies which have been at the centre of research projects across the department for many years.

Synthesisers & Drum Machines include:

Buchla Command 208C
Cracklebox & CrackleSynth (Built by Michel Waisvisz of STEIM Amsterdam in the mid 1970s)
Dave Smith Prophet 12
Dave Smith Prophet X
Doepfer Eurorack Modular System
EDP Wasp Synthesiser
EMS VCS4
Korg Arp 2600M
Make Noise Modular Shared System
Make Noise Strega
Moog DFAM
Moog Labyrinth
Moog Mother-32
Moog Subharmonicon
Moog Spectravox
Roland System 100M
Roland JD800
Roland Boutique TR-08
Roland Boutique TB-03
Soma Laboratory Lyra 8

The VCS4 was produced by the world-renowned Electronic Music Studios Ltd (EMS) company in London in the late 1960s, run by composer Dr Peter Zinovieff. It was one of a number of early EMS synthesisers used by pioneers of electronic music in Britain such as Harrison Birtwistle (Medusa) and Tristram Cary, who took it to the Royal College of Music after the break-up of the original EMS studio in Putney.

The instrument, which is the only one in existence, combines two VCS3 synthesisers with a ‘base station’ featuring a keyboard, external audio input mixer, random staircase generator and unique tone/filter/harmonic generator circuits to create a custom and highly versatile instrument. VCS3 synthesisers have been used by such luminaries as Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd and Robert Fripp."

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