Roland V-Synth Patches

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"V-Synth patches. New. Never installed them."

Update: the samples appear to be of the Kinetic Sound System. I thought it was just the maker of the disk and it slipped my mind. Thanks goes to swissdoc for catching it.

This is one of those things likely I only found interesting. Note the Roland logo. First, it reminded me of Duran Duran's 1st album & early singles during the Planet Earth period. Just thought it was interesting from a design perspective. Where did it originate? Second, I don't recall seeing this particular Roland logo before. I was curious if this was a valid Roland logo or one made up by someone for the CD. I have no idea if it is an official CD from Roland. I ran a quick search on Roland logos and found it, but... It appears to be associated with their printer products? Via Sign Shop: "Currently celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, Roland DGA Corp. has once again been recognized by InfoTrends, Inc. as the leading North American provider of digital printers for the durable graphics market. According to the InfoTrends 2010 Quarterly Wide-Format Tracking Shipping Project report, Roland sold nearly twice as many printers in 2010 priced under $30,000 into the North American marketplace as its nearest competitors."

I didn't know Roland made printers.

Anyway, consider this your random synth trivia for the day...

If you've seen this particular logo used for other Roland synth products, feel free to leave a comment.

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Kinetic Sound PRISM Synthesizer Sound Demo Cassette 1980

Published on Dec 10, 2016 Encyclotronic

"The ultimate musical instrument, the PRISM is completely digital, poly-phonic, and programmable. Never be-fore has so much capability been offered in one compact musical pack-age. You'll find all the features you'd expect of a digital synthesizer plus a wealth of unique new ones"

Product description via Encyclotronic where you'll find additional pics and info (also see GForce Software):

"Introducing... the most exciting performance-oriented digital synthesizer in the world

Here at last is your dream machine... a musical instrument uniquely your own... one that whets your artistic appetite to create and play all the colorful sounds of the spectrum.

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Prism Digital Synthesizer Catalog Brochure

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"This is a 10 page (including covers and foldout) CATALOG on the Prism Keyboard by Kinetic sound Corporation.

Covers all functions of the Prism Digital Synthesizer, including waveform area, instrument area, input area, ensemble area, device area and save area. Pictures of each of these areas. Excellent information."

See the Kinetic Sound channel label below for other posts.

1981 PRISM POLYPHONIC DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER KINETIC SOUND 4-PAGE BROCHURE

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1981 PRISM DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER KINETIC SOUND PRINT AD

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Rare KINETIC 'PRISM' Digital Synthesizer Brochure

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"Extremely rare vintage KINETIC 'PRISM' polyphonic digital
synthesizer 4 page brochure / letter from Kinetic sound Corporation/
mailing list confirmation / feature flyer

Even rarer was the keyboard itself!!

Good condition - the brochure was originally folded to envelope size

dated July 7, 1982"


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1981 Kinetic Sound Prism 4-Page Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the rest of the scans and a write-up.

1981 Kinetic Sound Prism Digital Synthesizer Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

"Kinetic Sound Corporation Prism performance-oriented digital synthesizer 2-page introductory advertisement from page 16 and 17 in the October 1981 issue of Keyboard Magazine."

You can find an audio demo in this previous post.

Synthesizer Ads From the Past - PPG Monkey, PRISM, DCS II, Synthia and More

You'll find the scans on Scott From Canada

Also check out scott3eh on Flickr
Some of the rarer items pictured here:
Adaptive Systems Synthia 1980
Kinetic Sound Prism 1980
Strider DCS II
Synclavier II Terminal Support Package 1981
Wersi Condor DMS 1984
Bob Moog on the Fairlight

The full list at the time of this post:
Adaptive Systems Synthia 1980
Akai AX80 1984
Aries Modular 1977
arp omni-2 ad 1980
Crumar Stratus 1981
crumar t1-b ad 1980
Emulator 1 1982
Ensoniq ESQ-1 1986
Fairlight-bob moog 1982
hohnar keyboards ad 1980

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Kinetic Sound Prism Demo?

Remember the Kinetic Sound Prism? Title link takes you to a 3.99M demo according to Elhardt. The question mark? Well Elhardt is the man who brought us the Bahn Sage, and is suspect number one on the SMS 2000, so...

"The following excerpt is a mp3 I recorded off of the Prism demo tape. As
can be heard, it's probably a better advertisement NOT to spend $30K on this
synth. It doesn't seem to be making any kinds of sounds that couldn't be
done on something like a Prophet-5, except that with the polyphony and
multitimbral capabilities, maybe it can be done without multitracking. And
by the time the Prism appeared, NED had added sampling to the Synclav, and
there was the Fairlight. Both with demo tapes that made you want to buy
them. If I can find somebody to host large MP3 files, I can record those
demo tapes too.

I should point out also, that bubble memory was not a useless or obsolete
technology. It maintains memory on power down without battery backup, just
as my Apple ][ bubble memory card has been doing for the past 25 years, and
might be able to do so even with an EMP from a nuclear bomb. Bub mem was
still being sold up into the 90's in the form of RAM Disc computer cards.
Maybe still is."