A path in the dark | Sequential Prophet VS and Rhodes Piano ambient soundscape

video upload by MIDERA

"Two years ago I was playing with my kids with a little yamaha piano, the christmas tree lit, we were looking forward to a relaxing and fun holiday... but that's when my mom called me and asked, "Did you mean what you said? Would you really be willing to come down to be with me?" She was so scared. I dropped everything and drove down (about 1.5 hr drive) to be with her. I'll never forget the look on her face - panic, fear, anguish... I don't know how to describe the look, but it was painful to see. I gave her a big hug as she cried. Looking back, I think she knew it was time, I think she knew her body was failing and was failing fast. I was determined to stay positive, but I watched her move. The exhaustion after only a few steps. I'm glad I didn't realize that it would be only 4 more days before I would lose her forever......."

Moog Sound Studio 3 Mother-32 / DFAM / Subharmonicon w/ Original Box & Materials

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via this Reverb listing

Mother-32 SN 35763
DFAM SN 26738
Subharmonicon SN 14722
4-Channel Summing Mixer SN 4245

"This bundle of three of Moog's semi-modular synths, DFAM (Drummer From Another Mother), MOTHER32, SUBHARMONICON was specially packaged by the company as a great starter for beginners and professional musicians wanting to get into the modular synth world. This set is beautifully boxed, and shows the love that Moog puts into its products. I have used the synths, but never used or pinned up the posters, sticker or cut outs. They are all untouched. I did play with the patch exploration cards that helped me to learn modular patching to a better extent (Still a full deck).

Moog has discontinued this package, much to the disappointment of many Moog fans. You can still buy the modules separately, but without all the extras that make this set so much fun.

CONTENTS: Moog Sound Studio’s full bundle comes with a three tiered rack with a cable rack that can be attached to store patch cables, custom dust cover, audio mixer, patch book and cables. Other items in the package contain a synth exploration card game and custom artwork by Moog, a Moog screwdriver and Moog pouch for the cables, MIDI patch cable to patch to outboard midi keyboards. I'm adding extra patch cables that weren't in the original purchase" + "'skins' or layovers mimicking the original Moog Matriarch colors which I'm including in the package."

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Waldorf Protein - Unboxing & 4 Custom Sequenced Presets (absolute No Talking)

video upload by NatLife Sounds

"Four sequences straight out of the preset/sequence pack I’m working on right now.
Everything you hear is 100 % pure Waldorf Protein – no external effects, no nothing.
Absolute No Talking, as usual :)

Let me know what you think of the sounds – honestly curious.

Pack coming soon.

TIMELINE:
00:00 - Unboxing
01:15 - SEQ RA
03:13 - SEQ High Road
04:22 - SEQ Dream
05:48 - SEQ Nat Code

My preset packs & shop:
https://natlifesounds.com/products/

#WaldorfProtein #CustomPresets #AbsoluteNoTalking #SynthDemo"

Meet Teenage Engineering's Carlo, Miki, Ivana, Gisela, Olga, Leila, Bogdan, and Hatshepsut

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Bad Gear - TE Choir video upload by AudioPilz

Note this video is from two years ago, but I never managed to feature it or these devices on the site until now as they aren't really synths. These come to you curtesy of a supporting member who has them listed on Reverb here.

"Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:09 Overview Bad Gear - TE Choir
01:28 Presentation of the Dolls (feel free to skip)
02:10 Standalone Mode, Control via Bluetooth Midi / OP-1 Field
02:39 How does it work?
03:19 Start/Stop a Song
03:39 Midi Control, Articulation
04:16 Limitations, Bugs, Issues, Latency
04:49 How it ACTUALLY works in practice
05:01 What else??? (Github, Pricing, Thanks)
05:30 Hate
05:54 Jam 1 (Sleepy Anime Music)
06:45 Jam 2 (Classic Bad Gear Jam)
07:07 Finale (Art House)
07:37 Verdict"

And a short one from HAINBACH:

Teenage Engineering Choir Unboxing And Sound
video upload by HAINBACH



via these listings

Be sure to check out the seller's other listings.

Each singer/member has its own vocal tone and is in very good condition and the electronic modules all work.

Holiday Songs

"Shchedryk" (Carol of the Bells)
"Deck the Halls"
"Sankta Lucia"
"O Come, All Ye Faithful"
"O Tannenbaum" (O Christmas Tree)
"Silent Night"
"Prelude" (a short introductory piece)
"Auld Lang Syne" (also available in their downloads)


All preloaded songs - more can be played live with BLE MIDI

silent night – franz xaver gruber, joseph mohr, j f young*
o tannenbaum – trad., ernst anschütz*
o come, all ye faithful – john reading, frederick oakeley*
sankta lucia – trad. via teodoro cottrau, sigrid elmblad*
deck the halls – charles wood, thomas oliphant
shchedryk (carol of the bells) – mykola leontovych
auld lang syne – trad. via robert burns
love me, and the world is mine – ernest ball, dave reed jr.
i never knew – tom pitts, raymond egan, roy marsh
sverige – wilhelm stenhammar
dear old girl – theodore morse, henry buck
gute nacht – robert schumann, friedrich rückert
sweet adeline – harry armstrong, richard gerard husch
warm-up exercise: signore – trad.
in all my dreams, i dream of you – al piantadosi, joe m
den blomstertid nu kommer – trad., israel kolmodin
i've been working on the railroad – trad.
now is the month of maying – thomas morley
gaudeamus igitur – trad.
warm-up exercise: zing-a-mama – trad.
the darktown strutters' ball – shelton brooks
an die freude – ludwig van beethoven
en sommarafton – adolf fredrik lindblad
tourdion – pierre attaingnant, césar geoffray
goodbye my coney island baby – les applegate
o haupt voll blut und wunden – johann sebastian bach

Pictured: Carlo & Miki

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Prismatic Spray II - incantation #11 test

video upload by Arman Bohn

"My devices (including the Prismatic Spray II) can be found here:
https://distropolisgoods.com/

I'm working on the first firmware update for the Prismatic Spray II. There a some fixes, a few changes (new incantations 11, 13 and 39) and a new feature (described below).

Early in the video, you can see me hold RESET (yellow button) and press one of the ENGINE buttons (gray). You can now reset the RUNES (A, B, C) of any incantation to the DEFAULT settings intended by the original creator of the incantation. This helps pull your wanderings back to some kind of center (maybe).

The color bar visualization is simple, but can be pleasing with certain incantations. I'm really liking how it vibes with incantation 11!

I'm hoping to release this update this week!"

Xenodrive on synth, drums, drone and SFX (no talk)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"First up: Erica Synths sent me the Xenodrive, so my thanks to the kind crew in Latvia. And did you know Latvia and Tasmania are almost identical in size? Not sure that fact will prove useful to you, but who knows.

The Xenodrive joins the Echolocator and Nightverb in Erica Synths' desktop range. Older members include the DB-01, LXR-02 and AcidboxIII. The Zen delay eats at a different table because of its slightly different case size. Perhaps we can speculate on what's next? I'm thinking of a sampler-looper thing. Thoughts?

Back to the alien-green Xenodrive. But before we get there it's interesting that alien stuff is associated with the colour green. If you read fairy tales in their original form then you'll know green was always the colour of witches and other evil folk.

So the Xeno: Stereo dirt, drive, waveshaping, distortion and tube screaming. Dial in just a touch or destroy everything. Lots of knobs plus presets. It's a rare beast.

Aggressive effects can lead to aggressive knob twiddling spinning from zero to ten looking for the big changes. Sometimes it's true: the parameter might be linear from not much to lots. I find the Darkglass B3K works like that: There's not much true variation as you wind up the knobs, you simply get more. But that's not how many parameters work here. If you rotate wildly from 1 to 10 you'll miss all the flavors. That's especially true of the rotate parameter, the drive tone, and the X and Y waves. With all these you'll find variations with tiny movements.

Another parameter I really appreciated was the noise gate threshold - one of the few things that doesn't get a dedicated knob. Dirt and distortion pedals are notoriously noisy so a noise gate at the end of the chain can save you from lingering hiss. You can hear this in the first drum demo here. It begins with long tails and then I wind back the gate. Fun also to use it as a hard release rather than just a noise killer.

I tried to give a variety of scenarios in this demo. My unexpected favorite was how good it was at simulating the details of shortwave heterodyne noise.

0:00 Synth demo
2:45 Drum demo 1
7:48 Throbbing Gristle
9:30 Shortwave
11:55 Drum demo 2
15:26 Feedback drone
17:19 Cheese demo
19:00 Drum demo 3

Many thanks to my kind patrons who keep this channel ad-free
My website: https://richarddehove.com/"

Vintage Roland MPU-401, CM-32L, CA-30, CN-20, CP-40, & CF-10 System

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This one was spotted and sent in via
M Me.

via this eBay listing

1 pic of the inside below.

"Includes

Roland MPU-401 Midi Processing Unit SN 873387

Roland CM-32L LA Sound Module SN Z803461

Roland CA-30 Intelligent Arranger SN Z802892 with Roland Music Style Card TN-SC1-10

Roland CN-20 Music Entry Pad SN ZA92670

Roland CP-40 Pitch to Midi Converter with CP-40M Microphone (untested) SN Z881503

Roland CF-10 Digital Fader SN Z803213

(1)Roland Boss AC Adaptor Model PSA-120T

(2) Roland Boss AC Adaptor Model ACA-120

(1) Roland Boss AC Adaptor Model PSA-120

(1) Roland AC Adaptor Model ACB-120"

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SynthCone Glitch Storm MK II & Pelngator M

video uploads by SynthCone

Playlist:

1. Glitch Storm MK II
2. Glitch Storm краткий обзор и пример звучания.
3. Glitch Storm PsyTranse Jam
4. Glitch Storm MK II обзор
5. GlitchStorm + PicoCore Jam
6. Sampo + Glitch Storm MKII

"⚠Ещё одна новинка⚠

Этим летом на фестивале Гудрон в г.Пермь, я увидел один забавный синтезатор. Он сразу запал мне в душу своей вариативностью и звучанием. Естественно я захотел его повторить :)

Glitch Storm MK II - Цифровой синтезатор в стиле чип тюн. Может создавать от различных мелодических паттернов, которые можно изменять, до дрона.
Имеет выход для синхронизации, хорошо дружит с PicoCore.

Цена: 8000₽
Для заказа пишите в ТГ: @SynthCone_master"

Google translated:

"⚠Another new product⚠

This summer, at the Gudron festival in Perm, I saw a funny synthesizer. It immediately caught my eye with its versatility and sound. Naturally, I wanted to replicate it :)

Glitch Storm MK II - A chip-tune-style digital synthesizer. It can create everything from a variety of customizable melodic patterns to drone sounds.
It has a sync output and works well with PicoCore.

Price: 8,000₽
To order, message me on Telegram: @SynthCone_master"

Pelngator M

video upload by SynthCone

Roland Juno 60 | Ambient soundscape with Fractal Audio FM3

video upload by MIDERA

"I decided to help a friend and replaced all of his Roland Juno 60 sliders. I figured I’d done a lot of similar work for myself, and I’ve had a lot of people help me out so I wanted to pass it forward. Well, after spending 3 hours replacing the sliders, it was 12:30AM and I turned on the unit to test it out. But it went horribly wrong. Nothing sounded right. Noise was always present, the Attack slider didn’t work, Sub was always on, you get the picture. By this point, I was totally stressed out. I had destroyed a $3000 synth!

I tried going to sleep, but it was around 3AM before I could. I woke up the next day, stressed. I ran downstairs to see if it was just something simple I missed, but nothing seemed wrong. All the pins had continuity to the traces they were going towards.

By 5PM that day, I finally wrote on a facebook group. Someone mentioned something regarding the new sliders from Syntaur. He said they’re chassis legs are too short. Specifically, the Attack slider chassis provides ground to IC5, pin 8. But when I checked, there was continuity from the pad to IC5 pin 8. HOWEVER, the pad was NOT connected to the chassis. I quickly threw the old slider in, and magically… it all worked. I couldn’t believe it. That was about 24 hours of terror as I tried to figure out what went wrong.

However, it is now going strong, perfectly. I’m very thankful to that facebook group!

Fractal Audio FM3 used for delay/reverb/fx."

Techno Jam with Perkons HD-01 by ‪@EricaSynths‬ 🎛️

video upload by Yan Cook and PLAY VINYL

"I want to thank ‪@playvinylua‬ for lending me this machine for several days, I'll definitely use this opportunity to sample the beast 😃

My first impression — Perkons is BIG, really built like a tank, and feels very different from any drum machine I've used before. Each press of a button and turn of a knob feels significant—like I'm operating a submarine control panel or something. The sheer hands-on joy this instrument delivers is on another level; it's a machine you need to experience in person."

‪@PlantWave‬ Meets the “Plantasia” Moog Modular | Live Jam

video upload by Anthony Marinelli Music and PlantWave

"Join me for a one-of-a-kind musical experience filmed inside the iconic Mickey Hargitay Plants in Hollywood. In this special session, I’m improvising on the legendary 1969 Moog IIIc “Plantasia” Modular Synthesizer—the same model used on Mort Garson’s Mother Earth's Plantasia—along with my Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave, while the plants themselves generate melodies through PlantWave.

How PlantWave Works
PlantWave is a bio-music device that connects to a plant’s leaves and measures subtle changes in electrical conductivity. Those fluctuations are translated into MIDI data, which then becomes musical notes, rhythms, and patterns. It’s not “the plant playing an instrument” in the human sense—it's more like the plant’s natural signals being converted into music we can hear and respond to.

The Jam
As PlantWave transforms real-time electrical signals from the plants into beautiful, evolving musical patterns, I’m tuning in, responding, and improvising on the Moog IIIc and 3rd Wave—matching their phrases with my own melodies and rhythms. Every moment emerges organically, completely unique, and impossible to recreate the same way twice.

About the Location
Mickey Hargitay Plants has been an LA landmark for decades, and creating this performance surrounded by their lush greenery made the experience even more magical.

This is a rare combination of vintage analog synthesis, modern wavetable power, plant-generated musical data, and real-time human improvisation. I hope you enjoy this unique collaboration between nature and machines."

Rare Ensoniq 14 Sound Disk Set #4-17 + Sound Lab For The Mirage NOS Sealed

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via this eBay listing

This one was spotted and sent in via
M Me.

"RARE NOS 14 factory sealed (stapled) 1985 Ensoniq sound disks all featuring different sounds for the Mirage Digital Sampling Keyboard. Disks #4-17

Also included is a factory sealed Ensoniq Sound Lab for Apple Macintosh and the Mirage Digital Sampling Keyboard

All disks are 3.5” floppys"

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Microsound Magic - B00GA, HAINBACH's new Instrument with @audiothing

video upload by HAINBACH and AudioThing

"This was a long time in the making - B00GA, my new VST/AU/CLAP instrument with AudioThing is finally here! When I discoverd the HP 8006A, nicknamed "B00GA" in 2019, I was amazed by the precision funk it oozed. Making it a plugin was on my mind since 2020, but only now AudioThing and me found and approach that would make it worth as a virtual instrument. We turned it into a microsound sampler, that sequences tiny sounds and noises within the wonderful HP interface. This opens up new textures and sonic worlds to explore. We hope B00GA brings you joy!"

00:00 Intro Tune
01:33 Dry Rhythms Demo
02:43 Textured Rhythms Demo
04:09 Experimental Demo
06:05 MIDI Keys Demo
07:45 Tutorial
13:02 How To Make Banks
13:59 Hainpack Integration
20:31 Pricing and Platforms
21:29 Why Handles?

GET B00GA: https://www.audiothing.net/instrument...
AND iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/b00ga-m...

"B00GA is a studio and live instrument designed to create experimental rhythms and tonal textures. Inspired by a rare piece of lab equipment, the Hewlett-Packard Word Generator 8006A, it offers an excitingly different way to sequence clicks, pulses, and noise.

Use it to create tight grooves, off-kilter beats, and forever shifting micro-sound patterns. Speed them up into rich drones and tonal structures. It comes with a suite of five vintage-flavored effects that allow for unique radiophonic effects. From brain-dance to the dance floor to advanced sound design, let’s B00GA!"

Prismatic Spray II demo video 1

video upload by Arman Bohn

"You can get on the waitlist for the Prismatic Spray II and check out my other things here:

https://distropolisgoods.com/

Hey -

It's been a while. Life is a bit crazy.

Prismatic Spray II is almost ready. Found a few more little bugs today and fixed them. Almost ready to order the printed manual!

I'm just noodling around here. I stumbled on to this rhythmic pattern that I really liked so I start with it running on both the left and right engines. I start to change the right side while leaving the left side plodding along.

Eventually, you can see me switch up the bytebeat incantation for the right side and things start to get wacky. You get a little look at one of the visualizations towards the end.

I'll post the manual before too long - but feel free to ask me about the PSII in the comments."

CS80 improvisation 1 - sit back & relax

video upload by The Synth King

"Hi,
here is my first ambient improvisation with a Yamaha CS 80. This instrument has been given to me for thorough inspection. Cosmetically the CS80 is in a quite bad shape, however, from a technical perspective it works almost perfectly. You will notice some issues with one voice distorting and not beeing consistent in volume (probably a bad VCA).
I´m working on a video showing further details on how I came to this instrument or shall I say how this CS80 found me. Stay tuned.
Bernd"

The Elmyra2 has never sounded like THIS before (version 2.4 update!)

video upload by Oscillator Sink

See the announcement post from earlier today here.

"The Elmyra2 continues to be one of my favourite, weird little drone synths, and over the last two and half years it has got better and better with each new update. Version 2.4 is arguably the best and most important update yet, not only for the huge number of sonic, creative and quality of life improvements, but it opens up an entirely new sound-world for the Elmyra for you to explore.

Transparency notice: the Elmyra 2 was kindly provided to me by Neutral Labs (back in 2023) for free for the purposes of making videos on it. No editorial oversight has been provided to Neutral Labs and no other payment has been received. As always I'm only interested in featuring instruments that I'm genuinely excited about on the channel.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:16 UX Improvements
02:50 General Sound Improvements
03:20 New Improved Default Filter Model
06:11 Improved Shortcuts
07:46 New "CHRM" Shortcuts
08:58 Voice Stacking
10:38 LFO Motion Recording
12:46 Short Envelopes
15:56 New Mod Mode: Oscillator Sync
18:03 New Reverb
22:29 Comb Filter Mode (physical modelling vibes!)
27:01 A little moment of sonic chaos
28:21 Voice Following Comb Filter
31:04 Final Thoughts"

100 Oberheim Expander/Matrix12 single FX patches by Arthur Springer

video upload by Really Nice Audio

"So whilst on soak test I came across this crazy bank:
Notes from the .txt
ART SPRINGER STRIKES AGAIN (free)
Reviewed by Mike Metlay

All right, gang, I know what you're expecting in this space, so I'll oblige you and get it over with. Ready? Here goes: "WAHOOLAZUMA! Everybody's favorite twisted puppy is back from the audio torture chamber, and he's brewed up the most brain-slashing package of monstrous elektronoyze EVER! This stuff's great for warping your brain patterns, killing your cat, etc..."

Okay. Happy now? Good, now let's get serious. I heard from Art recently that he didn't get a terribly good response to his first mailing, and that few, if any, XUG members looked him up for his second set of patches

He seemed in a pretty good humor about it, but I couldn't help wondering if my presentation of his patch set didn't scare a lot of people away just by the wording. So, with a new patch set from Art (more diverse than the first two) in hand, I'd like to try again.

One of the most unhealthy trends I see in today's patch-editing software is the patch randomizer, that cute but overused utility that generates random patches at the click of a mouse. Literally thousands of these random patches are being sold by unscrupulous hackers as "original sounds," and a whole new generation of MIDI morons is springing up (pardon the pun) whose idea of "good programming chops" is the ability to tweak a randomly generated sound into something that (almost) works. No program of this type exists yet for the xpander, and I'm glad of it: the lack of computer-generated garbage on the market forces the user community to seek one another for new ideas, rather than some electronic I Ching. We come together in this Group to share ideas and learn from one another and I believe that studying another human being's work beats watching a computer coughing up random numbers. Which brings us to the music of Art Springer.

In my opinion, these patches are important. VERY important. I get so enthused about Art's work because I see in him a reflection of my college days, when I puttered about with ARP and Buchla modular monsters creating sounds for the sheer joy of it, putting together tonalities never before heard on Earth rather than trying to make a realistic shakuhachi. This was, and often still is, the meat and potatoes of electronic music to me. And when I hear Art telling me that people- Xpander users!-are returning his work because it's "too weird," I know something's wrong. The Xpander isn't a sampler or a digital piano. It's not an imitative instrument by nature. It's a powerful, multiply interfaceable modular synthesizer with a great deal of flexibility. Art Springer takes a stance on its use that no other Group member has had the courage to try: using its Power as a CV percussion device to enhance the sounds of his more traditionally oriented synths. (By the way, Lionel and I are big fans of his music ... it's not as inaccessible as you might think, and the odd tonalities make his dance pieces a lot of fun.) This is a new idea to a lot of you, and I don't blame you for being frightened. But it's better to learn from someone whose ideas differ from yours than to convince a computer to feed you something safe. I'd like to suggest something simple to start with: get one of Art's sound sets, trigger your Xpander with your drumbox, and try writing music with these sounds as part of the atmosphere rather than conventional drum noises. Or do something completely different. The important thing is to try to expand (hm) your horizons to something new. These sounds of Art's do take getting used to, but I think you'll learn a lot from them. Trust me."

Yamaha CS-01 - The Little Synth That Could

video upload by BucketBrigade

"I'm back! (A little later than planned.) Today we're looking at the Yamaha CS-01, a monosynth from 1982 that - while it can't compete with it's older bigger brother the CS80, has plenty to give - more than you may think ;) Thank you to Paul for loaning me this lovely machine.

Let me know if you owned a CS01 in the comments below, I'd love to hear your stories - and feel free to suggest any other synthesisers you'd like to see on the channel in the future.

PS: A quick note - the quality of the microphone and camera are a bit skew-whiff in this channel. Unfortunately nothing went quite as I had hoped as I didn't have my normal equipment, ran out of time and made some errors - chucking a screen with some photo references in the corner of my eyeshot reflecting the whole time being one of them. Lastly, if my voice sounds a bit weird at the start, my noise reduction plugin went a bit overboard and makes me sound like an AI voice. I'm not, I promise!!"

The Proteus 1 Synthesiser in 2025 - Any Fun?

video upload by BucketBrigade

"Today, we're looking at the original Proteus sound module by E-mu, released in 1989. These were immensely successful back in the day and this one started it all, and so I decided to have a poke around the Proteus' patches to see which ones tickled my fancy.

Again, my thanks to Jon for lending me the Proteus.

If you have any stories about the Proteus, I'd love to hear them. Feel free to leave a comment or email me using the address in my channel description.

I appreciate my playing isn't maestro level, I'm no Doctor Mix unfortunately!! Expect more coming soon :)

The dry-signal version of this video is coming soon!

All images used belong to their respective owners, all music composed by myself, except for the piece used in the 'synth for a walk' sketch"

Buchla & Tiptop Essential System 200t VOL 2

video upload by Stazma

"Today we are going to check out a selection of four modules from the 200t lines by Tiptop Audio & Buchla that to me are the four essential building block to form a small and portable system: The 258t, 281t, 292t and 266t!

I'm going to explore different setup with these four modules, different ways to control & play them."