Deeply Flawed, Utterly Charming: RMIF TI-5 Synthesizer

video upload by HAINBACH

"The RMIF TI-5 "Digital Keyboard", an 8-Voice analog/digital hybrid synth, is little known, even in former Soviet countries. As they did on the ES-2-5 drum machine I covered here before, it seems that the engineers in Riga took a look at what Roland was doing, taking inspiration from the Juno-line. Unlike the famously sturdy Japanese instruments, the TI-5 was built rather haphazardly, with bad clones of western chips managing the voices and processing. That is why only few survived the test of time. Yet despite its shortcomings it sounds utterly charming, managing both deep Moog-basses, vast evolving pads and chiptune leads.

Music & TI-5 Sample Instrument: / hainbach
My Music: http://hainbach.bandcamp.com"

You can find additional videos of the RMIF TI-5 including a virtual version in previous posts here.

RMIF TI-3 The Last Soviet Polyphonic Synthesizer Part.1 (Bank D)

video upload by Eternal Engine EMI

"Playing presets on Rmif TI-3 upgraded to pathced TI-5 firmware (Bank D)"

0:00 - Bank D1
6:18 - Bank D2
11:11 - Bank D3
15:36 - Bank D4
19:43 - Bank D5
23:37 - Bank D6
25:03 - Bank D7
25:05 - Bank D8

RMIF TI-3 The Last Soviet Polyphonic Synthesizer Part.2 (Bank B and C)

video upload by Eternal Engine EMI

Cadans S16, Rmif Ti 5 & LEL MIDIDRUM from UltraRare.SU

video upload by Futulyric

"Another demo from Alexey Nazarov. As many as 3 instruments from UltraRare: Cadans S16, Rmif Ti 5 and LEL MIDIDRUM"

A Few More Rmif Ti-5 Rare Soviet Synth Demos

A few more demos have been added to the bottom of this post.

Rmif Ti-5 Ultra Rare Analog Soviet Synthesizer | Sounds

Published on Dec 2, 2019 Futulyric

"The Soviet synthesizer RMIF TI5 was engineered and produced at Riga Musical Instruments Factory in early 1980.
8-voice analog polyphonic , 16 digitally synced analog oscillators, 8 MOOG-like discrete ladder filters, 1 SAW_UP/SAW_DOWN/TRIANG/SQUARE LFO, 1 noise source, 256 memory presets in four banks (192 ROM, 64 RAM), sequencer and UP/DOWN/UP_AND_DOWN arpeggiator."

A few of these have come up for sale, but I believe this is the first video demo of one.

Update: a few more from Futulyric: [via daden in the commments]



Playlist:

1. Rmif Ti-5 Ultra Rare Analog Soviet Poly Synthesizer
2. FUTULIRIC | Rmif Ti 5 & Rmif Elsita | Psyphony B♭minor
3. Electribe 2 & Rmif Ti-5 | Dark Progressive House
4. Jingle Bells Remix # Electibe 2 & Aelita, Rmif Ti-5, Ritm 2, Maestro
5. Dark House # Alisa 1377, Aelita, Polyvox, Rmif Ti 5

Soviet RMIF TI - 3

Another one via sex.tex.

"Polyphonic programmable digital-analog synthesizer with built'n sequencer and arpeggiator."

It looks nearly identical to the RMIF TI-5. You'll find some audio demos on ruskeys.net.

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Soviet Synth RMIF TI 5 Ultra Rare Analog Strings Poly Synthesizer

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via these auctions

"Good things: It is very rare and hard to find in nowadays instrument, even in Latvia. It was engineered and produced in Riga Musical Instruments Factory in early 80-90 ties. Synthesizer is in good visual condition (see in pictures) , it has all the knobs and keys sounds powerful and has very interesting sounds. Comes with a original soft case and original user manual.

Bad things: All the keys are working, but when pressing, sound comes with a small delay. So it does not play the sound instantly. May be someone is smart enough to fix this and make this really rare machine into full life again."

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Soviet Synthesizer RMIF TI5 TI-5 Rare Vintage Synth

via this auction

"rare soviet synthesizer RMIF TI5 (Riga Musical Instrument Factory)"