resonant accordion - Baghead

"the resonant accordion sound is from a Prophet 2002 sampler, with a Wine Country purchased accordion sample run through the Prophet 2002 filters which are analog - hardly sounds like an accordion does it? The MP3 doesn't do the sound justice, there is a gorgeous chimey/ring quality to it live. The drums are a Korg ER-1 thru an Alesis Bitrman and that's about it, Ableton Live is the sequencer"

Baghead

MOOG Voyager Signature Edition

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serial number #170

"This was the first of the Voyagers and was limited to only 600 units which sold out nearly immediately after being announced."

MAESTRO VINTAGE RUSSIAN SYNTH

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"Maestro is the first russian synth with microprocessor inside. Maestro synthesizer was prodused on Kachkanar military radio plant on the same factory where well known Polivoks synth was prodused. Synth has nice compact design. There are 16 base waveforms onboard. Some waveforms feed to analog filter with resonanse. There is interesting arpeggiator also with memory of key's order and speed control. The synth is polyphonic, you can play 4 voices at one time. Than there is nice sounding rich chorus effect with mix/dry amount control. LFO can modulate pitch by triangle waveform. There is controls of modulation speed and amount of pitch modulation. There is nice funky 2-dimensional joystick for modulation
control."

Doepfer A-104 Trautonium Filter

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"A-104 is a fourfold formant filter as used in the Mixtur Trautonium by Oskar Sala. It is made of four parallel resonance filters, each filter can be switched to low pass or band pass or off. Frequency, resonance and level are controlled for each filter separately (no voltage control). The frequency range for the filters is about 50Hz...5kHz. The filter audio inputs are very sensitive so that distortion may intentionally be used to create new sounds - if desired. The A-104 is a versatile module for sound modification. In the first place it is used for reproduction of resonances (e.g. the vocal-like effects known from the Trautonium). In combination with the subharmonic generator A-113, the Trautonium Manual A-198 and some other A-100 modules one obtains a Trautonium replica."

Univox Rhythm Box

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"Univox vintage drum machine with 20 beats. You can adjust the tempo, volume, and even bass, drum, and snare variations for the "fox Trot" beat/ Works Perfectly."

Univox Drum Machine

YouTube via thesuperrockfunshow.
"univox drum machine with various beats"

Boland Synthesizer Featured in South Park Season 1 Episode 3

Check it out. Boland.

Via Lyle.

The Roland S-50 on wire to the ear

"The Roland S-50 was a futuristic looking black metal monolith with a fluorescent screen. It felt long and had 61 keys. Compare that with the measly cheap feeling two octave Oxygen 8 I use now! You could hook it up to an external monitor. I had mine hooked up to a 13″ green CRT poised on a three tier Ultimate Keyboard Rack. It also came with a digitizing tablet and pen similar to a Wacom tablet. This allowed you to draw waveforms but it was more gimmick than useful.

It was 4 part multitimbral and 16 voice polyphonic. It had a 3.5″ disc drive and 750k internal memory. You could sample at 12-bit at 15-30kHz." Click here for the full post on the Roland S-50 on wire to the ear.

Computer Music (Synthesizers, Synclavier) 1986

Computer Music (Synthesizers, Synclavier) 1986 Pt. 1

YouTube via cowsill2x2.

via Nusonica.

"Outdated but still interesting. Features news on "new" music making machines, including the Synclavier II. Max Matthews, Ronald Surak and Richard Head discuss sampling. Mason Gross. Rutgers. MIDI. PBS. Innovation"

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Vocoder Videos via intromix

Vocoder What Is It? EMS 2000 Demo w/ Oberheim OB-8

YouTube via intromix. via Nusonica.
"Here is how an analog vocoder works. I am not going to use technical "jibberish" so I will speak normal vocabulary. This is the legendary EMS Vocoder 2000 (from 1977) which soundwise compares against Sennheiser, Moog(Bode), Synton, Roland, Korg. I will give a basic demonstration on how to use a vocoder and how a vocoder functions to give it that "robotic" sound. I used an Oberheim OB-8 Keyboard to trigger the pitch on the vocoder"

Sennheiser VSM-201 Vocoder Audio Samples

"Here are some audio samples dedicated to the usage of the legendary Sennheiser VSM-201 Vocoder. Being that there is hardly any info on the web in reference to this unit, I took the initiative to be probably the first person to post audio samples of this vintage dinosaur....ENJOY!!!"

Cylon Costume With Vocoder Sample

"Here is a sample of what my Cylon costume sounds like with the vocoder and red eye warble sound."

astrolab studio

YouTube via ohrspace.
"a virtual visit of "astrolab" recording studio. http://www.myspace.com/astrolabstudio"