Yamaha DX7 MKII FD (Pad Visions)

YouTube via DIGITALSCREAMS.
"Some say the DX7 is crap at making pad sounds - I say the problem lies with the user, not the synth. But you be the judge! Here is a collection of pad sounds I recently programmed that cannot be made on anything but an FM synth! Enjoy."

Roland GR-100

images via this auction.

"the GR100 is one of the rarest and least known of the Roland GR synths, it's the predecessor to the GR-300."

More info including the manual on http://www.joness.com/gr300/

Something for Christmas...

The White Roland SH-101

Two more images here (previously posted here).

via CustomSynth

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Roland SH-101

via this auction
"The SH-101 is very cool, especially for techno, drum&bass and ACID! It's a monophonic bass synthesizer. Its sound lies somewhere between the TB-303 and a Juno bass sound. It has a lot of simple but cool features. You can control the VCF, pitch, LFO or all from the pitch bender. It has a white noise generator, arpeggiator with up, down and up/down patterns and a simple real-time sequencer. The LFO offers random, sine, square or noise waveforms. And normal or auto portamento effects give you that elastic bass sound. There are external clock inputs for the sequencer and arpeggiator, CV/GATE inputs and outputs and a CV hold pedal. Unfortunately there is no patch memory storage and although it has no MIDI there are upgrades available for it from many analog service companies that will allow you to incorporate it into any MIDI studio environment. It can also be controlled by MIDI using a CV/MIDI converter. It's great for bass sounds or bubbly analog effects. They come in three different flavors - gray, blue or red (there was a VERY rare white version too)!"

KORG Electribe ER-1

via this auction. Click on the image for the full size.

ARP QUADRA PART 2

YouTube via stephenteller. Part 1 here.
"Some more fiddling about. This time with hgher quality audio track and some cheesy video FX! I hope you all space properly : )"

Off-the-record: GForce Interview with Dave Spiers

"You were a sort of pioneer in hardware midi controllers with the Phat Boy. Do you see GForce involved in something hardware related in the future?

It's possible and there's no denying that hardware can't be pirated, which is what I think makes it attractive to software developers.
What I love about software though is that these are still early days and there's a spirit of adventure that's exciting. I spoke to the boss of a hardware synth company who said "If you're not able to manufacture in China, you won't even get on the playing field" which to me implied that everyone is chasing lowest cost manufacturing over creativity - software isn't like that.....yet!"

click here for the full interview on AudioNewsRoom. via AudioNewsRoom in the comments of this post.

Oberheim Matrix-1000 Analog Synthesizer by RetroSound

YouTube via retrosound72.
"first part: short Matrix-1000 track, the OB-Matrix was triggered by the MFB Step64 step-sequencer, the drums came from the Roland TR-707. second part: some retro-sounds by RetroSound. more info: www.retrosound.de"

Novation Supernova Dirty Organ

YouTube via totaltwit. via Nusonica.

"The Novation Supernova is intended to be a synth to produce synthy sounds but whilst editing and chomping through various sounds I came across a decent dirty Hammond organ sound. It's not 100% but evverytime I switch to it I have to go the the heavy prog rock playing style. Notice the black frilly shirt and goopy rings just to get into the mood."

Woodwinds

YouTube via JimGordon5.
"Jim Gordon plays woodwinds too. Check out Jim's new electronic music synthesizer CD at http://www.jimsjazz.com."