EDP GNAT

YouTube via emssynthi100
"my gnat talking.soon clips to follow with wasp and spider sequencer."

moog modular + drum controller

YouTube via polyvoks
"moog modular playing a simple sequence + moog drum controller"

ARP Axxe

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Roland GR-700

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Mad Max

Novation Supernova II

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Sequential Circuits Split-Eight

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"The Split-Eight has a gritty and raw sound with a lot of character that suits many styles of music. Bass sounds are tremendous. Has Poly Modulation just like the Prophet 5 giving it some unique and unusual tonal variations. The filters are warm with some beautiful high-frequency spectral movement when resonnance pushed to the edge.
• Eight Analog Oscillators - Saw, Tri, Pulse
• Pitch, Pulse Width, and Poly Modulation
• Eight 24db Curtis Low Pass Filters with Resonnance
• ADSR Filter Envelope
• DADSR Amplifier Envelope
• LFO with Square, Triangle Waveforms
• Wicked Fat Unison Mode
• Built-in Analog Stereo Chorus
• Five Octave Keyboard (not velocity sensitive)
• Split/Doubled Keyboard Voice Assignment
• Program Linking
• Separate A/B/Mix Audio Outputs
• Built-in Grounded Power AC Power Cable
• Newly Replaced Storage Backup Battery"

The Multi-Trak, Six-Trak, MAX, and Split-Eight as share the same synth engine.

Studio Electronics Code 8

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Note the binary background.

"Studio Electronics Code 8 OD. It's the ultimate true analog synthesizer, like having eight discrete monophonic synths from the 70's/80's era (you know, the sound EVERYONE looks for?) built into a rack unit. With all that sound, the instrument is amazingly flexible, and those 8 huge voices can be stacked, merged, split up, or run multi-timbrally, any way you want. Built in Moog and Oberheim-style analog filters (you can choose between them for EACh VOICE!)... really nice design with easy to use front panel. Studio Electronics took their worshipped Omega 8 synth, and put a bunch of extras into it. The new "OD" models give you classic analog amp overdrive for each voice. The analog experts at Studio Electronics took their classic Omega Engine and couple of fresh ideas to come out with the NEW C O D E Synthesizer. Two new great features on the CODE Synth are the sinewave generators and the new filter control section. New Sinewave Generator features. Each voice now has a sinewave on oscillator 1 expanding the sound possibilities of the synth. One of the key new features on the C O D E is the Filter Control section, which allows you to sweep through all the filter types in real time with complete MIDI control. The switches in the Filter Control section give momentary control of assignable parameters. The Filter Control Section
· Sweep through all the filter types in real time.
· Increase or decrease the filter frequency.
· Increase the envelope amount.
· Increase the resonance amount.
· Filter ENV Delay.
· Invert the filter envelope.
· "CUT" Filter Decay.
· Works on the CODE synth engine or external input. The 8 voice version is configured as a 8 input or quad filterbank. 
Bank 3 "The Riot" bank included (a $139 value!) Bank 4 All New "Cadix" bank included (a $189 value!)"

live setup

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Orpheus Music to Shut Down

Sad news in the blogosphere today. Orpheus Music has just put up a post announcing that "This blog has attracted the attention of an 'unwanted party' and, as a consequence (to save me from any potential trouble), will be closed and deleted in the next couple of days."
If you haven't checked out Orpheus Music, do so while you can. You will find tons of classic synthesizer based albums of times past. The post does not go into detail as to why. So sad that all of this information will be lost.

HardSID 4U

"The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64!

* USB connection (compatible with both 2.0 & 1.1)
* Isochronous USB endpoint for low-latency audio
* VSTi interface with 8000Hz update rate on all SID registers (free)
* Wave-in VSTi pin for routing 8000Hz signals to any registers (example: playing other VSTi's sound on the volume register)
* Full automation of all VSTi parameters
* Superior sound quality (..it is a HardSID!)
* Support for up to four SID chips (6581/8580/6582 in any combination)
* Updateable firmware over USB
* Microsoft Vista compatible (drivers for Win2000/XP/Vista)

..and if you're a C64 fan

* Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes
* Digitized sound + high-speed playback with low CPU utilization
* Seamless playback of .sid tunes while you work on your PC by providing a huge playback buffer for non-VSTi applications"

http://www.hardsid.com/

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