The Pragmatic

The Pragmatic

spot the synths

"We are all huge fans of your blog and we read it everyday. You can probably tell by listening to our music that we're obsessed with anything synth, and your blog helps that addiction.

We just took some promo pics with a lot of our gear, and I thought maybe your readers might be interested in checking them out and maybe guessing what it is."

The Pragmatic - Do You Blame Me?
by andreanjos

The Pragmatic - Deathmatch
by andreanjos

This Is Not Analogue!

Sonicstate.TV by bluemanontelly
"shock, horror - a non-analogue music video. Well, I don't have any analogue gear. Virtual analogue anyone?

This is a demo of how all 3 generations of the Korg Electribes play together. Plus a little bit of Novation X Station & Ableton Live for good measure. It was improvised and performed live.

The Electribe ER1 Mk1 is Korg's discontinued rhythm groovebox with analogue style sounds and a nice delay effect. The discontinued Electribe EA1 Mk2 was part of the second genera..."

GONG - You - Side A - A Sprinkling of Clouds - 1974

YouTube via JohnyAllSmiles. Sent my way via JUergen.
"AS I remember they had several VCS3 and other machines" I think I hear a little MOOG in there as well, but who knows...

Inside a Roland TR-909

flickr by firegroove
(click for the full set)

【Review】vol.5 Arturia Origin

YouTube via musictrackjp
【DEMO】Arturia Origin

LIMS08: Check Out the Juno Stage

see the write-up on Sonic State.

Oberheim

flickr by Doilum

full size

Dj Skyline Br - HiperActive

YouTube via kamitnick. "trying one DnB"

Vocal Filter detail

flickr by fonik2000
full size "PCB for Jim Patchell's Vocal Filter" "The 100-1003 is now in the public domain. This filter was designed to simulate the vocal tract of a human. To do this, there are three resonant filters that will be tuned to different frequencies. To make it so that the phonems can be selected via voltage control, there are three CV shapers on the board. These will allow you to make a more or less arbitrary function to control the filter frequencies." More details on Jim Patchell's site.

Dave Smith Prophet '08 Arp #2

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's is another little arp from the tabletop Prophet 08. It's running into the Eventide ModFactor (Vibrato Preset) and then into the Eventide 2016 Reverb unit. Sorry, it's a little hot."