Extreme sea weather

YouTube via GCom67. I thought this was a pretty cool video so I dropped GCom67 a line asking him what synths he used. I saw the Alesis Andromeda A6 in the tags for the video. The following is what he had to say, "I used the Andy for pads/bass/piano stabs thoughout and some seq/FX (wind etc) parts which are just in the mix, really for thickening the track out. The bongos are from my Big Fish 'The Art of Jo' sample library. The snare and hihats i sampled from an old band sound check i recorded on minidisc years ago. Shaker i did my self with a half full pepper mill and Rode NT2 mic. I love to use Waves SSL vst plugs and RSO Extreme Warmth on the final mix."

Le Grand David's studios46

Tara of AnalogSuicide stumbled into quite the studio pic stash at studios46 MySpace page.

A little groovy a little freaky.

Le Grand David

Roland Juno-60 + Jupiter-4 + Moog Taurus

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

bassline: Roland Jupiter-4 arpeggiator in random mode and VCF modulation triggered by the TR-606
sweeping pad sounds: Roland Juno-60
deep bass: Moog Taurus bass pedals (intro and at 2.20)
drums: Roland TR-606

no overdubbing, no sequencer software used"

MiMa feat. Van Halen - I'll Wait

YouTube via mima14031985

"And now time for another great Van Halen keyboard song. A special thank goes to user Synthartist69 and his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeNj4... which instructed me on how to play that song.

A note on the bassline: it's different from the original one, but it's a mine choice.

The sound comes from The JP8000, which it's being played thru my good old Roland Juno 106, acting as MIDI controller.

Unfortunately my Juno is now suffering for dead voice chips, so it cannot sing in this video at that time.

The patch being used here it's the regular, used and abused 2-oscillators detuned sawtooth sound that you find in tons of songs out there. I've added some filter envelope in order to have a fast raising attack and slow decay, as you can hear in the synth line of the original song, and a little touch of resonance for making the sound a bit brighter.

Sorry for my not-the-best keyboard skills :-P. Any comment or criticism, while being constructive, it's really appreciated. Enjoy and thanks!"

MiMa feat. Liquido - Narcotic


"Here is my rendition of the famous tune from Liquido. I've done a simple all-keyboard arrangement, and I've found that my Roland JP8000 can do the original sound pretty close.

The JP8000 it's being played thru my good old Roland Juno 106, acting as MIDI controller (as done in my Jump! video with the Yamaha SY77 controlling the Korg N5).

Unfortunately my Juno is now suffering for dead voice chips, so it cannot sing in this video at that time.
For those which own the JP8000 out there, the sound it's obtained from a 2 osc patch made by a SuperSaw oscillator, with detune slider at 1/3 and mix slider to its maximum (OSC1), stacked on a regular saw oscillator transposed 1 octave down the first one (OSC2). Do a little detune to OSC2 to widen more the sound and balance the two oscillators in order to have the OSC1's volume a little bit higher than OSC2, and you've done the business.
Sorry for my not-the-best keyboard skills :-P. Any comment or criticism, while being constructive, it's really appreciated. Enjoy and thanks!"

Doepfer-Cwejman-MFB-PlanB-Livewire

YouTube via DavideModu

Gas 0095 Minimoog manual page

Click on the image for the full size shot. You might recognize the image from this post on the Microscopics gas0095 promo where they were giving away a tiny Minimoog and manual.

www.microscopics.co.uk/blog wrote in to let me know that the tiny pages were actually Keith Emerson Minimoog patches.

If you have a Mini (real or virtual), give them a shot.

14 Band Vocoder

more pics, info and samples here.

via Christian on the SDIY list:

"It's inspired by the OKITA, ELEKTOR and ETI vocoders."

Muzik 4 Machines Live 08-21-08 part 4

YouTube via muzik4machines. via muzik4machines in the comments of this post.
"i taped a new version of it. towards the middle of the clip (part 4/4 of a set)"
Umm.. what's with the hammer about :53 seconds in? :) You should be able to play the other clips by mousing over the thumbnails at the bottom of this video when over.

Analog computers

via Rick:

"Analog synthesizers are about the only remaining descendants of analog computers.

Here is a couple of great pics:

Polish analog computer AKAT-1
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer)

Hitachi 240 Analog Computer
(from http://www.vaxman.de/my_machines/hitachi/240/240.html)

Cheers
Rick"

Waldorf Blofefeld Sound Organizer, Editor & Randomizer

YouTube via KotroLaszloLehel
"Waldorf Blofeld editor 1.03
main features:
Sound Organizer
Sound Editor
Sound Randomizer
download:
http://lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/blofeld"

and a prior vid:

Waldorf Blofeld Sound Organizer