via khoral's Cafe 80. "The Small Stone is a revered phase shifter pedal from Electro Harmonix, with a most distinguished pedigree, harking back to the glory days of EMS, the groundbreaking british company responsible for such electronic marvels as the VCS3.
Engineer David Cockerell, first hired by EMS to work on early computer systems for music, designed in 1971 a very peculiar (and pricey according to long time user David Gilmour) guitar effect called the Synthi Hi-Fli, featuring advanced phase shifting and vibrato functions, along with that special EMS retro-futuristic look."
Check out Cafe 80 for more including samples of the DSI Prophet '08 running through the Small Stone.
YouTube via cnightwing "Demonstration of the Oberheim XPANDER . A little improvisation with a pad created with a little Phaser and Reverb/Delay."
This one previously posted here: Oberheim Xpander with a little arpeggiator
"Oberheim Xpander playing some arpeggiator riffs created by the Roland JP-8000. It demonstrates a staccato sound with reverb & delay. Showing filter section."
via fluxmonkey on Muff's Forum "FINALLY got around to building Grant Richter's Analog Tracking Generator... been sitting in my todo pile for about 2 years. wasn't sure if i should post here, or the frac or the wiard forum. anyway, i'm psyched, Grant's designs are always a treat. have only played with it a few minutes, great first impressions... i'm not sure if i understand the interpolate function yet, or if maybe its not working yet... will spend some quality time with it tonite and hopefully get to know it better."
"OK, here’s the official announcement of what we expect our next Optigan disc will be: MOD ROCK! This is an original Optigan sound set that only ever made it to prototype phase in 1970."
YouTube via MoogMusicInc "The newest member of the Moog Etherwave Theremin family is also the newest member of its controller family. The new Etherwave Plus extends the Theremins gestural playing technique to the world of analog synthesis and beyond by allowing the user to control gear with a wave of a hand, controlling synthesizers and effects while playing the Theremin. Its also a stand-alone CV (Control Voltage) controller.
The Etherwave Plus CV control signals are proportional to the pitch and volume of the Theremins audio signal and can be connected to the pitch and volume CV inputs of a Little Phatty or other analog synthesizer for a new way to interact with a synth. www.moogmusic.com"
Here's a track featuring the Metasonix TM-6 via brian c:
"simple exercise 3 times thru one sequence, 1st with Novation Bass Station only , 2nd send it thru EHX BiFIlter and 3rd pass add Metasonix TM-6 in the BiFilter send/return loop ...then fade out"
"his filter is not a clone of the ARP 4072 submodule. It does, however, have an identical topology with the same transistors and operational amplifier array. Some people may find this is close enough to use the "C" word but not here at STG Soundlabs, so in tribute to the origin of this filter design it is called the Post-Lawsuit Lowpass Filter.
And before you call to complain, let me point out that Post-Ambiguous-Legal-Action Lowpass Filter just didn't have the same ring."
YouTube via syntesen. sent my way via fischek. "I recently got the Dave Smith Instruments MoPho real analog, monophonic synthesizer (serial #281), and while I'm already putting it to good use in my own music, I decided to make a demo of a well-known song to show how powerful, this very affordable analog synthesizer is.
I chose the Beverly Hills Cop theme music by Harold Faltermeyer, because it's based around synthesizers and really demonstrates the range of sounds from the MoPho - from fat, powerful basses to searing leads.
All of the sounds in this demo except for the sampled drums and a single DX-7 piano sound are from the MoPho, programmed by myself. Except for the drums and bass, all of the parts are hand-played without correction.
In my opinion, the MoPho is probably the best sounding synthesizer that's affordable for most people on the market right now. It's warm, thick but even deadly aggressive if you want it to. It even has 4 16-step sequencers ;)
via khoral's Cafe 80.
