willi - keyboards groove 20070926

YouTube via earth2willi
"Here's a new song I'm working on. This is after playing with it for about an hour total; I originally was playing it on my Wurlitzer 207VA without effects and it has a bit of a different feel. I may multitrack that part back in.

More music, videos, games, recipes, etc. are available on my website:
http://www.earth2willi.com

I'm playing a Wurlitzer 206 electric piano, Hohner D6 clavinet, and Hammond CV organ. These are routed to my Mackie 1604VLZ, which in turn routes everything into my effects chain (Moog Moogerfoogers; MF101 Low Pass Filter into MF104z Analog Delay into MF105 MuRF). I monitor on a pair of JBL 15" Eons and multitrack recorded at 96khz via a Digidesign 002 running into Logic Pro 7.2 running on a MacBook Pro 17" Santa Rosa with 2gb RAM. Audio was mixed, EQ, and a Space Designer reverb was added, as well as the delay feedback effect at the end. Some work was needed to minimize the overdriven levels the Clavinet was recorded at. Video was captured using the MacBook Pro's built in iSight camera at 1280x1024 resolution, 29.97fps. The iSight does not seem to actually sample at this rate, though, and it's motion quality is somewhat blurry. Video was edited in Final Cut Pro, titles were done using LiveType, and final compositing and visual effects created with After Effects at 640x480 (I would have preferred NTSC DV resolution, but YouTube elects to resize the video rather than crop it). Compressed with H264 codec the final video is about 84MB."

Gorf Sysex Update + Load/Store

YouTube via VacolocoSynth
"Short Video showing how the MIDI Sysex update feature works.
It also shows the new load/store button function and two new features, 8 sequencers and the next sequence is loaded at the end of the current sequence loop."

Korg Poly Ensemble K-5

YouTube via WISSJE

Ratchet Sequence with a Doepfer MAQ16/3

YouTube via attorks
"Investigated ratcheting with a Doepfer MAQ16/3. Something which seems easy with a Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer. Found out that it can be done on a Doepfer MAQ16/3 but it is not as flexible as with an Q960 setup."

APC40 Ableton Performance Controller

YouTube via AkaiProVideo
"The APC40 is the worlds finest Ableton Live control surface. Ableton and Akai Professional worked in a joint partnership to make the APC40 the perfect Ableton Live control surface. Whether you are an electronic-music performance artist and Live is your canvass, a DJ using Live to mix tracks, or a traditional musician using Live on stage or in the studio, the APC40 is designed for intuitive, powerful control."

Roland JS-30

YouTube via WISSJE

KORG Mono/Poly

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"This synthesizer has had it's large power supply caps replaced & all contacts cleaned by Analog Synth Service in Oakland. I hear a small bit of noise that is gated (behind the VCA)- I was told that the filter chip is a likely culprit. However, it hasn't bothered me enough to justify opening the synth up but I'm including two SSM 2044 chips that I bought for exactly that purpose. Note that despite having 4 VCOs that can be played polyphonically, they all share a single VCF chip.
What's included:
- the Korg Mono/Poly synthesizer
- two rare extra SSM2044 filter chips (NOS, untested but purchased by a reputable eBay seller)."

Roland Jupiter-6 with Europa Upgrade

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"The Jupiter has the highly desireable Synthcom.com Europa CPU upgrade that dramatically increases it's functionality and gives it the ability to transfer patches via MIDI.

What's included:
- the Roland Jupiter-6 synthesizer with power cord
- a few reproduction replacement slider caps & knobs (pictured)
- one-of-a-kind bound reproduction of the Jupiter-6 user manual and Europa user manual (pictured)
- Synthcom.com Europa upgrade (already installed)
- new internal battery (already installed)
- complete set of replacement sliders & pots!! (minus about three that have already been installed)"

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An unpretentious theme close-up

YouTube via attorks
"I was investigating if some kind of ratcheting is possible with the Doepfer MAQ16/3 because it is now a hot item on the Synthesizers.com forum. Then this improvisation came along. At the end of the video you will here a sequence which seems to have some form of ratcheting but what you hear is some steps played fast and not one note multiple triggered at a step. The sequences you hear are performed by the Synthesizers.com Modular using the Ian Fritz 5Pulser Waveshaper and the MFM Modular using the CGS Steiner Low Pass filter. The first solo you hear is performed on the Creamware MiniMax ASB using the AKAI AX80 keyboard. The church organ type sound for bass and 2nd solo is played on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. I had to shorten the video a little bit because of the YouTube limit of 10 minutes. The original video is 11:33 long and you can see or download it from my website."

Atonoise-Some-Presets

Atonoise-Some-Presets
by HGF-Synthesizer

"This is a VSTi synthesizer (and in Pro version VST effect too) for fairly spooky, SciFi and others alike sounds. It's working atonal i.e. with no real defined pitch therefore it is not what you might expect - instead this one is esp. for various kinds of noisy fx sounds."
vis synthtopia. You can find more info on the Atonoise along with other soft synths on http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/