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Roland D50 Review

You can find the review with samples on khoral's Cafe 80.

Pictured is the Roland PG-1000 controller for the D50. Click on it for a nice close-up.

GForce Software Vintage Synth Trump Cards

I actually posted about these way back in 2005. Mark spotted them on the GForce site and sent the link in. I thought I'd put a new post up and capture the list of synths and description for the archives. BTW, also check out this post for some Roland info cards.

"Vintage Synth Trumps

This is Vintage Synth Trumps, a deadly serious card game for vintage synth enthusiasts featuring 52 classic instruments. Test your knowledge and settle those arguments once and for all with the synth-spotter's equivalent of arm-wrestling.

Can you use your skill and judgment to win the whole pack from your opponents and become the undisputed champion of vintage synth wisdom?

Playing is easy. Simply divide the cards between the number of players before taking it in turns to read aloud a statistic from your card.

For example, "Korg PS3300 - Collectability = 5 out of 5". Everyone then compares the card on the top of their hand and the highest scoring instrument in that category wins that round. The person who gains all the cards wins.

So next time your kids pester you for a card game, extract revenge with Vintage Synth Trumps (not available from any good department stores near you).

The perfect kitsch gift for trade shows, long flights, forum banter, pub quizzes, train journeys and all round anorak type showing-off.

Buy your pack of Vintage Synth Trumps for only £7.95 (price includes first class postage, other methods available)

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John Cage about silence

YouTube via jdavidm. Do you play sound or do you play music with your synths?

Do you play sound or do you play music with your synths?(surveys)

ether^ra SAYS NO

YouTube via potterpaint2000. Folktek on Ebay
"an improv featuring the usual suspects...processed deviant Folktek masterpieces...and my voice! Thank you Herman Melville!!!"

circuit bent yamaha pss790 vector synth

YouTube via spunkytoofers
"for a better look at the interface: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2753/4...

circuit bent yamaha pss790 vector synth. drum kit, basic 8 track sequencer, auto accompainments,preset rhythms.the onboard joystick can vector through 4 assignable voices. also multi-timbral over midi. preset tone module although if you want to synthesize the tone that is what the modifcations are for. 24 point patch bay. 1 point dedicated to self composition and can be connected through potentiometer before patch bay. it controls the rate and depth of glitches continously until it sustains the current sound. glitches will often reconfigure the vector with new voices, create new sounds and textures, and give alot of random results which can be self composed or resynthesized to be controlled by the keyboard, onboard or outboard sequences, or external midi control.4 points are switchable before main patch bay. lfo and overall continous pitch control via clock substituion.

vector synths are primarily known for their evolving textures and deep sounds and this is pretty much the most unusual one of them all (the most basic vector synth prior to modifcations) if not somewhat limited by the general midi implementation.

3 part demo. all sounds are unprocessed coming directly from the keyboard's onboard speakers recorded via camera's onboard mics. because of it's seemingly endless sound possiblities this demo is only a small sample of it's capabilities."