SYNERGY - LARRY FAST - DELTA TWO

YouTube via arrozconhuesitos01. on Amazon

"SYNERGY
ALBUM: GAMES.
THEME: DELTA TWO.

Larry Fast (Lawrence R. Fast) is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975-1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contribution to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, and Hall and Oates.

Fast grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he obtained a degree in History. There he took his previous training in piano and violin and melded them with computer science to become interested in synthesized music and to build his own primitive sound-making electronic devices.

He was introduced to Rick Wakeman, the keyboard player from the band Yes during a local radio interview, and traveled to the UK to work with Yes on their 1974 album Tales from Topographic Oceans. It was there that he got a recording contract with Passport Records.

[edit] The Synergy project
Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy. Some of this work was used as the basis for music in Commodore 64 and Amiga computer games, notably Rob Hubbard's score for the C64 version of Zoids, which was an unofficial cover of Synergy's Ancestors from the 1981 album Audion.

The first album in the series, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, was released as an LP in 1975. In the following decade, he released eight more Synergy LPs on Passport Records, all of which were later re-released on CDs. The tenth album in the series, Reconstructed Artifacts, was released in 2002, and contained completely new performances of select compositions from the previous albums, using modern digital synthesizers.

The albums in this series, with original release date, are:

Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, 1975
Sequencer, 1976
Cords, 1978
Games, 1979
Audion, 1981
Computer Experiments, Volume One, 1981
The Jupiter Menace (sound track of film The Jupiter Menace), 1982
Semi-Conductor (compilation with two new tracks), 1984
Metropolitan Suite, 1987
Reconstructed Artifacts, 2002"

Dream Voices Part 2-Alnitak

YouTube via Kobolnova
"This is the version with no rhythm:i used 7 synthesizers for this song,some are MIDI connected,for a bigger and richer sound,i added a beautiful video effect from the Pinnacle video program
"Dream Voices-Alnitak" is composed,produced and LIVE performed here by Alnitak c2009
And my next song wil be:"Green Flashes-Alnitak" LOL!"
"Tags:
yamaha sy-77 elka synthex gem s2 roland jx-8p d-50 juno 106 korg radias"

KORG 700 MINIKORG - HQ SOUND DEMO

YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"The monophonic Minikorg 700 was the first synthesizer from Korg. It has 1 VCO, 1 "traveler" filter (12 dB, highpass/lowpass) 1 envelope and 1 LFO. It has a very special sound - some like it, others don't - I love it.

It was used by Vangelis in the seventies. Also it was Kitaro's favourite synthesizer.
I played the Minikorg with Lexicon MPX 500 reverb and Roland DEP-5 delay."

Know Your Meme / "Weird Al" Yankovic Helps Explain Auto Tune

YouTube via ROCKETBOOM. History of Antares Auto Tune.
via Know Your Meme, via Brian c.

Stolen Gear Recovered!!!

see this post for reference

via Jeremy of MODEL WORKER:
"Through some very odd circumstances (miracle?) all of our synths have returned to us,
it seems largely related to them finding the post you put up for us. After over a month we had figured they were probably gone forever... It all came back packed neatly in the back of a van.

Attached is a pic of 1 half of the gear before it was stuffed into 1 of two cars to take it back home."

Vangelis and the Journey to Itheka - Real Time Performance of Symphonic Orchestra

Update: new video upload by WavesArt

Finally we know what those sequencer looking things are. They appear to be some sort of preset patching system. Check out the mechanical nature of it.

This one in via Joao (thank you Joao!!!)
"you can spot the greek master improvising in his setup and there are some closeups of his custom made modules he uses to switch patches. Pretty awesome stuff... they have a mechanical stuff that goes around where he writes symbols that symbolize different instruments so that he can easily pick his favorite sound. This is matrixsynth material..." Indeed. Vangelis gear mystery solved.

new Serge M-odule released: the 'Klangshifter' M-odule

via Bakis

"a new Serge M-odule has been released:

its the 'KlangShifter' m-odule.

it includes the following modules (from left to Right):

DTG (Dual Transient Generator), MIX PRO (Mixer Processor), FREQUENCY SHIFTER, C/M (a Gate switch, plus lin and exp attenuators), X-Fader.

the official price is 2400 USD.

it is a great m-odule for anyone wanting to get the Serge Frequency shifter module in M-format, plus of course , vc-dual envelope generation, vc-slewing, vc-audio/trigger dividing, vc-gate delay, envelope following, cv mixing/scaling/offseting, vc-X-fading, audio vca, attenuation (exp. and lin.) and manual gate generation."

Moog MP-201 Sale

"So that even more musicians, DJs and producers can experience the power of the pedal, Moog Music is announcing a special promotion. From November 15, 2009 through December 31, 2009, the Multi-Pedal’s price will drop to $399 at participating US dealers and through the Moog website."

buchla boy

flickr by cray5656

DIY Drum Synth

I just spotted this thread from droffset on electro-music.com. I thought it would be worth a post for those curious about synth DIY. The Drum Synth will feature the following:

MD24 MIDI to Gate PCB by Highly liquid
2x CGS Gate to Trigger Converters
4x Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synth
1x CGS Cynare
3x Coron DS8 clones by m.Bareille
2x Thomas Henry UD-1
1 set of Klee Sequencer PCBs by Scott Sites

"Testing some panel designs for the quad MPSs based on the four elements. Can you tell which is which?"
You can track progress on the thread linked above.