MATRIXSYNTH

Analog Factory by Arturia

YouTube via Arturiaweb. Flashback from July 16, 2007. I hadn't posted this one yet.
"Analog Factory by Arturia and Nori Ubukata.
All presets in Analog Factory have been carefully selected from the Arturia Classic Synths: minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP2600 V, Prophet V and Prophet VS."

Nord Lead 2X

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UNIQUE DBE (CRUMAR BIT 01) Rackmount Synthesizer SN 00229

via this auction

"Analog/digital synthesizer rack unit with 6 voice polyphony. Produced in the 80's. The DBE is the same thing as the Crumar Bit 01 rackmount synth. The only difference between the two are the front panel layout & presets.

Serial # EP 00229 MADE IN ITALY
Waves: SAW, TRI, NOISE
2 DCO's
2 LFO's
1 VCA
1 VCF
2 1/4" OUTPUTS
1 RELEASE PEDAL 1/4" INPUT
1 TAPE IN & 1 TAPE OUT
MIDI IN & THRU
MEMORY PROTECT ON/OFF SWITCH"

Sold For: US $430.00

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Roland System 100 Model 101 Analog Synth

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Sold For: US $930.00

Roland GR-700 Guitar Synthesizer

via this auction

"Included in auction is all original GR-700 unit, power cable, original owners manual,24-pin ORIGINAL CABLE , M-16C Memory Cartridge, and step up/down transformer (110V AND 220V INCLUDED NEW step down to US spec). Everything is in great working conditions with no problems. The features of the GR-700 are: 6 voice, Dual Oscillator Synth Engine Based on the Roland JX-3P/MKS-30 3 - Selectable Octave Settings for Each Oscillator, 2’, 4’ and 8’ Choice of Square, Sawtooth or Pulse Waveform, plus Noise for Oscillator 2 Cross Modulation Between Oscillators Frequency Modulation with Envelope and/or Modulation VCF Low-Pass Filter with LFO, Envelope and Pitch Modulation Variable High-Pass Filter Four Stage Envelope Generator Low Frequency Oscillator for Vibrato Effects Selectable Dynamic Control Over Pitch, Filter and Amplifier per String Selectable Pitch Bend, Hold and Voice On/Off per String Lush Analog Chorus Mode Stereo Output: XLR or .25" jacks Pedal control input for the VCF The GR-700 can output either the guitar, the synth, or a mix of the two Programming Via Foot switches or with optional PG-200 Programmer 64 - Voice Internal Memory, Expandable to 128 Voices with M-16C Memory Cartridge"

Sold For: $737.00

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EMU EIII synthesizer

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"This is an 8MB model (all RAM works perfect) And has a 1GB compact flash drive installed! This sale even includes an extra 1GB formatted CF card with the OS on it and another bootable IDE to CF card, a dual SCSI cable...all you need to hook up the 2nd CF card is the SCSI to IDE adapter, and power cable. All voices work without distorted outputs."

Sold For: relisted

Korg 770 Analog Synthesizer

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"This vintage, monophonic and fully analog synth keyboard features:
LFO
VCO 1: w/ pitch, octave and mode parameters
"Traveler" sliders:unique controls for Low Pass and High Pass Filters
VCF: On, Norm, Rev
VCO 2: fine and coarse tuning w/ a Ring Modulator
External Audio input for processing(!)
Pink Noise
White Noise
Scale Noise

VCO Modulator
Attack and "Singing" levels
Vibrator
and more!

The sound of this keyboard ranges from massive, thick squarewave bass to spacey ring mod'd melodies. and the external input allows you to apply every filter to the source sound, a very cool feature. The traveler sliders allow you to make smooth filter sweeps w/ the hi pass and lo pass simultaneously!"

Sold For: US $610.66

S4K Roland Sh-201 MINI COLLECTION FREE PATCHES by Space4keys ( VARIUS CUSTOM LEADs )

YouTube via Space4Keys
"S4K Roland Sh-201 MINI COLLECTION FREE PATCHES by Space4keys ( VARIUS CUSTOM LEADs )

S4K In the presence of Enemies
S4K Jump
S4K Prog Lead
S4K Organ
S4K Solitary Shell Lead
S4K Classic Moog Lead
S4K Trone "

Music: "Sunrise" on Korg EMX

YouTube via AlchemistShaman.

"http://Alchemy-Illuminated.com

This is a meditative trance song I made on the Korg Electribe MX. The video is extremely boring, but I'll be updating it later. The song could use a little more work, but I always get bored and move on to the next one.

I uploaded the wrong version of this song to my website, and I lost the original when my hard drive crashed, but now I found it again hiding on my website server, so now you can download it for free, and it sounds much better in full quality because the sounds move from one ear to the other:

http://Alchemy-Illuminated.com/Docume...

All of the sound effects are diminished since YouTube reformats the video to have mono sound instead of left and right stereo, and I uploaded this video before I knew how to bypass that and keep high quality stereo.

And for those people who don't know -- the EMX is a synthesizer and every note and sound you hear in this video had to be made and recorded by me. None of these are presets or samples -- the video only shows me turning on the drum parts and the phrases, but before hand I had to actually play the music on the EMX and record it and program the drum parts. So it takes a lot of work and talent. All you people who play the keyboard synthesizers and say we EMX mixers ain't making music are wrong! We make music just like you do, but it's even more complicated! And even though the EMX allows you to load pre-made MIDI maps, most of us don't cheat and we play our own music and make our own MIDI maps from scratch.

99% of the electronic/techno music you hear these days is most likely made from preset MIDI maps, and the "musician" or Dj is basically a *fake*.

I'll have a tutorial video posted eventually which shows how to make a song from scratch for people who just bought the EMX. That will show you how complex programming this box actually is. But it does become very easy once you get accustomed to the controls, and very addictive. Yet there are so many ways to shape the sounds of the instruments, I tend to get lost for hours just playing around with the enormous universe of sounds.

Download the manual for the EMX to see everything it can do:

http://alchemy-illuminated.com/Docume..."

Music: "Elixir" on Korg EMX

"Another trance/meditative song I made on the Korg EMX.

You can download it at my website (sounds much better)
http://Alchemy-Illuminated.com

And you can download the free book on making the elixir:
http://alchemy-illuminated.com/docume..."

song "Elixir" - breakdown of instruments used

"I made this video in response to all the people who have a Korg EMX, and were wondering how I made this song without using anything but the EMX (no external instruments or computer software synths).

The video shows me turning on each instrument, and then I show the screen on the EMX so you can see exactly which instrument it is. I didn't show which effects I applied to the instruments, or how I played the tune to make the pattern for each one, because that would have taken way too long.

Basically this video just breaks the song down into it's parts, so you can better understand how each instrument sounds without all the others running at the same time. A lot of the instruments have a reverb effect applied, especially the drum parts. And I changed the pitch on most of the drum parts to make them sound much different then they do by default.

You may notice at the beginning of the video when I'm trying to show the names of the different instruments used in the synth parts section, I don't change the selection properly so the first 3 instruments have the same name. But later on as I go through all the synth parts again, you can see what each one is named and which number it is on the EMX.

And for those people who have never used an EMX synthesizer, I must stress that none of these patterns are presets. So each time you see me select an instrument part and you hear it playing by itself, that isn't a preset pattern. I had to first adjust the sound of the instrument to make it a completely new instrument, then play the music on the keyboard to make the pattern itself, then adjust the way the notes sound as the pattern progresses. When I eventually have a tutorial video showing a song from start to finish you will be able to fully appreciate the amount of programming that goes into making a single song on the EMX. And at first it's very bewildering and you think it will be impossible to remember how to do all the steps it takes just to make one pattern, but after using it for a while, you remember everything and can quickly move through the process of creating a song with ease.

When you complete a song using this synthesizer, it's very satisfying because you made it 100% from scratch. Most of the dance/electronica music you hear on the radio or TV is made using preset patterns, pre-made samples, and pre-made MIDI maps for the instruments and all the "artist" does is select which patterns and melodies he likes for his song, and some of them don't even play the keyboard at all; they just put together pieces of someone else's work, and then call it their own. All their friends and family think they're so talented in making music, but in reality they would be nothing without their pre-made patterns and samples made by real musicians.

And unfortunately since this Korg Electribe synthesizer does come loaded with pre-made patterns to demonstrate it's full range of capabilities, some people on Youtube actually use those patterns and tweak the sound just a little bit, then claim the song as their own. In the back of the manual that comes with the EMX, there is a full list of all the preset pattern songs, with full credit given to each professional musician who composed those pieces of music. And those people's names should be placed right there in the video description whenever some wanna-be Dj uploads a video of himself using their pre-made patterns and calling it his own. But this is youtube, and it's full of jackasses.

Download the song from my website (it sounds much better):
http://Alchemy-Illuminated.com"

Inside the EMX

"Ever wonder what your EMX looks like on the inside? In this video I actually open the EMX and take a look around. I was hoping to upgrade it with the Studio Essentials ROM board they show on the Korg website as an accessory for the Korg."