Weather Report Medley Part 2

YouTube via digimaton | June 19, 2007

"Weather Report Live circa 1985, Domino Theory tour."
Some synth spotting with Joe Zaniwul.
He starts with the Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 and ARP Quadra. Rhodes Chroma comes in with the lead piano type sound at 2:18. You can see a Prophet-5 under the Quadra. Feel free to ID the rest.

via Chris Borman on the Rhodes Chroma list:

"The August 1984 issue of Down Beat described Zawinul's keyboard arsenal at the time of Domino Theory. Zawinul's stage setup included seven keyboards: an Oberheim 8 Voice, an ARP Quadra, an E-Mu Emulator, a Rhodes Chroma, a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, a Korg Vocoder with auxiliary keyboard, and a Prophet T-8. The T-8 was Zawinul's newest instrument, an eight-voice synthesizer with a touch-sensitive keyboard. "I have as much control as you can have," Zawinul said of the T-8. "It's velocity- and touch-sensitive so when you touch down, you can get your own vibrato; you can preprogram your vibrato and speed." In addition, Zawinul used a Linn LM-1 drum machine, a Sequential Circuits Polysequencer, and various harmonizers and digital delay units. [DB84]"

You can find more vintage keyboard performances including Chick Corea on digimatron's YouTube channel.

Flower Electronics Jealous Heart Now Available

via Flower Electronics

"I am pleased to announce that the Flower Electronics Jealous Heart is now available for order. This new instrument is a fully modular battery powered synthesizer, hand-built using premium components to the same high quality standards as our Little Boy Blue synthesizer.

Jealous Heart features one low frequency oscillator (LFO), white and dark noise, a variable-gain preamp, and a multi-mode (LP/HP/BP) filter. The ± attenuators on the filter audio and control voltage (CV) inputs, combined with and the filter's asymmetrical response are the reasons why Jealous Heart excels when used feedback and chaotic patches.

Jealous Heart is shipping now for 497usd in North America, available at http://www.flowerelectronics.com"

Note: the following videos went up about an hour ago. I decided to consolidate posts into this new one.

Some simple sounds from the Flower Electronics Jealous Heart




YouTube via drwolfer | October 12, 2010

follow-up to this post
"Here are some sounds coming from Flower Electronics' new instrument, Jealous Heart. On sale now at http://www.flowerelectronics.com !

voltage controlled low frequency oscillator (LFO)
asymmetrical multimode filter (low pass/bandpass/high pass)
1/4" input with variable gain
white and dark noise
two audio inputs, one with -/+ attenuator
two filter cutoff voltage control inputs, one with -/+ attenuator
powder-coated aluminum case"

Some complex sounds from the Flower Electronics Jealous Heart

SunSyn Mark II

"News Details
SunSyn Mark II 12.10.2010 19:39
The sought-after SunSyn 2.0 will be manufactured in a small run again. We have given a face lifting to our 8-voice bolide and prepared the partly difficult getting of parts so far that a new production is possible. That implies of course that the new one will sound exactly the same as the old one!"

sequential vector

YouTube via zackdagoba | October 12, 2010
Sequential Circuits Prophet VS

The Hangars 'B-Room' in Sacramento

flickr By James & Evander
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Be sure to check out The Hangar Studios website.

Korg MonoPoly Demo & YMO Day Tripper

YouTube via naokidel | January 29, 2009

"最近、オークションで手に入れました。
さすがに４VCOで、太い音が出ます。
クロスモジュレーションも強烈です。"

Googlish:
"Recently, I got at auction.
4VCO Indeed, I get the deep sound.
Cross-modulation is strong too."

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Inside a Sequential Circuits Prophet T-8

via SV Synthesis where you'll find more pics and a post on repairing the synth.

Prophet T8 Demonstration

YouTube via naokidel | January 17, 2010

"先日、入手したSequential CircuitsのProphet T8を、ちょっとだけ弾いてみました。
あ〜あ、ヘタクソ（＾＾；）

軽いリバーブをかけただけですが、イイ音〜♪
（録画時のレベル合わせがダメだったみたいで、かなりクリップしていますが。）
アフタータッチも鍵盤ごとに掛かる（当たり前か＾＾；）ので、面白いです。
効き具合が、鍵盤によって全然違うけど・・・・

しかし、鍵盤の戻りが悪いところや、変に重い鍵盤があったりして、色々と調整しないと­いけないです。"

Googlish:
"Recently, the Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 was obtained, and tried to play a little bit.
Oh Oh, crap (^^;)

The only light reverberated sounds good ~ ♪
(The match seemed to be no good at record levels, but rather to the clip.)
Each keyboard aftertouch can take (or course ^ ^) so interesting.
The effectiveness condition, but very different depending on the keyboard

However, what is wrong and the return of the keyboard, or due to the heavy change keys, and many things have to adjust."

10 Big Bass

YouTube via 7thDanSound | October 12, 2010

"The MiniMoog and x0xb0x make a pretty nice combo. Send them through a Moog Bass MUrF, distort slightly, compress and tweak the individual filters of the MUrF and you should get a pretty versatile bass sound."

ESTRADIN-230 3-VCO SOVIET ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"ESTRADIN-230 — FANTASTIC VERY RARE VINTAGE SOVIET ANALOG MONOPHONIC SYNTHESIZER. A REAL MONSTER SYNTH WITH ENGLISH KNOBS AND PANELS.

ESTRADIN-230 is a Soviet Minimoog equivalent.
If you are familiar with Soviet synths you might know that ESTRADIN-230 has absolutely identical schematics (all 6 PCBs) with ALTAIR-231.

ESTRADIN-230 is powerful monophonic 3-OSC synthesizer produced by Elektroizmeritel, millitary radio plant in Zhitomir, USSR, 1984. Synth has 4-octave keyboard (F-C) with velocity (sensitivity assign to vibrato effect). For live performance there is a wheel which provides pitch shift. ESTRADIN 230 is based on 3-VCO (OSC-3 can work as the modulator), 1 VCF (lowpass 24dB/oct) with ADSR, 1 VCA, 3 LFO, noise generator (white/pink), glide, memory. It has an EXTERNAL INPUT allowing to use FILTER and GENERATORS with OTHER INSTRUMENTS such as guitars, synths, etc! ESTRADIN-230 consists of 5 main sections - OSC, MIXER, MODULATION, FILTER and AMP.

OSCILLATORS section:
— OSC 1,2,3 registers - 2", 4", 8", 16", 32", LF
— OSC 1,2,3 waveshape select - triangle, saw, square, pulse, sine
— OSC frequency
— freq 1..3, freq 2, freq 3
— linked to keyboard pitch on/off (OSC 3 ONLY as MAIN OSC)

MIXER:
— OSC 1,2,3 on/off, level
— ext input level, on/off
— noise generator level, on/off
— noise mode switch: white/pink

MOD section:
— portamento on/off, rate;
— mod mixer knob: balance between modulated by OSC3 and noise, depth amount;
— pitch wheel (glissando)

FILTER:
— mod on/off
— cutoff, resonance, brightness
— attack, decay, sustain
— keytrack on/off

AMPLIFIER:
— attack, decay, sustain
— key hold memory on/off
— global section: main volume, phones volume, phones, A-440Hz tone on/off, power.

Connections: input, output, pedal input, phones.
Power supply: 220V/50Hz, 127V; fuze 0,125A

— Dimensions (mm) 754x466x110 (29.6"x18.3"x4.3")
— Weight: 18 kg (39.68 pounds)"

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