Inside an Akai AX-73

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"The Akai AX-73 is too big/heavy to be portable and has a very minimal control surface...perfect for a chop job. Thus was born the Akai AX-37.

It was a bit of work, with the hacksawing through the all-steel chassis and cramming the boards together, but it all works!

The walnut ends are from a fellow who does *very* nice work and is offering them for sale for the AX-family. I think they really make this project look quite classy."

Korg Delta Vintage analogue synth

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"For those that don't know this synth it is polyphonic and has 2 very seperate sections, namely the 'Synthesizer' and the 'Strings' and each section has its own dedicated set of parameter pots and switches.

1) The analogue String section is quite straightforward and has a simple AR (envelope generator) with a pot for blending the octave range of the sound from 16' to 8' with a nice fat sounding mix at 12 o'clock and completing the String section is the 2 band EQ with a simple yet effective Bass and Treble pots and a Multi/Single Trigger switch for Triggering of notes. The String section has its own dedicated output and a mixed output, very useful for live work as well as in the studio.

2) The analogue Synthesizer section is a little more complex with 4 octave range sliders for simultanious or single use from 16' to 2' plus Noise, these also have a an Octave switch to raise the pitch by one octave. The Synth section has a full ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain and Realease Envelope Generator which can be assigned to the Band-pass or Low-pass filter section where the Depth and Phase is controlled by the EG (Envelope Generator) Amount pot. Then there is the all inportant Resonance pot and Cut-Off Frequency slider, a must for any analogue synth and some truly weird and wonderful true analogue sounds can be realized from this simple set-up, along with all the classic fat basses and searing lead solo, plus of course the endless polyphonic capabilities for pads etc. There are 3 more switches for this Synth section for 'Keyboard Follower' to track the note frequency, the Trigger switch for Multi/Single shot triggering and finally the VCA/EG Mode switch, this is used for the amp section to either follow the envelope generator or simply on/off with no ADSR effecting the amp.

There are 2 sliders on the output for individual output level mixing of Synth and Strings and an overall Volume pot linked to the Power on/off switch. There is a joystick control for modulation of notes set by the MG Speed and Vibrato Depth pots, you can also use Noise to modulate with the Joystick, there are also 2 additional switches for the FM Depth and fcM Depth all controllable from the Joystick, all in all a great range of routing is possible for some truly amazingly effects to the basic oscillators, and of course it does the usual pitch up/dow bit too."

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Powertran Transcendant 2000

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"As used by Joy division on "insight" 1979

Heres a link to a photo of the Legend "Martin Hannett" playing around with the synth"

Korg Electribe EMX-1

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Novation Bass Station

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"This thing covers a lot of ground on the bass and lead front. I loved the sync sounds, not like a pro one, more like a roland. I could make some really aggressive bass sounds, the attack is plenty fast. The resonance is great, think tb 303. Very roland resonance. Still though, I could program some huge sounding moog type bass sounds out of it as well. Honestly, I wish I had gotten one of these long ago instead of all the big vintage gear I had. One rack space, and very fat and snappy. Sounds like a moog meets a sh 101 synth. Amazing. The build quality is decent, could be a bit better though..."

Roland Vp9000

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"In good condition, comes with one zip disc and 128mb of ram. Daft Punk used this for a their lp Discovery. The weird vocals and leads. The VP-9000 VariPhrase® Processor is a revolutionary audio processor capable of realtime manipulation of sampled phrases' pitch, time, and formant via MIDI while maintaining superb sound quality. Use it to instantly match loops to the same key and tempo, add realistic harmonies to a solo vocal performance, bend notes in real time without changing the phrase length and much more. Revolutionary new rackmount audio processor employing proprietary VariPhrase technology Elastic audio processing allows realtime sync of samples with different keys and tempo, while formant processing eliminates tedious multi-sampling Three knobs for realtime control over pitch, time, formant and groove Large icon-based graphic LCD for high-level wave editing and simplified operation 8MB standard memory (expandable to 136MB using optional SIMMs); internal resampling capability Compatible with VP-9000/Roland S-700/Akai S1000/AIFF/.WAV format files Independent studio-quality reverb, chorus, and multi-effects processor with 40 types Internal Zip250 drive for storing samples and transferring files to a Mac or PC Two SCSI ports for connecting hard drives, Zip drives, and CD-ROMs Six analog outputs plus digital I/O in coaxial and optical formats"

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Jupiter 4 Study #01

YouTube Uploaded by mrmdshaw on Jul 10, 2011

"Roland Jupiter 4 being processed through Korg MS20's filters, resulting in a distorted melancholic sound"

Synton Fenix 2

YouTube Uploaded by kubistah on Jul 10, 2011

"My first patch Fenix 2!"

bubblesound Modular Videos

YouTube by bubblesoundmodular

Playlist:
VCOb 1
bubblesoundLFO sine shaper
LFO sync'd
LvL+rm
SeM20demo1May2010
Zi6_0815.MOV - "3 VCOb's all FMing each other."
VCOb demo#2.MOV - "2 VCOb's tracking together, lots of FMing and a run through of the outputs."

Big Bang Theory

Big Bang Theory from Hans-Jörg Scheffler on Vimeo.

"ImpOSCar is a new softsynth from Gforce for which i had the privilege to contribute around 50 patches to its preset library. This is a demosong where all the sounds were made with ImpOSCar including the drums."