Dave Smith Mopho Desktop

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Dave Smith Mopho Keyboard SN 00953

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Vintage Synthesizers | Roland Jupiter 4

YouTube Uploaded by MusicMarketingTV on Mar 31, 2012

"A voyage into the heart of the Roland Jupiter-4 from the year 1978.
Exploration by Marko Ettlich

4 Voice Polyphonic and Unisono Mode
1 VCO I 1 Sub-VCO
LFO - 1 LFO
Filter - lowpass with ADSR envelope
2 Envelopes
Arpeggiator
Chorus

It has been used by Vince Clark, Depeche Mode, Vangelis, Human League and many more!"

SYNTHROTEK VIRGIN HIGH QUALITY Nand Synth Sound Samples Chaos lofi synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by synthrotek on Mar 31, 2012

"The 4093 NAND Synth is a super-modifiable noise generator that will knock your socks off with its sheer amount of sonic potential! Low pulsing drones, random robotic chaos, high-pitched laser sounds - it's all here in this small package.

A great project to begin your explorations into the world of DIY sound synthesis, the 4093 NAND Synth PCB was designed with the beginner in mind: Board-mountable switches, tension-relief power supplies, socketed IC, hands-on knobs and switches for tone control, and a detailed silkscreen PCB to help you solder components right the first time. An über-cool mod section allows for all kinds of custom control - variable control voltage input, output gating, buffering, modulation; the sky's the limit with the 4093 NAND Synth PCB.

The 4093 NAND Synth PCB was designed by our electronics engineer Steven here at Synthrotek. Powered by 9V battery, an AC Adapter rated at 5-12V 200mA Center Negative polarity can also be used."

Machinedrum + Octatrack Techno

YouTube Uploaded by jmyhrman on Jan 29, 2012

"Raw hardware techno with Machinedrum and Octatrack. No video recording available this time."

Tardis at 2:20.

Fun With Octatrack Comb Filter

YouTube Uploaded by jmyhrman on Mar 31, 2012

"Some examples of how the Octatrack comb filter effect can turn simple sounds into melodies and basslines. Here I feed the filter with a very short click (on track 8)"

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Get Your Pics In!

via IDOW on Facebook: "Anyone planning to submit photos to the 'IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week Contest': PLEASE NOTE there are just seven weeks left. The pool of photos we have to judge from has grown quite massive and is getting bigger every day... Time to get your submissions in if you've got them!"

http://www.indiegogo.com/IDOW-round3

Moonlight Sonata (Mellotron)

YouTube Uploaded by MikeDickson on Oct 26, 2010

"From 'mellotronworks' http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks

Video by TheTesteccles

Better known as Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven himself seemed to despair of this piece's popularity, famously saying 'surely I have written better things' to the Austrian pianist Carl Czerny who I hope was equally confused by Ludwig's puzzlement. He almost certainly did write better things than this, but why did he view this as little more than a piece of fluff? Maybe he wasn't the best person to judge his own music - this has now become a likely contender for the most recognisable piece of music written for the piano.

Written in a hot Hungarian summer just as his deafness was starting, Ludwig composed this piece for his young student Countess Giulietta Guicciardi to whom he later proposed marriage. Her parents forbade the idea and Beethoven lived the rest of his life as a bachelor. Stories abound about this piece being played for a blind girl to describe the moonlight, but the reality is that it was never known by this name until the poet Rellstab realised that it described the moonlight reflected on Lake Lucerne in the 1830s. The name stuck.

Readers who can play the piano are encouraged not to listen to what I have recorded. For reasons I cannot quite fathom, this is a piece of music that is actually better to play than to listen to. I can't quite pin down the reason for this, but it's a tune for the musician rather than the audience. It certainly seems appropriate, as Beethoven was a real muso's muso, being a fair old bag of firecrackers himself. He drank like a fish, was probably bipolar, suffered from progressive lead poisoning administered by his doctors, had a thing for married women, was notoriously unkempt in his later life, had a nature so irascible that his intended adoptive son attempted to shoot himself in the head to escape his temper, and eventually became something close to sociopathic. He'd storm out of parties if asked to play something, and on the occasions that he was performing he would stop if the audience started talking among themselves and invite them to shut up and listen. Best of all, he had no concept of social rank or status and treated everyone much the same, a concept that Ode to Joy seems to echo in its words promising fraternity and equality, though perhaps not quite as Schiller intended. Eventually, a worn-out Archduke Rudolph let it be known that the mores of court etiquette didn't have to be applied to Ludwig any more as it was utterly pointless to even try.

What a guy."

Yamaha TX81Z with New LCD & Updated OS

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"The LCD has been upgraded to a new LED backlit green one that you can actually read. Also the EPROM OS has been updated to the latest v1.6 version."

VCA matrix testride

YouTube Uploaded by jenamu6 on Mar 31, 2012

"Taking the 4ms VCA matrix for a testride.
TipTop Audio Z3000 MKII, Syntech E350, Modcan Touchsequencer.
Blacet modules and Boss DR110

Having a party"