Alisa-1387. Soviet analog synthesizer.

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YouTube Published on Aug 31, 2012 by Strangesoundful

"Made in 1987. Whith built-in MIDI-interface."

via this auction

"The synthesizer "Alisa - 1387" made in Luberetskiy factory of musical instruments. This instrument has 3-octaves keyboard, a modualation wheel and the control system (regulators and buttons). The instrument consists of the following main blocks: tone generator, filter, contour filter, signal contour, modulation, sound mixer and output. Later to this synthesizer was integrated MIDI interface. Controls on the front panel: Tone generator - tuning, generator 1:3 waveforms, modulation amount, pulse width modulation, portamento, register: subfrequency, 32',16',8'; generator 2: sync on, interval, waveforms (square, sawtooth) Sound mixer - generator 1 (level), generator 2 (level), noise (level). Filter - cut off, resonance, vibration, keyboard tracking Filter contour - attack,sustain, decay, release. Modulation - tempo; waveforms ON, oscillator/filter, depth (wheel). Output - common level; output ON. Switcher to "MIDI mode". The supply voltage - 220-230V/50Hz. For 110/127V, a voltage converter is necessary. Connectors of back board: line output (Jack 1/4'') MIDI IN (5-DIN) power on power plug external triggering - generator, output, input, ON. Front board - output for head-phones (5-DIN). About "external triggering - generator, output, input, ON" - I don't know how it works and I have never used it. Perhaps it is useful thing if you have another extra analog synth."

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Roland Jupiter 8 + Oberheim OBXA Gas Giants

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by synthartist69

Vermona DRM mk3 / analog drum / DUB DEMO

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by caleb condit

"I'll have a full write up on this synth up at beepbloop.com. I just noticed that there's not very much on this drum synth so I messed around with it for a half hour and am bringing you the tastiest bits. It's typically pretty overlooked in general, but is incredibly capable of all types of tones. I pushed it pretty far into tonal territory for this demo, but I'll follow up with some demos on creating typical analog drum tones.

It's a bit softer edged than some of the vintage roland classics, but that makes it really good for dub and more experimental pieces. Also the tonal parts make it really great for trap, moombahton and other harder genres or things like IDM. There are separate outs for each sound and I really could have run each one to my mixer to for maximum quality to get specific compression for each tone, etc, but for this demo I wanted something more loose and fuzzy.

I do push the mixer pretty hard at moments but I like what it does to the sound. I sequenced the beat on an electribe ER-1, to utilize the classic XOX style sequencing and ran it through an Electro Harmonix Memory Man with Hazarai to get a bit of ambience and the last clip also has a bit of beat repeat in Ableton that I forgot to take off.

Surprisingly the rhythm is the same throughout, but I just tweaked tones to show that even with something fairly unchanging, by just tweaking tones you can really do so much with this module and just faded volume knobs to bring parts in and out. The output works in an interesting way, where the different tones seem to fight each other a bit for what sits on top at times, and it's really nice. Very different from many things I've tried."

Handel Modular fuga g-minor HWV 605

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by powerofthetruth
Listen to this one in stereo

"Another fuga of G.F. Handel played on YUSYNTH modular played by Daniel Philipp Stotz. Recently I recorded the whole well tempered clavier mainly on this synth.
Maybe this fuga is a much earlier work, if you compare it with to HWV 608 of 609. It is very interresting, how carefully Beethoven studied not only Bach but even more Handel fugas. Please take a look at the fugas of Beethoven, mainly in the 9. Sinfonie!
More info please see http://www.danielphilippstotz.info/"

500Sound.com NED Synclavier Resource Site

This site has been around for a while. I did a quick search in the archives and although I found reference to it in Synclavier posts, I don't think I ever put up a formal post on it. With the recently released The Beast virtual Synclavier by UVI, I figured now was a better time than any to put a post up. That said, you can find the site here. You'll find everything you ever wanted to know about the NED Synclavier.

"The '''Synclavier Digital Audio System''' manufactured by New England Digital was a powerful, fully integrated computerised audio system used for music and post production. Using it's combination of synthesis, sampling, disk recording, and it's comprehensive proprietory software and hardware it was not only a powerful music performance and compositional tool but also a very accomplished sound design and editing system. It was first developed in the late '70s at Dartmouth College by Jon Appleton, Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones.

Probably once as famous for it's cost as much as for it's musical abilities - full blown late systems would retail for between $200,000 - $300,00 US. The largest system built and sold by NED selling for $500,000. Instantantly recognisable with it's unique keyboard. The image on the left is the ORK (ORiginal Keyboard) and on the right is the later V/PK (Velocity/Pressure Keyboard)..."

EMW-300 Note Generator Demonstration

EMW-300_WEBSITE_DEMO_2.mov

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by psprojectbrazil

"EMW-300 Note Generator demonstration n.2 at http://www.electronicmusicworks.com/"

Update: link for http://www.electronicmusicworks.com/ fixed.

Also see:
EMW-300 first tests
EMW-200 & EMW-300 VIDEO 01

And of course the EMW label below for more.

Eowave Magma - Demo - Sequencer 03

Eowave Magma - Demo - Sequencer 03 by Modularsquare


"Please download before listening ! Soundcloud compression is awfull.

The Eowave Magma is an analogue synthesizer with a sequencer and memory.

You can do crazy things when you play it live with his internal sequencer. Check this out. Beware ! Some sounds are very loud !

- Pure raw Magma sounds, no FX used in this demo.
- No keyboard / DAW used in this demo
- Recorded live without editing
More info here"

violet and dave vosh, live at cd cellar,arlington,va 8 29 2012

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by davevosh

"benefit for 2012 d.c. sonic circuits festival -
recorded live at cd cellar, arlington, virginia on 8/29/2012 -

themed show of "untested duo`s" -

violet - electroacoustics (harp, efx pedals, e-bows, contact mic`s, etc. )
dave vosh - modular synthesizer

it was an amazing event - superb music in a great atmosphere with good people performing and in attendance.

my thanks to all concerned !"


d.c. sonic circuits festival, sept. 28 - 30, 2012

The Crumar Toccata

YouTube Uploaded by astronautapinguim on Apr 19, 2011

Via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find a great overview of the Crumar Toccata including history and pics.

"Founded in the late '60s/early '70s by Mario Crucianelli, Crumar was an Italian company that became very famous in its time mainly by their synths, keyboards and organs (both in compact or not so compact models). Mario was brother from Pierro Crucianelli, president of Elka - another very well known Italian company. Crumar existed until 1987 and the company's golden age was in the second half of the '70s, when they put on the market their "Pianoman" and "Stringman" models (1974) and later the model that combined the two machines in one, the "Multiman" model (1977). Even with this machine achieving a great reputation on the market, for me Crumar's coolest instruments are the "Hammond organ clones" made from 1974 on which had a great sound, very close to Hammond organs, but much more compact and easier to carry than the originals.

The Crumar Toccata organ was released in 1981 as a more compact version of all previous models of these "Hammond clones", more specifically the model T1/C (whose main difference was having one extra octave - higher than the Toccata's four octaves - and drawbars, like that ones from Hammond organs). The Crumar Toccata organ was manufactured until 1986..." Click here for the full post.

via Fabricio Carvalho aka Astronauta Pinguim on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Rhodes Chroma SN 21030860

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"Original Rhodes Chroma

Not the Polaris

Arp-designed vintage 16 voice / 16 VCO analog poly synth Awesome sound and quite rare

This is not the 6-voice Chroma Polaris. It is the older, rarer 16-voice big brother of that synth. The original Chroma was the last machine designed by Arp when they were still independent (Rhoades bought them, released the Chroma, then they went to work on the Polaris variants).

Serial number 21030860

Powers up but beyond that I'm not sure how to even load a patch (I'm selling it because I never had time to learn the system and I play my other synths but not this one...) so I'm not sure of the operational condition

Note: this thing is large and heavy as heck, shipping costs are very high. Local pick-up okay, no charge"

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