This of course is just a render. I spotted it on Tommy Welsch of Anyware Instruments Facebook feed. What immediately came to mind was a Creamware ASB desktop synth. It's too bad they are gone. It would have been interesting to see what else they could have come up with. The Creamware Minimax and Prodyssey ASB boxes are known for sounding incredibly close to the originals and in turn, very, very good. They also added polyphony, which made them the closest things you could get to a polyphonic Minimoog and ARP Odyssey.
When Creamware folded, Sonic Core and Use Audio were formed. Sonic Core still produces the Scope Platform which features the Minimax and Prodyssey software emulations and well as others. Use Audio released the models in their plugiator desktop hardware synth. Sonic Core also worked with John Bowen Synth Design on the Solaris.
"Wahou...!!! I love, love Gestrument! Because you can create a symphonic arrangement with one finger! 128 instruments are available in the built in library (with great sound quality). 8 instruments can play at the same time. Move your finger on the dedicated area to play notes. In the Edit window you can set 2 scales and morph between them by using a second finger on the Pad window. With your second finger you can also change the Pitch, the Rhythm (you can also set the rhythm so the notes play in the Edit window), the Dynamics and the Pulse (Density). You can also control an external Synthesizer with Gestrument. The only drawbacks are that you can't record your Performances (so share them) or import a Backing track. Note that it is only the v1.0 of Gestrument and perhaps that in a future update these features will be added... As I said at the start of this review, I really, really love Gestrument, for its originality, for it's sound quality and I'm sure I'll use it for my personal projects... So, despite what it lacks I rate it as a Killer App"
"To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Raymond Scott's music, Brian Carpenter will host a live 3-hour WZBC radio special on Friday, November 16th, at 7pm EST. Co-hosted by Jeff E. Winner (me) of the RS Archives, and Tom Rhea (Berklee, MOOG Music), with special guests: J.G. Thirlwell (FOETUS, STEROID MAXIMUS), DJ SPOOKY, Stu Brown, Will Friedwald, Daniel Goldmark, Irwin Chusid, David Harrington (KRONOS QUARTET), and more. LISTEN HERE: http://wzbc.org/ -or- tune your boombox to 90.3 FM.
Beautiful melodic ambient drone instrumental music arpeggiator soundscape (Access Virus B synth)
Published on Nov 14, 2012 by synth4ever
"Beautifully lush, relaxing, atmospheric instrumental ambient space music drone soundscape -- performed & improvised live on Access Virus B synthesizer.
Created using 2 sine/square wave oscillators, delay, filter/envelope adjustments, resonance and a simple repeating arpeggiator pattern.
All sounds you hear were played live and manipulated in real-time, no external processing. Excerpt taken from a longer 30 minute session. Hope you enjoy.
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http://synth4ever.bandcamp.com -- download tracks or buy album
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The Analog Lab NYC-Yamaha SY20 | Op.9 No.1 Prelude for the Left Hand-Alexander Scriabin
Published on Nov 15, 2012 by TheAnalogLab
"A Yamaha SY20 that was recently repaired by The Analog Lab in NYC.
The Yamaha SY20 is an analog mono synth that came out in 1982 AFTER Yamaha released the DX7. It is a surprisingly complex and expressive synth. The SY20 is incredibly rare. It was originally intended to be an "educational" synth for use in learning synthesis. It even has a transposition knob with all 12 notes in the chromatic scale that allows you to transpose up to one octave. This allows you to play the same thing in a different key and not worry about transposing. And the filter sounds awesome. Features include:
"This is a custom built Drum synth based on the classic DS7 Schematic .built from quality components on a printed PCB. no timer chips inside.. this is all analogue circuity and sounds wonderfully warm. built into a rugged ABS enclosure..triggered either from the built in pad pickup or from an external drum pad.
The controls are as follows:
ON/OFF switch with ultra bright U.V. indication light
TUNE POT - controls the pitch of the oscillator
FREQUENCY POT - controls the speed/rate of the LFO
MODULATION POT - controls the depth of the LFO
DECAY POT - controls the length of the sound
SWEEP POT - controls the range of the oscillator sweep
VOLUME POT - controls the output gain
TRIGGER PAD - mounted on the front face plate
PAD SELECT SWITCH - switches between the internal mounted pad or an external drum pad
LIMITED EDITION GOLD AND BLACK MATT FINISH
The output is via a 1/4 inch mono Jack at the front of the unit
Can be ran either from the included 9V PP3 battery or via 9V DC Transformer (center pin positive)
DESIGNED AND BUILT BY "DUBFIRE SOUND WORKS" QUALIFIED ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. TRIED AND TESTED ON SOME THE U.Ks TOP REGGAE SOUND SYSTEMS
this versatile little synth can create many interesting percussive and melodic effects simply by manipulating the controls and hitting the pad.. many of the classic jah shaka and tubbys effects used in early dub reggae can be attained.. really sounds so nice when plugged into a delay and re verb.."
