Pat Metheny - The Synclavier 1986

Uploaded on Oct 20, 2010 Dario Alenczyk

"First of all, thanks to TERRAKEO (Gustavo) de no ser por este maravilloso muchacho, esto no podría ser mostrado :D
Gracias Gustavo gracias!"

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SIEL CRUISE String Machine 1979 | HD DEMO

Published on Aug 23, 2015 AnalogAudio1

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I played the Siel Cruise along with a Korg SDD-3000 vintage digital delay.

The Siel Cruise is a string machine with a built in monophonic preset synthesizer from Italy. It's basically a Siel Orchestra and Siel Mono in one box. But it can't do everything a Siel Orchestra and a Siel Mono can do - some functions were left out.

The monophonic synth has presets, which can be tweaked in 'free mode'. The monophonic synth sounds really good - although with just a single VCO, it has a powerful sound, resonant VCF with ADSR controls for VCF and VCA. There are the same polyphonic presets as on the ARP Quartet. Every section (mono and poly synth) has its own output, so you can treat the sound individually (what I made in the first half of the video). After all, a great Italo synth!"

Restored Minimoog Model D

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"Fully restored in Santa Cruz by an Moog expert. Serial number 56XX. Updated oscillator board. FULL restoration. Everything works perfectly. Every cap, every key, every connection. Do not pay 7,000 for a minimoog. At 4k you can play this keyboard and get all your money back plus some if you decide to go a different direction. "Flippers" have flooded the market with over priced Moogs. There is nothing wrong with this instrument. Everything is right with it! It even smells good (not musty)..."

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Rare Vintage Gleeman Pentaphonic Analog Synthesizer - One of 50 Made

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"What can I say? Here is the rarest of the rare Gleeman. Only around 50 made. Rare does not make a synth "good" it just makes it rare. If you ask around you will find that the Gleeman sounds incredible. I have owned two in my life. This is the 2nd. Both in black. They also come in clear, but those are even more rare, but who cares about "rare" they sound incredible and a ton of attention to detail went into their manufacture. The keyboard action feels great, the controls are intuitive. I purchased this directly from the man himself in his garage. It is one of the first two made (I believe).."

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Oberheim OB-1 Analog Synthesizer SN 0472

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"Fully functioning, retains sound settings in memory, plays great, and is very clean. Has been professionally maintained and serviced. Comes with a custom spandex dust cover."

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Moog Minimoog Voyager Old School Analog Synthesizer

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"This is the Moog Voyager Old School edition, limited to just 500 units.

This unit is in like new condition, only used a couple hours total in a professional studio setting. Comes with everything you would expect if buying this item brand new... manuals still wrapped, power chord, all original packaging and boxes (both instrument box, and master shipping carton).

Works perfectly, and looks like new, very clean!"

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Sundaysequencing

Published on Aug 23, 2015 Morgan Karlsson

"Röand System 100M, TTSH, Korg SQ1"

Sequential Prophet 6, Fun Tweaking Preset 801, in real time,demo

Published on Aug 23, 2015 Bob Gomez

"In this video I Tweak preset 801 on the Prophet 6 Synth (unmodified 301) in real time.
It starts out as a Mono sound. Most of the variations involve changing values in the Sub Osc Section & Mod Wheel interactions. There are some changes to the Aftertouch & PolyMod sections. Recorded direct to Zoom Q3HD unedited 8-22-15 at about 11:30pm CST."

New MoonBox SunVox Powered Raspberry Pi Synthesizer - Videos, Details & Pics

Raspberry Pi Synthesizer - "My Stry Sulfat" jam Published on Aug 23, 2015 cube48

This is the MoonBox posted here. Two videos of it in action. Info and pics further below.

"One pattern twiddle on MoonBox - SunVox powered DIY Raspberry Pi 2 synth.

More info about the MoonBox can be found on official SunVox forum:
http://www.warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3733"

MoonBox - DIY Raspberry Pi 2 Synthesizer powered by SunVox Virtual Modular Music Studio

Published on Aug 6, 2015

"No music to listen here. Just my low or no playing skills. This is rather about demoing some of the Analog Generator patches of SunVox. First part shows some of the default template sounds, second shows a bit of knob twiddling and a few quick patches I made from the simple 'analog' template I prepared and mapped to 16 knobs of the MoonBox. But SunVox can do a lot more!"

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"Let me introduce you the SunVox powered Raspberry Pi 2 standalone synthesizer. The idea was to have dedicated machine/box with SunVox including some knobs. Like a real synth. This vision was maturing in my head for some time but the trigger were NightRadio's comments about upcoming MIDI CC support in 1.9 before the beta was released. I've collected all the building blocks but I was still missing the enclosure. For some time I was designing a custom made 'ponoko' box to be laser-cut. But then I got too impatient and searched through available stuff at home. Wine box for the win :-D

The synth is so far consisting of these bits:

Raspberry Pi 2 B
IQ Audio PiDAC+
5.0" 40-pin TFT Display - 800x480 with Touchscreen
TFP401 HDMI/DVI Decoder to 40-Pin TTL Breakout - With Touch
40-pin FPC Extension Board + 200mm Cable
Guts of the old Evolution UC16 USB MIDI controller (only the main and pot control board)
A bunch of nuts, bolts, spacers and wooden wine box.

Further improvements are still on the todo list:
* jack outputs for L, R and headphones mounted to the rear side of the box
* 5-DIN MIDI I/O connectors on the rear side - realized via USB<>MIDI cable
* some USB ports exposed on the rear side - mounting small USB hub
* power switch + connector on the rear side
* HW volume encoder for PiDAC+ on the top side
* main out GPIO LED volume indicators (this is optional)
* final paint and design tuning

A few notes to the design. RasPi needs to be powered with 2000 mAh adapter to feed all the peripherals. PiDAC+ gives you really powerful and clean sound, also for hungrier headphones. RasPi 2 with stock Raspian OS with ALSA (no realtime kernel, no JACKD, no performance tweaks except disabled CPU power-saving) is able to play decent SunVox synths with 11ms latency without compromising the sound - not ideal but already playable. Lowering the buffer to 5ms introduces occasional noise cracks. I'll try to play with the OS tweaks later but I might stick to ALSA as it is supported by PiDAC+ volume encoder routine. Display is connected via HDMI and USB cables (I'm waiting for shorter and flat HDMI cable). HDMI delivers the image, USB powers the display and touch board. UC16 MIDI controller is connected also via USB (not on the photos above). The only connection hack will be soldering wires to PiDAC+ so I get the normal jack connectors. Current cinch connectors are fine but the placement is not ideal. I want to keep all the 'internal' connections inside the box and expose only the stuff that has to interface outer world and if I would expose the cinch through the rear side, also the HDMI cable would stick out and then coming back which is not desired. The front panel will need some locking or support mechanism, ideally in various angles. The whole thing reminds the Roland's 'Plug-Out' system. You prepare the synth/composition/patch on PC/tablet/phone and then load it to the box if you don't want to mess around with the small screen. But it's actually nicely usable in the box as well as you all know from your own SunVox-on-phone experience. Sun bless Alex for his perfect and scalable UI. RasPi is configured to boot and load up the SunVox automatically, opening the last session. Like a real synth :)

Do you guys have any cool name ideas for the synth? Right now I call it simply SunSynth but that's too obvious. Some link to the SunVox would be cool but maybe something more esoteric :)

Alex, THANK YOU for such a great piece of software! Btw, I hope you don't mind if I put the SunVox logo on the box when it's finished?.."

SH-101 + TR-8 + MF-104M + KaossPad = Dance With the Color Blind

Published on Aug 23, 2015 n3bsvid

"[ http://citizenpark.bandcamp.com ]

A little 80's influenced semi-improvised pop jam. It was recorded as two separate videos and then fused together.

The vocal samples on the kaosspad are me "singing":
A. Dance with the color blind
B. Look for the bottom line
C. Listen to the sky
D. Tell me you're a firefly

Hardware:
Roland SH-101
Roland TR-8
Analogue Solutions Oberkorn MK3*
Korg KaossPad
Moog MF-104M analog delay moogerfooger (used on the SH-101).

Software:
ValhallaDSP VintageVerb
Ableton Master Plugins

* The Oberkorn was just used as a way to sync TR-8's clock to the SH-101, I just ran a sequencer gate from the oberkorn to the SH-101's Gate input. It's overkill in this case but it's the only piece of gear I had that could do this."