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ALTAIR 231 Soviet VINTAGE ANALOG SYNTHESIZER W/midi

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Roland Boutique JX-03 noodle demo

Published on Oct 20, 2015 ollilaboratories

"Today was like meeting an old friend, the Roland JX-3P was my first proper synthesizer and getting my hands on the JX-03 really made me jump up and down with pure joy.

Now, as you all know i dont really do demos, but i thought id just connect the cameras when testing it for the first time, noodling away for ages and ages. There really is no focus on the music, so pardon my random crappy playing.. i just wanted to try and capture the polyphonic capabilities with long release times and such.

First thing i noticed, damn it sounds good, it is as good as i remember my old 3P, a pure joy playing and the compact size / knobs did not really bother me at all. And its also very well built, w partial top metal casing.

One important note, you might see the JP08 and JU06 flicker when i use the pitch bender etc, this is because all synths are MIDI chained from the NLA1.. however i can assure you that they are muted in the mixer and the only synth you hear is the JX03 at all times.

One thing i noticed, the output is very HOT, so there might be some overload at times - i didnt really dial in a sweet spot. Oh and I use NO FX the first 20 minutes, not even the built in delay and/or chorus. I wanted to capture the sound as is. NOTE: at 20.45 i turn on some external simple delay and reverb on the MS-70 to finish off the noodle session :)

Cheers, i hope this video is helpful and informational, even though i dont say anything... i always let the synths do the talking.

Cheers!"

http://www.rolandus.com/promos/roland_boutique/

"Prophet-6 Factory Sequences Part 4

Published on Oct 20, 2015 Bob I. Gomez

"Prophet-6 sequences 40's & 50's in all banks."

All parts here.

http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/product/prophet-6/

Novation Circuit controlling a Drum rack in Ableton - CALC-

Published on Oct 20, 2015 -CALC-

http://us.novationmusic.com/circuit

"A little experiment using the internal sequencer from Circuit to control a drum rack in Ableton Live. Live Lite is in the box and the samples used are from the Novation Loopmasters sample pack. Circuit is connected to Ableton via USB.
In this test Ableton is only acting as an additional sound source for Circuit's sequencer.

Set the Drum rack channel to receive on Channel 10 (drum sequencer Channel on Circuit) and place your samples on to notes C3,D3, E3 and F3 to match Drums 1 through to 4. I also mapped some of the controls in the Drum rack's Simpler instrument.

With mapping Circuit can also be an excellent addition to an Ableton Live set-up and can also make full use of it's fine sequencer and scales modes.

To balance between the volumes in Ableton and Circuit just use Circuit's Mixer.

This was a first experiment... musically I don't think it's fantastic but it proves the concept. As always it's much better to listen to on a set of headphones or monitors rather than a laptop or phone speaker.

-CALC-"

Quirky Beat on the Dam Drum 3.0 from Stones Throw & Bleep Labs

Published on Oct 20, 2015 djhombre

"A little late night mess about with the Dam Drum 3 while nothing was on TV.

I'd forgotten how tricky it was to get these patterns to line up, I have a feeling that a couple of the buttons start their sequences on different beats...adding to the random nature of whatever happens with the unit!

While I enjoy playing with the Dam Drum, it is very difficult to get a recording onto youtube that doesn't sound bad - I think Youtube compression gets a little over-eager with the 8bit grunginess of the unit."

http://www.bleeplabs.com/