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1980s Yamaha DX-9 Synthesizer Brochure

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"Travel back in time with this vintage synth brochure. From the 1980s, it's for the Yamaha DX-9. Full color. Six fold-out pages. 8-1/2" by 11". It's in good condition, but does have some minor wear on the corners and whatnot."

Sequential Circuits Pro One SN 8912

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Nonlinear Labs Emphase & Native Instruments Kontour

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"You might have noticed the release of Kontour as one of the new instruments included in Native Instruments' Komplete 10 bundle. Kontour is the result of the first collaboration between Native Instruments and Nonlinear Labs. (Full disclosure: I am still a shareholder at NI.) Kontour's synthesis engine was developed by Nonlinear Labs. It is based on Phase 22, a synthesizer I have been working on for several years. Kontour is its adaptation as a highly refined software instrument.

The user interface was co-developed with NI (great work, André, Fabian, and Clément!). Experts at NI also managed the user documentation as well as the creation of the preset content, which involved excellent sound designers.

Kontour's concept consists of the following characteristics:
- an expressive, musical, and playable instrument
- a responsive sound engine with wide-ranging dynamics
- simple, puristic components combined with flexible signal routing to form complex and organic sounds
- a strong and unique character, not emulating existing instruments
- easy sound modification via macro controls
- user-recordable motions for the macro controls

Similarities and Differences
Kontour can be considered a sort of 'preview' to the first synthesis engine of our hardware synthesizer (working name "Emphase"). The audio processing structure of Emphase will be similar, but not identical (and therefore not preset-compatible) to that of Kontour.

So the question arises: just what are these differences? First of all, we are creating a hardware synthesizer. As we have the performing musician in mind, Emphase will be totally dedicated to human real-time control. Automatic control sources like Kontour’s motion recorders are replaced by the live input from the musician.

We have very high aims in terms of expressiveness and therefore we use our high-resolution TCD protocol. TCD gives us complete control over how the voices are assigned, how they are influenced by the pitch bender, ribbons, and pedals, as well as what is going on inside of each voice. In addition, morphing will play an important role for finding and modifying sounds.

You see the different intentions: Kontour integrates perfectly with the environment of software-based music production, while Emphase is optimized as a stand-alone hardware instrument." See the full post at Nonlinear Labs.

Emu Ultra Sampler - Demo - Chiptune

Published on Oct 22, 2015 St0neOfficialChannel

"All presets I made on Emu E4XT Ultra. After the recording was used lightweight compression. Please use 360p or higher for better sound quality."

Dark Sessions 002 - The trombone concert (that went wrong)

Published on Oct 22, 2015 DiscoverNoise

"We all have been there: you're at a nice little trombone concert on a thursday night, when suddenly the second trombonist starts to freak out and play that weird trombone medley. You don't? Me neither. But hey, it could happen. So this is it just made with a modular syntheziser.
The sequencers and thus the whole patch is triggered via the MakeNoise Wogglebug MK2. Put it the case for optic reasons (in reality its in the eurocase to the right).
The modulars output is running through Ableton Live 9 and getting some Reverb from there.

Like the track? Download it for free here:
https://cloud.1und1.de/ngcloud/extern...

Want to recreate the patch? Here is the Patchsheet (and a picture):
https://cloud.1und1.de/ngcloud/extern..."

Published on Oct 22, 2015 Martin Ottesen

"This is a few sound examples from my Prophet-600 with GliGli's firmware update. With this update the synth is one incredible analog polysynth. For more info: https://gligli.github.io/p600fw/

https://www.nomatisan.com"