Funky Penthouse Groove (Clavinet, Rhodes & Moog)

Published on May 3, 2016 snolan1990

"A short work out in an old school style.

I may make a video breaking down the elements in this tune but just for quick reference the instruments are as follows.

Drums - Single Hit Samples in the Akai S900
Bass - Moog Slim Phatty
Rhodes - Yamaha Reface CP
Clavinet - Yamaha Reface CP sampled through a wah wah pedal into the Roland SP-808
Lead synth - Sequential Circuits Six-Trak
Rotary Organ - Roland Juno-60 through the Zoom MS-70CDR
String Synth - Waldorf Streichfett

All instruments sequenced via the Akai ASQ-10. All instruments non quantized with the exceptiion of the drums. If this tune were quantized it simply wouldn't work."

Live@PlasticTheater pt.2

Published on May 3, 2016 SERI@ACIDWORX

"Elektron AnalogRytm,TT-303 gizm0x custom¥&El Capistan"

Part 1 here.

Roland CMU-800R MIDI Interface Test

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Published on Mar 6, 2016 DeftAudio



via this auction

See this post for a fun overview and demo of the CMU-800R, including the software, at the 2006 PNW Synth Meet. You can find additional info on the CMU-800R here and here, and of course in the archives. Note you do not get full access to the internal synth parameters, so think of this as a severely limited preset synth with TR-606 drum sounds, and CV & gate outs. Still a fascinating bit of synth history and this one has MIDI so you do not need the software to make use of it. According to this Sound on Sound article it was "the first sound module to provide multitimbral voicing, independent outputs for each section, control over other synthesizers, and sequencing."

Description from the listing:

"The CMU-800 is one of unique and rare module that was produced by Amdek and then by Roland in the past. It's a medium-sized, off-cream metallic wedge, with a barrage of jacks on the back and a bare minimum of knobs on the front. It also sported this ruddy great ribbon cable hanging out the back!

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International Music Software Trade Association Endorses the Torino Synth Meet

As announced in this previous post, the Torino Synth Meet is expanding beyond hardware for this years' event, and will be including representatives from the Software Industry, including brands like Ableton, Arturia, u-he and Softube.

With that, the International Music Software Trade Association (IMSTA) has officially endorsed the event. You can ready the announcement on the Torino Synth Meet website here.

The event is scheduled for May 28 - 29 in Torino, Italy. If you can make it, you do not want to miss this event.

Kawai Synthesizer 100f Demo

Published on May 3, 2016 VeeCeeYay Inc

"A quick little piece using only the Kawai 100f as a sound source into a looper. I just got it last night and this morning made this before I took it to a guy to fix it. It's a fun synth. I dig the flute sound.
All sounds made by Kawai 100f, some are through a delay."

Modular Techno

Modular Techno from Kirk Degiorgio on Vimeo.

ART Studios 2016

KOMA Elektronik - Superbooth16

Published on May 3, 2016 DivKidVideo

"Hayden from KOMA Elektronik takes us through their sequencer and Poltergeist at Superbooth."

Moog Model 15 for iPad Sound Preset Explored

Published on May 3, 2016 UnlikeNoise

iTunes: Model 15 - Moog Music Inc.

See the announcement post here.

"Back to 1973 with the recreation of the Moog Model 15 modular synthesizer. They did it again. Years after Moog introduced the revolutionary Animoog for iOS they produced another mobile music making gem.

In this demonstration, I walk through some of the presets and fiddle with knobs and patch cables. That's what this iOS synthesizer is all about!"

KORG MINILOGUE // meets // CWEJMAN QMMF-4 // 2

Published on May 3, 2016 LESINDES

"WHAT AN IMPACT: KORG MINILOGUE ecounters stunning multi band V-Filter CWEJMAN QMMF-4.
This is part 2."

Part 1 here.

KORG minilogues on eBay | Korg minilogues on Amazon

Creating Tracks at Starbucks

via @Chris1a1

"I need a coffee, lets haul the whole studio to a Starbucks 💯👌🎶👍"

"Just to clarify, that's not me. It's from music battle stations on Reddit where ppl post pics of their studios :)"

sent my way via FlavioB

"HAHAHA! Dammit!!! Why not a laptop only setup??? :-) @matrixsynth"

Imagine walking in on that!