"A weekend of retro synthesizers, drum machines and samplers ...
Come and try the synthesizers, samplers and drum machines that changed the way music is created. This weekend will explore how computers and digital equipment changed the music industry. With classic keyboards, Raspberry Pi computers running Sonic Pi, BBC Micros with sound programming guides, and Apple Macs that let you remix music with bananas… there’s something for all!
Free drop-in event included as part of your admission fee. Bring your own headphones!
Come and experience some classic machines of the 80s and 90s including :
Roland D-50
Roland S-750
Roland MC-202
Roland TB-303
Roland SH-101
Roland Alpha Juno-1
Yamaha SY-85
Yamaha CS5
Akai S1000
Casio FZ-1
Casio CZ-101
Casio VZ-1
Akai AX-80
"An interesting patch of the Mutable Instruments Rings and Clouds with feedback routing through an Echophon and Music Thing Spring Reverb. The Pressure Points was sending a T-Gate trigger to Rings and CLouds trigger inputs. Also two rows of CV to the 1v/oct inputs.
Clouds was in Parasite Resonator mode. Rings in 'string' mode.
The third row of Pressure Points was sending CV to channel 1 Maths both A/R control, which was in loop or LFO mode sending a modulation to the Echophon pitch input.
Feedback was from the Rings Even out to Echophon then back into Clouds. Clouds right channel out to Spring Reverb and back into Rings IN. Rings Odd out to one channel of Z-DSP and Clouds left channel in to the other input of Z-DSP. The Halls of Valhalla dsp was used. Both channels sent to Intellijel Azimuth for final output.
Finally a Pressure Points pressure CV was sent to the Rings Frequency input as negative pitch bend modifier."
"This is a Power DX7 Channel Promotional Video with a selection of my very best Yamaha DX7 Patches.
About Power DX7
I have owned my Yamaha DX7 Mk I since 1986 and making my own original DX7 patches ever since. My focus is to push the DX7 (and other FM synthesizers including DX7s, DX7II, TX802) to its limits to create many original patches with breathtaking sonic quality, realism and expression, from warm analog synthesizer sounds to uniquely DX7 piano, brass, string voice, etc.
About the Yamaha DX7 FM Synthesizer
Introduced in 1983, the Yamaha DX7 is the one of the best ‘pure’ synthesizer which has a very powerful FM synthesis engine. Even without sampled waveforms or a digital filter, it can produce amazing sounds from analog-like bass and pads, to breathtaking human voices, strings, pianos etc.
About This Video
All Yamaha DX7 sounds featured in this video are my original patches, created using the Yamaha DX7 Mk1 front LCD screen.
Featured Yamaha DX7 Patches
1. Filter Sweep - Like Patch
Even without a digital filter, the DX7 can produce an unique filter-like sound. A similar sound is used for my DX7 analog patches demo, Van Halen 1984.
2. Powerful Synth Brass
Uniquely the Yamaha DX7 sound, it's a powerful sound with a natural flanging effect. The same sound is used for my DX7 analog patches demo, U.K. Alaska.
3. Warm & Soft Pad
An amazingly analog-like warm pad sound, you'll never guess that it's actually coming out from the Yamaha DX7 FM synthesis engine! It has a beautiful natural chorusing effect, and adding external chorus and reverb effects makes it a magic.
4. Resonant Filter - Like Bass
Again even without a digital filter, the DX7 can produce a bass sound with a filter - like effect. It has this 'sticky' sound, typical of an analog resonant filter.
5. 80's Sampler - Like String Pad
With an amazingly realistic string sound, the DX7 can produce a string sound that resemble those 1980's sampler based string sounds.
6. Amazing Acoustic Piano
This Yamaha DX7 Piano patch can produce realistic, harmonic - rich metallic sound at lower notes.
7. Breathtaking Male Choir
With breathtaking sonic quality and realism, the DX7 is showcasing its true capability, emulating a realistic male choir sound. This breathtaking sound can rival modern hybrid synths.
8. Breathtaking Female Opera
With breathtaking sonic quality and realism, the DX7 is showcasing its true capability, emulating a realistic female opera sound. These breathtaking sounds can rival modern hybrid synths.
Power DX7 Intro Song
All original DX7 patches with amazing sonic quality, realism and expression - Piano (High and Low notes), Male Choir, Female Opera and DX7 Brass'
The Planet Earth is part of the Proteus 2000 family of synthesizers and has two slots for E-Mu expansion ROMs, with the first being occupied by the World Expedition module containing 32MB of world/ethnic instruments."
"Offered for sale is the Kawai SX-240, a classic very rare and unique sounding dual DCO multi-waveform Analog Synthesizer (made in 1984) with SAW, SQUARE, PULSE (2nd LFO), BRASS (Ring Modulation) waveforms, 8-voices of polyphony, an additional SUB Oscillator, Poly8/4/mono modes, a super-warm, lush, on-board chorus/ensemble effect, 8-SSM 2044 filters (used on PPG-Wave 2.2, Korg Mono/Poly, Korg Trident, Korg Polysix, Kawai SX-210, Kawai K3 etc), a LFO that can be routed everywhere in the DCO, VCF and the VCA, MIDI In/Out/Through, Portamento, Glissando, a 8-digits LED screen for editing the parameters and the option of being placed in Split or Dual patch modes. In Split mode you can assign two patches to be played in a split on the keyboard. In Dual mode two patches can be played at the same time for a rich, warm and layered sound, not very common in Analog Synthesizers. It has also a built-in, real time 1,500 note sequencer and chord memory. This is a very useful synth!
Kawai SX-240 has a great rich, lush and unique analog sound to it that can't be reproduced by today's modern synthesizers. Cuts through the mix in a unique way, and due to its rarity will not end up sounding like other analogs of the era. Sonically it is somewhere between Korg Polysix and Roland Juno-60."
