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Sunday, March 11, 2018

ARP Odyssey 2800 Vintage 1975

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Custom Maple Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 Keyboard Synth

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"This is a gorgeous example of a vintage Sequential Circuits Prophet 5. This unit has been upgraded in beautiful maple wood all around, has had a spring loaded pitch wheel with LED backlit/colored mod/pitch controls (user definable). Originally a ver 3.2 manufactured between September 15 and 23 of 1982, this keyboard was upgraded with Sequential factory MIDI and had it’s memory upgraded to 120 programs, effectively making this a rev 3.3. The Midi jacks are located where the digital/analog DINs are on the back panel, so as not to damage the unit.

On the technical side, this keyboard has had it’s power supply recapped, has been fully calibrated, has had it’s tantalums replaced, the keyboard bushings replaced (it plays like a brand new keyboard -better even than many...), and has been thoroughly gone over ever inch to assure it is in tip-top shape. Currently, it plays perfectly..."

BIAS EXD Rockaku-kun Vintage Analog Drum Synth

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"BIAS EXD Rockaku-kun (means "Mr.Hexagon" in japanese)
made by BIAS (Ishibashi music store) in '80s Japan
very rare Japanese Simmons Clone Analog Drum Synthesizer Module
i'ts very hard to find even in Japan nowadays
very fat and wild analog synth sound!

EXD has 5 sound slots, so you can use 5 different sounds in same time
play with trigger drum pad or trigger signal from drum machine or modular synthesizer
all 5 slot has each own trigger input & audio output for individual mix and effect use

each slot has SENSE, OSC DECAY, NOISE DECAY, SWEEP, PITCH, BARANCE, VOLUME, PAN knobs
EXD has stereo output for internal stereo mix( and also has individual output)

EXD's sound is very fat and wild! I recommends it for EDM,techno,noise,experimental music etc.."

Oberheim Two Voice TVS Pro

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"Absolutely as new. With both boxes, manual, etc.

Legendary SEM tones, twin sequencers with song mode, patch panel for extra modulation routing and hooking up to your modular setup. Keyboard with MIDI In/Out, velocity and aftertouch."

EDP WASP SYNTHESIZER

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"Legendary EDP Wasp by Chris Huggett, quirky looking toy like synth but a serious piece of kit, capable of rip roaring synth lines, fat bass...just straight up dirty with so much character. Great for all types of Electronic music."

The World's Second Most Dangerous Synth - #1


Published on Mar 11, 2018 noddyspuncture

"The World's Second Most Dangerous Synth - with Q960 sequencer..."

Ensoniq ESQ-M : The first day


Published on Mar 11, 2018 Masaki Takada

"There is no effect for the first minute, after that Chorus (D16 Syntorus), Phaser (D16 Fazortan), Reverb (Eventide Blackhole) are added.
Have fun :)"

AMSynths AM8400 Jupiter-4 VCO Clone Waveforms


AM8400DemoMovie Published on Mar 11, 2018 AMSynths

"Quick demo of the various wave shapes from my Jupiter VCO clone, note the sawtooth waveform, is composed of curved steps."



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"This is replica of the VCO in the Roland Jupiter 4, their first polyphonic synthesizer introduced in 1978. The original VCO is a unique design based around a 555 timer and a CMOS divider chip, which was not seen in any other synthesizer. The Jupiter 4 is famous for its powerful sounds and efficient controls. The constraints of microprocessors in 1978 mean there were only 16 sliders that could be memorised, which limited the functionality of the VCO to 4 octave range and 3 waveforms.

This VCO is the sound of early Human League and Depeche Mode albums.

Detailed Description

The AMSynths circuit is very close to the original except for a new Tempco based matched transistor pair rather than the obsolete heated uA726 chip, as the exponential generator and variable slider controlled Pulse Width rather than a 4-way switch.

The waveform shapes are created from the 555 timer which generates square waves that are divided down for the lower ranges. These square waves are used for the square wave output and are perfect and stable 50/50%. They are also approximated into a sawtooth which has as many steps as the range (16′ has 16 steps, 2′ has just 2 steps). The sawtooth wave is therefore not perfect and is made up of steps, this creates a different sonic shape as you change octave. The pulse width wave is created from the sawtooth rather than the square wave, and therefore has some variability in width, rather than being totally stable. Adjusting pulse width is effectively quantised by the sawtooth steps and jumps from one setting to the next rather than being smooth.


Guests - Digitakt Ambient recorded to cassette


Published on Mar 11, 2018 Jogging House

"Check out my new album 'From': https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/from

Here is a loose & loopy ambient jam, made with the Elektron Digitakt and recorded straight to cassette.

Samples used are simple drone and pluck sounds from the Mangrove and Rings Eurorack modules and a Korg Wavestation. Shaped, sequenced and resampled within the Digitakt.

The video goes in and out of sync due to tape warble, nothing I can do about that. Hope you still enjoy it."

Best Sequencer and Sampler? LIVE vs OCTATRACK vs RYTM


Published on Mar 11, 2018 Carl Mikael's Cabinet of Curiosities

"The eternal long standing question on what tool is best, most fun and efficient for making music with samples. Is it: the Elektron Octatrack, Ableton Live or Elektron Rytm?

This video concludes my research and leaves some empiricism and data for you to draw your own conclusions.

The method has been to travel to a tropical island to gather found sounds and samples using a Zoom H6. These sounds have been objectively prepared to fit for the three given tools. A common score of 16 bars has been written to be followed when composing for the different instruments. By analyzing the different workflows using the three tools, conclusions has been made for where each one shines.

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All Patreon rewards: https://www.patreon.com/CabCurio/posts?tag=reward"
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