1981 Electronic Music Resource Book by Robert Ceely

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Cool synth art.

"A great Rare Electronic Music Resource Book by Robert Ceely NEV Multimedia Publication. Excellent Condition, very slight surface wear the cover. You can refer to the pictures we guarantee 100% you will be more than happy with the excellent condition, very clean. Published in 1981 original price of $27.95 on inside stamped. To All Beepers: Past, Present, and Future, 21 chapters: introduction, waveforms, modifiers, controllers, connections, The Tape Recorder As A Composition Tool, Putting It All Together, Notation, Suggested Class Assignments, Studio Configurations, Compositional Limitations Of Current Electronic Music Synthesizers, ARP 2600 Synthesizer, Buchla Music Easel, EML-101 Synthesizer, EML-200 Synthesizer, EML-301 Synthesizer, EML-401 Synthesizer, Mini Moog Synthesizer, Modular Moog Synthesizer, Polyfusion Modular Sunthesizer, Synare 2 Percussion Synthesizer. A great Rare Music Book it would make a great addition to anyone's collection or home."

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Ultimate Percussion UP 5, K2-X original 1984 vintage synth drum sales brochure

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"Models – UP Five and K2-X. Electronic drum pads and module

Language – English, 1984

Number of pages – 2 separate one-sided sheets and a price list too (see photos)"

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YAMAHA synthesizer 1984 sales brochure DX-1 KX-5 CS-01 QX-1 RX-11 and more

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Fun to think how cool that equipment would have looked back in the day. Dreaming about gear and what it can do... That QX1 pic. Reminds me of a DX7 mixed with a Kawai K3.

"Make – Yamaha. News from the 1984 Frankfurt show. Please see photos.

Models – Computer-Music 2, CS-01 II, DX-1, KX-5, CX-5, QX-1, mixers, PA equipment, reverb, delay, RX-11 drum machine, guitar and bass amps, drum kit, electric guitars and basses

Language – English & German, 1984

Number of pages – 16 page folder

Condition – excellent"

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KORG PS-3100 POLYPHONIC SYNTHESIZER Owners Manual

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"PS-3100 Owners Manual in excellent condition. Not a copy. No tears or writing inside. You need this if you own one of these rare beasts so it's original, published documentation is complete!"

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Made to Create // Technology

NovationTV

"A behind-the-scenes look into Novation HQ (from home). Discover how innovations in technology were used to create the Launchkey [MK3] by designer Danny Nugent and product manager Hugh Lobley."

Ambient patch from scratch in VCV Rack

Omri Cohen

"If you like what I do and want to support my work, consider joining me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/omricohen
I also created a document full of patching techniques and ideas that I will continue updating - https://www.patreon.com/posts/documen..."

disting mk4 - Chaos

Expert Sleepers

Cirklon Synth Bling

splitradix

New Tom Oberheim Four Voice?

Two new videos of what appears to be a New Tom Oberheim Four Voice from Tom Oberheim himself. Note the Tom Oberheim signature on the keyboard panel.

Update: consensus seems to be this is an original Four Voice System.  What threw me of was the Tom Oberheim signature.  His new SEMs are based on the original hardware design, so a new Four Voice based on the original design isn't exactly far off either.  The patch points on the top also made me think this might be a prototype Four Voice Pro.  Is it?  ;)

Sequential Pro 3 - Fundamentals Sound Sets 1 and 2 - 128 Custom Patches

Creative Spiral

Note the above is a playlist of Sequential Pro 3 videos by Creative Spiral including some on sound design. The following is the description for the first video.

"Two custom designed sound sets for the Pro 3 synthesizer. This video previews about half the patches from both sets. Available now on Sellfy: https://sellfy.com/sounddesign/p/pro3...

0:00 - Set 1: Basses, Leads, Classic Synth
17:52 - Set 2: Strings, Brass, Keys, Paraphonic

128 custom patches for the Sequential Pro 3 synthesizer.

There are many patches inspired by famous songs in this set, including artists like Pink Floyd, Vangelis, Rush, Journey, Boards of Canada, Parliament Funkadelic, Nena, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, The Cars, and more.

In this video demo, a total of sixty three patches are shown. There is also another sixty five more patches included in the combined two sets that are not shown in this demo.

Fundamentals Set 1:
Basses, Leads, and Synth Classics (64 patches)
There is a total of 26 Bass Patches, 22 Lead Patches, and 16 Classic Synth Patches in Set 1. The patch prefixes indicate their intended primary usage, however, most of the basses can double as lead tones, and vice versa - most leads in this set make great sounding basses. I've done my best to optimize patches to sound great up and down the keybed.

Fundamentals Set 2:
Strings, Brass, Keys, Plucks, Organs and Paraphonic Sounds (64 patches)
There is a total of 9 Brass Patches, 6 String Patches, 13 Key/Pluck Patches, 8 Piano and Organ Patches, and 25 Paraphonic Patches in Set 2. Lots of great plucks and synth staples, plus the twenty five paraphonic patches give you a ton of harmonic possibilities to explore. The Pro 3 paraphonic mode is very cool, and can provide unique harmony sounds different than polyphonic synths."