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Synths of Sci-Fi Episode 04: Wendy Carlos, GDS Digital Additive Synthesizer & TRON (1982)

Koboto Music

"In this episode we continue to look at Wendy Carlos’ work on TRON, additive synthesis and the GDS Digital Additive Synthesizer from Crumar."

Synths of Sci-Fi Episodes

See 3:19 in the following for Wendy Carlos' GDS demonstration:

Wendy Carlos Interview 1989 BBC Two

automatic_bazooti

"Wendy appeared on the BBC in 1989 and is best known for the scores to A Clockwork Orange, Tron and The Shining."

Bach to the Basichs

John Clancy

"A Synthesizers.com System 66, with Moog Voyager XL patched into top keyboard."

And one more:

Suite for Odd Tymes

-CALC- Novation Summit - Bi-Timbral Stereo Experiments

-CALC-

"Figured I'd make a video about a little Summit "Hack" I've been using for a while now. Summit can be an absolutely KICK ASS stereo instrument with very powerful stereo behaviour.

Just use the same preset on parts A and B in a Bi-timbral Multi and then use the two sets of outputs. Take Part A to the left side and Part B to the right side of your mixer and hey presto.... Stereo power at your fingertips.
With Part A and B's oscillators independently generated you can get some great oscillators out of phase stereo stuff going on then you can process the left and right channel either together or independently from the two synth engines if you like.

Well worth trying if you've got a Summit ;o)"

The First Touch - Novation Summit | Mike Pensini

Mike Pensini

"I recently welcomed the brilliant Novation Summit to the Mike Pensini studio. Here's the first piece of music composed using this absolutely magical synth.

I find the Summit can go from vintage analog to modern digital and everything in between, it really is a versatile beast."

Circuitry (unofficial Novation Circuit Ipad App)

VolcaNiced

Spotted this one on discchord.

From the developer Yurii Zubkov:

"This is a patch editor with some additional features for live performance (morphing between macro knob positions, mixer and FX controls).

If you're interested in taking a look at the app and taking part in open testing via Apple TestFlight, you can install the app from the link below.

It would be great if you let me know about any possible application crashes and translation inaccuracies, because, obviously, my native language is not English.

You will need iPad with iOS 11+ and USB adapter.

Thank you in advance for participating in the testing.

Open this link from your iPad: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Glt..."

Novation Ultranova Demos by Microflat

Microflat

Playlist:

DIFFICULT! Demo of Novation Ultranova Arpeggiator on "A038 Classic Combo PM" Patch - GREAT SOUND!
NICE! Demo of Monophonic Lead Synth Sound from the Novation Ultranova "A025 80 Saw" Patch
SLOW BUT LOVELY! Demo of Atmospheric Synth Sound from the Novation Ultranova "A008 Slow Pad" Patch
FAST & EQ'ED ARP! Demo of Inspiring Synth Sound from the Novation Ultranova "B002 Tribal Path" Patch
GREAT PUFFY SOLO LEAD! Demo of Lead Synth Sound from the Novation Ultranova "B087 Puff Pipe" Patch
AWESOME DELAY & DEEP/DARK & PERCUSSIVE SOUND! Demo of Novation Ultranova "B119 Hammer Cube" Patch
DO YOU WANT AN EXPRESSIVE VOCODER SOUND?! Demo of Novation Ultranova "A111 Wah String Machine" Patch
VOCODER A LA KRAFTWERK SINGS "HIT THE LIKE BUTTON NOW" Demo of Novation Ultranova "A026 Vocoder Mic"
DO YOU WANT AN INSPIRING SUPER TINY CHURCH ORGAN?! Demo of Novation Ultranova "B102 In Chapel 2"

Gotharman's SpazeDrum Presets A38 to A64

gotharman

"Showing off the second part of the SpazeDrum preset bank. The complete preset bank, with 64 presets, can be downloaded here:
http://www.gotharman.dk/spazedrum_pre..."

Pollen(8) - An 8 voice full featured synthesizer for your electro-smith Daisy pod!

hammondeggsmusic

"Pollen(8) is a firmware download for your electro-smith Daisy pod that emulates a fully featured 8 voice analog synthesizer with a dual FX engine (chorus + delay/reverb), controllable completely from the basic UI provided with the Daisy pod!"

Specs via https://hammondeggsmusic.ca/daisy/pollen8.html

Pollen(8) is a "full featured" 8 voice 2 oscillator virtual analog synthesizer for your Daisy pod. "Full featured" includes:

2 Oscillators per voice with the following features:
Smoothly mix from Triangle to Saw....
Or from Saw to Variable Pulse Width
Oscillator Sync
White Noise Generator
2 LFOs
Currently LFOs are triangle only, this may change in the future if demand sees fit.
These are applicable to pitch, pulsewidth and filter cutoff.
Low pass filter with resonance
Filter Overdrive - Allows you to overdrive and clip the input to the filter
Four play modes supported:
Polyphonic - 8 voice polyphony
Monophonic - 1 voice only
Unison - All 8 voices / 16 oscillators playing at once
Poly-Unison - All 8 voices play at once, but the voice pitches are re-allocated as the number of keys pressed change.
Unison spread from 0 cents to up to 1 octave per voice!
Two pitchbend modes supported:
Standard, where the position of the pitchbend determines the pitch
Motion-bend - where moving the pitchbend wheel determines the speed at which the pitch bend occurs
Pitchbend key range
So you can keep bass notes in tune while pitch bending higher notes, or vice versa, etc.
3 Chorus effects :
"Hera", my popular 80's style loguesdk chorus
A flanger
"*Buckets" (fixed 'brigade' version) - Also from my loguesdk work - a 70's string machine triple chorus
2 Delay effects
A basic delay with up to 1.36 seconds delay, and up to infinite feedback
My popular "Cathedral xd" loguesdk reverb, with variable low pass filter on the reverb signal and up to infinite feedback
A 3 band equalizer
Variable low pass and high pass frequencies
Gains for low/mid/high levels
Arpeggiator
Up / Down modes available
External input support
With support for pre-post fx routing
Save / load patches to SD card, with support for default patch loading on startup

All of this is controllable via two buttons, and two knobs, using the RGB leds to indicate the current menu - with the encoder serving the File read/write functions. In addition, the seed LED is used to indicate MIDI activity, and will glow inverted if you are on an unused menu.
The encoder wheel is used to control the SD card file reading and writing.

Bontempi Rhythm Box RB 5 SN 36510181

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This one was spotted and sent in via M Me. This is the first one to be featured on the site.

"Super rare rhythm box from the 70s.

The following rhythms can be selected and combined with one another:

- Waltz
- swing
- slow rock
- Skirt
- Latin

The professional has replaced the 3-pin audio plug with a 6.3 mm mono jack plug."

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