Sonicware Liven 8 Bit Warps - Chiptune Jam

ChrisLody

"I'm very excited that the lovely people over at Sonicware were nice enough to send me a Liven 8 Bit Warps for free so I can make them some promotional material with it. I've spent a few days playing around with it and I've been really impressed with what I've seen so far.

At it's heart the Liven 8 Bit Warps is a wavetable synthesizer and sequencer designed to emulate the sound chips in old 8 bit computer and consoles like the Nintendo NES and Gameboy. All it's oscillators are built from tiny wavetables on just 32 samples long so they have a really gritty sound, they are even editable through the front panel by hand.

There are 4 different synth engines including an FM mode which is how I have made the drums for this track, with some harsh modulation and plenty of programming.

It has another trick up it's sleeve too which is a 4 track audio looper meaning I can load a pattern, record it into the looper and play it back along with other loops and/or the live pattern loaded into the sequencer. So plenty to build whole tracks, I have much more to explore too!"

606 Koncept Free 64-bit VST plugin instrument for Windows

SampleScience Sounds

"606 Koncept is a plugin based on a famous analog drum machine from the eighties. Each sound has been meticulously sampled and mapped according to the General MIDI convention. Vinyl, tape, and sub sound layers can be triggered on their own to add texture and depth to your drum sequences. Each drum sound can be pitch up or down using a unique summing pitch mixer.

Features:

The original 606 Drum Kit
Multi-LFO
Room reverb
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
64-bit VST plugin instrument for Windows 8.1/10"

1974 Moog White Elephant CDX-0652 Vintage Cordovox Combo Organ & Synthesizer

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"Up for sale, a 1974 Moog/Cordovox "White Elephant" CDX-0652 vintage dual manual synth/combo organ, fully serviced and optimally functional. A truly one-of-a-kind circuit, the White Elephant is not only a very rare, sonically complex behemoth, it's also a circuit that very few techs will tackle. Thankfully we've wrangled the beast, and to the tune of $1500+ worth of thorough servicing, this Elephant delivers the goods.

A joint venture between Moog and Corodovox, the Moog Satellite synthesizer was licensed by Thomas Organ for a particularly hefty price tag, and Thomas designed a circuit that integrated Moog's synth technology with traditional combo organ features, offered via the Cordovox brand as the CDX-0652. The keyboard was produced in Italy by EME, the same factory responsible for most of Vox's Italian combo organs including the Jaguar and Continental.

The synthesizer voices play only on the upper manual, while the organ voices play on both, with organ and synth sections simultaneously available on the upper manual. The CDX-0652 also includes a batch of 9 preset synthesizer voices which don't appear on a Moog Satellite. The sonic options available are vast, with banks of switches, buttons, and sliders to shape both the combo organ and Moog circuitry. The Moog bass signal can also be accessed on the lower manual and blended with the organ, and the combo organ even has a full percussion bank.

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Rhodes Chroma with Expander 1982

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"Rhodes Chroma with Expander CC+ and New Power Supplies
I am the original owner of these Chromas. Studio use only from 1982 till 1984. These have been in storage until 2019. Absolutely in perfect cosmetic and working condition. Power supply mods and CC+ mods done by Chris at Electronic Innovations St. Claire Shores, MI. I doubt you will find a more perfect pair of these! Comes with original pedals and manual.'

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Roland JX-8P KIWI-8P Polyphonic Synthesizer

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"The Kiwi-8p is an upgraded Roland JX-8P vintage polyphonic synthesizer with loads of extra features. At its core it is an 8 voice dual DCO analog synthesizer with midi, patch memory, low pass VCF, & 2 envelopes. It sounds fantastic and conjurs a wealth of classic iconic 80's sounds.

The KIWI upgrade adds tons of additional features including Arpeggiator, Sequencer, Chord mode, Aftertouch, expanded memory, additional LFO's and Envelope Generators, various key assign modes, and Midi CC & Sysex support."

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Spectral Audio Neptune 2 SN 50122

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"Great Swiss made, rack-mountable monophonic analog synthesizer. It is a true analog beast, no DCOs here!

- Two Oscillators a ring modulator and distortion/fuzz.
- The LFO can be switched to audio range, so it can function as a third (or sub) oscillator.
- The synth has MIDI IN-OUT-THRU
- CV controlinput - which is switchable to CV-in or CV-out.
- There is an audio input to process other sounds through the filter, distortion... you can mix the external source with oscillator 1 and modulate everything with LFO.

It was made at a time when everything wanted to sound like the Roland TB-303 and MOOG. So this Swiss-made mutant beast goes also into Moog territory - it is much more than just a TB-303 emulator.
Remember to let it heat up to operating temperature - it takes 30 to 40 minutes in winter - but you wont regret it."

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Pipa – Expressive Vocal Synthesizer

Klevgrand



"Pipa is a singing vocal synth with a unique and different sound. It is inspired by the expression and flexibility of the human voice, but does not aim to cover all the aspects of an actual voice. Instead, it focuses on an organic and musical sound where the user has the possibility to control formants and dynamics seamlessly.

The synth engine is a crossover between a wavetable- and a granulating synthesizer, which results in a very expressive and playable instrument. Instead of using ordinary samples or processing oscillators with formant filters, Pipa uses a large database of thousands of wavetables extracted from real vocal samples. The advantage of the technique being used is that it’s possible to seamlessly morph between wavetables with proper phase alignment. This enables Pipa to continuously make transitions between pitch, formants and dynamics, which is very useful in a musical context." Find the free demo at www.klevgrand.se

Test Equipement Techno with HAINBACH HAINBACH

Techno on my new modular (which is not even a synth) | TM500, Pulsar-23, Sleepy Circuits Hypno
HAINBACH HAINBACH

"In which I make hard techno with the heaviest sounding modular system I know, the Tektronix TM500, and combine it with the Pulsar-23. Hypno by Sleepy Circuits provides the proper retro visuals.

My music: http://hainbach.bandcamp.com"

disting EX - Poly Wavetable

Playlist:
disting EX - Poly Wavetable, part 1: Introduction
disting EX - Poly Wavetable, part 2: Modulation
disting EX - Poly Wavetable, part 3: Miscellaneous
disting EX - Poly Wavetable, part 4: Effects
disting EX - Poly Wavetable, part 5: Scala
disting EX - Poly Wavetable, part 6: Chords and arpeggiation
disting EX - Poly Wavetable, part 7: Sound examples

Sequential Prophet 10 REV4 | Downward and deeper

MIDERA

MIDERA Prophet 10 posts

"Prophet 10 REV4 with Strymon DIG as pseudo chorus and delay pedal.

My first assessment was wrong. Just plain wrong. At first it seemed so basic - like nothing more than nice wood sounding like something my Virus TI could mimic. It took a few days - but now I am convinced that this synth is far more complex than any other synthesizer I've used. It has only 1 LFO, and this small section called Poly-Mod - how is it able to develop into so many other sounds? It can go from an ambient drone to something I thought I'd only hear on a DX7. Who went from the P5 to a DX7 and thought 'This is the path foward?' I mean, it happened. Nothing against the DX7, I quite love FM because it's really interesting... maybe people just couldn't afford the P5, that's probably a big part of it, but I bet some people ditched their P5 for a DX7.

Sequential helped me out regarding the loose pot from my previous video. It is now fixed. No issues with it. Just a glorious synth.

Now my question is - do I hang on to my other synthesizers? The JX3P, the Polaris, the Polysix? They have nothing on the P5/10. The Polaris wins in a pissing contest for which one has the most massive Bladerunner sound. The JX3P has that Roland Chorus, the polysix has... And anyway they all seem so redundant now. I don't even know what to do about my SY77 anymore. That one had 'the best keybed' and now - I know it doesn't. The Prophet 10 has a slightly better keybed. But... I will probably keep these synths. I have an incredible ability to sell things and regret it. I could easily get another Polysix and JX3P, but I don't think I could as easily get a Polaris. Plus, once the Juno 6 and 60 get to unobtainium value, these will rise because they're next in line... not a great reason to keep them, I admit. But it's still a reason.

Anyway, this track originally had a bunch of stuff before this, but I decided that I didn't want it to take 7 minutes for someone to get to this part because I know most people leave before 2 minutes are up. Of course, it's still 20+ min long."