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Korg Poly 61 & Boss DR 55 Arpeggiator Jam

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"A short little arpeggiator jam with the Dr-55 triggering the poly 61. I dont see this combo much on youtube but the poly 61 is a very great synth for these sort of pairings!"

Yamaha CS-01 Analog Synthesizer 1982

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"The CS-01 is an interesting synth. It came out around a time when analog monosynths were mostly being phased out for DCO based polysynths and digital synthesizers. After a little under a decade of compact synthesizers for musicians being available from japanese companies an analog monophonic synthesizer was cheaper to produce for a novice level musician at the time. Synths like the CS-01 and SH-101 from roland as well as the M-500sp from korg were all offerings that basically were these companies slapping tried and true designs into plastic boxes for affordable prices. These days all synths from this time are equally as pricey but the CS01 is still fairly affordable and has some good tones to offer. Its actually not really a VCO synth but a digital oscillator with analog filters and low resolution envelopes. This was the trend of the early 80s budget synths. The Saw and Square waves are pretty standard stuff but sound very good and the the weird 12db filter with switchable high and low resonance while groaned about online by losers is perfectly functional as i demonstrate here. The ADSR is very sensitive and okay? Its my least favorite part of this synth. The real special part of this synth is its PWM. Its FAT, set to a low footing and its insanely deep and set higher and it does soaring singing leads very well. These things seem to have largely been passed up by the reverb scalpers and the youtube influencer reddit effect. I see some going for $400+ which is hilarious. You should try to snag one as if you wait any longer there might not be any vintage analog synthesizers left you can buy under $800+. Also this little thing while looking like a toy actually is a wonderful instrument! Excuse the sloppy noodling i was not myself while recording this one. I try to show a variety of tones! They were apart of a producer series that yamaha offered with a drum machine, mixer, 4 track cassette recorder and some other items intended to get a musician off to the races! I own the drum machine of that series and will make a follow up video on it soon. A mkii version was made with a 24db filter with the resonance switch changed for a slider in 1984 but i havent had a chance to try one.

Specs:
1 VCO - triangle / saw / square / pulse / PWM
Sine waveform
1 ADSR envelope gen"

Roland SH-2 Analog Synthesizer Demo

video upload by Jonasan

"This synthesizer is really special to me. When i got into all this stuff 6 years back it mostly came from listening to music such as YMO and related acts and albums and the sounds of mid to late 70s synthesizers had infected my brain! The roland SH-2 appears to recently have had been given the knod by a few popular synth youtube personalities which i was happy to see. 6 years back when i was researching instruments to take me to these sounds it was much more common to see SH-09s and SH-101s and you rarely ran into the SH-2. Now they appear to be for sale everyday although prices on everything have exploded. I am of the opinion having played all three that the SH-2 is the king of the smaller SH synthesizers. while not a must for excellent mono synth tones the dual VCO's change the entire feel beyond what a simple sub osc can provide with a single VCO. It seems roland did not manufacture these for more than a few years but they are everywhere online. You really should grab one! The filter is very wet and self oscillates in such a pleasing way, The sine wave provides deep basses and the PWM with dual VCO is very lush. This synthesizer is very powerful on all fronts except maybe modulation potential. Here are some of the specs below

2 VCO's + 1 Sub oscillator (waveforms: pulse, square, sawtooth, sine, noise)
LFO with sine, square and Sample & Hold; Auto-Bend
Resonant, self-oscillating 24dB lowpass filter(four OTA-stages with selected BA662 with FET transistors as Buffers), mod by EG, lfo and kybd tracking. External audio input
CV / Gate
This video is my first attempt to offer an audio demonstration of some of the different sounds you can get out of these synthesizers. Apologies for my arm in the shot and the watermark. I was testing software and am still getting used to making videos!"

Birth of EARLY electronic synthesizer in 1950 - Music with a strictly electronic beats one of first.

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"1950 Birth of EARLY electronic synthesizer in 1950 - Music with a strictly electronic beats one of first."

Unboxing a Shruti Box from Maharaja Musicals (& my first time playing it!)

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"Today I unbox a Shruti Box from Maharaja Musicals and then attempt to play it for the first time. This is an Eastern drone instrument often associated with the traditional music of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Intro @ 0:00
Unboxing @ 0:29
Overview @ 1:12
How it Works @ 3:25
First Playing Attempt @ 4:50
Summary @ 5:41

You can buy this model on Amazon"

R-MONO Lab's "Hybrid Recorder Pipe Organ RP-09" automatically plays "RYDEEN " Oct. 12, 2016

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"Japanese musical instrument manufacturer Roland's manufacturing club R-MONO Lab's "Hybrid Recorder Pipe Organ RP-09" automatically plays "RYDEEN " Oct. 12, 2016

Rolandのモノづくり同好会「R-MONO Lab」の「ハイブリッド・リコーダー・パイプオルガン RP-09」による自動演奏「RYDEEN」2016/10/12

https://r-mono-lab-en.tumblr.com/prod..."

"The World’s Smallest, Letter Size Pipe Organ

Hybrid Recorder Pipe Organ RP-09

"After half a year since its release of RP-103, we succeeded in miniaturizing it more by re-designing all its circuits, mechanisms, and software. We made it because we want more people can enjoy the pipe organ personally.

By utilizing Roland K-25m as the RP-09’s keyboard, we could successfully miniaturize it to letter size (A4 sheet size) including keyboard.

While RP-09 has similar structure to the classical pipe organ, it uses two Arduino Pro Mini to control its internal mechanism. It is also controllable via DAW or sequencing software.

This is a fusion of the technology of the past and present realizing the very solemn but very personal pipe organ on your desk top."

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CRB Uranus 2

video upload by M&M

"Hello everybody my Hobby it's restore the old Combo organ and Synth.
In this video i show you the restoration and test of CRB Uranus 2 ."

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This 1930s Amp Design Sounds Amazing & Ondes Martenot videos by Josh Semans

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"In which I demo an instrument amplifier inspired by the 1932 designed Resonateurs Métalliques by Martenot. The out-of-production Eowave Metallik Resonator is a beautiful sounding instrument, that instead of speaker cone uses a gong to turn electrical signals into sound. Thanks to @Josh Semans for showing the Ondes Martenot in this video."

Ondes Martenot videos by Josh Semans:

CRB Computer Band 2000

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"In this video i show you the restoration and test of CRB Computer band 2000 ."

You can find additional CRB Computer Band 2000 posts here.