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Ambient jam with the Sequential Take 5

video upload by Jay Hosking

"A live ambient track performed entirely on the Sequential Take 5, using only the on-board effects.

The Sequential Take 5 is not revolutionary in any particular way: it's a five-voice, subtractive, analog polysynth with on-board effects. But no matter how I look at it, the Take 5 is clearly the current best first choice if you're looking to buy a versatile analog synth that can do it all. It's got fantastic build quality, good keybed with full-sized keys and aftertouch, and on-board effects that sound better to my ears than others in its range. Its oscillators and filter are good, and its bass response is stronger than most polysynths I've played with. The mod matrix is simple to use but has plenty of depth. One of the effects is a high-pass filter, which allows you to carve out the midrange for your pad work. The filter drive doesn't offer much, but the separate distortion adds a lot. The layout is intuitive, workflow is fast, and you can get to making patches with very little effort.

I've got synths I like more for bass, pads, and leads, but I've got no one synth that can do all of them this well. This was a pad patch I made with some vibrato, "vintage" fluctuations in tuning and envelopes, the bucket-brigade-style delay, long reverb, and a nice slow set of envelopes on the filter and amp. I started playing and this song came out, a good example of how the sounds can inspire.

If you've got a bunch of synths already, you probably don't need this one. (I mean, let's be honest that we don't need any of them.) But if you're looking for that one synth that can play a lot of roles really well, the Take 5 would be the one I'd recommend.

Thanks for listening."

The Roland Jupiter-4: Compuphonic

video upload by Alex Ball

"A look at the original Jupiter synthesizer, the JP-4 from 1978.

0:00 Intro
1:05 Polyphony
2:22 Arpeggiator
3:04 First versions
4:11 Filter comparison
5:17 LFO
6:05 Compuphonic & Presets
7:55 Original Prices
8:35 Famous Users
9:47 End Jam"

SoundsDivine 'Fantastic Flaws - Echo' - Unfiltered Audio Lion

video upload by SoundsDivine111

"Preview of the presets from the 'Fantastic Flaws - Echo' soundset for Unfiltered Audio's Lion https://www.soundsdivine.com/product/..."

Previous demo

Castle #20210929 (Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms SV-1b, Sequential PRO 3, Take 5, Elektron Octatrack)

video upload by Sonic Sand Castles

Instruments:
- Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms SV-1b
- Sequential PRO 3
- Sequential Take 5
- Elektron Octatrack

Cherry Audio Introduces Stardust 201 🌠 | Roland RE-201 Space Echo Emulation

video upload by Cherry Audio

"Stardust 201 Tape Echo is a hot-rodded interpretation of the classic Roland "Space Echo" tape echo effects of the 70s and 80s. With the inclusion of a spring reverb and chorus effects in some models, the Space Echo was truly groundbreaking with its fantastic variety of sound colors.

Stardust 201 precisely recreates the limited fidelity and stability of audio tape, providing a natural rolloff of bass and treble frequencies for super-warm tonality and minor speed variances, lending an organic chorusing quality to repeats. Cranking the intensity knob overloads the circuit, generating the signature other-worldly runaway echoes and feedback that only a tape echo can produce.

Cherry Audio's Stardust 201 Tape Echo includes features from the original RE-201 and RE-301 Space Echo units, and we've added some of our own to create a great-sounding, super-flexible, ideal tape echo effect that never breaks down and never needs demagnetizing, all for less than the price of a Space Echo replacement audio tape loop!"

https://cherryaudio.com/products/stardust-201

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On that audio input on the Motor Synth ...

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"The yet-to-be-released Motor Synth by Gamechanger Audio has an audio input which can be fed into the synth engine. In this video, I'm routing my Reface DX (and my guitar) through this, applying a variety of analog filter types, envelopes and LFOs to the external sound. Table of contents:

00:00 introduction
00:45 Reface DX sound (unprocessed)
01:26 12db low pass filter
01:40 24db low pass filter
01:55 12db band pass filter
02:09 12db high pass filter
02:25 filter envelope (triggered by MIDI IN)
03:04 filter lfo & resonance
04:02 filter drive
04:30 ... with external effects
05:13 filtered arpeggiator (using Reface DX' MIDI looper)
06:21 filtered and distorted guitar (using filter drive)
06:41 multitracked jam with R-DX, Motorsynth and Nord Drum 1"

Support: https://www.paypal.me/alexselck

Plugin Alliance: DS Tantra 2 Demo/No Talking

video upload by Anton Anru

"I'm giving a try to the brand-new effect by Plugin Alliance/DS - Tantra 2.
DS Tantra 1 was a beloved plugin for years, and now it's updated to the version 2. I downloaded it immediately after the release and passed some pads and textures thought it. I use Ableton Push 2 to play with parameters.

🔸 Presets for Moog, Korg, Arturia, Dreadbox, Behringer and others: https://antonanru.sellfy.store/"

Arturia SQ80 V | No Talking |

video upload by DKS SYNTH LAB

Kawai SX-210

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via this auction

Interesting problem with it - bad caps?

"This is an extremely rare synth that tends to sell in the $2,000 ballpark. Absolutely crazy warm fat analog sounds. When I bought this two of the voices didn't work. I took it to an electronic tech who spent 40+ hours completely going through the unit. All of the voices have been repaired with exceedingly difficult to find chips and a bunch of bad traces were fixed. After getting the synth fully functioning the tech noticed that after an hour or so a kind of static happens when you press the keys. He seemed to think the issue was with the power supply. At that point I was so deep into repairs and he had spent so much time on it that we mutually decided to hold off on any further repairs. I only use the synth for studio work and never play longer than an hour to track parts anyway so I never even had to deal with the static. I imagine a person could take this into a tech and get the power supply looked and solve this issue. It's just something I didn't want to pursue as it never really affected me. That being said I certainly can't ask $2,000 for it."

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