"The Roland D550 is an all-time favorite vintage piece straight from the 80's - iconic sounds that appeared on countless hit albums and are still fresh today.
Crisp bells, dreamy pads, chunky basses, punchy horns...this little unit was one of the secret weapons of 80's music, and can add just as much to modern analog-driven tracks. With subtractive-synthesis and filters, it can contribute richness, shimmer, and presence to a mix that digital units struggle to match!
This D550 is in great shape, with some scratches on the cover but a beautiful face. It's been in my smoke-free rack for more than 20 years, well-loved and taken care of. The display is no longer backlit, as is true for most of these units, but the sounds are as rich as ever. The original manual, power cable, and PN-D50-00 memory card are included, along with a D-50 Rescue Kit CD I picked up along the way with the factory presets and other patches and documentation."
"Here is a relative short track that developed yesterday. Yesterday, when in the Netherlands another Lockdown of 3 weeks was proclaimed. Anyways, I hope you are healthy and maybe this track will cheer you up a little. Five sequences are running on the Cirklon. The bass from the Synthesizers.com Modular and sequences from the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator, the Verbos Harmonic Oscillator filtered by the Mutable Instruments Ripples, the Tom Oberheim SEM and the DSI Mopho. The solo is performed of the Waldorf Q Keyboard and the strings on the Roland JD-800.
"From the creator of wild musical devices Rainger FX, comes a wild and interactive drum machine that you play through, with, and for. Play beats manually, customize rhythm and sounds, sync it to other devices, trigger individual drums with controllers and modular synth gates. The Snare Trap inspires new rhythmic ideas and brings the jams. Here I explore its sounds and connectivity while destroying it with fuzz pedals, and distant modulated reverbs.
Thank you Rainger FX.
Other pedals featured:
Hypersleep - Electronic Audio Experiments
T-60 Analog Modulator - Demedash Effects
Patchulator 9000 - Boredbrain
~900 Fuzz - Fairfield
Maybe - Mask Audio Electronics
Rooms - Death by Audio"
"The Rainger FX Snare Trap is a powerful groove machine in a small form factor, perfect for quickly building rhythmic backing tracks in your pedal board or your desktop setup.
Combining analog and digital synthesis techniques, the Snare Trap features a bass drum, snare drum, and hi-hat, with various timbral controls over each. The big rubber pad is multifunctional, and can be used for either tap tempo or triggering snare drum fills and bursts of noise. Dedicated effects including delay and a filter are easily accessible via the front panel, allowing you to adjust timbres in real time, while intuitive edit controls facilitate quick adjustments to your groove patterns on the fly.
If you want to connect the Snare Trap to other drum machines or clock sources, it offers analog trigger inputs for each of the three drum instruments. This little groove box can also send its own clock signal via the Sync Out port, bringing any other instruments that receive analog clock signals into step with the Snare Trap.
The Snare Trap completes the conversation with the rest of your setup by featuring an input port which allows you to bring in your own line level sources from guitars, synths, or other pedals in your chain, with adjustable Hi/Lo gain settings to accomodate your source. A dedicated mix knob controls the blend between the input signal and the groove, allowing you to dial in the perfect balance for your one-person band!
SNARE TRAP FEATURES
Drum machine in a guitar pedal format Bass drum, snare, and hi-hat sounds available Tap tempo button can also trigger snare fills Delay effect for snare drum Global lowpass filter Trigger inputs for each drum Analog clock output Dry/wet mix for blending input signals with the drum track Volume control"
"Now this is a lazy video ;-) But I'm sure someone out there might find this useful one day... Here's an index of 21 minutes of browsing patches on the Yamaha RS7000, a groove box from the early 2000s:
00:00 grand piano 00:36 e-piano 1 (dry & with effects) 01:20 e-piano 2 (dry & with effects) 01:47 glockenspiel 01:59 musicbox 02:06 vibes 02:17 marimba 02:29 tubular bells 02:35 rock organ 03:01 accordion 03:17 nylon guitar 03:29 steel guitar 03:46 tremolo strings 04:07 strings 1 04:19 strings 2 04:32 synth strings 1 04:42 synth strings 2 04:52 choir aaah (dry & with effects) 05:17 choir ooh 05:28 synth voice 05:47 saw lead 06:10 warm pad (opening and closing filter) 06:50 soundtrack (opening and closing filter) 07:09 goblins 07:45 telephone 07:53 applause (opening and closing filter) 08:30 rezo bass 1 (opening and closing filter) 09:00 a number of bass patches, arpeggiated and filtered 11:07 some pad sounds (opening and closing filter, lfos) 17:37 some plucked sounds 18:52 "synth material" bank (opening and closing filter) 20:04 "Band Instruments" bank"
"We're celebrating the one-year anniversary of Dave Smith’s modern classic, the Prophet-5 (and Prophet-10) Rev4!
As part of the celebration, our family of Sequential friends asked Dave for the inside scoop on the vintage Prophet-5 and the Rev 4 — one year on. Watch all six installments here as we post them. And to learn more about the Rev 4 Prophet-5 and Prophet-10, visit our website: https://bit.ly/Pro5-YT"
