Saturday, February 19, 2022
Oberheim's Lost Classic: The OB12 - Synth and Software
video upload by synthandsoftware
"Synth and Software presents: Oberheim's Lost Classic - The OB12. Mark Jenkins profiles a synth that continues to divide opinion after 20 years"
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Some of the divide comes from the OB12 being a Viscount virtual analog. Viscount licensed the Oberheim name.
Sound demos come in at 5:36. It kind of reminds me of an Akai AX-60 in character more than a vintage Oberheim. I actually own both, and vintage Oberheim. It has a similar edge to the AX-60. The OB-12 does excel at pads and warm strings. It's an intersting synth.
RS-Elc MonoVoks4
Noise Synthesizer PRBSynth1
video upload by RS-Elc
"This synthesizer makes sound based on noise and pitched noise patterns.
The sound in this video consists of direct recordings from this synth, no effects are used.
You can build this yourself (some people already did). All information is available and free, can be found at the Elektor Lab pages or my personal website mentioned at the end of the movie"
Short improvisation on the Elmyra drone synthesizer
video upload by dystopiker
"The Elmyra is running through the following pedal chain:
EHX Superego (acting as a filter only) x TC Electronic Flashback 2 (analog delay) x EHX Epitome (octaver only) x EHX Cathedral (hall)."
Synth Rant: Roland JX-08 or how to make Techno with USB Interference Noise?!
video upload by Wine&Synths
"Warning!
This video may contain traces of humorous exaggeration and controversial opinions!
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BASICS - What is MIDI
video upload by Woody Piano Shack
"Introduction and overview of MIDI for beginners, we'll cover the history, how MIDI works, how to connect synths and keyboards to PC, how to sequence, edit and playback MIDI files."
MORE WOODY PIANO SHACK
► WEBSITE https://woodypianoshack.com - additional links there.
► PIANO INSPIRATION SERIES http://bit.ly/inspiration_welcome
► SUPPORT http://bit.ly/wps_support
► MUSIC https://woodypianoshack.bandcamp.com
Vermona E-Piano Vintage Analog DDR Electronic Piano
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via this auction
"Electric piano made in East Germany in the late 70s. It's the brother of the Vermona Piano Strings.
They share the same body and layout but sound is a bit different. The piano sounds fuller on this one. Harpsichord and Spinet sounds are quite similar.
This one has a very nice and deep tremolo buit in, but no triple chorus like its string machine sibling.
Also has the same overall and seperate instruments volume control as well as a sustain switch that either make the sound to its longuest sustain or have the pedal control it.
A previous owner added a pot (in a not very nice place on the keyboard) that controls the length of the sustain. It's a nice added feature.
The unit was serviced. Caps in the power supply were replaced and original DIN sockets were replaced by jack ones for both output and sustain pedal input.
It's perfectly working.
Condition is fair, there are signs of wear and time but overall still looks good."
via this auction
"Electric piano made in East Germany in the late 70s. It's the brother of the Vermona Piano Strings.
They share the same body and layout but sound is a bit different. The piano sounds fuller on this one. Harpsichord and Spinet sounds are quite similar.
This one has a very nice and deep tremolo buit in, but no triple chorus like its string machine sibling.
Also has the same overall and seperate instruments volume control as well as a sustain switch that either make the sound to its longuest sustain or have the pedal control it.
A previous owner added a pot (in a not very nice place on the keyboard) that controls the length of the sustain. It's a nice added feature.
The unit was serviced. Caps in the power supply were replaced and original DIN sockets were replaced by jack ones for both output and sustain pedal input.
It's perfectly working.
Condition is fair, there are signs of wear and time but overall still looks good."
Rare Jen DT 73 Analog Electric Piano
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via this auction
"This is a the rarest keyboard I ever found. I didn't find any information or picture of it (yes even on Matrixsynth :-). [Funny!]
I estimate it was produced in the early 80s along with the also quite rare Jen SYNX 508 synthetizer and thus is probably one of the very last instrument ever released by JEN. To those wondering it is not a rebadged or revised JEN PIANO 73. I owned one and the circuits are totally different. (pictures available if interested).
Noticeably this one has a splitable velocity sensitive keyboard. You can chose between 3 pianos sound that you can assign and layer on the left and right part of the keyboard.
Piano 1 is a very squarish piano sound, kind of EP sound. Piano 2 is the one closest to an accoustic piano sound and Piano 3 is the mandatory harspichord kind of sound. You get a nice built in phaser with depth and speed controls, along with a left/right balance mix, master volume (that controls both the builtin speakers and headphone out but not the external amp out. Engaging a jack in the headphone socket mutes the speakers) and the touch sensitivity control.
This is the real nice feature of the keyboard. I thought the velocity response would be a joke but I was surprised how well it behaves. Not as good as a decent midi keyboard of course but better than most of the mini midi keyboard (like Korg Nano etc) and way way better than the Siel Opera 6 for instance if you know what I mean. Pre midi keyboard with velocity response are usually almost useless IMO. This is the first I found that is playable (far from perfect though).
Soundwise it's not the best electric (well electronic) piano in its genre. Sounds thinner than the ones from the 70s (crumar compac piano, multiman S, Farfisa Soundmaker etc). But with layering, splitting, velocity and phaser you can get some original sounds. I will try to make an audio demo, if not a video one. Condition is quite good considering its age and the overall build quality of italian keyboards from that area. There is a bump on the back of the case where the jack sits but it's barely noticeable. Underneath the keyboard the fake wood covering has started to pull off on both side but it doesn't seem to extend (it's where the original stand is normally screwed in)."
via this auction
"This is a the rarest keyboard I ever found. I didn't find any information or picture of it (yes even on Matrixsynth :-). [Funny!]
I estimate it was produced in the early 80s along with the also quite rare Jen SYNX 508 synthetizer and thus is probably one of the very last instrument ever released by JEN. To those wondering it is not a rebadged or revised JEN PIANO 73. I owned one and the circuits are totally different. (pictures available if interested).
Noticeably this one has a splitable velocity sensitive keyboard. You can chose between 3 pianos sound that you can assign and layer on the left and right part of the keyboard.
Piano 1 is a very squarish piano sound, kind of EP sound. Piano 2 is the one closest to an accoustic piano sound and Piano 3 is the mandatory harspichord kind of sound. You get a nice built in phaser with depth and speed controls, along with a left/right balance mix, master volume (that controls both the builtin speakers and headphone out but not the external amp out. Engaging a jack in the headphone socket mutes the speakers) and the touch sensitivity control.
This is the real nice feature of the keyboard. I thought the velocity response would be a joke but I was surprised how well it behaves. Not as good as a decent midi keyboard of course but better than most of the mini midi keyboard (like Korg Nano etc) and way way better than the Siel Opera 6 for instance if you know what I mean. Pre midi keyboard with velocity response are usually almost useless IMO. This is the first I found that is playable (far from perfect though).
Soundwise it's not the best electric (well electronic) piano in its genre. Sounds thinner than the ones from the 70s (crumar compac piano, multiman S, Farfisa Soundmaker etc). But with layering, splitting, velocity and phaser you can get some original sounds. I will try to make an audio demo, if not a video one. Condition is quite good considering its age and the overall build quality of italian keyboards from that area. There is a bump on the back of the case where the jack sits but it's barely noticeable. Underneath the keyboard the fake wood covering has started to pull off on both side but it doesn't seem to extend (it's where the original stand is normally screwed in)."
Waldorf MicroWave 1 Synthesizer Rack Rev. B / V2 + Memory Card
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