Oberheim OB-8 61-Key 8-Voice Synthesizer SN C30404

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"Vintage Oberheim Ob8. Fully functional and recently serviced by Analog Lab. (August 2023) Excellent condition. Comes with heavy duty road case. Actual case pictured with the Ob8."

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Oberheim Xpander Desktop 6-Voice Synthesizer w/ Docs

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Bad Gear - Korg MPC ZERO

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https://reverb.com/news/video-inside-korg-berlin-home-of-acoustic-electronic-synthesis"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. The evolution of electronic musical instruments is mysterious: while we have seen vast improvements in the fields of design, bling bling per square inch and workflow elitism, the spec sheets are oftentimes outclassed by the feature sets of many vintage instruments.

Today we are going to talk about the Electribe 2 Sampler. This most recent installment of the iconic groove machine range was brought to the market in 2015 and not only combines the aforementioned limitations with the product family’s trademark primitivism, Korg also managed to make it look REALLY bad when compared to its predecessor."

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RF analog dawless downtempo

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"Radical Frequencies analog dawless jam downtempo . The bass melody sequence is from dpvco ( square and saw waves ) through the SH Vcf. lucky voltages sends a noise source into RF 12db multi Vcf and then into VCAs with envelopes for making the hi hats ! Kick and snare are diy 808 modules . The final summing is from RF Audio cv mixer using the transistor out . The master clock is from the RF vc adsr generator. Using muxlicer , O&C and chaos for sequencing and triggering."

Ensoniq ESQ-1 soundscape - Minutes till darkness

video upload by MIDERA

"I finally took the opportunity to make a video with the Ensoniq ESQ-1. I did a 'first impression video' and stumbled through it. Now I'm a little more well-versed. I actually had an overhead view of what I was doing, but the video wasn't syncing up properly, so I had to trash that one.

Wow - I think the ESQ sounds amazing. I'm really surprised honestly. It's not a 3rd Wave or anything, but - you can actually get some interesting 'wave shaping' on here by utilizing sync, which is what I was doing. Sounded fantastic and frankly, I liked it just as much as the 3rd wave.

And here's the thing - people complain that the ESQ doesn't update it's parameters in real time. Yeah - this kind of sucks with cutoff (maybe it would update in realtime with the mod wheel? If so, that is perfect, just haven't tried it yet). Well - I actually *prefer* it this way and I'll tell you why: because on things like the 3rd wave when you change a parameter, it immediately changes your sound and its jarring. On the ESQ, I can make changes and they only are apparent at the next key strike and that is absolutely great when I'm doing these live soundscapes. Yeah, sure, it would be nice to hear some things in real-time... but I thought it was perfect the way it was.

Very easy to get around on this thing for a mostly-button interface.
Final thoughts:
1) I'm surprised I hadn't bought an ESQ-1 earlier.
2) I think it sounds better than the Prophet 12, on par with or equal to the Ambika, different or maybe equal to the 3rd Wave although it can't exactly do the same thing...
3) Filters sound gorgeous. Surprised that they sort of step when the envelopes go slow, but actually it's kind of more like good character IMO.
4) How are these things so cheap given how good they are? How? Just because the interface looks bad? Not a knobby synth? Overly mass produced?

Fantastic synth. Wow."

Are A.I. Generated DX7 Sounds Good? Digital God or RoboBozo?

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"There's a lot of hype and anxiety over the development of A.I. The A.I. generated DX7 sounds expose the limitations. Much of the hype is fueled by a childish want for new toys without a maturity of developing skills of tools one already has. In the terms of Steve Jobs, it's creation of B and C players.

Off The Matrix DX7 patches can be found at: https://www.offthematrix.net/product-...
Stock footage came from PexBell, Digital_Expert and spacetrip of pixabay."

2024/06 - One Up Ultimate Percussion

video upload by Stereoping

"Quick demo of a One Up Ultimate Percussion Synth. Piuuu Piuuu ... Kind of Coron DS-8 without the LFO/FM section. But with a BITE parameter introducing kind of short high frequency noisepulse. Pitchbend only positive."

Analog Bass/Hell Modular Synthesizer

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24dB LP FILTER APLIFIER & DUAL RETRO VCA

What Tomorrow Brings ( M8 Model 02 )

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"Hi everyone, new M8, new Track.

So had the new model 02 M8 for a week now, it's slick, I love the model 01.

enjoy the 4k, focus sorts itself out little bit into the video.

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EaganMatrix Overlays - Sneak Peek with Electra One MKII Controller

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"A short description of the upcoming EaganMatrix Overlay support (previously named Specialty Synths) that will be part of the next Major EaganMatrix firmware release. The content here is very similar to what Ed Eagan presented at the recent ContinuuCon 2024, but here implemented using an Electra One controller instead of a MAXMSP program. The idea is that the interface is a simple a Midi CC control scheme (that does not require bidirectional communication), the user interface for which can be implemented in numerous ways, now even as a plugin. Note this video is not intended to be an instructional presentation on exactly how to create the interface. More detailed videos will come once the new firmware is released."