Alioth | Ambient Moog Minitaur

video upload by Claus Gahrn

"Ambient, generative music on the Moog Minitaur.
MIDI sequenced in Ableton Live.
Software effects: Soundtoys Echoboy"

Lexicon PCM70 | Best bang for the buck reverb you could get in the 80s

video upload by Espen Kraft

"The Lexicon PCM70 was released in 1985. The same year as the more expensive 224X. The PCM70 was a budget alternative for expensive sounding lush reverbs and effects, even if it did cost over $2000 in the 80s. It also had MIDI and they made it respond to CC messages so you could control it in real time. This was very impressive. What set a good expensive reverb apart from more cheap ones was how the expensive reverbs effortlessly wrapped around the sound source in a majestic and expansive way, where the cheap ones wrapped itself around the source as wet snow or stink on stink.

Today, there are plugins that will destroy the PCM70 in many ways, but sometimes the oldies are goldies for a reason.

A big thanks to Anders Jensen for letting me have one of his PCM70s for this video. I've sold all my Lexicons now as I use Valhalla VintageVerb for easier and faster access to the Lexicon reverb sound in the DAW.

Find my music here:
Bandcamp: https://espenkraft.bandcamp.com/

00:00 LONG HALL Reverb Program
00:44 Intro
01:48 DRUMS with reverb
04:18 Midi CC for remote control of parameters
08:41 Synth Brass with long modulated reverbs
11:13 Does it hold up today? Final thoughts"

Ahead Of Its Time: Publison DHM89B2 (1978)

video upload by HAINBACH

"The French Publison DHM89B2 with its FB2000 keyboard controller is a stunning instrument for its time. Released first in 1978 (keyboard in 1980) it quickly made its way into the electronic music studios of the experimental avantgarde, such as INA GRM and SWR Experimentalstudio. For the time it offered incredible fidelity of pitch-shifting and sampling, surpassing the more famous Fairlight with ease. Pop stars like Prince used it extensively, and it became the go to vocal doubler / harmonizer for many years. This particular unit belonged to Manuel Göttsching (E2-E4) and resides now at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Robert Henke (Monolake) and Dave Hilowitz joined me there to explore it."

See the Publison label below for additional posts.

TC 1210 Spatial Expander and Roland TR-808

video upload by foleytronics fx repair

"Here is Mike’s MIDI-fied 808 being processed by Brandt’s Spatial Expander, an awesome analog chorusing/flanging/widening effect."

Bert on knob control.

Korg Wavestate | No talking | Ambient custom sounds for 15:30 minutes

video upload by xu.sounddesign - dirk rohde

"This is the Korg Wavestate. No external effects, no additianl samples, no mixing, no compressors.

I designed all the sounds you can hear myself.

If you are interested in my soundpacks, please send me an email

XU Sounddesign
Dirk Rohde
Studio Xeniaturaba
Location: Northern Germany
Contact: xu.sounddesign@gmx.net"

SOLAR 42 F | SOUND DEMO 4

video upload by ELTA music

00:01 Improvisation "SOLARIS", with guitar and radio FM
03:10 Variation on a theme Blade Runner "Main Titles"
04:52 Improvisation 2
06:30 New feature - SUB generator
07:08 New feature - Distortion, "Guitar solo emulation"
08:40 Improvisation "Conversation", with FM radio
10:25 Exponential FM, VCOA ocs to VCOB cv, controlling the pwm with the joystick
11:03 DRONE VOICE 3/8
12:12 Improvisation "FRU89"
13:45 New features - Portamento distortion and SUB generators
15:15 New features - SUB generators VCO A and VCO B
16:03 Improvisation "Bird box"

Skippy Exp: an expander for Skippy

video upload by Kaona modular music

"Skippy Exp is a tiny module in 2HP that adds "Play/Stop" and "Reset" functions to Skippy, either via a button or a CV input."

"Skippy Exp is a very small module that in 2HP adds to Skippy the 'Play/Stop' function and the 'Reset' function, either with a button or with a CV input. It cannot work independently and you absolutely need Skippy to use it.

For those who do not need the live settings that Skippy Live allows (or who no longer have space!), Skippy EXP nevertheless allows you to add two essential functions for a dynamic game.

This module cannot work in parallel with Skippy Live which already has these two functions. It can be placed on the right or on the left. The connector to connect it to Skippy is provided. This module does not need to be connected to the power supply."

You can find additional posts featuring Skippy here.

Roland SDD-320 × Omnichord OM-108 × Oberheim Matrix1000

video upload by Rec Gear Demos

Analog Rytm mk2 jamming in the kitchen

video upload by Bobo Meijer

"We have just moved to a new house and everything is packed in moving boxes but I really felt the need to bring out the Rytm mk2 and see if I could come up with something to jam with. So this was the result and just kind of liked it. I’m using one of the preset kits and made my own pattern with it ☺️"

Retro 80's FM MIDI Synth

video upload by TronixSynth

"Made in the 80's style, this is an FM MIDI synth that can be used with any MIDI Keyboard or PC and Mac MIDI software. Use it with a vintage Casio keyboard or modern software such as Max/MSP, Ableton, Pure Data, etc."

See the Tronicraft label below for addtitional posts.