"Has one mod, which is common enough: the proprietary mic input was removed and replaced by a common XLR. This is a massive improvement in that it allows you to use any mic, unlike the OG Korg.
Aftermarket gooseneck is included, but you can plug a basic mic cable into it as well."
"The Roland Aira Compact S-1 uses Roland's Analog Circuit Behaviour (ACB) technology to emulate the classic SH-101 monosynth from the 80s. ... plus a lot more, like 4 voice poly, delay and reverb, wave drawing, fast LFO, MIDI (obvs), poly sequencer with parameter locks, extra LFO shapes, and D-motion.
In this I have a play with a few of the factory sequences to give a feel for its range and play it alongside my vintage SH101 to see how close it gets."
This pristine, Oberheim Matrix-12 synthesizer the subject of our winter 2025 fundraising raffle. It is signed by synthesizer pioneer Tom Oberheim and the Matrix co-creators Marcus Ryle and Michel Doidic. The synth belonged to Doug Curtis, whose Curtis chips were used in its design. It was generously donated by Doug's widow, Mary Curtis.
In this video, four envelopes on the Buchla 281 quad function generator are providing control voltages and triggers to the Magnetic Freak Gaussian, the Buchla 292r lopass gate, the JRB VCBF bandpass filter, and to the Buchla 258d oscillators. The 258d square is FMing the sawtooth oscillator, which runs through the M.E.M.S. clone of the Buchla 295. Three of the individual band outputs on the 295m are patched into the audio inputs on the 292r, with the 295m mix output patched to the Mackie Onyx 1640 mixer, panned center. The mix output on the 295m is patched to the JRB VCBF, which runs through the Peavey DDL-3 digital delay, with the DDL-3 dry output panned right and the wet output panned left on the Mackie. All of the signals get reverb blended on the CXM 1978."
"In this set of song, I explore rhythmic sounds and various non-ambient music styles on the @SONICWARE Liven Ambient Ø.
Track list:
1. 0:00 - Ride Into the Sunset
2. 2:24 - Lurking in the Shadows
3. 4:25 - Suspended
4. 5:21 - Jungle City
5. 7:28 - Bubbling to the Surface
6. 8:53 - Winter, 1986
7. 10:27 - Rock On
8. 11:56 - Watching the Apocalypse From the Beach
9. 13:47 - Cue the Strings
10. 15:13 - Remembering Orion "
"There are currently 1601 filters on ModularGrid. It may be impossible to pick the right one for your case. If we check out the modular pioneers, we'd see Moog's legendary ladder. Buchla only made a rare triple bandpass, Roland and Korg refined far eastcoast synthesis and there are a few exotics like the Wasp and the Polivoks. In this video I want to focus on the Serge filters (eurorack format) which I rediscovered last year. He has five designs with distinct differences. There's the RES EQ fixed filter bank, the VCF2 variable bandwidth with no resonance (?), the VCFS with a variable slope (?) and the highly appreciated VCFQ with variable resonance. A few weeks ago Serge released the VCFX with a 'new gate' on a single panel. It's a simple utility filter on its own, but combined with the gate we'll have a patch programmable LPG. Or a bandpass gate.
I'll be using the Schlappi THREE-BODY as a triple sawtooth voice making a chord. It's a big and nasty sound that could use a filter. It inevitably turned out to be a long video because I had the pleasure to go through five different filters. I tried to keep it fresh and entertaining. Who doesn't love playing the cut-off :)."
"A piece created using the @somasynths Lyra-8, @KORG_INC MS-20, and YAMAHA Reface DX. It's ambient music where a melody and looper sequence melt into a drone.
For the Lyra-8, after some tuning, I set it to HOLD the sound so it resembles chords. Its output is processed with reverb using @gfisys SPECULAR TEMPUS.
The MS-20 is run through @strymon blueSky for reverb, and I occasionally open and close the filter to change its timbre.
The Reface DX loops phrases with its looper while applying filter and reverb via @strymon NIGHTSKY. At the beginning and end of the track, I reduce the dry signal and modulate the filter to blur the sound."
