Yamaha CS-10 Videos via Dovinia

"The rich square wave of the CS-10 can sound somewhat like a bass clarinet sometimes. Also present here is a heavily Small Stoned Juno-6 with the filter all the way open for some sharp string machine-like sounds. The second, higher pitched lead and background noises, whispers and chirps are all courtesy of the CS-10 on the remaining tracks."

Analog Impressions #011

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"Dark soundscape with the Yamaha CS-10 through a Revox A77 - for some good old tape echo."

Dovinia "Sylvania" Modular Synthesizer Improvisations

YouTube Published on Jul 31, 2012 by Dovinia

"...while we're at it, here's another 70's style Berlin School escapade realized using only the Doepfer A-100 and some external effects. This is fresh from the tape with no further processing (apart from the usual digital mangling of the real analog sound which I have to endure to get this stuff up here)."

Dovinia "Sylvania" Synthesizer Improvisations

YouTube Uploaded by Dovinia on Jan 19, 2012

"Since the microKORG is turning 10 years these days I decided it would be nice to make a little tribute piece. So here's a completely digital recording for a change using only the microKORG for all voices... All patches are my own and I used a trusty old Boss BR-600 for recording."

Dovinia "Sylvania" - modular synthesizer improvisations

YouTube Uploaded by Dovinia on Oct 7, 2011

"Sounds from my garden blends with the Doepfer A-100. I'm using a Dark Time sequencer for the harp-like arpeggio. For the technically interested: This is an all analog recording multitracked to audio cassette using a Tascam 424 MkIII. Mastered to a Sony wm-d6c and transfered to my Satellite lap top directly through the line in jack using the generic sound recorder application. The reverb and delay ambience in this recording comes from the A-199 Spring Reverb and A-188-1 BBD (4096 stages) modules."

MFOS Weird Sound Generator Controlling Moog Little Phatty

YouTube via Dovinia | January 23, 2011 |

"Here's a little demo of a WSG controlling my Little Phatty. One of the oscillators in the WSG has been patched out to provide a simple gate signal which is then fed to the gate input on the Phatty. I'm using the "Zany" oscillator (or LFO if you like) from voice A. I also added some LED's to show the LFO rates for both voices."

WSG random sounds

Dovinia | January 23, 2011 |

"Some random sound examples from a WSG I'm selling locally. This one has rate LED's for the LFO's and a gate output. The unit is built in a box of the exact same dimensions as Doepfer's Mini Cases."

Dovinia "Sylvania" Modular Synthesizer Improvisations

YouTube Published on Jul 29, 2012 by Dovinia

"Yeah I know. Guilty pleasures... Just had to do a little Berlin School evening jam on the Doepfer A-100. I hope you are not offended."

Roland Juno-6 Videos by Dovinia

Roland JUNO-6 Patches #1

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"Here's a quick walk through of all the Example Sounds from the original Roland Juno-6 manual. I hope you enjoy it more than I enjoyed dialing in all those sounds...

The manual with patch sheets can be downloaded here for reference: ftp://ftp.roland.co.uk/productsupport/Ma nuals/"

Roland JUNO-6 Patches #2

" Here's part 2 of my little walk through of all the Example Patches from the original Roland JUNO-6 owners manual. This part concentrates on what is called "single tone musical instruments" in the manual. Prepare for some really cheesy violins, trumpets etc. As in Part 1, you'll hear that there are some more complex (and possibly more interesting) sounds towards the end of the clip."

Roland Juno 6 Strings

" Here's a little Juno 6 sound demo. Effects added are Boss CE-2, EHX Small Stone and EHX Deluxe Memory Man. I also added some background chords on an old Eminent Solina N150 organ. Drum machine: Univox SR-95 (Minipops 7 equivalent). The typical JMJ chord progressions are intended. I thought this patch sounded somewhat like a typical 70's string synthesizer although the Juno's tend to lean a little to the brassy side. The effects help to mellow things out a bit IMO. Try it yourself if you like; The settings can be seen quite clearly in the video. Hope you enjoy it and sorry about the excessive noise levels... What you hear is the analog goodness of two cascading chorus lines. Bucket Brigade chips are not exactly Hi-Fi ;-)"

Analog Impressions #010

"JUNO-6 on four tracks. Some Small Stone here and there and tons of delay and reverb using the Deluxe Memory Man and Van-Amps Sole-Mate."

MFOS Videos by Dovinia

Weird Sound Generator WSG

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"These are some of the sounds you can make with a Weird Sound Generator from Music From Outer Space."

MFOS Weird Sound Generator

"Here's another WSG. This time in a red box. I'm using an EHX Deluxe Memory Man through two amps to fatten up the sound a bit."

Sound Lab Mini Synth

"This is a brief demo of the Sound Lab Mini Synth. It's not a musical statement, just some tweaking of knobs :-)"

Sound Lab Mini Synth

"Just some fooling around on a keyboard with my MFOS Sound Lab Mini-Synth. I'm using a Midi to CV converter connected to a Korg Poly 800. I also use some digital delay and chorus to fatten things up a bit more."

Analog Impressions #003

"OSC 2 sync'ed to OSC 1 on a Music From Outer Space Soundlab Minisynth , but tweaked so that it doesn't track perfectly on all notes, for some eerie results.
http://musicfromouterspace.com/analog..."

Dovinia "Sylvania" Modular Synthesizer Improvisations

YouTube Uploaded by Dovinia on Oct 27, 2011

"Testing a sequencer patch suggested by Allen Strange in his book, "Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controls". Two sequencers are interacting through a sample and hold module. Sequencer A runs through a short melody while sequencer B runs backwards through the same note sequence at a slower speed. It's a complex patch even though it may not seem so... Doepfer A-100 with Dark Time and A-160/161 sequencing. Also in the mix: Roland Alpha Juno 1 and Korg Monotribe in sync with the Dark time."

Dovinia "Sylvania" Modular Synthesizer Improvisations

YouTube Published on Aug 1, 2012 by Dovinia

"Sometimes I wanna do bad things to small lap top speakers. Todays piece is an exploration of random note sequencing courtesy of the Doepfer A-149-1 "Source of Uncertainty" clone module. Running this into the A-106-5 SEM filter creates some interesting rhythmic effects. I drove the tape into saturation on purpose. Noodles!"

Dovinia "Outside" Moog Minitaur & backyard

Published on Apr 20, 2013 Dovinia·125 videos

"Mellow meditative improvisation commenting on the sounds of my backyard on a cold and windy norwegian spring morning. All sounds except the obvious outdoor ambience is from the Moog Minitaur. Also in the mix: "Better" Analog Echo Unit EC400 (MN3005), EHX Small Stone and EHX Polychorus."

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Moog Little Phatty Videos by Dovinia

Analog Impressions #002

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"Although a bit tedious to program the Moog Little Phatty is an extremely versatile synth. This little musical sketch takes a Tangerine Dream - like approach with a strong arpeggio in front and drifting leads and flute like timbres floating in and out in the background. This piece was recorded on analog cassette tape and patched together with a recording of the rain pouring down outside my studio."

Analog Impressions #007
"Moog Little Phatty accompanying itself over four analog audio cassette tracks."

Korg mini pops SR 120 analog drum machine

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"Here's a little walk through of the basic rhythms of an SR-120.
This machine has 10 fabulous analog drum sounds as opposed to 7 on the mini pops 7 (the one used by Jarre) and may be considered the flagship of the series. People say it's quite rare, but you can find them on ebay quite often anyway. The machine has 32 patterns. 10 patterns are available from the switches and can be combined in any way you want. if you are clever you can in theory push down all the buttons at once. The number of possible combinations are quite extensive. When the "Waltz" pattern is engaged any pattern which is combined with it will also be in triplets, which gives you an idea of the vast combination possibilities. The machine has a nice implementation of foot switch inputs which lets you control fade in/out, start/stop and fills/break. All in all this gives you hours of fun, and that incredibly sweet, inimitable retro drum sound which sits perfectly in almost any mix. Enjoy. :-)"

Analog Impressions #031

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"Roland Juno-6 triggered by a Univox SR-95 (Korg Minipops 7). But that's impossible, right ?! The Minipops doesn't have trigger out or any other connectors apart from line out. So how can this work ? Well the secret is signal splitting and heavy amplification on the one side of the split that runs into the Juno. You also need to try to isolate the treble a bit. This kind of trigger is very unstable, and the arpeggio on the Juno tends to jump all over the place. But that's the charm of a pure analog signal path."

Roland TR 606 Drumatix

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"This is a brief demo of some of the suggested patterns from the TR-606 owners manual."

MFOS Soundlab Mini Synth controlled by Little Phatty

YouTube via Dovinia | October 26, 2010

"MFOS Soundlab Mini Synth and Moog Little Phatty."

Analog Impressions #029

YouTube via Dovinia
"Roland Juno-6 alone on four tracks. Lead recorded in unison / mono mode."

Arturia Minibrute Meditation

Published on Dec 29, 2012 Dovinia·122 videos

"In this quickly improvised piece I'm running some slowly evolving, high pitched notes through the filter at high resonance while tweaking the Brute Factor for some interesting feedback effects."


Arturia Minibrute Dreamwaves
Published on Dec 29, 2012

"Free form instant composition - running the Arturia MiniBrute through an Electro Harmoinx Polychorus for some bucket brigade device weirdness. The MiniBrute triangle wave through the Metallizer produce some excellent wavefolding effects perfect for human voice like timbers. So far just scratching the surface of what this excellent synth can do. Hats off to Mr. Usson!"

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Dark Energy, Dark Time and Monotribe impro

YouTube Uploaded by Dovinia on Feb 15, 2012

"Testing a small setup with the Dark Energy, Dark Time and Monotribe. Lead lines played using the frequency control on the DE and the Monotribe ribbon. Who needs a keyboard ?"

Analog Impressions #034

YouTube via Dovinia — May 25, 2010 — "Here's a little improvised 4 track recording using a MFOS Sound Lab Mini Synth and an EHX Deluxe Memory Man analog delay. The Mini Synth arpeggios etc are triggered by a Microkorg via Midi/CV coverter."