Moog One, Prophet 5, Kronos, Space Echoes and a Fostex R8

video upload by Guido Scognamiglio

"I call this song 'Project #7', inspired by some Sci-fi shows that I like.
Instruments used:
- Korg Kronos: drum and bass on tracks 1 & 2
- Moog One: the pad sound on track 3
- Prophet 5: all other sounds on tracks 4, 5, 6 and 7
Only tracks 1 & 2 processed by a Drawmer DL-241, all other tracks have no compressor and no EQ.
Effects are only the Roland Space Echo RE-201 and the Chorus Echo RE-501 for all tracks except 1 & 2.
Track 8 is the SMPTE signal but is unused.

The Fostex R8 is a lovely tape machine..."

A visit to the Marche Synth Museum

video upload by Guido Scognamiglio

"A visit to the Marche Synth Museum
Museo Del Synth Marchigiano (e Italiano)
July 2023
https://www.museodelsynth.org/"

Some of the synths featured on their site:

Eko Computerrythm
Elka Synthex
CRB Oberon
Crumar Spirit
Farfisa Compact Duo
Welson Symphony
Crumar Compac Synth
CRB Uranus 2
Elka Rhapsody
Farfisa Syntorchestra
Milton Gemichord
Logan String Melody

I also spotted a Welson Syntex recently featured in Hainbach's Blast of Sirens promo video. Solton RSC Polyvox at 1:59.

Vintage Italian synths.

You can find additional posts mentioning Marche Synth Museum here.

Star Trek (TOS) theme played with GSi Mini Orchestra on iPad

video upload by Guido Scognamiglio

"I play the music theme from Star Trek (the original series) using GSi Orchestra running on my iPad. No sequences, all played with two hands.
Find more about Mini Orchestra at:
https://www.genuinesoundware.com/?a=s..."

Rendez Vous with GM.LAB

video upload by Guido Scognamiglio

"Playing an excerpt of JMJ's 'Second Rendez Vous' with new GM.LAB d-i-y synthesizers - 2x Rondò (string machine) + X1000 (mono synth) + PicoSynth (mono synth). Visit www.gmlab.it"

"G.M. LAB is a side project of Crumar and Genuine Soundware.

G.M. LAB is the name we decided to give to our 'Genuine Midi' projects that you can build by yourself or buy pre-assembled.

The Idea
As Crumar and GSi, we design, manufacture and market professional quality digital musical instruments. On top of that, we also wanted to give our customers the ability to add some more electronic "utilities" that can be easily integrated with existing music rigs to help musicians get the best out of their equipment.

Open-Source
Since we're living the era of open-source, why not take advantage of it and give the users the ability to customize these projects or make them with the lowest possible budget? All of our projects are based on Arduino, possibly the most famous and easy to program existing framework for programming micro-controllers."

See the GM Lab label below for additional posts.

Prophet 5 rev4 - Custom Banks by Guido Scognamiglio

video by

"A showcase of my 5x8 presets I made for my Prophet 5 rev4.
Delay & Reverb effects added using GSi VariSpeed & TimeVerb-X.

Get the SysEx file from: https://www.GenuineSoundware.com/publ...

This will overwrite User Group 1 banks 1-5"

Prophet 5 rev4 - my custom bank #2 (mostly acoustic sounds)


"A showcase of another 5x8 presets I made for my Prophet 5 rev4.
Delay & Reverb effects added using GSi VariSpeed & TimeVerb-X.
These are mostly acoustic-ish sounds. You should be able to recognize the instrument they try to imitate.

Get the SysEx file from: https://www.GenuineSoundware.com/publ...

This will overwrite User Group 2 banks 1-5"

Crumar Performer Goes Virtual

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"Crumar is proud to present the first official virtual instrument: Performer.

Credits:
UI design by: Pierre Collard
Code by:
- Luigi Felici @ nusofting.com
- Michele Picaro @ TantalumAudio.com
- Guido Scognamiglio @ GenuineSoundware.com
Project management by: Andrea Agnoletto

Video editing by Guido Scognamiglio, Andrea Agnoletto
Voiceover by: Luke Martin
Music by: Liqih @ soundcloud.com/liqih & Michele Picaro

Visit: www.crumar.it"

via Crumar.it

"It was back in 1979 when the italian company CRUMAR released the Performer. It was a 49 keys compact string machine with a brass section. The idea arrived after the success of the Multiman-S model (Orchestrator in USA). After few years, the company was enough smart to understand that the demand of musicians in 1979 was different and music was evolving differently in those days. Here came the CRUMAR Performer, a compact and more modern keyboard that seems perfect for the music of the upcoming '80a.

Performer uses the famous "TOS" configuration. This was a very common and practical way to achieve polyphony at that time: a high frequency clock drives a "top octave generator chip" which produces all the note frequencies for the top octave as a basic square waves. These square waves can be then be fed to frequency divider to produce a note an octave lower, then to another one to generate an octave below than that, and so on.

Performer used the Mostek MK50240N as a top octave synthesizer and used 12 TDA1008 as dividers to create a logical tonal grid according to which keys are being hit on the brass and 8' and 16' string mixes. From here there's an analog filter/envelope on the brass and EQ and analog delay section based on BBD chips for the string section. Performer had 2 hardware revisions during production years basically with these differences:

Rev.A - First instrument release.

Rev.B - Added an extra transpose switch and boards revision. The brass section was completely redesigned using chips from SSM company (Solid State Micro Technology for Music): one SSM2050 IC as envelope generator and one SSM2040 IC as 4-pole filter. SSM2040 is considered one of the best sounding filters for the way it can add harmonics to the original signal, for its resonance and small amounts of distortion when overdriven.

Brass sound is para-phonic.

After more than 40 years since the release of the CRUMAR Performer keyboard, and after one year of accurate and intensive research on the original instrument, sound, components and schematics and all its variants, we decided to offer the same playing experience with an accurate software, a faithful replica of the original hardware instrument.

Performer is a physical modeling simulation of the original vintage instrument.

Main features:

- Adjustable global and single note tuning.
- Fully polyphonic.
- Realistic control panel with sliders and buttons like the original.
- Accurate simulation of original circuitry.
- Selection for Rev.A and Rev.B filter.
- Selection for the "sustain modification".
- Built-in adjustable reverb and chorus effect.
- Simulation of pedals effect section including Graphic EQ, Phaser, Flanger and Analog Delay.
- On-screen help tips and readout values.
- Very low memory and CPU power needed.
- Easy MIDI-Learn feature.
- MIDI map import and export feature.
- Bank and program import and export feature.
- Compatible with Windows and OSX.

MusikMesse 2007: Clavia Nord Wave

YouTube via cm2magazine (click for all cm2magazine Musikmesse videos)
"This is the new PCM-based synthesizer from Clavia, the Nord Wave, still a prototype in a phase of development but very promising. Presented by Bjorn Leander, footage by Guido Scognamiglio for CM2 Magazine. Enjoy! ;-)"