Modular Synth Loop by Jay Wires ft. Doepfer A-100 Modular ARP 2600 vintage synthesizer ARP Sequencer

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"Sometimes I just mess around on my modular synths when I wanna take a break from writing Synth Songs (which you should check out). And sometimes it turns into a song. Comment if you like this. Or hate it.

Synthpop art with a human heart
http://jaywires.com"

Buchla 200 modular system analog synthesizer the electric music box synth

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"Here’s my Buchla 200 system. Part original vintage buchla and part clone, it’s my go to synth when I wanna annoy my neighbors dog. Does this sound annoy you? 🐶 looks great though, doesnt it?

It would mean a lot to me if youd check out my music at jaywires.com 🙏🏼"

$50 Roland System 700 - first video of this massive classic vintage synth modular beast

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"What do you think of this Roland System 700 I just found at a flea market for $50? The elderly couple I bought it from was using it as a coffee table when their cat wasnt sleeping on it.

Here’s the first sound I made on it using just the main cabinet (sequenced by korg sq1 and drums by volca beats). ​⁠@tonetweakers will begin the restoration process this week, but the next few weeks will be spent making space for it cause not even an undisputed world champion Synth Tetris master like me can fit this much synth into a NYC synth cave without getting rid of a bunch of stuff.

please check out my music. jaywires.com for all the links. Synth love from NYC ❤️"

Ghost by Jay Wires

New release from supporting member Jay Wires available on multiple platforms via distrokid.

"New York City based synthesist-songwriter Jay Wires dials up catchy electropop infused with human emotion - synthpop art with a human heart. 


Victims of ghosting are often left confused and wondering what went wrong. “Ghost,” by Jay Wires, conveys succinctly that hollow ache in an uncomplicated and beautifully poignant way, with a lush immersive sound that embodies that emptiness which consumes you to your very core. 


With cleanly layered analog synths evoking desolate war-torn landscapes with background shades of Vangelis-meets-Depeche Mode, this despondent lament intensifies with its elements building into an eerie, enveloping wall of sound, expressing an overwhelming distress as the song’s subject flits away, on to their next victim. 


From the initial gasp of breath to the grand finale, this compelling track draws us into a delicious melancholia, perfect for the Halloween season."

Refurbished Roland TB-303 bassline TR-808 rhythm composer acid house live techno track

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"Live acid on the Roland TB-303 and TR-808 by Dr. Jay Wires, BS MD PhD @jaywires

Both of these fine specimens are available for sale on our website.

Buy vintage gear that works like new at tonetweakers.com

We buy sell trade refurbish vintage synths and electronic musical instruments.

Tone Tweakers Inc.
http://www.tonetweakers.com"

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Korg Minilogue analog synth Korg Volca Beats drum machine dead battery total boner killer PROTIPS

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"I’ve got access to every great synth ever made, but these little korgs are some of my favorites because they’re so much fun to play.

PROTIPS:

1. don’t forget to charge those batteries. As you can see, when your volca drum batteries die midway through your jam, it’s a TBK (total boner killer). Game over.

2. the minilogue takes a shockingly long time to tune up on its own, so hold down shift and press record to manually tune it.

3. It just blew my mind to find out (like 3 years later) that there’s an official Minilogue firmware update that lets you transpose your sequences via the keyboard. Not sure why this wasn’t part of the first version, but I’m looking forward to backing up my patches and updating this OG minilogue and my minilogue xd real soon. Now if only I had more time to play them.

4. Be a pal and stream, like, follow, share and all that other BS. http://www.jaywires.com/"

Don't Say Goodbye by Jay Wires

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Some info on the gear used, via Jay Wires:

"I used Patrick Cowley’s Sequential Circuits Pro-One for a few of the sounds. It had remained unused since his death in 1982 until 2022 when Tone Tweakers refurbished it and added MTG Turbo CPU and MIDI (reversible mods). I also used the Roland Juno-60 I got from my friend Vince. The rest of the sounds I dialed up from scratch on basic Logic softsynths, except for the piano, which was a preset."

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On the release:

"‘Don’t Say Goodbye’ is the fifth single from Jay Wires.

New York City based synthesist-songwriter Jay Wires dials up catchy electropop infused with human emotion - synthpop art with a human heart. With a long history of dealing vintage synths to serious recording artists, Jay Wires finally started releasing music of his own in August 2022 through Yes Trigger Music.

‘Don’t Say Goodbye’ is a true story about being ghosted by a narcissist during the isolation and loneliness of COVID lockdown, cleverly disguised as an upbeat synthpop ditty that some may find reminiscent of Yazoo or The Postal Service.

‘Don’t Say Goodbye’ was suddenly released on July 7, 2023 without any prior promotion.

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0iNSpXoV0K2ncoY4dJ28U9?si=9c0bb5e3619f4527

LISTEN ON BANDCAMP:
https://jaywires.bandcamp.com/track/dont-say-goodbye

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaywires/"

Sunrise ft. Korg PS​-​3300 by Jay Wires

"This piece is based around an evolving sequence I made on an early Korg PS-3300 synthesizer. I programmed the rest of the sounds from scratch on Apple Logic Pro X soft synths. It's my sonic interpretation of the sunrise. Does it sound like that to you?

Thanks so much for listening! Please sign up for my mailing list, follow me on social media and say hi! Links below.

Email and say hi! ❤️ JW
jaywires4u@gmail.com
LINKS: jaywires.com"

EMS VCS3 The Putney sound effects. It’s for sale too!

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"Trying to fit this EMS VCS3 into my next song but not sure if it’s gonna work for this one. This synth was meticulously refurbished and is for sale at tonetweakers.com @tonetweakers along with most other great vintage synths."

Roland TR-909 drum machine techno beat by Jay Wires

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"Today at work, we took a break from our other restoration to help an old homie repair his messed up Roland TR-909 that a couple other techs couldn’t fix. Here’s a video of the test drive i took to make sure it was ok. You’ll hear a little crackle cause we made a one time exception for a good friend and only did the bare minimum to get it working again and safe for use again, rather than the meticulous refurbs we’re known for at tonetweakers.com. Now who wants to book me for their rave?"

Vintage ARP 2500 electronic music synthesizer model 2002 track in progress by Jay Wires

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"ARP 2500 vintage modular synthesizer from 1970 + drums, track in progress, programmed by Jay Wires on a very early Tone Tweakers-refurbished ARP 2500 model 2002. Check out Jay Wires music at jaywires.com and buy vintage synths that work like new at tonetweakers.com."

Breathe by Jay Wires

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"Breathe is the 4th track off the Kaboom! EP by Jay Wires."

Available on muliple formats here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jaywires/breathe

"In contrast with the preceding singles from ‘Kaboom!’ [posted here], ‘Breathe’ is positively upbeat. Its lyrics contain a sense of soothing, calming relief after the heartbreak and emotional upheaval elsewhere on the EP, and its sounds and rhythms are nothing short of ascendant and rapturous. It is a hopeful song about rekindling the fires of romance.

The inspiration for the sense of optimism came from a walk that Jay took in an abandoned park in Astoria, Queens. “I was walking through the long, uncut grass during the COVID lockdown,” he remembers. “The climatic break and instrumental section that follows it in 'Breathe' were meant to capture that euphoric feeling of two people getting back together.”

‘Breathe’ provides a transcendent conclusion to ‘Kaboom!’, the debut Jay Wires EP. Two years in the making, the EP contains 4 songs freighted with intense emotion and epic electronic arrangements. These songs are an expression of what Jay calls “electro-pop therapy” and were inspired by a painful break-up during the isolation and loneliness of COVID lockdown."

-Mat Smith of Further.

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Electrocomp EML-101 vintage synthesizers for sale - fully refurbished

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"Here’s the Electronic Music Labs Electrocomp EML-101 we just sold a customer. It was meticulously refurbished over dozens of hours, sparing no expense, and is way better than the rest as a result. Buy vintage synths that work like new at tonetweakers.com and please sign up for our newsletters while you’re there. Played by Jay Wires (who you should follow after you follow us). Thanks!"

KABOOM! by Jay Wires

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A new release from supporting member Jay Wires.

You can find it on various services on Distrokid here.

Time and Space by Jay Wires

You can find the release on various platforms on Distrokid here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jaywires/time-and-space

"‘Time And Space’ is the second single from Jay Wires.

‘Time And Space’ follows the debut Jay Wires single, ‘Candle In The Night’, and continues a story that began there. Filled with frank honesty, longing and unrequited caring, ‘Time And Space’ was written after an argument between Jay Wires and his ex-girlfriend. “We approached arguments differently,” he reflects. “My solution to arguments was always to talk things out as soon as possible in order to move past them, whereas hers was needing to be alone, taking time and space before coming back.” The song was written during one of those periods of post-argument separation.

In spite of its lyrical themes, ‘Time And Space’ highlights Jay Wires’ knack for creating towering, ascendant intricately-detailed electronic pop tracks, full of personal emotion and reference points. “The argument happened in December 2019,” remembers Jay Wires. “That month, we saw a live jazz band perform songs from the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ soundtrack in a hotel lounge in Williamsburg. For the instrumental break, I created the sound of brushed cymbals to capture the atmosphere of that performance.” ‘Time And Space’ concludes with a powerful, stirring, uplifting synth-orchestral segment, offering a fragile sense of optimism that this was just a temporary parting, not something more permanent.

‘Time And Space’ is the second song to be taken from the debut Jay Wires EP, ‘Kaboom!’.

-Mat Smith of Further.

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Jay Wires testing the Korg ARP 2600m

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"Tone Tweakers just got a shipment of Korg ARP 2600ms in. We’ve got a couple real vintage ARP 2600s in the studio (and in inventory), but this new clone is pretty cool. It’s not quite the same, but it sounds great regardless. Plus, it’s tiny and super cute. We sold out fast, but this one was purchased for the studio and we won’t have time to use it for a few months, so if anyone wants one here in the US, get in touch via the website. For sale or swap for cool vintage gear. Thanks for reading and listening."

Jay Wires Depeche Mode Shout Cover Roland SH-2 Korg Volca Beats SQ1 Vintage Synthesizer Sequencer

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"Roland SH-2 (modified) sequenced by Korg SQ-1 analog sequencer with Korg Volca Beats on drums. I was just goofing around for a couple minutes and came up with this sequence that reminded me of Depeche Mode "Shout", off their debut album Speak & Spell, which is one of my favorite albums ever. Vince Clarke wrote most of the songs before leaving to form Yaz and then Erasure. The SH-2 here has been modified for oscillator sync. What would normally be the keyboard gate output jack is now a CV input for VCO2 that's activated when the bender switch is in the right position. I used the CV out of the sequencer to control VCO2's pitch for timbral modulation and used the sequencer's gate out to trigger the envelope generator on the SH-2 (via the SH's gate input). As you can see, I transposed the sequence manually by playing the keyboard.

What's your favorite Depeche Mode album? I flip flop between Speak & Spell, Black Celebration and Violator."

Candle In The Night by Jay Wires

A new release from supporting member Jay Wires.

Available on various streaming platforms here.

On first listen, ‘Candle In The Night’ seems to present a hopeful, reassuring tone to its lyrics and synth structures. Listen closely and you find Jay Wires vividly documenting the ups and downs of life, the track being subtly divided into individual segments that reflect the changing seasons of a year. Inspired by a weekend trip to the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts in the fall of 2019, the track finds Jay reimagining the full bloom of lush summer scenery; the subtle color shifts and death of the autumn leaves; the treacherous ice and snow of the winter freeze; the melting and rebirth of spring.

This song is never static. Its lyrics rest atop a bedrock of glistening electronic tones and textures that shift gracefully as we move between the seasons, reflecting back the changes in the weather – and in life. "‘Candle In The Night’ is about being there for your partner to help guide them through the dark times we sometimes experience in life,” explains Jay. “It’s about love, dedication and trust.”

Jay Wires bio from Spotify:

"NYC-based synthesist Jay Wires dials up catchy electrosongs infused with emotion - synthpop art with a human heart. By day, Jay works for a well-known vintage synth shop, selling the finest synthesizers ever made to the world's most discerning electronic musicians. Now he's finally releasing music of his own.

“For many years I've systematically tested and played the most incredible gear”, says Jay. “This has given me a great understanding of synthesis, so dialing up unique soundscapes from scratch is 2nd nature to me. This skill's been invaluable to me as an electronic music maker, but the song always comes first."

Jay Wires will begin releasing songs from his debut EP, ‘Kaboom!’, in Aug 2022, through Yes Trigger Music.

Two years in the making, the EP contains 4 songs freighted with intense emotion and epic electronic arrangements. ‘Kaboom!’ is an expression of what Jay calls “electro-pop therapy” and was inspired by a painful break-up during the isolation and loneliness of COVID lockdown. “My songs often come out of sadness or anger or an uneasy feeling,” he reflects. “When I’m happy, I usually don’t feel the need to lock myself away in a dark room to write songs. Sometimes I don’t even understand what I’m feeling, but as the words come out, it all starts to make sense. I try to base the sound of the song not just on the feelings I had at the time, but also the environment. It’s all about painting an actual picture that takes me back to that particular place and time.”

Oberheim 4 Voice FVS-1

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"Here’s a gorgeous vintage Oberheim Four Voice synthesizer just meticulously refurbished by Tone Tweakers. Isn’t she lovely?"

https://www.tonetweakers.com/

Roland System-100m at The Synth Sanctuary

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"Here’s a loop I made using 4 Roland System-100m racks and 2 ARP Sequencers at The Synth Sanctuary. All instruments were refurbished by Tone Tweakers."

https://www.tonetweakers.com/