EMS Product Sheets

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"Binder of 12 original EMS product sheets

AKS - VCS3 - Synthi 100 - Synthi Sequencer 256 - Keybord DK2 & KS - Hifli - Synthi E -Vocoder - vocoder 2000 - UIniversal Sequencer - Pitch to voltage converter - 8 octave filter bank"

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"My Planet, Arrakis, Is So Beautiful When The Sun Is Low" (EMS Synthi A, Cocoquantus 2, Osmose)

video upload by PanicGirlVids

"'My planet, Arrakis, is so beautiful when the sun is low.
Rolling over the sands, you can see spice in the air.'

This is a Dune inspired track that I made with my EMS Synthi A, Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 2, Expressive E Osmose, Emergence Audio Cello & Viola Textures & Felt Instruments.

Even though I haven’t seen the new Dune movie yet I keep on reading, watching and listening to every little bit I can get my hands on. Who else is excited to see the new DUNE movie? 🥰

Thanks so much for watching!"

LudoWic - Creating dark textures

video upload by ludoWic music

More LudoWic:
https://www.ludowic.com
https://wicrecordings.lnk.to/ludowic

Trautonium, Minimoog, & EMS SYNTHI & SYNTHI E. Note the SYNTHI E is a white model also seen here, not the standard orange yellow as seen in other posts. You can find additional LudoWic SYNTHI posts here. See this post on EMS founder Peter Zinovieff's passing for some history on EMS.

You can find additional posts featuring the Trautonium here. So much synth history can be found deep in the archives of the site.

This one is in via Soviet Space Child.

A Smile in Space May Cause an Avalanche Part 2

video upload by zack dagoba

"A Smile In Space May Cause An avalanche - part 2

Released on the compilation celebrating 3 Years of Modulisme

Composed by Philippe Petit using Buchla 200 & EMS Synthi A Synthesizers + e-bowed Piano Soundboard into a Moogerfooger Ring Modulator & Peavey 5150 + Ampeg SVT-2 Pro bass Amplifiers

« Electronic Tonalities » by Benge, made with the Emu Emulator II
and a wine glass

Video by Benge, made on 2 x Panasonic WJ-MX50 video mixers, Grass Valley Indigo video switcher, Emu Modular for video modulations

/ @zackdagoba

https://modulisme.info/

www.philippepetit.info"

EMS Synthi E Vintage Analog Synth Synthesizer

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School-bus-Synthi-E : The Vintage Educational Modular Synthesizer

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https://www.perfectcircuit.com/

EMS Founder Peter Zinovieff Has Passed Away

Update: Image of Peter Zinovieff (previously in via Brian Kehew).

"Circa 1975: A photo from the Frankfurt Music Fair

Peter Zinovieff in the EMS synthesizer booth.

They are featuring the rare SYNTHI P model, just announced on the left side and stand. Underneath the board listing EMS musical artists is a SYNTHI HI-FLI effects unit is barely seen. Another unusual/prototype model is next to the Hi-Fli."


Peter Zinovieff and Electronic Music Studios video upload by JeffreyPlaide


Peter Zinovieff: Synth Pioneer video upload by Sound On Sound magazine Jul 21, 2016


Peter Zinovieff talks about modern musical interfaces video upload by Expressive E Jan 6, 2016


Peter Zinovieff feature uploaded by Erica Synths on Nov 23, 2020. This was the latest video to feature Peter Zinovieff that I am aware of.


Peter Zinovieff interview 2015 video upload by 香港電子音樂社 Hong Kong Electronic Music Society Jun 30, 2015


Dr Peter Zinovieff intro & performance excerpt - Deliaphonic 2017 video upload by Deliaphonic Aug 29, 2018

And a few perspectives from others:

Bright Sparks Behind The Scenes - The Brits video by GForce Software published Feb 16, 2021

Cosmic Tape Music Club Podcast hosted by The Galaxy Electric - E1 Peter Zinovieff

video by The Galaxy Electric published Jan 27, 2021

Peter Zinovieff Electronic Calendar

video by Mark Jenkins published Dec 9, 2019 - Electronic Calendar available through this post.

You can find a history of posts mentioning Peter Zinovieff here.

via The Guardian

"Peter Zinovieff, a hugely influential figure in British music whose early synthesisers helped to change the sound of pop, has died aged 88. He had suffered a fall at home earlier this month.

With its marketing slogan 'think of a sound – now make it', his company Electronic Music Studios (EMS) was one of the first to bring synthesisers out of studios and to the public. With products such as the portable VCS3 and Synthi A, EMS customers – including David Bowie, Kraftwerk, the Who, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd – were often taught to use the instruments by Zinovieff.

In 1967 he collaborated with Paul McCartney on Carnival of Light, a performance of a 14-minute avant garde composition created between Beatles sessions for Penny Lane that has never been released.

He was also a respected composer of his own work, including early experiments with AI composition and sampling – he claimed to have invented the latter technique." You can read the full post here.

via Wikipedia:

"Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021) was a British engineer and composer, whose EMS company made the VCS3 synthesizer in the late 1960s. The synthesizer was used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd[3] and White Noise, and Krautrock groups[4] as well as more pop-oriented artists, including Todd Rundgren and David Bowie. In later life he worked primarily as a composer of electronic music.

Zinovieff was born on 26 January 1933;[5] his parents, Leo Zinovieff and Sofka, née Princess Sophia Dolgorouky, were both Russian aristocrats, who met in London after their families had emigrated to escape the Russian Revolution and soon divorced.[6] During World War II he and his brother Ian lived with their grandparents in Guildford and then with their father in Sussex. He attended Guildford Royal Grammar School, Gordonstoun School and Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate in geology.[7][8]

Zinovieff's work followed research at Bell Labs by Max Mathews and Jean-Claude Risset, and an MIT thesis (1963) by David Alan Luce.[9] In 1966–67, Zinovieff, Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson ran Unit Delta Plus, an organisation to create and promote electronic music. It was based in the studio Zinovieff had built, in a shed at his house in Putney. (The house is near the Thames, and the studio was later partially destroyed by a flood).[10][11] EMS grew out of MUSYS, which was a performance controller operating as an analogue-digital hybrid.[12] It was a synthesiser system which Zinovieff developed with the help of David Cockerell and Peter Grogono, and used two DEC PDP-8 minicomputers and a piano keyboard.[13] Unit Delta Plus ran a concert of electronic music at the Watermill Theatre in 1966, with a light show. In early 1967 they performed in concerts at The Roundhouse, at which the Carnival of Light was also played; they split up later in 1967.[11] Paul McCartney had visited the studio, but Zinovieff had little interest in popular music.[14]

In 1968, part of the studio was recreated at Connaught Hall, for a performance of pieces by Justin Connolly and David Lumsdaine.[15] At the IFIP congress that year, the composition ZASP by Zinovieff with Alan Sutcliffe took second prize in a contest, behind a piece by Iannis Xenakis.[16]

In 1969, Zinovieff sought financing through an ad in The Times but received only one response, £50 on the mistaken premise it was the price of a synthesiser. Instead he formed EMS with Cockerell and Tristram Cary.[17] At the end of the 1960s, EMS Ltd. was one of four companies offering commercial synthesizers, the others being ARP, Buchla, and Moog.[18] In the 1970s Zinovieff became interested in the video synthesizer developed by Robert Monkhouse, and EMS produced it as the Spectron.[19]

Jon Lord of Deep Purple described Zinovieff as "a mad professor type": "I was ushered into his workshop and he was in there talking to a computer, trying to get it to answer back".[20] Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco, in their history of the synthesizer revolution, see him rather as aristocratically averse to "trade".[21]

Zinovieff wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Mask of Orpheus,[22] and also the words for Nenia: The Death of Orpheus (1970).[23] The section Tristan's Folly in Tristan (1975) by Hans Werner Henze included a tape by Zinovieff."

Update:

Peter Zinovieff: A Tribute by CatSynth TV

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We look back at the life and work of Peter Zinovieff, who passed away last week at the age of 88. His work at Electronic Music Studios (EMS) was a major influence on musicians of the 1970s and beyond. At EMS, he co-created the well-known and coveted VCS3 and Synthi series. But he was also a composer in his own right, working on pioneering electronic music in the 1960s and returning to active composition in the 2010s with several collaborations with artists in other media and exploring massive sound spatialization.

Additional background music provided via the Arturia Synthi V as a tribute."

You can find additional posts featuring Peter Zinovieff here.

EMS Synthi-E vintage Synthesizer SN 136

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"Condition is excellent and "Seller refurbished" - pro-serviced by Steve Jones (now in Melbourne), one of our best synth technicians and collectors (he's added a modern power supply, bless him). Service invoice available on request.

Note: the "strip keyboard" is sold "as is" and has not been checked or serviced as synth is normally controlled by another keyboard or computer."

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EMS Synthi E - Pro Serviced

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"EMS synthi E in excellent condition, maintained very well.

In Pro Service by EMS Expert Constantin (Portabellabz).
Fully functional. Plug & Play.

You will receive:

EMS Synthi E
Manual (Copy pdf)
Power adapter
Patch cables
Ocsidance Invoice including 1 year warranty
Service Report"

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Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (And Back) - Book Review + Flip Through

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Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (And Back) is also available on Amazon here.

"Ciat-Lonbarde

Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (And Back) book review & book flip through. Synthesizer Evolution is a recently published book covering every major synth, drum machine and sampler from 1963-1995. Each instrument is hand drawn and includes vital statistics and quirky facts.

Synth Evolution is published by Velocity Press (https://velocitypress.uk) and written & illustrated by Oli Freke (https://www.synthevolution.net), a London-based musician, artist and author with a life-long passion for analogue synthesizers and electronic music.

Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (And Back) provides us with an in-depth look at synthesizer history over the decades and covers a variety of vintage synthesizers including analog synths, digital synths, modular synths, wavetable synths, FM synths, additive synths and more.

Join me for a narrated book flip through highlighting various synths and concluding with a brief book review at the end. Hope you enjoy and feel free to grab a copy of Synth Evolution if you like it.

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TIMECODES
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00:00 - Intro

► SYNTHESIZERS
01:01 - 360 Systems, Access Music (Virus), Ace Tone
01:46 - Akai (AX80, AX60)
02:43 - Arp Instruments (2500, 2600)
03:44 - Behringer
04:07 - Buchla modulars
04:22 - Casio (Casiotone, CZ series, HT series)

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EMS Synthi E

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"EMS synthi E with DK keyboard in beautiful near mint condition, owned by collector.
Spartanite case in mint shape.

Just back from Pro Service by EMS Expert Constantin (Portabellabz).
Fully functional. Plug & Play. Sold with invoice including 1 year warranty.



You will receive:

Ems Synthi E
EMS Synthi DK E Keyboard
Original Synthi E Sheet
Manual (Copy)
Power adapter
Patch cables
Ocsidance Invoice including 1 year warranty
Service Report"

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Aliens Project Close-Up of the Week: EMS SYNTHI E

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close up der Woche #29/20 -EMS SynthiE

LudoWic - 70's JAM

ludoWic music

Recorder: Philips N2510 - 1973
Mixer: Pioneer MA-62 - 1974
Synth 1: EMS Synthi A - 1971
Synth 2: EMS Synthi E - 1974
Video Cam: Movexoom 3000 - 1972
Projector: Eumig Mark 607D - 1973

Synthesizer von Gestern (Synths of the Past) Vol 2, Matthias Becker.

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"Beautifully-produced second volume of Matthias Becker's authoritative 'Synthesizers of the Past' book - in German, but with so many superb illustrations that it's hardly necessary to read the text. New, unused, still sealed. The photos were taken of another copy of the book.

Too many highlights to mention all, but the book covers such absolute classic synths as the Trautonium, ARP 2500, EMS Synthi 100, E-mu Modular, Steiner-Parker Synthacon, RMI Harmonic Synthesizer, Birotron, PPG 1002, Moog Taurus and Liberation, Roland System 700, Synlab Modular, Roland SH-7, Crumar DS-2, Korg Sigma, ARP Quadra, Roland RS-505 and VP-330, Fairlight CMI, Realton Variophon, Oberhaim OB-Xa, Xpander and OB-SX, Gleeman Pentaphonic, RSF Kobol, Emulator 1, Synergy, Roland SH-101, TB-303, TR-606, MC-202, Jupiter 6, Syntec Banana, SCI Prophet T8, OSCar......... an incredible roster which would (in the beautiful condition they are in the photos) probably now be worth over half a million US dollars.

All with superb photos by Dieter Stork. Hardback, beautifully printed on very high quality paper, bound to the highest standards. A coffee-table book which is also a superb source of information. The Rolls-Royce (OK, Mercedes) of synth literature. (I should know - I produced the Ford Fiestas of the genre.) ISBN 3927954012, printed in 1995."

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Ernesto Romeo – Capítulo 1: Improvisación | Sesiones Cluster

Published on Jan 7, 2019 Cluster

MÚSICO INVITADO

- Ernesto Romeo
https://www.facebook.com/klaussmusic/

- Moog Modular System
- E-Mu Modular System
- Yamaha CS80
- Korg PS3300
- MiniMoog D
- EMS VCS3
- Mellotron M400
- ARP 600
- Antonus 2600
- EMS Synthi AKS
- Korg PS3100
- ARP-Solina String Synthesizer
- ARP Sequencer
- Heathkit Signal Generator

PEDALES http://www.efectoscluster.com.ar
- Cluster Starfox-88 - fuzz con octavador
- Cluster Tsunami-9 - overdrive
- Cluster The Dragon-71 - fuzz
- Cluster Ithaca-26 - distorsión hi-gain
- Cluster Cosmos Vibe-13 - chorus, trémolo y vibrato
- Cluster Spirit-92 - chorus
- Cluster Spiral-48 - phaser
- Cluster Pulstar-43 - trémolo
- Cluster Mask-5 - compresor
- Cluster Heaven and Hell - fuzz
- Cluster Voices-2 - auto-wah / envelope filter

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EMS SYNTHI E SUITCASE SYNTH

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£2,500.00

"Condition is quite good considering its age - see photos.
Was gigged from late 70's to mid 80's so has signs of use
Never been used since then, I never mastered this machine and don't have the Manuel
Sounded absolutely awesome through a proper sound system , but could probably do with a service as some of the sliders a little noisy
There were only about 170 of these ever made so extremely rare"

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Behringer Parent Company Music Tribe Acquires MONOPOLY Trademark

It looks like a MonoPoly by Behringer is coming. You can find previous trademarks by Behringer here, and the initial list of synths Behringer had on their radar here. Still waiting on that SYNTHI clone...

via Justia (note the slash in Mono/Poly is missing):

MONOPOLY - Trademark Details
Status: 641 - Non-Final Action - Mailed
Image for trademark with serial number 88280492
Serial Number88280492
Word MarkMONOPOLY
Status641 - Non-Final Action - Mailed
Status Date2019-10-11
Filing Date2019-01-29
Mark Drawing4000 - Standard character mark Typeset
Attorney NameE. Russell Tarleton
Law Office Assigned Location CodeM50
Employee NameBROOKSHIRE, DAVID AARO
Statements
Goods and ServicesMusic synthesizers; Modular music synthesizer instruments, namely, electronic audio modification equipment, digital sound processors, apparatus for electronic processing of sound, and synthesizers
Classification Information
International Class015 - Musical instruments. - Musical instruments.
US Class Codes002, 021, 036
Class Status Code6 - Active
Class Status Date2019-02-21
Primary Code015
Current Trademark Owners
Party NameMUSIC Tribe Global Brands Ltd.
Party Type10 - Original Applicant
Legal Entity Type99 - Other (limited company (ltd.)).
AddressPlease log in with your Justia account to see this address.
Correspondences
NameE. Russell Tarleton
AddressPlease log in with your Justia account to see this address.
Madrid International Filings
Entry Number1
Reference NumberA0088177
Original Filing Date USPTO2019-07-30
International Status Code408
Madrid History Events
Date Code Description
2019-07-30 NEWAP NEW APPLICATION FOR IR RECEIVED
2019-07-30 ACERT AUTOMATICALLY CERTIFIED
2019-07-30 APPST IR CERTIFIED AND SENT TO IB
2019-09-18 IRREQ IRREGULARITY NOTICE RECEIVED FROM IB (RESPONSE REQUIRED)
Trademark Events
Event Date Event Description
2019-02-01 NEW APPLICATION ENTERED IN TRAM
2019-02-21 NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED IN TRAM
2019-04-10 ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER
2019-04-10 NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN
2019-04-10 NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
2019-04-10 NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
2019-09-19 TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED
2019-09-19 CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE
2019-09-20 TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
2019-10-11 NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN
2019-10-11 NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
2019-10-11 NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED

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Rare EMS Synthi E w/ Extras

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"Very nice and ultra rare EMS Synthi E analog vintage synthesizer plus its dedicated keyboard DK E and accessories: HAMEG Oscilloscope hm203, lot of original banana patch cords, stand for the suitacse and ORIGINAL Synthi E prospect plus patch charts.. almost impossible to find!
INCLUDED also its original EMS Power supply.

Conditions are at TOP! Hight Level! MINT cosmetic conditions and in perfect working order, it sounds AMAZING!
It will be a great opportunity to get a rare lot like this!"

Note this is a supporting member listing.

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LudoWic - PATTERNS (announcement)

Published on Jul 13, 2019

LudoWic - PATTERNS

Camera/video by: Timo Reisiger & Joost Lodewijk
Location: http://carretilburg.nl
Released by: Wic Recordings
Early 2020

LUDOWIC
https://www.ludowic.com

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EMS SYNTHI, SYNTHI-E, Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer, Sinus Generator.

EMS Synthi E - Pro Serviced

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"EMS synthi E in beautiful condition, owned by collector.
It is just back from a full Pro service, so it can be enjoyed for years without issues. Sliders / potmeters / switches all working 100%.

Service report will be included with the invoice. Incl 3 months warranty

You will receive:

Ems Synthi E (Serial Nr 191)
Manual
Power adapter
Patch cables
Ocsidance Invoice
Service Report"

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