Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 - having a play

video upload by Oli Freke

Oli Freke is the man behind the "Synthesizer Evolution", "Vintage Synths", and "Drum Machines and Samplers" books previously featured here.

"In which I have a first play with a Prophet 5 rev 3 (a friend's, not mine!). As you can tell I have a predilection for hard sync / FM type sounds, which may not be the usual lush analogue chords you might initially be expecting!

It was actually quite a lot more digital sounding in that way - cross-modulation and FM giving rise to those harsher/brighter sounds I guess.

I'll have to do another one that's a bit more 'Stranger Things'! :-)"

GS Music E7 NO TALKING Synth Demo // Custom Patches

video upload by Miles Away

https://www.gsmusic.com/

"Buy these 64 custom programs for the GS Music E7 here:
https://shop.milesawayofficial.com/pr...

These 64 Custom Patches from Canadian producer and sound designer Miles Away aim to showcase the powerful and wild analog VCO sound of this beautiful synth. With a variety of epic pads, lush keys, face melting basses, epic leads and more, this is the premier custom patch collection for the GS Music E7 7-Voice Analog Synthesizer.

Blade Runner, Stranger Things, Synthwave, Film Score, Ambient, Synthpop"

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GS Music E7 Custom Patches: Synthwave, Vintage, Ambient

video upload by Miles Away

https://www.gsmusic.com/

"Buy these 64 custom programs for the GS Music E7 here:
https://shop.milesawayofficial.com/pr...

These 64 Custom Patches from Canadian producer and sound designer Miles Away aim to showcase the powerful and wild analog VCO sound of this beautiful synth. With a variety of epic pads, lush keys, face melting basses, epic leads and more, this is the premier custom patch collection for the GS Music E7 7-Voice Analog Synthesizer.

Blade Runner, Stranger Things, Synthwave, Film Score, Ambient, Synthpop

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Behringer System 100 Demo

video upload by gstormelectro

"Audio + Video by G-Storm Electro c. 2024

Got around to patching the Behringer System 100 today. Plays well with Arturia Keystep Pro. Give the 172 module phaser and chorus effects a spin. And that 182 sequencer, I love how it is not pitch quantized and gives a weird Stranger Things vibe. Let's do this! No additional mastering or post-effects. This video was not sponsored.

0:00 Three Osc Voice structure plus (filter res) Kick and (white noise) Hats.
1:37 172 module | Phaser
2:17 172 module | Using the short delay for chorus/flanger stuff
2:47 Dual Two-Osc structure
3:51 Stereo Syncopated 182 Sequencer Patch"

Multivox Model MX202 String & Bass Keyboard Synthesizer SN 834036

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via this auction

"Made in Japan sometime in the 1970s, it is a Multivox String & Brass keyboard synthesizer. Model MX-202. 61 keys. All kinds of various little functions. We tested it out today. It seems like everything works EXCEPT for the G#2 key, which does not work in any setting. The settings are brass, strings 1 & 2, along with the ability to blend them together. There is also the ability to select which of these sounds are played over the lower and upper sections of the keyboard. There is vibrato, sustain, and slow attack. The ensemble (chorus effect) has 2 modes. The voices sound very cool. It has a very retro sound, and when you put the sustain combined with the pitch modulator together and do some simple arpeggios, it sounds like is straight out of the "Stranger Things" TV show. Stand not included. The case is functional. The handle, latches, and hinges all work."

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Stranger Things Soundtrack in Vangelis Style

video upload by Jose's Vintage Synths

"I play a short improv of this simple but 'too the point' theme of #strangerthings. By using #cs80, #CP70, #jupiter8 #minimoog - and Taurus it get's that Vangelis vibe. #omnisphere is just perfect for Vangelis strings. #vintagesynths #synthcover #synthwave #synthesizer."

Stranger Things - Kids (Synthesizer Cover)

video upload by Bendrr Music

"Decided to do a cover of one of my all time favorite soundtracks from one of my all time favorite shows, "Kids" from Stranger Things. Originally written by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon, I covered this track using an Oberheim/Sequential OB6 and Moog Subsequent37. Hope you enjoy!"

Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave - I Almost Missed the Synth of the Decade

video upload by JimDaneker

"I thought the 3rd Wave was a mere PPG clone so I ignored it. After seeing a few compelling videos on it, I took a chance on one. After pre-judging it based on presets, I almost returned it. SO glad I gave it another chance - it has blown me away. Don't miss this one!

The Miles Away patch bank that led to all this: [posted here]

Table of contents:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:07 - Tragically misunderstanding the 3rd Wave
00:04:28 - Features overview
00:06:35 - First surprise: stunningly good ANALOG!
00:07:25 - Analog Filter

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7/13/23 DEMO: Firstman International Sequence Synthesizer Model SQ-01 + Alesis Midiverb II (45)

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video upload by Cfpp0

"Video shows programming, filter sweeps, envelope adjustments. Can be externally clocked or clock others. Gate and CV in and out. No CV on filter :("

via this auction

"Added a video demonstrating the unit Stranger Things style and drenched it in an absurd amount of reverb like the kids do.

Here is the rare Firstman SQ-01 synthesizer, sequencer, and touch keyboard. You can program different patterns, and then choose between them. The filter can get into some 303-territory. Highly portable, solid and well made. Free shipping in CONUS."

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Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave Custom Patches // sound demo no talking

video upload by Miles Away

"Buy these 100 custom programs for the 3rd Wave here (25% off first week):
https://shop.milesawayofficial.com/co...

These 100 Custom Patches from Canadian producer and sound designer Miles Away aim to showcase the gritty yet beautiful analog and hybrid tones this wavetable synth can produce. With a variety of epic pads, complex multitimbral patches, face melting basses, sensitive keys and more, this is the world's first custom patch collection for the Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave.

Blade Runner, Stranger Things, Synthwave, Film Score, Ambient, Synthjam"

Sequential OB-6 | Kids (Stranger Things) cover

video upload by Espen Nilsen

"Cover of Kids by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein on the OB-6.
Sorry for vertical video!

#sequential #ob6 #strangerthings"

Sequential Prophet 6 - Divinity Vol.1 - Custom Patches 000 to 049 (of 100)

video upload by Orano Music

"This is the First of two demo Reels showcasing the first 50 Sounds from Divinity Volume.1

As always I aim to create great playable sounds easily translatable to your own Productions or for Live use. I have created basses, arps, leads, pads and my usual styled analog keys too.

The Prophet 6 deserves the commonly stated "best synth Sequential have ever made" it is truly a lovely synth, full of warmth and character. The Poly Mod section really brings the synth alive along with great oscillators.

Patches are available now at https://www.orano.co.uk/shop

Thanks for checking them out.

SM

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Unhinged Granular Resonance: Modular Piece (Inspiration: That clock from Stranger Things Season 4)

video upload by Piotr Garbaczonek

"Thanks for watching!
The experimental/Ambient Modular Piece is inspired by the eerie sounds of that big grandfather clock from Stranger Things Season 4. Sorry, not gonna go into the details for some of you who haven't watched it yet. Mutable Instruments Clouds is truly unrepla

Here are some links of mine:
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Go become my Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/pgarbaczonek?...

Perks of being a member include Patch from scratch videos, behind-the-scenes, HD pictures of gear and such, unreleased music, sample packs, and many more :)"

HWJ - Perkons - PERfourMER MKII - Pro 3 - Deluge (Stranger Things Mix)

video upload by Makis Zeg

"I hope you like it :)"

Sequential OB6 and Korg Prologue - Stranger Things : Starcourt Mall

video upload by Sonicwave

"This combination or layered patch is the OB6 (353) and a custom patch I made on the Korg Prologue (354 - Kate Bush Y). Pure Stranger Things vibe….."

OBERHEIM'S FIRST SYNTH!

video upload by Alex Ball

"A look at the Oberheim Synthesizer Expander Module (1974) and Two Voice (1975), which were Oberheim's first two synthesizer products respectively.

0:00 Intro Jam
1:00 The Synthesizer Expander Module
2:04 Demo 1: State Sync
2:49 E-mu Systems
3:32 Demo 2: Two Voice
4:38 Dennis P Colin
5:49 Demo 3: Pull Seq Wonk
6:56 Jim Cooper
7:46 Demo 4: Transistor Bass Workout
9:04 Tom Oberheim
10:09 Demo 5: August Nineteen Seventy-Five
11:16 The Life Aquatic, Stranger Things and Drokk
13:50 Outro Jam"

2022: A Fifty-Year ARP Odyssey Odyssey Synthposium

video upload by Alan R. Pearlman Foundation

"November 5 we'll be having our annual Synthposium! Check out bit.ly/2022-Odyssey to learn more. Get your tickets now!

Music by Alex Ball
Video by Mary Lock
Artwork by Sharon Wasko (with art from original ARP artist Margaret Shepherd)"

ABOUT THE 2022: A 50 YEAR ARP ODYSSEY SYNTHPOSIUM

Location: Online, streaming from David Friend Recital Hall, Boston, MA

Date: November 5th, 2022 10:00am – 2:00pm (East Coast USA time)

*Please adjust your time zones accordingly*

Hosted by: The Berklee College of Music's Electronic Production and Design Department

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Arp Odyssey MK1 White Overview Demo From 2014

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video upload by JohnnyDexterGoss

"Learn more than you ever wanted to know about the Arp Odyssey MKI."

Spotted the above video from 2014 in the following listing.

SN 282300 via this auction

"The legendary one-and-only. Pristine completely restored original Arp Odyssey 2800 mki White Face duophonic analog synthesizer from the early 1970's

Sounds incredible and functions perfectly. Much more fullness and more aggressive sonically than the black face and many reissued Korg models.

Fully cleaned, serviced and keyboard reset by the fabulous Switched On synth shop in Austin, TX (original shop that Stranger Things composers Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein worked at).

I put $1200 worth of perfecting this unit and then barely ever used it. Never gigged, has only sat in a nice temperature controlled studio.

This is probably the nicest original early 1970's ARP Odyssey 2800 unit you'll be able to find for sale in 2022.

Forgive these bad photos from a few months ago. The well-lit glamour shot photos and full description of service completed on this will post soon, or just snag this before the sharks get to it.

Cheers!"

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Spitfire Audio Fractured Strings - A New Force Of Nature

video upload by Spitfire Audio

"Award-winning composer Paul Thomson takes you to the edge of the world and beyond with Fractured Strings. Created in collaboration with Hans Zimmer’s prestigious scoring collective Bleeding Fingers Music and London’s finest string players, this small ensemble library features an eight-piece string ensemble and two soloists, brought to life in the unparalleled acoustics of AIR Lyndhurst Hall, complete with 15 signal paths.

Fractured Strings introduces an innovative approach to articulations that delivers inspirational surprises through intervallic performances and new modal colours with unparalleled depth and realism. Introducing our brand new Scale Mode technology, these sophisticated, emotive movements and textures reflect the intricacies, patterns and contrasts found in natural phenomena — as heard in BBC's #FrozenplanetII.

Explore Fractured Strings here - https://bit.ly/3xEL8h1

00:00 - Trailer
1:00 - Interview with Bleeding Fingers Music
7:02 - Walkthrough
7:47 The Scale Mode
10:38 - The Articulations
15:40 - The EVO Grid
19:33 - The Seventh Reach
21:10 - The Solo Instruments"

And the press release:

"Spitfire Audio works with Bleeding Fingers to forge FRACTURED STRINGS as a new kind of chamber string library introducing a novel approach to articulations

“Early on in the process of scoring Frozen Planet II, we looked at the patterns of splintering ice and the individuality of snowflakes; in creating FRACTURED STRINGS, we worked closely with the Spitfire [Audio] team and London’s best players to represent these natural phenomena in musical performances — creating a toolkit that became the foundation of our score for the show.”

- Frozen Planet II composers James Everingham & Adam Lukas, 2022


LONDON, UK: created in close collaboration with Bleeding Fingers Music, the Emmy Award-winning and BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Award-nominated composer collective, hand-selected and mentored by Hollywood hotshot Hans Zimmer (as a multi-Academy Award- and GRAMMY® Award-winning film composer of some serious standing), sound-specialising British music technology company Spitfire Audio is proud to announce availability of FRACTURED STRINGS — itself introducing a novel approach to articulations as a new kind of chamber string library featuring a 10-piece ensemble inspired by the Arctic and brought to life in the unparalleled acoustics of Lyndhurst Hall in London’s legendary AIR Studios, served up as an AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible (NKS-supporting) proprietary plug-in with 15 signal paths and infinite intervallic possibilities, designed to infuse any gestures, leaps, and cellular motif anyone might compose with warmth, colour, and humanity — as of September 22…

Being billed as a journey through Earth’s frozen worlds, home to unique and remarkable wildlife, it is little wonder that Santa Monica, CA, USA-based Bleeding Fingers Music were looking for a library that could not only support scenes of frozen silence but also scenes of action, tension, crisis, and drama when composers Hans Zimmer, James Everingham, and Adam Lukas started scoring the small screen wonder that is Frozen Planet II, the 2022-broadcast British nature documentary series co- produced by the BBC and The Open University as a sequel to 2011’s Frozen Planet. Putting it this way, James Everingham and Adam Lukas collectively comment: “Early on in the process of scoring Frozen Planet II, we looked at the patterns of splintering ice and the individuality of snowflakes; in creating FRACTURED STRINGS, we worked closely with the Spitfire [Audio] team and London’s best players to represent these natural phenomena in musical performances — creating a toolkit that became the foundation of our score for the show.”

Serious demands demand serious solutions, so a small section of London’s finest string players were brought by the Spitfire Audio team tasked with bringing Bleeding Fingers Music’s requirements to life in the unparalleled acoustics of Lyndhurst Hall — home to many a blockbuster film scoring session by Hans Zimmer and many more — in London’s legendary AIR Studios. The ten players concerned closely collaborated with the Bleeding Fingers Music team and Spitfire Audio’s own collective of composers, conductors, and engineers there to create a vast suite of intricate decorations, leaps, and swells.

So who better to formally introduce the finished FRACTURED STRINGS, then, than Spitfire Audio co-founder Paul Thomson — truly no stranger to the wonderful world of music-to-picture scoring himself as an English composer for film, television, and video games, as well as a music technologist to boot: “This is our latest collaboration with Bleeding Fingers [Music], and it is a set of unique and original content made for the BBC show Frozen Planet II. It showcases a huge amount of string articulations and gestures — wispy, ice-y, ethereal fragments that we have never before recorded, and that you can't play very easily with existing string libraries.”

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Sequential Prophet 6 Custom Patches: Synthwave, Vintage, Stranger Things, Ambient and More

video upload by Miles Away

"Buy these 50 Custom Patches for the intro price of only $25:
https://shop.milesawayofficial.com/pr...

These 50 custom patches will load to 450-499 on your Dave Smith / Sequential Prophet 6. These patches range in all genres from Classic Analog, Synthwave, EDM, Film Score, Ambient and more. Every patch has a custom sequence programmed by me as well, so click “play” on the sequencer to get an idea of what the patch would sound like in context of a song! Enjoy this no talking sounds demo.

Note: While these patches make use of many of the Prophet 6’s excellent effects, most don't use the onboard reverb. In this demo, I am using the Empress Reverb, so I strongly encourage you to add your favourite reverb to these patches! Also your Prophet 6 must be updated to the latest firmware to use these patches as they make use of the vintage knob update!

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