Synthmania midnight jam 1. Live, analog, and recorded in one take.
Bass - Roland SH-101
Drums - Roland TR-808
Synth - Roland Juno-60
Reverb - Lexicon model 200
Flanger - Eventide H3000-D/SE
2. Synthmania midnight jam 2
Roland Juno-106, SH-101, TR-909, & H-3000-D/SE
3. Synthmania midnight jam 3
Third episode in my midnight jams series. Gear used:
Oberheim DMX (drum machine)
Roland Juno-60 (synth)
Ibanez ARZ200FM (rhythm guitar)
Fender Bassbreaker 15 (tube combo amp)
Sterling S.U.B. Ray4 (bass)
4. Synthmania midnight jam 4
Synthesizers.com modular & Roland Juno-60.
5. Synthmania midnight jam 5
Roland Juno-106: lead & bass, Cubase Pro 10: pads, drum loop
As I was walking in the hotel lobby I had the pleasure of meeting Jim Soloman and Jammie Logan, two great guys who are working with Ron Folkman to bring back a modern version of the mega-classic Polyfusion modular series 2000 - designed in the late '70s and early '80s by Ron Folkman and Alan Pearce (who also worked at Moog)
3. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 3 - Opening night
Venue vendors and performers setup, and Knobcon 2018 opening night reception party
4. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 4 - My live set
My live set at the Friday night opening party of Knobcon 2018:
00:26 Misty (Erroll Garner)
02:38 Control (SynthMania)
07:28 Drum Fairy (SynthMania)
13:13 Echoes (SynthMania)
18:52 Fruit Fly (SynthMania)
23:03 Decades (Joy Division)
28:23 Perfect Life (SynthMania)
34:07 To France (Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly)
5. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 5 - Suit & Tie Guy & Andre Cholmondeley live set
Mega-hypnotic live set by Suit & Tie Guy & Andre Cholmondeley at the Knobcon 2018 Friday night reception party
6. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 6 - Vendor hall walkthrough (G.A.S. inducing)
Saturday morning at Knobcon 2018 - a walkthrough of the large exhibitor room
7. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 7 - Moda Modular
Kevin of Moda Modular debuts the Castor & Pollux sequencer at Knobcon 2018 https://www.facebook.com/ModaModular/
8. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 8 - Eurorack Modular Case
Brock from Eurorack Modular Case shows their portable cases for KnobCon 2018 http://eurorackmodularcase.com
9. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 9 - IK Multimedia
Daniel and Eric of IK Multimedia show us the brand new software editor for the UNO Synth - I plan to make a video using the editor very soon, as it further "unlocks" the sound capabilities of this great portable analog synthesizer
10. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 10 - Synthstrom
Synthstrom shows their Deluge portable synthesizer/sampler sequencer
11. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 11 - SYINSI
SYINSI shows their new modular tiles
12. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 12 - STEM Modular
13. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 13 - AKAI
The great sounding and portable AKAI MPC Live
Wesley of STEM Modular shows his upcoming modules
14. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 14 - Playing the Polyfusion
Incredible power, powerful and majestic sound... a wonderful synth!!! Toto's Polyfusion... big thanks to Jim, Jammie, and Ron for letting us experience this beautiful, classic machine!
15. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 15 - Vendor hall walkthrough 2 (more G.A.S.)
Another walkthrough on the main exhibition hall at Knobcon 2018
16. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 16 - Detroit Underground
17. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 17 - Hammond organ workshop
An incredibly interesting Hammond workshop at Knobcon 2018. Featuring Suit & Tie Guy, Steven Eaklor, Ray Gerlich, Todd Phipps, and the best sounding Hammond I've ever had the pleasure to play - a 1963 B-3 with a 147(amp) + 122 (cab) owned and so kindly provided to Knobcon by Todd Phipps
18. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 18 - DIY build workshops
Knobcon 2018 featured DIY build workshops where you could build your own synthesizer modules
19. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 19 - Bug out bunker
KnobCon has a large dark room in the basement of the hotel called the "Bug Out Bunker" - where you can play modular synths, perform together and experience some really cool graphics being projected on the walls
20. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 20 - Ethereal Sun
Steve of Ethereal Sun shows some of their very cool eurorack cases at Knobcon 2018 http://etherealsun.com
21. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 21 - Behringer
I programmed some beats on the new Behringer RD-808 at Knobcon 2018. Really good sound. (sorry, 2nd part of the video got corrupted so I had to flip and crop).
22. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 22 - Vendor hall walkthrough 3 (G.A.S. again)
More exhibitors at Knobcon 2018
23. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 23 - Golden Knob banquet
Knobcon's Saturday evening banquet, featuring live music, raffle prizes, keynote speaker, and all-night jam session with classic and vintage synths and keyboards
24. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 24 - Gil Trythall keynote address
A wonderful, insightful, interesting, and very entertaining keynote address!! By Dr. Gil Trythall, electronic music pioneer, college professor of music, author of fantastic '70s Moog-based records like "Switched-On Nashville", "Nashville Gold", "Yakety Moog" and many other compositions
25. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 25 - Sat night jam session
After party all-night long jam session with lots of *excellent* players from all over the United States!! Lots of fun, with incredible vintage instruments like 1963 Hammond B-3, '70s Clavinet, Yamaha CS-50 and more. Everyone invited to join in and jam (I joined in later in the evening)
26. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 26 - Real Fake Knobs
Such a cool idea by Izzy! To spiff up your modular setup, grab his real fake knobs / panels http://www.realfakeknobs.com
Excellent modular synth company from Brazil and two great guys to boot - I had the pleasure of sitting at the same table as Vinicius and Fabio at Knobcon's dinner and we talked about synths and music extensively all evening. I bought a Lizard multi mode dual VCO from them as soon as I heard it right and there at Knobcon, it's that good (and versatile). They also produce a full system that includes other modules. Vinicius and Fabio produce these modules and distribute them all over the world - To listen to and buy their modules: https://viniciuselectrik.com
28. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 28 - Zeppelin Design Labs
Glenn showing some of their really cool products: a Theremin style MIDI controller, companion mini synth, amplifiers, pedals https://zeppelindesignlabs.com
29. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 29 - Therevox
Wonderful, wonderful instrument. Played it five minutes at the show. Ordered one right away. http://therevox.com
30. KnobCon 7 (2018) part 30 - Vendor hall walkthrough 3 (G.A.S. galore)
"Demo of the Jupiter-8 Collection for the SonicProjects OP-X PRO-II software VSTi synth. All heard sounds are coming from OP-X PRO-II.
The collection can be downloaded here:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/userarea.html#Newest
The banks also can be loaded with the demo version:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/freedemo.html
To allow a direct comparison to the real Jupiter-8 the same or similar licks and chords were played as featured in the original Jupiter-8 factory preset clips available on synthmania:
http://www.synthmania.com/jupiter-8.htm
"Eigth episode in the Synthmania midnight jam series. This one has Roland TR-808 drums, Sequential Circuits Pro-One synth bass, and Roland Juno-60 ethereal synth pad / melody. Two tracks of electric guitar. The few other instruments (dark synth, rising synth, piano, crash samples, are stock VSTs and samples in the Cubase DAW. Playlist with the other seven:"
Update:
A few people have asked... (technical info on Midnight Jam 8)
"Synthmania quick tip #21 - the classic 'FullTines' patch applied to the 1st generation DX7. It's very easy to do, just load the DX7 II patches sysex into the original DX7. The DX7 II factory patches are freely available on the Internet."
"A quick demonstration of the four main modes of the Korg DVP-1 Digital Voice Processor, from the year 1985:
- Pitch Shift
- Vocoder
- Harmonize
- Internal waveforms
MIDI keyboard: Korg Monologue
Microphone: Sennheiser XS 1"
Who Is Elvis? - more early '90s Techno stories Published on Dec 4, 2018 SynthMania
"Aaand another of my hundreds of Roland W-30 Techno diskettes from the early 1990s. This one had samples of the wonderful "Who Is Elvis?" by Phenomania, which was a huge success in the day, plus a bunch of other samples and loops that I used to perform live at parties"
From my old W-30 Techno-Rave disks: "What Time Is It?"
Published on Dec 2, 2018 SynthMania
"Here's another Techno-Rave piece that I made in the early 1990s on my faithful Roland W-30."
Demo of the new "Retrotone" bank for OP-X PRO-II. The bank can be downloaded for free on this site:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/u...
The video features the "Rack Edition Huge" interface version of the synth within Logic Pro X in an iMac 21 mid 2011.
Learn More about the synth's available interfaces on this site:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/i...
The midi keyboard's two knobs at the right are learned to the increment/decrement buttons which allows to switch patches remotely. Learn more about in on page 85 of the synth's manual.
The heard audio comes directly from the stereo outputs of OP-X PRO-II. No external effects or any other treatments of any kind involved.
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Also available on Amazon for those with gift cards to burn. It makes for a great stocking stuffer. You can find additional synth books at the top of this site. Click through the thumbnails for them.
"SonicProjects OP-X PRO-3 comparison to Oberheim OB-X as well as Jupiter-8 and Prophet-5. Includes A:B tweaking as well as comparing cloned presets.
Setup: Upper keyboard: Oberheim OB-X Rev.2 vintage built in 1980 equipped with 6 voices. The stereo output goes directly to input 1 and 2 of an RME Fireface UC which has very clean and neutral sounding converters. Signal directly recorded to disk.
Lower keyboard: E-MU Xboard 61 MIDI keyboard attached via USB to a MacBook Pro M1 2020 with macOS Ventura 13.4. The MIDI signal is driving OP-X PRO-3 which is hosted in Logic Pro. The stereo output of OP-X PRO-3 is directly recorded to disk.
"Seventh episode in the Synthmania midnight jam series. This one is centered around the classic Roland Juno-60 and the ams dmx15-80s stereo digital delay (my favorite delay unit). Most of the synths are done with the Juno. Additional strings from ARP Omni-2. The 6-string bass is the Eastwood Hooky Pro 6. The drums are stock samples in the Cubase DAW.
00:00 Intro
00:20 First verse
01:25 Second verse
02:54 First bridge
03:36 First chorus
05:05 Second bridge
05:47 Third verse
07:16 Third bridge
08:42 Second chorus
10:52 Fourth verse
12:21 Third chorus
15:16 Outro"
