Summer Never Dies | Oberheim OB-6

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"Summer reminds me of running free. Trips to the beach. Walks through the woods. Hot and bustling trains full of excited children and tired parents. I was born in the cold, and enjoy Winter, supremely above all other seasons, yet the Summer, might be the most nostalgic."

OB-6 | Northward, Possibly

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"the Oberheim, as brought to us by Tom and Dave, shifts in a near 180 from the direction of the Prophet. whereas the Prophet, feels like the hollows, mystical forests and abandoned hotels, the Oberheim, is the spellbound lighthouse, the edge of the ocean bluff, the lying wind whispering in your ear. in short, i would think to never part with either. they complete a sonic circle, that feels it mustn't be broken."

Lovelier by the Flower | Prophet 5

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"sounds from a lifetime ago, that's what this Prophet 5 brings into a full recall."

Transport | Prophet 5 + OB-6

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"this must be the perfect pairing. they sound so dissimilar, yet when paired, it's quite nearly impossible to tell where one begins and the other ends. Prophet 5, OB-6, Chroma Console and Blackhole reverb dealing with the world's problems quite fairly."

Ghouls Lost in Love | Prophet 5 rev 4

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"this is factory patch, 143. the sound was full on 80s nostalgia, so we just went with that direction, this evening. forgive the cliché."

Small & Distant | Prophet 5 rev 4

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"present to you a quiet spell, a mere whisper from a giant."

I Bid Thee Farewell | Prophet 5 rev 4 x OB6

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"a Prophet 5 somehow just landed in the nest. this plays like a joy, no other."

Beauty in Simplicity | A Take Five

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"the underrated Sequential Take 5. she is bold, lush, simple, yet deceivingly deep (if you care to programme those sort of sounds, I still tend to lean my programming towards minimalist sound)."

A Modality Lost | Argon8M x Blackhole + Sequential Take 5

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"i may have found the perfect cinematic pad pairing in the Take 5 with the Argon8M. the Argon8M is being shuttled through an Eventide Blackhole reverb pedal, whilst the Take 5 remains unaffected, solely with its onboard FX. MIDI'd together, this is one of the most playable combinations i have ever experienced."

Not A Film | Part One

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"featuring only the lovely tones of an Argon8M – possibly my favourite digital synth i have ever owned, and as of this moment, the only digital synth i have owned (as the others got tossed to new homes)."

Kaiju Prelude | Sequential Take 5

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"Bar some master limiting with a gentle high shelf bump, this is simply the Take 5 in its raw and unadulterated form. A lovely, often overlooked VCO Analogue Poly that fits beneath your seat on a train quite easily."

Escape from Manhattan | Sequential Take 5, Moog Grandmother + Mother-32

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"another live performance, that harkens a bit to some John Carpenter film from the early 80s, can't quite remember the name."

Sequential Take 5, Moog Grandmother + Mother-32 Live

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"a massive analog patch from these three, the Take 5, Grandmother and Mother-32. no external FX, apart from those onboard the synths were used. feels like this could've been a lost cue from Villeneuve's 'Arrival'. #synthesizer #composer #sequentialcircuits #moog"

Sequential Take 5 with No FX

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"a raw and pure Take 5. often i find myself drowning a lot of my patches in my marvellous Blackhole pedal (they're meant to swim when you have something as lush as that!), yet i still marvel at the raw sound of this little mighty synthesiser. so why not showcase it? no internal FX (despite having quite a good reverb on deck) nor any external FX (or processing for that matter). the patches are my own, and naturally will be finishing an (ambient leaning) sound pack for you to download and ingest into your machine."

A Hunt for October | Sequential Take 5

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"across the Trans Canada Highway we went. a three thousand mile trek. a Take 5 journeyed along side this solo jaunt into the cities and wilds. All the sounds in this video were recorded with the Take 5 (with no external effects or processing, bar a little EQ on the master bus)."

The Vast & Unknown | Sequential Take 5

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"A brief display of a patch I created on the Take 5, going into my trust Blackhole reverb."

A Tinge of Optimism To Light Your Way | Sequential Take 5

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"No additional processing. Take 5 into the Blackhole. Another Rendezvous of a custom patch I have created. This is quite an underrated poly synth, and I have owned some rather massive ones, might I add. This feels no less the machine."

A Tale of Prophets | Take 5 + Prophet 6

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"Have been truly enjoying layering pads on my new Take 5 on a borrowed Prophet 6. Sent through the Eventide Blackhole pedal. It's all glorious. Grandmother and Mother-32 are providing the spookyish motor (through the Spring Reverb!)"

The Batman (of Synthesizers): The Sequential OB-6

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"i have contended for sometime that the OB-6 is truly the Dark Knight of synthesizers (or shall we say The Batman in loving honour of Matt Reeve’s expert vision. it’s an opinion mostly, but backed by a tad bit of objectivity, only in so much that the brassy, brash tones of this instrument, coupled with its dark and brooding chassis, certainly embody the tone of the canon of the legend, as we know it today. the SOMA Lyra-8, my favourite modular sounding instrument that’s not modular, but quickly accessible and wildly raw for those terribly icy and northerly tones."