Korg Mono/Poly

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Sequential Circuits Pro-8

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"The Sequential Circuits Pro-8 is a very rare analogue synth. It was sold as the Split-8 and only a few Pro-8s were produced and were actually considered to be only a rumor. It is a very rare synth indeed.

It is an 8 voice bi-timbral analogue and sonically very similar to the Sixtrak and Multitrak. The voices can be layered, split or used in Unision mode for absolutely incredible 8 oscillator stacked basses and leads!! This is a very rare and cool machine."

Yamaha CS15

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Yamaha CS10

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Korg Prophecy

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"The Prophecy uses 7 different types of oscillators, giving it great flexibility in the kinds of sounds it can make. You can combine any 2 oscillators at a time, except for the physical models, which use all the available CPU power for 1 osc.

Standard Osc: Used for making classic analog style sounds. The waveshapes are Sawtooth, Pulse (square), and Ramp (triangle). Unlike almost all true analog synths, the Prophecy can do pulse-width modulation on all of these waveshapes, not just the Pulse wave. This allows you to add extra harmonics and change the tone color over time.

Comb Filter Osc: Mixes a saw, square, or triangle wave with white noise, and then runs it through a lowpass filter that has adjustable feedback. Great for making resonant, metallic, or whistling sounds.

VPM Osc: Variable Phase Modulation, which is almost identical to FM, or Frequency Modulation. One oscillator is used to modulate the pitch of a second osc. Then it goes through a waveshaper that adds harmonics, and there is an adjustable amount of feedback.

Modulation Osc: Used as a second osc after one of the other types listed above. It does ring modulation, cross modulation, or oscillator sync. These were the best ways to make hard-edged, metallic sounds on classic analog synths.

Brass Osc: Physical models of trumpets, trombones, and horns. Allows you to tweak the sound by setting the air pressure, breath noise, lip position and vibration, and the tone and resonance of the bell at the open end of the instrument.

Reed Osc: Physical models of saxophones, flutes, recorders, glass bottles, and whatnot. You can set air pressure, breath noise, and the resonance of the reed.

Pluck Osc: Physical models of plucked string sounds such as electric bass. You can adjust the attack, pluck noise, string position, vibration, inharmonicity, decay, and release.

Each oscillator goes through its own waveshaper, and there is adjustable feedback.
You can also add a suboscillator and white noise to further thicken the sound.

There are 2 resonant filters, which can be set to Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, and
Band Reject (notch).

The effects processor does Distortion, Wah, EQ, Delay, Reverb, Chorus/Flange and Pan.
All of these effects are always on, so you can use them all at once in a big chain.

A .PDF version of the manual is available here."

EDP Gnat

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"EDP (Electronic Dream Plant) Gnat synths are single oscillator versions of the Wasp - but are far, far rarer beasties (you ever seen one before ?). They do however to my ears sound much better - something clearer, funkier - and generally mo` booty about them - you hit it right you`ll cut the sky open! Singing leads aside - it`s also beautiful when put through an echo - you want pure blissed out analogue ambience - this`s the Momma! In fairly good cosmetic condition, and v. good, all origional working order (speaker doesn`t work - no great loss believe me!) - some pots may need cleaning to get the best from him - as he`s never been serviced (the origional screw grommets are still all in place). Regular jack output on the side, as well as a power supply input and din connection socket for linking EDP gear together. A very lovely and extremely rare bit of kit! Now go Forth and make Atmospheres Shudder!

Folks! Bit of a mistake - the internal speaker is actually working - but you have to take the jack from the output (duh!). Forgot to mention the absolutely Ass Wobblin` Funk Machine Bottom end this thing has - put him into a bass rig - you got Mighty Funk Minxy - take your breath away!"

discoDSP Discovery Soft Synth vs. nord L

YouTube via gearwire. Sent my way via frederic along with the following:

Arturia Minimoog V: Gearwire Synth Lab
Korg TRITON Extreme 76
Polaris - RG2005
Cakewalk Sonar 6: Synth Rack

Roland SH-3 + Sherman Filter Bank 2 (Phat!)

Via shagghie: "Here's one of two videos I did last night with a Roland SH-3 (not a 3a, but a real straight 'SH-3'), along with a Sherman FilterBank II sitting on top of it. I tried to do a tounge in cheek spoof on the Sherman demo videos....'this is coming in......this is coming out'."

sfumato

"I forgot about this song. I made this a while ago. I used my modular on this a lot. Lots of dark sci fi FM noises with a very dreamy meloncoly pad from the Korg DW8000. Smoky hazy."

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Update via pete: "The modular is a combination of, MOTM, CGS, some DIY stuff I built like some Digisound stuff, and three Thomas Henry XR VCO's. I also got a sample of the CGS gated comparator up. Check it out. I took my synth to the AH Cali event. Check out the pics of my modular here."

sunset approaching

flickr by polaranta.

Yamaha CS15D.