8x16 monome by david phipps (sts9)

YouTube via sts9phipps. via CDM.
"The diy 8x16 monome controller, built by david phipps, kit by monome.org. music is 'b-nice' (monome version), live versions with the full band sts9 available at sts9music.com."

Rebel Droid

Title link takes you to a track "rebel_droid_-_a_single_voice" by Rebel Droid. See if you can guess the synth used.

"Last night I was working on my synthesis chops with a particular synth and when I struck upon a fun little idea that is the polar opposite of the way I normally work. I make nu-skool breaks most of the time and tend to make things extremely complex and densely layered but tonight I made a complete little song using just 3 oscillators, a ring mod and a noise source from a single mono patch. It was recorded on the fly in one take with no overdubs and no multitracking and no rehearsing. There are also no effects whatsoever except for a small delay and a convolution reverb. There isn't even any eq.

It's basically me playing an arp pattern mostly with one hand while tweaking knobs with the other but don't let that fool you.. it's kind of surprising how well it turned out. It's a little unpolished of course but it is just about a complete song and, yes, it is a single mono patch! I particularly like when the first bassline comes in and how I only turned the noise source on once near the beginning for percussion and it did the rest on it's own! There's a lot of randomness and little bleeps and squeals in there that I can't fully explain. It's also interesting that if you played the patch normally without the arp and with all the oscillators it doesn't sound anything like this!

It's not an earthshattering concept by any means but it's kind of a testament to what you can do with limited resources, some strict constraints and a little creativity.

Anyway.. I deliberately left out what synth it is to see if anyone can guess or at least guess what they think it sounds like."

noiseprofessor's Xpander Demo

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"Moody demosong made with an Oberheim Xpander only. Recorded with multitracker to show off the possibilities for doing percussive sounds, which is often said that the Xpander can`t do this. Sure used some Delay in mixing process. Note: Even the drums & percussions are made with this synth."
Previous tracks by noiseprofessor

Dual x0xb0x Demo

YouTube via october71.
"Here I am demoing the two x0xb0xes I built, #117 (my personal one) and #329 (for a customer). This isn't intended to be a real song, just a demo of the two of them together. Equipment used: 2 x0xb0xes, Korg ER-1 Sequencing my Novation Drumstation, Alesis Ineko, Ibanez SM7 Distortion Pedal, Behringer UB1622FX-PRO Mixer."
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:and here's a couple of pictures:
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More of my electronics/circuitbending projects can be found here:

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Public Image: Careering

YouTube via Galgo23. 1980. Sent my way via SRH.
Features the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.

Modular 2003

YouTube via liquidcolor.
"This is a short video of the modular from 2003. There is a Tama Techstar drum brain in the top right, but I don't recall if it was wired in. Sounds like it could have been. Wiard, Blacet and DIY EFM."

Synton Syrinx

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Roland Jupiter-8

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

ARP Quadra

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Sequential Circuits Split 8

Title link takes you to shtos via this auction.

"he Sequential Split 8 is Japanese produced analog synth marketed by Sequential Circuits. It is very similar in voice architecture and sound to the MultiTrak and SixTrak. All of these synths as well as the Akai AX 60 use one Curtis SENTE (CEM 3394) chip per voice. The Split 8 has eight voices where as the others mentioned above only have 6. The Split 8 seems to be designed for more use as a traditional analog poly synth like the Prophet 5 than as an analog workstation like the SixtTrak and MultiTrak. The Split 8 is capable of doing splits and layers and this is really its strength. As it has 8 voices, you can double up the oscilators and still have 4 note polyphony! By creating a split you can basically have a 4 voice synth with two oscilators per voice that can be detune really thickening up your pads. In split mode the Split 8 is also capable of Poly Mod like the Prophet 5 which uses once voice in the stack to modulate the other. Neither the SixTrak or MultiTrak have this ability. The Split 8 can also stack up all 8 voices to have one massive monosynth; great for supper thick leads and weighty basses!"