Depeche Mode-esque - Why do you do? By Machina

YouTube via Satyanass. Sequential Circuits Pro-One.
Be sure to turn you volume back down after watching this one.
"Depeche Mode type Synth Band from the early 90's from Glasgow, Scotland. The Band were called "Machina".

Unfortunately this is the only surviving footage on VHS. The tape had been stored away until Robert Marshall (the leather jacket wearing rocker in the video (and also the keyboard player)) dug it out and copied it onto DVD then converted by a friend of his and posted here on You-Tube.

This song was actually used on a demo tape and submitted to Mute in the early 90's.

Unfortunately the lead singer of the band sounded a bit to similar to another singer of a group that had been signed to Mute Records a decade earlier (no prizes for guessing that band)."

Depeche Mode - Nothing to fear

YouTube via DevotedMajlo.
"Live in Hammersmith Odeon 1982 downloaded from depecheworld.com"
Spot the synths.

V-Synth GT : Realtime sampling and variphrase editing

YouTube via Deweak. via Nusonica.
"Short Demo of how to create a pad from scratch. I didn't edit the modulations, enveloppes or LFO in this example. Here is just a demo of the V-Synth GT's ease of programming :
1/ sampling form a microphone
2/ editing and looping of the sample
3/ encoding
4/ Variphrase editing
5/ COSM and TVA editing
6/ effects"

analogisch.com presents Synth Jam

YouTube via analogisch.
"Synth are Oberheim ob 8, Yamaha cs 60, Korg ms 20, m5, dotcom, studio electronics midimioog, prophet 5,roland sh 5, monopoly triggers dotcom , System 100 for bass, korg emx triggers all sequencers via midi to cv , dotcom sequencers for cv for Roland sh5 and m5, sequencers rolans system 104 for system 100 and filter from ob8.
More Synth passiv in the video: Oberheim ob1, Jupiter 4, korg maxikorg, korg trident, moog liberation, fender rhodes........" Star Wars
analogisch.com

Modded Roland CR5000

images via this auction. samples below.
via Gregor:
"I am selling my modded CR5000. You know, the CR5000 is NOT programmable. But i added some features to this one which makes it quite usable in a normal setup. This is a unique piece of Hardware with extremely expanded possibilities:

On the back there is a Din-Socket for synchronizing it with to Midi using the Standard Din/Sync. (You need a Midi/Din/Sync Interface for using this feature).

Also on the back there are individual Sound Output-Jacks. They are aligned to the Volumepot-Section in the common manner removing the sounds from the sum when inserting cable. That means: As long as no cable is inserted on the individual-out-jacs, you get the sum of all sounds at the output jack. Each cable you put in the individual-out jacks removes this sound (or sounds) from the sum and send it into your cable.

On top i mounted a VHS-Tape-Cover (safely screwed) which holds the switches and dials for soundtwaeking. There are 3.5mm Jacks for triggering the individual Sounds and also one for the Accent. The latter is pretty cool: when you tune in a very long Bassdrum and fire an Accent in the decay-phase of the BD the sound is shortly amplified: BouuuuUUUuuuum. Sound can be triggered from short audiosource or trigger or gatesignals. They are not velocitysensitive though. You have to use the accent-feature to make your patterns dynamic. 4 trigger-inputs are lying on a DIN-Jack. This is my personal Studio-Interface. You should solder an adapter with a DIN-Plug and 4 Sockets - pretty easy. There are 3 more switches: one changes the triggerjacks of open hihat with Accent and vice versa. And two others route the Conga Low and Mid Triggerinputes either to Congas or to the two TomTom Hi and Low Soundsources.

The whole Unit comes with the complete servicemanual for CR5000 ad CR8000 from Roland and the personal notes i made while searching the moddingpoints.

The Drumcomputer look pretty new and everything works like the originial and NEARLY perfect. The only problem is, that the 2 pushbuttons for selecting the rythm rows 2 and 3 are going to die at the moment. They wont work properly any more. It is NOT an electrical problem, i checked that. Replace these to rusty buttons with any new buttons and you can select your rhythms quite perfectly. Using internal or external synchronisation is determined by the switch on the backside near the DIN7Sync input.

Now on to the tweaking possibilities:

The Bassdrum of the CR-Machines is made of two oscillators. I added for each oscillator a TUNE and a DECAY-Dial. Decay can be cranked up until the oscillators are running endless.

Snaredrum has PITCH and SNAP DECAY, There is also a switch for making the SD very long in decay. This switch overrides the snap decay.

For the HiHats we have TUNE for tweaking the sound of the wellknown Roland-6-Oscillator-Noise and HH DECAY. You also have a 3-State-Switch for filtering the Hihats to SHARP or to SOFT, middle is standard-Sound. This switch alters the Bandpassfilter after the HH.

Next is cymbal: there is a pot altering the Highpassfilter of the Cymbal. THis is very cool, it changes the sound of the Cymbal totally from the warm standard sound to a very agressive and sterile "Tsssssss".

The cowbell consists also of 2 oscillators which can be TUNEd individually. Also you can manually set the cowbell DECAY or switch it to a very long decay. Same like SD, when switched to "long decay" removes the function from the decay-dial. The dial i like most in here is the Cowbell-Highpass. The pot sets the cutofffrequency of the cowbell. The higher you set it, the more resonance comes in.

Clave can be PITCHed

Rim can be PITCHed

All three Congas (VERY cool sound, totally different to the 808-sine-congs) can be PITCHed. The higher the pitch, the longer the decay. This happens automatically due to schematics."

Samples (mirrored here):
cr5k_1.mp3
cr5k_2.mp3
cr5k_3.mp3
cr5k_4.mp3
cr5k_5.mp3
cr5k_6.mp3
cr5k_7.mp3
cr5k_8.mp3
cr5k_bd.mp3
cr5k_conga_hh_bd.mp3
cr5k_cym_hh.mp3
cr5k_rim_clave_bd.mp3
cr5k_sd_cowbell.mp3"

This is Rock n Roll

Creative Labs Keyboard Drum Demonstration. Uploaded on Dec 21, 2009 The Cybersalt Site·43 videos

Access Virus KC

YouTube via DIGITALSCREAMS.
"Demo I made of the Access Virus KC back in 2003. There are a scattering of factory presets in amongst most of my own designs. A very classic, modern sounding synthesizer."

Roland Jupiter 8

YouTube via DIGITALSCREAMS.
"Roland Jupiter 8 (12 bit version) - 1981 model - all sounds programmed and recorded by me.....some years ago. Totally classic.....and very expensive sounding. Hope you enjoy...."

Korg MonoPoly (Cassette Promos)

YouTube via DIGITALSCREAMS.
vid 1 & 2:
"Rare promotional tape for the USA release of the Korg MonoPoly (circa 1983/1984)."
vid 3:
"The classic Korg MonoPoly from 1984. Programmed and recorded by me. Also check out my two rare promotional cassettes..."

Sequential Prophet 5 (Soundtrack Demo)

YouTube via DIGITALSCREAMS.
1st vid:
"All sounds programmed by me - check out the classic curtis filter sound starting at 1min 12secs....."
2nd vid:
"I think this must be one of the first recordings I ever made. I can remember it being stormy outside, raining hard and blowing a gail (worrying combination when using analog gear lol!) and I had just finished watching Alien and The Fog. I fired up the P5 Rev 3.3 and recorded some sounds with the view of making some kinda filmscore. Well, I never got round to finishing it.....this clip was done within 20 mins and features some famous sounds. You may recognise the 'Whaling' sound featured on Star Trek 'The Voayage Home' and also the dark drone in 'Aliens'. I programmed the rest of the sounds myself. Lovely, atmospheric synth - if you cant get hold of one of these get the new DSI Prophet 08 instead :D"