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Boland Synthesizer Featured in South Park Season 1 Episode 3

Check it out. Boland.

Via Lyle.

The Roland S-50 on wire to the ear

"The Roland S-50 was a futuristic looking black metal monolith with a fluorescent screen. It felt long and had 61 keys. Compare that with the measly cheap feeling two octave Oxygen 8 I use now! You could hook it up to an external monitor. I had mine hooked up to a 13″ green CRT poised on a three tier Ultimate Keyboard Rack. It also came with a digitizing tablet and pen similar to a Wacom tablet. This allowed you to draw waveforms but it was more gimmick than useful.

It was 4 part multitimbral and 16 voice polyphonic. It had a 3.5″ disc drive and 750k internal memory. You could sample at 12-bit at 15-30kHz." Click here for the full post on the Roland S-50 on wire to the ear.

Computer Music (Synthesizers, Synclavier) 1986

Computer Music (Synthesizers, Synclavier) 1986 Pt. 1

YouTube via cowsill2x2.

via Nusonica.

"Outdated but still interesting. Features news on "new" music making machines, including the Synclavier II. Max Matthews, Ronald Surak and Richard Head discuss sampling. Mason Gross. Rutgers. MIDI. PBS. Innovation"

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Vocoder Videos via intromix

Vocoder What Is It? EMS 2000 Demo w/ Oberheim OB-8

YouTube via intromix. via Nusonica.
"Here is how an analog vocoder works. I am not going to use technical "jibberish" so I will speak normal vocabulary. This is the legendary EMS Vocoder 2000 (from 1977) which soundwise compares against Sennheiser, Moog(Bode), Synton, Roland, Korg. I will give a basic demonstration on how to use a vocoder and how a vocoder functions to give it that "robotic" sound. I used an Oberheim OB-8 Keyboard to trigger the pitch on the vocoder"

Sennheiser VSM-201 Vocoder Audio Samples

"Here are some audio samples dedicated to the usage of the legendary Sennheiser VSM-201 Vocoder. Being that there is hardly any info on the web in reference to this unit, I took the initiative to be probably the first person to post audio samples of this vintage dinosaur....ENJOY!!!"

Cylon Costume With Vocoder Sample

"Here is a sample of what my Cylon costume sounds like with the vocoder and red eye warble sound."

astrolab studio

YouTube via ohrspace.
"a virtual visit of "astrolab" recording studio. http://www.myspace.com/astrolabstudio"

Yamaha DX-7 II + SCI Pro-One + Roland TR-707 (audio)

YouTube via retrosound72.
"short synth demo
Reso-Bass: SCI Pro-One
Melody: Yamaha DX-7 II
Drums: Roland TR-707
hand-played
more info: www.retrosound.de"

Smooth Electech - MC-909 LIVE (Part 6)

YouTube via siedgey.
"Hi everyone,

Thanks a lot for continuing to watch and enjoy my videos on Youtube, brings a tear to my (incredibly manly) eye.

I don't really know what genre this track is - if anyone has any ideas then comment! It was made in 1 night, recorded the next night. Smooth, rolling, melodic, highly compressed, slightly French...I could go on...

For some reason, the sound quality is far worse on the upload than the recorded video - apologies for that. Kinda makes it sound quite bass-heavy...ach well!

If you have any comments or questions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks again for watching...enjoy." Access Virus Classic.

minimoog bassline demo of Madonna - Get into the groove

YouTube via lewisjp8young.
"here's a demo clip of the bassline for the song (into the groove)it needs cleaning up with the correct notes etc. the sound is created by using very short decay times. the minimoog's 2 oscillator were very finely tuned by myself to get that grit sound that the minimoog growls out. if you know what i mean. these synths sound much better in real life."