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Korg Pa800 Iraqi beat 2008

YouTube via ashur75. "Korg Pa800 Iraqi beat 2008"

YouTube via maisonvague. Spot the synths.

"Synthpop's Alive! Can't you hear it?!

Disclaimer: This video response is in no way intended as a personal attack against the maker of the original "Synthpop is Dead" video. On the contrary, I found this video very amusing, actually -- even if disagree with its central message. As for who's case my own efforts end up supporting, well... I'll let you be the judge of that!"

Minimax ASB

YouTube via fystasjoppheng
"This is a short demo of Minimax ASB. It is a very good emulator of the old Minimoog model D synthesizer.
You can also choose between playing monophonic or polyphonic! This is the best emulation I have heard and the knobs are the same as the orginal,but smaller. It has its own delay and chorus onboard.

After listen to it on YouTube the sound is a little bit overdrive.The signal into my videocamera must have been to load and dont give the right impression so I concider to make a new with a better sound quality.

Kjell Gierstae"

Sven Hansen Live in your Youtube.

video upload by M F Lunatic Blo

"Pre order the CD...DROP ME A MAIL in this section of the web,

http://cdbaby.com/all/svenhansen

all rights reserved, copyrights owned by Harmony Sound Design.
Improvisational piece for the upcoming album 'The Earth Mars Connection'
A mix between Jean Michel Jarre and Klaus Schulze.
Ore Sven Hansen goes electirc light orchestra.'

Update: new video above. Original had the following:
Korg Polysix, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Yamaha CS6X? What's under the Prophet-5?

Update via Hans Peter in the comments:

"I'm quite sure the keyboard below the Prophet is a Philips Philicorda. I used to have one back in the days, painted mine black and gave it a PPG-blue frontpanel.

You can see a picture of mine here

It's in the top photo, in the middle below the Teisco 110F. "

Hi-Pi Tonal Plexus Now Shipping

"Have you ever considered what kind of music might be possible if your keyboard had more than just twelve keys per octave? If so, you are not alone. In fact, it's been one of the most enduring and puzzling questions in all of music history. The Tonal Plexus is not just a product of years of research and development, but is a result of literally hundreds of years of experimentation with musical tuning, keyboard design and research in human pitch perception. The Tonal Plexus provides no fewer than 211 keys per octave, allowing the finest discrete control of tuning expression ever available on a MIDI keyboard. If you want to make music that truly sounds new and different, then this is the keyboard for you! Take a closer look..."
via Deviant Synth

Music easel

flickr by Ethan Hein

From wikipedia.

Happy's Synthseite

Click here for Happy's Synth Site. via sequencer.de

1980 electronics book synth quote

via alka

"I picked up an electronics book from 1980 at the sale table of my library recently. There is a section in the book entitled "Music Synthesizers" wherein I found this slightly humorous quote:

'Unlike the electric guitar, the electronic organ and the electronic piano, one does not "perform" at the keyboard of a music synthesizer. Instead, one assembles bits and fragments of musical phrases from various sources, and records them on tape. It is almost as laborious as animating a Disney cartoon.'

I guess I could understand if the book had been from 1967, but 1980!? It's like the author disregarded the whole development of synthesizers through the 1970's, let alone all the bands that effectively utilized them up to that point!

Here is the complete citation:
Houglum, R. J. (1980). Electronics: Concepts, applications, and history. Belmont, Ca.: Breton Publishers." on Amazon

HarriL - Sublight (Live)

video upload by HarriL

"MP3 Here: http://www.mikseri.net/music/play.php...

Hello, I'm back once again with a (tech?)house track, featuring; EMX, ESX, 309, Evolver and the Revolution! Everything is live as usual."

The Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synthesizer (MPS)

Scott Stites put up a new page on The Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synthesizer (MPS). The following is a short excerpt. Be sure to check out the page for more including a sample.

"The MPS is truly an inspired design. One very important element of the MPS, the impact generator, was derived directly from a modular percussion patch by one of the great synthesizer masters. In fact, the MPS contains three seperate tunable oscillators. In addition to the oscillators, the MPS utilizes a ring modulator, it has a noise generator, a voltage controlled resonant filter with two selectable responses (low pass or band pass), three VCAs, and a mixer section for mixing all of the elements together to fine tune a very realistic percussive sound.

The MPS will deliver anything from a convincing snare to toms, to bass, to a sizzling high hat, to a glorious cowbell. When Christopher Walken demands "more cowbell", the MPS can deliver. Not only can the MPS deliver standard percussive sounds, it can easily be tuned to the "out of this world" percussive sounds. It can easily supply voices ranging from the electronic disco drums used in modern day hospitals to empty stomachs of their contents to the sound of an alien craft taking off with each drum beat. In fact, at the flick of a switch, the MPS will transform from a percussive synthesizer to a full-on sustained..sound..generator capable of fully rendering the Neptunian Planetary Anthem in full four part Neptunian harmony. "