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Synthorama - Synth Museum Walkthrough - Parts 1 - 5

YouTube via matrixsynth.

This is the walk through of the Synthorma synthesizer museum in Luterback Switzerland. Before you watch this video I want to make a few notes. First of all, be sure to click on the synthorama label/link below to see all posts on my visit to the museum. Second, this set of five videos is literally walk through the museum. If you have been following the posts you will know that the majority of synths are hooked up to headphone amps. There is a very good reason for this - you are encouraged to explore and listen to the individual synths without the disturbance of others doing the same. Because of this there is obviously no synth audio in this set of videos. The purpose of this post is to give you an idea of what is there and to give you a sense of what it would be like to walk through and see all of this before you put the camera down and start playing. :) There is no background track as you walk along. Just a ton of synths you want to explore.

For those of you that get camera sick watching videos like this, apologies ahead of time, and there are plenty of shots of the museum in my prior posts if that works better for you. Hopefully the vids aren't too bad.

That said, enjoy this set of videos, or not. Remember you can mouse over the video and click on the forward and backward links to move on to the next video if you do not have the time to watch all five in one shot.

Thanks again to Martin Hollinger for hosting such an incredible synthesizer asset for the community and a special thanks to swissdoc for not only driving me to the museum with the great synth talk, but also for dropping by the music shop and brockenstube on the way there. I couldn't have dreamt of a better synth fix on my vacation. Thank you.

Synthorama - MISC Shots

click here for the last set of images of the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. The set includes that last random shots I took of the museum after completing a tour of all the synths. Next up, the video tour of the musuem. Click on the synthorama label below to see all the posts of my visit.

workstation/playstation

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"has a bit of light coming in, at least"

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FC-303 - Roland TB-303 Famicon

Famicon as in Nintendo SES. Gizmodo has a post up on various cartridge art. noisesource spotted this one of a Roland TB-303 and sent it in.
"Rounding out our Nintendo news trifecta today is the annual Famicase art exhibition. It's like many other art exhibitions from around the world, made infinitely cooler by the fact that the artwork is composed of imaginary games pasted to old 8-bit Famicom carts."

That said, I'm guessing this is not a TB-303 for the NES. If anyone knows more about this one, feel free to comment.

RobbleGrobble, babbling patch on the modular

YouTube via dkimcg
"PlanB generates sound and processes timing from 2 envelopes I borrow from the Paia and uses the model 10 a secondary envelope. The main swell in volume is the Paia's adsr envelope rising slowly and cutting out. the model 24 generates the randomness in the patch. The triple time pulls it's weight on this one. Watch it's LEDs blink timing out 2 envelopes. The model 24 processes 2 LFOs from the Filtered Coffee unit and one of the envelopes from an AR envelope from the Paia. It the nsend out modulations to the filters and ocillators. It's a pretty complicated patch, but most of it was trying to get the Model 17 triple timer to time out events where you really see and hear it in action.
The space echo is turned on about 1/4 of the way in to fill out the sound a little. All analog on this recording, no processing in the computer at all."

Alesis Micron VS. Waldorf Micro Q

YouTube via Gtechture
"This is a song created on the Waldorf Micro Q accompanied my a Micron"

Testing the Waldorf micro Q multimode

YouTube via trom69
"All sounds are coming from the micro Q (4 timbres + drums). Paterns sequenced using Cubase."

ARP 2600: Sample and Hold

YouTube via AutomaticGainsay
"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the Sample and Hold circuit of the ARP 2600."

scope + planb + frequencies + expressions + After Effects

YouTube via dkimcg
"I combined a bunch of analog sequences I recorded from my PlanB modular synth to make a "song". I shot the waveforms of the song through an oscilloscope. I did some simple expressions and overuse of the kaleida plugin. Just a sketch. But it looks trippy if you're into trippy things. Go hippie go!

But if you're prone to seizures, this may not be a good one to watch. Seriously."