Audio Damage Rough Rider Now Available - FOR FREE!

"Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of 'vintage' style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals. Definitely not an all-purpose compressor, Rough Rider is at its best when used to add pump to rhythmic tracks. Of course, you can use it however you'd like. The Compressor Police aren't gonna come to your house and give you a citation. Slap it on a track and crank some knobs.

The front panel layout is done the same as many hardware compressors, so it will be immediately obvious how to use it. A brief overview of the controls:

Ratio: The ratio knob is logarithmic in operation. Completely anti-clockwise is 1:1, and completely clockwise is 1:1000. The 12 o'clock position is 1:10, so everything to the left of center is single digits, and everything to the right is 'atom bomb squish,' essentially.

Attack and Release: We left off the actual time values, so you're gonna have to use your ears, like the he-men did it in times of myth.

Meter: That honking big dial in the middle of the UI is the gain reduction meter. It basically shows how much compression is occurring.

Sensitivity: usually called 'threshold' now, but we think 'sensitivity' always made more sense. Turn to the right, you get more compression, essentially. Turn it all the way to the right, and you've got a distortion box, the sound of which is tuned by Ratio, Attack, and Release.

Makeup: 30 dB of gain to compensate for the attenuation caused by the compressor.

Active: From the front panel, this is simply an off/on switch, but if you automate it, strange things happen...

MIDI Learn: Like all of our products, the VST version has MIDI Learn. Download any manual from the current product line for an explanation of how this works, as it is common among all our VST products.

Rough Rider is available as a VST effect for Windows, and an AU or VST for OSX. The OSX versions are Universal Binaries, and require OSX 10.4.0 or later."

You can find it here. Follow-up to this post.

herw modular m1 version 5.03 v1.1

herw modular m1 designed by Herwig Krass. Note this was built with Native Instruments Reactor. Reaktor is a platform that allows you to create your own synths and effects. As you can see Herwig Krazz used Reactor to create his own software modular. Note the patch cords. If you have Reactor you can get the synth here.

Popcorn performed on Synthesizers.com

YouTube via Thalassa77
"Popcorn cover performed in Synthesizers.com, all sounds are from this system except drums. 11 different synthesizers.com sounds are in this track.All made with one VCO :)

I've edited the video and replaced the audio from the camera with one recorded in the computer at the same time of the video.

http://www.lastfm.es/music/thalassa"

keybdwizrd - DSI Mopho Demo #3

YouTube via keybdwizrd

A simple theme

YouTube via attorks
"A simple theme; no keyboard wizardry here. The Synthesizers.com sound uses an Oakley Equinoxe VC phaser which is modulated by an LFO, a EG and later on by a VCO. Row 1 of the MAQ16/3 drives the DotCom, row 2 the MFM and row 3 the Creamware MiniMax (not visible)."

DS-10 song - super13

YouTube via jetdaisuke

Crumar Orchestrator

YouTube via peglegjoe857. Watch your audio level, the synth is considerably louder than his voice. via this auction
"This is a Crumar Orchestrator that I am selling on ebay, decided to make a video to show it's sound and condition. As you can see it sounds sweet and very analog. The strings are killer and the brass is fat and sometimes approaches being a squelchy little bass killer as well. Sad to see this working one go, but i have a broken one under my wing right now that I only need a few IC chips, a few new fader pots, and some time spent on the keyboard before it is ready for some rock."

Dave Smith Instruments Mopho

via this auction

I didn't realize it was actually available right now. Looks like the first Mopho auction goes to Analogue Haven.

BIN of $399.00

Vintage 70s MTI Auto-Orchestra AO-1

images via this auction

"This truly vintage and early synthesizer MTI Auto-Orchestra is a sophisticated electronic musical instrument made in the 1970's. It contains a drum machine, an accompaniment generator and a separate bass sound. It was designed to be an electronic instrument for the instrumental soloist with three-note chord accompaniment synthesizer and an advanced rhythm machine.

The chords, with a choice of similar sounds of a piano, an organ or strings, can be set (by outside switches) to be major, minor, dominant seven or diminished chord. The device also offers automated walking bass.
Size: 12"H x 15"W x 13"D. Shipping weight 24 lbs."

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360 SYSTEMS VINTAGE SYNTH

images via this auction
"1980's 360 Systems Digital sample keyboard. Loaded with real instrument digital samples, this was a very successful attempt to re-create a modern digital-based Mellotron keyboard. Simple to use, this keyboard produces 32 beautiful digital samples, all of which are at the touch of a button. This keyboard is exceedingly rare and extremely useful. The first 16 samples sound like: flute, guitar, bass, slap bass, sustained strings, basoon, clavinet, saxophone, swell clarinet, flugelhorn, trumpet, horns, strings, vibes, marimba, bass clarinet. The other 16 sounds we did not check, but all of the chips are present on the circuit board. The keyboard is in perfect working condition and was recently serviced by Ed Miller in Los Angeles...."