SYNARE 3 ANALOG DRUM SYNTH PAD

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ROLAND SH-2000

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Freqing Out- by FSD (A love song for TSF)

YouTube via FatSynthDude | September 18, 2010

Hmm... I'm guessing TSF is obviously TheSynthFreq. This post gets credit for the Synth Romance label, although the first post I believe goes to synthfrau aka synthiefrau on YouTube. No, love for synths does not count otherwise every single post would get the label. Video description from FatSynthDude on YouTube:

"Nothing too fancy going on here. This was all done in one take, so it's a little sloppy. (I never said I was a great musician and I definitely never said I was good at copping the styles of the 80's!) Just a little something in tribute to a very entertaining decade as well as to everybody's favorite 80's synth addict. ;-)

I tried to be as authentic to the decade as possible in regards to synths, however a lot of my gadgets (especially drum machines, mixers, and effects) were made in the 90's or the 00's. :-(

Vermona DRM-1 mkIII - Drums
Sequential Pro One - Bass
Akai AX60 - Pads
Siel DK600 - Lead (kinda buried in this mix)
Prophet 600 - Sync synth line the guitar is playing
Schecter Devil Elite - The guitar itself
Line 6 Pod X3 Pro - Guitar effects
Roland GR-30 - Guitar to MIDI converter

I've actually got two mixes of this song with the one in the video being the latter of the two. The original version was mixed while it was recording, was sent through some hardware effects processors, and sent to tape. The mix in the video came about because of a little happy accident in recording. The StudioLives allow me to archive everything to the computer, so I make it a habit of recording EVERYTHING. In the process of this, I was recording the signal coming out of the guitar through the Pod in case I decided later to send the guitar through a different synth or just wanted to correct something with the synth line later (hooray for audio-MIDI conversion!) I accidentally left the amp simulation switched on and I happened to like the result. I remixed the whole thing in Reaper with software effects, turned the Prophet 600 down in the mix, and put the guitar track over it so that the sync sound is more like an effect.

Also, because the patch being used on the Prophet 600 is in unison mode, and guitar to MIDI conversion is finicky, the P600 doesn't always trigger when it's supposed to. Kind of a neat effect in this context, imo.

Hope you all like it, and if you don't, keep it to yourselves because my skin is thinner than paper. :-D

...I just noticed that you can make out Audrey Hepburn's reflection in my guitar during certain points of the vid. XD"

Lets Get LoFi 7 - Yamaha Pss380 + Ps55

YouTube via ChrisLody | September 19, 2010

"The Yamaha pss380 is a FM synth home keyboard with some basic editing functions via 7 sliders, it matches the pss390 in all but its colours. I recently dug it out of the attic and began playing around with its synth edit functions and more or less randomly made up this string sound. The good thing about the pss380 is that some of its presets are stereo which is achieved by hard panning and detuning its voices. It retains this stereo effect even when editing so it can be very useful. It has the affect of reducing the polyphony to 4 from 8 on these presets.

To get this string sound on the pss380 do the following:
Select preset 41, turn off dual voice, turn on the digital synth feature, then set the sliders to Spec. 2, Mod. 7/8, Att. 4, Dec. 1, Rel. 1, Vib.7, Vol. 7

The Ps55 is being used again in this video. Here i'm using it mainly for it arpeggio feature which only has one sound and 2 variations but is still quite nice. Usefully you can fade the auto bass and drums down and just have the arp playing. Later on i play the Accordian and Fantasy sounds layered together. The Solo sounds on the Ps55 are monophonic and it always plays the top note so can behave a bit like a duophonic synth."

goSynth

YouTube via rezzn8r | September 19, 2010

"Modules from Modcan, Cynthia, Foh, STG, Livewire, Wiard, Blacet, Bananalogue, are sequenced by 2 Klees. Synth footage mixed with an amateur game of go."

Mark Mosher Rehearsing "Celebration and Voices"

YouTube via newechoproductions | September 19, 2010

"I'm rehearsing an original composition "Celebration and Voices" from my album I Hear Your Signals. http://markmosher.bandcamp.com/album/...

I'm using a Novation Launchpad and Ableton Live 8. I'm controlling the session, effects, and playing melodies in real-time from the Launchpad."
Percussa Audio Cubes to his left.

My First KORG M01 #1

YouTube via DETUNEltd | September 19, 2010

"非公式な公式ムービー「はじめてのKORG M01＜その１＞」です。
今までシンセやDAWに触ったことが無い・・・でもM01で曲を作ってみようと思っている方にもお判りいただけるように各種機能を紹介しています。
＜その１＞は、お気軽＆簡単にリズムトラックを作ってみよう！です。
カオス・モードと音色差し替えだけでドラムとベースを入れてみました。"
Googlish:
"Official Movie unofficial "first KORG M01 <1 that>" it.
But so far there are no synthesizers or DAW M01 touched on various functions are introduced as you can tell from those who are thinking about making songs.
<1> is, feel free and let's make a simple rhythm track! It is.
I just replaced the drum and bass into a sound and chaos mode."

KORG M01 on Ebay
Nintendo DS on Ebay - refine search on left when you get there.

Current status:

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Biba Beat

via It's Full of Stars

Biba and her DR-55

Uberzone "Bunk Pitch" Promo Video

Uberzone "Bunk Pitch" Promo Video from Uberzone on Vimeo.

"This is a little teaser video for the new single by yours truly. It features bits of the three different mixes included with the new single "Bunk Pitch". It'll be available on Beatport and other download services in late October. It also features my little puppy Cosmo starring in his first ever "rock music video" (that's what he kept calling it)."