Roland W-30 sample assignment

Published on Aug 4, 2015 SynthMania

"Assigning multi-samples on the Roland W-30, early '90s Techno style."

This bring back memories for anyone? :)

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 SN 3679

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via the seller: "As you can see by the photos, this synth is as mint as you'll find for a 35 year old vintage gem. It is completely stock except for a replaced power chord and new bushings for the keys that I had done when I bought it. There have been no modifications done to this keyboard... no MIDI, etc. All woodwork, knobs, keys, are flawless. Little or no signs of wear. This keyboard has never left my studio since the day it was purchased in 2007."

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Sharing Sounds With Omnisphere 2 - Spectrasonics Releases Omnisphere v2.1 Update

Published on Aug 4, 2015 SpectrasonicsVIDEO

"Learn how to import user audio and share your own patches using the new sharing capabilities of Omnisphere 2.

Click on this link to download the files for this video.

http://bit.ly/1hhYy9c"

Update: And the press release for the v2.1 update:

"Spectrasonics Releases Omnisphere v2.1 Update
Power Synth adds simplified user sound sharing and Library Publishing for third-party development

Burbank, CA - August 4, 2015 - Spectrasonics has released Omnisphere 2.1 with a streamlined 'Sharing' feature for sharing user sounds and a new Library Publishing capability. Version 2.1 is an update to the company's recent v2 upgrade of its flagship software synth. In May, Omnisphere Version 2.0 was released with vastly expanded new synthesis and creative capabilities for sound design, along with significant user interface innovations, and thousands of new sounds. The new v2.1 update, a free download to Omnisphere version 2 users, includes refined patch and project sharing features for easily exchanging custom sounds between end-users directly or over social media, a Library Publishing feature allowing third-party sound developers to create easily installable sound sets for Omnisphere 2 users, as well as a much improved boot time for the plugin itself. Both the Sound Sharing and Publishing features can contain 'User Audio,' offering new horizons in patch creation and simplified collaboration.

"It's exciting to see the Omnisphere universe expanding with so much great sound development work in so many areas, from EDM to rock, and film and TV scores to games," says Spectrasonics' Founder and Creative Director, Eric Persing. "And now third- party developers of patch sets for Omnisphere 2 have a simple way to create and offer custom libraries that can include their own soundsources, and are easy to install for customers. There's no need for installers or complicated instructions for moving files around directories deep in the system folders. And because it's so easy to share sounds and ideas now, we feel this will be a huge boon for social media user groups discussing tips and patch creation. This is a big opportunity for our users everywhere. We look forward to seeing and hearing what develops!"

Sharing sounds is simplified in Omnisphere 2.1, the end-user can simply shift-click on a few Patches or a few Multi-patches and then save them to be transferred to a friend or musical collaborator who also has Omnisphere 2. Sharing patches automatically includes any user audio, which is especially convenient with custom patches. Sharing multiple types of Patches, Multis and user audio all at once is easier too, with Project sharing; the end-user can just collect a set of sounds in a project, and then share the project.

The new "Publish Library" feature in v2.1 was created for third-party developers of Omnisphere libraries. It allows developers to easily export, or "publish" a library of Multis and Patches, along with any associated user-created Soundsources, as well as graphic images for the custom library in a single .omnisphere file format. End-users can then easily install this package into their systems with a single step.

Beyond the new sharing features in v2.1, the Version 2 upgrade released in May, includes a host of new capabilities including the most requested Omnisphere feature: Audio import for user-created soundsources-along with major new oscillator features including over 400 new DSP Oscillator waveforms, morphing Wavetables, new granular synthesis options, over 4500 unique new sounds created by Spectrasonics' acclaimed sound design team-bringing the total to over 12,000 total sounds and patches, 25 new FX units, an enhanced User Interface, and innovative production/browsing features such as Sound Match(tm) to instantly locate any related sounds in the library, and Sound Lock(tm) to create endless useful patch variations by locking sound aspects while browsing other patches-among many other innovative features.

Omnisphere 2.1 Feature Overview

New Sound Sharing and Publishing capabilities in v2.1:
• Easily share patches and projects between users, which can include User Audio
• Publish a library of patches and Multis including User Audio, graphics and more
• Share Sounds over social media

Faster Boot Time for Omnisphere 2.1:
• Opening the plugin inside any DAW on Macintosh or Windows is much speedier

Vast New Synthesis Possibilities in Omnisphere 2:
• Audio Import - Users can import their own audio file as a soundsource in Omnisphere
• Over 400 New DSP Waveforms for the Synth Oscillator - an increase of 100X
• Wavetable Synthesis - Each Waveform is now a Morphing Wavetable
• Powerful New Granular Synthesis algorithm
• Deeper FM/Ring Mod capabilities for aggressive timbres
• 8 New Filter Types - New Power Filters, Vowel, Resonators
• New Unison Drift models Analog Polysynth behavior
• Expanded Modulation with new sources and many more targets
• Polyphonic LFO and Modulation Envelope options
• Soundsource Reversing

Now includes over 12,000 sounds:

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Mutable Instruments CLOUDS + SHELVES // WAVEFORMS // REPETITIVE // miniature 39

Published on Aug 4, 2015 LESINDES

"MUTBALE INSTRUMENTS CLOUDS & SHELVES can do for PITTSBURGH MODULAR WAVEFORMS"

quick&dirty dub (excerpt)

Published on Aug 4, 2015 Auxar Netlabel

"Patched something up to test the new Doepfer a-160-2 clock divider II as a dub chord generator and I liked it so did a quick and dirty recording on the Gopro cam for future reference. Drums by DPO, HH by Noise from disting into A-131 programmed with pp+brains seq stacked gates and maths, dub chords z3000mk2 into A-160-2 into mixer then into MMG into Echophon, other dubby sounds by 2x DPO, and some dubnoise into doepfer 106-5 filter and heavy verbs by Erbe-Verb. All other envelopes by Maths and Function going to Optomixers.

Modules : DPO 2x , Echophon, Erbe-verb,z3000mk2,Maths 2x, function, Richter Wogglebug,MMG,106-5, PP 2x, Brains, A-131,Disting 2x, Optomix 2x, Moddemix, A-160-2, Rene,A-138."

4DSOUND: CIRCADIAN - Interactive Sound Performances at TodaysArt Festival The Hague, NL

Not specifically a synth event, but some of you might be interested in this. If you are unfamiliar with 4DSOUND, see this previous post featuring a couple of videos from Ableton. Also filing this one in the Art Installations channel. The following is the official press release on the event. You'll find the event site here.

"4DSOUND: CIRCADIAN
PREMIERE AT TODAYSART FESTIVAL IN THE HAGUE, NL 24-27th SEPTEMBER 2015
AT THE ELECTRICITEITSFABRIEK
4DSOUND unveils a new 24-hour programme of interactive spatial sound performances featuring Lisa Park, Marco Donnarumma, Kazuya Nagaya, Oscar Mulero, the overnight A/V meditation proj- ect Noqturnl by John Connell and Florence To, and more to be announced...
• 4DSOUND: Circadian investigates how spatial listening influences conscious states through- out the day and night
• Performances explore how to physically connect the listener with the surrounding space through movement, bio-physical media and psycho-acoustic stimulation
• Program features sound and movement workshops, immersive sonic meditation, participa- tive spatial performances, overnight collective dreamstate and an opening conference

4DSOUND is a laboratory and cultural collective exploring Spatial Sound as a medium. Since 2008, it has developed an innovative Spatial Sound technology that has significantly improved and ex- panded the possibilities to create, perform and experience sound spatially. 4DSOUND is a fully omnidirectional sound environment, where the listener can appreciate Spatial Sound images in a virtually unlimited spatial continuum. Sound can move infinitely distant or intimately close to the listener: it moves around, as well as above, beneath, in between or right through them.
A 4DSOUND environment allows for a natural reproduction of sound sources in a spatial environ- ment. The loudspeakers are completely transparent: instead of listening to speakers, one is listening to space.
Over the last two years 4DSOUND has developed a following through its acclaimed Artist Residency series and showcases at festivals such as Berlin Atonal and ADE, developing work with artists such as Vladislav Delay, Dasha Rush, Pantha du Prince, Murcof, Biosphere and the experimental imprint Raster-Noton. 4DSOUND has also given lectures and talks on the applications and implications of Spatial Sound at interdisciplinary festivals and symposiums such as CTM Berlin, IX Symposium Montreal and Gaudeamus Music Festival.


4DSOUND is at the forefront of researching and demonstrating how Spatial Sound is becoming intertwined with a broader cultural movement that propagates self-awareness, social cohesion and sustainability. Spatial Sound is at the heart of a development leading to an Ecology of Listening – influencing the quality of the listening environment to enhance our mental and physical state.

Inspired by the circadian rhythms that govern our wake-sleep cycle, the 4DSOUND: Circadian programme will investigate how spatial sound influences our states of consciousness over a 24- hour period, by exploring new ways to physically connect the listener with the surrounding space. Through a series of interactive spatial sound performances, workshops and talks, 4DSOUND seeks to embody the range of conscious states of the listener throughout the day, encouraging height- ened awareness of environment, mind-body connection, personal insight, creative expression, empathic sensitivity and social interaction.

Premiering at TodaysArt 2015, the festival for contemporary art and music in The Hague, Nether- lands, 4DSOUND: Circadian presents interdisciplinary work from a diverse set of artists - all created exclusively with and for 4DSOUND.

New York-based artist Lisa Park has developed a series of performances using biosensors (brain- wave and heart-rate devices) as a vehicle for manifesting her inner states. Lisa’s recent works “Eunoia” and “Eunoia II” involved using a commercial brainwave (EEG) headset as a self-moni- toring tool to measure her physical and psychological states. These performances obtained re- al-time feedback of her emotional reactions- an investigation into a new form of expression and trans-sensory experience by visually and audibly reflecting her inner states into tangible forms.
For 4DSOUND: Circadian, Lisa will engage with participants in a new interactive performance that works with spatialised sound derived from neurofeedback, participant interaction and manipulation of physical space to explore boundaries of intimacy, fear and social connection.

Marco Donnarumma is a performance artist, sound artist, musician and writer whose work in the last six years has focused on how to configure human bodies and machines through sound. He uses biotechnologies, software algorithms and body sensors to create intensely physical perfor- mances, concerts and live installations. For 4DSOUND: Circadian, he will invite visitors to take part in a communal, visceral experience of sound and light. Using the Xth Sense, his biowearable musi- cal instrument, vibrations from the visitors' bodies will be turned into physical sonic constructions that will grow and fall apart through time, space and frequency: a total space of networked bodies.

Robert Jan Liethoff is a Berlin-based actor, dramaturgist and voice movement teacher. His work draws on aspects of voice physiology as a departure point for the development of sound-oriented bodywork. He is fascinated by the body’s own intelligence: his compositions often begin from the concept of a raw, or formless space-state, from where they begin to move towards clearer specif- ic forms and structures. Robert will host a sound and movement class and lecture for 4DSOUND: Circadian inviting participants to explore a ‘physical’ listening practice, investigating how we per- ceive sound composition: what the body considers a ‘healthy’ sound texture, our ability to perceive sound internally as well as externally, and the influence this has on our spatial awareness- of space both internal and external, and the sense of physical self that emerges from this understanding.
Kazuya Nagaya is a Japanese artist who creates immersive, ritualised compositions through the use of bronze bells, gongs and singing bowls. Since releasing his first album ‘Utsuho’ in 1999, he has composed music for a range of projects, ranging from collaborations with Tibetan Buddhist monks to a remix for Plastikman. His performance for 4DSOUND will be a sonic immersion working with gong and beat tones tuned to specific frequencies, to induce deep meditative state.

Techno Is Space is an experimental project exploring the spatial forms and energetic movements within techno. 4DSOUND will showcase succesful performances from our recent Artist Residency series in Amsterdam that integrate wearable tactile bass technology from SubPac with 4DSOUND’s spatial system. Veteran Spanish DJ and producer Oscar Mulero will perform a highly charged spa- tial reworking of his acclaimed album ‘Muscle and Mind’ on Pole Group, while Berlin-based duo Cassegrain delve further into the spatially sensitive psycho-techno of their powerful recent LP ‘Centres of Distraction’ on Prologue.

Visual artist and art director Florence To creates light installations using the identity of first space, then sound, exploring the emotional depth of the audience’s perception. Her work with visual space translates how organized elements in architecture can create either tension or harmony in consideration of motion and adaption through live performance. Florence will collaborate with sound designer and 4DSOUND’s Creative Director, John Connell to present Noqturnl, an overnight audiovisual meditation exploring collective dreamstate. Noqturnl will take listeners through a series of ‘rooms’ as they drift between waking and dreaming states. Conveyed through shifting sound- scapes, these rooms contain individual dream scenarios with distinct environments and moods, encounters and interactions. Beginning with a short meditation, Noqturnl offers participants the chance for self-reflection, processing of memories and perceived mental and physical blockages and, ultimately, a dialogue with non-ordinary states of self-awareness at a deeper level."

Roland Aira TR8 - 808 Day 8th August 2015

Published on Aug 4, 2015 Calle Nilsson

"Famous TR808 beats to celebrate the 8/08 day programmed on the TR8. The last minutes is an improvising jam session."

DreamsOfWires - Roland CMU810 #3

Published on Aug 4, 2015 DreamsOfWires

"This will be an overly long and boring one for many; I -re-used a sequence from an earlier Minitaur video that was still stored in my Minibrute's sequencer memory, but I wanted to record something simple with the CMU810 only, so that I could show how it sounds a little more clearly. It's a nice instrument, a little limited compared to my SH1, but definitely fatter-sounding, yet it can sound particularly pretty and definitely has the familiar Roland sound character which I like so much. I added some annoying subtitles at times so you've some idea what my hands are doing in the semi-darkness. A little reverb was added, as usual."

Not boring to me! I love demos like this.

ELKA SYNTHEX 1st series

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"ELKA SYNTHEX, first generation series, fully working, excellent cosmetic condition.

This model has a near mint control panel. The wood parts are in excellent condition.

It works perfectly and smoothly, no known issues. Serial number: 10xx.

MIDI can be installed. The kit is available from France and it costs 250 euro shipping included. I'll provide details on request.

This model has never been touched inside! All electronics are immaculate. It sounds very healthy despite its age. It could be just my perception. but this particular model sounds fatter and louder than any other Synthex I ever had (approximately 30 models so far)."

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Moog Liberation Analog Synth/Keytar SN 1190 & 1021

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via the seller: "Moog LiberationVintage Analog Strap-on Keytar SYNTHESIZER. Black with power Interface and long power cable. I am Original Owner. Has been serviced. In good used condition. every key and function works. Black sticky foam was cleaned out 20 years ago.Ribbon control works fine. No Noisy pots, sliders are good. Long power cord has been service no shorts. This Sythn is a player. Cosmetically the original paint has started chipping from being played on a stand. Many fond memories. Comes with anvil case. The foam and lining need to be replaced."

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