Craig Padilla on his Synthrotek MST Eurorack Modular Synthesizer

Published on Feb 5, 2016 Synthtopia

"At the Winter NAMM Show, synthesist Craig Padilla was helping staff the Synthrotek booth.

Padilla gave us an overview and demo of his custom Synthrotek MST Eurorack modular synthesizer, and described some of the customizations that designer George Mattson has made for him."

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Moog Mother 32 Patch Tip

Published on Feb 5, 2016 PaulLawlerMusic

"Patch 'Gate out' into VCO LIN FM for the illusion of a 2nd Osc playing 1 octave and a tone higher. Useful for high and fast sequences.

EDIT: I just discovered it's almost ientical to the patch 'Octave Bounce Back' in the manual. However, if you patch into Mix1 rather than mix2, you can get a semitone higher."

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Mothership 32

Published on Feb 5, 2016

"First self contained Mother 32 patch. Additional reverb from Logic Pro X"

Teeny Tiny Moog Mother 32

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Rare Microtech SCSI Compact Flash Card Reader for Sampler

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Thought this one was interesting. I've never seen one before. A little bit of synthesizer accessory history. Curious if these were made specifically for synths or just as a SCSI compact flash drive in general.

"Used to pair with a sampler for compact flash card storage. I'm used this successfully with a Roland s760, Akai s1000 & s5000, and a Yamaha a3000 & a5000. Plenty to read up on the net about these.

240V - will include a SCSI cable, power cable and nine 512MB compact flash cards."

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Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter Analog Synth REV4 w/M-64C Memory Cartridge

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"This is the Rev 4 version, which is the one you want if you're looking for the classic 'Jupiter' sound as it shares the same chip set as the other Jupiter synths, whereas the Rev 5 has the same chip set as the later Roland JX series. Included in the listing is the Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter Rev. 4, M-64C Memory Cartridge, and power cable."

via wikipedia: "In 1985 out came another revision of MKS-80, known as 'Rev 5', that had no ties with any previous Jupiter's hardware, as it used a new generation of both Roland VCO's, VCA's and filter. The Rev 5 filter was also used in JX-8P, JX-10 and MKS-70 synthesizers."

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Akai Ax80

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"Here's an awesome Akai AX80, in fully functional condition and sounds amazing. All key contacts were cleaned as well as the battery replaced within the past year. It's a pleasure to play with a great feeling keybed and offers many usable sounds. The worst part about it are the blemished end caps which look much worse in the pictures accented by the flash. These could be restored or covered by someone if they have the urge, I never really cared since it looks great in the studio and is a sonically amazing!"

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Minimoog Model D Vintage Analog Synthesizer with old osc, very early RA moog boards

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"Minimoog Model D Vintage Analog Synthesizer old osc very early RA moog boards

Great condition. Very clean. Recent restoration. All original except for the keybushings that have been replaced during service. Early old osc minimoog model d with RA MOOG boards inside. September of 1972 production, 1xxx serial. Sounds fantastic! Cosmetically, this item is very nice for such an old synthesizer. The walnut case is in good shape. It's got some normal wear for an early minimoog model D but overall is in great shape. This minimoog has a vintage roadcase paired with it. The case is in good functional condition and has had the interior foam replaced. It show wear from use and has vintage stickers on the outside..."

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Clavia Nord Lead 1 Virtual Analog Synthesizer + expansion board + soundcard

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Programming State Variable Filter Behavior on the Oberheim Matrix-12 and Xpander

Published on Feb 5, 2016 gstormelectro

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This is NOT a step-by-step tutorial. This DOES show how I set up a couple of patches to get STATE VARIABLE filter behavior on FIXED filter synthesizers like the Oberheim Matrix-12 and Xpander. To be clear, I leave out all the programming steps where I save and rename the patches as you must.

This method works on most any programmable, multi-timbral, polysynth where different filter modes are configurable. The downside to this method is the overall polyphony will be cut in half. On the Xpander this means 3 voices. But hey, on the SEM it uses only one voice.

0:10 Intro, what is a State Variable Filter
0:55 How the State Variable filter works
1:22 My settings for two Single patches
1:58 My setings for the Multi patch
3:12 So you want to sweep the filter cutoff, too....don't you?

Some modern synthesizers allow you to do this within one patch, but they MUST have TWO configurable filters PER PATCH. Waldorf Blofeld, Novation Ultranova, Elektron Analog 4 and Analog Keys, Dave Smith Prophet-12, Access Virus and TI Snow, and more."

Night of Machines @ La Mezcalera, Tijuana, Mexico

Published on Feb 5, 2016 Elektron

"Thank you Tijuana! You made this Night of Machines truly memorable. Such a nice vibe. We hope to return someday."