"(c) 2016 vintage synthesizer demo track by RetroSound
The demo shows the sound-character of the Roland JX-3P Analog Synthesizer from the year 1983.
The most sounds in the demo video are self-programmed. Two are from the sound library.
The JX-3P has six voices, two DCO's per voice, a Roland IR3109 low-pass filter and the on-board stereo chorus.
The polyphonic step sequencer is really unique.
MIDI
And the sound more Jupiter-8 like as the Juno series."
Blamsoft Viking Synthesizer for IOS AU - Overview and Sounds
Published on Feb 25, 2016 Synth Anatomy
"In this video, I give you an exclusive first look at the new IOS Audio Unit Synthesizer Viking from Blamsoft. Viking is an emulation of the Moog Voyager Analog Monophonic Synthesizer. This new AU comes with 178 Presets which are accessible at the moment from Garangeband and AUM Mixer.
In this demo I give you all information about Viking and demo at the end some factory presets. For the video, I use the new AUM Mixer App from Kymatica."
Viking was available for Reason with a Moog Voyager Old School style display. You can find a video of it controlled by Lemur posted back in 2013 here.
Viking Synth is an emulation of the famous Moog® Voyager monophonic analog synthesizer. It has three continuously variable wave oscillators, two ladder filters with a Dual Lowpass or Highpass/Lowpass configuration, a multi-wave LFO, and two modulation busses. Viking Synth uses state of the art DSP technology to accurately reproduce the sound of the hardware. The same algorithms are found in the popular Rack Extension for Propellerhead Reason. You get a desktop quality plug-in at an iOS friendly price.
Viking Synth is an Audio Unit Extension Instrument that works as a plug-in inside host apps. Just open up your favorite host that supports Audio Unit Instruments and select it from the list of available Audio Units. Compatible with GarageBand, Cubasis, MTS, and AUM.
The user interface of Viking Synth is designed for quick and intuitive control. Knobs and sliders expand during tweaking and are designed so the current value isn't hidden below your finger. The six pages divide the synth into logical sections that can be accessed quickly. The filter display acts as an XY pad for controlling cutoff and resonance. Simply double tap a knob or slider to reset it to its default value.
Presets
Viking Synth comes with 178 presets in the categories Bass, Bright Lead, Electro Bass, FX, Percussive Lead, and Soft Lead. The synth excels at thick bass and rich lead sounds. The 50 Electro Bass presets were designed by renowned sound designer eXode. Note that Cubasis and MTS do not currently support Audio Unit presets. Presets work perfectly with GarageBand and AUM.
Oscillators
At the heart of Viking are three adjustable wave oscillators. The continuously variable waveform knob gives the oscillators a unique sound that can’t be achieved with the fixed waveforms found in most synths. A noise oscillator provides three types of noise, one specifically modeled after the hardware.
Modulation
Two modulation busses and an LFO provide flexible modulation capabilities. All of the options hidden deep in menus on the hardware are immediately accessible with one tap.
Filters
The filters are classic transistor ladder filters modeled meticulously. Two DSP varieties are available allowing for either reduced CPU load or soft clipping plus three additional overdriven modes. The number of poles is adjustable for a wider range of filter sounds.
Compare Viking to the leading brand:
– Viking’s oscillators are free running, not sampled, wavetable based, or generated from a zero point
– Viking’s oscillators use advanced techniques to avoid aliasing
– Viking’s oscillators have instability, which is controllable through the tuning drift control
– Viking’s nonlinear filter uses circuit modeling and provides soft clipping"
"This particular M12 is very special because it is an early unit made before the original Oberheim Electronics, Inc. company hit financial problems in 1985 and was bought out by lawyers to become Oberheim ECC. As a result, this is one of the few M12 that was made when the company was still Tom's.
However, unlike other early M12 units, this one received the Factory Aftertouch upgrade (not all M12 have aftertouch!) AND received the original Oberheim 12-Individual Output upgrade (see photo of the side panel).
So this is really the best combination of hardware - an early, original M12 from Tom's original company (notice the serial number sticker does NOT have the "Electronics, Inc" words cut off/punched out like the stickers on later units) and still has the Los Angeles, CA 90064 address under the big "Oberheim" logo on the back. Google some photos of other M12 and you'll see how these differ on later units after the company changed.
I tried to take a photo of the Tuning page showing that everything gets a PASS, but for some reason my digital camera and the refresh rate of the displays on the M12 don't play nicely together and certain segments of the display appear dark in the photos (like when you photograph a TV screen and you see dark bars). Trust me, the VCOS, PW, RES, VCF and VCA all display PASS after tuning."
"Eighteen CEM VCO's and the full compliment of VCF's and VCA's, all instantly editable and savable via the front panel controls. This is an early model so no MIDI or sequencer although it would be a great Lintronics candidate..."