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Maplin 5600s Stereo Analog Synthesizer SN LV/16

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See this post for a great repair overview and demo of the Maplin 5600s.

Arturia MINIBRUTE 2016 Cyber Future Analog Power! Analog Synthesizer Rik Marston

Published on May 3, 2016 SynthgodXXX

"Arturia MINIBRUTE Analog Synthesizer
'Cyber Future Analog Power!' by Rik Marston
100% NO TALKING! Just pure Minibrute power!!!

What an awesome synth, I am sure you will agree!
This thing has a TON of BITE. Great for Dance Music,
Trance, Acid House, EBM, IDM, Industrial, Techno.. etc.
I use it for Ambient & New AGE Space Music!
Drones, Leads, Basses, Pads & FX Etc.

Watch your volume it can get loud!
Recorded into Ableton Live 7 with
Simple Groove Delay Effects..."

Moog Model 15 iOS App Review by AfroDJMac

Published on May 3, 2016 AfroDJMac USA

Now available on iTunes: Model 15 - Moog Music Inc.

"Moog Model 15 is a modular synth for your iPad and iPhone. The app sounds incredible, and looks fantastic. It's making use of the power of the latest generations of iOS devices, and has really raised the bar. As you can tell from the video, I am very excited about it!!"

See this post for the detailed release, and this post for another demo that came in later in the day. You can find AfroDJMac's written review here.

Changing Rings

Published on May 3, 2016 Oxix52

"I was not trying to be musical here. This was mainly testing out a technique to change the rings using triggers from the 222e."

Funky Penthouse Groove (Clavinet, Rhodes & Moog)

Published on May 3, 2016 snolan1990

"A short work out in an old school style.

I may make a video breaking down the elements in this tune but just for quick reference the instruments are as follows.

Drums - Single Hit Samples in the Akai S900
Bass - Moog Slim Phatty
Rhodes - Yamaha Reface CP
Clavinet - Yamaha Reface CP sampled through a wah wah pedal into the Roland SP-808
Lead synth - Sequential Circuits Six-Trak
Rotary Organ - Roland Juno-60 through the Zoom MS-70CDR
String Synth - Waldorf Streichfett

All instruments sequenced via the Akai ASQ-10. All instruments non quantized with the exceptiion of the drums. If this tune were quantized it simply wouldn't work."

Live@PlasticTheater pt.2

Published on May 3, 2016 SERI@ACIDWORX

"Elektron AnalogRytm,TT-303 gizm0x custom¥&El Capistan"

Part 1 here.

Roland CMU-800R MIDI Interface Test

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Published on Mar 6, 2016 DeftAudio

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See this post for a fun overview and demo of the CMU-800R, including the software, at the 2006 PNW Synth Meet. You can find additional info on the CMU-800R here and here, and of course in the archives. Note you do not get full access to the internal synth parameters, so think of this as a severely limited preset synth with TR-606 drum sounds, and CV & gate outs. Still a fascinating bit of synth history and this one has MIDI so you do not need the software to make use of it. According to this Sound on Sound article it was "the first sound module to provide multitimbral voicing, independent outputs for each section, control over other synthesizers, and sequencing."

Description from the listing:

"The CMU-800 is one of unique and rare module that was produced by Amdek and then by Roland in the past. It's a medium-sized, off-cream metallic wedge, with a barrage of jacks on the back and a bare minimum of knobs on the front. It also sported this ruddy great ribbon cable hanging out the back!

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International Music Software Trade Association Endorses the Torino Synth Meet

As announced in this previous post, the Torino Synth Meet is expanding beyond hardware for this years' event, and will be including representatives from the Software Industry, including brands like Ableton, Arturia, u-he and Softube.

With that, the International Music Software Trade Association (IMSTA) has officially endorsed the event. You can ready the announcement on the Torino Synth Meet website here.

The event is scheduled for May 28 - 29 in Torino, Italy. If you can make it, you do not want to miss this event.

Kawai Synthesizer 100f Demo

Published on May 3, 2016 VeeCeeYay Inc

"A quick little piece using only the Kawai 100f as a sound source into a looper. I just got it last night and this morning made this before I took it to a guy to fix it. It's a fun synth. I dig the flute sound.
All sounds made by Kawai 100f, some are through a delay."