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Star Trek VI Used an Oberheim DX or DMX Drum Machine as Control Prop

Check this out. The sliders and buttons match up perfectly, including the red and white. Star Trek VI came out in 1991. The DX came out in 1982. Be sure to also check out the Synths in TV and Film posted back in 2007.

via swissdoc, via @esuenuesu

"Star Trek VI at 1:38:32: The Enterprise navigation system is based on a vintage Oberheim DX Drum Machine.🥁"

And two more below from Amazona.de.

Update via electrongate in the comments: "The prop seems to have seven columns of three buttons. Too many for a DX, not enough for a DMX. Possibly a cut-down DMX."

Access Virus Indigo Demo

Published on Feb 9, 2018 Chris Bran

"Hi. This is my trance piece of music made some time ago using Cubase SX2. Every sound in this piece comes from my Virus B Indigo, except for drums which are just samples. Enjoy!"

Yamaha DX7 – Legendary electronic music, Jean Michael Jarre Oxygene and Vangelis Blade Runner Blues

Published on Feb 9, 2018 Power DX7

"This is a Yamaha DX7 music video of re-creating those legendary electronic music by two legendary musicians and composers, Jean Michael Jarre and Vangelis.

Jean Michael Jarre - Oxygene Part 2 (short version) – I created a short demo of the famous electronic music with a lot of analog synthesizers used in the original score. I used the DX7 MK1 to re-create analog bells, percussive sound, metallic sound and pitch bending sound. The original score also features a beautiful analog strings/pad sound, and I created the DX7 version that is equally beautiful. There is also another beautiful pad that used for a release sound for the saw percussive sound. What I love the most is the amazingly beautiful analog pad (I’m a sucker for beautiful pads/ strings). That is the reason why I love Oxygene Part 2, as it features this beautiful pad/ strings.

Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues (Full Length) – This project of re-creating this beautiful music/ sound track from the original (and the best) Blade Runner started by great friends of mine asking me about Yamaha CS-80 type lead sounds. Once I remembered that beautiful sound track in Blade Runner (watched many years ago), I decided to challenge myself to re-create the whole music using only the DX7 MK1. It took me many months of tweaking DX7 patches, listening to the sound track, transcribing music to Logic Pro X, recording many takes and mastering for the final version.

It features the famous Yamaha CS-80 lead, another great Yamaha CS-80 harmonic rich and gritty saw type pad (I just love pads and strings!), Yamaha GS-1 vibe, and a window rattler bass.
For viewing enjoyment, I put photos of city night scenes taken in the city of Melbourne in Australia (what a beautiful city with full of interesting features).

By re-creating those legendary electronic music, the DX7 proves itself that it’s an amazingly capable and versatile synthesizer (and really great at producing beautiful pads!!!).

So relax and enjoy the legendary electronic/ synthesizer music re-created by Yamaha DX7 MK1.

Note: All the DX7 sounds are Power DX7 original patches created using the DX7 MK1 only (no editor). Effects including reverb, chorus, flanger and delay are used for some patches. No equalizers are used for all of the DX7 patche."

DIY analogue synth project (The SEM VCF 4 Pole prototype Test Demo 02 with JD 990)

Published on Feb 9, 2018 Adamski A.

"Here is a second video exploring polyphonic tones of the JD 990 run through the 4 pole SEM type filter, a few more demos to come on this subject, please feedback and comment regardless if you like or dislike ."

Teenage Engineering OP-1 sequencing Buchla Music Easel

Published on Feb 9, 2018 Red Idiot

"Maybe I’m the only one interested, but here we go. To control the Buchla with the OP-1 with with external clock might seem like an easy thing to do, but for me it took a great deal of research.

To begin with, my BEMI Easel from 2015 has been really hard to control with external pitch cv. If I calibrate the 208 to work with the 218 keyboard it's no longer 1.2v/oct. The midi is crap and freezes easily. And besides that I want to control the two oscillators independently. To get the tuning right I amplify the 1v/oct signal through an AniModule Line_Amp Eurorack module and then calibrate the Buchla with the pitch cv slider.

The clock is coming from the computer to the OP-1 through a Kenton USB midi host. From the Kenton box i connect the OP-1 via usb. The midi out is going to a Kenton MCV4 to convert midi to CV. These boxes are hidden inside the Eurorack case. The pulse cv is then going into the pulse in of the Buchla. The pitch is going to each oscillator.

The OP-1 audio signal is going into the aux in of the Buchla, so I can switch between the sound of the Buchla oscillator and the OP-1. I use the arpeggiator of the OP-1 in this video.

Drums are samples coming from Logic (gotta love the Maestro).

I also use some Eurorack modules. The Buchla get’s an LFO on the timbre section from the Dixie II. The Disting mkIII switches the octave on the Buchla. Peaks converts the gate signal to trigger. The PCV1 converts 3,5 mm to banana plugs. Not used in the video is the Quantum Rainbow noise module.

The sound from the Buchla gets a touch of Soundtoys Echoboy Jr in the mix.

Sorry about the crappy camera work.
I’m happy to answer questions if anyone is struggling with similar challenges!"