Roland V-Synth Patches

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"V-Synth patches. New. Never installed them."

Update: the samples appear to be of the Kinetic Sound System. I thought it was just the maker of the disk and it slipped my mind. Thanks goes to swissdoc for catching it.

This is one of those things likely I only found interesting. Note the Roland logo. First, it reminded me of Duran Duran's 1st album & early singles during the Planet Earth period. Just thought it was interesting from a design perspective. Where did it originate? Second, I don't recall seeing this particular Roland logo before. I was curious if this was a valid Roland logo or one made up by someone for the CD. I have no idea if it is an official CD from Roland. I ran a quick search on Roland logos and found it, but... It appears to be associated with their printer products? Via Sign Shop: "Currently celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, Roland DGA Corp. has once again been recognized by InfoTrends, Inc. as the leading North American provider of digital printers for the durable graphics market. According to the InfoTrends 2010 Quarterly Wide-Format Tracking Shipping Project report, Roland sold nearly twice as many printers in 2010 priced under $30,000 into the North American marketplace as its nearest competitors."

I didn't know Roland made printers.

Anyway, consider this your random synth trivia for the day...

If you've seen this particular logo used for other Roland synth products, feel free to leave a comment.

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Roland RS-09 Vintage Organ Strings Synthesizer

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Same model as the one used in The Cure's Play for Today video. There was also the later orange on black design.

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Rare Zen-on EK200B MARCHING BASS KEYBOARD EK-2008 - 70s Japan

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This is the first one to be featured on the site. Just when you think you've seen it all, some never before piece of gear from synth history crops up. I capture them in the "New Old" label if you want to check some out. There are 101 posts over the last 13 years of running the site. Cool little bits of synth history.

"Very rare monophonic bass synthesizer keyboard ZENON EK200B made in Japan '70s
made as a student's marching band musical insturmnents.
looks very cool! mint-green panel with white wood side panel.
I'ts very hard to find even in Japan nowadays...


main panel has power,volume,sustain, tone selecter ( TUBA1,TUBA2,Electric BASS)
left side has internal speaker
back side has OUTPUT,Pitch,AC adaptor Inputs (for power & charge)

ZENON EK200B sound is very fat and warm analog Bass sound!"

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ARP Odyssey mk2 model 2813 with unique mods by Dave Simmons

Published on Aug 29, 2018 Vykaar Tones

"Arp Odyssey model mk2 with modified spring return variable pitch wheel and delayed lfo amount pot and switch which were added many years ago by Dave Simmons of Simmons drums. This has the 4075 filter. Although this has cosmetic signs of wear it is good working condition - one pro owner before me. When used with an external Kenton midi box you have to set the aux out to provide a trigger as this synth requires gate, trigger and pitch CV one volt per octave"

Korg Monologue: Sequencing Part One

Published on Aug 29, 2018 Dan Krisher

"In this video, I cover the basics of using the Korg Monologue's sequencer. We'll go over real-time recording, step sequencing, using rests, and how to add ties."

0-Coast Contour and Slope Reversal

Published on Aug 29, 2018 MAKEN0ISE

"The wired circuits of the 0-Coast encourage you to use Contour to control Dynamics, and Slope to control Timbre. But we can get some interesting results by reversing that."

Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.5 Now Available

Introducing Omnisphere 2.5 Published on Aug 28, 2018 SpectrasonicsVIDEO

"At our Special Event at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, Spectrasonics Founder Eric Persing demonstrates the amazing new 2.5 update to Omnisphere - featuring the ground-breaking new Hardware Synth Integration capabilities and much more!"

Plugin Focus - Omnisphere 2.5

Published on Aug 29, 2018 Pro EMP

"In this video i walkthrough the New Omnisphere 2.5 update looking at the Hardware Synth waves and the New Granular feature."

Casio SK1 into the Mattoverse Swell Echo Desktop

Published on Aug 29, 2018 mattoverse

Endorphin.es BLCK_NOIR Sounds & Walkthrough

Published on Aug 29, 2018 SUTURE SOUND

"In this video all sounds come from BLCK_NOIR with no post processing. Sequencing from Winter Modular's excellent Eloquencer.

Disclaimer: Endorphin.es sent me a pre-release Blck_Noir unit, because we are friends. They didn't pay me or ask me to do anything specific with it."

Live Jam #145 Electro / Downtempo / Triphop – Eurorack, Basimilus Iteritas Alter, The Prophet delay

Published on Aug 29, 2018 Monotrail

"Sometimes a session writes itself. I was experimenting with the Basimilus Iteritas Alter and Doepfer a119 distortion. A simple melody generated by two crosmodulating lfo’s and a quantizer did the rest. I like this one."