Best Ambient Synth Shootout #57: Evolution Synthesis EVS-1 - Song 2

Published on Sep 29, 2018 Christian's Sonic Spaces

"This is the second song with my latest addition, the Evolution Synthesis EVS-1. It's a 16-voice polyphonic, 8-part multitimbral, digital synthesizer featuring 4OP FM, 4OP Phase Distortion, Ringmodulation, Waveshaping, etc. It wasn't very successful when it came out in the early 90s. The reasons might be that one need a computer software to programm this synth, the sounds contain significant digital artefacts and it hasn't any filter and effects. But thanks to the 4 6-stage envelopes and 2 LFOs which all can be freely routed to each control two different parameters of the synth engine including LFOs themselves AND the "wavetable", it's a beast to create crispy, wobbling, glitchy, drony, weird, industrial-like soundscapes. The aliasing is here a significant part of the sound design ;-) I'm really impressed how versatile and "fresh" it still can sound.

BTW, all sounds I used for this song I've created myself ;-)

I used for the recording the following FX chain:
Evolution Synthesis EVS-1 - Alesis Philtre - Alesis Ampliton - Pigtronix Echolution 2 Deluxe - GFI System Specular Reverb 2 - Alesis 3630. Depending on the recorded track some FX are deactivated.

The signal goes via a small Behringer mixer straight into the pc.

To create the complete song I recorded consecutively several stereo tracks. The final song was then mastered with just a bit compression on some tracks and some limiting on the master track."

Song 1 here.

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Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Synthesizer w/ Road Case SN 2249

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"This item was part of an estate sale of a musician friend who passed on.

It seems to be in excellent condition considering it's 30+ years old.

Plugged it in, no lights came on, got some kind of fuzzy noise through an amplifier."

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Vintage Maplin 5600s Analog Synthesizer

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"Over the last three years, this unit was put back together and rebuilt by several technicians. The majority of the unit was put back together by Kurt Sampson in Prescott, Az and some of the parts are original and some of the parts are new.

I am going to break down the repairs as best as I can. They keyboard (digitally controlled) is new, the spring reverb is new, & the power supply was specifically constructed for this machine. All four oscillators work, the two filters work, all five mixers work, the keyboard control works, both amplifiers work, the sample and hold work, left and right outputs work great, the spring reverb / phaser work, & the 30 x 30 patch matrix works great and it comes with 14 pegs to make different combinations of patches. There are no dirty potentiometers. Also, I have the old pitch wheel if you would like to have that as well. I poured in more than 5k to get this guy going. This synthesizer sounds incredible and there is nothing else like it.

There are knobs on this unit that don't do anything. On the bottom left of the keyboard there is a knob that says computer and it doesn't do anything because you can't hook it up to a computer, on the bottom right of the keyboard ext. input 1 & 2 don't do anything, in the middle of the keyboard the foot pedal, foot switch, and echo knob don't do anything either."

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Sherman Filterbank 2 SN 8481

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Leploop Synth / Sequencer / Drum Machine / Groovebox

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A fun and interesting synth with sequencer and drum power. Some call it an unconventional Groovebox - it’s certainly full of character!

Key features:

1 oscillator (VCO1) triangular/square wave

1 oscillator (VCO2) sawtooth wave with ring modulator and FM modulation

White noise generator

24 dB/OCT Low pass filter

Kick drum with distorsion and trigger mixer

2 VCA's

2 AR Envelope generators

1 LFO

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16 Capacitors analo sequencer PWM programmable

4 Track digital rhythm sequencer 64 step each track

4 Channel audio mixer

Midi input(clock and notes)

5 CV out: S\H, SEQ, LFO, ENV1, ENV2

3 gate out: S\H, SEQ, CASSA

3 CV in: VCO1, VCO2, VCF cutoff

1 audio in (VCF)

4 audio out: MIXER, CASSA, VCO2, VCO mix

1 clock output: clock 24, MIDI start\stop

EEPROM memory 16 banks 10 pattern each

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#11 Live Performance Elektron Digitakt | A4 | Rytm | Kronos I Peak I Moog Sub 37 I Minitaur

Published on Sep 29, 2018 Victor Roy

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"A psychedelic ambient session with my Moog Grandmother, Roland tape deadly, and some added ambiance from Yamaha Montage and NI Kinetic Metal. Enjoy"

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DIY gone bad? Watch your speakers on this one, maybe even mute it. BTW, is that German Portuguese?

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