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Dj Cyberium Presents My Synthesizer Music Experience

Published on Jan 17, 2020 Dj Cyberium

"Dj Cyberium Presents My Synthesizer Music Experience
Welcome To My Cyberdark World From Darkness To Light"

Some great synth spotting in this one. Filed under studio tours.

Dj Cyberium Presents My Recording Music Experience

Published on Jan 17, 2020

"Dj Cyberium Presents My Recording Music Experience
This Is The Best Studio Sound In The World In My Life"

Patch Base Adds Roland Alpha Juno-1, Alpha Juno-2, and MKS-50 Editors

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"Simple and classic" is how I would describe the Roland Alpha Junos. Like the Korg DW-8000, they don't have too many moving parts: your standard subtractive synth setup, and with only a single envelope and a single LFO. Not a lot of modulation capabilities. But the sound of the oscillators and the resonant low-pass filter give you a classic Roland sound, and the minimal parameters let you quickly explore a lot of different sonic spaces. You can get round and punchy basses, hollow leads, and soft pads all with ease. And everything sounds sweeter with the Chorus turned on; it's a Juno.

The MKS-50 (photographed above by Lauren Slusher) is the same inside as the Alpha Junos, but with a little more in terms of performance setups, utilizing the weird "Patch" structure that Roland also used in the D-110, which is like a precursor to the idea of "Performances". But that aside, you've got the same sound capabilities as the Alpha Juno keyboards.

Patch Base gives you quick and easy control over all of the sound parameters inside these synths; no menu-diving or wheel-jogging required.

Thanks again to Stefan George for lending me his Roland MKS-50 for development work, and Cody Johnson for his Roland HS-10 (an Alpha Juno-1 in different clothing)."

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NAMM 2020 Spitfire ALBION Neo Orchestral Library

Published on Jan 17, 2020 sonicstate

"A new extension to the Albion collection from Spitfire audio, with more muted and flautando voicings as well as additional synthesized sections.
Available for preorder now, 59GB download, uses Kontakt player."

See this post for additional details on Spitfire's ALBION Neo.

NAMM 2020: Yamaha

Published on Jan 17, 2020 sonicstate

"We get a look at the new Yamaha YC61 Stage Organ - a 61 key VCM modelled organ but with pianos and other sounds as well.
Organ emulation uses some advanced VCM modelling techniques to create realistic tone, transistor and FM organs, as well as Leslie and additional effects."

Blackbox Sampler 1.4 Update - 1010 Music | NAMM 2020

Published on Jan 17, 2020 Under the Big Tree

"Aaron Higgins of 1010 Music demos the exciting new enhancements to Blackbox at NAMM 2020. If you have a Blackbox, you are going to want to download the free firmware upgrade to get enhanced keyboard and scale modes, as well as many other improvements."

1938 Hammond NOVACHORD SN 105

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Some incredible pics of the inside below.

Update via Kenny in the comments worth noting: "Beautiful instrument but no where near the first synthesizer. The Trautonium was already in use and for sale long before the Hammond came out. Even the Hohner Multimonica predates the Hammond. One could say that the Hammond design was heavily inspired by these earlier synthesizers. The Hammond is an amazing instrument so there is no need for false information."

This reminded me of the 120 Years of Electronic Music site. It's a great resource for the timeline of electronic instruments.

Listing description:

"In the late 1930's, Hammond engineers went way above and beyond to create the worlds first electronic synthesizer, and built it the Hammond way ~ the best. I could ramble on all day about this device, but you're honestly better to visit this website, they've fully documented their Novachord and it's restoration.

As for my specific instrument, it's among the very earliest built (#105) and features what I believe is a factory blonde cabinet accent, which I've never seen before. I think it's original because it's so expertly installed, and wraps around the back to the amplifier compartment. The material feels like a grained vinyl (leatherette) with a canvas backing? It's been stripped off on the left side, but you get the idea. The cabinet will need refinishing as seen, but is in remarkable shape for it's age.

When I decided to power it up for the first time, I brought up the voltage on a Variac - slowly. I heard a loud popping sound and found a bad 2A3 tube, which I replaced with a good/tested one. Once up to line voltage, I was able to actually hear this thing play! Volume, vibrato, attack, and various variations of all the controls were essentially functional on the upper half of the keyboard. I didn't get a response from the lower half of the keyboard. This tells me that the basic components (pre-amp, amplifiers, speakers and motor were all functioning) There are 160 vacuum tubes to check, and about 1000 capacitors! You'll have a good and worthy project ahead of you. I do have a short video of my experimentation, happy to email or text it to you! The wiring harnesses, speakers, amplifiers, and other components appear to be in very good cosmetic condition!

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Future Retro 777 Monophonic Analog Synthesizer

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BLM Fermented Grains

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"Granular Synthesizer running Monsoon Firmware.

CC-BY-SA-3.0 Project. Files are at my website, blue lantern modules store.

Some differences between the original monsoon module:
-has onboard stereo vca's with velocity generator circuit and envelope generator.
-has bi-polar CV circuit for the SIZE, DENSITY, TEXTURE, and POSITION
-has a scale quantizer circuit.
-has a headphone or portable speaker monitor circuit.

The enclosure is a Hammond: 1455R2201BK or 1455R2202BK"

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NAMM 2020 – Behringer Introduces a System 55 Modular Synthesizer

Published on Jan 17, 2020 BEHRINGER

"Let’s switch on the time machine and go back to the sound of the 1970s. Introducing: Our Modular 55, 35 & 15 Series! We’ve got more than 20 modules for you – all authentic reproductions of the circuitry from the 'Modular 55, 35 & 15' Series. And all brought to the Eurorack standard but still staying true to the era with some specific features.

That warm sound was loved by Artists from Tangerine Dream to Depeche Mode. And an earlier version used by Wendy Carlos on the famous album “Switched on Bach”. That brought the sound of synthesisers into mainstream music and became basically the founding father of all synths in pop music.

#NAMM2020"

Also see: NAMM 2020 - Introducing System 100 - Behringer Modular Synthesizer

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