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Korg fripSide Satoshi Yaginuma Special Edition KROME EX-61

KORG INC.

Title: 八木沼悟志（fripSide）インタビュー・ダイジェスト映像
Googlish: Satoshi Yaginuma (fripSide) interview digest video

Description: "コルグとfripSide 八木沼悟志によるコラボレーション・モデルの情報を公開！"
Googlish: "Information on collaboration model by Korg and fripSide Satoshi Yaginuma is released!"

Some pics and info translated into Googlish via www.ikebe-gakki-pb.com

"Satoshi Yaginuma, a synth master who brilliantly manipulates digital sounds that engulf the arena spectator in a frenzy.

Introducing a special model with a powerful tag formed by the modern charismatic keyboardist and Korg.

■ Features

◎A limited number of premium models.

◎ The color of the main body is a color close to the image color of fripSide, and it was realized by Mr. Yaginuma's choice.

◎The trademark of fripSide is designed on the left side of the panel.

◎ A special soft case with a trademark design on the fripSide image color is available.

◎2 representative songs (sequencer data) of fripSide under the supervision of Satoshi Yaginuma
(Recorded song)
・Only my railgun TV anime "Toaru Kagaku no Railgun" opening theme song
・Hesitation Snow

◎ Satoshi Yaginuma recorded the original tone used by himself on the attached SD card

■ fripSide profile

A unit consisting of Satoshi Yaginuma (Key), a composer and producer sat who has worked on many anime songs, and Aino Nanjo (Vo) who is also active as a voice actor (Love Live! Eri Ayase etc.).

In 2013, she recorded No. 1 on the Oricon weekly chart for the first time with the single 'sister's noise', and has successfully performed solo performances at headlines and various arenas at large domestic and overseas festivals. We are pursuing musicality with a digital feel that makes full use of synthesizers.

■ Profile of Satoshi Yaginuma

Formed fripSide in 2002. Artist · Synthesist · Lyrics · Composition · Arrangement · Professional
Acting as a user.

Since 2011, he has been in charge of sound production as a member of ALTIMA. (Activity has been suspended since 2016)

"Yaginuma Sound" with an outstanding melody sense and good taste has been highly evaluated in Japan and overseas.

*Other specifications are the same as KROME EX-61."

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Teenage Engineering OP-Z 16-Track Synthesizer & Sequencer w/ Vinyl Overlay & Extras

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"Mint Condition, barely used OP-Z

Lays completely flat + Encoders have never 'popped out'

Comes with a lot of great extras (also mint condition)
- Teenage Engineering M-1 Headphones w/ Mic, Used 1 time, they sound SUPER clean.
- Original Box + Manual
- Folding PVC Carry Case
- Original Charge Cable
- Vinyl Overlay (totally removable, no residue)
- Apple Camera Connector (not pictured, but it's a nifty little addition that allows you to connect your OP-Z to your iPhone and lay down recordings via the 'Voice Notes' app)"

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Korg littleBits Synth Kit Circuits

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You can find some demos of them in the archives.

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Ciat Lonbarde Cocoquantus

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"Cocoquantus in excellent condition with its original power cable and with two patch cables."

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Yamaha Reface DX w/ Dtronics DT-RDX Controller

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Video in the listing previously posted here.

"The DTronics DT-RDX changes the game for the Reface DX and makes FM synthesis programable/editable via a hardware controller. You can edit each operator individually or multiple operators at once, along with universal/common settings. As amazing as FM synthesis can sound, it's always been fairly intimidating to program/edit, but the DT-RDX (which has a solid metal frame) changes that and turns the Reface DX into a serious synthesizer. Using the DT-RDX to modulate the Reface DX while its looper is engaged produces some absolutely magical sounds!"

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E-MU Systems Proteus 2500 Version 2 SN 020201607

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Never heard of a version 2 before. Guessing it's in reference to the Proteus 2000 1U rack version. You can find some history on the various Proteus models on Wikipedia.

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Red Nosed Waldorf Microwave and Microwave Programmer SN B19500333

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"Waldorf Microwave and Programmer (A two item package.) The synth that started it all! In 1989 this extraordinary reincarnation of the legendary PPG synthesizers set out to conquer the world. It’s brute, sonic energy simply dumbfounded the big players in the international synth biz and its red Waldorf 'nose' quickly became a trademark - soon to be found in music studios all over the world."

Red Waldorf "nose"? Never heard that one before.

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Dragon Quest XI - Serena's Harp (Synthesizer Performance) | ドラゴンクエスト11 愛のこもれび

GLASYS

"Serena's Harp melody (AKA Yggdrasil Theme) from Dragon Quest XI - Echoes of an Elusive Age performed live on synths. I added some ambient ocean sounds for atmosphere. Hopefully you find this calming / soothing.
Just finished playing this game and I absolutely loved it, the soundtrack by Koichi Sugiyama is fantastic.

ドラゴンクエスト11のラブストーリーはシンセサイザーでライブ演奏されました（私の翻訳がひどい場合は申し訳ありません）。

Performed on Sequential Prophet XL and Moog Matriarch."

Patch Notes: Ennio Morricone Tribute

TheEndorphines

"Ennio Morricone tribute patch based on the Good, Bad & Ugly soundtrack.
In this patch we are using Furthrrrrr generator with exponential FM to add inconsistent pitch drift in order to make the sound more realistic and human."

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As many of you likely know, film composer Ennio Morricone passed away on July 6. He didn't work primarily with synths but he did incorporate them. He actually composed the soundtrack for The Thing using synths as a tribute in a sense to John Carpenter. From The Vinyl Factory:

"This is an unusual release in the soundtrack back-catalogue in it being a rare instance where John Carpenter chose not to score one of his own films, and where Morricone experiments with synth-tones in his composition, seemingly in acknowledgement of Carpenter’s style.

There’s a lot of muddied details that surround it, but as the story goes Carpenter was disappointed with what his musical hero (he got married to the music of Morricone) presented and embellished what appeared in the cinema with some of his own fills, leaving out a great deal of what Morricone had prepared. The LP however, includes tracks selected by Morricone and trumps his other works for horror in suspense and execution. Nominated for a razzie. Go figure."

I read that Ennio Morricone believed a synth shouldn't be used to recreate real world instruments, but rather as it's own instrument. via Wired:

"To create that original score for Tarantino, Morricone largely turns to tools unavailable in 1964, like synthesizers, which drive the tense, gloomy eight-minute overture. (Morricone’s compositions for The Thing, used in The Hateful Eight, were some of his first work with synths in the early 1980s.)

The experimenting composer isn’t above technological advances, but he’s quick to warn young composers of the dangers of seductive technology. “Electronic instruments have to be used to justify something that doesn’t exist, not to replace for instance an orchestra,” he says. “If you use the synth just to recreate the sound of an existing musical instrument, it is wrong. But if you use the synth to create sound that doesn’t exist, that’s a very wise way to use it.”

So technology can be a cautious step forward in music composition, as long as you don’t use it as a crutch. “If the composer—or the so-called composer—becomes a kind of slave of technology, if he uses technology in a toxic way, this is not progress,” he says. As Morricone sees it, technology’s role in music is “a moral stance, not only a technical stance.” A broader variety of possible sounds can benefit a soundtrack, of course, but the ease of synthetic sounds is not worth the loss of the authentic and everyday. Use technology to add a human whistle or the real tick of a watch, but don’t replace them with false facsimiles. As he describes it, in composing, “everything must start from your soul, from your heart, even when you use technology.” In his score for The Hateful Eight, Morricone is, in part, reusing music composed for a thriller in 1982 for a Western in 2015—but 70 years after his first Western, he insists he’s still experimenting, from the heart."

P.S. Thanks to gridsleep for requesting a post on Ennio Morricone and TheEndorphines for the video. I was hoping something to pay proper tribute would come in and it did.