Yamaha YC61 Stage Keyboard - Live at Kraft Music

Kraft Music

"Adam Berzowski plays the Yamaha YC61 Stage Keyboard live at Kraft Music. Find exclusive Yamaha YC61 stage keyboard and organ BUNDLES at Kraft Music:
https://www.kraftmusic.com/brands/yam..."

Patch Notes: Maciek Polak (Pin Park)

FACTmagazine

"A live session with four VCS Synthi instruments.

Maciek Polak is a musician based in Gdańsk with a love of vintage analog gear who performs as one half of improvisation duo Pin Park. He doesn’t just make music with it – he also runs Analogia, an analog synth store and repair centre for rare electronic instruments.

When Polak got in touch with Fact to let us know that he would have his hands on four classic EMS Synthi instruments (one VCS3 and three Synthi A models) for a limited time and offered to record a live session with them and his RC-505 looper, we couldn’t say no.

Watch the session above and find Polak’s music at Bandcamp.

https://www.instagram.com/analogia.pl...
https://pinpark.bandcamp.com"

Chillout late night session 20-07 / PEAK, EX5, Digitone

Floyd Steinberg

"Playing some relaxed electronic music, using some of the sounds I created on the PEAK, EX5 and Digitone. Digitone does drums, bass and that saw wave filtered arpeggiated sequence, PEAK does the big pad and EX5 does the lead & piano stuff."

Roland TR-707 ROM Expansion Kit

Harry Axten

"Coming soon for the Roland TR-707 and TR-727..."

via https://hkadesign.org.uk

"You asked for it, now here it is – a ROM expansion kit for the Roland TR-707 and TR-727. It gives the machine 8 banks of sounds you can select, including the stock sounds from both the TR-707 and TR-727, so you can turn one into the other (to an extent – more on this later).

Changing between 8 banks would be a bit cumbersome using toggle switches, and I didn’t want to spoil the machine’s futuristic looks either, so this time the bank switching is done by holding down one of the first 8 step keys while turning the machine on. The setting is remembered and will be recalled the next time it’s turned on. There are no modifications to the outside of the machine, and the installation is easily reversible.

Apart from having different sounds, a modified TR-707 / TR-727 behaves exactly the same as a stock unit, no functions are lost. The machine should also be compatible with any other modifications or circuit bends you may have fitted, such as voice tuning, hi-hat decay mods etc.

I’d like to extend a huge thank you to Sunshine Jones, who donated the TR-727 which I used to develop the modification, and who also provided the excellent TR-808 and TR-909 samples which were used in the expansion banks.

The 8 banks included are :

TR-707
TR-727
TR-808
TR-909
LinnDrum
LM-1
DMX

TR-707 + TR-727 mix (handy for those who don’t own both machines)
The ROM expansion kit will switch out all of the sounds (referred to as a bank) apart from the last two sounds (crash + ride / quijada + chime), which will remain the same across banks, as they are stored on their own ROMs in a different part of the machine. I may produce an optional add-on board that can switch these as well if there’s sufficient interest."

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MAKEN0ISE Office Hours: Live Patching - July 9

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Cheetah Marketing Specdrum EP3 Alternate Sounds and SYNCHRO Start

Really Nice Audio

"In this final Specdrum video we take a quick look at the extra sounds that were available and how to sync the system to a DAW."


Really Nice Audio Specdrum posts

SoundsDivine 'Atmosphere' - Xfer Records Serum Soundset

SoundsDivine111

"This is a demo of the presets from the 'Atmosphere' soundset for Xfer Records Serum.
For more information, please follow the link below:
https://soundsdivine.com/product/seru...

00:00 Intro
00:10 Ambient Feedback
00:53 Arcadian Bliss
01:33 Blu Mar Ten
02:15 Digital Storm
03:00 Deep Dub Dive
03:27 Elysium Shores
04:10 Floating Harmony
04:53 Interstellar Pluck
05:32 Replicant Drifter
06:46 Seventh Crush
07:24 The Red Planet"

KORG MONO/POLY (MP-4) monophonic synthesizer

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Hammond Model HEK-1 Mini Organ Synth w/ Built-In Speakers & Cards?

Hammond HEK-2 & HEK_3 Ensemble Keyboard (Junior Hammonds) - Uploaded by Mike Bracchi

SN 05111856 via this auction

First one I've seen. I could find any demos for the HEK-1, but found the video above for the HEK-2 & HEK-3. Looks like these were geared towards kids. Below you'll find a pic of what appears to be some colored cards for it.

I did find the following from RocknRoll Vintage's Synth City who carried them:

"This is a fun mini organ that was only available in Japan, hence the printed Japanese text. Most of the sounds are like a modern beginner Casio keyboard, fairly high quality sample based sounds. However, the organ sounds are great and include the nice draw bars for interacting with the sounds! Unfortunately we can't read Japanese here and the extent of our testing was done by just trying all the buttons and sounds. As far as we know the unit is in perfect working order. The whole panel of buttons was taken apart and cleaned by our repair technician and is functioning very well."

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PAiA Theremax Theremin w/Lecturn Case - Synthesizer CV Gestural Control

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"I built this kit about 10 years ago and just went back through it and cleaned the pots, checked the solder joints, re-tuned/aligned it, and it is working perfectly and sounding as good as ever.

Antennas can be removed for transport. In excellent physical condition. Missing the volume knob, but these are fairly common knobs. The antennas had developed a nice patina on them until I scotch brighted them off. I was worried the patina would take away from the sensitivity and it didn't. The patina will come back over time.

What sets this apart as a gestural controller is it's Velocity Control Voltage (proportional to how fast you increase the Volume) and Gate/Trigger outputs. A convenient foot switch input allows muting the internal tone source without disabling the CVs.

Here is what is included:

Carefully assembled PAiA Theremax Kit (9505K)
Decently stained PAiA Lectern Case (9505C)
Original manual, power adapter, schematic, service manual w/supplements, and PAiA catalogs..."

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