50 Dollar Vintage Drum Machine - Zoom Micro Rhythm Trak MRT-3 - is it worth it?

Expanding Sound


"I see these Zoom MRT-3 Drum machines going for 50 bucks up to about 100 or so. I got my hands on one, I wanted to see if the samples are any good. My thought process for every electronic instrument is simple, I'll enjoy it if it sounds good, and it's fun to use. Sometimes a synth or drum machine will sound great but is such a pain to be creative with that I just get annoyed and want to use something else. This little zoom unit sounds decent for the money and was very easy to program. Mine was picked up second hand, so I had no manual, but it didn't stop me from being able to make patterns 5 minutes after turning it on. If you're looking for a cheap drum machine, this isn't a bad choice at all."

More cowbell ambient

With actual cow bells. Apparently we have a cow label. It's been a while and only two previous posts, but there you have it. This appears to be the first post with actual, real life, cows.

"In which I use the Rossum Panharmonium on a recording of cows in the Black Forest to re-synthesize an ambient track on the eurorack modular synthesizer. Some birds also play into the gentle rhythm/harmony that ensues."

LM - 1229 Soviet Digital Delay (HQ sound) and Kvintet synth / ЛМ - 1229 Советский Дилей и Квинтет

Kee Reel

Arp 2600 Ableton Sync

Oxix52

"A quick video showing Ableton, Moog DFAM, and Behringer RD-8 synchronized to the Arp 2600 internal clock. Ableton and DFAM are directly synced to the arp. The RD-8 is synced to Ableton Live via USB midi."

The Cloney Project EMS VCS3 TTSH (ARP 2600) and the Buchla Easel

therudyrude

"Keysteps are used as arpegiator for the VCS3 and TTSH .

Easel in Eventide H9

2600 in Strymon Big Sky

Cloney VCS3 in Ventris Dual Verb

I had to attenuate the voltage coming from the Keystep going to the VCS3 so that it can kind of track well tempered."

Hordijk Simple Complexity

Todd Barton

"Love Rob Hordijk's sonic world view. . . "

APPARATUS Tube Synthesizer from the Dark Side

Eternal Engine EMI

John Bowen Synth Solaris

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ROLAND JUPITER 4 - Sounds, Patches & Presets | Synth Demo

synth4ever

"Roland Jupiter-4 analog synthesizer demo, featuring some sounds, patches and presets. This Roland Jupiter 4 synth demo showcases some pads, S&H patches, LFO tweaking, filter resonance, and envelopes. Filmed at Vintage Synth Museum in Oakland, CA.

Manufactured from 1978 to 1981, the Roland Jupiter-4 was Roland's first polyphonic synthesizer and supported programmable memories and voice assignment modes. It features 49 keys, 4 voices of polyphony, 1 VCO (triangle, square, square with PWM) + 1 sub per voice, 1 LFO (triangle/square/sawtooth/reverse sawtooth), a resonant lowpass and resonant highpass filter, 2 ADSR envelopes for VCF and VCA, built-in ensemble/chorus effect and arpeggiator.

The Roland Jupiter-4's LFO is routable to oscillator pitch, pulse width, filter cutoff and amplifier and can reach audio frequencies, allowing for crude FM and AM synthesis. The Jupiter 4's arpeggiator provides a choice of up, down, up/down, or random mode, and there is also polyphonic portamento/glide on-board which can be used in conjunction with the arp. Ten presets and 8 user memory slots allow you to create and save your own sounds and patches.

The Roland Jupiter-4 is known for producing rough and raw sounds, big low-end bass, crazy fast LFO metallic timbres, and gritty resonance. In this Roland Jupiter-4 demo I tried to show a few of these types of sounds during my brief time with it. The Roland Jupiter-4 often commands high prices on the second-hand market these days."

Floyd Steinberg: Ranking all the synthesisers I've ever owned

Floyd Steinberg

"This might be the most pointless effort ever, but here's a ranked list of all synthesizers I've ever owned. Sound examples and a brief pros&cons for every synthesizer included. Table of contents below...

Just so you don't waste your time, this list includes the following synths: Yamaha MOXF6, Pocket Operators, Circuit, AN200, WSA-1, PO-1, EX5, PEAK, ARQ-96, Refaces, Waldorf Blofeld, Roland Fantom X6, Korg X5D, Korg Prophecy, Yamaha TG-33, Kawai GMEGA, Digitone, and others."