ritm2

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"ritm2 legendary Soviet analog synthesizer."

Update: video re-uploaded 11/26

'Ode to Trevor Marshall'

Monte Carlo

"Thought I'd put togther a little tune to show off the sounds of this mega synth.
This is the second 5600 I've owned, the first I sold after reparing it some years ago and quickly regretted selling it. When another one came up for sale I bought it and then spent ages fixing lots of little faults, including an original design error on the LFO. Now it's working perfectly.
The synth is controlled by midi from a midi to CV converter. The CV has to be exponential but the on-board exponential converter does not produce totally clean output, so I made my own converter which runs off batteries.
All the sounds are from the synth, except the drums. I added basic FX: chorus, phaser, reverb and echo to the parts.

BTW, Trevor Marshall is the genius who created this classic synth."

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u-he CVilization Mode III: Quad Mucorder

u-he

"Mode III turns CVilization into a 'Quad Mucorder': A 4-Channel CV step recorder that can mutate your sequences. Record, play back and overdub on all 4 tracks simultaneously! Quantization with 9 scales, advanced clocking options including Bus Gate, clock division, glide and sequencer reset can also be added and adjusted individually for all 4 tracks. If you like your mutated sequence, you can save it, replacing the original sequence."

00:00 - Intro
00:14 - Mode III Key Features
00:57 - 8-Step Sequence
01:07 - Connecting a CV/Gate-Keyboard
01:25 - Recording the Sequence
02:00 - Playing the Sequence
02:22 - Transposing the Sequence
02:41 - Mutating the Sequence
03:09 - Decreasing the Mutation
03:19 - Freezing, Reverting, Saving and Erasing
03:50 - 16-Step 1-Note Sequence
03:58 - Mutating the Sequence
04:18 - Different Sequence Lengths
04:30 - Dub Recording
04:45 - 16-Step 1-Note Sequence
04:54 - Setting up CV-B Function
05:20 - On-the-fly Overdubbing
05:41 - Live Signal Mutation
06:03 - Setting up Quantization and Mutation Type
06:15 - Mutating the Input Signal
06:52 - 2-Voice / 2-Track Patch
07:01 - Recording Sequences on Track 1 & 2
07:26 - Panning the Audio Signals
07:39 - Mutating Track 2
08:09 - Decreasing the Mutation
08:23 - Config Pages Revisited
08:34 - Closing Remarks

How to play the "Soldering Synthesizer" by Neya-Gakki

How to play the "Soldering Synthesizer" by Neya-Gakki ねや楽器さんの「ソルダリングシンセサイザー」の演奏方法
PikoPiko Factory ピコピコファクトリー

Somewhere between reverse DIY and live circuit bending...

via R-MONO Lab

"ソルダリング・シンセサイザーは半田ゴテを使って演奏する新感覚のシンセサイザーです。ツマミも鍵盤も一切使わない革新的な演奏方法を確立しました。半田ショートでリズム・パターンを変えるだけでなく、抵抗やコンデンサを直接取り替えることでドラスティックな変化を楽しむことができます。"

Googlish:

"The Soldering Synthesizer is a new type of synthesizer that uses a soldering iron to play. We have established an innovative playing method that does not use any knobs or keyboards. Not only can you change the rhythm pattern with a solder short, but you can also enjoy drastic changes by directly replacing resistors and capacitors."



R-MONO Lab - ソルダリング・シンセサイザー（ねや楽器）

Interactive Light Dimension Beam D-Beam MIDI Controller

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Old school d-beam controller. Only one other previously featured on the site back in 2017. You can find more info on these in that post.

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Red Sound Voyager 1 Beat Extractor - Audio to MIDI Clock Sync Interface

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Never seen these before. First time posted on the site. RedSound of course made the Darkstar synths.

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Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver Rack SN 00568 w/ Original Box

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"Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver Rack Synth Module in absolutely mint condition! Four DSI Evolvers in a single box that can be used a four independent synths (with independent stereo outputs per voice), or as a huge polyphonic monster synth. Anyone who owns an original DSI Evolver knows how "big" it can sound with just one voice. This synth gives you four of them!"

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Oberheim OB-XA

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Sequential Circuits Prophet-600 Rush

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Some Rush for you.

This Prophet-600 is currently for sale on Reverb here. Pics previously captured here.

Low Frequency Expander 2.0 by Yorick Tech

"Announcing the Low Frequency Expander 2.0, a major firmware upgrade, free to all users, available from December 2020.

The LFE is a standalone, hardware modulation expander that supports the OB-6 and Prophet 6, Korg Prologue, Nord Wave 2 and a generic ‘CC-Synth’: any midi device that can be controlled by midi CC messages. It uses midi to provide 3 complex global LFOs and a 6-stage envelope – which can also be configured as an 2 to 16-step modulation sequencer – to add considerably more complexity, movement and playability to these amazing synthesizers. It also acts as a 4-slot modulation matrix, allowing you to route velocity, key, aftertouch, mod wheel or CV in (optional) to about 50 destinations in the synth (80 with the Nord!)

Simply selecting a new patch on the synth makes the LFE automatically recall the same- numbered LFE patch from its memory, so the two have their patches locked together. You can select the next (or previous) patch in the same category, stepping through all of the Bass patches for example.

New in 2.0
Support for the Rev 4 Prophets 5 and 10, and Moog Voyager. CC-Synth and any two synths are included free; others are extra cost.

Internal midi clock for controlling the LFE and external devices.

The synth’s patch names can now be read and displayed by the LFE, so if you edit patches using for example Sound Tower, the LFE can get these directly form the synth even though the synth itself can’t display them.

Release Aftertouch (RAT) allows you to fix an aftertouch value just before releasing the last note and hold that value until the next note is played. This can be used in a similar way to release velocity, which is sadly only generated by a few keyboards. RAT lets you, for example, increase Release times or increase FX depth just by giving the keys a quick press before releasing them.
The LFE now supports Poly Chaining using any keyboard as master and any synth as slave. The LFE handles all of the note sharing so the attached keyboards simply remain in their normal mode.

You can limit the number of voices played, add a second Sub Voice like a sub oscillator but at any pitch, and can add a velocity offset to the sub voice, so that for example, a second voice a 5th higher comes in only when played with more velocity."