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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Elektron SID Station w/ Original Box

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"Rare SID Station loaded with OS 1.11 and the Ninja sound set. Other sound sets can be downloaded from Elektron’s website for free and loaded in via SysEx. Includes original box and manual, and a switching PSU with EU plug (6VDC, Center positive)."

Korg 707 49-Key Performing Synthesizer w/ PSU-200 Memory Card & Parameter Sticker

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First one I've seen with the card inserted. The parameter sticker appears to be solid black while the sticker on this blue model appears to be transparent.

A quickie with the Gerd Schulte Compact Phasing


video by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"We had this hooked up and made a quick spontaneous video.
It's not always easy to dial in the sound you're looking for - if that's your thing - but you can sure get a lot of different sounds out of this pedal.
The machine generating bass and chords is a special little animal, more videos of that to come."

EKO ekosynth below the mystery rhythm machine.

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VAI 18 :Solina String Synthesizer


video by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"One take just playing some chords on the Solina String Synthesizer - no over dubs.
Binson Echorec 2 is the effect source.

It looks like an inflated Solina String Ensemble.
Story goes that American ARP sent a bunch of keyboard-less monophonic ARP Explorers to Eminent in Holland in the mid 70's.
Eminent incorporated most of these synths in to a huge double manual living room-furniture organ that also included the Solina String Ensemble.
A small batch of ARP Explorers were left over and Eminent decided to make a limited, "lightweight" edition : A Solina String Ensemble combined with the ARP Explorer synthesizer.
Both fairly limited instruments on their own, the combination of a mono-synth and string machine make them become more than the sum of their parts.

Here in Italy there were many similar combos and the earliest one, The Farfisa Syntorchestra was released the same year, 1975.
Which one came first? We don't know, please use the comment section if you know the answer.

The possibility of routing the String Ensemble section into the ARP Explorer filter section is a great tool, the filter of the Explorer is great, adding the mono section vibrato to the string section as well.

There are some bewildering flaws with the Solina String Synthesizer, which makes us think that the production schedule was rather tight when these were made:
The ARP Explorer Section seems to emit a ticking noise in certain filter modes (we've confirmed this with other owners of this instrument)
There are no separate outputs for the String and Mono section (WHY?!)
The mono synth always engages the highest note when you play a chord, whereas on many of the Italian counterparts you can 'prioritise': choose if the Mono section will engage the highest or the lowest note in a chord."

Pioneer Toraiz AS-1 & Elektron Analog Heat


video by 3rdStoreyChemist

Friday, May 28, 2021

Tibetan Glitching Bowl (singing bowl & modular synth)


video by poorness studios

"To close out Weird Week, I decided to pair my Tibetan singing bowl with my Eurorack modular synthesizer. Surprisingly... I think it works. The Make Noise Phonogene is the heart of this patch. Weird Week was a fun little project over the last 5 days. Thanks for tuning in."

Weird Week by poorness studios

Analogue Solutions Colossus Assorted Patches, Sounds, and Sequences (Mobile video and audio)


video by Analogue Solutions

"This is a Colossus owner's (@rezfilter ) collection of spontaneous sequences, sounds, and patches created on the Colossus Synthesizer.

The clips in this video were not captured with a high-fidelity audio interface, and in most cases, were recorded with a mobile device for posterity purposes.

They are too fun not to share. ✌️"

Roland SH-1000 Vintage Analogue Synthesizer

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"ROLAND SH-1000 analogue synthesiser from 1970s.

Classic organ styling but with good and very useable synth section including white and pink noise, two L.F.O.'s, single oscillator but has a big sound from the sub osc options. Also as portamento, random note generator and of course ... growl. This is Roland's first ever synth.

Brill sound and it's very easy to accidentally sound like early Human League etc :)"

Casio PG-300 Turquioseburst Flame Electric Guitar with Midi and Synth Sounds SN 001541

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video by The Ruby Red. Oficina das Guitarras



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"Casio PG-300 pg300 electric guitar with midi pickup and midi out, also on board 64 synth sounds. Turquioseburst with flames on top. Basicly it is a very good Made in Japan - Fujigen strat. Modded with a Made in Germany Schaller rails pickup in neck, and a USA made Seymour Duncan Cool Rails pickup in bridge position. Full, detailed and genuine electric guitar sounds. PLUS at the tip of the mini toggle switch you can have guitar+midi or only midi sounds. All available at the Mix output, or you may also route the guitar and midi outputs separately(to different amps, different mixer channels for separate tone shaping and panning.). Or even have the midi pickup out by the midi DIN cable and drive any outboard gear you like. The synth unit works on a 9v battery, or an adapter (not included). Please watch my video to hear the sound and have a grasp of the performance of this beautiful guitar. Recently has been cleaned set-up and strung with Gibson Brite Wires 0942 strings. Midi pickup was calibrated according to the data on the manual also. Comes with a Cibeles brand hardcase which is in very good condition also. Tremelo arm and the papers that came with the Schaller pickup are included, too."

Roland JX-8P special features and some tricks


video by synthlegends

"The Roland JX-8P is still very underrated, although ist was the succssor of the Roland Jupiter-8. The JX-8P is famous for its very lush pad sounds, but it is capable of some very weird stuff, like FM-Bell tones, trance sounds and even PWM. In this video I denonstrate some of those special features, also the 6 key modes and some sound designing tricks to get more out of your JX-8P."

w/ Dtronics DT-800 editor.
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