Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev 3.3 SN 2677

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Roland Jupiter-8 SN 120962

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This is a legendary Jupiter 8, 12 bit early model (1981) with the newest OS chips(34) and the DCB option. It has been almost fully recapped and has had extensive service by synth techs, Rick Smith and also David at Nitelife electronics in Vancouver. All the rainbow button switches have been replaced. Perfectly tuned and calibrated with zero issues and it sounds incredible.

There are obviously some small cosmetic knicks here and there and some dents near the power switch but otherwise this synth is in excellent shape and very clean with no corrosion and minimal wear. Keys are in great condition.

Includes the Roland MD8 DCB-Midi interface pictured + custom dust cover"

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Roland SH-1000 Vintage Synthesizer Keyboard

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"Roland's very first musical instrument from way back in 1973. This one is in good shape, fully functional, in tune and scaling properly. A few of the pots are scratchy. Has presets like the ARP Pro Soloist, but also has a full featured synthesizer section. The SH-1000 is one of the best values in Vintage Synthesizers out there today."

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Doepfer MS-404 Monophonic Analog Synthesizer

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Korg miniKORG 700FS Review - A Sound Designers Thoughts.

video upload by GEOSynths

"Originally issued in 1974, the 700S was the 2nd in Family, with the 700 being released the year prior. The 700S had an extra Oscillator and an added Ring Modulator with a variety of settings.

Korg have painstakingly crafted the limited edition re-issue, however they've added some great new features, such as Patch Storage, Spring Reverb and the ability to record all the Knobs, Sliders and Switches over USB Midi.

It also comes in a beautiful styled Case and lets face it, you've never going to get a Vintage in this condition and with a warranty."

Also see Korg miniKORG 700FS - One Synth, One Track

Elektron Digitakt + CXM1978 + GRP A2 // Ambient lofi beat

video upload by Dexba

"As an old meme once said: 'I don't always pull out the Digitakt. But when I do, I always end up amazed by how simple and yet versatile it is.'

Having 2 LFO's per track, modulating modulation, quickest sampling EVER (even for a lazy ass player like me), MIDI tracks to be able to quickly play external instruments!

This all started with the loop I put in track 8, a little arpeggio on the Matriarch, that I listened to for many many hours without knowing what to do with it. Then I decided to stop being lazy, so I pulled out the Digitakt and I started flipping the sample, recorded one drone note with the GRP, recorded water, recorded birds, and even some vinyl scratching because... you know, that's the way these things go down.

In the past few days, I've had trouble sleeping, and I have to admit I resorted to my own video quite a bit, mixed with some other sounds of nature.

Everything sounded beautiful already without reverb, but then I remembered I OWN A F***ING Chase Bliss CXM1978! I attached that, I turned the CREAMY factor on the GRP to 11, and... here we are: MY FIRST AMBIENT JAM EVER!"

SonicProjects OP-X PRO-II - Factory Presets Demo

video upload by virtualoberheim

"Playing some factory presets of the SonicProjects OP-X PRO-II virtual analog synth. No external treatment involved. All sounds are coming directly from the stereo output of the synth.

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The video features 91 presets from 29 banks. The gigantic complete patches library the synth ships with is 2'500 patches in 66 banks, so the featured picked presets are just 3.64 % of all available presets.

Explore the built-in banks and sounds on this dedicated site:
https://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/...

As you can hear in the video the synth perfectly can emulate the typical sounds of various classic analog synths including the Roland Jupiter-8, Prophet-5, Oberheim OB-X, Oberheim Matrix-12 and even Minimoog."

Additional SonicProjects OP-X PRO-II posts.

Mr Crowley Synthesizer Intro

video upload by Luke Million

"I've always loved the synth intro to 'Mr Crowley' by Ozzy Osbourne. Today I'm recreating it with a Korg MS20 and Roland VP330 🎹🦇🎹"

Learning Modular Conversations with guest host Todd Barton

video upload by Learning Modular

"This is the replay of the September 2021 "ask me anything" Zoom session for Patreon subscribers of Learning Modular (https://www.patreon.com/LearningModular). In this second session, Todd Barton (https://toddbarton.com) was asking questions of Chris Meyer of Learning Modular, and moderating questions from the live attendees covering modular synthesis composition, performances, and systems. Subscribers to Todd's Patreon channel (https://www.patreon.com/) were also invited.

If you would like the opportunity to view these sessions live and ask your own questions, subscribe to Learning Modular on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/LearningModular). The August host was Trovarsi, and the October host was Kim Bjørn, with two more sessions planned to fill out 2021. Your response to these replays will determine if we continue them in 2022.

Here is an index to the subjects discussed in this session:

00:00 Introduction
01:33 What is the meaning of life? (Yes, Todd actually asked Chris that, and yes, Chris answered)
02:07 How does Chris not get overwhelmed when approaching The Monster to create a piece of music?
04:43 How does Chris know what he wants to compose?
06:28 Is there a narrative or structure to Chris’ work, or does he create free-form?
08:43 Thoughts from Chris and Todd on compositional “forms” for electronic music
15:47 When to ignore the 'rules'; when to lean on them
19:17 When to introduce a change in the music
23:50 Patching for evolution
28:03 Chris’ lighting during recent music videos
31:22 How much of a performance is written out versus improvised?
35:55 Editing improvisations down to tracks for an album
39:12 How do you organize it when more than one person is improvising together?
42:20 What is coming up for both of us?
45:00 Using synths as individual instruments versus cross-pollinating them
51:20 Todd on the new Buchla Music Easel
54:56 Patching 'from zero' versus pre-patching
56:26 Chris on color-coding patch cables
57:43 Creating the patch symbol language for Patch & Tweak
01:01:18 Serge Tcherepnin’s approach to creating synthesizers
01:04:55 Approaches to stereo and quad sound
01:15:00 Do we use MIDI?"

Comparing the Noise Generators between ARP2600 and Korg ARP2600FS. Big Difference!?

video upload by CGMAGIK

"I've been spending quite a bit of time comparing these two beautiful instruments. One of the big differences I came across was the noise generators. I'm surprised that they are so different, and would be curious to know if anyone has any thoughts about how one might change the 2600FS? Could it perhaps be modded by adding a different noise source? Is it adjustable? If someone from KORG is watching, I'd be curious to know how this came to be. Seems like quite an oversight to me.
A few minutes into the video, I re-patch so that we hearing the direct output from the noise generators.

p.s. My apologies that half of my head is cut off in this video! But you're really here for the ARPs anyways, right!"

CGMAGIK ARP2600FS posts