"Incredible condition Ensoniq MR Rack synth, fully expanded to include all samples and programs from the EXP-1 (Real World), EXP-3 (Urban Dance) and EXP-4 (Perfect Piano) expansion boards, via the 3-in-1 expansion board now available. The EXP-3 expansion adds all of the Transwaves available on the Ensoniq Fizmo as well!
The synth is fully updated with the latest OS (v1.53), and has a new battery installed. It's got very few blemishes - just a tad of rack rash on the screw holes, and a bit underneath - see photos. None of it is visible when in your rack. Everything works exactly as it should. Original owners manual and power cord are also included."
00:00 Title
00:29 Intro
02:56 History
08:21 Michael Lunn
15:12 Demo
19:11 Initial Inspection
22:11 Disassembly & Electronics
27:34 Sheet Metal
29:02 Capacitors & Re-assembly
32:24 Problems
34:13 Cosmetics & Final Details
43:42 Outro & 80's Jam
"This time I'm going DEEP into the Univox Mini-Korg K-2 (a.k.a. Mini-Korg 700s), including the history, the story behind the family member who passed it down to me, a demonstration of the synth, the extensive restoration effort, and finally a rad 80's song with my friend and amazing guitarist, Justin Piper.
I'd like to thank family and friends that helped with this whole project, including the Lunn Family, Kadrolsha Ona Carole, Mary Champagne, Kristin Parker, Craig Parker, and Justin Piper. https://justinpiper.com/home
Thanks for watching!
Wanted to see what this little synth is capable of, for being probably one of the more affordable Moog products, does it compare in sound quality to some more expensive and more complex Moog synthesizers? I will let you be the judge. All you need to be aware of is that my final signal is coming out through the audio output of the synth, and into UAD Twin, then I am using Valhalla Shimmer for reverb and some EQ on the master chain.
If you have any questions type it in the comments."
"LAZER measures the distance between your hand and its precise laser sensor, and transforms it into MIDI, analog and audio signals, according to user settings. Completely standalone, no need for wearables or external receivers.
In this video, LAZER controls the delay of an Eventide Timefactor pedal, by use of MIDI Control Change messages."
"First recording with the Ambient Recording Sound Fish ASF-1 MKII Hydrophone. The sounds you are hearing are of oxygen slowly leaking from chunks of colored sidewalk chalk. 👽"
"The Modbap Osiris is a hugley flexible oscillator. Here I demo it using 2 voices using some Deadmau5 MIDI files I've re-jigged for 2 voices. Wavetable synthesis on another level. You have a separate sub which is tunable, plus you can detune the main oscillator... giving a total of 3 notes at a time. Very cool."
0:00 Opening Bass
0:41 Paraphonic Pad (w / Valhalla FX)
2:00 Ring Mod Seq
3:06 Boarder Pad
3:54 Angstpop Lead
4:36 Sync Pop Bass
5:32 Rave Kids go play
6:30 Melodic Techno Lead
7:11 BP psytrance rubber lead (w / Valhalla VV)
8:38 Stranger Lead
"I turned my Nanokontrol into a 16 step multitrack midi looper using a Raspberry PI Zero 2, using WebMidi on Chromium. This is still work in progress, but I was so happy this works I wanted to share it online. ;-) Hardware used: PEAK - for the saw wave patch Orba - Drums Reface DX - Lead PI - sequencer
How it works: The Nanokontrol has 24 buttons, 16 of them are used as "locks" for the 16 steps in a measure. Pressing a key and turning the left knob "locks" a note in place (a midi keyboard can be used, too). Pressing a button and turning the second knob will adjust note length. The right knob will adjust the tempo of the track.
As this is a web app, all the MIDI stuff is "stored" as a DOM element. Each track is represented by an ordered list that's formatted to look like a table. Velocity, note length and pitch are then stored as data parameters. There's a web worker running in the background which will provide the time, unaffected by what's going on on the web page. That thread will just count up to 16 in the interval deducted from the BPM and then start from the beginning. Each step, the thread sends a signal to the web page to read the next item in the list and send it to the hardware assigned to that track.
To Do: - performance optimization for PI Zero (it runs pretty stable on anything else ;-) - SWING :-) - midi learning for any given controller - loading and saving tracks as midi file - on the fly creation of new patterns, copying the one currently played so you can tweak it - on the fly pattern switching - track muting
Once this is done, I'll release it for you to use. :-)"
"Incredible condition Ensoniq MR Rack synth, fully expanded to include all samples and programs from the EXP-1 (Real World), EXP-3 (Urban Dance) and EXP-4 (Perfect Piano) expansion boards, via the 3-in-1 expansion board now available. The EXP-3 expansion adds all of the Transwaves available on the Ensoniq Fizmo as well!
