Turning the dial on some alien shore

video upload by junklight

"An ambient improvisation full of chittering rhythms

featuring a couple of new toys - ditto looper (not seen in the video - I'm actually using as a foot pedal!), Manifold Research Tetragrid and a Percall - which frees up a lot of modules & wires since the whole percussion envelope/vca setup is something I use a lot"

Live annotated performance: Buchla 208c Easel Command avant-garde synthesizer electronic music

video upload by EthanJamesMusic

"I am using the Buchla 208c music Easel Command along with the Make Noise 0-ctrl as a stand in for the 218 touch controller and wanted to explore how to use a patch that my 3 year old son put together. I am using annotations to try to teach some of my thought process when I'm making these improvisations. This is entirely live and unrehearsed. The goal of this piece of electronic music was to find musical ways to use the combination of the Pulsar to pitch with the Envelope Generator to Timbre in the complex oscillator. I was able to pull off his favorite sounds: Ambulance and Truck Motor. The combination of the two modulations allows me to create some interesting rhythmic concepts. This is a relatively simple patch and doesn't need many connections to get something that can sound extremely complex. I am using the west coast technique of starting with something and spinning it out like a centrifuge. I'm processing the sound through a few eurorack modules that I will detail below. Hopefully this camera angle also helps you learn something!

Patch Notes:
Buchla 208c Easel Command audio to 4ms Tapographic Delay to Make Noise X-pan controlled by Intellijel Quadrax and Tangle Quartet. Audio from Eurorack output to Boss RC-5 loop pedal and Eventide H9 reverb.
Live patching: in annotations"

Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance - Tracking Early Korg Serial Numbers

Supporting member Electropict wrote in to let us know about their website Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance, and specifically an interesting project they took up during the lockdown.

"Whilst under pandemic lockdown last year, I started compiling information on early Korg serial numbers, which has gradually turned into a group of pages with about two thousand of them, of which about eighteen hundred have Matrixsynth references. (I think my curiosity got the better of me.)

There are, at last count, forty-four potential corrections, some of which are very interesting imho, and many of which are only obvious once you've understood the early Korg systems. (Hopefully these pages will be a useful reference in future, for anyone interested.)

The main page of all early Korg serials Iʼve found, which I'm updating about once a week: https://zasm.earth/korg-serials

The original idea, considering MS-20s in more detail, in its own page: https://zasm.earth/korg-ms20-serials-characteristics

And a page about one of the more interesting corrections - two MS-20s with the same serial number. https://zasm.earth/twynthesisers"

Be sure to see the rest of Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance for additional synth resources while there.

Nanobox Lemondrop - "Tesseract" 40 Presets

video upload by LFOstore

"Lfo.store presents 'Tesseract' the first bank for Nanobox Lemondrop.

Buy: https://lfostore.sellfy.store/p/nanob...

We are starting a new series of banks dedicated to synthesizers Nanobox by 1010music.

Nanobox Lemondrop is an incredible synthesizer with amazing features and sound.

The first bank for Nanobox Lemondrop is dedicated to motion pads and deep textures.

40 amazing presets are waiting for you and ready to fill your compositions with new colors and inspire creativity.

Cinematic, Electronic, Ambient, create new music worlds with Nanobox Lemondrop and 'Tesseract'

Every patch of our soundset is musical & can be immediately used in your tracks & production.

Enjoy and may the music come with you!"

Roland JX-08 & Behringer RD-9 - DuB TeChNo - Clone Wars - Synthesizer Demo ft. Dancing Stormtroopers

video upload by Wine&Synths

"Here is a synth demo in a dub techno style made with the Roland JX-08. It's accompanied by the Behringer RD-9. A clone of the legendary TR-909."

Bad Gear - Akai S2000

video upload by AudioPilz

"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Akai S2000 Stereo Sampler. Is there still some use for this 90s sampling workhorse or has it been surpassed by newer plugins and grooveboxes? Is it really that boring?

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:10 Overview
04:59 Hate
05:26 Jam 1
06:24 Jam 2
07:22 Finale
07:53 Verdict
8:56 Patreon "Vocoder" Shoutout (more like vocal mangling shoutout;)"

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Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev 3.3 w/ MIDI, Poly Sequencer, Prophet Remote & Extras

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"This Prophet 5 has MIDI (120 patches) and an extremely rare upgrade which makes this one of the only available prophet 5 with this modification! It has the legendary distortion mod witch you can activate by your wishings! This makes a big prophet 5 even bigger !!!!!

The sound is just huge and cuts right trough the speakers! Im extremely saddened to let this package go.

What you get in this package:

- Sequential circuits Prophet 5 Rev 3.3 with MIDI

- sequential poly sequencer 2 pieces!!!!

- Sequential prophet remote

- Sequential circuits original manuals

- Original cables

- Original hardcase

- tons of extras!!!!"

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Creamware Pro12 ASB

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Siel Opera 6 (rare ssm italosynth)

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"The Opera 6 is a subtractive synthesizer with a design based on SSM chips, with SSM2031 for the VCOs, SSM2024 for the VCAs, SSM2056 for the envelopes, and SSM2044 for the filters"

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Custom White Roland SH-101 w/ Blue LEDs

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" Modded by Funkagenda, paint job by Customsynth.co.uk, here we have a Pearl WHITE Roland SH-101. Visually stunning, no mistake? Cool blue LEDs make a statement, for sure. There are VERY few in this colour, with these extra specifications......

There are extra features now on board eg audio input, LFO clock in....dial in the FM synthesis, and the most weird/bonkers sounds are generated...something totally unexpected!

Condition is "mint". This synth is 40 years old. It has NOT been played very much at all. Normally, the faders/knobs are 'getting on a bit, like...'....not THIS one. The power switch is the usual suspect re failing; it is absolutely faultless. Synth really feels like brand spanking new! Package is complete with 220V PSu, although the synth will beaver away with only x 6 "C" type batteries inside....so personal synthesis audio/sequencing easily accomplished via headphones......"

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