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Monday, January 22, 2007

SMS 2000 Dual Filter Test


Remember the SMS 2000? There was and still is a huge debate whether this thing is real or not. Well, it keeps getting better. Here's a video of it. : ) So, physically it definitely exists. Now, you have to ask yourself, is it producing the sound in this video or is the player is "lip singing" to it? Hey, if Britney Spears can do it...

via Dr. Kyle Han Ten.

Update: Previous SMS 2000 posts

Update: Here's the thread Dr. Kyle Han Ten found the video. If anyone reads dutch, feel free to comment if there is anything interesting in the thread. I beleive I already posted all the shots in my previous posts when the SMS 2000 first surfaced.

39 comments:

  1. I recognize the poster on the wall from one of Elhardt's MOTM photos.

    http://www.hotrodmotm.com/images/elhardt_motmcase.jpg

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  2. So awesome!

    HA HA HA

    If Kenneth actually builds and markets it, it'll be so great!

    (only if it can reproduce those magic violin noises that he, ahem, synthesized).

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  3. Do not dare to question the authenticity of Elhardt's synthesis abilities. We are but dust-groveling mortal knaves before the empyrean grandeur of his skills. Although he could use better outboard.

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  4. Yeah, but can it sound like a banjo?

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  5. I'm just confused.

    It doesn't sound like Carbon 111's SMS 2000 recordings at all!

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  6. Carbon 111's SMS 2000 recordings? Where?

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  7. jesus this dude has some spare time on his hands for realz

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  8. if not carbon111, who was it? I recall some hysterical mp3 action and basement photography (cardboard cut-out mockups).

    Who did that? It was *SO* funny. I'm googling, but can't find it.

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  9. Oh, the mp3 was on a flickr page off of this link: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2006/07/sms-2000-new-flickr-shots_06.html

    But the photo page and subsequent mp3 link (who did those MP3's?) aren't there anymore.

    I thought it was carbon111, but who knows? It was soooo funny. I recall, I actually barfed in my mouth.

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  10. I think the joystick part gave it away... my god... somebody wants to top synth bluff of the 21st century...

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  11. I think it was Carbon111 who had the cardboard SMS2000.

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  12. I put up a link to the previous sms 2000 posts. I do remember Carbon111 putting this up on Synthwire. ; ) That was pretty hillarious. That particular synth actually is real. I know because I played it. He also put this up on Synthwire. Carbon111 is a funny guy, especially with how he bathes.

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  13. I've checked out the Carbon111 post on synthwire... it does look "heavenish" if it is true... it will shock me if it actually turns out to be true...

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  14. Another cardboard synth here. They seem to be getting very popular.

    http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/namm/2007/MetasonixWretchrosonix.html

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  15. The above url got chopped off. Cut and paste the two halves below.

    http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/namm/2007

    /MetasonixWretchrosonix.html

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  16. Elhardt is really cool..
    This is really the greated thing ever..

    looks "real".. well done!

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  17. The thread at www.synthforum.nl is not norvegian but dutch, the language of Holland. Also the .nl extension tells that this is a dutch board.

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  18. I'll fess up to the cardboard SMS. I also did the MP3 examples.

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  19. Stretta: Those mp3's made me barf in my mouth! Contrary to what you may think, that doesn't happen that often!

    They were soooo funnnny! So well done!

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  20. I see that Ken hasn't found a girlfriend yet!

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  21. has anyone noticed that Dr Kyle Han Ten is an anagram for Kenny Elhardt?

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  22. I think Stretta's mp3s conclusively prove that there can be now replacement for analogue hardware. Those silky basses, quashy leads, poodle filled special effects (cont. every other synth ad you'uve read)

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  23. It's as if a veil has been lifted. The soundstage is at least 3000 feet deeper and at least 5 inches wider.

    I feel I'm peering sonically into the endless depths where the piping of the deep ones plays notes never heard by human ear.

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  24. Those mp3's have such a vocal quality. Did the SMS 2000 copy the ARP Chroma filters?

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  25. "has anyone noticed that Dr Kyle Han Ten is an anagram for Kenny Elhardt? "

    Ken has already admitted this is his baby on KSS but he won't go into any detail regarding the reality/nonreality of the SMS2000 ...he even stole a picture of my PEK to cut-and-paste into one of his pretty pictures ;)

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  26. hey carbon111,

    i saw you mention this PEK copying thing before, but i havent been able to see the correlation to any of your pictures. could you possibly give a link to both pictures so we can see the copying also? that would be awesome.

    thanks

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  27. The trackless sliders are a nice touch. Probably the reason for the blurring at 00:39, but you can still see this as he twiddles his little joystick.

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  28. What's KSS?

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  29. > i saw you mention this PEK copying thing before, but i havent been able to see the correlation to any of your pictures.

    I asked him this before and no reply.

    I still think Carbon111 is involved somehow.

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  30. DSI should release an instrument to directly compete against the Little Phatty. Call it the Little PEKer.

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  31. Isn't the MEK competing with the Little Phatty?

    P would mean it's polyphonic, which wouldn't really be competition.

    I'm nitpicking, but I have to fill my daily quota.

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  32. So, as I always said, the SMS 2000 does exist...
    And it sounds as well as it looks !
    As before too, I continue to think it is a synth that has failed to be massively producted. Only some SMS 2000 exist, not many of them. So it is pretty cool to see and hear one of these rarities...

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  33. "stretta said…
    Then there was also this shot...

    6:12 AM "

    Hahaha !!!
    I didn't notice "Forward by Frederic Gerchambeau" !
    Hihihi !

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  34. The PEK photo was about three generations back in my studio. I don't have it handy.

    To Synthbaron, I don't even know Ken this aint my type of gag...ask Matrix.

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  35. KSS is Keys, Synths & Samplers, a subforum on Harmony Central.

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