Thummer Demo

YouTube via JimPlamondon. via felix inferious.
"Melody with the right hand, accompaniment with the left, and expressive effects with your thumbs -- only the Thummer lets you do all that! See www.thummer.com for more information. Performed by Gavin Healy."

EMSME

Another EMS Synthi track via mono-poly

DZIENNIKARZE

YouTube via KASOWER. Spot the "synths." "2004 album Neuromantic wersja Albumowa Old School Mix"
Yamaha SHS-200.

Novation Supernova saves a prayer

YouTube via totaltwit.

Also check out this post.
"Hear the Supernova attempt to make sounds like Duran Duran on their Rio album. The Supernova needs to be twiddled, it has 3 oscillators not all are needed ro recreate early synth sounds. Here is an attempt at sounding like Save A Prayer which has those two memorable synth lines both recreated here."

Newborn BYOC

YouTube via IranContras.
"This BYOC Digital Delay pedal is less than five minutes old. This was made immediately after putting a battery in it for the first time."

Vangelis - Chung Kuo [Live]

YouTube via mugensx.
"Concert in Rotterdam. 18th June 1991.

'Event of Excellence' (Eureka).
---------------------------
Intro
Chariots of Fire
Spiral
Other Side of Antarctica
Chung Kuo
Glorianna (Markella Hatziano)
Pulstar
Mask Мovement 2
Italian Song (Jon Anderson)
Kinematic
Mask Мovement 5
Hymne"

Roland JD-800 + Oberheim Matrix-1000 + Roland TR-707

YouTube via retrosound72.
"synth demo by RetroSound

bassline: Oberheim Matrix-1000, triggered by the MFB Step64 step sequencer
drums: Roland TR-707
fx sounds and pads: Roland JD-800

hand-played

more info: www.retrosound.de"

Tone2 Gladiator - Revolution in Synthesis?

You be the judge

"A revolution in synthesis!

Gladiator is one of the most powerful synthesizers ever. This is a tough statement, but you should read this...

What is Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) Synthesis?

This new synthesis method is based on a large and expandable repertoire of standard waves like pulse, unique synthetic waveforms as well as resynthesis waves like trumpets, organs, pianos and voice samples. These waves can be modified in real-time by e.g. FM modulation, altering its harmonic structure, syncing, waveshaping,...
Any modification of a wave can be modulated producing lively shimmery sounds (recall: with only one oscillator!). In total there are more than 30,000 different spectra available for combination and modulation.

Example:
You can take a Hammond organ, FM modulate the organ with a sawtooth, create a hypersaw and amplitude modulate this signal with a BPM synced vocoder drumline.

What is the advantage of Gladiator compared to other synthesizers?
* Real high-end sound quality: Analog, warm, transparent and fat
* Huge sonic range: From classic to unique science fiction
* Excellent value for money
* Low CPU and high reliability
* Gladiator can replace a complete room full of hardware
* Flexibility and expandability
* 750 professional sounds from Vengeance and others
* Gladiator was created by professional dsp scientists"

Tone2 Audiosoftware

Musicmuseet Musical Instrument Museum

Remember this post? longforparade dropped by the Matrixsynth Forum to let us know that the Musicmuseet website has been updated:

"Hi,
I am in fact the "member of the swedish analog sympathizer-mailinglist working at the Musikmuseet". I am also, of course, a daily visitor to the Matrixsynth blog. As this is my last day working on the project of documenting the electronic instruments at Musikmuseet (The Stockholm Music Museum), I wanted to tell the world that many more instruments can now be seen, some even heard, on the museum's homepage:

www.musikmuseet.se

Direct link to the electric and electronic instruments

The collection of electric and electronic instruments is not a huge one, but it contains quite a few rare and interesting objects as can be seen on those pages, and for the most part the instruments are very well preserved due to the fact that they have been kept in storage since the 80's.

A few instruments are on permanent display in the museum, for example the EMS Synthi AKS (M4022) and the Yamaha GS1 (M4055) formerly belonging to Benny Andersson of ABBA, but most of them are kept in storage and can be seen on special appointment by contacting the museum."

Picutured (note the date on this one - it looks like something that would have be done today)
"Educational instruments constructed by Ralph Lundsten and Leo Nilson 1968 for Swedish Rikskonserters school tour "I tonsättarens verkstad" ("In the composer's workshop"). The instruments were distributed among the pupils to be played after a score shown as a film."

Korg Kaossilator Review on Sonic State

Be sure to check out the write up on Sonic State as well.

Touch gears combo.

YouTube via Wancoco.
"jam sessions ds + kaossilator + um a sampler that kept synch well and allowed track muting ther is another bit of gear that freaked me out until i realized it was an iphone." funny. :)

Roger Waters and Theivery Corporation's ARP 2600? - Update

daddio of tapewarm contacted the seller and got some images of the ARP 2600. You can find the link to them in the original post.

Update: there is a response from the seller in the original post as well.

TM Modules vs. the Korg ER-1 on Muff Wiggler

click here for the post with samples.

casio cz101

YouTube via yamahakorg12.
"casio cz101 süper star 1.bölüm"

Alesis Micron Piano FM Patch

YouTube via Gtechture.
"Hi, I have been getting a lot of comments about piano sounds. The micron has no piano preset. I programmed one thats rather convincing, especially coming from a micron. This thing suprizes me everyday. It was made using frequency modulation."

Sequential Circuits Pro-One

images via this auction

PAiA Proteus 1

images via this auction

"The Proteus 1 is a 2 Oscillator Analog mono synthesizer with patch memory. For more info, check out Sonic State

This particular Paia Proteus 1, which were sold in DIY kits back in the early 80's, is one of only 80 known sold by Paia. Who knows how many actually still exist, not to mention still work. The keyboard is based on CEM chips from Curtis. These are the same chips found inside the Prophet 5 and Memorymoog. This particular unit had a bad CEM3440, but I picked up a NOS one and replaced the bad one. The keyboard now works perfectly.

There are no bad keys, scratchy pots, or non working functions. Everything works and behaves the way it should. Even the program patch memory works perfectly. I replaced the batteries for the memory as well.

So what does it sound like? The closest match in tone is probably the Memorymoog, minus the polyphony. It functions very similar to a MicroMoog, only it offers more Osc. waveforms."