Classic Synth Specials 

Korg makes the ARP Odyssey

Korg seems to have officially licensed / teamed with ARP. Ok, that company was sold – so don’t know what the situation is and was – but now – they have an Odyssey for us. This year. Since the MS20 Mini is selling well, they look like making the classic synths for us, now? Hopefully shrunken as the Mini and with dynamics? ;) (no irony – I love it). Ok, this sounds a lot like fools day – but this is from the Korg Website! Those keys look a lot…

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Roland TR8 and TB3 – the best videos

additional to this I found the 3 best videos for those who really want to know how to handle the TR8 & TB3 and what is really in especially for real performance and usability. there are masses of videos up, but only 2-3 good ones, and these come from this guy – Paul Crossman. TB3 best explained Roland AIRA TB-3: First LookDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen TR8 best explained Roland AIRA TR-8: First LookDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen you got 11 individual outputs  via USB on the Computer.. Using Multiple Outputs…

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GRP R24 Sequencer (stand alone from the A4 series synthesizer)

  they seemed to listen to what I wrote in my review about the GRP A4 Analog Synthesizer  – that sequencer should be available as a stand alone unit – and – they are doing it – the GRP R24 Sequencer is exactly that but with all jacks and connections needed since you can’t fully access the A4 via voltage control (cv/gate).. will be able to save all settings to 128 programs and will have USB-MIDI as well as a 4 digit display. 6 directions of playing the sequence in 3×8, 16+8 or 24…

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Moog to end the Little Phatty Synth

they set the Little Phatty to end of line status – maybe in favour of the sub phatty which has knobs – but sounding a bit different – well I still have one and like it’s sound and response (envelope). so it’s now – Little Phatty built 2006 – 2013 „it’s a statement for Bob – to keep his work alive and right“ so – the Little Phatty will be / is discontinued now. designing circuitry on another (not so physical/technical) level. lil’phatty not the best name (sorry that’s true,…

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Korg KR mini – Portable Rhythm Machine + Beat Boy

the classic drum machine for „everyone“ Korg KR mini | Portable Rhythm Machine pattern chaining real time drumming on those „pads“ (small but pads) built in speaker (!) foot switch KR Mini: Energize your practices and performances with diverse rhythm patterns!Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen 3 batteries can power it.. (of course digital) – palm sized digital – batteriebetrieb – speaker – superklein. lustiges Teil… es gibt auch schräg bunte Sachen – Krome in 3 Farben und Microkorg in gold (ehm..) __ UPDATE: Beat Boy is also MIDIless (as the…

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next batch of GRP A4 Synths

in september the next batch of GRP A4 Synths is ready, they even did a little promo video.. Grp Synthesizer A4Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen it is not sure if this might be the last batch.. _ the GRP A4 geht in die nächste Runde, es gibt neue und man weiss bei aufwendigen Synthesizern wie diesem nicht, ob das die letzte „Ladung“ war. Es ist also jetzt die beste Zeit ja oder nein zu sagen: GRP A4 einen Test dazu im SynMag gibt es auch: Ausgabe 35

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SCI Prophet 600 – new open firmware makes all knobs work as MIDI controllers

this little nerdy project gligli/p600fw · GitHub. provides an update for the Prophet 600 – it is some hardware modification but also updating the internal firmware by a new OS.. it’s not as easy as updating new synths via MIDI, but after all you can control the P600 via MIDI Controllers – so it is a bit like europa for the Jupiter 6 or Covariant for the Jupiter 4.. via Forum: Neue Firmware für Prophet 600    1x Multi Timbral, 6 Voice, (1982) Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 Analog Synthesizer + simple sequencer 2 OSC, 1 Filter, 1 LFO, 2 EGsubtractive analog…

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