Fairlight Vintage – Musik und Technik 1983 + Lost in Music 1997

Fairlight CMI Schoener 1983 – Part 2 ist ein Ausschnitt aus einer alten Senderreihe über Synthesizer im Stile von Mathe-Telekollegs, also ein wenig steif. Leider gibt es die Sendung nicht mehr irgendwo zu sehen. Der Fairlight war aber öfter dabei und Herr Schoener auch. Wer kennt „Musik und Technik“ (1983)? Wem das zu staubig ist.. kann sich 3 Folgen Lost in Music anhören, hier kommen Uwe Schmidt „Atom Heart“ (Senior Coconut), Oval, Aphex Twin, Air Liquide und andere zu Wort. Die Videos sind hier verlinkt: Electronic Jam ARTE 1996 deutsch und französische…

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Roland SPD-SX Sampling OctaPad

Roland CONNECT – SPD-SX: Sampling Pad. has 2GB ROM Samples and 260 Mins of free Sampling RAM, so it took decades, thought it would come much earlier but here it is – the SPD SX samples drum sounds and is as I thought Pads should be at least minimum. and it has USB and another port for usb stick (which is nice but watch your sounds on stage, then) – the only odd one I can see it has no MIDI thru, and a bit more „control“ or elastic audio…

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Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – easy Synthpop

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel – YouTube. well, the name – but there’s gear, vintage gear to see all over the place – and this is a catchy pop tune. and yes, I saw the Microkorg as well, but also Drumulator, Monopoly, TR707, even though they are not audible in this video exept the Microkorg I guess. have fun! French Synthpop and are they cute? in the meantime if you feel mixed, maybe check out this.

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Roland’s latest..

Roland CONNECT 2011. they got a new looper called RC300, a sampling octapad (that was really a good idea, finally) and they finally got into the iPad with something called R-Mix.. and – it HAS Variaphrase in it, so it looks a bit like re-animating the VariOS on the iPad. it literally looks like some spectral tool like Metasynth and the coloured pixels and the audiofile are represented in both – the Desktop and the iPad Versions which seems sort of remote for „something“ – so since this is a…

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Synthesizer-Magazin: Aktuelle Ausgabe 28 kommt

Synthesizer-Magazin: Aktuelle Ausgabe 28 kommt • Roland Jupiter 80 (1) • Korg Kronos (1) • Dave Smith Tetra • µStep Modul-Sequencer auf kleinstem Raum • Roland SH3a • iPads und iOs wirklich professionell einsetzbar? Yamaha Apps von Tenori-On bis zu Controller Anwendung, Alesis iO-Dock MIDI und besseres Audio für das iPad • Vermona Filter Lancet und Hall VSR3 • Software nach Vorbild des Ryk M185 und Klee Sequencers • Conjure One • KMFDM • S.Parsick • Musik in Japan • Hammond Story, Teil 2

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Vince Clarke’s video about the RSF Kobol Keyboard & recent favourites

Vince Clarke Music – Video. part 7 is the Kobol Keyboard Analog Synthesizer , a french rare synths with big knobs (you might know the Kobol-Software from Xils even better today, right?) – this is the keyboard, not the more „common“ Kobol II, Kobol 2 Expander  – likes: there is a technical term for this waveform but.. and here, Vince talks about some synths, he likes the Mopho Keyboard, (ok I believe it was the key version since I like it, too)  but doesn’t have too nice words about Moogs Little Phatty „too…

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