New time machine episode – ROLAND ALPHA JUNO Analog Synthesizer 1985
Synthesizer demo of the analog synthesizer Roland Alpha Juno(1) from 1985.
The Alpha Juno has a similar voice architecture to the earlier Junos – but on the Alpha some things were enhanced: backlit display, variable chorus speed, a more complex envelope, the envelope can be routed to the pitch, additional waveforms for DCO and sub oscillator, the PWM has its own dedicated LFO, key velocity and aftertouch (can be routed to filter or/and volume).
Tour of the DSI Prophet 6
The Prophet 6 is Dave Smith’s tribute to the poly synth Sequential Prophet-5. The Prophet-6 takes the best qualities of the original Prophet-5—true voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers—and adds enhancements such as studio-quality effects, a polyphonic step sequencer, an arpeggiator, and more. The result is ‘pure, unadulterated analog tone’, with the stability and reliability of a state-of-the-art modern synth.
Background video description:
Rate! Subscribe! Comment! (if you’re polite and cool). Sonic tour of the not-yet-released Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6! This was sent to me to do some factory patches and I got the official Okay to create a video. So here it is – enjoy! This is one really SWEET sounding analog synthesizer.
Kraftwerks Franz Schubert on Metropolis
Intellijels Metropolis running Kraftwerks Franz Schubert
The Metropolis is a unique and powerful musical sequencer inspired by the Ryk M-185 (a Roland System 100m format sequencer.) but with many additional enhancements and functions.
The Metropolis comprises eight “STAGES”, each with its own assignable gate mode, pulse count and pitch value. Each stage can also have a special slide or skip function activated too. The slide functionality is a constant time portamento very similar to the Roland TB303 (unlike most synths/sequencers that use constant rate portamento) which produces a very musical and interesting result.
In addition to the base sequencer settings set with the sliders and switches there is a full menu of controls and auxiliary modifiers that allows the user to control and manipulate the sequence in many powerful ways including sequencer direction modes, pitch quantization and scale manipulators, clock dividers, shuffle and much more.
Some of the features :
- Sequencer modes:
Forward, Forward-fixed, Reverse, Reverse-fixed, PingPong, PingPong-Fixed, Random, Random-fixed, Brownian, Brownian-fixed - TB-303 style slide (constant time portamento) with adjustable time
- Stage skipping (double click slide buttons)
- Internal quantizing in any key and a choice of 30 different scales
- Can act as a master clk with tap tempo BPM control or slave to an external clock (with BPM detector)
- SAVE/LOAD panel settings to EEPROM
- Shuffle
- Internal clock divider with odd/even/all modes and can also be used to sync stage changes
- Sync output (sets output pulse on the first or last clock step of a sequence, used to slave other sequencers via reset)
- Two assignable AUX inputs which can control: gate length, transpose, key shift, root shift, sequence length, step divisor and octave offset.
- Config menu to set slider pitch range, clock div type, sync type and reset type
- All menu actions are one level deep. i.e. press the menu button and spin the encoder. There are no hidden levels or sub menus (except for the CONFIG menu_
- All the core original RYK m185 functions are there too. Read more about the original project here andhere
- User replaceable firmware chip
- Link header on back to connect to other select Intellijel modules
- Skiff friendly
- *Current firmware v1.04
DD Gamelan – modular exploration by Peter Steer
Using the on-board timing facilities of the Erbe Verb, Echophon and Clouds (in time-stretch mode) to mimic the shifting rhythms of a gamelan ensemble.
Bell voice: Braids
Bass voice: Shapeshifter
Drone: EHX Ravish Sitar
‘Away’ new video and EP by Muricidae
From Muricidae’s debut EP, Tales From a Silent Ocean’ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tal…
Muricidae is John Fryer (NiN, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, etc) and vocal siren Louise Fraser. Follow them at http://www.facebook.com/muricidaemusic
Video shot by Kevin Bosl and Martin Curland. Edited by John Fryer. Featuring Sandy Akins.
Awesome: “I go to Skrillex Academy, it’s one of the top EDM schools”
“I go to Skrillex Academy, it’s one of the top EDM schools”
Posted by Midnight Conspiracy on Tuesday, February 24, 2015
ABL3 Computer Bassline – new bassline instrument for the Reason Rack Extension
AudioRealism has announced the release of ABL3 Computer Bassline, a bassline instrument Rack Extension for Propellerhead Reason.
AudioRealism Bass Line 3 (ABL3) is an emulation of a classic pattern based bass machine from 1982.
The legendary silver box that is hallmark in electronic music has been recreated in ABL3 using analog modeling techniques to create a DSP-algorithm that accurately emulates every aspect of the original, from growling basses to hollow middles and beeping highs with metal rattling accents.
Patterns are composed in a fashion similar to the original using the integrated step sequencer with easy to use manipulation functions such as transpose and randomization.
ABL3 Computer Bassline features
- Extremely authentic 303 emulation using our ABL3 engine.
- Ultra natural knob response, scaled to match the original 303 precisely.
- Built-in 303/Rebirth style step sequencer with 64 steps.
- Hard sync to the host’s transport.
- Supports 4 patterns of 16 steps, 2 patterns of 32 steps or 1 pattern of 64 steps.
- CV/Gate input to control the sound engine externally.
- CV/Gate output to control other Reason devices from the step sequencer.
- CV Modulation inputs for Tuning, Cut Off, Resonance, Envelope Modulation, Decay and Accent.
- Resonance and Gate Time trimmers that allow tweaking the emulation.
- Three different VCO Models.
- Noise settings for VCA Clicks and VCA Noise.
- Pattern modifiers with Random, Alter, Copy and Paste functions.
- Unique vibrato which is activated by setting UP+DOWN on steps. This effect is one of the few extensions to the 303 that we are launching ABL3 with..
- Full 48 and 96kHz support, which means the engine uses the full bandwidth of the project setting.
- Step Record mode which allows recording patterns via MIDI or the On-Screen Piano Keys.
ABL3 Computer Bassline for Reason is available for purchase for the introductory price of 55 EUR (25% off regular).
AND ONE – U Boot Krieg in Ost Berlin
And One are seriously productive these days 
Kurzweil K2000 VP Demo
Synth veteran Richard Geere with part 1 of his Kurzweil K2000 VP demo. Part 2 (on editing) coming soon.
New EP with Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream – preview listen here
The Vinyl Factory has announced an upcoming vinyl EP by Jean-Michel Jarre & Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream.
Jarre collaborated with Tangerine Dream founder Froese to create the track Zero Gravity.
Jarre plans to release a new studio album, later this year, which will feature the Froese/Tangerine Dream collaboration, along with collaborations with Gesaffelstein, M83 and 3D (Massive Attack).
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