ALESIS ANDROMEDA A6 – Step sequencer
Alesis Andromeda A6 analog synthesizer step sequencer keyboard demo. Performing live ambient space music on Alesis A6 Andromeda analogue synth keyboard using the built-in step sequencer. Created using 2 oscillators, LFOs, filter / envelope adjustments, portamento, unison detune, delay effects on vintage Alesis A6 Andromeda analog synthesizer keyboard. Performed live, no external processing. Excerpt from a longer session.
The Andromeda A6 is a true analog synthesizer using two analog oscillators per voice, sub-oscillators, hard and soft sync and more! It features 16-voice polyphony. With the Andromeda, you’ll find a huge range of tonal possibilities: searing leads, warm pads, fat bass lines, extreme sound effects and more. And of course there are plenty of knobs (72) and buttons (144), even an assignable ribbon controller for addictive hands-on real-time control! The large high-resolution LCD display is excellent and shows you actual rather than relative values of parameters. Andromeda will integrate seamlessly into any studio with its total MIDI control and sync, individual voice outputs, stereo outputs and several audio inputs.
Andromeda is completely analog – no emulation! It features two analog filters per voice that sound great! They are a multimode 2-pole and a 4-pole lowpass. External audio can be routed through these filters too (three 1/4″ jacks)! As for modulation, Andromeda has three LFOs, each with six waveforms and they can be synced to MIDI clock. And there are three 7-stage envelopes with very creative and flexible functions. Also onboard is an extensive mod matrix for enormous freedom in configuring Andromeda’s sounds!
No analog synth would be complete without a set of classic effects and features. Andromeda also offers Portamento with nine slopes and legato functions. A built-in arpeggiator and analog-style sequencer are available, with MIDI sync! There are also some high quality digital effects such as reverbs, chorus, echo, distortion and more! Andromeda comes with 256 breathtaking preset patches plus 128 user. A PCMCIA-format memory card slot allows for additional programs and mixes. Andromeda is pure analog bliss, with all the features, stability and widgets of modern digital synths.
Waldorf Pulse II Demo
Drums: LXR, all the rest: Waldorf Pulse II
i tried to use some unusual sounds for a monophon analog synth, like Sax, Piano, Bells, String-Pad, Brass (all paraphonic)…
Waldorf Pulse 2 – first soundcheck
This is the new star of analog monophonic synthesizers…the brandnew WALDORF PULSE 2.
An amazing sounding mashine with tons of good features. More than 16 modulationslots are available, 3 real analog oscillators for a rich sound, an analog multimodefilter and a very easy userinterface and 500! presets. It allows you to syncronize an older synthesizer like the Roland SH 101 or older Moog Synthesizer with its built in CV/Gate Interface via Midi. Very nice feature. And you can play with paraphonic modes up to eight voice chords.
The Waldorf Pulse is built like a tank, it´s Made in Germany.
Enough words now…just listen to the raw sound without any effects on it. Have fun and if you like it…buy one.
http://www.waldorf-music.info/en/prod…
Korg MS-20 — Drone Of A Legend
Close look at a classic machine
Alesis A6 Andromeda pads in 16-voice analog power
Selection of pads made on the Alesis A6 Andromeda analog synthesizer, full details below:
All patches played use all the 16-voices A6 can offer simultaneously.. No processing, just straight output from the A6. YouTube conversion kills the high-resolving analog sound quality and fatness, but hopefully this gives you a glimpse into the A6 inner life… All played are Alesis factory patches. I’ve only had the synth for a couple of days now so just barely scratching the surface of it – here’s a proof that even with the much-chriticized factory banks you can make some good sounds. Use the “HD” quality mode button below to get the most out of it.
If anyone wonders, some pictures on the background are from our own Milkyway’s massive cosmic neighbour Messier’s catalog M31 Andromeda galaxy, one of the few galaxies that has blue-shift instead of red-shift like all other galaxies we see, meaning it comes towards us and with the “locked” gravitational pull our Milkyway Galaxy will collide and merge with the bigger brother Andromeda in a very distant future, forming a new galaxy. Hopefully the Solar system will not be thrown out into the vast emptyness of space or sucked into a black-hole due to the viscous gravitational play during the merging. The name for the synth is inspired from Andromeda – and I would say it’s a very fitting name for it 
Analog Four & Serge / NonLinear Circuit Synths
A bit of live minimal electronica, video details below:
The Analog 4 (by Elektron) is clocking the Serge/NLC synth.
I’m using the Divine CMOS & Resonator filter
from Non-Linear Circuits (NLC) …. along with the odd Serge Wave shaper.
For the record:
VCOs used: NLC VCOs 1 & 2, Serge Precision VCO & NTO,
The master clock from the A4 is split with a Serge Pulse divider, and a NLC Great Divide.
They clock the various NLC & Serge sequencers.
A special mention about the Divine CMOS & Great Divide.
I’m using The Divine CMOS here as a harmonic divider.
This circuit takes two input signals and divides them down by /2, /4, /8 & /16.
I’m then re-mixing the divisions to create new & complex harmonics.
And the Great divide is a clock divider capable of dividing down to 1/16384 of the clock signal.
According to Andrew’s manual, a 1Hz signal on the clock means the /16384 output will rise approx. every 4.5 hours.
Thanks to Andrew of Nonlinear Circuits
http://nonlinearcircuits.blogspot.com…
Filter panel:
http://nonlinearcircuits.blogspot.com…
Time machine: ROLAND JX-8P Analog Synthesizer 1985
The Roland JX-8P is a programmable polyphonic analog synthesizer from 1985. It is 6 voice polyphonic, it has 2 DCO’s per voice. Oscillator sync and cross modulation available. Analog resonant filters. 2 envelopes. Velocity sensitive keyboard. It also has aftertouch, but be warned, you need very strong fingers… 😀 It has a built in chorus (two settings) and unisono modes.
It has 64 presets and 32 patch memory for your own patches. The optional PG-800 was a programmer which allowed tweaking the sounds with sliders and knobs – like on earlier analog synths. But even without the PG-800 sound editing is easy like on a Korg Poly-800.
The JX-8P has MIDI and sysex abilities, but no tape interface.
Review: Arturia MiniBrute analog synthesizer
Background video description:
Finally checking out the awesome little analog synthesizer from Arturia called the MiniBrute. This is a fully analog synthesizer with a Steiner-Parker filter, CV in/out, MIDI, and USB, all in a nice 25 key aluminium case.
full review: http://soundsandgear.com/arturia-mini…
product page: http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/p…
Time machine: ARP AXXE Analog Synthesizer 1977
ARP Instruments, Inc. was an American manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. Best known for its line of synthesizers that emerged in the early 1970s, ARP closed its doors in 1981 due to financial difficulties. The company earned a reputation for producing excellent sounding, innovative instruments and was granted several patents for the technology it developed.
The Axxe is basically a budget-proof version of the popular Odyssey. With just one oscillator (compared with two in the Odyssey), the Axxe certainly has a thinner sound but it is still that uniquely angular and powerful analog ARP sound. It’s not too exciting, but it is simple and straight forward. A perfect first vintage analog for any musician that will still find plenty of use among more seasoned synth players for quick analog bass lines, lead sounds and synth FX. It has no form of memory storage and external control comes via CV/Gate only. It came with a 155 page text book, overlay sheets, interface charts and a book of 50 patches.
EGSY01 analog synth
ElliottGarage presents EGSY01 analog synth!
With EGSY01 you can create sounds without any limit, from modern ones to vintage analog ones.
The audio engine generate your sound mixing 2 oscillatros with 4 selectable waveforms, and you can watch the sound created on the oscilloscope screen.
You can set the sounds through the panels “Oscillators”, “ADSR/LFO” and “FX”, and play with any master keyboard (CORE MIDI), or creating a wireless MIDI network, or again sending the audio signal to other apps with AUDIOBUS.
Features:
- 2 oscillators with selectable waveforms, volume, octave e detune
- 4 Waveforms (Sine, Saw, Triangle, PWM)
- Core midi/Network midi
- Vca / Vcf
- Evenlope ADSR
- Panels FX (delay + crush)
- Keyboard with 6 octaves and control on filter cutoff
- Modulation wheel
- Oscilloscope
- Presets save – overwrite
- LFO with selectable amplitude and frequency
- Audiobus
- Polyphony
The app is priced at $2.99.
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