The gear of John Foxx
Here’s a video coming from Future Music featuring John Foxx with loads of gear, so time for synth spotting I guess
Be sure to watch through the beginning for the gear tour. Tons of synth spotting. He gives a good comparison of the ARP Odyssey and Minimoog. The Yamaha CS1X gets a mention too! It’s fun digital PCM synth not to be confused with the AN1X virtual analog. Icy strings.
Halloween organ treat
Organ Fairy has created this synth treat in true honor of Halloween, enjoy
I thought about what to do this year for a Halloween video. I found a pile of electric candles (!) that I bought a while ago but never used.
Then I remembered a melody I made in 2003. The idea was to use a rhythm on my then favourit drum machine – the Roland CR-1000 – that I had never used before: Charleston. And a weird preset on the Roland JX-8P that I had never used either. I modified it a bit to make it more “alien-like” and added the accordeon preset to the arrangement and a piano arpeggio from the Yamaha organ.
I played the melody on the Kawai MS-20 and Yamaha VSS-30. Added some organ chords from the Viscount organ. And that was it.
Some serious analog tweaking
For all you arthouse experimentalists! The no drum machine synth jam. Bioni Samp joined us for some analogue tweaking, “Tha Dance of the Pumpkins”. Playing are Korg MS-20 & SQ 10, Yamaha CS50, Roland TB 303 & SH 101. Enjoy!
Introducing the Supersonic Refill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58HcrkNcDD4&feature=player_embedded
In this refill (sound bank), which is compatible with Reason 4 and Reason 5, the user gets access to over 8,000 individual files, such as brand new samples of both digital and analog synthesizers, the entire Fairlight CMI IIx factory library (used with kind permission from Fairlight in Australia) as carefully sampled, re-sampled, edited and looped by Bitley, as well as each single drum sound from basically all (worthwile) drum machines ever made. The new refill contains over 1,000 individual NNXT patches and over 450 (that is four hundred and fifty) combinator patches.
The refill also contains brand new signature patches. It also collects and includes all previous Bitley refills, such as The Prophet (Prophet 5), DaBeat, Orlando JX-10, Patrick Fridh’s D-50 ReFill and DeLight. Brand new material includes multi samples taken from a mint condition Roland Jupiter 4 synthesizer. All in all, this sets to provide the entire range of sounds necessary for each and every one interested in having ALL important synthesizer and drum sounds from the entire 1980s; it’s all here. From the Yamaha DX7 bass sound as used by Howard Jones to multiple variations of Fairlight’s Sararr patch as used by Tears For Fears, Art Of Noise and many others. Not forgetting each and every drum sound that made Prince famous.
Content: About 1,970 separate Reason patches for all instruments, including Dr Rex / OctoRex, Subtractor, Malström, Thor, NN19, NNXT, Combinator, ReDrum. Over 2,5 Gb of raw sample data; 1,2 Gb when packed into the refill. About 40 demo songs and examples. Each patch categorized and easily found through clever placement in the refill. The total development time of this refill has been over 14 months.
DX5 playing Depeche Mode “Stories of Old”
Keeping it quite faithful I must say, thanks to DX5 for sharing 
Emax power today.
Gear:
Upper and Mid: Emu Emax
Lower: Emu EMAX II HD
Right (out of screen) : Yamaha DX7 II FD.
* Sound is overcompressed due to an overloaded output from the mixer into camera preamp (it uses to compress a lot even in normal levels). Hope it doesn’t disturb too much. And yes, there is a mistake at one of the last notes
All you can eat synths :-)
Don´t really know what the Mercedez mark has to do with anything, but there sure is plenty of synths around
dr.squ 1995:
– Atari 1040STE
– C-Lab/Emagic Notator SL
– C-Lab Unitor 2
– Emagic Export
– Boss BX-16
– Yamaha FX900
– E-mu Esi32
– Korg Wavestation SR
– Roland Juno-106
– Yamaha TG500
– Casio VL-Tone
– Yamaha PSS-110
Using AmpliTube iRig as an effects processor for his Yamaha Motif synthesizer
Synthesist Erik Norlander, of Sonic Reality, demonstrates using AmpliTube iRig as an effects processor for his Yamaha Motif synthesizer, in this this official IK Multimedia demo video.
Amplitube iRig is a $39.99 audio adapter designed to let you connect guitars and audio gear to iOS devices. Paired with Amplitube for the iPhone/iPad, which are available in free and commercial versions, the software/hardware combo makes a pretty cheap multi-effects processor.
More information at http://www.amplitube.com/irig and http://www.ikmultimedia.com/drummertr…
AmpliTube iRig is a combination of an easy-to-use instrument interface adapter and guitar and bass tone mobile software.
With AmpliTube iRig, you can plug your guitar into your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and jam anywhere with world class guitar and bass tone right in the palm of your hand – from the leader in studio-class guitar and bass software.
Simply plug the iRig interface into your mobile device, plug your instrument into the appropriate input jack, plug in your headphones, amp or powered speakers, download AmpliTube for iPhone Free and start rocking!
via ikmultimedia
Rocking the Fairlight and Yamaha
Jan Hammer rocks out with his Fairlight and Yamaha KX5 remote keyboard on BBC Rock School series 2 from 1987
About:
Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, today the Czech Republic) is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his “Miami Vice Theme” and “Crockett’s Theme”, from the popular 1980s US television program, Miami Vice.
Hammer has collaborated with some of the era’s most influential musicians such as Jeff Beck, Al Di Meola, Mick Jagger, Carlos Santana, Stanley Clarke, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather, and Elvin Jones among many others. He has composed and produced at least 14 original motion picture soundtracks, the music for 90 episodes of Miami Vice and 20 episodes of the popular British television series Chancer.
His compositions have won him several Grammy awards.
Inside the Yamaha Motif XF Music Production Synthesizer
Nova Musik’s Tony Esqueta highlights some of the best features of the new Yamaha Motif XF Music Production Synthesizer, the latest generation of the Motif XS series.
As we reported earlier in the year, the Yamaha Motif XF offers a ginormous sound library, plus it offers 2GB of Flash Rom.
New Generation of MOTIF line added with a flash expandability and seamless music production flow.
Soon after the original MOTIF was released in 2001 it was recognized as the best sounding, top selling and most requested music workstation on the market. Over time, it has continued to evolve and improve its expressiveness and functionality. At the same time, the online community of end users, sound programmers, software developers and product support specialists at www.MOTIFATOR.com has expanded into a vibrant on line music production community. The MOTIF breathes new life into live performances with its expressive sounds and intuitive control. In music creation, the MOTIF not only offers its own music creation capabilities, it also offers a system for integrating those capabilities with a variety of software applications. And now, the next generation “XF” builds on the decade long heritage of MOTIF, and provides groundbreaking with Flash memory expansion capabilities that will set a new standard for keyboard workstations for years to come.
Sneak peak at the New Yamaha Motif XF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlz14qWqY9Q&feature=player_embedded
The New Yamaha Motif XF! Coming Oct. 2010!
Inspiration Comes In A Flash
A high-quality collection of Voices, including powerful piano Voices provided from an enormous 741MB of waveforms
Up to 2GB of additional content available through flash memory expansion modules
Sound engine that increases the expressiveness of instrument sounds
VCM effects that reproduce the unique, natural, warm sounds of vintage instruments
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