audio demos
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DJ Thomas White demos his resonant low-pass gate, a synth DIY project. More info on the project is available at White’s site. Read more…
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Filed under: Electronic Musicians, Sequencers, Synthesizers
This is a collection of Alessandro Cortini’s BlindOldFreak Buchla 200e modular synthesizer experiments.
“Blindoldfreak is simply whatever comes out of me and my machines, without thinking too much about it,” explains Cortini.
You can get an interesting peak into Cortini’s studio at trash_audio.
This is an experimental Access Virus Indigo improvisation.
via alex540live:
Improvisation made with only the sounds of the access virus indigo 1.
Recorded 2 tracks. This machine is brutal.
The Emu Emulator II
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Filed under: Keyboard Synthesizers, Music Videos, User Reviews
The E-mu Emulator II was E-mu’s second sampler, released in 1984. Like the Emulator I, it was an 8-bit sampler, however it had superior fidelity, and allowed more flexibility in editing sounds.
It was priced similarly to the Emulator I, at US $7,995 for a regular model, and $9,995 for a “plus” model featuring extra sample memory. Several upgrades, including extra disk drives and a 20 MB hard drive, were available as well.
Notable users include: Depeche Mode, Enya, badass keytar player Herbie Hancock, Jean Michel Jarre, Orbital, Paul n-n-nine-nine-nineteen Hardcastle, Tangerine Dream & Ferris Bueler.
If you’ve used the Emu Emulator II, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Specifications:
- 8 voice polyphony
- Sampler – 27kHz; 8-bits; 512 KB to 1 MB storage
- 8 parts (8 midi channels) multitimbral
- 8 sequencer tracks
- 61 keys w/ velocity & aftertouch sensitive keyboard
- 24 dB/oct 4-pole lowpass filter with resonance
Resources:
- Wikipedia entry for the Emu Emulator II
- Emu Emulator II at VintageSynth
- The Emulator Archive
- Video of the Emu Emulator II via JMPSynth
John Bowen Solaris Preview
This is an audio demo of the John Bowen Solaris synthesizer.
JOHN BOWEN SOLARIS SYNTHESIZER PROTOTYPE DEMO NUMBER THREE
via redmartian:
This features percussion sampled off of the Solaris using an MPC-1000. I did not alter those sounds to try to leave them as pure as possible. The flanging/phase shifting is actually the excellent Comb filter on the Solaris itself.
