This Roland Juno-60 is a great sounding keyboard synthesizer from 1982. In the video above, via MusicMarketingTV, Marko Ettlich demonstrates the range and power of the Juno-60.
The Juno-60 features:
If you’ve used the Juno-60, let us know what you think of it!
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a live performance, Current, by synthesist Martin Peters.
Technical details below.
Sunday Synth Jam: While not quite as awesome as seeing Tubular Bells performed by an army of synth babes, this cover, via adnmusic is a fairly faithful rendition of the first part of Mike Oldfield’s ’73 classic.
This set of videos, from 1985, takes a look at The Secrets of Analog & Digital Synthesis.
It’s obviously dated, starting with the ”Listen to the sound coming from your VCR right now.” Nevertheless, there’s some solid coverage of synth basics and the videos also offer a vintage look at synths.
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a space music style synth jam, LektroiD’s Hearts of Space, that brings together sequenced modular synthesizer, keyboard synths, theremin and more.
You can download the full version via LektroiD’s Bandcamp page.
via Brainstormer2302
Sunday Synth Jam: Bruno Ender Lee put together this extended space music video, which collects six live synth jams into a ‘video album’, Crystal Spaceship.
Part 1: Crystal Spaceship (includes: “Ice Crystals”, “Spaceship” & “Midnight”)
Part 2: Astral Clockwork (includes: “Spaceship_2″, “Astral Clockwork” & “Astral Odyssey”)
Composed, arranged & produced by Bruno Ender Lee; 2012 Velvet Voyage Productions
via synthypnosis
Roland today introduced JP Synth Editor (App Store link) – a free iPad patch editor for the Jupiter-50 and Jupiter-80 synthesizers.
Here’s a video introduction to the JP Synth Editor:
G-Storm Plugins has released VSP-330 version 2.0 Voice Synth Plus – a recreation of the rare and nearly extinct Roland VP-330 string ensemble and human voice formant choirs.
The original Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus was used notably by Vangelis on his soundtracks for Blade Runner and other movies.
Dan Goldman takes a deep look (30 min) at the new Roland Jupiter-50 keyboard synthesizer, the portable version of Roland’s Jupiter-80 synthesizer.
The Jupiter-50 inherits the sounds and Live Set architecture of the Jupiter-80, but packs them into a relatively lightweight keyboard.
The Jupiter-50 offers the synthesizer and acoustic tones found in the Jupiter-80. With the Jupiter-50, though, Roland puts the synth engine in a portable instrument designed for live performance.
Goldman’s bottom line? “It’s a great board. You really are getting the quality of sound that’s in Roland’s flagship synthesizer.”
via musicradartv
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s something for the synth freaks – a live cover of Magic Fly.
Magic Fly was released in 1977 by French space disco synth band Space. It’s sort of cheesetacular by today’s standards, but it was a #1 hit around the world when it was released.
The live performance of Magic Fly, via glendamster, features Roland Jupiter 8 and Oberheim OBXA.