https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4QEVpgu28 Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Spectrasonics, captures a live jam between founder Eric Persing and Hang performer Gulli Briem. Briem plays the Hang that was sampled to create the Omnisphere 2 patch that Persing plays on keyboard and Omni TR on an iPad.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Michael Perkins, captures a Berlin School style synth improvisation. Here’s what he has to say about the technical details:
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Alba Ecstasy, demos his patch library for the Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesizer. “If you think as I did, before putting my hands on a OP-1, that this is an expensive toy, you’re right only about the price,” he notes. “Because OP-1 is nothing but a monster synth inside of a… Read More Teenage Engineering OP-1 Synth Jam
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via synth4ever, captures an ambient space music performance, Celestial Being, on an Akai AX60 synthesizer. The AX60 is a 6-voice analog synth from the 80s.
Music Things’ Tom Whitwell has introduced the Music Thing Modular Axoloti Control Board – an open source design that adds controls to the Axoloti digital signal processing platform. Axoloti is an open platform. designed to let you create custom hardware synthesizers and audio processing systems. Here’s what Whitwell has to say about the new DIY design:
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Peter Maas, captures a synth jam, Chicago Love, that explores using the Buchla Music Easel in a context in which it’s rarely heard – old school techno.
This video, via Todd Smith, demonstrates some Korg Volca Bass ‘MIDI secrets’ – a few hidden MIDI-only settings on the Korg Volca Bass and Korg Volca Keys.
This synth jam, via Earmonkey Music, is a nice demonstration of how old organs – which you can frequently find at swap meets or on Craigslist for next to nothing – can still sound great and be very useful instruments, if you use them creatively. 70’s electronic artists like Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis and Klaus Schulze… Read More Synth Jam With A Swap Meet Lowrey Genie Organ
This series of videos, via Rishabh Rajan, explores sound design with the Moog Mother 32 Eurorack analog synthesizer.
The demo video, via RetroSound, demonstrates the rare Tiracon 6V analog synthesizer from the year 1987. RetroSound’s Marko Ettlich notes that the Tiracon 6V is a polyphonic synth keyboard that was made in GDR. “I saw this synthesizer first at the Leipziger autumn fair in 1987. It was the second synth made in GDR after the monophonic Vermona… Read More Tiracon 6V Analog Synthesizer (1987)
