Synthesizers.com Techno Jam
Description: Synthesizers.com doing some VCF x-modulation and bass line. A Sequential Circuits Inc. Pro~One is used as bass drum. A Dynacord MDL-10 delay is echoing the .COM.
Description: Synthesizers.com doing some VCF x-modulation and bass line. A Sequential Circuits Inc. Pro~One is used as bass drum. A Dynacord MDL-10 delay is echoing the .COM.
The Prophet VS is a synthesizer released in 1986 by Dave Smith’s Sequential Circuits. The Prophet VS introduced Vector Synthesis – two dimensional crossfading between waveforms. Sequential folded shortly after the VS was introduced, but many of the ideas from the VS lived on in the Korg Wavestation. The video above, via Retrosound, demos some… Read More Sequential Circuits Prophet VS
Dave Smith has this year end update for customers and fans of Dave Smith Instruments and a tease about the upcoming 2009 NAMM Show: Those of you who are paying attention (and we know there are at least a few of you…) may have noticed a relationship between how often the site gets updated and… Read More Dave Smith Instrument’s Year End Update
This episode of XLR8R TV looks at Brooklyn-based electro/hip-hop artist Eliot Lipp and his monster collection of sexy analog gear, including: Jomox XBase-09 MFB Synth-II Plan B modular synths Atari Synthcart Sequential Circuits Six-Trak Wurlitzer Electric Piano He also talks about his new album, The Outside, ice cream and crate digging. If anything is going… Read More Eliot Lipp’s Gear Porn Video
Former Sequential Circuits designer John Bowen has announced that that the first production of his Solaris mega-synth is now planned for late September 2008, with delivery shortly thereafter. Pre-orders for the second series of production are available now, with a $1000/800 EUR deposit, and the $3599/2400 EUR final price. Bowen is best known for his… Read More John Bowen’s Solaris Mega-Synth Available For Order
Need more teasing about the upcoming Prophet 8 synth? Here’s a bit of video temptation: via Sonic State
Here’s something worth talking about – Dave Smith, one of the pioneers of synths, has announced his latest project – an 8-voice update on the Sequential Circuits Prophet V. Here’s what has been announced: The rumors are true. (Well, most of ’em, anyway.) Dave has emerged from his underground lair (the Dave Cave?) with a… Read More Dave Smith Announces Prophet 8 Uber-Synth
John Bowen Synth Design has introduced the Solaris keyboard synthesizer. Bowen is best known for his work on pioneering keyboard synthesizers at Sequential Circuits, but he’s also been very active creating software synths. “While I certainly enjoyed many good years at Sequential Circuits, working as an independent plug-in developer for the Scope platform over the… Read More Sequential Circuits Pioneer Intros Sexy New Solaris Synthesizer
Native Instruments has released PRO-53 3.0.3, an update for its popular virtual analog synthesizer. Introducing Universal Binary support, the new version lets users of Intel-based Macintosh computers utilize the full potential of this faithful emulation of the much-famed analog synthesizer from the 80s. The 3.0.3 update for Windows and Mac is now available as a… Read More Native Instruments Releases PRO-53 Universal Binary Update
NAMM 2006 Winter Show: Arturia introduced a hybrid of two classic Sequential Circuits synthesizers that changed the face of music during the ’70s and ’80s, the Prophet V. The warmth of the Prophet 5, one of the first programmable polyphonic analog synths, is combined with the digital textures of the Prophet VS in the Prophet… Read More Arturia Prophet V Virtual Synth Builds on Classic Sequential Circuits Synth Sounds