Planet Rock and other tales of the 808 – documentary

Planet Rock and other tales of the 808.is an upcoming documentary on about and featuring the TR808, haa, where’s Kraftwerk? here’s a musical teaser to it. what do you mean? TR808 Drummachine..? trust me, the EES MIDI was one of the best MIDI Kits I had in the TR, why? it’s really dynamic from a very subtle click (0-1 vel) to a big and deep BD. if you could live without the sequencer when using this. aaaand still lots of outboard needed. anyway, one of my fav. machines I used. 

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VINCE CLARKE – Korg MS20 in focus

the classic humour of Vince with the MS20 formed this video for you all to watch, brilliantly layed out. the white house, japan 2012 via VINCE CLARKE – The Analogue Monologues – Part VIII: The Korg MS20 – YouTube. Der Vince erzählt was er mit Heiniken gesprochen habe, aber sie verkaufen halt Bier und keine Synthesizer, deshalb hat er seine Pfeile selbst geschnipselt und berichtet wahrheitsgetreu in diesem vincigen aber unterhaltsamen Vinceo – aaaand you pretty cool germans behind the moon – you can learn how to pronounce SYNTH correctly,…

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Korgs Krome and re-issued Microkorgs, XL+ with added PCM sounds

Korg re-released 2 colour Microkorgs, both the XL and the old one – 2 schemes (limited), I don’t know who they want hello kitty micropianos to be sold to outside Japan, but well, it’s there. anyway – 10 years of microkorgs was fun, so also notice the microkey colour edition. note the new lion/snow leopard / intel editor is up for all of us here here is some nicely made sample import video on the Korgs Krome.. note that the XL isn’t just as before, it has slightly ADDED ROM…

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Roland Integra 7 Rack Synth, Remote Keys 49/88 and a funny vocal trainer

this seems a mixture of the Jupiter 50/80 series and vdrums based on samples and physical modeling – and an iPad app to control surround 5.1 in the „listening field“ between your speakers. since there is not much said about synthesis and structure we’d assume it is the Gaia/Jupiter50/80 new style sound engine which is about layering and quite classic structure ->;; INTEGRA-7: SuperNATURAL Sound Module.UPDATE: Yes – it is in fact a Jupiter 80 Rack – maybe cool for everyone who do not need 73 keys and might want…

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Roland Integra 7 Rack Synth, Remote Keys 49/88 and a funny vocal trainer

this seems a mixture from the Jupiter 50/80 series and vdrums based on samples and physical modeling – and an iPad app to control surround 5.1 in the „listening field“ between your speakers. since there is not much said about synthesis and structure we’d assume it is the Gaia/Jupiter50/80 new style sound engine which is about layering and quite classic structure ->; INTEGRA-7: SuperNATURAL Sound Module.UPDATE: Yes – it is in fact a Jupiter 80 Rack – maybe cool for everyone who do not need 73 keys and might want…

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Classic Synth Specials 

Novation Mininova – a Microkorg competitor?

just saw there is a new very Microkorg-style version of the ultranova plus or minus X from novation called Mininova – that m-word is big nowadays. 400€. 37 Tasten/Keys Keyboard mit/with standard MIDI I/O 3 x Oszillatoren / Oscillators, 1 x Noise-Generator, 2 x Ringmodulator/s 15 Filter type – Filter Typen Arpeggiator, 33 Types of Patterns – it has 8 step ARPer which is nice, and well – there is these 8 buttons also being used for variation like LFO speed change for 8 different wobbles or vibrato etc. very cool.…

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Korg Monotribe – Modification by Phil (Berlin)

Phils Monotribe Mod sounds like this … changes the drum sounds:  the Drum Modification i´ve built into the Machine. – Individual Volume Potentiometer for Bass Drum , Snare and HiHats – Decay Potentiometer for Bass Drum and Snare – MIDI Din Socket for IN/ OUT via Monotribe – light acid rain by electric underground on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free. man wird und kann dies auch bald im Synthesizer-Magazin Shop finden UPDATE: 2 neue Demos – 2 new demos incl. the Monotron Delay Mod: Modified…

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