The best synthesizer jam EVAR... (aka: Gay orcas f*cking each other gently with chainsaws...)

[link to www.youtube.com]

Nice. Wakeman. :)

Was going to post a Moog Minimoog Voyager vid earlier. Someone commented "hints of Wakeman," :)


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I love this guy! Dude is nuts!!! :)

It reminded me of a video I saw long ago (probably because of the hat) but also I want to say their names are similar. :)

I couldn't find the video (I think it was set to not public anymore, but finally managed to track it down :)

Majestic Wily:

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He's playing an improvisation of this:


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I really like his piano sound.

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One thing that really stood out about FM for me was the Sega Genesis game console. It's sound processing chip was purely FM, 4 operators per channel, 6 channels.

Yamaha YM2612:
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

I used to do some assembly language programming in the late 90's for a Un*x-based Sega Genesis emulator (when none existed), and there were issues with the emulation of the sound processor chip that needed to be fixed... This would do weird things like make a funky incorrect "fart-like" sound when picking up an apple in Streets of Rage.

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Oh, those were the days for sure.

I have great respect for Yuzo Koshiro who did the music for those games. He really knew his shit, and was a great programmer of a very difficult to work with FM synthesis system.

Back to the Andromeda...when I got that I also threw together some shit version of some of that game's music using some of my keyboards (A6 and Juno-60). Should have used my Kurzsweil K2000VP for the piano... :(


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That's another very powerful sampler synth, and also incredibly hard to program. It had something called V.A.S.T. which was a very powerful architecture that had some very unique algorithms for sound-mangling.

That synth did NOT go up in value like the A6, more like $2000 down to $400 in a few years. Oh, well... you win some, you lose some.

That looks like a QS6 he is using....kewl. :)

It reminded me of this song...no synth but same feeling.
Her voice is absolutely crazy amazingly beautiful.
Like a siren calling the sailors to the sea.

Ah indeed it is an Alesis QS6. Nice piano on it!

Lots of Alesis synth love here.

Back to Kurzweil. I was going to find some K2000 stuff, but this K2661 deserves a listen. The K2000 is very similar to the 2500 series, most of the later units add much better FX and other bells and whistles.

First 20 seconds are silent while he programs the sequencer.

Shine on!


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Th Andromeda was an unreliable piece of crap.
I got rid of mine when half the voices decided to stop working.
I didn't need that unreliability. That's not good gear!

That's unfortunate. How many hours runtime did it have you think?

I only once had voices not tune, but waiting about 10 minutes and running auto-tune again was fine. Only happened once, and it was only after the unit hadn't been booted in quite some time. Maybe over a year. I chalk it up to a too cold tuning.

Did you ever run the reset diagnostics? There are a few startup modes to clear things like tuning tables, etc.

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Nice!

You just gave me an idea of something to screw with on the Alesis and bass this weekend too.

Oh shit, I just thumbed past the Heavy Metal vinyl soundtrack minutes ago. :D

Very cool....with a few boo-boos....but still cool.

I tried everything mate. It was dead. Apparently the chips needed replacing but no repair geezer would touch it and Alesis were no help whatsoever.
Had great potential. I went modular after that and haven't looked back.
Different beast though.

You have me on synth kick this weekend.
I have to try some of these. lol

I'm borrowing a Nord Lead 4 from my mate next week. I love a good Nord. That first Nord lead got me into synths back in the 90's.
This thing does sound great. Plus there's sound banks from ASL and Richard Devine. They know how to make sounds!

[link to www.nordkeyboards.com]

[link to www.nordkeyboards.com]

Can't wait to get my mitts on it. I'll let ya'll know how it fares. And no doubt post videos of my crappy noodlings.

SQUEEE!!!!!!

The inverted keyboards from Clavia are super sexy. :)

White keys, black, black keys, white.

I just saw a modded SH-101 with those keys. That's funky.

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Speaking of the Roland SH-101, even though mine is partially "broken" it's still has some character. Really sucks that the Sub OSC is busted though. That thing is nuts on bass when it works.

Here was an unfinished noodling with its sequencer running a little diddy into the guitar input on my Line 6. Why the guitar input, I dunno. :)


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I love this dude. He is (was?) part of this silly Axis of Awesome group that cleverly exposed the similarities in major pop music with something they called the "4 chord song."

Here's one of the guys solo on his keyboard with a loop / sampler pedal.


[link to youtu.be]

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From elsewhere:)



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Do you know how many times this song has taken me many miles across highways through the night?

I can't listen to the intro without expecting to hear Art Bell's voice, lol

This guy Torley is fun to watch. :)


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It's been a while since I posted on this thread...

Since then, circumstances forced me to sell a few things, including a Roland Juno-60, Yamaha FS1R, Roland SH-101, and even my beloved Alesis Andromeda A6... :(




I still kept the guitar synth and a few other toys, though! :P

(This guy is really good...)


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I've recently started a strange project using some of the stuff...

What garbage

That was the point of the original link, it was pretty horrible...and funny.

...so here's a polar opposite to the original post:


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