The Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 is a pioneering analog synthesizer that revolutionized the music industry upon its release in 1978. Designed by Dave...
Last September, a generous member of the music forums known as Clusterchord bestowed upon me his extensive collection of Keyboard magazines spanning from...
Installed the LED based display. It is quite bright if not too bright actually. So I’ve drilled a hole in the back and installed a 1k LOG pot there....
Hardware MIDI sequencers have a rich history rooted in the evolution of electronic music technology. MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface, was...
The Oberheim OB-X synthesizer stands as a hallmark of analog synthesizer excellence, emerging during the vibrant era of electronic music in the late 1970s....
Suddenly several keys stopped working. It was too suspicious, especially since they were 8 semitones apart. I did install the new rubber contacts, but...
On November 17, 2023, an email exchange with Kristian Alexander Pedersen, a student enrolled at The Royal Danish Academy Of Music, brought forth an unsettling...
So you changed the battery in your Matrix 1000 and now all of the presets are gone. You go to the web to search for the factory patches, only to find incomplete...
Assuming you bought a Gotek Flash Floppy (eBay et al.) and decided to upgrade your Korg DSS-1 there are probably a lot of questions bothering you. To save...
Far from any scientific or “professional” test, this is just a quick bunch of demos when a reverb is pushed a bit harder, say into the 10 second...
It’s back. I totally regretted selling it without trying it fully. I stupidly followed an advice from some GS member that VL1 is essentially gone...
What a beast! I don’t care for playing acoustic samples at this stage just using it a synth itself is enough power. I kid you not, this thing sounds...
SCAMMER ALERT! Dear fellow musicians I’d like to share an experience we had in the past regarding a transaction involving Julián Calvo Orquín (also...
LCD DisplayWhat is the name of the ugliest display ever made? It’s the one for SY-77. Looks like some old 80’s calculator lol. Anyway, a friend...
So your Akai came with a bunch of DD and HD floppies, you converted them to images, started a Gotek drive only to be greeted with a message saying unformatted...
So i eventually made an order, despite the fact the floppy was working just fine, floppy emulator is a way better solution. Just a few days later, the...
Some people are just greedy. In fact it was one of the eBay listings that made me inspire do a thread like this. Just take a look at these prices for these...
Step one: disassemble the unit. This is the easiest of the mods. For some reason some of the Akai S-950 use a 2 pin power connector which is not compatible...
Just got some interesting snail mail from the Waldorf Company today. I’ve opened it up and it looks like the Analog Voltage soundset which I’ve...
Intro This is a series of articles that will detail the process i went through when designing the new factory patches, wavetables and samples for the Waldorf...
Intro This is a series of articles that will detail the process i went through when designing the new factory patches, wavetables and samples for the Waldorf...
While Clusterchord has been burning midnight oil lately in his studio I’ve been working on his OB-X. This is the third time I have been working on...
Introducing my approach to cable management that banishes the chaos of racks overflowing with tangled wires: a streamlined solution that prioritizes precision...
Believe it or not, first revision of Korg Monopoly features a digital noise source with that irritating loop sound. So in response to encountering the...
Older Waldorf synths used a Nextel paint based coating that gave them a nice satin finish that was soft to the touch. They almost felt like suede. They...
There are a lot of replacement LED displays on the market, however some of them have not been properly configured for some specific synthesizers. For example...
In the realm of electronic music production, the Roland Alpha Juno synthesizer stands as a beloved classic, renowned for its distinctive analog sound and...
To anyone who wanted to use DE-200 with synths, he most likely encountered two major problems which relate to signal levels and input impedance. Those...
This mod lets you use CE-300 for synths as the original design is for guitar impedance / levels and connecting a keyboard will easily overdrive the circuit....
If this ever happens to anyone, and the machine is hanging even after you press F7, the problem is the busted SCSI fuse. You’ll have to disassemble...
It’s been 22 years since its release and the unit is still going strong. Even the latest in Roland’s series, Integra is in fact based on the...
If you own a lot of samplers, Blackbox is a more economical solution than filling each sampler with its own SCSI to CF (or SCSI2SD) interface. Because if...
If i would have to choose one ROM-pler to hit the category mysterious, it would definitely be TS-10. First of all i never understood why such high second...
After hearing Moog filter in two pole configuration, while working on one Voyager Performer, i KNEW i need to get this filter configuration possible on...
And it’s not a joke. I’ve found a way! For those who don’t know LCD-1 is a sample CD ROM that was built for Roland S-550 sampler. In...
When its older brother Yamaha A3000 came out in the mid 90’s it was one of the more affordable samplers on the market that featured a full synthesis...
Here is a common question that pops up from time to time on various music production forums: “I am really curious…WHY would anybody want a...
Synths with MIDI interface I will describe the procedure for the PC, though exactly the same process applies for other computers such as Mac, Linux etc....
After many years of search, and one unsuccessful purchase of a busted MkII (that i’ve never managed to repair) i’ve finally found a good condition...
And so it came. One little package i’ve been eagerly waiting to receive from Waldorf Music. There was no particular timeline by how soon i need to...
Super JV vs XV series Following the JV/XP series were Roland’s XV series: 5080, 5050 and 3080. XV-5080 is mixed content 32kHz and 44.1 kHz. I got...
German classic from the late 80’s (manufactured in 1989). For those on the other side of the great lake where this company is not so much known,...
I love ASR-10! Here’s a Roland TR-909 cymbal turned into a factory drone. I will provide a step by step guide here on how to create one. To get this...
Here is a video tutorial I’ve made some time ago. If you use software such as Chickensys Translator it is very easy to transfer samples from a computer...
Here’s an interesting “Formant Morph” processor i’ve recently designed using the Patch Factory (aka algorithm 111). As you may know, Patch Factory...
Disable Background Tuning (i mean, do it now!) This will provide your Andromeda with more fat sound, due to routine in Background tuning (which...
Compatibility: JV-80 and up Although Super JV/JD have the FXM section that is based on a frequency modulation, it is actually quite limited terms of real...
Compatibility: JV-1080 and up Audio example: PWM.mp3 The super JV series features two saw waves that have inverted amplitude to each other. A little bit...
Starting with model JV-1080, some waveforms from the JD-800 were transferred into JV-1080. Which meant back then that some of the patches could technically...
JD-990 Software / Patches:Patch OrganizerPatch Converter JD-800 -> JD-990Free Patches (61 bank total)JD-800 Factory Patches (converted to JD-990 format)SR-JV-04...
JD-800 Software / Patches: Patch Organizer Free Patches JD-800 DAC Calibration: A noise can occur during long release times. If this is the case, you will...
Additive (Fourier) synthesis Amplitude (ring) modulation FM synthesis Granular synthesis Linear Arithmetic (LA) synthesis PCM sample playback synthesis...
The structure Structure of almost all synthesizers is basically the same. It starts with the tone generator whose function is to create the sound. On analog...
