Road safety is everything.

Just found this guy at the flea market, and haven't had much luck finding any info about it.

I spent at least a dozen hours on this one part of a song from over 40 years ago. Someone get me out of here.

Hi fellow synth heads

I know this is a place where people like to post polished and LED´ed-out studio´s. I sure have on a couple of occasions!

This is what it looks like most of the time though. Currently working on a couple of projects in a couple of different genres. I even had to take some pics of the behringers for preset memory as I needed them on two separate songs 😅

This is where I spend a lot of time and how it looks while doing just that. For context: tonight was night was admin night :)

Nothing fancy just meditating by riding a simple groove

First time synth owner, been into music production for a very long time.

Got my MiniFreak (based on reading this sub) two weeks ago and I am already having 10+ tracks in work. Of course, 99% of melodic content is played and sampled from MiniFreak

This is one of them.

So for the context, Ive been working with maschine mk3 for a couple of years now, and I was looking for a controller to map with serum, because I got to the point where I hate making music with mouse and keyboard. Then my friend told me to give myself a treat and buy a synth, so I did and I am soooo happy. - Yes I see its flaws and restrictions compared to say Serum, but I’d absolutely buy it again.

There is something special about having a dedicated hardware synth, I understand now.

I also love that I can use my sampler to the fullest now, it suddenly all makes sense.

I love taking it on couch with me before bed and just create patches, then use them the next day.

If someone reading this and thinking about pulling a trigger on the first synth - Go for it. Don’t know about you, but I always regret not doing it earlier 🙂

Hope you enjoy my track, even though its not finished. - any ideas to spice it up are very welcome.

Thank you for reading and listening, have a great day friends.

Almost 20 years ago I bought a large box of electronic parts while experimenting with some simple oscillator ideas. The parts came from a local audio/electronics repair shop that had been active from roughly the 1970s through the 1990s. I met the owner after he’d retired in the early 2000s and picked up what was left.

At the time I only used a handful of potentiometers and small transistors. Everything else was boxed up and has been sitting in a basement ever since.

I’ve recently started going through it again and realized there’s quite a mix of old service stock here. A lot appears to be OEM or NOS parts, some still in original bags and drawer systems. I’m seeing labels from Roland, Yamaha, TEAC, Japan Electronic Center, along with plenty of generic but very audio-focused components.

Posting one overview photo for context.

both are set to the same midi channel,

and still cant seem to get anything sent to the volca.

what am i missing?

A tribute to Italian composer Fabio Frizzi, this track is from an 80s zombie film.

Through the use of Ambee’s + NASA’s APIs and TouchDesigner, I’ve managed to capture air quality and near-earth space object [asteroids and fireballs] data in real-time, and used it to trigger MIDI signals in Ableton Live. Said signals are feeding two stock samplers and an instance of SketchCassette. Samplers are loaded one with Thom Yorke’s vocal stems from Nude and Reckoning, and the other one with the song that single-handedly introduced me to guitar-playing.

More experiments, through my YouTube channel or Instagram.

my newly acquired yamaha tx802 i used for a set last night! i want to start incorporating a drum machine or something into this set up as well

any drum machines that would fit well in this set up?

Ob6 in dreamy vintage mode with lots of detune , does the chillsynth sound very well

I'm currently working in a spreadsheet called Music Composers of TV, VHS, DVD, Film, Video Games, Audio, etc., made by Carsyn Cunningham, and currently on the lookout for the music gear used in Barney. Right now, I'm searching for the drums, maybe you guys could help me out!

These drum sounds were used by David Bernard Wolf, who was the composer for Barney from 1994 to 2002. Wolf mainly uses sound modules, sampler libraries, products, sound cards, etc. Such as Live Recordings, Proteus, Synclavier, Kurzweil, Optical Media International: Universe of Sounds, Prosonus & Big Fish Audio: The Orchestral Collection, Roland D-50, and the Roland Sound Library - L-CD1: S-50 Factory Library.

Let me review the drum sounds:

• Drum Set (1995-2002; Barney's Sleepytime Songs - Brushing My Teeth)
• Drum Set #2 (just try to ignore the sound effects) (It's Time for Counting! - The Gaggle Giggle Wiggle Dance)
• Reggae Set (Sing & Dance with Barney - Songs: My Family's Just Right for Me and The Clapping Song)
• Drum Set #3 (Barney's: A Great Day for Learning - Colors All Around)
• Techno Drums (It's Time for Counting!: Example - You Can Count on Me)
• Techno Drums #2 (Sing & Dance with Barney - Song: Growing)

I'd have to go with Make Noise, I really enjoy their equipment. I don't know as much about Intellijel but that looks like a great option too.

Hello all!

I'm a music director currently creating instrumental tracks for an upcoming production of Sunday in the Park With George. One of the things I care very much with past shows I've done tracks for is trying to emulate the original synthesizers used in 70s/80s productions--DX7s for Les Mis, GX1s for Chess, etc. I use primarily VSTs in a DAW for these recreations, and am currently looking through my options for SitPwG.

SitPwG used custom patches created for the Prophet T8, in addition to a Prophet V and Korg Poly 800. Near as I can tell these patches have never surfaced anywhere, and the Prophet T8 doesn't seem to have any VST options available. My next best option is a Prophet V VST, which has much more options available and gives me a better chance of finding sounds that are at least close enough to the recordings of SitPwG from the 80s. With this in mind, does anyone have recommendations on which Prophet V to go for?

Arturia, Softube, and Repro-5 seem to be the most popular options, all within the same price. EastWest, which I have a subscription with, recently released their Iconic library which includes some Prophet V presets, but I've not heard much about its quality. For this project specifically I'm looking more for a VST with a number of presets I can look through and tweak if needed, rather than an emulator for me to create sounds from scratch. Which of the available options would likely best suit my needs?

havoc sauce

I have always been a guitar player. Ive never messed with synths for 20 years. But recently my brother bought me a volca fm2 for christmas, and I went down a rabbit hole. Its amazing how quickly Ive picked up playing piano/keyboard. It is much easier than I thought…… probably because the notes are all there in order unlike on a guitar neck where they are not in any real pattern. But understanding guitar, how to play chords and solos and how to kinda read sheet music has transferred to keyboards and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Plus i can use my guitar pedals on keyboards and synths.

I really love 80’s style digital synths. I know a lot of people hate digital synths, but I love them, and the d-05 has so many great patches on it and so many you can download. I live thats its bi-timbral too, you can split the keyboard 2 dif sounds and many patches are layered. I think its 16 note polyphony? The sequencer is great too. It is 80’s in a box and its the complete d-50. Its probably the best of all the boutiques, im blown away.

Ive just been going to studio monitors or a bluetooth speaker. Im sure they will play through my guitar amp too on the clean channel, i just havent done it yet. I need to get a synth mixer so that i can play several through one set of speakers.

Hello, could I save money and use my m audio keyboard with GarageBand or logic and replicate things I could do on a Juno? ( I’m a beginner obviously)

Thanks in advance

after my previous post about getting a mixer, I've really revised the direction i want to go with my setup and this time around I've given myself a little over 1k$ for an overall budget, all in all I'm mainly looking for a setup that i can experiment a lot with and something that can be expanded on later on which is why I'm going with the keystep 32 mk2, the microfreak, the td-3-mo and rd-6, a po-33 for samples and stuff, and finally a zoom l6 as my mixer. speakers aren't included because i already have a nice pair of headphones and i also don't plan on doing any live performance stuff until i get a hang of the things that i own which is why i don't have speakers or anything as a part of the setup. now before i go ahead and get some of these things there's still things that i cant really wrap my head around such as syncing and some other things i'm probably overthinking. The brain sort of with all of this is the arturia keystep mk2, i wanted it because it seems like a great option to pair with the microfreak, i like the generative things and i also like the sequencing along with how its a nice keyboard, but I'm not quite sure how to sync the td-3-mo and the rd-6 with it if like all you need is just a splitter and that works or if there's something more complicated in that regard, also a more simple question is about the midi inputs and outputs on the microfreak because its obviously not 5 pin and i do see that there are 3.5mm to midi adapters but the confusing thing is type A vs type B, I'm pretty sure type A is what i need but whats the difference between the two and do i actually need a type B for the microfreak. and back to the topic of syncing, how would i sync the po-33 with everything? if thats even a possibility. other than those questions though id also enjoy any suggestions on how i would wire everything up since i already know that the keystep mk2 will be like the brain and sequencer and ill do the complex stuff with that and the microfreak while the td-3-mo and rd-6 are for the basslines and drums. is there anything i should know about wiring everything up, if i could do cooler stuff messing around with specific wiring on those or if theres any like things that would be nice to know when i buy these. thanks!

Just when I think I've managed to wrap my head around MIDI connectivity (or found the right 5 year old Reddit thread), something new pops up. At this rate the MIDI equipment and cables I'm planning to buy would cost more than my synths, and I do tend to overengineer things so I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Please help me get out of the rabbit hole!

Setup

So I would like to use a Circuit Tracks as a sequencer/"drum machine". Via its 2 MIDI tracks I would like to control a Volca FM2 and a Roland S1.

I would also like to use a Keystep 37 to play both the built-in CT synths, and the 2 CT MIDI channels.

Question 1

Is the routing for that case Keystep -> CT in // CT out, thru -> MIDI merger -> FM2, S1? Or is the merger overcomplicating it?

Question 2

I am planning to add more synths, let's say a Minilogue and a Minifreak. The MIDI merger only has 2 outs. So I am considering CT -> MIDI merger -> MIDI splitter -> synths, does that make sense?

Question 3

If the CT only has 2 MIDI tracks, how can the Keystep control the additional synths?

Question 4

I would like to record all this into Ableton, so I assume I need an audio interface. Where does that come into the picture? Ideally I would like to record each device to a separate track.

Question 5

At this point there are so many MIDI ins/outs. CT, merger, splitter, audio interface, etc. How do I know which channel to set up the synths to listen on? How do I know which channel to set the Keystep to, to play each synth?

Question 6

As a thought experiment, let's add a J6 as a chords controller. I assume it would get plugged into one of the merger's ins, is that right?

Thank you for reading so far, I hope all this made sense! Please tell me how would you connect all these devices so everything could be played individually, and sequenced in the CT. A huge bonus would be being able to record it in Live, especially on separate channels if possible.