Synths that literally ROCK your world

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Brian Eno, back in the day:

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omgomgomgomg i want one of these so bad...and at $599 list, I might get one!

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a tip of the hat to Malcolm Cecil and Bob Margouleff, who introduced Stevie Wonder to the synthesizer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHSkMJxa1PI

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Just got the korg m1 VST, liking it a lot so far.

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I was listening to Eurhythmics' "Love is a stranger" earlier tonight, and I finally remembered what this synth was called.

In addition to being Dave Stewart's workhorse synth on the first 4 or 5 Eurhythmics albums, it was Gillian Gilbert's main synth on New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies and Low-Life albums, so give it up for the little Octave Voyetra 8! :D

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Gillian Gilbert rocking two Voyetra 8s; they're the top two units on her rack stack.

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awesome dual-manual Oberheim 8-voice built for former Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz.

Geddy Lee used a single-manual version of this on Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures.

each module can have a completely different sound :D

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Thomas Dolby, rippin' shit in Royal Oak a few years back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0VzzcFWkM

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amazing video here - most of the instruments are pre-synth, but there's some cool old-skool synthage to be had. Cool to see 360 Systems and RMI represented. :D

In case you're curious, the RMI featured a sort of card reader; you either filled in little squares or punched holes (don't remember which) to "draw" the waveform you wanted, and the RMI would read the waveform and create it.

Its 2 most famous users were Rick Wakeman (on his 2nd go-round with Yes) and Roger Powell, who used one both with David Bowie and with Utopia.

Edited August 20, 2011 by Simon Bar Sinister

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Arturia's Origin:

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goin' old skool here...

Jean-Michel Jarre's '80s-era setup:

...and Geoff Downes' massive rig on Asia's 1982 tour:

Edited October 25, 2011 by Simon Bar Sinister

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a fun synth/sequencer to play with when you're bored:

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

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some nice soul was kind enough to post the entire Synth Brittanica film:

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the Hartmann Neuron:

there were only about 100 of these built.

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Richard Tandy of ELO has always been one of my favorite keyboardists. He was the first keyboardist who made me want to do keyboard-heavy music. I at one time knew what he used, but that knowledge long left my brain.

Skip to 1:57 if you want to get right to the man at work:

Oh, and this - Jean Jacques Perrey rocks my all-time favorite, The Moog:

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Sorry, just discovered this and have to share:

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holy fuck, this is incredible:

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living in America, one tends to forget how huge Jean-Michel Jarre is in the rest of the world:

fast forward to about 8.5 minutes in to see the show start.

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more JMJ, this time in 3-D!

:peanutbutterjellytime:

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lusting soooooooo hard over Blue Lantern modular synths right now; why didn't anyone else ever think of color-coding different modules?!

Edited March 1, 2013 by Simon Bar Sinister

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So I was bouncing around on the internet, and I ended up at Folktek's site, where I found this:

it's called the Impossible Box, and you can hear it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OouGVYj4ppA

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Let me introduce all y'all to Detroit Modular.

http://www.detroitmodular.com/

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Check this guy out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E-9EN1u6EY

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cool live track construction, with no prerecorded loops or samples whatsoever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaL3udlNajI

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pulmonary embolism. totally out of the blue. damn.

thanks for all the brilliant music, and all the inspiration. :(