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evolVing seQuence

decided to capture a little jam session on the DSI Mono evolVer synth.

bad mother …

Musikmesse Announcements: GAIA SH-01

If i wasn’t already dead-set on getting the Dave Smith Mopho Keyboard; I’d definitely be looking into getting one of the newly announced products at Musikmesse.

Taken from Roland’s website:

With its massive sound, hands-on ease, and affordable price, the GAIA SH-01 is a high-performance value with old-school charm. The triple-stacked engine puts potent virtual analog synthesis under your fingertips, yet the control panel is so fun, friendly, and inviting, even first-timers can create great sounds. The signal flow is simple to grasp, with logically arranged knobs, sliders, and buttons. Hands-on control and fat sound make this little powerhouse a joy for music students, songwriters, session players, and live performers of all styles and skill levels.

Vince Clarke and the Temple of Synth

the real mopho

Taken from Dave Smith Instruments:

“It’s no secret that a keyboard version of Mopho is in the works—particularly since two working prototypes were shown at NAMM in January! But we haven’t posted anything to the site because we knew the finished product would look different from the protos and because we’re really busy trying to get it done. If all the various bits and pieces come in on time, we hope to ship mid-April, but we still don’t have a “real” one to show you. The image below should be pretty close, though.

The voice architecture and general specs are the same as the Mopho desktop module. Enhancements include programmable feedback gain, additional arpeggiator modes, and the ability to set the slew rate separately for individual sequence steps. (Yes, the latter two features will eventually find their way into the other products in the Mopho/Tetra/Prophet family.) It features a semi-weighted keyboard action with velocity and aftertouch. And it has great feeling, two-shot, soft-touch knobs.

The eagle-eyed among you may find it odd that a monophonic synth has a unison on/off parameter. When paired with a Tetra, Mopho Keyboard makes a very compact, very powerful five-voice poly synth!”

I’ve already ordered mine at Sweetwater to insure that that I get it as a (should i admit) thirtieth birthday present to myself.

Prophet~600: Disassembly & Contact Cleaning

This is a video demonstrating the disassembly of the prophet~600 and cleaning its contacts. In order to keep the video within a reasonable time frame, i made the speed of the clips sometimes 2x, other times 4x. I’m not a film person.

I added a track to this video, it was the result of a jam session a while back so its not perfect.

Enjoy, hopefully it will be of some use.

13th Street Studio

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