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Title: Vintage [music] keyboards studio tour
Post by: technoid on November 23, 2009, 08:33:24 AM
Sonic Reality studio (makers of samples and VST/VSTi's) gives a video tour of their collection of vintage keyboards (modular synths, clavs, e-piano's, organs, et al), mostly from the 1970's era and thereabouts, as well as some modern ones.  They'll play a few familiar riffs and sequences from famous bands/tunes, to explain their origins.  A Haken Continuum is also discussed a little, something I wanted to get back when it came out ~5 years ago, although they don't power it up.  Anyway, if you're a synth geek like me, then you'll probably want to watch.  Brought to you by Keyboard Mag (a fine magazine I've been reading since the mid 1980's). 

http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/vintage-synth-geekfest/November-2009/103381

Title: Re: Vintage [music] keyboards studio tour
Post by: AHadley on November 23, 2009, 04:25:23 PM
My beautiful Roland Juno-106 is much cooler :-D
Title: Re: Vintage [music] keyboards studio tour
Post by: TheJamsh on November 23, 2009, 11:35:06 PM
sending this to one of my tutors... hell love it. (He has more synth gear that there are posts on this forum)
Title: Re: Vintage [music] keyboards studio tour
Post by: technoid on November 24, 2009, 09:19:08 PM
Yeah, the 106 is nice, I don't have one, but I based a C64 synth program (to use the SID) that I made on it in 1984-5, imitating its front panel colors too (the orange, blue, black, etc) and coded the onscreen UI VCO/VCA/ADSF sliders to use Atari paddles and joysticks.  Too bad the 106 doesn't have velocity and/or aftertouch, iirc, but at least it was the first Roland model to have MIDI, I think.