AnalogAudio1 Videos

Demo of the Mini Pops 7 - shows the Minipops 7 in action... This is the drumbox heard on JEAN-MICHEL jarre's album OXYGENE. The Minipops model 7 is the most complex and the best machine of the Korg's Minipops Series. It has 16 different drum sounds and 20 preset patterns. You can combine all patterns, you have freedom to combine everything! Some combinations sound great - the OXYGENE 4 groove is a good example.

Tags: Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene drumbox beatbox analog vintage moog Mini Pops compurhythm TR-808 CR-68 CR-78 eko univox SR-95 SR95 TR-606 TR-55 rhythm box KR-55 KPR-77 KR-33 CR-8000

The KORG DW-8000 "digital waveform synthesizer" came out 1985 and was the "deluxe" version of the smaller DW-6000. DW stands for "digital waveform". The KORG DW-8000 has 8 notes polyphony, 16 waveforms, a velocity sensitive keyboard with programmable aftertouch, auto-bend, an arpeggiator and a digital delay unit. The Digital Delay offers up to 512ms delay, phasing, flanging, chorusing and other time effects. The DW8000 has been used by Juno Reactor, Depeche Mode, Dream Theater, Joe Zawinul ...

Tags: Korg DDS-1 EX-8000 EX-800 DW-6000 Roland JX-8P Oberheim Matrix-6

The Roland Alpha Juno-1 is an great analog, polyphonic, programmable synthesizer with MIDI. It came out 1985. Like all Junos, it has 1 oscillator and 1 suboscillator per voice. It also has a resonant 24 db lowpassfilter as well as a highpass filter. The chorus effect is better than on earlier Junos - it can be tweaked (depth, speed). The "tone modify" on the front panel allows someting like "easy edit" to tweak sounds easily (MOD RATE, MOD DEPTH, BRILLIANCE, ENV TIME). The most comfortable ...

Tags: Roland Juno-106 Juno-60 alpha juno-2

The monophonic Minikorg 700 was the first synthesizer from Korg. It has 1 VCO, 1 "traveler" filter (12 db, highpass/lowpass) 1 envelope generator and 1 LFO. It has a very special sound - some like it, others don't - I love it. It was used by Vangelis in the seventies. Also Kitaro's all time favourite synthesizer. I played the Minikorg with Lexicon MPX 500 reverb and Roland DEP-5 delay.

Tags: 700s KOrg 770 800DV polyphonic ensemble micropreset M-500 900PS Roland SH-1000

The semimodular monophonic Korg MS-10 hit the market 1978 and was the small brother of the popular MS-20. It can be seen as a cutdown version of the MS-20. It has 1 VCO, 1 VCF, 1 LFO and 1 ADSR envelope. It has one feature, that the MS-20 doesn't has: PWM - pulse width modulation. It can be modulated by the LFO, ADSR, keyboard, noise or any other external source. It also has an input jack for external signals - they can be treated with the filter and envelopes. It has a 12 db filter ...

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Jamming around with the Korg / Keio Minipops 20s. The Korg Minipops 20s "Donca Matic" is an early rhythmbox from Korg. It's the only one Mini Pops model which has stereo outputs. Different sounds come from the two outputs - that's great! I used them like single outputs with different effects in the video. I used a Yamaha pror3 reverb and a delay from Roland DEP-5. On the second half of the video I sent one of the outputs through an old ELECTRO HARMONIX HOT TUBES. I love the Minipops boxes ...

Tags: Keio Mini pops Donca Matic Doncamatic Roland CR-78 CR-68 CR-8000 TR-55 TR-33 TR-77 TR-606 TR-808 KR-55 KPR-77

The Casio CZ-1000 is a digital synthesizer with the "phase distortion" synthesis. It came out 1985 and it was one of the first low cost synthesizers with MIDI multimode. The CZ-1000 looks like something between Yamaha DX7 and Korg Poly-800. Like the Korg Poly-800, it can run with batteries. The CZ-101 is virtually the same, it just has small keys. Casio had the idea to develop a digital synth with modern digital sounds, which is easy to program like an analog synth. Indeed, it uses similar ...

Tags: CZ-101 CZ-1000 CZ-5000 CZ-3000 CZ-1 CZ-230S VZ-1 HT-6000 HZ-600 RZ-1

A & D Synthesizer jam / performance with ARP Odyssey, Korg Mono/Poly (Arpeggiator Sequence) and Korg Polysix. This synthesizer song happened to be a melancholic, sad song ;-) however, it was not planned to be. Sometimes, when you are in a special mood, this is the right piece to hear...

Tags: ARP Odyssey KORG Polysix Mono/Poly

The Korg Poly-800 came out 1984 and is an interesting analog synthesizer with usable, interesting sounds. It has MIDI, runs even with batteries, and can be used as a remote keyboard. It was cheap, almost every musician could afford one - and can afford it even today. It has digital controlled oscillators (dco's). Not digital oscillators - they are just controlled digitally. Actually, it has just square waveforms. Combining different footages of squares you'll obtain the usual saw, pulse and ...

Tags: Poly800II Poly-61 DW-8000 DW-6000 EX-800 EX-8000 Polysix Korg polyphonic synthesizer

This is a demo of the Yamaha PSS-390. The PSS-380 is virtually the same, it just has a different color scheme. They came out 1989 / 1990. This little digital keyboard is interesting. Is has 100 FM presets, which can be edited - with the built in "digital synthesizer". It is the most flexible FM synthesizer keyboard of Yamaha's PSS series. It not only has a lot of presets, it has sliders scaled from 1 to 8, while older PSS synth keyboards like PSS-570, PSS-360 have sliders scaled from 1 to 5 ...

Tags: PSS-380 PSS-570 PSS-560 PSS-370 PSS-360 Casio SK-1Casiotone Portasound frequency modulation