#retro synth

[virescent-phosphor]

Reviving a Roland Alpha Juno-1. Bad power switch: probably got dropped pretty hard, because look at all those cracks and scuffs! Next up is the broken key, one stuck key, some cleanup on the iffy audio jacks, and pitch bend. 💖

[totalbuzzkill]

[dachmanarts]

Synth City

[semiconductorwave]

[cyberloops]

Visit Original Link

The audio rip from my last dawless jam of the year. Out of the three new toys that I got for myself in the last few months, two of them are on display here.

The entire jam is running through my Novation Circuit Tracks. It's providing the percussion and the two simple looping higher instruments, while also sometimes sending a signal to one of my new toys. That is the Behringer Model D. It's a fully analog 3 voice oscillator made to be as close to a classic minimoog model D as possible without costing an arm, leg, and a few other sensitive bits of anatomy. Most of the solo lines I play are on the Behringer MS-1. Both the MS-1 and Model D audio is going directly into the Circuit so all the audio you're hearing is coming out of that one tiny little device.

The other new toy that's in the loop is the Zoom MS 70 effects pedal. It's one of the most affordable (but surprisingly decent quality) multi-effects pedals on the market. And one of the few with stereo in and out, so I just ran the stereo audio from the Circuit out to that, and that pedal into my mixer, and the mixer into the computer to record it. So all in all, a pretty minimalist jam session. One groovebox, two synths, and one effects pedal.

I did some minor tweaking and equalizing on this track after I ripped it from the video, just to help some voices come through a little less muddied in certain spots, and to slightly lessen the higher frequencies of the loop that was running on the Circuit.

I think if I'd known what I know now about setting up a studio, I would have been able to avoid a few missteps and probably would have saved myself some money. Which is a shame, since I've kind of reached the point where I'm back to not being able to justify spending any more again. D'oh. Still, I made those decisions with the best knowledge that I had at the time.

[66-mhz]

Been into The Midnight a lot recently. Makes me wish I could have grown up in the 80s.

[burlveneer-music]

Belbury Poly - Root and Branch - from the new album, The Gone Away (Ghost Box) (natch)

Inspired by far-fetched fairy folklore, The Gone Away is the new album by Belbury Poly, the recording name of Ghost Box Records co-founder Jim Jupp. Vintage electronics, music room instrumentation and polyrhythmic sequences conjure up folk-ish, kosmiche melodies.

Evocative and unsettlingly familiar, it sets a darker and more serene tone than the last full-length Poly album, New Ways Out. Belbury Poly’s sound palette is still in evidence however; mellow analogue synths, rustic pipes and rusty strings. Gone are the usual supporting session musicians, with Jupp performing all parts himself. The album came together slowly over the course of three years while Jupp collaborated on various side projects and was finally completed a few days before the global lockdown commenced.

[fog-world]