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Nice! Now I need to go watch Bloodsport (again).

Nice sounding patches, I will have to purchase coming up. Awesome synth, such a shame that ensoniq went down. They were such a cool company. I remember drooling over all their ads and constantly re-reading them.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Oh that's better. You have the Prophet VS. Shall I teach you to make a proper NIN track? ua-cam.com/video/cOmJ-koXwIA/v-deo.html

Did you ever use the program someone made that enabled you to convert .wav’s to formants? Couldn’t believe it really worked and I wasn’t stuck with only the cheese presets 4321.

Van Hallen's Jump is the best forever

Pulsar by Vangelis ?

I have never bought so many rack ears ever since the introduction of desktop cases

This is _so_ much better produced than all the 'it's 1982 and you're driving through Tokyo' kind of synthwave. Those are so incredibly heavily compressed that I need to switch off after a couple of minutes.

Synthesizers from the the late 1970s onwards were primarily digitally controlled, running software, albeit in less ram on much less powerful hardware, and with the accompaniment of lots of TTL and CMOS. But they used CPUs like the Zylog z80 or National Semiconductor 3200 series, they were 8-bit microcomputers with customized audio hardware, and custom embedded software, aka Analog Synthesizers! As both a software engineer with decades of experience in embedded systems in the auto industry and industrial process machines, as well as somebody who has been Hands-On repairing and upgrading digital electronic music instruments spanning three decades, I can say from experience that today -synths are made much better than they were in the 1970s '80s and even '90s. Materials sciences have come a long long way. PCB design and quality as well. Surface mount components today have tighter tolerances, and long life expectancies that should outlast all of their predecessors. I see this shaping a reality in the future that these devices most certainly will need much less repair in their inner circuitry then their predecessors. Through hole components as opposed to surface mount components don't really present that much of an added difficulty to a skilled electronics professional. We work on these sub miniaturized surface mount devices all the time, we have special tools for making this work easy, it's an acquired skill set but it's not impossible to learn. VST are great for studio musicians and bedroom producers, but if you are a live performing musician, if you are a touring musician, you want a tactile instrument. But, you don't want to lug around a 30 or 40-year-old behemoth, that is full of a bunch of fragile old brittle PCBs and hard to find, rare or impossible to replace integrated circuits. You want modern features like polyphonic aftertouch, etc. You want to have lower power consumption, Lower weight, and a smaller form factor. SCAM? I don't think so.

Nice, cool, synthwave music from the '80-s... i love it😎 My childhood comes back... Thank you Espen!

Beats 98% of modern synthwave music, which I'm utterly tired of hearing now (especially the kicks and snares, and if there's sidechaining involved, forget it, haha). This is cool.

🥋🥋🥋

This is awesome

This is cool! Lets make an IK+ or Way of the exploding fist reboot with your music! Respect❤

really cool!

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😂Думаю про Akai force и представляю будущее сим салабим напиши музыку в стиле рэп ну там шоб сибемоль 3 штуки было и погрустнее😂😂😂

Жги 🫡😎

SALUDOS Espen Kraft

No I don't think it's manufacturers who are scamming the synth buyers. It's those synth buyers who severely overvalue everything "analog". And we can't do anything about that and I'd say those manufacturers and those buyers are worth each other. Synth buyers like that aren't going to make much good music anyway so we're not losing much on that front either.

Strangelove Personal Jesus Shake the disease WALKING IN MY SHOES Dream on See you A pain that I am used to A question of time Nothing Precious

This brings so many memories of me using it some 35 years ago. Thanks

This sequencer reminds me a lot of the Mc-303, with his shuffle/swing/quantize that you can adjust with a subtle amount

This unit seems like it would be straight-forward to clone, either physically or virtually. The firmware is key, but is small enough that it might be feasible to clean-room an implementation of the quantize algorithm like early PC BIOS to mitigate copyright risk. My MSQ-700 was stolen in the late 2000s; I only completed one track exclusively with it since I also had (have) an ASQ-10, but every time I see it used I miss it a bit. Flat UI, completely linear editing, it's about as straightforward to use as can be.

I've got thousands of dollars in VSTs, but I don't trust that they'll still be working tomorrow. Some OS update may end up trashing things, or Native Instruments may decide to just delete more synths from my collection. (never paying another dime to NI) I've already lost a few synths which NI just silently deleted. Or what if a manufacturer goes out of business? Suddenly my VSTs can't connect to the mothership through the internet, and my investments are simply lost. Aside from the anolog vs digital aspect, this is why even for VSTs, I like the idea of having it run on some hardware (Raspberry pie or similar?) which can't be screwed by a Windows update or by malware. Won't work for Cherry Audio VSTs, though, as they keep requiring account sign-in.

Do you think there's any good way to get the cold, dystopian Jupiter 6 sound from a Hydra?

I s'pose in the 80s, this machine, a synth bass, a vocal splashed in reverb and you had a hit?

I really like the funky riffs you are playing,would be great for an 80s style video game!

I hope you are aware that you did this video a year ago? 😅

Like nine cans of shaving powder, that's funky.

Lovely unit. I like how they JUST work.

AI from the 80s.

One has to admit that thing looks beautiful.

Definitely attributed to the early YMO sound especially as with the MC

Your played parts sounded much better than the quantisation. I never use it in my DAW either. It has ruined music just like autotune.

I love the tight timing. Modern MIDI can be do laggy and latent unless you have the correct setup.

Great to see this video, thank you!! I LOVE these and SO many good ideas. I was UK product manager for the importer so was lucky enough to have a 1000PX, 1000HX, 1000SX and the 1000GX in a rack (and K250 with 4 expansions, K1000 and EGP) - absolute dream job!! It has a built in MIDI analyser I used to use all the time - displays MIDI message in the display. Fantastic MIDI versatility for it's time including programme change mapping, all 16 channels available at once and high polyphony with dynamic allocation across channels and sounds with complex rules from the K250. Also the most complrehensive programmable tuning with almost every 'wierd' scale you would want and the ability to 'invert' parts of the keyboard. Also if you change sounds whilst holding notes from a previous sound, the previous sounds will stay - great for layers. Also inherited from the K1000, it had 'controller check' on start up so wherever controllers were on start, was the default "off" position - so worked with any pedal, both push-to-make and push-to-break. I bought one second hand about 12 years ago to upgrade an aged Clavinova and found I had an incredibly rare beast. They later launched the PX Plus which had an additional set of sounds (e.g. Drums, Electric Bass and Rhodes) on ROM but there was a very short period when they released retro-fit upgrade boards for a 'normal' PX. I remember us getting an engineer into UK HQ to fit the boards to a few PX's. To my delight that was what I got and now have - although now stored in the attic and unused. Things I learnt from the Boston engineers: The PX Piano and Strings are the seminal K250 ones but can sound brighter due to the D2A cut-off frequency. The SX has the same string sounds as the legendary K250 but because it has higher bit processing and more crucially, a better D2A converter, the sound is much brighter and therefore got criticised for not being as 'warm'. Many of the sounds on the GX were meant to be used with guitar effects pedals - they never wanted to put such 'dirty' sounds in a Kurzweil module. And it was that thinking that led to one of it's biggest problems vs the competition, it had no in built Signal Processing as Kurzweil thought internal DSPs were poor quality. Main thing to watch now is the LCD backlight which being so old, becomes dim making the display hard to read.

It has no 64th.

Nice video. And, thanks. Sample Robot is exactly what Iv'e been looking for!

I've wanted one for over 10 years, my synth teacher voiced the DX7 and I've even hung out with Dr. John Chowning who created FM synthesis... a friend just sold me theirs, I'm so happy I could cry <3

Are all sounds created within a performance to be routed to different tracks within a DAW, like PT or FL studio?

mixer?

Come on Espen, show us more of your dirty wild side. Make a Nine Inch Nails style track.. for us.. ua-cam.com/video/KyDLwAZWe6s/v-deo.html

Did the drum sounds have built-in production like a gated snare for example? I don't know if this was ever a thing with drum machines I am just curious about how production worked at that time

whats the first one?

What's the ips on tape? Sounds so good! this all is awesome , the music , the sync , your studio!!!!!

Dude am begging what do they call the astral sounding ones like in thievery corporation’s indra

I love my jamstik midi guitar for syth parts case i cant play the keys that and love to use dx7 vst dexed lol its so fun

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