Telemark vs. SEM

I really like the looks of the new Telemark synth from Analogue Solutions. After selling my small synthesizers.com modular I’m looking into buying a new modular, and maybe the Telemark could be the start of a new system? Anyway, here’s a great demo of the new synth. Below is a demo of the original Oberheim [...]

Analogue Solutions Telemark

Analogue Solutions has made a rack-mount version of their Semblance synth and called it Telemark. It seems like it’s got some additional controls (or a matrix?) as well, but there’s no more specific information yet. The Semblance itself is a clone of the Oberheim SEM (Synthesizer Expander Module). I like the look of this thing.

Cute old computers plays Bohemian Rhapsody

I found this video through Synthopia. I just had to put it here. I wonder who has made this.. it’s real computer music!

Dave Smith interview

I stumbled across an interview with synth engineer an inventor of MIDI, Dave Smith. He founded the company Sequential Circuits back in the 70′s, SC is most known for the popular Prophet 5 analogue synth released in 1978. This was the first polyphonic analogue synth, and the first one to include a patch memory system [...]

Raphael Saadiq

I kinda like this funky dude!

Synapse – The Electronic Music Magazine

The Synapse synth magazine from the late 70′s is full of goodies for all synth enthusiasts out there. Scanned gif-images of the magazine pages can be found on this web page. In the magazine you will find interesting interviews with among others Brian Eno, Tom Oberheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Schneider/Hutter, Todd Rundgren, Herbie Hancoc and Bob [...]

Herbie Hancock & his Fairlight CMI

Check out this cool video of Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones playing the Fairlight CMI. This beautiful synth / sampler / sequencer / music system was revolutionary in the late 70′s / early 80′s. Even now the Fairlight system looks and sounds very futuristic and cool. Now Fairlight makes an audio controller, the Xynergy. The [...]