"- Do you watch Game of Thrones? - No.. - The Walking Dead?? - Nope... - Sherlock, Arrow, Flash..? - Nooooope... - What do you watch then? - I watch JunkieXL's StudioTime on TH-cam!!!" But seriously... we won't be able to thanks you enough for what you're doing, Tom. Long life to Tom! ;)
Great vid, as usual - lovely gear. But the Synergy came much later than the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange which was Switched On Bach from around 1968 (that was a Moog Modular). Awesome collection though - just gorgeous.
This episode made me remember and also realize what a gem the EX5 is, and I sold mine years ago! :( I simply wasn't skilled enough to program it at the time. After watching this episode I immediately contacted the friend who I sold the EX5 to and he still has it and he agreed to sell it back to me. Thank you so much Tom! :D
you mentioned FM8 from native instruments.. you can also get a free emulator called dexed which emulates a DX7 very well.. you can also send patches back and forth between your computer and a real DX7. Nice video. i love some of those old school synths! :-)
I would call it a synth museum. Yet it is still being used. There's car collectors, art collectors, and so on. In this case everything in that room is still working. All that knowledge and how to operate all those old synths will have to be passed down to someone else when the time comes.
Around 300 PPG Waveterms were made and around a 1000 PPG Wave 2.x were made according to Wolfgang Palm himself. PPG (Wolfgang Palm) started building synths in 1974. He sold analog mono synths and modular's before he invented the wavetable synths in the late 70's. I am lucky to own a PPG Wave 2 and Wave 2.3 myself. Best sounding hybrids ever made.
junkiexlofficial I just love the sound of them. Very unique. My favorite synth together with my Synthex. And the price for them is not that crazy in Europe compared to the states. Yet anyway..Thanks again. Take care
Wendy Carlos' sounds on cartridges. Thats like the Holy Grail of synthesizer/electronic music. Now do you have any of Delia Darbyshire's tapes floating around?
All synthesizers built in the 1980's are approaching the time expiry of the electrolytic capacitors. The caps used back then were acidic, and only had a lifespan of 30 years. After that they degrade and break down. this causes the power supply to become unstable, and any deviance's more than .25Volts and the digital logic behaves strangely and you are constantly chasing problems. The only fix is complete replacement of the electrolytic capacitors within the synthesizer.
Per your request in the video: Teisco was a musical instruments company acquired in 1967 by Kawai. Kawai continued to use the Teisco brand name for all their early synthesizers, but in the '80s switched to simply using Kawai as the brand name.
Great ambience filtering from these old machines. I always thought they were so digital and to clean but this shows them in a different light. Great video.
Wendy Carlos inspired me to play synthesizers! You are very lucky to own a piece of history. Thanks for uploading this video. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. :)
This is our favorite episode. Thank you for sharing these oddities. The EX5R is a fascinating entity. It's an exciting prospect to use such a strange synth as a model for a eurorack system. One could stack FM synthesis, physical modeling, sampling, and wavetables together, and run that all through analog filters as well.
@@deauvillevrienden mind to share how? I got a TG77 and the ex5r looks pretty interesting to me but i have to admid, i have trouble programming my tg77. It's a shame cause it even has a waveform expansion
@@mb2776 Well, the EX5 has : AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory), AN (Analog Physical Modeling) Synthesis, FDSP (Formulated Digital Sound Processing) Synthesis and Virtual Acoustic (VL) Synthesis..... but NO FM !!! , the TG77 is a real FM beast, a DX7 on steroids... so that completes the EX5. Having both and layering both sounds like a Montage or MODX where my mixing sliders act like a superknob :-))
Great series JXL, you're not just generously giving your time for our entertainment, I'm willing to bet you're also inspiring people aswell. You have my admiration!
Such wonderful videos by such a high functioning individual who has put his whole life into his craft. I doubt there is another person alive who has this many amazing synths, who actually knows how to use every single one of them and who actually uses them in movie scores. Thanks for sharing.
I really love the tutorials and somehow as they keep me of doing my "work", it also inspires me to create sounds to use in my production. I obviously by far do not have the tools that you have, but it somehow drives me to go on! Dank je Tom voor de geweldige video's!! Ga zo door!
I had 2 GDS Synergy's which ran on Kaypro II using 5" floppies and an extremely crude MS-DOS software. (General Development Systems) Unfortunately Super Storm Sandy came to Hoboken, NJ on Oct. 29th, 2012, bringing three and a half feet of salt water, raw sewage and full oil in to my studio. It wasn't pretty to say the least. I had something like 15 to 18 keyboards and tons of studio gear. No power for nine days. When we finally started putting the gear on the street, people were grabbing it up before I had the chance to sort it out...
Thanks Tom! I really liked this Episode, those are some great machines. I always wonder how your MIDI setup works like, any chance to get a deeper look into that?
Hello Mr. JunkieXL, thank you for your videos. I love them all and i have that synthie&music addiction, too - and to see all your stuff i am honest: makes me jealous! thumbs up. keep keying :-)
And I think that the most impressive using of Synergy by Wendy was on her "Beauty in the Beast" album. Especially on the track "Poem for Bali", which is something absolutely stunning and ethereal. This intro... soundcloud.com/roberto-la-forgia/03-poem-for-bali
It is a good album. I had it and was really into her approach to additive synthesis at the time. I could only afford a Kawai K5 for simple additive synthesis, but it wasn't bad (I still have a K5M sitting around somewhere that I bought later after the power supply died in my K5).
There is a mistake on this video. The Yamaha EX5 does not have an FM section. So it cannot make the same sounds as the SY series, or even a DX7. The SY series was great for having the ability to use a PCM sample as an operator In the FM section. That really expanded its sound horizon and made it very original. Even the montage cannot do that either. Great series. Love them all !
Neutron Star you beat me to it. Only the sy77/99 can truly combine samples with FM. Ive been hoping to see wether tom has the sy99 in his arsenal.. my favourite synth! I own 2 of them :)
that dx1 is fantastic-i found one on holiday in Songbird Toronto in 2000 for $750 but i didnt have the money to buy/ship back to the uk at the time:( .couple of years later i picked a dx5 up which is pretty close and a great synth
PLEASE tell me that full backups are being made of the carts and Kaypro disks from Wendy Carlos? :o I'm guessing that the carts might use battery-backed SRAM too, so they will have a finite life. Love watching this stuff. :p A while ago, I was working on creating an FPGA clone of some classics synths like the Fairlight CMI, and JV-1080. I'm currently working on the Roland synths that use the LA32 chip, like the MT32, D-10/D-20, and D-50 etc. Hopefully similar work will start to happen for other digital / FM synths soon, as time is running out for a lot of the older gear, and it's super-important to try to preserve them.
Teisco was bought by Kawai. I remember seeing a Kawai SX-210 as a kid, playing with it and being mesmerized by its alphanumeric display, where we could actually name (with letters) the patches :D
A correction. The PPG Wave was not made nor sold by Waldorf. It was made by PPG (Wolfgang Palm's company). However Waldorf is currently working with Wolfgang Palm to produce the software version you mentioned. EDIT: I've gotten some replies to this by confused people, so here's a little bit more. Waldorf Music was founded by Wolfgang Düren, who was originally PPG's distributor in Germany. My understanding is that after PPG closed (and with it the PPG Wave), Palm did a little consulting for Düren's startup at the very beginning of Waldorf's history, and as a result the PPG's wavetable approach and early wavetables have found their way into Waldorf's products, the Waldorf Wave (not to be confused with the PPG Wave) and the Microwave series, not to mention the Blofeld.
That DX-1 let me soundwise think on my Yamaha PSS-480, what is normal. They both use FM-synthesis. The PSS-480 was my first synth and incredible sounds that you can make with changing all those parameters!
Benefits of having real instrument comes from extended brain stimulation because you must program individually any gear to squeeze sounds that you wanna. Process involves more senses compared to vst. But staying in EM field when you turn on most of them could give some pretty polution hiting the body i suppose.
I used 8" floppies in the computer at school a Z80 Research Machines computer, I made a leather wallet in my Textiles class to hold my floppies, I love that mechanical sound they make!
This Is Nuts :) I was born in 1982 !!!! Amazing dude ! now I kinda understand the ppg, always loved the look, didn't understand it or its sounds, now I see,,, create your own Waveform's or w.e "woo" and the WaveTerm,, its real Matrix stuff hha ha ! thanks man Kool Vid !
You really like the Cm, Gm, and Eb chords, huh? Oh, and the wave ppg is one of my favorite synths of all time! I'm lucky enough to have a microwave xtk! Those old Waldorf wavetable synths are awesome
Back in the early days of the Commodore Amiga, I wrote a similar wave editor/player called WaveMaker. Mine was realtime, and illustrates the crazy rate at which technology advanced in those days. WaveMaker only supported 8 harmonics, not 32 as in the PPG.
For an in ambient context use of the VL-1, Kit Watkins put it to good use on much of his music the last 2 decades. I believe he was involved in the development of the breath controller in the 80's, if I'm not mistaken.
Wonder how many solar panels it takes to take care of that room? and there's going to be some redundant or backup power option involved, perhaps a diesel generator.
Late to the party but AWM stands for Advanced Wave Memory, basically Yamaha's first rompler technology, used in a lot of Yamaha products before being replaced by AWM2 that's still in use.
FM synthesis on a DX (and FM8) is not that hard as long as you visualize in your head that the relation between the carrier and its modulator(s) is very much the same as between an oscillator waveform and LFO modulating its pitch on an analog synth (or oscillator 2 modulating oscillator 1 which is even truer to DX's FM). The wave from one is affecting the wave of the other. It's just that DX/FM8 has more to program than a typical dual osc analog synth but it's more of the same. And treat FM algorithms as analog modular connections with wires. A very good place to start is start with just two operators in FM8 or if you have an analog synth/virtual analog VST/etc with good modulation capabilities - route the second operator/oscillator (let's call it modulator) to modulate the first operator / frequency of the first oscillator (it's our carrier), but make sure modulator is not outputting a sound directly. Play a note - increase or decrease modulator's frequency and note how the sound of the carrier changes - and then note that modulator just adds more high pitched / low pitched harmonics (depending on its frequency). Then tweak how much modulator is affecting the carrier for more/less effect. It's way easier from there once you understand this basic relation.
I had a DX7 back in the mid-80’s and I was always struggling to figure out how to program a sound I wanted. Most of what I programmed and saved were accidents that were not what I started out looking for.
I kind off like the happy little accidents xD FM kind off makes sense but sometimes weird things happen when random things start to resonate and everything goes to hell.
I got a TG77 on ebay once, bid on it and won it for.. I shit you not, £77 dead on! (I've also had 2 SY77s). Very deep synths, under-rated, some great atmospheres in there.
Wendy Carlos made the sounds on the Synergy on it's predecessor the Crumar DGK. Which has hands on control, and is not really a FM synthesizer as it's a Additive synthesizer. Check out Bell Labs, for more information.
If you wanna know more about Teisco / Kawai, Alex Ball has made a nice video about them here, with a pretty hefty demo-song at the end (I know, since I mixed/mastered it) : th-cam.com/video/f4LQU73Ilxo/w-d-xo.html // Jakob, Sonic Peak Studio
37 minutes? Oh boy, I'm gonna be sitting a long time on the toilet.
On a serious note, Thanks for taking the time out of your day to do this.
Victor TheHuman haha feeling it
Lol, I just read your comment on the throne myself.
@Darius Beaumont In hindsight, yeah I can see now that you're right, it's a silly comment.
"- Do you watch Game of Thrones?
- No..
- The Walking Dead??
- Nope...
- Sherlock, Arrow, Flash..?
- Nooooope...
- What do you watch then?
- I watch JunkieXL's StudioTime on TH-cam!!!"
But seriously... we won't be able to thanks you enough for what you're doing, Tom.
Long life to Tom! ;)
viva tom....
!!!
those shows are mainstream garbage anyway
i'm just catching up on series 2
Just picked up a TG 77 for only around 80$usd here in Tokyo. Glad you mentioned it! Really a secret weapon.
Thanks Tom for investing (those crazy hollywood dollars into something useful) and preserving the older gear.You.ve got a working museum going on!
A synthesizer studio tour de force! Many thanks for sharing.
Great vid, as usual - lovely gear. But the Synergy came much later than the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange which was Switched On Bach from around 1968 (that was a Moog Modular). Awesome collection though - just gorgeous.
This episode made me remember and also realize what a gem the EX5 is, and I sold mine years ago! :( I simply wasn't skilled enough to program it at the time. After watching this episode I immediately contacted the friend who I sold the EX5 to and he still has it and he agreed to sell it back to me. Thank you so much Tom! :D
We're you able to figure out the programming?
it still amazes me that people would go on a video about a man genuinely showing his passion to the world and give it a dislike?????
Thanks for running us through the Yamaha rack gear, especially that EX5R.
you mentioned FM8 from native instruments.. you can also get a free emulator called dexed which emulates a DX7 very well.. you can also send patches back and forth between your computer and a real DX7.
Nice video. i love some of those old school synths! :-)
Thanks for the info, this is a very nice plug-in!
That's not even a music studio... that's a musical sanctuary 🤘🎶🎶🎶
Those displays for the synths were most probably stolen from Alien 1. 👀🤣
I would call it a synth museum. Yet it is still being used. There's car collectors, art collectors, and so on. In this case everything in that room is still working. All that knowledge and how to operate all those old synths will have to be passed down to someone else when the time comes.
Yup, that's awesome right? Though I'm not sure who can receive all that info!
Interface 2037 - ready for inquiry
:D:D:D
junkieXL and JayLeno's garages
Around 300 PPG Waveterms were made and around a 1000 PPG Wave 2.x were made according to Wolfgang Palm himself. PPG (Wolfgang Palm) started building synths in 1974. He sold analog mono synths and modular's before he invented the wavetable synths in the late 70's. I am lucky to own a PPG Wave 2 and Wave 2.3 myself. Best sounding hybrids ever made.
Wow! Good for you!
junkiexlofficial I just love the sound of them. Very unique. My favorite synth together with my Synthex. And the price for them is not that crazy in Europe compared to the states. Yet anyway..Thanks again. Take care
Wendy Carlos' sounds on cartridges. Thats like the Holy Grail of synthesizer/electronic music. Now do you have any of Delia Darbyshire's tapes floating around?
All synthesizers built in the 1980's are approaching the time expiry of the electrolytic capacitors. The caps used back then were acidic, and only had a lifespan of 30 years. After that they degrade and break down. this causes the power supply to become unstable, and any deviance's more than .25Volts and the digital logic behaves strangely and you are constantly chasing problems. The only fix is complete replacement of the electrolytic capacitors within the synthesizer.
Electrolytic caps of any era more or less subject to the same fate. Replacement is inevitable.
@@jesselewis4843 The modern ones should last longer, they say
Per your request in the video: Teisco was a musical instruments company acquired in 1967 by Kawai. Kawai continued to use the Teisco brand name for all their early synthesizers, but in the '80s switched to simply using Kawai as the brand name.
I am totally blown away, and inspired, everytime I watch one of your videos! Your collection of audio gear is astounding!
Was so impressed with the EX5r I had to go and buy one, absolutely awesome piece of kit 😎 Thanks Tom
Great ambience filtering from these old machines. I always thought they were so digital and to clean but this shows them in a different light. Great video.
Brilliant ! Thank you Tom for taking the time from your busy schedule to provide us with these great videos !
Wendy Carlos inspired me to play synthesizers! You are very lucky to own a piece of history. Thanks for uploading this video. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. :)
This is our favorite episode. Thank you for sharing these oddities. The EX5R is a fascinating entity. It's an exciting prospect to use such a strange synth as a model for a eurorack system. One could stack FM synthesis, physical modeling, sampling, and wavetables together, and run that all through analog filters as well.
Wouldn't that be awesome??!
Thank you. This is one of the best episodes, I like you showing us unusual synths and their history.
I've been looking at getting a TG77 and you completely convinced me to try and get an EX5r instead!!
Get both as I did, they are completely different beasts and complete each other
@@deauvillevrienden mind to share how? I got a TG77 and the ex5r looks pretty interesting to me but i have to admid, i have trouble programming my tg77. It's a shame cause it even has a waveform expansion
@@mb2776 Well, the EX5 has : AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory), AN (Analog Physical Modeling) Synthesis, FDSP (Formulated Digital Sound Processing) Synthesis and Virtual Acoustic (VL) Synthesis..... but NO FM !!! , the TG77 is a real FM beast, a DX7 on steroids... so that completes the EX5. Having both and layering both sounds like a Montage or MODX where my mixing sliders act like a superknob :-))
Great series JXL, you're not just generously giving your time for our entertainment, I'm willing to bet you're also inspiring people aswell. You have my admiration!
Who cleans all that lot? Amazing collection thank you for sharing it with us.
Such wonderful videos by such a high functioning individual who has put his whole life into his craft. I doubt there is another person alive who has this many amazing synths, who actually knows how to use every single one of them and who actually uses them in movie scores. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Tom, always looking forward to your videos.
I really love the tutorials and somehow as they keep me of doing my "work", it also inspires me to create sounds to use in my production. I obviously by far do not have the tools that you have, but it somehow drives me to go on! Dank je Tom voor de geweldige video's!! Ga zo door!
I had 2 GDS Synergy's which ran on Kaypro II using 5" floppies and an extremely crude MS-DOS software.
(General Development Systems) Unfortunately Super Storm Sandy came to Hoboken, NJ on Oct. 29th, 2012, bringing three and a half feet of salt water, raw sewage and full oil in to my studio. It wasn't pretty to say the least. I had something like 15 to 18 keyboards and tons of studio gear. No power for nine days. When we finally started putting the gear on the street, people were grabbing it up before I had the chance to sort it out...
Thanks Tom! I really liked this Episode, those are some great machines. I always wonder how your MIDI setup works like, any chance to get a deeper look into that?
Thanx for showing and explaining us again some very nice hardware! greetz from Gent!
I love all these videos. Thank you Junkie XL!
Awesome video! Can't wait for the part featuring that lovely Eurorack! 😊
Thanks again for your videos. Super interesting as usual. Love the format.
This guy is an encyclopedia of synths! Endless knowledge. Thank you Tom!
Thanx a lot for the BEST audio presentation of EX5! My favourite toy... :D
Oh man I love the sound at 25:42 that's just amazing
Thank you I learn so much and its so interesting! Listening with good headphones to get the most put of the sound.
Hello Mr. JunkieXL,
thank you for your videos. I love them all and i have that synthie&music addiction, too - and to see all your stuff i am honest: makes me jealous! thumbs up. keep keying :-)
BTW... If you read this, i suggest you don't put your old Floppies on crt monitors.
@Putrid Bete Magnets (which are in CRT's) erase floppy disks.
That goes for videotape too!
@@sideshowbob1544 and Vibrators...
Wendy Carlos made the 'Clockwork Orange' soundtrack in 1972 but the Synergy didn't come out until 1982.
Tron only uses Synergy
And I think that the most impressive using of Synergy by Wendy was on her "Beauty in the Beast" album. Especially on the track "Poem for Bali", which is something absolutely stunning and ethereal. This intro...
soundcloud.com/roberto-la-forgia/03-poem-for-bali
Good call. I think that BITB is a challenging, but very rewarding listen. More info here: www.wendycarlos.com/+bitb.html
It's the finest Carlos album
It is a good album. I had it and was really into her approach to additive synthesis at the time. I could only afford a Kawai K5 for simple additive synthesis, but it wasn't bad (I still have a K5M sitting around somewhere that I bought later after the power supply died in my K5).
There is a mistake on this video. The Yamaha EX5 does not have an FM section. So it cannot make the same sounds as the SY series, or even a DX7. The SY series was great for having the ability to use a PCM sample as an operator In the FM section. That really expanded its sound horizon and made it very original. Even the montage cannot do that either. Great series. Love them all !
Neutron Star indeed no FM. But it adds AN which is nice too. To bad the sysex dumps can cause trouble.
Further, the AWM stands for Advanced Wave Memory, not Acoustic Wave Modulation...
Neutron Star you beat me to it. Only the sy77/99 can truly combine samples with FM. Ive been hoping to see wether tom has the sy99 in his arsenal.. my favourite synth! I own 2 of them :)
I have both
You are 100% right Neutron!
THX for that vid m8.Puting sounds on my dream synths.
Sweet thanks Tom I've been really hoping you would make this vid!!
My first Synth was a Yamaha SY55. It has the same choir sounds i could hear in your example!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I love you for your love for these machines ;-)
Amazing synths!!!! Great stuff JXl!!!!!
increíble lugar!! no pude dejar de ver el video entero.
lovely to see the PPG wave & waveterm - always wanted one as a lad. Now have an XTk so not too bad I guess......
that dx1 is fantastic-i found one on holiday in Songbird Toronto in 2000 for $750 but i didnt have the money to buy/ship back to the uk at the time:( .couple of years later i picked a dx5 up which is pretty close and a great synth
I love these videos! Thank you so much for doing these.
Good thing a guy that apreciates those machines has them. Those things are not cheap in any way to keep running .
PLEASE tell me that full backups are being made of the carts and Kaypro disks from Wendy Carlos? :o
I'm guessing that the carts might use battery-backed SRAM too, so they will have a finite life.
Love watching this stuff. :p
A while ago, I was working on creating an FPGA clone of some classics synths like the Fairlight CMI, and JV-1080.
I'm currently working on the Roland synths that use the LA32 chip, like the MT32, D-10/D-20, and D-50 etc.
Hopefully similar work will start to happen for other digital / FM synths soon, as time is running out for a lot of the older gear, and it's super-important to try to preserve them.
Teisco was bought by Kawai. I remember seeing a Kawai SX-210 as a kid, playing with it and being mesmerized by its alphanumeric display, where we could actually name (with letters) the patches :D
5 seconds in and I'm already learning/drooling lol I really want that first guy. So cool.
Oh man..thank you fir sharing that..It's so cool!!
the ppg wave sounds unreal!!!! soooo psychedelic
Love the sound of that EX5R!
its an amazing wave table synth !! - so dam a moster !!!
A correction. The PPG Wave was not made nor sold by Waldorf. It was made by PPG (Wolfgang Palm's company). However Waldorf is currently working with Wolfgang Palm to produce the software version you mentioned.
EDIT: I've gotten some replies to this by confused people, so here's a little bit more. Waldorf Music was founded by Wolfgang Düren, who was originally PPG's distributor in Germany. My understanding is that after PPG closed (and with it the PPG Wave), Palm did a little consulting for Düren's startup at the very beginning of Waldorf's history, and as a result the PPG's wavetable approach and early wavetables have found their way into Waldorf's products, the Waldorf Wave (not to be confused with the PPG Wave) and the Microwave series, not to mention the Blofeld.
That DX-1 let me soundwise think on my Yamaha PSS-480, what is normal. They both use FM-synthesis. The PSS-480 was my first synth and incredible sounds that you can make with changing all those parameters!
Thanks for sharing this Tom ✨✨✨✨👌Impeccable
Tom!! Thank you, ,Thank you, , , for your Yamaha synth review!!! I thoroughly enjoyed this vid!!!!!!
Benefits of having real instrument comes from extended brain stimulation because you must program individually any gear to squeeze sounds that you wanna.
Process involves more senses compared to vst.
But staying in EM field when you turn on most of them could give some pretty polution hiting the body i suppose.
This screams for a part2, please! I am sure there are enough synths to be covered.
Wow. The tone, even on TH-cam, sounds amazing.
I used 8" floppies in the computer at school a Z80 Research Machines computer, I made a leather wallet in my Textiles class to hold my floppies, I love that mechanical sound they make!
One small correction- the DX7 predates the DX1.
I have the TG77 EX5R A4000 and M1000 in my rack as well :D Love them to bits, except the A4000, I don't use that at the moment.
Fantastic episode, but you can't hide from the Eurorack wall forever, Tom!
I see Koma electronic SVF in your eurorack very nasty filter :) I love it
+1 for Distance between Dreams. Loved the soundtrack.
This Is Nuts :) I was born in 1982 !!!! Amazing dude ! now I kinda understand the ppg, always loved the look, didn't understand it or its sounds, now I see,,, create your own Waveform's or w.e "woo" and the WaveTerm,, its real Matrix stuff hha ha ! thanks man Kool Vid !
Thanks for this. Love it! What reverb unit are all the sounds getting run through?
Now i know why Distance between dreams sounds so great, that ppg wave is fantastic.
what an amazing masterclass again . Thanks Tom :D
You really like the Cm, Gm, and Eb chords, huh?
Oh, and the wave ppg is one of my favorite synths of all time! I'm lucky enough to have a microwave xtk! Those old Waldorf wavetable synths are awesome
I own the blue beast (EX-5) and it's definitely something else that is amazing.
Back in the early days of the Commodore Amiga, I wrote a similar wave editor/player called WaveMaker. Mine was realtime, and illustrates the crazy rate at which technology advanced in those days. WaveMaker only supported 8 harmonics, not 32 as in the PPG.
Cool story man. Did you make any songs with it
Wasn’t something like included in one of those modtrackers?
I believe it was OctaMED or something similar...
Is that a pair of Yamaha A4000s in the rack? Damn fantastic sampler that. Had some brilliantly bizarre filters.
Wow! 😮 I've never seen a DX-1 before!
BTW, my Waveterm-A has the 5.25" floppies - not the 8" that Thomas has.
For an in ambient context use of the VL-1, Kit Watkins put it to good use on much of his music the last 2 decades. I believe he was involved in the development of the breath controller in the 80's, if I'm not mistaken.
th-cam.com/video/DRL52lbH3Cs/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for doing this Tom! But seriously, how much is your electricity bill?!
:)
Wonder how many solar panels it takes to take care of that room? and there's going to be some redundant or backup power option involved, perhaps a diesel generator.
No need for electricity. His music generates all the power they need, the same kind of power it creates in our heart.
That EX 5 thing totally blew me away
Late to the party but AWM stands for Advanced Wave Memory, basically Yamaha's first rompler technology, used in a lot of Yamaha products before being replaced by AWM2 that's still in use.
Synergy ist just great! I love to use Energy of UVI. Its not the same but...
DX1 sounds phenomenal
I use all the PPG iOS synths they are my favorites! Wolfgang is the iOS master designer too! Peace Christo
I wouldn't mind a FM tutorial. I know the basics, but programming sounds often feels like rolling a dice.
FM synthesis on a DX (and FM8) is not that hard as long as you visualize in your head that the relation between the carrier and its modulator(s) is very much the same as between an oscillator waveform and LFO modulating its pitch on an analog synth (or oscillator 2 modulating oscillator 1 which is even truer to DX's FM). The wave from one is
affecting the wave of the other. It's just that DX/FM8 has more to program than a typical dual osc analog synth but it's more of the same. And treat FM algorithms as analog modular connections with wires.
A very good place to start is start with just two operators in FM8 or if you have an analog synth/virtual analog VST/etc with good modulation capabilities - route the second operator/oscillator (let's call it modulator) to modulate the first operator / frequency of the first oscillator (it's our carrier), but make sure modulator is not outputting a sound directly. Play a note - increase or decrease modulator's frequency and note how the sound of the carrier changes - and then note that modulator just adds more high pitched / low pitched harmonics (depending on its frequency). Then tweak how much modulator is affecting the carrier for more/less effect. It's way easier from there once you understand this basic relation.
I had a DX7 back in the mid-80’s and I was always struggling to figure out how to program a sound I wanted. Most of what I programmed and saved were accidents that were not what I started out looking for.
I kind off like the happy little accidents xD FM kind off makes sense but sometimes weird things happen when random things start to resonate and everything goes to hell.
I booted my IBM Series 100 Mainframe with an 8" Floppy. Cool !
yaMAha. W Carlos used Moog modular on "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) since the Synergy was not released until 1982.
I want to cry when I see all this equipment, and souds
Hey Tom, dyou have a video going through all your Rack Mounted synths? if not would you consider doing one? plz :)
Awesome stuff as usual! Massive fan - Fury Road blew me away. Congrats! Can you tell us about the reverb used on everything in this vid?
I got a TG77 on ebay once, bid on it and won it for.. I shit you not, £77 dead on! (I've also had 2 SY77s). Very deep synths, under-rated, some great atmospheres in there.
Wendy Carlos made the sounds on the Synergy on it's predecessor the Crumar DGK. Which has hands on control, and is not really a FM synthesizer as it's a Additive synthesizer. Check out Bell Labs, for more information.
will do!!
damn i was all the time waiting to hear your EII patches
Beautiful!
i had the PPG 2.3. , but sell it 4 years ago- good damn!!
If you wanna know more about Teisco / Kawai, Alex Ball has made a nice video about them here, with a pretty hefty demo-song at the end (I know, since I mixed/mastered it) : th-cam.com/video/f4LQU73Ilxo/w-d-xo.html // Jakob, Sonic Peak Studio