without opening the unhealing wound that is the hardware vs software debate I think we all can agree that there are at least physical and cosmetic differences between each piece of tech used that may contribute to influencing how the music making set up is interacted with by the user, and that in tu...

I'm reviving an old thread I know, but I've been enjoying a lot of early Chicago house again recently. It kind of depends which artists sounds you're being inspired by. Is is a more Mr Fingers / Virgo Four "deep" sound or the more acid side of things? Virgo Four speak in interviews of using the Rola...

Tristram Cary, of course, Excellent choice!

Many thanks for everyones recommendations. It seems like it was a really interesting time for electronic music.

Ruth White - Flowers of Evil (1969)


Anyone know anything about this one?

Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the Second Moon: The Sonic Vibrations of Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan


According to discogs the material was recorded in the late 50s but was released on this compilation featuring their work in 1968.

I'm planning on making a mix of electronic music from that year for a friends birthday, he was born in 1968. It seems an interesting year for the history of electronic music and synthesizers. As far as I can tell Buchla, Moog and EMS were all producing synths around that year (what other companies w...

wow, thats great!
Many thanks muhammed!

I'm trying to prepare a mix using music made on synthesisers from 1968 and was wondering if anyone here could recommend any records from that year that is all synthesizer, features a synth heavily or is electronic / electro-acoustic / music concrete. Any recommendations would be great. Thanks! So fa...

Hi,
I found a site that had them but the links were dead, if you could share them that would be really great. Thank you!

*bump*

the "Roland - The Synthesizer" Books would be great too if anyone is happy to share them.
I heard that they are geared towards the 700/100 systems

Hi,
I'm trying to find a digital or physical copy of the Roland System 100m owners manual.
It isn't in the Roland manual ftp site.
Does anyone have a copy they would be happy to share?
Many thanks

mine has a few broken sliders too, with their tops snapped off, but they can be worked ok with a little extra effort. It's the second synth I ever got, after an MC-202, and although its not got that much range I really like the sound. Especially alongside the six-trak. Which Duran Duran tracks did i...

thanks for your posts. Im looking forward to trying out the drumtraks, from the online videos I have seen it looks like the drumtraks is much quicker and intuitive to get patterns with lots of varying pitch and volume data in due to the 2 knobs on the front panel. Also, the drumtraks has swing that ...

many thanks for the advice. I will have a go at it myself, carefully and will try to post some pictures. If I mess up i will save up for a replacement to be made. The work of custom synths looks great, though it may be a little over the top to spend too much restoring a Crumar Performer I paid £3 fo...

thanks. I will be very careful.

How do you find the Performer compares to the RS-09?