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100% Teisco SX-400 ("Italo Teisco")

Post by Sexor » Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:19 pm

The Teisco SX-400 is a quite rare little beast that lies somewhere between a Mono/Poly and a Jupiter4. I'm not aware of anyone else on this forum having one, and to my knowledge there are only 2 or 3 in the whole of the Netherlands.

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So, to demonstrate what a wonderful thing it really is I decided to make a song only with the Teisco. So, leads, pads, bass, effects - it's all made by the Teisco SX-400. I don't use a lot of processing except a little reverb and some compression. That beautiful ensemble effect is just the "ensemble" button of the synth.

You can really feel how raw and analog the Teisco is when you play it. The four VCO's are "nicely unstable" and as you can hear from the main lead line, the VCO tracking is quite shaky :shock:

As for drums, it's simply a Drumstation, a little bit of Drumatic VST and a tambourine.

The song is very much inspired by 80's italo disco and I find that the synth really excels at that genre - it is from 1980 after all, which means of course, no MIDI. Everything is played in manually.

http://addi.hugsandimenn.is/SvenBit_-_Italo_Teisco.mp3

So, without further ado, enjoy the sounds of the Teisco SX-400
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Post by Sexor » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:49 pm

Featured on matrixsynth :D
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Post by optimus prime » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:54 pm

Totally great. Nothing to be added or subtracted. :)

And very precise fingerwork, I never would have guessed there was no sequening involved.
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Post by justinvm » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:22 am

Great track man!
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Post by dracena » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:37 am

good sounding synth, nice programming and a cool track...
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Post by D-Collector » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:43 pm

The Teisco sounds even cooler than it looks :wink:
Awesome track!
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Post by Composition86 » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:55 pm

I like very much all the sounds coming out from that synth, it sounds really good, very nice. I think it sounds as it looks, mad. :lol:

But I think that this track is nice because of the good programming, italo disco is not my favourite musical genre.
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Post by Belaya » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:45 am

very nice, I liek! :)
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