Sequential Circuits T8 DEMO!!!!

[nadafarms]

Just made this to promote my sale of the T8, some frickin pretty a*s sounds if you ask me!

[JMP]

Good to hear, not many demos of this thing around. Any other outboard effects applied other than delay/reverb?

[nadafarms]

just a tiny bit of compression

all were done in one take, yay stereo and poly aftertouch!

yeah I was suprised there are few demos of these, i'm gonna make another eventually

[plikestechno]

There's very few demos because there are so few of them. Under 500 for sure.

And decent demos are few and far between. One just shows the preset sequnces another guy is playing Smalltown Boy. There is one I'm not sure if its on Youtube with the Jupe 6 and sliced in half T8.

I can play Funkytown and a fusiony Final Countdown on mine that's my skill level but no one wants to hear that. I love mine. As soon as I am off shift of being on watch for the boy I'm going to rock it out some more.

[JMP]

Been after one for a long time now, really want to put it against the P5 to compare sonically for myself and see if the 'inferior' T8 sound comments are actually true. Otherwise, 8 voices, MIDI and that keyboard would do it for me, a beautiful looking machine.

yeah I was suprised there are few demos of these, i'm gonna make another eventually

Yes do

[nadafarms]

well having owned three prophet 5s and a prophet 10 I can tell you I like the T8 a lot more personally and would actually consider keeping this one though I had no attachment at all to keeping the p5 and p10.

T8 is not quite as raw and rude as a P5 I will admit that, but as a polysynth the voices of the T8 sound better to me in a mix and the way they blend together is much more classy and smooth. Also the velocity is nice for adding serious dynamics and not always having full volume prophet oscillators blaring.

T8 sounds more refined than the p5, the filter is smoother and less harsh I like the filters a lot better myself. The oscillators aren't quite as fat I guess as the p5 but it makes up for it in so many other ways. It really feels like a modern synth even though its of course very vintage.

The stereo panning with the poly aftertouch makes it so much more expressive than a clunky p5 and it's hands down the best analog synth keyboard action I've ever touched. It is a really amazing feeling to sit down to a poly analog that plays so nicely, is like sitting down at a grand piano you know something made properly!

[Joey]

at like 2:20 you have a sound almost identical to Brian Eno's "sky saw"

[plikestechno]

Peter Forrest in "A-Z" says if pressed to only have one analog poly it would be the T8 specifically citing it over CS80, Jupiter 8, 4Voice, P5 etc. calling the T8 in unison mode "a velocity sensitive Moog Modular."

Dave Smith still uses it as a master keyboard, apparently. That's what some people don't get sometimes when bashing the T8. You get to play EVERYTHING with it. And it feels so good.

The feel, poly aftertouch and poly sequencer add so much and when you actually sit down and play it is when the magic happens.

I've been playing more around with programming than playing lately to be honest. I don't know how many of these get sold with the original manual but I have one and it has patch sheets with knob positions for all 128 presets in it which show how John Bowen explored specific T8 tricks to get some of the sound. It helped me a lot.