When my wife told me she was going to an estate sale that had synthesizers, drum machines and other gear, I had to tag along and see what I could get. I’m brand new to collecting synths and drum machines, even estate sales too. So, I just picked up what I could get my hands on in the heat of the moment and go pay.

I ended up leaving with a Korg DSS-1, Behringer Eurorack UB1202 and an Oberheim DX for $300. I took a gamble with not knowing what they were and most of all not knowing if they worked since they didn’t come with cables.

Luckily I had a power cable for the Oberheim DX. I plugged it in and got straight to playing with it all night with no issues. I didn’t know how lucky I was to get such an awesome drum machine that perfectly captures that 80s sound 😭

As for the Korg DSS-1, I’ve yet to find a power cable for it. It’s a mammoth of a synthesizer and I’m not sure about samples being on floppy disks since it only came with one still inserted.

With S1 in background for the synth chords

Hey there everyone,

Just wanted to share another reactive visualizer I made in Unreal Engine utilizing the Dirtywave M8 synthesizer/tracker. I took the stems from the M8 session and converted the audio into MIDI data with Ableton, then used a MIDI to OSC MaxForLive device which allowed me to control the arcade machines, background lights and Niagara effect that spawns emissive cubes in tandem with the square-wave arpeggio part.

You can find the free Unreal Engine blueprints and MaxForLive devices that I used on my GitHub page if you happen to be interested, that way you could build your own visualizers.

https://github.com/ZackBerw/Unreal-Engine-Interactive-3D-Visualizer

If anyone has questions or suggestions please feel free to let me know. 

Thanks!

Howdy! So let me start this post we saying that I’m a degenerate when it comes to synthesizers. I currently have an Arturia minifreak, and drumbrute which are sensational! I love the minifreak’s software in the computer which makes it easier to navigate my presets and sounds that I’ve made. (Here’s the part that makes me a degen) I control my minifreak with my omnichord through midi. It’s a great setup actually because having the keyboard in front of me with it gives me the ability to play chord inversions that would otherwise be impossible on the omnichord. The struggle is, that with only 6 voices available to me on the minifreak, I find myself battling with voice stealing quite often. Essentially I can use the organ on the omnichord but not the strumplate. Not the end of the world but I like to make neat sounds with the omnichord in an attempt to make it less of a quirky girl instrument. lol

I’m completely open to recommendations for poly synths with at least double the voices of the minifreak. I’m thinking $3000 max. Bonus points if it’s bitimbral.

I’ve looked at the prophet rev2, behringer deep mind 12, and that’s really it so far. Please share your favorite poly synths with me (:

How do I connect all three of my Korg together and have the sound play through heads phones. I have the cables for the sync in and out but what else do I need?

I have read I’ll need a mixer, but what’s cables will I need for it.

Picked this up at an estate sale for $125. Fully functional! Just needed a deep surface cleaning!

Just spend the better part of my day rearranging my gear (yup, the vid is the end result, everything powers up, midi and audio to be done) and ended up wasting an hour and a half with playing around with the RD-9's kick.

My main conclusions are that the Behringer pedals are rather noisy and that I'll probably always end up using samples layered on the top of the RD-9's kick.

But enough about me, what's your baddest kick? And how did you create it?

Anyone have any insight on the restock date of this thing? Sweetwater keeps pushing back their anticipated date, and I'm itching to get my hands on it.

Prophet 10 & OB-X8 chill jam with a bit of Strymon El Capistan Delay

Hi,  I'm a newbie in diy midi controller and I wanted to build an organ console with 3 keyboards, a pedalboard and many buttons. For the keyboards I bought 3 m-audio keystation to disassemble them and use there own electronic so it would be easier for me since I'm a newbie so it was just more convenient for me.  For the pedal board I bought one from an old organ that I "midified" using reed switches and a Teensy 4. I first wanted to go the easiest way to me and do 1note=1pin but it's rly not convenient. Also for the whole thing I would end up with 4 different midi device (3 m-audio and the Teensy) running into a USB hub into my computer and I started to think that it would be way easier if all the keyboard and buttons would act like a single midi keyboard but for example too keyboard is chanel 1 then 2 etc...

Is it possible to connect those m-audio keyboard on a Teensy and "reed" them ?  If so, how can I put so many different input into a single teensy ? I heard about matrix but I genuinely didn't understand how it works and I didn't find easy to understand tutorial yet.

I'm sorry that this post isn't rly about synthesizer but I thought that to got help for this kind of diy midi controller thing this subreddit would be perfect.

Ambient piece using Make Noise Easel and Moog Semi Modulars

A funky sequence with swing, slides, and gate automation. Selecting a black button shortens the sequence.

As I’m playing more with my synth, I’m realizing that MIDI looping and audio looping each have their own unique benefits and I want to be able to do both.

Any hardware that allows me to choose between audio and MIDI looping and can layer a few loops on top of each other at a time?

Sorry if this is a noob question… I am a noob here!

I saw a video on the internet that shows that the new update from serum allows to design a custom filter AND to set 4 of them and morph them. So instead to have for instance a low pass 12db, i can just design 4 custom filters and have unique sounds.

I want to ask if there are soft synth that already can achieve that.

Greetings!

I have 1010music blackbox sampler. I also dj with vinyl. I would like to play some tracks that I've made on the blackbox in my dj sets, this requires fine tuned pitch adjustments. The easy answer is to get a cdj to play finished tracks. What I would to prefer is something akin to an inline pitch controller. Something that might buffer an incoming signal and speed it up, slow it down, much the same way a dj turntable can. Is there anything like that out there? Thanks in advance.

I realize this might be self-defeating, but is there a software based groovebox for windows similar to circuit tracks, something simple and immediate as opposed to the full DAW experience.

Hello, I want to connect an audio cable from the Korg Minilogue XD to my Push 3. The various video instructions are confusing me. My Korg XD output is R + L/mono Push 3 in 1 + 2. Do I need to connect two separate cables? If there are two separate cables, are they different? What should I look out for? Or a Y cable with the two connectors on the Korg and the other one on the Push? It would be great if someone could send me a link where I can see exactly what the cables look like. Thanks for your help.

I have analysis paralysis. There are too many mixers to choose from and need a recommendation. The biggest limitation is my desk size.

Must-Have Features:
At least 8 mono inputs​
At least 4 stereo pairs​
Mostly top-panel connections to keep the total footprint depth between 10-14"​
Outputs compatible with Scarlett 2i2​
USB and effects would be nice.