A spot of "refamiliarisation" with oldschool hardware, and what better to do it with than a cover of an oldschool dance track?  Hope you N-Joi it :-)

Anthem

Feeding output data from quartz crystal tests to audio synthesizers for fun and profit

Rochelle Salts Under Compression

Two synths running the same sequence, fed to the highpass and lowpass inputs of a Steiner Synthacon filter clone as the cutoff is swept up and down.  It works like a kind of frequency-dependent crossfader.

Hilow

A very rough outline of a minimal techno track, done entirely on a Korg Electribe ER-1 with only its on-board delay.  I was just muting and unmuting parts on the fly as I let the recorder run.

Local Minima

Experimental track put together in about 20 minutes for the discussion here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/7kua7i/20_minute_ambient_effectsasinstruments/

Uses a repeating chord stab from the MS2000R, processed through a modified Digitech PDS1002 delay pedal with its delay time modulated by a bench signal generator, then through the delay and chorusing on a Korg EA-1, then buckets of reverb off the mixing desk.

Reddit 20-minute Ambient Project

Following on from the earlier post on Reddit's 20 Minute Ambient post, here's a kind of Berlin school-inspired one.

Part 2 of the 20 minute ambient thing

Pint of IPA and a Packet of Cheese and Onion Please

A cover of Empirion - "Narcotic Influence" using only a Korg Electribe ER-1, EA-1 and ES-1.

Narcotic Influence (Empirion Cover)

I did this about ten years ago with flinger (a script around the speech synthesizer festival) and a couple of softsynths I wrote.  Writing an XML file with each syllable of the lyrics meant it took the better part of a day just for what you hear in this clip, and I didn't do much more on it.

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