Hardware Synths Demos

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Arturia MatrixBrute

arturia matrixbrute

Electronic and Experimental

I feel so lucky to have an Alesis Andromeda A6 in my hands! This beautiful beast feels like an expensive sports car, and it sounds like it too! For this first demo, I decided to honour its name, and play around with BIG reverbs. All the sounds are from the A6, except the drums. 
Here's a trip to the closest galaxy.

2.5 Million Light Years - Alesis Andromeda demo by Ned Bouhalassa

Nadiya means 'hope' in Ukrainian. It is what I have to offer, musically, to those who are suffering. 
All the sounds, excepts the drums, are from the 106. I love its simplicity, and warmth, especially with the lovely chorus!

Nadiya - Roland Juno 106

'Stars Collide' was written for the time-lapse film Iceland Aurora. More information here: http://bit.ly/1owY6qn

Stars Collid

Petur Jonsson | Stars Collide

What a sweet, sweet, sweet instrument this Pro-2 is! I am really loving all the possibilities, the excellent layout, and the powerful sounds. There's lots of reverb here, I was just really in the mood for it! 

Modulations In Blue - DSI Pro 2 Demo

INACTION - Realization

I just can't get over how much fun this synth is. So glad it's back, sounding as good as ever. Here's a little dance-ish piece, all REPRO-1, all nouveau retro!

REPROgrammed - U-He Repro-1 Demo

quickly recorded on the matrixbrute, using internal delay, to check how close to a minimoog it could sound

Moog type sounds, made on Arturia Matrixbrute

8Dio Misfit Toy Series contains three unique sample libraries that each cover different aspects of toddlers, toys- and toy instruments. The first library contains toy instruments such as Plastic Saxophone, Kids Glockenspiel, Toy Clarinet and Guitar, Music Boxes and Accordion. The second library contains a deep-sampled baby (Andreas) and recordings of all his toys. The third library contains a deep selection of sampled Toy Synths and Toy Drums.

More information at www.8dio.com

Démos

8Dio Misfit Toys Series: "Zig Zag" by Clement Belio

“Espressivo - Aleatoric Orchestral Sampling” will be ready for you in the first part of March. Espressivo explores the aleatoric depths of the cinematic music realm and extends the Sonokinetic Orchestral instruments collection with a brand new library for Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol.
Instruments: Full Orchestral Strings, Full Orchestral Brass, Full Orchestral Woodwinds,  Full Orchestral Percussion, all split in High - Mid & Low subsections. Presented in an all new Sonokinetic Graphical User Interface with all features intuitively available to you,
Espressivo will be available for €249,90 (€199,- two week introduction price) and be included in the Sonokinetic Loyalty Program.

Composer  Ignacio Núñez created this beautiful track with our upcoming release. Enjoy

Espressivo Demo - Drakkars - Ignacio Núñez

A first short piece featuring my new baby, the Matrixbrute! What a fine, fine instrument this is. I just love that everything about it screams PLAY ME! This demo features no added FX except for compression/limiting on the master out. The synth's FX section is simply retro-gorgeous.

Taming The Beast - Arturia Matrixbrute Demo

First evening with the Arturia MatrixBrute. All sounds from the MatrixBrute. External fx and recorded thru an analog console , no post production. The MatrixBrute doesnt generate any noise, an old Emt does that due to lack of TLC :)

Enter The MatrixBrute

All sounds coming from the Arturia MatrixBrute Analog Synthesizer. Some fx plugins were added for mixdown.

Arturia MatrixBrute Ambient Demo

This is my first track using the powerful Quantum synthesizer. There's a lot to explore, so this is just an excuse for me to hear what I can do with it at this point. Really enjoying the fresh sounds coming out of this beast!

Quantum Dreams - Waldorf Quantum Demo by Ned Bouhalassa

This is not a song, this is an audio demo of the Moog Matriarch in unison mode. I know the playing sucks, that's not the point. :)

It starts with a single oscillator in triangle wave at max, 16'. I then add osc 2, sawtooth, max, 16', detuned -7. Then osc 3, sawtooth, max, 16', detune +5. Finally, osc 4, sawtooth, max, 8', no detune.

After the demo notes, I try to play something more interesting to demo both the bass and lead tones with all four oscillators going. I then turn on arpeggio and try that out a bit, to mixed success.

I hope this is useful for you!

TASCAM DR-40

Moog Matriarch Unison sound demo

When I started playing Don Solaris' patches for the 2.0 update of Waldorf's Quantum, I fell in love with this synthesizer all over again! Don has managed to add welcomed warmth to the Quantum, and I am more than glad to highlight his work with this little demo featuring only his programming work.

Vintage Quantum - Ned Bouhalassa

I've been looking at a bunch of videos of rainy nights in Tokyo, feeling inspired by the relative calm of otherwise busy streets. 
I have only had the Hydrasynth for a short time, but I've managed to squeeze it in as much of my schedule as possible. I've fallen quite hard for this marvellous instrument; it really is a rich, expressive, modern, digital ax for whatever the future has in store.

Tokyo Rain - Hydrasynth Demo by Ned Bouhalassa

This was a short live improvisation, featuring two venerable, vintage synthesizers. I'm fortunate to be able to express myself with these and other magical instruments! Here's to a better 2021...

Winter Blues 2020 - EMS AKS Synthi and JX-3P

LeSynth is a passionate electronic musician who has been composing music for film, TV, concerts, and radio for decades. He learned synthesis on an Aries modular system and sampling on an Akai S900. LeSynth's studio is home to many electronic instruments, and he is currently writing LoFi music.