Name: The Spirit Of '84 - Chroma Polaris by LeSynth in Hardware Synths Demos
Duration: 2 min 14 s
Description: From 1984, a rare bird, the Chroma Polaris! This instrument sits right on the cusp of the digital era, a hybrid with some fun quirks. I wanted to show off its majestic side, while allowing its dread-like hair to shine. A light, bouncy track for a glittering summer afternoon.

You know your sheet mate. Solid stuff. Plus chroma sounds awesome

NIce, great sound. Bouncy n juicy. I want one myself real bad.

I just got my polaris repaired. Now it came back to life. Thanks for the track, I'm currently digging for polaris songs to make for inspiration.

Hi Ned - I have a Chroma Polaris as well - its the first synth I ever owned.  Great track - sounds amazing.

Hardware Synths Demos

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

A quick and simple little jam on my Buchla Music Easel and Moog Matriarch. Video version can be seen here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRLkQsSfbmg

Buchla Music Easel + Moog Matriarch

From 1984, a rare bird, the Chroma Polaris! This instrument sits right on the cusp of the digital era, a hybrid with some fun quirks. I wanted to show off its majestic side, while allowing its dread-like hair to shine. A light, bouncy track for a glittering summer afternoon.

The Spirit Of '84 - Chroma Polaris

Voice Of The People

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

Second official demo from our second Legion release - featuring a true deep-sampled ensemble of 66 Tubas produced by Troels Folmann.

8Dio 66 Tubas "The Longest Night" by Colin E Fisher

Official demo from our second Legion release - featuring a true deep-sampled ensemble of 66 Tubas produced by Troels Folmann.

8Dio 66 Tubas "A Little Bit of A Lot Of Tubas" by Troels Folmann

EMS synthi improv live acoustic recording 21/3/2013.

EMS# improv 4 april 2011 Middernacht

Romanticissimo

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

My new Korg ARP 2600FS synthesizer. Delay effect from the Make Noise Mimeophon. Video version can be seen here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvwySjMi-1s&feature=emb_title

Korg ARP 2600FS // A Simple Sequence

Stream / Pre-order: https://lnk.to/firstwave

"First Wave" by Roland Tings, from his EP of the same name, out August 14, 2020 on Cascine. 

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First Wave

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Roland Tings - First Wave

buy there : https://rolandtings.bandcamp.com/album/first-wave

Since 2012, Melbourne’s Rohan Newman has recorded as Roland Tings, bringing his now trademark organic touch to the dance and electronic community. Following last year's sun-soaked album Salt Water, the producer returns with a new EP, First Wave. Rather than following suit of the highly collaborative album that preceded it, First Wave signals a return to Newman’s instinctive and solitary approach to songwriting, the same ethos that guided him while crafting his earliest Roland Tings material.

Drawing inspiration from his coastal surroundings, First Wave is liquid, malleable and oil-slick. Opener “Lights on the Headland” pulses with acid chirps and inky synths. “Down The Line” and “Orange Circle” take a softer focus, their melodies peeking out from a humid haze like sunbursts through the marine layer. The title track captures the essence of the EP — a feeling of euphoric come-up — before the closing track “Leaving” brings the pace down, gently undulating at a slower tempo as if underwater.

The sonic throughlines on First Wave are clear: drum machines and 80s snare, swirling pads with rolls of bass, and glittering arpeggios that channel shimmering sea creatures under the water’s surface. Like liquid, it all seamlessly flows, but it’s an undercurrent of intuition and melody that unites the music as distinctly Roland Tings.

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PREMIERE : Roland Tings - Leaving

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

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Fathoms

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.

The Spirit Of '84 - Chroma Polaris

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