Seems to me that this synth was used in every single educational film / video about space and science

@ipezmusic

Ай бұрын

Vangelis, Pink Floyd, Jarre... 😁

@kurtnowak8895

28 күн бұрын

And TRON

@sursomsatan1225

16 күн бұрын

And some obscure pron

At some point, you realize that there are too many things you're never going to get in your lifetime, and all you can do is nod and say, "Yeah, that's nice."

I know it's fine, but seeing a vintage synth rocking around on its stand so much as it was being played had me nervous here and there, haha! What a fun instrument. Second touch is very cool and, to my very limited knowledge, seems quite revolutionary for its time. In a different world this took off, and there was a moderately busy and now legendary trade in preset cards that have become essential collectible items to remake legendary vintage sounds. Thanks for the fun demo! I'm looking for more fun times at Willem Twee Studios!

@guyh3403

Ай бұрын

ikr! I even puckered a bit here and there.

@craigbrown7929

Ай бұрын

Theater organs had second touch in the 20’s. There was group of stops that had an additional set of contacts under the keys that were closed when you pressed down harder.

@MikeSmith-tx2lp

Ай бұрын

The wobbly stand is a Sam trademark 😂

@EclipseAtDusk

Ай бұрын

@@MikeSmith-tx2lpyeah I was gonna say, pretty sure I saw basically this exact comment thread on the video about the CS-80

@zintedronr1800

13 күн бұрын

ooo a bit too clinky keys. I would probably take a minimoog over this instrument.

I can't believe nobody's commented on those awesome "flippy dot" switches yet...

That is such a cool synth! The preset cards are sick!

@andyturner3056

23 күн бұрын

For the time it's fantastic

This Synth reminded me of the sound effects and certain music scores from a Programme called "The Six Million Dollar Man" that was on television back in the 70s.

@jonathansteadman7935

24 күн бұрын

Gentlemen......we can rebuild him. We all had the figure with telescopic eye, roll up 'skin' on one arm and the press button in his back to make his arm lift an engine. Also the rocket that doubled as a hospital repair set up with wires going to his arm or something. Seem to remember an adversary who was more robot with a human face mask. Ahh , such innocent times, but we'd be out all day on our Choppers playing war in the woods, I lived in Aldershot at that time so we used to find used bullets at the firing range. Wouldn't be allowed now. Anyway, got a bit carried away there with reminiscing.

11:35 Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...

My first synth was an EML 101. Nice op amp circuitry. Sort of a cross between an ARP 2600 and a MiniMoog. 4 oscillator duophonic. I miss it!

OMG this was great! Sounded like you were having so much fun! That's the whole point! I also love the ability to fade between waveforms, and I've also never heard of being able to fade between filter types; that's super cool! And as an organ player, I can't help but like the "chord building" switches.

Am so jealous Sam what an amazing machine! Big fan of knobs that allow you to mix the waveforms on synths. It all sounds very arcade love it.

I feel like that synth, with all the VCO buttons, would be an amazing tool for teaching music theory intervals. Those have always got the best of me.

What a lovely instrument. Love how compact it is, and how inviting.

The voice switches work a bit like the various octaves in an organ mixture and it's pretty cool! It's a unique synth for sure

this was way more versatile than i expected . rad!!

This baby would be incredible with various kinds of drive/fuzz/distortion on it's output...

There is something about a square wave that gives me the warm n fuzzies. Great synth!!

Rarer than squirrel eggs and sounds like a Casio VL-Tone: I want it. What a studio 😨

This thing is pretty innovative! Presets and 1 finger chords, impressive...

You deserve the life you have, Sam. I trust that it is good. I'm glad that scratch on your hand is healing!

Brings me back... I owned one of these back in the late 80s. Thanks for this.

That wobbly keyboard stand gives me anxiety... like in your CS80 Video...

@franny231123DMT

Ай бұрын

hahaha yep

@cleekersneaker

Ай бұрын

I always want to tell Sam to be more careful, like an over protective Dad

Some of those sounds you made remind me of Dr. Who. I found 1 for sale for about the price of a brand NEW used car. I would be interested in how you make those punch cards. The seller says: "One of EML's final products. Super rare bird, almost impossible to find in the wild. The Synkey was one of the very first synthesizers to offer patch memory over it's unique plastic punch-card system." --> Fun!

In a metal & wooden casing everything sounds 50% better 😅 Run it through a chorus/phaser + reverb and this synth sounds awesome 🤠

12:30 1976 * makes deep sounds * Oh we aren't ready for that yet, but our grand kids are gonna love it.

I also hear shades of the intro to 'Fly like an Eagle' by Steve Miller ❤ Nice one Sam 👍

Looks better than it sounds on the whole but cool all the same. I remember it was on Herbie Hancock's Sunlight LP. Love the idea of the extra keyboard mod...

Those tones around 7.44 reminded me of a really old Sesame Street video, with an orange on top of a kitchen bench, singing carmen. I swear to god if anyone goes and looks this video up - I think it's called "Operatic Orange", and listen to the synth being used, it sounds exactly like this !!!

this thing sounds like every 80's arcade/pinball game sounds were made on

Only dream synths. What a beauty!

THAT SYNTH IS A 'SPACE MACHINE' ! ! !

First time I learned about this synth, was in Mark Vail's Vintage Synthesizers Book. First time hearing it.

You definitely have to go to the “SMEM” in Friborg or to the "Synthorama Museum for Synthesizers" in Luterbach (both in Switzerland)!! THIS IS PARADISE ON EARTH!!

Ok, GREAT to see this. In 1976, I visited my local music shop (one of MANY in the area back in those days). Noticed the EML synkey and gave it a go. I was not very impressed, and it was EXPENSIVE ! I noticed it was ON TOP of a brand new LESLIE 330 PRO LINE speaker !! It was on sale for $550 ! Since I was an organist, I took that Leslie home. First new synth purchase that SAME YEAR for me was a MAXI-KORG since I could not afford a new Mini Moog at the time. Since I am 71, I have been doing this for a long time.....🙂

Sounds like video games from the 80s... 😁 This thing is awesome!

im just here for the history lessions. thank you, sir

Great sounding machine! What are the ratios for the 13 divide buttons?

Was making me think of Dark Side of the moon, Dr Who , Blakes 7 !

Some nice synths, would love 30 mins with them. (prefer all day but would be happy with 30 mins) 👍👍

It's amazing how much you can coax out of only a few knobs.

the FBT Davolisinth (another obscure synth, this time Italian) also has 'additive' square wave harmonics obtained via a set of frequency dividers. It as a three-octave keyboard where the bottom one acts as momentary switches for the various harmonics. It doesn't have a filter or VCA, or most anything else, but it's pure, simple, ingenious, raw power. Used by Caravan in "The dog, the dog he's at it again".

When I was a kid - between 5 and 10 years old, I think? - my dad had an account with a gas (petrol) station that billed for your purchases at the end of each month, and the membership card that identified you to the gas pump's computer looked just like those preset cards. (I imagine it was much easier to get the hardware - either electromechanical contacts or optical scanning - to read such a card back then than to write and read the magnetic stripes that credit cards used, and having a layout like the one printed on that black card also meant it was human readable to some extent.)

Sounds like the sound technology from early video games. Fun stuff.

Endless hours of noodling ahead, sounds cool

11:35 welcome back my friends

@darryldouglas6004

22 күн бұрын

To the show that never ends. 😃

this thing definitely belongs in the top 10 weirdest synthesizers of all time! very odd design, to say the least! but it’s so cool.

with some of your fiddling you gave me flashbacks to 80ties songs.

8:40 Whoa, that's quite intense there. Sounds like Daleks attacking in the original Doctor Who series or something at least as weird as that.

Some of the sounds like early Stranglers! That keyboard is a fantastic plaything that would keep you absorbed forever!

@Hwral

26 күн бұрын

I suppose you mean it sounds a bit like Dave Greenfield’s Minimoog, like on Nice ‘n Sleazy.

Oooh you are in my country I see .

7:20 - I think a better idea would be pedals like on a pedal steel guitar, I've been learning about those pricey bastards. Being that you play a pedal steel with a slide you are very limited on chords because you can only bar the slide across the strings, so the pedals adjust the string tunings to reshape chords with a touch and release. Each pedal bends one or multiple notes to create different chord shapes. I imagine the Synkey would need a hybrid system because you're not starting with bar chords on a monosynth. Now that I think of it, I have a digitech whammy and that has a similar chord shaping feature to it. It does have to be dialed in though, still pretty hard to work with on the fly.

i could imagine having a main adjustable unit then smaller ones that just take the cards stacking them together for the different effects.

I'm sure I've heard this synth on Dr Who 😁

Vintage??? 1976!! I was already working full time in 1976 😂🇬🇧

The sound is very Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981 version)...

where can i sell old synths? ive inherited 2 that id like to sell, a roland d70 super la synth, and the cooler of the two a fender chroma polaris like the one you can see near the start. im not a musician and i just have no idea where to even start.

It looks in good shape, but it seems the card reader is in need of some tender loving care.

Rick Wakeman used one on No Earthly Connection

Is that the stand from the CS-80 video? 😂

This one over here goes to 11. Lovely.

like it!!!

Is there a eurorack oscillator with these chords options ?

That electric keyboard 🎹 is probably from the year i was born 1976. I would like to have it in my collection as it's 48 years old.

I got to play one of those in 1977

9:43 pULL UP my selecta!!!! easy now

Volume warning XD

Ooh, much wub wub!

I had a synkey for a while many years ago. It was cool if you set it up to do 1 key minor 7th chords and you can do a housey kinda sound with it. Interesting but I decided not interesting enough to keep.

What is controlling eg1 trig in i mean korg ms-20

I'm confused, host (I forgot your name, sorry). In your title here, where is says "strangest synth's of the 1970s," which missing possessions of both the synth and of 1970 were you trying to refer to? I mean... which thing belongs to the synth? Which thing belongs to 1970?

Funny, the more you play that "thing", the more I HATE monophonic synths! I have 2 MiniMoogs Model D, which I bought just to have some kind of polyphony going on. Then, I bought my Roland JP8000 and fell in love immediately with it. Not as FAT as the Moogs, but it still gives me what I need AND more importantly, what I want. Plus, it actually stays in tune!!! Indeed, those 70's machines were interesting, but from I can see, too, hard to find road cases for them, especially this one.

epic

At 15:41, sounded a bit like 808 State. Cool synth.

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Hi you are good in schmetatics so i have one question

I wonder if Robert Wyatt - Pigs (In There) featured this synth??

I wonder if it is possible to make different polysynth using divider chips, basically the keys would be the voice buttons, all notes are derived from one base oscillator. You would need several chips for full keyboard though.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

You are describing an porta organ :)

@massimookissed1023

Ай бұрын

¹²√2 is not the friendliest number to be dividing things by. (1.0594630943593)

@infn8loopmusic

Ай бұрын

Isn't this sort of how paraphonic analog oscillators work?

@Klutech

Ай бұрын

Organs like the Solina string ensemble use a single ultrasonic master clock or oscillator that all the other frequencies/notes are derived from. Since the notes are all locked perfectly in phase by referencing it, the sound is a bit thinner though. The top octave divide down scheme is probably the better technique.

Check out those matrix switches. I got two brand new Cherry units to sell.

Did Pink Floyd use one of those on Dark Side of the Moon?

Was wondering if the other guy was Dutch, and then he said "Thirteen voices on one key DUS you can.." at 1:45, and then I knew :) Willem Twee Studio's also gave it away, but who reads the description first?

Definitely the synt that Kraftwerk used for Autobahn end some of there other releases.

This is the synth that you said "would be sat in your granddads smoking room".

9:25;Sound Exactly Like Steve Miller Band Used That

kraftwerk would be proud

I suppose that if you switch off the tone "1" to switch on an other tone you are actually transposing. That might help when you don't feel confortable playing your solo along the band who decided to play in an other key^^

Good old doctor who sound effects.😌

Quite the quirky thing! Great sounds although the user interface is a bit clunky.

KZread's algorithm gets a right old headache

What would it sound like with a decent set of speakers lighting up the room. Third decade into the 21st century, and the problem remains having a good song to play. 15:50 Is it me, or does adding noise to a tone seem almost anti-musical? Like we’re waiting for the noise to be cleared.

That looks like a Polysix that the camera is filming over

I can't get my head around the circuitry that makes it monophonic, but sort of not because you can you push buttons to add mirror notes.

@massimookissed1023

Ай бұрын

It's like having a dozen linked oscillators, all a semitone apart, and the switches select which ones you want to add in. Pretty cool way to get any chord you want.

@VanWinger

Ай бұрын

Analogue osc with digital frequency shift circuits, he said like 13 for the octave

Hey Behringer, are you listening? **driveling**

Sam, you forgot your phone!

Atari 2600? cool sound making machine.

Where is the emulator vst for this?

At ca. 12:50 it sounded like Boulder Dash Music.

15:41 is that Streets of Rage 2 intro?

Aphex loves Serge.

Minimoog arturia?!

El propietario debe estar así 👋😦🤚

A squamp wave