It was the first synth my dad bought around 1980 or so. It is still here and working after 39 years.

One of the best demos ever. I bought the Siel because of this video. It’s laying on top of my mark1 Rhodes. Amazing combo.

@AnalogAudio1

2 жыл бұрын

Good choice!

@sixsixsix5740

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnalogAudio1 thank you. I bought the kawai k4 because of you too! Quite some fun with that little machine. Thank you for that too.

@andreaspaparousos3643

Жыл бұрын

i want to do exactly the same!!

those 70's synths sound like nothing else, so warm! Reminds me a bit of the Syntorchestra

That synth sounds very unique! So awesome!

Man the sounds of a synthesizer brings thoughts of fascination on the highest levels.

@antonisatwork

4 жыл бұрын

Of a *good* characterful synthesizer

@AnalogAudio1

4 жыл бұрын

one of the reasons why I love synths :-)

@SMAudio1990

Жыл бұрын

Same here 👏

what a sound!!! smooth/warm and look so fun to play.

Wow. This thing is really really wonderful sounding. Both the string and solo sections are just... Really spot on. I never knew I needed a string Synth until now.

One of the best synth demos ever. Congratulations. And also, the only synth I will ever need. Wow. This is cool.

@AnalogAudio1

8 жыл бұрын

+djhalleu thanks :-)

This synth sounds stunning 😍😍. A well executed demo .

One of the best channels of this kind! Great demos.

@AnalogAudio1

5 жыл бұрын

thank you :-)

the design is fabulous..Once again never heard of this stringer either.. this channel is turning out to be quite a revelation!

@AnalogAudio1

7 жыл бұрын

thank you :-) the design was obviously inspired by the ARP Odyssey MK 2

Fantastic synthesizer! Very good!!!

This thing is AWESOME!! Sweet demo! Thanks! I want one!!,

Beautiful!

Really digging all the Italian stuff you demo, it all sounds very special.

@AnalogAudio1

7 жыл бұрын

that's true, they made a lot of instruments I love

Gorgeous sounds!

Some amazing sounds on this thing.

very cool demo!

love the sound, synths are all about the sound, that's why old synths are the best

@Todd63790

5 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Figueras old synths have so much character agreed everything today sounds the same eg synths and artsists

@antonisatwork

4 жыл бұрын

Many people are just consumers and want the latest thing based on what they read on paper, but the proof is in the pudding (sound). Again though, the artist has to be capable of making worth of his tools because many people cannot play well or beautifully enough to justify them owning instruments that should rightly be in the hands of the ones who can.

Just picked up one of these based off this video. Was lucky to find it for sale! thanks for being so inspiring.

@AnalogAudio1

4 жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

Excellent demo!

@AnalogAudio1

9 жыл бұрын

M1ghty0m3ga thanks! :-)

Great sound!!!

Wow, what a strange and unique little combo synth.

We had one of these in the late 90s, we used the monophonic part of it a lot... You grab the filter and it goes funky :)

The "track" you started playing in 1:16 was absolutley beautiful! I was imagining myself in space, seeing all the miracles of the universe etc. Great demo!

Fantastic Machine ! You play very good ! Love this track !

@markussteinbacher8807

3 жыл бұрын

After watching this I buyed exactly this kind of synth- because of You !

sounds awesome

What a beautiful machine!

Nice sound!

WOOOOOO! Magic!

Great Sounds.

Beautiful

The strings sound great. A very pleasant grinding sound

What a beauty! I must have one haha

Nice demo

Wauw, this sounds fantastic!

I really love this limited, simple synth/stringmachine. I ever abuse of mine, definitely it has something magic, really. And I have tons of hardware (also vintage) and VST's in my studio.

Really great tool 📼🎛

make an album dude

@BertGrink

5 жыл бұрын

I'll second that motion.

@antonisatwork

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly... All these KZread "demo" videos, might as well release the recordings as actual artistic endeavours, they might as well be fully fledged compositions with intrinsic worth not just because of which instrument is being played. Release it.

@allehooop

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, please

Beautiful! Sounds a lot like a Korg Trident.

What a impressive synth...

Tolles Maschinchen.Besonders herrlich bei 1:45 Die Strings zusammen mit den Leads und dem Portamento das mich ein bisschen an das Farfisa Synthorchestra erinnert.Thumbs up for this Demo.

@AnalogAudio1

9 жыл бұрын

+MrSkywalker1000 danke dir

love it

Cooles Scifi Feeling kommt da sofort auf. Genial!

I feel like I’m in a 1970’s Italian arthouse movie! 😃

You really know how to bring the best out of a synth. I would give anything to have one of these in my collection, sounds amazing. An Italian synth. See the Italinsatre not just good at making spaghetti and ice cream any synths up for adoption, I have a good home. Donations please.

Holy resonant filter batman

will never part with mine...great synth...great demo... thanks

I had one about 30 years ago! Wonderful machine for the time. i remember i was really impressed by the million buttons but it sounded shrill and had a strange background noise when turned on

@AnalogAudio1

6 жыл бұрын

on a working one you don't have a noticeable background noise

Typical. At the time it seemed to be a nasty and much too late entry in the Itlaian paraphonic race. Now it suddenly turns ou to be a real Gem, better for instance then anything Farfisa did in this class after the original Syntorchestra, or Crumar after the Orchestrator. It must however also be said that all these instrument only started to sound really good with the introduction of digital effects processors. A good analog sound with a decent digital delay and / or reverb is somehow a golden combination.

Schöne Demo.

seeing this demo has made me want to invest money into my broken one spent time trying to diagnose. fixed bits and then broke something els hmm i only paid 5$ for it at a garage sale

@markandrews9073

5 жыл бұрын

Even my yamaha sk-1 second hand cost more than five bucks... only just though ;)

Brilliant and to think I sold mine doh ! Lol thanks steve

@TranceElevation

9 жыл бұрын

SequencerSynth HaHAHHA!

@lucyolowan

7 жыл бұрын

Same for me, What a mistake...

one of the best sounding string machines . as Good as the farfisa sound maker if not better .lots of jarre sounds in there .thinking magnetic fields

Ich hatte auch mal einen in der ersten Hälfte der 90er. Den Sound mochte ich auch. Sehr Schulze-mäßig.

Amazing channel! Thank you very much, it is so helpful to me! A beautiful guide for someone who wants to find the appropriate analog keyboard! I am searching since months to buy the right string machine for me and your channel was a GREAT help... Do you know if the Siel Cruise can have a hold on function on the string sounds through the Decay footswitch pedal? I am trying to find a string machine who has a kind of "hold on" function so that i can play my other keys at the same time. Do you know which string machine has this kind of footswitch?

@AnalogAudio1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hardly use hold pedals, I don't know...

: Special Request : STOP MAKING THESE MAGNIFISCENT VIDEOS AND DRIVING UP THE PRICES!!! ( forgive me all this, parenthesis included )

@AnalogAudio1

9 жыл бұрын

+Sjobeck7 thanks, I take it as a compliment :-)

Used by Human league on his video: Human League - Don't You Want Me (1982)• TopPop

waiting for the AnalogAudio's music album.. :)

i love mine has a lovely sound to it.....proper b movie vibes

2:36 I recognized Pink Floyds 'dogs' for a brief moment.

Nostalgic ....

Did You consider to record some raw sounds from it to share? I owned one, but bexause of serious starving I had to sell it....😢 To a person who I believed he was a friend wishing for a keyboard, and sold it for really little money. I met him again, and all he did was complaining, probably thinking I tricked him. Probably he could have better felt if I had sold him a lousy old arranger at an high price.... So is people, so is life... I really miss this synth....

Thank you for a great demo - You say it lacks the orchestra vibrato? The Manuel clearly states, vibrato depth/ speed/ on.off portamento...too bad about the highpass filter. In addition the Orchestra 2 at least - also has audio in...neither the cruise or mono has that...sounds like fun to play! Great!

@thelibertybalance

5 жыл бұрын

sorry ! my bad - I was reading under the monophonic section - you are of course right :) . - did you by any chance come across a midi retrofit kit?

@AnalogAudio1

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know if a MIDI retrofit exist for this instrument anyway. If so, let me know!

Happy to find one for 80 dollars some years ago :))) still have it

@AnalogAudio1

4 жыл бұрын

congrats! I paid even less, but this was long ago :-)

@fjfrancois

4 жыл бұрын

Wow dude

@wolfgangmarkusgstrein8522

4 жыл бұрын

What? Congrats!

i'm fan ✌🤩👍💖👍😍🤩✌,

I wondered if you could clear something up for me - in the description of your siel orchestra video you said it was identical to the arp quartet, but in the description of this video you say the siel orchestra and arp quartet are different. Which is true?

@AnalogAudio1

Жыл бұрын

The only one difference are the poly-presets. The American ARP version has different presets here - as far as I know, I red it somewhere, never had the ARP version. Apart from that, they should be identical.

Очаровательные звуки!! Похожи на композиции Артемьева советского периода (АНС)...

why background nature picture? :-) Even so analog synth and delay machine are individable relation I think

@AnalogAudio1

7 жыл бұрын

that nature background is somehow linked with string synths in my memories... because many times when I picked up such a string synth (for example my Farfisa Polychrome), I drove in direction south Germany, where those wonderful mountain landscapes are and looking forward to pick up the synth ... nice memories :-)

Hello Klaus!

Is there a VST for this synth?

Can someone tell me what's the difference between Siel Mono and Cruise? Are in the Cruise in the mono section exactly the same settings like in the Mono? Just curious of the mono section of the Cruise. Can it do the same like the Mono?

@AnalogAudio1

10 ай бұрын

The Siel Cruise is some kind of combination of Siel Mono and Siel Orchestra in one keyboard. But not quite. The Mono section of the Cruise does not have the multimode filter of the Mono - it has lowpass mode only. Also the noise generator is gone. But the Poly-section in the Cruise is almost the same as in the Siel Orchestra, except for the organ preset and the missing vibrato.

@M80-

10 ай бұрын

@@AnalogAudio1 Ahh, thanks. I found no info about the differences, it clears now. I know the Mono is more rare, cost more, but If you would buy for the first time which would you choose?

@AnalogAudio1

10 ай бұрын

@@M80- I would choose the Cruise, since I love the combination of string machine and monophonic synth in one box. BTW, see my demo video of the Siel Mono.

@M80-

10 ай бұрын

@@AnalogAudio1 Thanks for answering. I saw the video already before I wrote. :)

I found this synth two years ago abandoned in the garbage, immediately took it (obviously) but all the circuits are oxidised. I'm still looking to find someone to fix it.

@JayKaufman

7 жыл бұрын

Any good synth tech should be able to do that for you, but the cost might not be worth it unfortunately. If it's really bad, it will require a lot of new parts and that can add up pretty quickly when things are having to be desoldered and replaced.

Never heard of it sounds dope though. Was Italy known for synths back in the day?

@AnalogAudio1

2 жыл бұрын

Not for synths, but for string machines and organs. Logan, Farfisa, Siel, Elka, Crumar...

named after all-time awesome actor Tom Cruise!

@AnalogAudio1

9 ай бұрын

Sure :-)

where do you get these vintage synth from? I really love this one but can't find it anywhere..please help

@AnalogAudio1

7 жыл бұрын

mostly I get them from older (former) musicians in my area... But in general, you buy this kind of instruments from ebay nowadays

@snooptiger

7 жыл бұрын

thank you!

This instrument just oozes vibes a la JMJ and Klaus Schulze. Excellent stuff.

Звучит просто волшебно,жаль что не смогу его купить,😉😭

It’s better then today’s synths. They knew how to make them back then in the day. Love the sound of these synths. Sound so space age tech and look it too. They just look like a lump of plastic today and boring. Nice demo.

@AnalogAudio1

6 жыл бұрын

thanks! The funny thing is, that in Germany the first buyers of such an instrument wanted to play realistic strings and acoustic instruments with it. They all have modern sample based workstations now, like Yamaha Tyros... they put the "artificial sounding stuff" aside, just as sample based keyboards came along. I talked with many musicians of this kind. The following musician generations appreciated these machines...

@michaelmitchell8218

6 жыл бұрын

AnalogAudio1 well all I can say is that synth is a masterpiece on its own. Never seen it before until now and I would take that over any synth of today. I can see synths like this and the Roland Jupiter etc just going up in money more and more in time. I hope they rediscover them one day and bring back that wonderful sound they made to the media again. Just so much great music has been made on these timeless machines. I bet the value of that synth is worth something?. So glad you Share this with us. Great synth.

@RayyMusik

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Mitchell So my Rev2 is worse than this string machine with a synth add-on and looks like a lump of plastic? You‘re kidding. Very nice sound though, mainly due to the additional FX.

I´m fascinated how that thing sounds. The Korg SDD-3000 vintage digital delay is rare and expensive. What's your recommendation on a substitutional delay unit?

@AnalogAudio1

4 жыл бұрын

a quite good delay sound delivers the Roland DEP-5 which I used a lot on earlier videos (I think before 2011).

@wolfgangmarkusgstrein8522

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnalogAudio1 thanks for replyung and for your Suggestion on the delay. What's an acceptable price for a Siel Cruise machine? Greets Wolfgang

@AnalogAudio1

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfgangmarkusgstrein8522 300-600 Euros, depending on the condition

@wolfgangmarkusgstrein8522

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am trying to get one. Found two on ebay EUR 500 & 600. Greets

@AnalogAudio1

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfgangmarkusgstrein8522 At the moment I like the Dynacord VRS 23 very much. It's a vintage BBD delay from Germany. I will use it in my next vids.

Is it prone to breaking down by just looking at it like every other SIEL and Crumar out there?

@AnalogAudio1

7 жыл бұрын

I think the Cruise is quite reliable if treated properly. But the sliders tend to get scratchy

@chieftp

6 жыл бұрын

lol. I had (briefly) a DK600 that sounded pretty nice for a few minutes until it froze up and then you'd have to turn it off. I dumped it on one of those "music go round" places where they like to buy/sell junk.

@alandens3625

3 жыл бұрын

I've had both Crumar Orchestrator & Organizer keyboards in different eras, the Organizer was buff, roadworthy & didn't pack up but very heavy. The Orchestrator had decent sounds but some voices in function were intermittent but still played & had a full sound.

This instrument is very much JMJ !

GIMME! :P

Saw one for sale, should have bought it, but it looked too big to sneak into the house.

@AnalogAudio1

10 ай бұрын

Buy a bigger house!

is the intro also the sill cruise?

@AnalogAudio1

7 жыл бұрын

yes, of course

How in the world do you get all these? Surely you don't own all of them?

@AnalogAudio1

3 ай бұрын

Oh yes, I own or owned all the instruments demoed on my channel. :-) The only instruments I did not own were SCI Pro One, SCI Prophet-5 REV3 and Korg MS-20mini. I can only say, I don't get them from Ebay, from Reverb or from any dealers.

wwwwwoooooowwwww. I had one of these when I was 16. I traded it for a Roland MT-32 and Roland R5 and Yamaha YS100

I had one in the 90's . Sad that I soldi it.

DO you think 450 € is a good price for a working unit?

@AnalogAudio1

8 жыл бұрын

if it's in mint condition, it's okay, not a bargain, but ok

@mantra3000

8 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought... Thank you AA!

Yikes, no body can beat analog :)

Have one of these beauties for sale if anyone is interested. Beautifull synth.

@danhelgesen2792

8 жыл бұрын

Hello Shanti! I'm very intrested...Is it still for sale the Siel Cruise? How much do you want? does everything works? Were is your location? If you see this you can write to my mail: fiolsaxofon@gmail.com

So… Siel Cruise … Siel Orchestra? or another Siel ?

@AnalogAudio1

2 жыл бұрын

The Cruise is mainly a Siel Orchestra and Siel Mono in one package.

I had one it has no touch/velocity & no midi Added a custom sequencer & sold it for small change

@AnalogAudio1

5 жыл бұрын

what did you expect, it's from 1979

SDD 3000 has the narrow lane.....

sounds a lot like Jarre's first albums

wow.. sounding wicked.. unfortunately born on the wrong end of the timescale

1:25 moondawn

@erebousde

7 жыл бұрын

Sounds to "strong" for Moondawn. I'd still say it clearly has Timewind elements!

Need skilled repair on mine…

Korg SDD-3000 is the scrub

The Cruise is from 1981, not 1979. The audio here is pretty drowned in effects. It sounds pretty terrible straight out of the synth.

@AnalogAudio1

Жыл бұрын

Dry it still sounds good, the delay effect is applied only to the right channel. Left is dry.