Gracie of Synthetic Dreamscapes always has some great vintage synths to show off. Today she has an Oberheim OB-Xa polyphonic analog synth. As the quality manager for Synthetic Dreamscapes, she always “stands on everything they do.”
This is just a little Sunday treat for you, because I am not able to do a livestream today. The track starts with a pad from the Korg Wavestate, which I used as in its native plugin version. The following sequence uses the wavetable engines of Waldorf’s Iridium. The bass is from the Prophet 10 and the lead melody from the Arturia Minifreak. Effects are U-He Color Copy, Valhalla DSP Shimmer.
Neptun went into a hyperactive state when I started the recording, he played a note (this time in key!) at 03:19
Sometimes we like to mix it up on CatSynth TV – just like we used to do here on the blog. This video, on the marine chronometer and its inventor John Harrison, is one of those times. Enjoy!
Monty thinks this F sharp is the perfect note for the current track he is working on with Dave Newhouse (The Muffins, Moon X, Manna / Mirage, and other projects).
Gracie stands proudly atop a vintage Roland Jupiter 6. As the quality manager for Synthetic Dreamscapes, she always has access to some of the best instruments (including a few of ours that we have sent in for repair).
The Jupiter 6 was a somewhat scaled-down version of Roland’s flagship Jupiter 8 polyphonic analog synthesizer. But it did have a sound of its own, perhaps a little edgier, and it sported one of the earliest MIDI implementations. We at CatSynth enjoy its sound indirectly through Cherry Audio’s Mercury 6 virtual instrument.
Murdoch and Daisy-Mae enjoy sitting in a bright spot atop a Yamaha Clavinova digital piano. The issue of Sound on Sound sitting on the music holder features the UDO Super Gemini.