Check out this youtube video clip.

Here's something that's got me wishing I had a spare 9000 Euros to spend on a new piece of music equipment, it's a Knifonium, what's a Knifonium? I hear you ask, well it's a Synthesizer that uses....wait for it.....Valves!!....25 of them as a matter of fact, and have a listen to some of the sounds it can produce electronically, this is pure real Analog Synthesis at it's finest, no digital modelling software or circuitry:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zf_d8tbhb8



A Synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that creates and produces sounds electronically, the parts of the sound are generated electronically and are combined to create the sound we hear with our ears, the word Synthesize, or Synthesis means the combining of parts into a connected whole.

Gday Doc,

If you are lusting after all this old school analogue stuff ( and who doesn't ) what you really need is a Mellotron

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Gday Doc,

If you are lusting after all this old school analogue stuff ( and who doesn't ) what you really need is a Mellotron

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Ahhhh....the Mellotron, apparently it was the world's first sampler before the Fairlight CMI was invented, artists like Led Zeppelin and Jean Michelle Jarre used one both on their recordings and at live concerts.

The Beatles used a Mellotron on their studio recording of Strawberry Fields Forever, Led Zeppelin used one for the flute parts in the song Stairway to Heaven.


I've been planning on building a big Modular Synthesizer for some time, but it's a project that's been on the backburner for a long time.

Man thats cool! Would love one of them just for giggles!

Here's another cool synth, if only I had a spare $35,000.00 so I could buy one, in this youtube video clip is one of the new Moog System 55 Modular Synthesizers that Moog Music have recently re-issued:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBbqe17BVlw

Here's another youtube video of another Synthesizer Grandaddy...the EMS Synthi AKS, this is one piece of equipment that I would love to own together with a mint condition Roland Space Echo, have a listen to the spaced-out sounds if you want to know why:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GOx-z0ajc

Hey does anyone here have about $100k for me to borrow so I can get all this goodness?

Here you go guys a free Mellotron plugin lol
http://www.premiersoundfactory.com/m...emier-p-3.html
https://youtu.be/z9cECx9DKfQ

Certainly recognise the Beatles Strawberry fields Sound in the sounds demo on the page

Some nice Retro synth plugins here https://www.xils-lab.com/pages/Artists.html

I've got a big folder of hard copy printouts of the complete construction details for the ETI series of Synthesizers in amongst all my stuff at home, there's also full construction details for the ETI4600 Synthesizer too, I'd love to build one, here's a youtube video clip of an ETI4600 Synthesizer:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oop3I2PFKEU



And here's Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18py7g_e7NY

Here's another cool youtube video clip of someone playing a Moog Etherwave Plus Theremin:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFrVdEEiG4


The Theremin is one of the oldest electronic musical instruments known to man, it was invented by a Russian Physicist named Lev Termen in the late 1920's, as you can see in the video clip the Theremin is an electronic musical instrument that you can play without physically touching the instrument, it has two antennae attached to it, one which is positioned vertically and is the pitch antenna, the other is positioned horizontally and is the volume antenna, the pitch of the sound produced by the Theremin is controlled by positioning your hand closer to or further away from the pitch antenna, the closer your hand is in relation to the pitch antenna the higher the pitch of the sound produced, to control the loudness of the sound produced by the Theremin you move your other hand closer to or further away from the volume antenna, the closer your hand is to the volume antenna the softer the sound produced by the Theremin, you can get some very musical sounds out of the Theremin, you can also get spooky and weird sounds too.


I actually have a Theremin I built from a kit of parts I bought from Jaycar Electronics.

The first time I saw a theremin and knew what is was, was in the movie Forbidden Planet which is said to be loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Strange instrument that must be incredibly difficult to master

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The first time I saw a theremin and knew what is was, was in the movie Forbidden Planet which is said to be loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Strange instrument that must be incredibly difficult to master

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It's actually not that difficult to master a Theremin, if you can hum or whistle a tune you'll be able to play one, because there's no visual reference to where the notes are, like on a guitar, you use your ears instead.