Miscellaneous Unique Synths - Studio Time: S2E17

[@elbypadan9949]

it still amazes me that people would go on a video about a man genuinely showing his passion to the world and give it a dislike?????

[@jamesaranson3863]

Thanks Tom for investing (those crazy hollywood dollars into something useful) and preserving the older gear.You.ve got a working museum going on!

[@Avaruuskettu]

This episode made me remember and also realize what a gem the EX5 is, and I sold mine years ago! :( I simply wasn't skilled enough to program it at the time. After watching this episode I immediately contacted the friend who I sold the EX5 to and he still has it and he agreed to sell it back to me. Thank you so much Tom! :D

[@kennethpace9887]

We're you able to figure out the programming?

[@jesselewis4843]

A synthesizer studio tour de force! Many thanks for sharing.

[@meirabass]

"- Do you watch Game of Thrones? - No.. - The Walking Dead?? - Nope... - Sherlock, Arrow, Flash..? - Nooooope... - What do you watch then? - I watch JunkieXL's StudioTime on KZbin!!!" But seriously... we won't be able to thanks you enough for what you're doing, Tom. Long life to Tom! ;)

[@mp-gt9hf]

viva tom.... !!!

[@davemaverick8438]

those shows are mainstream garbage anyway

[@bigsocks2479]

i'm just catching up on series 2

[@vera-fiofficial6188]

Just picked up a TG 77 for only around 80$usd here in Tokyo. Glad you mentioned it! Really a secret weapon.

[@jukkauh]

Per your request in the video: Teisco was a musical instruments company acquired in 1967 by Kawai. Kawai continued to use the Teisco brand name for all their early synthesizers, but in the '80s switched to simply using Kawai as the brand name.

[@DavidProuty]

Thanks for running us through the Yamaha rack gear, especially that EX5R.

[@omnomnom1391]

37 minutes? Oh boy, I'm gonna be sitting a long time on the toilet. On a serious note, Thanks for taking the time out of your day to do this.

[@fantasyproduct1042]

Victor TheHuman haha feeling it

[@therealborischang]

Lol, I just read your comment on the throne myself.

[@omnomnom1391]

@Darius Beaumont In hindsight, yeah I can see now that you're right, it's a silly comment.

[@anodyneinstitute]

This is our favorite episode. Thank you for sharing these oddities. The EX5R is a fascinating entity. It's an exciting prospect to use such a strange synth as a model for a eurorack system. One could stack FM synthesis, physical modeling, sampling, and wavetables together, and run that all through analog filters as well.

[@junkiexlofficial]

Wouldn't that be awesome??!

[@philmarsh5593]

Great vid, as usual - lovely gear. But the Synergy came much later than the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange which was Switched On Bach from around 1968 (that was a Moog Modular). Awesome collection though - just gorgeous.

[@sideshowbob1544]

I am totally blown away, and inspired, everytime I watch one of your videos! Your collection of audio gear is astounding!

[@AnalogNoiseLab]

Around 300 PPG Waveterms were made and around a 1000 PPG Wave 2.x were made according to Wolfgang Palm himself. PPG (Wolfgang Palm) started building synths in 1974. He sold analog mono synths and modular's before he invented the wavetable synths in the late 70's. I am lucky to own a PPG Wave 2 and Wave 2.3 myself. Best sounding hybrids ever made.

[@junkiexlofficial]

Wow! Good for you!

[@AnalogNoiseLab]

junkiexlofficial I just love the sound of them. Very unique. My favorite synth together with my Synthex. And the price for them is not that crazy in Europe compared to the states. Yet anyway..Thanks again. Take care

[@MidnightVisions]

All synthesizers built in the 1980's are approaching the time expiry of the electrolytic capacitors. The caps used back then were acidic, and only had a lifespan of 30 years. After that they degrade and break down. this causes the power supply to become unstable, and any deviance's more than .25Volts and the digital logic behaves strangely and you are constantly chasing problems. The only fix is complete replacement of the electrolytic capacitors within the synthesizer.

[@jesselewis4843]

Electrolytic caps of any era more or less subject to the same fate. Replacement is inevitable.

[@annother3350]

@@jesselewis4843 The modern ones should last longer, they say

[@brainkabob]

I had 2 GDS Synergy's which ran on Kaypro II using 5" floppies and an extremely crude MS-DOS software. (General Development Systems) Unfortunately Super Storm Sandy came to Hoboken, NJ on Oct. 29th, 2012, bringing three and a half feet of salt water, raw sewage and full oil in to my studio. It wasn't pretty to say the least. I had something like 15 to 18 keyboards and tons of studio gear. No power for nine days. When we finally started putting the gear on the street, people were grabbing it up before I had the chance to sort it out...

[@cbmsysmobile]

Wendy Carlos' sounds on cartridges. Thats like the Holy Grail of synthesizer/electronic music. Now do you have any of Delia Darbyshire's tapes floating around?

[@ironman0000]

you mentioned FM8 from native instruments.. you can also get a free emulator called dexed which emulates a DX7 very well.. you can also send patches back and forth between your computer and a real DX7. Nice video. i love some of those old school synths! :-)

[@ldezo]

Thanks for the info, this is a very nice plug-in!

[@machiwoomiapoo]

Wendy Carlos inspired me to play synthesizers! You are very lucky to own a piece of history. Thanks for uploading this video. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. :)

[@daveh1674]

Was so impressed with the EX5r I had to go and buy one, absolutely awesome piece of kit 😎 Thanks Tom

[@chrishack6825]

Great ambience filtering from these old machines. I always thought they were so digital and to clean but this shows them in a different light. Great video.

[@Krmpfpks]

Thank you. This is one of the best episodes, I like you showing us unusual synths and their history.

[@thepianoman007]

Brilliant ! Thank you Tom for taking the time from your busy schedule to provide us with these great videos !

[@konstantinivanov1986]

Good thing a guy that apreciates those machines has them. Those things are not cheap in any way to keep running .

[@Airlight]

Great series JXL, you're not just generously giving your time for our entertainment, I'm willing to bet you're also inspiring people aswell. You have my admiration!

[@oniponi]

Thank you Tom, always looking forward to your videos.

[@modusobscura]

I've been looking at getting a TG77 and you completely convinced me to try and get an EX5r instead!!

[@deauvillevrienden]

Get both as I did, they are completely different beasts and complete each other

[@mb2776]

@@deauvillevrienden mind to share how? I got a TG77 and the ex5r looks pretty interesting to me but i have to admid, i have trouble programming my tg77. It's a shame cause it even has a waveform expansion

[@deauvillevrienden]

@@mb2776 Well, the EX5 has : AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory), AN (Analog Physical Modeling) Synthesis, FDSP (Formulated Digital Sound Processing) Synthesis and Virtual Acoustic (VL) Synthesis..... but NO FM !!! , the TG77 is a real FM beast, a DX7 on steroids... so that completes the EX5. Having both and layering both sounds like a Montage or MODX where my mixing sliders act like a superknob :-))

[@BroknRobotMusic]

Such wonderful videos by such a high functioning individual who has put his whole life into his craft. I doubt there is another person alive who has this many amazing synths, who actually knows how to use every single one of them and who actually uses them in movie scores. Thanks for sharing.

[@jechet10]

Oh man I love the sound at 25:42 that's just amazing

[@felipebalbino6936]

This guy is an encyclopedia of synths! Endless knowledge. Thank you Tom!

[@albywelch]

the ppg wave sounds unreal!!!! soooo psychedelic

[@electronash]

PLEASE tell me that full backups are being made of the carts and Kaypro disks from Wendy Carlos? :o I'm guessing that the carts might use battery-backed SRAM too, so they will have a finite life. Love watching this stuff. :p A while ago, I was working on creating an FPGA clone of some classics synths like the Fairlight CMI, and JV-1080. I'm currently working on the Roland synths that use the LA32 chip, like the MT32, D-10/D-20, and D-50 etc. Hopefully similar work will start to happen for other digital / FM synths soon, as time is running out for a lot of the older gear, and it's super-important to try to preserve them.

[@tonybalm1513]

Who cleans all that lot? Amazing collection thank you for sharing it with us.

[@fffranckable]

THX for that vid m8.Puting sounds on my dream synths.

[@simonkujus9023]

Thanks Tom! I really liked this Episode, those are some great machines. I always wonder how your MIDI setup works like, any chance to get a deeper look into that?

[@LaszloHarsanyi_SoundTube]

That's not even a music studio... that's a musical sanctuary 🤘🎶🎶🎶 Those displays for the synths were most probably stolen from Alien 1. 👀🤣

[@PastTime777]

I would call it a synth museum. Yet it is still being used. There's car collectors, art collectors, and so on. In this case everything in that room is still working. All that knowledge and how to operate all those old synths will have to be passed down to someone else when the time comes.

[@LaszloHarsanyi_SoundTube]

Yup, that's awesome right? Though I'm not sure who can receive all that info!

[@berkut6313]

Interface 2037 - ready for inquiry

[@LaszloHarsanyi_SoundTube]

:D:D:D

[@RagedContinuum]

junkieXL and JayLeno's garages

[@sergeyarguzeen9632]

Thanx a lot for the BEST audio presentation of EX5! My favourite toy... :D

[@WilliamRigout]

Now i know why Distance between dreams sounds so great, that ppg wave is fantastic.

[@erikl530]

Awesome video! Can't wait for the part featuring that lovely Eurorack! 😊

[@AndrewAHayes]

I used 8" floppies in the computer at school a Z80 Research Machines computer, I made a leather wallet in my Textiles class to hold my floppies, I love that mechanical sound they make!

[@danieldemayo6209]

5 seconds in and I'm already learning/drooling lol I really want that first guy. So cool.

[@KoshDukai]

Teisco was bought by Kawai. I remember seeing a Kawai SX-210 as a kid, playing with it and being mesmerized by its alphanumeric display, where we could actually name (with letters) the patches :D

[@lurid_phaesporia]

Sweet thanks Tom I've been really hoping you would make this vid!!

[@mijadevi7445]

Benefits of having real instrument comes from extended brain stimulation because you must program individually any gear to squeeze sounds that you wanna. Process involves more senses compared to vst. But staying in EM field when you turn on most of them could give some pretty polution hiting the body i suppose.

[@joemcm1]

that dx1 is fantastic-i found one on holiday in Songbird Toronto in 2000 for $750 but i didnt have the money to buy/ship back to the uk at the time:( .couple of years later i picked a dx5 up which is pretty close and a great synth

[@peterkadarmusic9728]

I love all these videos. Thank you Junkie XL!

[@KevinStCroix]

Wow. The tone, even on KZbin, sounds amazing.

[@ifthebeltiscrackedor]

Thank you I learn so much and its so interesting! Listening with good headphones to get the most put of the sound.

[@ACCOUNTANTB]

its an amazing wave table synth !! - so dam a moster !!!

[@von-fur-wegen-gegenolli9196]

My first Synth was a Yamaha SY55. It has the same choir sounds i could hear in your example!

[@AxelDoorman]

I really love the tutorials and somehow as they keep me of doing my "work", it also inspires me to create sounds to use in my production. I obviously by far do not have the tools that you have, but it somehow drives me to go on! Dank je Tom voor de geweldige video's!! Ga zo door!

[@carlosgarciasandoval9993]

increíble lugar!! no pude dejar de ver el video entero.

[@jason_robba]

Love the sound of that EX5R!

[@dglcomputers1498]

Late to the party but AWM stands for Advanced Wave Memory, basically Yamaha's first rompler technology, used in a lot of Yamaha products before being replaced by AWM2 that's still in use.

[@MythixMusic1]

That EX 5 thing totally blew me away

[@RosenSound]

One small correction- the DX7 predates the DX1.

[@xlolpanda87]

+1 for Distance between Dreams. Loved the soundtrack.

[@tachelesreden]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love you for your love for these machines ;-)

[@chandlertipton4088]

Fantastic episode, but you can't hide from the Eurorack wall forever, Tom!

[@baward]

Wendy Carlos made the 'Clockwork Orange' soundtrack in 1972 but the Synergy didn't come out until 1982.

[@toitoitoy]

Tron only uses Synergy

[@Nikos4415]

And I think that the most impressive using of Synergy by Wendy was on her "Beauty in the Beast" album. Especially on the track "Poem for Bali", which is something absolutely stunning and ethereal. This intro... soundcloud.com/roberto-la-forgia/03-poem-for-bali

[@baward]

Good call. I think that BITB is a challenging, but very rewarding listen. More info here: www.wendycarlos.com/+bitb.html

[@toitoitoy]

It's the finest Carlos album

[@DavidLee07]

It is a good album. I had it and was really into her approach to additive synthesis at the time. I could only afford a Kawai K5 for simple additive synthesis, but it wasn't bad (I still have a K5M sitting around somewhere that I bought later after the power supply died in my K5).

[@turquoisecapricorn]

Thanx for showing and explaining us again some very nice hardware! greetz from Gent!

[@jeremyyocum6236]

Thanks for sharing this Tom ✨✨✨✨👌Impeccable

[@ludotex]

Thanks again for your videos. Super interesting as usual. Love the format.

[@pierretombale3745]

I want to cry when I see all this equipment, and souds

[@markwilliamson6884]

lovely to see the PPG wave & waveterm - always wanted one as a lad. Now have an XTk so not too bad I guess......

[@1523DBX]

There is a mistake on this video. The Yamaha EX5 does not have an FM section. So it cannot make the same sounds as the SY series, or even a DX7. The SY series was great for having the ability to use a PCM sample as an operator In the FM section. That really expanded its sound horizon and made it very original. Even the montage cannot do that either. Great series. Love them all !

[@Jarreenzo]

Neutron Star indeed no FM. But it adds AN which is nice too. To bad the sysex dumps can cause trouble.

[@Eclipse0119]

Further, the AWM stands for Advanced Wave Memory, not Acoustic Wave Modulation...

[@KUPHSER]

Neutron Star you beat me to it. Only the sy77/99 can truly combine samples with FM. Ive been hoping to see wether tom has the sy99 in his arsenal.. my favourite synth! I own 2 of them :)

[@junkiexlofficial]

I have both

[@junkiexlofficial]

You are 100% right Neutron!

[@MrKirinren]

This screams for a part2, please! I am sure there are enough synths to be covered.

[@VincentsVideoVisions]

One quarter of that room alone contains more cash value than everything I own. It is stupefying to even try to comprehend how someone can be this rich.

[@etankohcz1842]

Tom!! Thank you, ,Thank you, , , for your Yamaha synth review!!! I thoroughly enjoyed this vid!!!!!!

[@turquoisecapricorn]

That DX-1 let me soundwise think on my Yamaha PSS-480, what is normal. They both use FM-synthesis. The PSS-480 was my first synth and incredible sounds that you can make with changing all those parameters!

[@jaykarimi7123]

Thanks for this. Love it! What reverb unit are all the sounds getting run through?

[@gigantique]

Oh man..thank you fir sharing that..It's so cool!!

[@dscoder]

I love these videos! Thank you so much for doing these.

[@zibbybone]

yaMAha. W Carlos used Moog modular on "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) since the Synergy was not released until 1982.

[@guidobackhaus9852]

Hello Mr. JunkieXL, thank you for your videos. I love them all and i have that synthie&music addiction, too - and to see all your stuff i am honest: makes me jealous! thumbs up. keep keying :-)

[@fUjiMaNia]

I own the blue beast (EX-5) and it's definitely something else that is amazing.

[@shookstylez]

Wendy Carlos made the sounds on the Synergy on it's predecessor the Crumar DGK. Which has hands on control, and is not really a FM synthesizer as it's a Additive synthesizer. Check out Bell Labs, for more information.

[@junkiexlofficial]

will do!!

[@ebeep]

DX1 sounds phenomenal

[@hammercanttouchthis]

7:21 Picks nose candy... places on disk and inserts into Waldorf. Adds extra layer of sonic grime to analogue sound, apparently.

[@antonisfakiris505]

Amazing synths!!!! Great stuff JXl!!!!!

[@maxhult830]

For an in ambient context use of the VL-1, Kit Watkins put it to good use on much of his music the last 2 decades. I believe he was involved in the development of the breath controller in the 80's, if I'm not mistaken.

[@maxhult830]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoOvZmWil61medU

[@djkoelkast]

I have the TG77 EX5R A4000 and M1000 in my rack as well :D Love them to bits, except the A4000, I don't use that at the moment.

[@SpacehotelMusic]

I got a TG77 on ebay once, bid on it and won it for.. I shit you not, £77 dead on! (I've also had 2 SY77s). Very deep synths, under-rated, some great atmospheres in there.

[@snurkergerm6168]

The Batsynth cave! Amazing!

[@juliangeier7323]

11:58 Wow this Synthesizer is so phenomenal

[@laurencevanhelsuwe3052]

Back in the early days of the Commodore Amiga, I wrote a similar wave editor/player called WaveMaker. Mine was realtime, and illustrates the crazy rate at which technology advanced in those days. WaveMaker only supported 8 harmonics, not 32 as in the PPG.

[@bryansebunya1127]

Cool story man. Did you make any songs with it

[@BastiaanvandeWerk]

Wasn’t something like included in one of those modtrackers?

[@BastiaanvandeWerk]

I believe it was OctaMED or something similar...

[@lownrgy]

damn i was all the time waiting to hear your EII patches

[@DBCisco]

I booted my IBM Series 100 Mainframe with an 8" Floppy. Cool !

[@cyberpunkbg140]

I see Koma electronic SVF in your eurorack very nasty filter :) I love it

[@ArturTadevosyan]

Synergy ist just great! I love to use Energy of UVI. Its not the same but...

[@jukkauh]

A correction. The PPG Wave was not made nor sold by Waldorf. It was made by PPG (Wolfgang Palm's company). However Waldorf is currently working with Wolfgang Palm to produce the software version you mentioned. EDIT: I've gotten some replies to this by confused people, so here's a little bit more. Waldorf Music was founded by Wolfgang Düren, who was originally PPG's distributor in Germany. My understanding is that after PPG closed (and with it the PPG Wave), Palm did a little consulting for Düren's startup at the very beginning of Waldorf's history, and as a result the PPG's wavetable approach and early wavetables have found their way into Waldorf's products, the Waldorf Wave (not to be confused with the PPG Wave) and the Microwave series, not to mention the Blofeld.

[@909Thumper909]

Hey! That big old SY99 might be worth breaking out again; its the only synth I know of that a users sample can FM operate. Imagine the antics!

[@Rhythmattica]

BTW... If you read this, i suggest you don't put your old Floppies on crt monitors.

[@jasonmoyer]

@Putrid Bete Magnets (which are in CRT's) erase floppy disks.

[@sideshowbob1544]

That goes for videotape too!

[@darrencafferty]

@@sideshowbob1544 and Vibrators...

[@jerometv7637]

what an amazing masterclass again . Thanks Tom :D

[@francescobirsaalessandri3992]

I would love to watch Tom and Legowelt have a one-off in which they say the word synthesizer till one of the two passes out.

[@renegadefunkstar]

Francesco Birsa Alessandri : hahahahaaaaaa

[@SeverityOne]

See, that's why I use software instead of these old beasts. And while I'm not old enough to actually have used 8" discs, I've seen them. In fact, the place where I work started in 1979 and has some of this stuff in the little company museum.

[@stevenaustin4591]

Hey Tom, dyou have a video going through all your Rack Mounted synths? if not would you consider doing one? plz :)

[@scottdyer6467]

This Is Nuts :) I was born in 1982 !!!! Amazing dude ! now I kinda understand the ppg, always loved the look, didn't understand it or its sounds, now I see,,, create your own Waveform's or w.e "woo" and the WaveTerm,, its real Matrix stuff hha ha ! thanks man Kool Vid !

[@NoisyMaff]

Is that a pair of Yamaha A4000s in the rack? Damn fantastic sampler that. Had some brilliantly bizarre filters.

[@davidgeppert5763]

i had the PPG 2.3. , but sell it 4 years ago- good damn!!

[@daleturner]

3:32 THE SHINING!!! If it was lower :-)