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ChamomileShark wrote:My understanding is tha the gong sound was taken off the Synclavier demo album. I think TD also used it for the start of Kiev Mission from Exit.
Yes, the whole riff was taken (replayed) from the synclavier demo disc.

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egbert wrote:Sting had one too. I saw a video of him composing a tune for his new band after the Police - We work the black seam I think it was. It could print scores of parts, display notation on multiple staves, sequence and play sample based instruments. They were 200k in the money of 30 years ago.

All those $$$ monsters that used to show up and strut their stuff at the big music shows like NAMM and the Messe pretty much keeled over and died overnight in the face of commodified tech - samplers and computer based sequencing. (Literally in the case of the ex Commodore guys who founded Ensoniq :hihi: )
Now, your standard DAW equipped with some good software can do what the Synclavier could do.
But boy, it was the bomb back in the day.
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egbert wrote:Sting had one too. I saw a video of him composing a tune for his new band after the Police - We work the black seam I think it was. It could print scores of parts, display notation on multiple staves, sequence and play sample based instruments. They were 200k in the money of 30 years ago.
I recall hearing that Sting and Stewart Copeland (a Fairlight user) had a big Synclavier vs. Fairlight argument while recording the 1986 remake of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" for a greatest hits compilation. Apparently it was Fairlight drums that made it onto the recording. I still remember Stewart's comment about that in an issue of Keyboard Magazine: "It was a case of grown men behaving like spoilt children. I needn't say more."
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@tomcat666

you told about a self developed VST-plugin which "emulates" the soundsynthesis of the Synclavier
could you us give more informations about this please?

thank you and
regards
xaez 8)

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taymur wrote:@tomcat666

you told about a self developed VST-plugin which "emulates" the soundsynthesis of the Synclavier
could you us give more informations about this please?

thank you and
regards
xaez 8)
This is not meant as true emulation, it's more a kind of "relative". There are some differences (like an additional pitch envelope, a different voice management...) but all in all it's very similar to the structure and possibilities of the SII / PSMT FM part: 4 partial timbres witch additive carrier and FM modulator, partial chorus + voice chorus + wavesequencing (up to 32 FM operator pairs per key), resynthesis...

It's my very first attempt to build a VSTi and it's a spare time project, so I can't tell you a release date or what detailed specs it finally will have.

At the moment I can only show some audio examples, but the engine isn't fully working yet (it's missing the lfos, the realtime control handler... and the editor/gui):

https://soundcloud.com/cyclotron2010/au ... synclavier

This won't replace the fm hardware by far but I think it comes a bit closer than stacking some DX emulations in the DAW.

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@tomcat666

just listen into this interesting audio-example - this sounds interesting

we've got now the uvi-"emulation" called "The Beast"
my suggestion: you should observe the demos (on youtube etc.)
it could be interesting for your further developments, but it seems that uvi has only thought on harmonic - but not inharmonic -frequency-ratio-parameter (correct me please, if I'm wrong) and I'm not sure: was the harmonic- and inharmonic-frequency-ratio embed into the NED-instruments?

again: if you've first results as a vsti etc (also Max/msp-patches will be welcome),
please let me know this

regards
TSt

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The sounds in this demo are only some "random" sounds, captured while testing new code sections.

The most difficult part is to keep the CPU usage as low as possible. I spend much time on testing different implementations to get a usable result (my computers are a bit older... ;) ) and I only have some hours per week to work on it. It still may take around 12 months, but I don't want to offer a half-baked CPU hog nobody can use.

The engine is different from UVI's 'The Beast": It's a full featured additive / wavesequencing / fm synth. As far as I'm informed "The Beast" is a sample player + simple FMIZER and comes very close soundwise because it uses sampled presets.

Audio - Term II will have a much more detailed access to the parameters, but the resulting sound may differ. As explained, it's "inspired" by the SII but not meant as full "Synclavier emulation". This has technical and also legal reasons.

By the way, a detailed explanation of the original Synclavier II FM can be found here (page 86 et seqq.):

http://www.synclavier.com/PDF%20Files/V ... Design.pdf

And here some explanation of the (quite simple for today's standards) resynthesis:

http://ned.synthesizers.fr/Downloads/Us ... lavier.pdf

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yes tomcat666, it could take a little bit of time to achieve a good result,
thank you for the links, in the last time I've also found this interesting site

some hopes exists, that in the next update uvi spends "The Beast" more (and I hope better) parameters

in the next time I'll look at your audioterm,
as I read, the generated wavefiles are compatible to the Waldorf "blofeld"?
that sounds interesting
let me know, if your prototype is ready for tests

regards
TSt

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