What’s my secret to making music? I let my Gummi Bear friends do it for me! Normally they are camera shy but today they let me take photos of them recording a song. There are 10 photos and captions in total so be sure to click “Continue…” to see them all!
Red and his twin brother (also named Red) team up to add more noise into the signal chain of an Electrocomp-101 vintage analog synthesizer.
Green helps Orange change the Control Mode to Envelope 1 on an Electrocomp-101 synthesizer.
Green and Red need some inspiration before they go back to making music so they lie down for a bit on a Roland SH3 synthesizer keyboard and stare at the studio’s acoustic cloud.
Yellow and Red team up and jam on a Vermona DRM1 MKIII drum machine. Yellow changes the resonance on the snare while Red messes with the highpass filter on the lazer zap.
This entry was written by , posted on September 11, 2008 at 11:32 pm, filed under Ableton Live, apple, hardware, song writing and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, candy, drum machine, Electrocomp-101, Gummi Bear, Gummy Bears, Jomox, Korg Legacy, Korg MS20, M-Audio, Oxygen 8, Roland SH3, studio, synthesizer, Things to Come Records, Vermona DRM1, Yamaha CS5, Yamaha NS10M. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I visit a great forum at vintagesynth.org to see what old toys people are using. There is a thread going on titled, “Roland SH-3 (not 3a) questions and value.” which I have been following. I own a Roland SH3 so I’m 
always curious to see how rare it actually is. I’ve mentioned before on this blog that Roland was sued by Moog over it’s filter design in the SH3 and shortly after released the SH3A.
Forum members have been contributing audio samples to see if there is a real difference between the 3 and 3A so I decided to upload a set for of my SH3 for everyone to check out. Each same is pure Roland SH3, no compressor or any effects. Recorded directly into a Motu 828 using Ableton Live. You can download the 24bit Wav files in a .zip or listen to the 320kpbs MP3s batch encoded using LAME and Techspansion’s great AudialHub.
The audio player will play each sample in succession:
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You can download the high resolution Wavs by clicking here:
Roland_SH3-24bit_Wav.zip
Roland SH3 by Oliver Chesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
You can also see some videos of the SH3 in action in my studio: click here
This entry was written by , posted on July 11, 2008 at 1:20 am, filed under hardware, sounds, synthesizer and tagged moog, Roland SH3, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I’ve been stuck in the studio catching up on several remixes and songs for my next album. I would never forget about my blog readers so while I was there today I shot three videos of my Roland SH3 in action.
The Roland SH3 was produced in 1974. It is more rare than the SH3A which was put into the market after Moog sued Roland for the original SH3’s filter design. This is one reason the Roland SH3 sounds so incredible. Rumor has it that less than 100 of these were ever made.
You can hear pure Roland SH3 accompanied by an Electrocomp-101 in two of my songs: Room of Posers and Sex Machine.
Be sure to check out the other two Roland SH3 videos I put up here:
http://www.vimeo.com/user442527
This entry was written by , posted on April 15, 2008 at 2:31 pm, filed under synthesizer, video and tagged Roland SH3, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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