THE SYNTHI

Debut live performance by UnicaZürn. Audience footage. More UnicaZürn info: http://www.cyclobe.com - or http://www.myspace.com/unicazurnofficial - featuring Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe, Coil, Possession, Amal Gamal Ensemble) and David Knight (Arkkon, Danielle Dax, Lydia Lunch, Amal Gamal Ensemble).

For twenty five years from 1980 I used EMS synthesizers, originally a VCS 3 and latter a Synthi AKS, and they can be heard all over my work during that period. I also used them when I was involved with SPK, including live (the first two SPK albums featured Synthi's extensively). Coincidentally I also recorded the first Lustmord album at the EMS Putney studio (London) in 1981. I used only a few other synths over the years, a Roland unit, a Korg Wavestation briefly and a Waldorf Microwave, but all minimally as I prefer audio manipulation to synthesis. But the VCS3 and the Synthi AKS were a major part of my sonic arsenal. read more [here...]

2009/6/5 Bakuon Film Festival Jim O'Rourke plays EMS Synthi with Makino's new Film "The World".

Conrad Schnitzler: Collection A #3 Macher with EMS Synthi A

The SYNTHI t-shirt, authorized by E.M.S. England and Germany. High quality screen print on B&C, 190 g/qm shirt (black only!). Available in a limited edition run of just 100 shirts! (29.95 € plus shipping / GER 4.- EUR, EU 6.- EUR, WORLD 8.- EUR). Available sizes: L and XL.

Trying to bring back the Old School Electro Boogie, sounds
similar to Scorpio by Grandmaster Flash & Furious 5

Formed in 1969, Electronic Music Studios (EMS) quickly became innovators for the recording, production and advancement of electronic music. The ideas and designs that bubbled forth out of the ingenuitive minds of Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, David Cockerell and others, led to the creation of some of the most wildly original musical / sound design equipment ever conceived. The VCS3, Synthi A + AKS, Synthi 100, Synthi E, Synthi Logik and the Soundbeam are among these, almost unworldly, devices.

It is often said EMS gear has attained cult status, reaching a fervor of near worship among its users. The Synthi Group is an example and collection of such users. United through the Synthi blog and forum (http://www.thesynthi.de) and located throughout the world, the group's members have come together for a planned series of compilation volume releases where the individuality and approach of each member towards their EMS instrument is showcased and broadcasted for all to experience. The listener will hear wildly different examples of styles and sounds that this original, and oft times, vintage equipment can create.

EMS were true pioneers from the very beginning, always looking beyond the culture and times they were surrounded and seemingly trapped in. Still around today, thanks to Robin Wood and Ludwig Rehberg, they are one of the few companies involved with electronic instrument production that have had a continued run since their inception.

The Synthi Group have honed the original pioneering spirit and DIY ethic of EMS with their Volume series, a collection of sounds encompassing beautiful dreamscapes, synaesthetic visions, dark ambience, aural abstractions, sonic absurdities, pulsating analog, glitch, ring modulators, and envelope shapers generating trapezoidal geometry. Beginning with Volume 1, the Synthi Group compilations aim to ensure the story of EMS continues well into the future of electronic music production. (alka)

The Synthi Group Vol.1 out now at Clinical Archives net label (ca297). Format: MP3, Quality: 320Kbps. Downloaded 42.584 times.

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• EMS Synthi HiFli
• Two Rock Custom Reverb Signature Amp
• Marshall 2x12" original greenbacks (1969)
• Suhr Custom Guitar (FL neck/middle SSV bridge)
• www.myspace.com/davidwaltermohr

via the synthi forum via magneticring.

A new prototype of a console to control 2 EMS Synthi’s
(either 2 Synthi AKS, 2 VCS3 mk2 or a mixture)



Features:
36x48 Matrix patching capability using standard EMS patch pins. Connects to Synthi prestosockets via special umbilical cables. External CV and Gate inputs to Synthi 1 and 2 via 6.35mm Jack sockets.Connects to Synthi Jones sockets on Synthi 1 and 2 for switching control between either external CV/Gat or DK1/DK2/KS control via toggle switches.
more at http://www.synthi.co.uk

Made by Steve Thomas (UK)

The above shows a new custom made VCS3 mkII module that Steve Thomas plans to make available in small quantities. Custom designed with hand made afrormosia hardwood case as in the original VCS3 and original synthi knobs/sockets/styling and custom engraved panels. Different knob colour options will be available.

More infos about the interface availibility and prices.

Here comes another album of Frequency In Cycles Per Second it was officially released in 2004 by theesonicabyss.com.
EMS Synthi AKS, Lexicon LXP 1+5, Lexicon Vortex.

Here comes the second album of FICPS it was officially released in 2003 by theesonicabyss.com. EMS Synthi AKS sounds only!

Available on iTunes. All sounds were made with a EMS Synthi AKS only. Listen or download "Check The Patch by Swapping Pins"

It was then last year in 2007 around this same time that I had an opportunity to buy a Synthi A Mk 1 from someone in NY. I was so excited when it finally arrived, it looked lovelier than the pictures, this being the first one I had ever seen in-person. My first reaction to the sound was that the oscillators seemed alive.. a pure sine wave with no treatment sounds like it could etch images in glass. Finally, this was the synth I had been looking for since I heard it's sounds, almost subconsciously, in my youth on BBC programs...thank you BBC Radiophonic Workshop. End of story?? not quite...read more here(...)