All Geek All The Time
Ok so about a month ago I was talking about my favorite AMV from Golden Boy. The music is a dace remix of a Queen song off their album Jazz. So while trolling around the interweb looking for info on the song I kept coming across a certain image (NSFW). Being the weird guy that [...]
Well this Saturday we have the return of an old feature here at The Geek Review, Synth Saturday. One of the way too many things that I am interested in is the old style analog synths. One sub set of synths is the drum machine, which is really not made know a days as it [...]
This weeks Synth Saturday is the Yamaha CS-60 a 8 voice polyphonic programmable analog synthesizer that came out in the late 1970s. The CS-60 is the younger brother of the CS-80. With 12 preset and only one user patch available it lacks the range of it bigger brother but it does have a Ring Modulator [...]
Moog 55 Now when your talking old school synths there is nothing more old school then a modular system. With a modular system there is no limit to how many VCO, VCA, VCF, or Envelope generators you want. The modular systems, like the Moog above, were first produced in the late 60s early 70s. The [...]
This weeks Synth Saturday is a treat for all you K-On fans out there. It is the Korg Triton Extreme. If you watch the anime K-On then you will recognize the Triton Extreme as the synth that Tsumugi plays. Now some people don’t consider instruments like the Triton a synthesizer but call them electronic keyboards, [...]
This week on Synth Saturday we are looking at the Moog Little Phatty. The Little Fatty is the last Moog product that Bob Moog had a hand in the design of. Now the Little Phatty is different from the other analog syths we’ve show on Syth Saturday in that while it has a Analog sound [...]
This weeks Syth Saturday is a bit late as I took my Mom out to see the new Star Trek movie for Mother’s Day. So this week we have the Roland Sh-09 is a 32 key Monophonic synth from the early 80s. While it has a single VCO, VCF, LFO, and VCA. The VCO has [...]
