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Patron Exclusive: Swiss Synth Museum

Added 2024-09-17 19:33:47 +0000 UTC

I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Swiss Museum of Electronic Musical Instruments, which boasts the largest collection of synthesizers in the world. I'm hopefully going to make a video about the experience, depending on how my footage looks. Anyway, while my visit was regrettably brief, I did get to spend about an hour and a half in the museum's playroom – a space where members of the general public can actually make music with various vintage synths:

I spent most of my time trying to record a video and a piece of music, and as such I only ended up interacting with a handful of the synths in the room: a Moog Model D (1971), a Moog Micromoog (1975), a Sequential Circuits Pro-One (1981), and a Roland System 100M (1979). After working with each synth, I recorded a few samples of each instrument for my own purposes. I wasn't planning on releasing these recordings or even turning them into a sample library, but when I got home and listened to them I was surprised at how nice they sounded. So anyway, that's what we have here:

Four classic synths. These are extremely lightly sampled – a few notes for each synth – so I've added some filter modulation controls that should allow us to breathe some extra life into them. All told there are 19 patches. I hope you enjoy them!

– Dave

PS. As always, you can download this sample library directly from within the Decent Sampler plug-in as long as you use the same email address for Patreon as you do for DecentSamples.