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The Hare & The Tortoise. A 2014 campaign for Transport for London promoting road safety. My score picked up a Creative Circle Award, a One Show Award, a British Arrows Craft nomination and two Music & Sound Award nominations.
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In 1963 two young men stepped into a factory next to the...
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It was the summer of 1993 and I visited my friend’s house....
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Nerdy Stuff . A section of the website dedicated to totally...
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Alex Ball. Old Skool House Tutorial. This week more classic...
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The Roland System 700 from 1976. The highest spec and rarest...
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Roland in their early days, circa 1972 in Osaka, Japan....
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Vintage synths, film score breakdowns, tutorials, DIY documentaries, music production and composition.Hopefully you enjoy something here.
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Alex Ball has built a reputation as one of the most informative and interesting synth historian’s of the YouTube age. Starting with short videos about specif...
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00:00 - Intro and music featuring the ARP family of synths by Alex Ball 01:16 - About Alex 04:05 - The Terminator 2 Analysis 06:00 - Meeting Heroes 06:22 - How did the ARP documentary happen? 13:11 - How long was the process? 16:05 - MUSIC CLIP: ARP family of synths by Alex Ball 16:22 - What are your research methods? 18:44 - Alternate truths 20:43...
By day, Alex Ball is an award-winning media composer, producer and instrumentalist. By night, Alex explores his passion for synthesizers and the history of music technology, and has made documentaries covering the stories of the Roland Corporation, ARP Instruments, the Prophet Synthesizers, the Linn LM‑1 digital drum machine as well as breakdowns o...
Rob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMIs so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. Rob also writes reviews and articles fo...
On this channel we feature some of the pioneers of the industry, interview musicians and talk about retro and current gear.
Mar 7, 2024 · In his latest video, synthesist Alex Ball takes a look at the Moog Polymoog, aka the ‘Gary Numan Synth’. Ball discusses the history of the Moog Polymoog, how it works, and how Gary Numan adopted one of the presets to help define his sound.
Dec 27, 2023 · YouTuber Alex Ball gets his hands on Tony Banks’ old Roland JD-800 synth and finds that it still contains his Genesis tour patches from the ‘90s. News. By Ben Rogerson. ( Future Music, emusician, Keyboard Magazine ) published 27 December 2023. Best of 2023: A Banks preset bank, you might say.
MUSIC. BIO. NERDY STUFF. TUTORIALS. GALLERY. CONTACT. More. Aside from music for media and music for my own films, I also make music for the sake of music. Here's a couple of my albums.
