Studio Electronics Omega Code 8 Polyphonic demo - Arp 2600 and CS80 filters
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2011
- When I touch the big knob under the screen I'm changing the filter type or tweaking filter parameters for the CS80 filter
I picked up a fully loaded 4 month old Code 8 this week, with 8 Arp 2600 and 8 CS80 filters! I was up late last night playing it for hours....
Sounds a bit like an Oberheim OBX. When you turn on all the waveforms it will saturate a bit, so it's not super clean like everyone says.
Filter demo here
/ studio-electronics-code-8
And CS80 filter demo
/ code8-cs80-filter
Arp2600 filter demo
/ studio-electronics-cod...
I really don't understand people's comments. It is one of the most beautiful sounds I ever heard in my life, like listening to a flower unfold and then wither if that was sonically possible.
They just aren’t listening! The Code is fantastic, as is the guys building them!!
Very big sound, OMG. Nothing has blown me away yet apart from this.
Same opinion as as Wave Strike. I´ve got the Andromeda, Jupiter 8, Oberheim Xpander and much other stuff here and owned a Prophet 5 Rev3.3 for a long time and so on. Must admit that few synths produce sounds as rich as hear them in this demo.
i can't believe it, this sounds glorious, this is pure heaven
I keep coming back to this video decades later. Own a few studio electronics items directly because of this video, and will one day have a studio electronics polysynth.
Towel on the top is *essential* for the warmer sound.
Absolutely beautiful timbres, for some reason it sounds more like a vintage Oberheim, the tone is there, the resonance is there, too.
my first thought
That is the most beautiful tone I have ever heard.
10:35 sounds absolutely enormous and beautiful! The whole demo sounds great too.
Thanks for posting this. Really amazing sounding synth and good playing to demo it.
Incredibly beautiful. Feels like sound synthesis by a much more advanced civilization on another planet far away from Earth.
Really sensational! I can't believe how good that thing sounds...
Sounds absolutely wonderful!
the towel is for if you can't take it no more....darn what a PHAT sound!!!
Absolutely Fantastic Sound !!!
Gorgeous sound.
I lost it at 4:00. Sounds glorious and you played my favorite 3 chords ever. Now how to convince my wife I need this...
That filter is so musical. I envy you for owning that beauty.
amazing synth always love to listen to this demo well performed
Thanks :)
The Code will distort. I had all the waveforms on and levels cranked right up. When the resonance is turned up on some filters in such a state - the 12db ones, the sound will saturate a bit. But it's mostly clean sounding with a single waveform and VCO
Thanks for the introduction to this impressive synth!
amazing sounds
totally agree after owning an A6 I'd rather have this than an A6, not only due to sound but you do have to have a really well understanding of synthesis to really use the A6, not to say that wouldn't help you w/any synth but this does seem "easier" to get closer to satisfying results than w/the Andromeda...
Filter gives me chills..
Sounds fantastic...
Thanks for your demo, I have subscribed!
amazing sound and playing!
What a SOUND. I love it thanks.
Really great synth
Sounds great!
The sound is definitely growing on me.
:)
It seems to have a stronger footprint than the p12!
Sean Christopher - New Age Music Composer this kills dave smith's new synths.
Sound great! Didnt ever know about studio electronics synths.
maaan, did not know about this beauty!
looking forwards to your demo proving this
It's from the synth, I had all the waveforms turned on, and oscillators at full volume, this makes it very loud and will overdrive the filters a bit. And some of the filters will overdrive slightly at high resonance
Yes it's good, and musical, like a vintage mono synth, just with slow envelopes. The pitch glide is very natural sounding
search for my demo on soundcloud called
"Studio Electronics Code 8 Arp2600 filter demo"
@DJPeteJames, I agree on the OBX likeness. I have one right here, although in need of a slight filter calibration. They have the same kind of 'weight' and analog prescence, even more so without the UA-cam compression. :)
wow lovely stuff !
Thank you for not doing the typical annoying arpeggiator thing! i really get what this sounsd like
Oh, thanks, it sounds really good :D
Hey CoolColJ, you and I used to chat back in the 90's sonicstate/gas station days. we exchanged MKS80 patches. you had that most Awesome sounding MKS80.
They have very similar tonal colour - similar filters
The Code sounds a little bigger, thicker in the mids, and more organic being a discrete voice board synth. But also a lot cleaner and tamer sounding at the same time...
Much more creamier and drifty as well, but you can modulate the A6 to get a similar vibe if you can program it well :)
A6 has much faster envelopes, and more flexible and wider variety of sounds.
Loving my ATC-Xi but waiting for the day I can purchase this monster!!
@mozgovljevski
The standard Mini filter it comes with.
You can see it on the screen, a bit faint though
@Ajantismusic
Just the convertors in a Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP
Using preamp inputs 1 and 2
It's a nice kind of saturation. You can hear it at the start/intro filter sweep sound - with the CS80 filter at high resonance. But you really have to work hard on the Code 8 to get it to be saturated, it sounds very clean and Hifi most of the time.
I had to turn on all the waveforms on both VCO, and all the level controls up to max.
I don't know which part of the clip your refering to, but it might be more to do with compression artifacts.
What a synth!
No, it's pretty smooth
@popadopulos
Thanks, just one of my regular jams :)
thanks :)
Yeah the slop function will help
Very nice ! I remember the supernova ;)
Nice, thanks for the help Cool!
Cheers Justus
I love this vid
Sounds very similar to my Ob-Xa!
The original synth used in Africa is the Yamaha CS80 :)
I think a number of synths could do the sound.
Goddam thing begs to be bought, whatever the cost. Amazing.
After getting a Lynx Hilo, it seems like thee Saffire PRO 24 DSP was adding a bit of extra fuzzy top end to AD
Yeah if you know what your doing :)
Except maybe the stereo voice spread and the band and high pass filter sounds
Also P08 has DCO instead of VCO so will sound less creamy
Sounds delicious :)
Just the PWM I meant. Code dosn't have that Roland tone, it sounds very American.
Other than that is a very clean, full, thick and smooth sounding synth in person. It reminds me of the Andromeda with that Moogy and Obie kind of colour. Almost too smooth and muted sometimes. The CS80 filter when cranked up adds more teeth, as does the Arp 2600 filter. The Moog filter reacts almost exactly the same as the A6 Moog filter - nothing like a Minimoog :)
CoolColJ - thanks for this video....i've been following your synth demos for a long time. Think I have some old clips of yours of the Andromeda A6 and Jupiter 8 on my computer somewhere!
I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on the Omega Code 8 and how the sound compares to the A6 and JP8. Would you say the Code is the best sounding modern analog poly available?
Thanks.
Hey CoolColJ, I still have the MKS80 patches you and I traded back in the 90's sonicstate days. I think you sold your MKS80 and got that Alesis andromeda synth.
It has Sawtooth, although I turned on all the waveforms in this video
It sounds so lush
I used to work on those and calibrate them. I still have mine and programmer sold the other two I had and my Jupiter 8. but hasn't been used/turn on like rest of the synths in over 7 years. I'll look around to see if i still have schematic somewhere, If I find one, I'll scan the PS section 4 u.
i like the arp best
wow...........insanely cool. droooooooooooooool.
Sounds amazing! What patch are you using when you start at 0:25 ? Or what was the starting patch before you edited?
Some of the extras make it sound different. The discrete Op Amp upgrade makes it sharper sounding, more defined.
And the Minimoog VCA upgrade makes it harder sounding
I always thought the discrete op amp upgrade was the same as the Mini VCA upgrade. So Greg and Co, can give the VCA’s more punch? Is that correct?
@@christopherpederson1021 still limited by the slow envelopes on the unit
Excellent sounds! Love the movie soundtrack feel.
Hi CoolColJ - Ive been following your synth vids for many years. I know you had the Jupiter 8 and Andromeda A6 at one point.....how does the Omega compare sonically? A worthy replacement?
Its certainly sounding nice my end :)
Love the pad sound at 0.24. Did this unit have the Op Amp upgrade on the outputs? Thanks.
Oke thanks! Well i'm in the learning process, but i will get there ;)
What about the slop function on the prophet, will that cream it up a bit?
Btw nice vids Cool!!!!
wow this is a fucking great synth
thanks, beautiful demo. .. really like the ARP filter. CS i find not faithful to the CS80 i had, but nice its own right. i hear echoes of JP8 pwm sometimes ;). OBX? not really, mine is a darker, more organic beast. overall, Code does retain SE signature character like ATCX n SE1X.
q: halfway thru the video, there's slight distortion in mids/highs, when you play chords or have high reso. wondering is this coming from the Code, or is it external i.e. clipping the inputs of the audiocard etc?
I still have an MKS-80 and programmer, but alas it doesn't power up anymore!
Probbaly the power supply is gone, but I haven't gotten around to getting it fixed...
Although I don't use it much
I used to have this, albeit different fascia colours....with 8 CS-80 filters too and The SE-1X AND the ATC-Xi but sold them all! For some reason I got bored with them. I have Moogs and built my own Deckards Dream.... much closer to the CS-80 sound...
Do you know on the mono version does the note ring out whilst the next note comes in or would you need the 2 voice version to get that result?
understand. tho when you say saturation i think of nice brute tone coming out of overloaded minimoog fiter, or when using a lot of resonance on OBXA, or tape recorded on +3dB etc. it enhances the tone. this however sounds like outright distotion with inharmonic components and all, as subtle as it is. so, quite oposite of desirable. is it something to be worried about, i mean do you have to watch the levels all the time or its once in a blue moon? thanks.
I came hear to check out the other filters. They are better than the moog and obie filters for the omega, but I am still glad I sold my omega 8. It just sounds flat next to my vintage synths.
vintage synths - perhaps. but how does it stack up to modern analogs?
still not good enough? I'm on a search for the best analog polysynth, and it seems nothing out now compares to the likes of obx ob8 and jupiter 8
Solomon Jenkins OB6 & SUPER-6
It was a custom patch, I was editing everything on the fly
How's the mono mode on the Code ? Is it as sweet as a Moog for leads and bass ?
Clean yes, but thin is the last thing I would describe this synth as :)
Much fatter and thicker than my A6 and Jupiter 8
The note will cut/blend together with one voice
You need at least 2 voices to keep the release of the first voice going
Just reduce the oscillator mixer volume - a lot of analog synths will overdrive in such a case, and the 12db state variable filters all tend to saturate at high resonance - reduce the levels going into the filter to reduce this
If anything the Code8 is too clean sounding.... which is why I like it to saturate more
Thanks ,Are you using any effects in this video ?
Do you think code 8 is worth the price in 2013 ?
I still have the JP8 and A6, but not the Code 8 :)
The Code 8 is the creamiest and thickest sounding of the lot (in the mids), but it's also very clean and tame sounding. Very slow envelopes as well vs the JP8. Doesn't have as much bottom end as the other two
A6 is more dirty sounding, aggressive, but with a similar tonal colour, but not as organic and creamy, but punchier in the envelopes - more complex as well
JP8 is snappy, with more tonal colour, character and sheen, wet resonance.
I hear nothing tame in this video. Sounds very similar to the OBX.
Love your demo!!! Awesome job! What was that patch starting at 0:22 showing the MINI filter, is that a custom patch? Did you happen to save any of your patches as sysex/midi files? I have a Code too with CS-80 filters but I've never been able to program powerful sounding ones like these! Wow!
yes it was a custom patch, pretty tweaked a patch in real time :) I have some syex patches and a bank of my stuff I dumped, send me your email, and I'll post it to you
+CoolColJ awesome!! it's john18inch@aol.com yeah I'm looking for any sounds like these big, massive, grand, lush evolving pads and you nailed them!!!
Yeah, i'm loving this synth, thinking about buying it, but I don't like the overdrive going on, especially in the resonance. To me it sounds like something that shouldn't be in a $4,000 synth. But if it's only because you have the oscillators at full volume, than I'd be ok with that.
@DJPeteJames
There are no FX, EQ or compression or post processing - zip - totally dry :)
Straight from the synth into my audio interface
This module has me perplexed. I don't know if I love it or if it just scares the living daylight out of me. Anyway, for the price of a bit less than 5300 euro I guess I'll never get to bring it home and find out. Nice demo, though.
Amazing !
I'm trying to find a synth that can make the brass sound from TOTO "Africa" and the brass synth melody from Spandau Ballet - "True" .
Can the Code do this and if so which filter do you think would be best ?
rocsire prophet-5
Great sound,...awesome even, but for $10,000,....I'd rather have a Korg Kronos + Kurzweil PC3K + DSI Prophet 12 + V-Synth GT, or any 3 of those + Alesis Fusion, Korg Z-1 & Triton, Yamaha AN1x & Roland JP8000. Or maybe an Alesis Andromeda A6 + Kronos & some assorted vintage synths. $10,000 is a lot of money & with 3, 4, 5+ synths, (all of which sound great too) you'd get a much wider, tonal palette. Of course if I had the money, I'd buy them ALL + many more synths. When it comes to synths/keyboards,...you can never have "too many". :-)
Sir, you fail so much with your choices. I had all those "Z1 & JP8080" stuff and sold it a long time ago, just don't compare those things to discrete analogs.
theeltea I have most of those synths & many more. I like them & they suit me fine. They may not be discrete analog, but they still sound great. (better than *ugggh* "VSTi anyway!)
Gerry No Frankly, I have two 8080s lying around and they just don't have the same appeal to them anymore, not with all those fancy software synthesizers on the market nowadays. Check out "Sunrizer" for IOS, it has JUST THAT supersaw as the JP80x0... Just an example.
***** Pizza tastes better than cheese burgers. Apples taste better than oranges. Like taste, sound is also subjective. Subjectivity aside, anyone who is familiar w/the synths I mentioned, know they are excellent sounding synths.
Gerry No No, it is not as simple as you try to portray it.
I see you was looking at the modal electronics 008 did you buy one in the end if not I have a brand new one for sale just way over my depth for my liking
haven't got one yet. Thought about getting one, just my gear lust coming through, but I'm not sure :)
Space machine
The PWM is not as silky as the JP8. The PWM has a bit of sawtooth in the waveform and sounds weaker than the square wave in the sub-oscillator
It's just a synth demo
i'm noticing subtle distortion/saturation going on in certain areas of the video. For instance, listen around 0:25, you can hear it. Is that the character of the synth, or are you running this through a limiter?
@DonSolaris
I like to keep my synths dust free :)
What converters do you use?
It's fatter and creamier, much thicker in the mids.
A6 has more bottom end and is dirtier, and more punchy, faster envelopes, but less mid thickness
A6 is also more complex, more flexibile, almost semi modular like and harder to use for those with less experience with synthesis
@popadopulos yes very sluggish