Rob Rosen Reveals His Ultimate Synth Collection
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2023
- I hope you enjoy this rare opportunity to visit with my close friend Rob Rosen for a deep dive into his ultimate vintage synth collection. Together, we’ll see inside some of the rarest synthesizers of all-time and learn from this master technician how synthesizers have evolved, what makes them tick and why synthesizers make such cool sounds!
I consider Rob’s shop @Rosen Sound ground zero for anything relating to synthesizers. It’s also the biggest wonderland of vintage synths in perfect working order that you’ll ever see .
Rob is a self-taught technician and is now the world leader for repair, restoration, custom manufacturing and sales of vintage synthesizers. He’s also quite an accomplished musician programmer and keyboard player as well.
00:00:01 Intro Anthony on the street in Burbank, CA
00:01:55 Entering Inside Rosen Sound
00:02:06 Meeting “P” from Chromeo and The Rosen Sound Team
00:03:06 Rob shows us his personal work space
00:11:42 Montage of Synths - Start
00:12:35 Montage of Synths - End
00:12:36 Anthony and Rob in “The Cabin” - a wonderland of vintage synths
00:13:42 Anthony explains and demonstrates features on the CS-80
00:20:36 CS-80 “Under the Hood” in-depth tour by Rob
00:53:31 Prophet 5 “Under the Hood” in-depth tour by Rob
01:12:50 Anthony Demonstrates some of the Juno 106 sounds
01:19:27 Juno-106 “Under the Hood” in-depth tour by Rob
01:28:54 One-of-a-Kind Oberheim Modular 8 Voice System tour by Rob
01:35:31 Anthony asks Rob 20 Questions about Synthesizers
01:39:09 Rob asks Anthony some Questions about Synthesizers
01:49:47 Bass Shootout: 1973 Moog System 55 VS ARP 2600
01:54:54 Shoot Out Conclusion and Bass Tips
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holy cow! This UA-cam video is the future we were promised - television showing exactly what we want, instead of for the largest possible audience! Wunderbar!
I think about this all the time. Truly an amazing time to be alive
This channel is steadily becoming one of the best synths channel on UA-cam. I really really enjoy Anthony and his knowledge on things. I'm learning a lot of things about synthesis and arrangment.
Agreed. It’s getting good . Real good .
Fantastic channel. Anthony has a great vibe!
Man your not kidding. I started messing with these things in the mid to late 70’s then gradually got into other things like Hammonds( b3). But still love synths and I find I’m getting back into them at 60plus years old.
Oh man, that Juno... 😭. I had one in beautiful shape and traded it... Definitely a regret 😞. Maybe I'll find another someday
Agreed. These behind the scenes & historical deep dives are compelling viewing.
Can confirm that this is one of the most magical rooms you’ll ever step foot in if you love synths.
This is one of the best synth videos I have ever seen. I remember coming across a cachet of 1970s magazines back in the 80s/90s and remember the initial UK reviews of the Prophet and CS80... the prices were similar to the price of a small terraced house in my town. I'd never really thought much of the CS80 until now... what an amazing timbre especially with the ring mod...
Possibly the best two hours I have ever spent on UA-cam. Thanks, guys.
My eyes teared up a little when they turned the OBX8 voice around to see the back of it. Stendhal syndrome moment for sure. So beautiful. A chaotic marvel. God bless the geniuses that make these gorgeous soulful instruments. It's easy to forget the miraculous human achievements in the technologies that surround us every day. What a time to be alive.
This ruled. The ARP 2600 sounded better to me than the Moog Modular. Both were nice, ARP just sounds cooler to my ears.
I expect to see little Sims people walking around and screaming when Rob pulls out the "city" cards with parks and warehouses.
Thank you both, Anthony & Rob!! What a rare treat to see the synths inside out.
There was this guy I bought a full Roland System 100 from in Sydney Australia, around 1997. His name was Dave... he honestly had 2 more full system 100's, Minimoogs, Korg PS-3100, Yamaha CS60... this was just the stuff I saw. The was a heap more there.
He had a mixing desk from an radio station (Triple M), a massive wooden Marimba. At that time he lived in an old warehouse around the St. Peters area. He said he was in a band in the 80s that toured Japan.
SO much value. Thank you Anthony, I am 20 years old and only recently got into Michael Jackson and the 80s sound. You're truly a pioneer. As a musician, there is so much to unpack and to learn from and i'm very grateful to have firsthand access to this knowledge.
I just wanted to acknowledge my appreciation for your stuff. Thank you. I hope this channel gets the platform it so deserves
Good luck dude!
What an utterly captivating 2 hours of informative video. To see the insides of these vintage analog synths, and hear from an expert on their inner workings, is pure entertainment.
I also own a EMS Sinthy A and a 909, sadly sold my mint 808 12 years ago and my 2600, yet own tons of jewels... and more to come. Prophet 2002+ coming from Germany now ( got 2 in the 90s), great trick yours with the 2600. I do with my Minimoog. Bob signed it for me in Barcelona one year before he passed away. Moog module with a real clock on it, funny!
Watched this live and really enjoyed it. Thanks, Anthony! I'm a career neuroscientist and professor who's also a musician and synth enthusiast. Digging all your content from both artistic and technical depth. Cheers from San Diego. 🧠🤘🏻
Rosen Sounds Synth Cabin is amazing! I would also love to see a tour of your studio!
22:00 and I thought the inside of my Hammond looked like a nightmare! Mad respect to the people who designed and built those machines!
This is the most informative video I have ever seen on synthesis. I want to spend 8 hours talking with this guy! Freakin' guru!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Rob and Anthony! Phenomenal video guys! Genuine friendship vibes, and the depth of knowledge in your respective areas of expertise, kept us glued to the screen.
Your videos are getting more and more addictive Anthony! This was fascinatingly detailed and nostalgic.
Anthonyl
Awesome ❤❤❤❤
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the inside tour of the CS80, Prophet 5, and Juno 106. Surprising how well the ARP stands up to the Moog!
P-Thugg! Love Chromeo, that was cool 👍
"People want the long answers". Profound words Rob. This is the greatest thing I have seen on UA-cam. Thank you Anthony!
Ahhhh So great! I love that y’all started shooting from the street,walking with the crew,cables n all,that’s the real juice right there,everyone literally in creative motion. Keep em coming,Respect to you and the crew,as well and Rob and the Rosen fam. This is beautiful stuff man. Bravo.⚡️🤘🏻⚡️
Officially one of my favorite videos on UA-cam. full stop.
Astounding work and knowledge ! Thanks for such a lucky opportunity for you guys spending so much time on sharing all this ! It has never been seen and explained so well.... a documentary that will stay forever in synths history !
I love this stuff. The CS-80 is very compact compared to the Oberheim Eight Voice! You're not gonna carry the Oberheim up the stairs yourself!
Just FYI, if you're going to fly around a room like 11:42 you'd probably be better off using an iPhone in Action Mode if you're not using a gimbal. The camera is moving dramatically through all three axes, and there's massive blur. It's hard to watch when it's not stable in at least one axis. The shutter angle determines how much the frames blur together, and it looks like it's manually been set higher than 180° which is very high. If you're not going for a trippy/dreamy/nauseating look you need a tighter shutter with a higher ISO. Also it looks like this was shot in 24 FPS then converted to 30 FPS, which adds a stutter during panning.
now , do your own studio , this was really good show !
OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN! A two-hour video at RosenSound?!! I may have to watch in sections. This is gonna be epic! So happy to see this!
12:42 This looks like my studio actually 🤯 this tech guy knows his stuff
this is the coolest thing to watch!!! Steffi the first lady of synthesis!
Love that GROWL!!! ( Edge )
I've struck gold !! This is what actually made real history while I stumbled through guitar centers of the 70s and 80s. The black magic of analog and digital musical instrumenta
As someone who is currently designing my own synth I really love this! Yes the hakko fx 88d is the boss! And to all those diyers out there; you dont need an expensive scope. All I have is a crappy ebay kit scope and its been enough. And for my dmm im using a cheap Aldi multimeter from 2009 and its bang on :)
What a collection, this is a great video, for the synthesizer junkie!!!!!!!
OH WOW! So, I thought I would have to break the viewing of this into more than one session, but I just could not stop watching! Very engrossing video. I felt like I was just hanging out with two synth nerds. Although I am no expert player or tech, I was able to follow along fairly well, but I did learn quite a bit as well! Excellent content! I was grinning from ear to ear through the whole video and even clapping at times. Like Anthony stated, it's so great when you have someone with whom you can share the enthusiasm of a subject and really just roll on and on. I could have watched an even longer video and enjoyed every minute. The 20 questions section was great! The shoot-out at the end was incredible! I just gotta get the patch info for that 2600 bass sound! Looking forward to it, Anthony! Very much looking forward to more phenomenal content like this. A real treat for sure.
Around 30 minutes in, Mr. Marinelli asks how oscillators make sound, and I want to see if I understand it right. The VCO has a capacitor that gets charged, and quickly discharges when it hits a threshold. The amount of time it takes to get to that threshold is determined by the voltage coming in, which determines the pitch, but the amount of time it takes to discharge is constant (?), which is what determines the waveform- in the case of the CS80, sawtooth. This signal is then sent out of the oscillator and processed, but it’s not a sound until it is sent to a speaker. Once the signal gets to the speaker, it’s kind of similar to the capacitor, I think, but now it is a magnet that’s being driven back and forth by the signal. So, absent any other processing besides amplification, the speaker cone’s movement would mirror the charging and discharging of the capacitor in the VCO. As the signal ramps up, the speaker cone moves in one direction, and then when the signal drops, it quickly returns to its starting position. This in turn moves the air in the room or headphones as the case may be. When the cone moves out, air pressure increases, cone moves back, air pressure decreases. Our ear drums detect these fluctuations in air pressure and nerves in our inner ear actually convert it into a new electrical signal, and our brains then interpret it as a sound. And we can tell the waveform, pitch, frequency, and all that other stuff going on and deduce the whole process that created it, and troubleshoot if something goes wrong. Can anyone say if I got that all correctly?? Fascinating stuff..
Synthesiser has been my hobby for over 35 years and it's a rabbit hole. Thank God I have a Mrs that's understanding
With reference to Rob, yes it's nice to have a soulmate who understands you in that world. And we the audience are with you on that journey.
Holy man! This might be the best and most educational video. What a great moment where Rob shifted in his seat that he was self-taught. Because that is something to be so proud of. Having pride in one's work is so rare.
Your content just keeps getting better and better. Love this channel
Another amazing watch! Thanks for these 💎💎💎
Glad you like them!
How lucky we are to listen to you guys and witness your beautiful friendship too. Much love ! ❤ 🤗
This is so great!! So grateful you are sharing this information Anthony! I am a huge fan
Wow ! Amazing videos, please keep them coming :)
Woooooh, I just finished watching it. What a wild ride! Loved every minute. Thanks so much!
Amazing video and Rob’s knowledge is inspiring. Thanks Anthony!
What a great video. I really enjoyed this peek inside, and the discussion at the end. Thanks guys.
I think this is one of the greatest synth videos Ive ever seen. Sitting 2 hours about mostly fixing synths and you guys made it great. Its remarkable. Congratulations.
you have no idea how rare it is for me to hit the thumbs up button lol I was smiling at the end with the moog vs arp there. excellent video!!!!
Wow! Amazing insight, great video!
AMAZING 😻 thank you Rob and Anthony!
Wow truly amazing. Thank you both a lot!
This is such a great channel and video. You really go into a deep dive of why these older synthesizers are so special.
Such a great video. Thanks Anthony!!!
Thank you for the video you are a rock star
An absolutely amazing experience. Thank you both so much for this.
Thank you for this! Super educational and aspirational!
Wow thanks to you and Rob Rosen! Awesome!
Amazing !!!! Thank you for this channel !!!!!
These clips are getting better and better. The knowledge being shared hands-on is incredible. Thank you so much for your efforts and for facilitating this to us!
Great video. Good job to the editors as well!
You are making amazing videos, thanks so much.
This channel is a hidden gem. Hope you never stop doing this kind of work. Super interesting and very well made. Thank you so much! :)
So inspiring thank you two for sharing!
This was amazing, thank you so much for such a detailed and heart felt discussion. I hope you bring us many more like it in the future. Peace!
Amazing! Thank you!
This was so cool! Thanks guys!❤
This is unbelievably good. Lots of gratitude. Thank you!
This and the Casio frog bass video are so good. I like where this channel is going:) thank you
Thanks for that gem of synth Video ❤❤❤❤
Superb interview / chat. Thank you so much, Anthony and Rob.
Incredible stuff!! 🤯
What a great video! Its like beeing in synthesizer paradise. I understood nothing but i loved every minute! Thank you both for sharing your knowledge :)
This was super fascinating and super inspiring! I really look forward to continuing to learn from you how our favorite sounds are made. It's like a peak at the "man behind the curtain!"
This is hands down the best video I’ve seen on the subject! Mad respect for Rob and the team and thanks for asking all of the in depth questions we begged to know. I’ve been to Rosens before and it truly is a wonderland. Thank you Anthony and co
Golden content, lets go dude!
Love the passion and knowledge being shared here.
I'm also a self-taught synth/gear repairman from Europe (at rhe moment repairing Lexicon 480 and Prophet 3000) and I really really enjoyed this episode. Thank you. Cheers! S
Thanks, both of you, for such an enjoyable deep dive into the internals of classic synths. UA-cam needs more content like this! Aside from actual technical instruction videos I don't think I've seen anyone go so far into the detail of the architecture before. It was a lot of fun!
Thank you so much for this spectacular video! It was truly phenomenal to see you both sharing this passion. I noticed you said that you love to use guitar pedals and synth. I’m also a fan of running synths through tons of pedals (have some videos on my channel) and it all just sounds awesomely good!, but even better with the reamp box and further signal level matching when going out. Anyways, thanks again! Fantastic video! Also reminds me why I miss LA. Best!
Geektronics. Heck yeah!
This was amazing, thank you
Thanks for doing this guys! Amazing Stuff! Hugs from Italy!
beautiful!
Fantastic work!
Awesome , mind boggling ! Thank you all 🙏
Incredibly insightful video. Profound, enlightening, and unexpectedly moving ♥
That's an enviable collection, and an enviable workshop! I'm also a self-taught synth repair tech and I know damn well how much work it is. That's a great achievement. And a lovely video as well, thank you for making it :)
This was some of the absolute best UA-cam synth content iv ever seen!!! Thank you.
magic stuff--keep it up
This is an absolutely mind blowingly amazing video. 😮❤😊
Wow this is just super thank u two so much you both are so sincere and honest love it, this is pure bliss
so good. thank you.
It's so cool seeing Rob talk about the Zilog Z-80 in the Prophet. My first experience writing machine language programs in the 1970s was on an Altair 8800 with an Intel 8008 at the college where my dad was a professor. Then soon afterwards I got a Radio Shack TRS80 Model I, which used the Z80 as a CPU. I dove head first into programming it. I wrote many assembly/machine language programs to solve problems back in the day, including a print queuing system so that I could still use the computer while printing, instead of having to wait for it to finish. The Z80 was such an incredible chip in its day. Even used in the space shuttle because it was so stable during liftoff. Brings back so many fun memories.
Wow, I loved reading this story. Thanks for sharing!
This video is unbelievable, so great and so interesting. Anthony asks so many good questions. Also for the noobs. Incredible knowledge by Rob. Unbelievable!!! Ty so much for this!!
Amazing. Ty so very much for this.
its so cool and fresh, to see outside :D
Thanks both of you for an inspirational journey into the synthisiser world !!! Rob and Anthony,...it's been a pleasure!!!
This person (Rob) is a bonafide galaxy brain. It takes a certain temperament to wade into deep waters like CS-80 repair/building - hats off to you!
This is the most incredible video I’ve ever seen. Hands down Best channel on UA-cam! ❤ Thank you for sharing these incredible deep looks into synthesis Rob & Anthony.
So MUCH Gold in this. How can I not Sub. You're a blessing to someone like me who craves to learn the "bread n butter" patch designs and history. Sometimes (Often times) one gets wrapped up in How Much a synth can do or modules be routed these days, but often one like me Misses the fundamentals of design and the importance (vs neccessity) of knowing how a real PRO Thinks about design. Incredible resource. I Thank you OH, and I Highly appreciate the one-of-a-kind tour we got here from you and Rob 🙏
Good stuff. Thank you both