VCS3 - The Power Of The Darkside!
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2017
- I thought I would do a slightly longer video with some VCS3 exploration. To add flavour I have used the Eventide H3000 "A Mixo Air" patch and some Eventide Black Hole reverb.... no they don't pay me LOL.
I had the VCS3 outs patched into the Focusrite ComPounder just to keep the levels from distorting and it also adds some nice warmth to the sound.
I really enjoy some of the sounds that came from this session. I always find it best not to plan an outcome but just go with a "I wonder what would happen". I hope you enjoy the sonics :D
BTW If anyone is interested in a VCS3 sample pack let me know in the comments and if there is enough interest I will create one!
Great Sounding Synth! At around 4:30-5 minutes I got a really cool Tangerine Dream vibe, I listened to their record Zeit this morning and it sounded just like it. Great work!
Thanks TacoMage. Its a fantastic box of sonic tricks :D
Zeit is the best thing in the world!
Amazing in white, very cool synth, I'm so envious but in a really nice way. Bravo.
Thanks, It took a crazy amount of time for me tlo make, but is worth every sonic second :D
I really liked when you tore a hole in space time around the 3:00 min mark
Yep, you have to be careful when your doing that :D
Frickin jaw dropping amazing!!
Thanks Bartyron :D
Cant wait for the Behringer Clone. This thing is beautiful beast.
Thanks, indeed the Behringer Clone is taking its time to arrive! :D
thanks for the stunning, inspiring demos - some of the best i've seen. ok now i've just moved my revell vcs3 up the priority ladder!!!
yep, you have to do it... Its a tone of work (surprisingly so) but well worth it! :D
where did you find your VCS3 service manual BTW?
@@antigen4 I just used the original EMS One ... yes its that close to the original you can just use the old manual :D
yes it was my understanding it was the original ... but where does one find it? elektrotanya? the usual places? just wondering
@@antigen4 ems vcs3 manual in google the first hit seems to be the EMS manual dl.lojinx.com/analoghell/EMSVCS3-UserManual.pdf
So beautiful and trippy
Thanks :D
love it in white! great vid, thanks for posting
Thanks for checking it out. I stole the white VCS 3 idea from seeing Brian Eno playing one. If its good enough for Mr Eno, its more than good enough for me :D
thank you for the inspiration to finish my build!! :D just magical!
Yep! Get on it .. get it done.. its provided me a lot of inspiration over the last 3 years :D
antigen4 can you still order the build kits?
Amazing sounds coming out live. Just the 2am music I need after a busy weekend :)
Danke! Always a busy weekend with you .. you need to chill :D
Many sounds you’re creating totally make me think of Forbidden Planet!
Thanks :D Thats a great comparison!
Transcendental ! Superb demo !
Thanks again Eric :D
You're welcome and much respect for the job about this VCS3, you build it yourself and it's really hardcore...i'm watching your "making of" right now and it's a battle against elements XD
Have a nice ending week end !
What a great synth!!
Lots of fun! :D
That sound at the beginning is like ancient PBS...
I wouldn't leave the house for weeks if i owned one of these. It looks amazing in white and
sounds incredible . 👍🏻
Thanks! Hopefully the Behringer one will be out soon for us all :D
Two years later still waiting for the Behringer one...
What a lucky person are you .... man o man so amazing
.. and I'll keep dreaming one,day I'll have this synth :)
Thanks Dragan. Yes I am very very fortunate to have so many of my dream synths. All the the vintage ones I have been slowly working towards purchasing or cloning for most of my life :D I started thinking about cloning a VCS3 back in 1989! when I was 17 :D
Beautiful
Thanks :D
God DAMN! What a sound.
Yep, pure transistors and voltage and a H3000 .. there both old but still sound awesome :D
My favourite part is you running it through a digital reverb to annoy the purists.
Sounds grrreeeat!
LOL, anything that sounds good my friend and I'm doing it :D
Bingo!
It also covers up the differences between the real deal and the clone.
It looks like naval battle game !
I sunk your battleship Oscillator :D
@@100ThingsIDo Touched !!!!!!!
Agradable. Me gusta.
Me lleva a colocar que soy sólo yo.
Gracias por todo su tiempo y gran trabajo.
De nada mi amigo :D
fantastic performance!
Thanks!!! :D
awesome
the beauty
:D
Some really nice dark ambient sounds
Thanks. Such a great box for Atmosphere :D
In ambient music nobody play this sinth. Melotron,moog,guitar with efects etc
Pink Floyd aproves
Those sounds Roger Waters made in Pink Floyd live in Pompeii with the AKS blew my mind when I was a kid :D The Drone sounds he made still sound awesome today! :D
I sometimes watch that portion of the Live at Pompeii just to look at his confused face "ok... this does that... and sounds like that... can I put it down? It's just on the first note" :D
Knowing EMS gear it would of been "Well it did something different last time... but everything looks 100% the same but it sounds totally different" :D
ahah exactly XD
Eno also approves. lol
i'll say it again, fantastic
Thanks John , Glad you enjoyed :D
Les sons sont incroyables 🙂👍🚀🚀
Merci Frédéric :D
Very cool!
Thanks man! Not made at start of the TTSH yet! :D
It sounds wonderfully organic and unpredictable.
Unpredictable indeed :D It really seems to change as it wishes!
Wow I hear the Bob from Roxy's first album holy crap amazing
Yep! Its an awesome box of sonic tricks :D Thanks for checking out the clip!
Awesome
Thanks Paolo! :D
Sounds amazing!! This is like an type of digital drug
Thanks :D
It is not digital, silly.
@@snoolee7950 the instrument is analog but when it is on UA-cam it's digital
This is the sleekest, most modern looking VCS3
Thanks, I stole the white paint idea from Brian Eno :D
At last- a VCS3 to match a stormtrooper's armor! The Putney Strikes Back.
LOL , I didn't even make that connection .. but now I can see it .. .it needs some light blue accents :D
Good trip Peter R.I.P
yeah!
So Much Fun :D
And this is how the electronic musicians spends hours and days locked in our rooms 😂😂😂😂😂
Your telling me :D
😍
i have the same 'kit' to build but could only get larger ghielmetti matrices - about 25x30 or so - should be interesting to see what other functions one might bring into the patching matrix!
Hey there , great to see another builder. My matrix is the 30x30. There quiet simply built if you tear them down and you can convert them into any size with a bit of work. I just made mine 20x20 to allow for extra functions and used the top cover to mask off the rest (check my building the VCS3 video). The best idea I have seen was from Alessandro Cortini, who uses the scope out on the back plugged into the line in.. It goes you access to a hidden Inverter circuit :D
thank you - i watched that one already
At 3.30.. that's some other-worldly shit. 😳🤯
Thanks! Sounds like The Dalek's Master plan to me :D
Sometimes you need melodies, and sometimes you need little farty, squelchy bursts like this little guy.
Its an awesome box of sonic tricks for sure :D
I always wondered how you set the modulation amount in the pin matrix , is this possible ?
You set it with the Volume mixer for each oscillator. Volume can = Volume or Amount depending on how you patch. It takes hours to get your head into the EMS space.. once you do it all makes sense and is very easy to use :D
the black square with the little red pegs looks like the game Battleship. lol
I have always been tempted to turn a game of battleship into a synth :P .. Nice Roger Waters Icon BTW :D
Battleship patchbay... I can dig it
nice :D
When I was younger in the 90s I wanted to do a band photo shoot with two setup like battleship "you sank my vco!"
Old machine but funny. And today like 68. King Crimson,Pink Floyd & many other progresiv bands.
Brian Eno is wizard of noize VCS3. I like one time computer program similar VCS sintesizer. I can't remember how is name of 3-4 cd-s but one time it's funny game with wird tone. My wife is going to frends on koffe when i start to play.😅 I actualy play guitars 52 y and this is my first hobbi. I play in several bands. 2 bands. One is teenager glam band 4-5y and another is trio and play jazz rock and funky.
1:00 -1:25 power failers in TX one at a time
:D Nice! The Force is strong with this one !
Hey thanks for that fantastic demo! Great sounds ! How and where can I buy samples from your VCS3 sounds ?
Sorry Mike, I should of completed the sample set long ago but other things have got in the way. I might do a livestream on it next week :D
@@100ThingsIDo Thanks for your answer. I especially interested in VCS3 sound EFX, that were used by Pink Floyd, JMJ and Klaus Schulze.
A sample pack, including these sounds would be so great !
@@mikehanssteffl4174 I'll for sure put a notification on the UA-cam channel when its done ... should not be too far now :D
beautiful sounds! is there any sample pack available from this monster?
cheers!
I was going to make one a while back but there was very little interest. If you pop me an email I can send you what I recorded. :D
❤💥👌🏽
Thanks :D
Very psychedelic sounds
Thats why its so special :D
Brian Eno approves.
Yerp! 100% Tribute to that Roxy Music VCS3 of his :D I did notice when they got back together a few years ago he was once again playing a white VCS3 .. I wonder if it was the same one!
@@100ThingsIDo the Bob from the first album 1972
100% interested in the VCS3 sample pack!!! More importantly why haven't they ever been reproduced? Is there an equivalent technology today?
The cost is mostly in the Pin Matrix & all the hand wiring required (HOURS+ Hours then more hours) . Everything else is quite simple but a good pin matrix is essential :D When I had problems getting Osc 2 to work I lost a few days debugging :O :D
iVCS3 on iOS
I appreciate the skill to keep this on a musical course, lacks fine motor involvement so you should be able to pick it up in half a day.
The VCS3 has so much crosstalk in the control voltages that every day you turn it on it behaves slightly differently :D
:D
Hey there, I'm making a video about this synthesizer and was wondering if it's okay with you to use a snippet of your video? With credit of course! :) Such a cool machine!!
Sure, no problem go for it. If you need any info let me know :D
I would REALLY love to own one of these.
I know the feeling, it took a few years for me to make it and maybe 30 years of lusting to start building it :D
@@100ThingsIDo it’s beautiful. Great job man!!
So this is a recently made model using a customised appearance? What is the circle above the joy stick and what are the buttons that surround it? And why do you use al red pins?
Hi there, this is my ( still slightly unfinished ) VCS 3 Clone. I made it look slightly like the one Brian Eno used in the early 70's. I have a build video on thr Channel if you want to check it out :D
Well done!!!! I'd love a link to thryr channel
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/OJXOVTiI7gY/v-deo.html
I have a more complex version (VCS6) build in the 70s, maybe I will do a demo as well :-)
Wow I would love to see it ! Please do indeed do a demo! I will share it here if you do :D I have been very fortunate to see the original VCS1! Search Don Banks EMS :D
like the sounds
Thanks Man! Its an awesome box of tricks :D
ps yes please sample pack
OK cool, I'll make a start on it. Including some Jarre sounds :D
Hello! Please, the original audio here is mp3 128k. Is there any better audio from this vídeo? I would like to have it in a better quality. Thanks in advance!
I'll link you to the 44.1khz 24 bit files when I get home later....A lot of it will be in the sample pack :D
That would be super! thank you so much!
Let me know your email address (go to the channel main page, from there click about. under the views count there is a private message button) and I will share the .zip with you .. its about 160mb and has more sounds than the Video clip but is also unedited.
Ok, it’s there! Thank you!
is this a Cloney project build?? or complete DIY by you??
Complete DYI, I have a video on the build : Making of my VCS3
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1 May 2016
Can you overnight this to me? i want one...My Goodness....This is a Work of true Art
Its not a hard synth to build... just takes a VERY long time :D
can't hear what the synth sounds like with all those effects. Could you have chosen a more invasive reverb?
I have more Videos where you can hear the raw sound without any effects. :D It was not my intention for this clip.
How much did it cost you to make it? Just curious.
Hurmmm I would guess around $3000usd .. I went for many original parts (*some which I found out later I did not need*) which pushed the price high. The most expeinsive part was patch bay/pin matrix .. that was $300usd alone + $100 for the pins if I remember correctly :D
@@100ThingsIDo that’s not bad at all. It sounds great!
Sounds great! Would you mind sharing the patch?
Sorry, I don't save or photograph my patches. I like it it be a fresh creation each time (slightly mad on my part maybe ) !! :D
Fair enough, I forgot to ask where the hell did you find a chrome insert?!
I remember you saying you were going to build me one of these, free of charge... you remember right? :P
Funny that...... I Don't :D
I would like to have one. I only got an ARP 2500, ARP 2600 and ROLAND 100M.
Sorry for the delay in responding, those are wonderful instruments. I have never even seen a 2500 in person! :D
Cool, where are you from?
Melbourne, Australia :D
Did you ever make that sample pack?
LOL, I have it somewhere.. just never released it. I'm reworking the Bandcamp site so i will put it up there when its ready :D
haha for sure. Looking forward to it!(=
You should bring it down to MESS and do a comparison video
That could be interesting. From the ones I have played at MESS they are very close. Even to the level of things I thought I had done something wrong (like the crazy vicious Res and the mass of saturation giving almost FM sounds if you turn it to the osc's max). Still should do a direct compare :D
I have exact cad drawings of the woodwork I must send you sometime.
Yes, that would be good... I really need to finish the build at some point! :D
Pink Floyd's stuff
Indeed, it was Pink Floyd that started my lust of the EMS Synths :D
Can it also play music?
I assume you mean tone based music :D ..If you connect a keyboard via CV to one of the inputs you can play notes :D
Hello my friend can you do one with jarre type sounds
I'm pretty sure Jarre sounds on the VCS3 has already been done (if you check youtube i'm pretty sure there is a clip) :D
actually hey used the synthi on the dark side
Indeed :D
would you custom build to order?
Hi there, I possibly could but it would come out almost exactly the same price as the portabella @ wp.thesynthi.de. The amount of time to build a VCS3 is surprisingly massive and the pin matrix alone is around $600! :D
What is your email? That's fine
Go to the channel main page, click ABOUT and under the view count there is a SEND Message icon :D
msged thanks
is this a original phutney?
A Phutney for sure! Those boards really helped get the idea started :D
yeah ive seen the original PCBs for sale on ebay. you bought those and built the synth?
Yep... Its a stunning amount of work to build one... everything is point to point wiring. I have a "How I built my VCS3" on the UA-cam channel if your interested! Its still not properly finished but works good enough to enjoy :D
show your settings please
I do in later videos :D Although with the VCS3\Synthi A's you really never get the same sounds when you try and copy the patches :D
Of course there's interest in a VCS3 Sample Pack. Who wouldn't want that?
Damn! I forgot I was going to do that! I should get onto it! Thanks for the reminder! :D
These sounds are so psychedelic. The way the tones get in and out of tune creates this confusing dissonance, and my brain can't decide between if this is music or a soundscape.
That pretty much discribes the music I make :D Thanks for checking out the clip
ffs, overhead view.
LOL! OK I will mix up the views next time! Only 1 camera and I try and do most things on here live.. or live to track :D
@@100ThingsIDo thx m8 :)