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Alan R Pearlman - June 7 1925 – January 6 2019
We were honoured to visit Alan and his wife Buena in Boston when filming the Bright Sparks documentary. To say that meeting was life changing is an understatement.
Listening to Alan recount his life story was extraordinary and aside from from his widely known accomplishments with Tonus and ARP instruments, we learned he was a consummate artist and pianist. We may publish his story in its entirety one day. However, what really struck us was the bond between him and his wife, Buena, (another accomplished artist) who Alan referred to as his guardian angel. Buena had survived three concentration camps during WWII and was clearly a woman of great strength and character.
We send our sincere condolences to Buena and their daughter.
NEW! The Streetly Tapes - Vol 4 for M-Tron Pro
After The Streetly Tapes - Vol 3, we thought we’d exhausted the vast library of Streetly tape banks available, so imagine our excitement when Martin Smith called to say, “I’ve found some more tapes tucked away in the tape storage cupboard. Do you fancy a listen?” Full details here.
Trumps
Vintage Synth Trumps 2 - The perfect way for analog aficionados to test their own knowledge, show off and settle those annoying synth arguments once and for all!
Priced at just £6.95 (plus postage) and now available from our webshop here.
ChamberTron-RE Rack Extension for Propellerhead's Reason
Inspired by the tape replay keyboard originally invented by Harry Chamberlin in the 1950s, which, via a fascinating twist of fate, gave rise to the Mellotron®. ChamberTron-RE provides a highly evocative set of sounds within an easy to use and carefully crafted Rack Extension.
Full details can be found here.
RE-STRINGS Rack Extension for Propellerhead's Reason
RE-STRINGS, the Vintage String Ensemble Rack Extension for Propellerheads Reason. Based on our award winning Virtual String Machine (VSM), RE-STRINGS comprises 67 individual sample sets from a plethora of classic analogue string ensembles including the ultra rare (and first) Freeman String Symphonizer, the highly coveted Solina, the eminently desirable Eminent 310, the highly-lauded Logan String Ensemble, plus several other classic (and not so classic) string machines.
Each sample set spans 49 notes (4 octaves), each individually sampled and looped, plus RE-STRINGS contains a 700+ patch library created by respected patch designers including legendary string machine user and keyboard maestro, Billy Currie. An in-depth interview with Billy can be found here.
The Streetly M300 Leads for M-Tron Pro
In collaboration with our friends at Streetly Electronics, we are delighted to bring you the Streetly M300 Leads Expansion Pack for M-Tron Pro.
Released in 1968, the M300 was the first 'Tron with a single 52-note keyboard, making it considerably more portable than its predecessor, the MkII. The M300 also came with a new set of sounds which were considered more hi-fi than those of the MkII.
Available from our webshop here.
Vintage Synth Trumps 2
Bright Sparks Documentary - the Sound on Sound review
“The result is a documentary that isn’t merely well informed, it’s definitive.” Read the full review here.
SoundBytes interview
Dave Spiers shares some history, both company and personal, with Rob Mitchell of Sound Bytes Mag. Read here.
Roland Jupiter 8
GForce Software's Dave Spiers takes an in-depth look at Roland's last flagship analogue polysynth.