In the video, synthesist Josh Lucan deconstructs and recreates the track Exit, by Tangerine Dream.
Here’s what he has to say about the video:
“I deconstruct each layer of Tangerine Dream’s song Exit from 1981, revealing many of the instruments and sounds they used. Making an appearance, in addition to several synths, are the additive synthesizer, the Synclavier, and E-mu’s early sampler, the Emulator II.”
While Lucan recreates Exit using software, the result is very close to the original. He also shared a link to the sheet music for the track, which you can play in sync with the recording on Soundslice.
Today Behringer shares this hands-on demo of their new JN-80, their ‘supercharged’ take on the Roland Juno-60.
The Behringer JN-80 copies the look and architecture of the Juno-60, but offers 8-voice polyphony, vs the original’s 6-voice polyphony. It also reduces the size of the synth to fit into the Deepmind 12 form-factor and uses a 4-octave keyboard, instead of the 5-octave keyboard of the original.
Notably, the JN-80 offers a keyboard with aftertouch, extending the performance options of the synth beyond the original.
Watch the video demo, and share your thoughts on the Behringer JN-80 synthesizer in the comments!
The Behringer JN-80 is available to pre-order, priced at $569 USD outside the US. Behringer doesn’t list a US price, but readers report street prices for US pre-orders being about $100 higher because of the current tariffs.
Synthesist Gary P Hayes shared this Berlin School style synth jam, Morphogenesis.
The jam is performed with Zaquencer – an unofficial firmware for the Behringer BCR2000 that turns it into a multi-channel step sequencer. Behringer has previously announced to bring back the BCR2000 in compact form – and to include Zaquencer as a factory option.
Here’s what Hayes shared about the technical details:
“The 4 track Zaquencer….is great for on the fly changes to step pitch (and whole track pitch), the wonderful step skip and mute, chords and inversions, ratchets, track step speed & polymetric / rhythm, various midi ctrls per step (2 separate ones) and a lot more.
Here I try a few of these an hour after getting it plugged in – 3 tracks into my bARP (doing 3 oscs, noise and 2 sustains), FM2 doing tuned perc and the Roland S1 doing analog synth things.
An obvious influence in many places to minimalism, but really a great exercise for me to learn how to best use the Zaq.”
