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I absolutely love this synth.

I made an entire EP using mostly just this synth (Think Aphex twin/ 90s warp braindance)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5to7MacsSiftv8vPFW05aL Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/cassilda_and_carcosa/sets/marantz_cp_...

Its such a great little 4op synth. It is a pain to program via the frontpanel but the Stereoop controller or the electra.one make it very easy to get into.

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It's really great. I also did a TX81Z song 12 years ago.

https://soundcloud.com/electrosock/beer-for-breakfast

Bought the TX81Z really cheap back in the day via eBay. I loved the OS of the machine, the most wonderful thing about it is that with only 5 buttons and a 2 line LED display you could tweak any detail about the sound, including changing the FM algorithm

How does it compare to the Reface DX? It's also 4-op and I think you can change the waveforms because I have a patch that's clearly a sawtooth. I only just got into synthesizers and the Reface DX is so much fun to play with on the couch.

The Reface DX can perfectly reproduce all sounds from vintage 4-op synths (TX81Z, DX9, DX21, DX11) but isn't directly compatible. However there's a solution to convert sounds for the old machines to the new one :

https://refacedx.martintarenskeen.nl/

Oh this is amazing. I bought my Reface DX second hand and the previous owner had put in a whole bunch of very cool patches. I often let my 16 month old daughter jam on it, and a couple weeks ago she managed to factory reset the thing so now I'm back to the diverse but rather bland factory presets so I really should put some effort into setting it up with a cool set of patches again.

You can get patches from https://soundmondo.yamahasynth.com/

I have two of them in my MIDI stack :-). I also had a DX-11 which was the 4-op keyboard and did patch design on that and then transferred the patches via Sysex to the TX-4(s). It continues to be a great synth.

Listened to all your releases, really enjoyed them! Curious to see whether/what you'll do with Bitwig, Poly Grid is insane but I personally I still prefer hardware.

thanks! some of the older stuff is.... old, not very good :) but thanks for dropping by and listening.

Loved it. Man, that bass on The King in Yellow... Only FM can deliver that!

thanks!

Damn dude/tte, those are some great tracks. Awesome work!

thanks :)

Love the mid 90s Warp sound. Which reverb did you use?

depends on the track.

ontologies -> Empress Reverb

king in yellow -> Empress Reverb & Strymon Volante

roland funk -> Strymon Volante, Alesis Quadraverb, Empress Reverb

toddling maths -> EHX Cathedral (so many lovely digital artifacts)

Sounds great! Can I ask what you sequenced with? Curious if you're using a tracker, hardware, or a more traditional DAW?

Sequentix Cirklon, I don't use a daw. everything is sequencer to synths/drums to fx to mixer to tape.

everything on that EP is sequenced using the Sequentix Cirklon, "Roland funk" was sequenced with a Elektron Octatrack because the cirklon broke and needed to be repaired.

Edit: I do use a daw when I need to bounce the tape to a single track. that single track is how i get stuff from tape to streaming services.

excellent work, I wish this was on bandcamp.

I have two TX81Zs, but I've never been able to coax anything this pretty out of them.

great stuff :) definitely fit the early braindance vibe to a T 10/10 would listen again :P

thanks!

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