Synclav.com is the Synclavier website owned and operated by Synhouse, well known as the manufacturer of the world's #1 analog MIDI retrofit, the Synhouse MIDIJACK, with customers in 39 countries.
Although Synhouse was incorporated for manufacturing analog multimedia products in 1999, company work experience with many brands of electronic music machines dates back to 1980, and restorations of machines from DKI/Synergy, E-mu, Fairlight, Fender/Chroma, Linn, New England Digital (Synclavier), Oberheim, Simmons, and WENDEL Labs have been a specialty. The restoration and repair of Fairlights and Synclaviers is still the main business.
After 21+ years in business, Synhouse is now the only company in the United States providing Synclaviers, parts, upgrades, service, repair, and support for Synclaviers and Fairlights.
Synhouse has far and away the largest inventory of NED systems (50+) and parts in the world. Any system anyone would possibly want to pay for can be built by special order.
Forat pointed out mistakes with the buttons and the overlay. Dave Rossum and few of us had a good laugh reading your Ebay ads lol. Chinese trash much? The originals were made in the USA.
This machine has an 80286 processor, which was released in Feb 1982, so this isn't the original WENDEL used on the Gaucho album by Steely Dan, released in Nov. 1980. Perhaps this is a successor to the original machine.
Nostalgic yes : but epic meh, maybe Nothing I cannot recreate in Maschine with far more superior plugins : I like Simmons SDSV drums a lot : but now that the module sells for $5000 dollars and up : I'll pass because it's old overpriced relic ... Cheers 🥂
Iconic, inimitable, matchless. The Giza pyramid of electronic instruments. Owing one of these would be like owning some ET craft out of Area 51. Who is this lucky guy with this kit?
@@sawsquaresinetube Bingo. They cost real money to possess . The most disturbing thing about them is that, as old as they are, they sound so far superior to anything else modern because they are not made out low cost garbage Chinese processor chips and boards for mass consumption, 100 Khz!!! Who does that today? Synhouse is the only one on planet earth that can provide these machines now. If you can get one, you have something that surpasses everyone else. A very significant advantage. Synclaviers still live as a truly powerful instrument.
@@sawsquaresinetube Not a problem: planning, strategy, and money; anticipate vulnerable part replacement. Synhouse is not going anywhere; they are a relatively young company, I would imagine, and will out live most people. No one is playing a Synclavier in their 80s anyway. That company will be around long enough, quite likely. If someone can afford one; get one; have fun; carpe diem.
A professional orchestra player and classical music expert informs that these three pieces of music are masterful, which is one of the many reasons he thinks they were almost all certainly composed by J. S. Bach. The first song is using a harpsichord using synthesis that is most accurate in the upper range of the instrument and as the pitches go down, the sound deviates more and more from an actual harpsichord's sound, probably due to the fact that the waveforms change throughout the range of the instrument, a problem that could be solved with multisampling or having a little different wave shape for every note you synthesize, which is beyond the capability of the 1980-1984 Synclavier II but the 1984-1992 Synclavier can do that with polyphonic sampling, it's completely multitimbral and the number of samples that can be active on the keyboard at one time is limited only by RAM. The other two songs have a pipe organ sound with similarity to the "stops" on certain organs. Stops are groupings of which pipes are allowed to sound on the organ, and a big organ will have many, many to choose from. A pipe organ itself has typically a combination of pipes that are open on one or two ends, and these two types of pipes have really quite different looking (and sounding) waveforms.
Not only FM it's also multi timbrale mean you can stack 12 fm synth together inside this beast like playing 12 yamaha dx7 together with different FM layers.
These WENDEL-recorded sounds can finally be heard in this video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lhmNAP5fA8k.htmlsi=zhVboaLzxG0AQ6xM Those sounds are on the WENDELjr sound cards that are usually available here: www.synclav.com/overlays/ds-parts-list.html (alphabetically, near the very bottom) The actual WENDELjr machines are occasionally available and more can be restored as needed, nearly all the parts are in stock, contact Synhouse: www.synclav.com/wendeljr/comp-main-crop-992-web.jpg (if this is years later and the link is bad, check the Synhouse.com or Synclav.com or FairlightCMI.com websites or mail Synhouse to get the updated links) Another video about the history of early hard disk recording is coming up soon.
These WENDEL-recorded sounds can finally be heard in this video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lhmNAP5fA8k.htmlsi=zhVboaLzxG0AQ6xM Those sounds are on the WENDELjr sound cards that are usually available here: www.synclav.com/overlays/ds-parts-list.html (alphabetically, near the very bottom) The actual WENDELjr machines are occasionally available and more can be restored as needed, nearly all the parts are in stock, contact Synhouse: www.synclav.com/wendeljr/comp-main-crop-992-web.jpg (if this is years later and the link is bad, check the Synhouse.com or Synclav.com or FairlightCMI.com websites or mail Synhouse to get the updated links) Another video about the history of early hard disk recording is coming up soon.
These WENDEL-recorded sounds are on the WENDELjr sound cards that are usually available here: www.synclav.com/overlays/ds-parts-list.html (alphabetically, near the very bottom) The actual WENDELjr machines are occasionally available and more can be restored as needed, nearly all the parts are in stock, contact Synhouse: www.synclav.com/wendeljr/comp-main-crop-992-web.jpg (if this is years later and the link is bad, check the Synhouse.com or Synclav.com or FairlightCMI.com websites or mail Synhouse to get the updated links) Another video about the history of early hard disk recording is coming up soon.
I do not normally comment on things related to eBay listings, but even though I am very much unable to get this monitor; your thoroughness in describing as much as possible regarding this monitor is commendable and even though I am unable to buy this, I got something seeing this video and the listing description describing it. Wish more sellers put in as much effort in to their listing as yours. Thank you
These sounds have been available for over 8 years, but were just put here now, it's the whole bottom of the page, 18 sounds: www.synclav.com/overlays/ds-parts-list.html
These sounds have been available for over 8 years, but were just put here now, it's the whole bottom of the page, 18 sounds: www.synclav.com/overlays/ds-parts-list.html
Not only it's FM but also additive synth and sampler in the same machine, impressive spec for the time it was release, the only problem was you need to be rich to have one of this and smart enough to understand the gas work FM synth was back then, the interface was more user friendly than the pocket calculator board of the dx7.
Synclav, would you transfer the tapes you have in full (especially that "Boy Meets World" master tape containing "Me and Mr. Joad") via this BVU-950 as a direct download link?
Do these “timecode” machines play back and record any DAT tape I get off..say ebay? or does this require certain tapes that are specifically used in these machines? Say if I was crazy enough to spend the money on a rare pre-recorded DAT tape will it play back?
