An incredible collection of hardware synthesizer sounds, expertly programmed, individually sculpted with outboard processors, multisampled and mastered to perfection. The following games have their own game page with listings of developers and publishers as well as available downloads here at the patches scrolls. Afaik, even in the minilouge they used a processor per voice, just for modulation. Synth anthology 2 delivers the pure and powerful sounds of 77.
Hi i just received my sub phatty yesterday and very happy with it so far. Siel dk 80 24bit samples 2 dvds for kontaktexs24 wav. Siel mono modifiziert mit holzseitenteilen sieht er schon besser. Travel across europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances. The siel dk80 is an odd synth that could be said to bridge the gap between low end mideighties roland and sequential type synthesizers. Cant find any on ebay, nearest i could find was the keyboardless expander version for. As ardent oxford english dictionary readers may have spotted, bitimbric is a new word, invented by siel to describe a synth which can produce two completely independent sounds as part of a single patch. Ableton instrument racks megapack siel dk80 polyphonic.
If you are interested in these things i have a dk80 share quote. The dk600 is siels unique italian take on the mideighties programmable polysynth with midi implementation badged as the opera6 in the uk. This list is work in progress and not complete by far but will grow over time for games not listed here please use our search button on the left side. I can not find the info anywhere, including the manual. It is not as versatile as some but the lfos can be quite useful and the filter is actually quite good once tweaked. The italian company siel released their dk80 synth keyboard in 1985, which was a 12 voice analogue bitimbric 2 sounds at once synth.
Does it use a center negative or center positive power supply. You can use the pc to send a dump request message to the dk70. It sounded like there was a ton of modulation and it had such a weird interesting vibe to it. As you can hear, its possible to make quite an impressive noise with the dk80, but it takes a while if you want thicker sounds and certain playing styles will be forever lost to you due to the singlefilter design. Each patch was handcrafted and sculpted to perfection, accentuating the natural sounds of the synthesizers with a mastered finish.
I have a siel dk80 and i feel they as the dk70 are often unfairly treated. The programming section on the dks top panel provides the window actually, a twodigit led to the program, parameter or value being called up or edited, and the dk80 follows the siel tradition of the enter button, whereby any program or parameter values have to be entered before being processed. Yamaha, oberheim, sequential circuits, ppg, korg, casio, arp, waldorf, ned, access, kawai and more. I got a scrap dk600 in so i busted off three of the key bushings and plastic welded the pieces on to the messed up dk80 movement, and warped the metal and got it all straight again. What gear are you thinking about selling next, and why. Synth anthology 2 by uvi i have been using synth anthology 2 for some time now and i am really impressed with many of the included synthesizers.
Just like the juno106 and poly61 of the time, the siel was a 6 voice synthesizer with straight forward programming, simple effects and digitally controlled analog oscillators dcos. The expander 80 was also released at the same time being essentially but not just half a dk80 8 voice polyphonic and one sound at a time. With synth anthology 2 our sound designers worked through a magnificent rig of hardware processors including eqs, compressors and effects from manley, langevin, lexicon, publison, focusrite, spl and more. Just a year or two after korg released their pocket friendly polysynth, the poly 800, siel released their dynamic bitimbric synthsizer, the siel dk 80 in 1985. It first piqued my interest thanks to a youtube video going through the presets. Analog, midi, 12 voices with ssm oscillatorsfilters like early prophet 5, polysix, fairlight, emu emulator ii. Get instant access to the worlds best private pro audio classifieds for. Bob weigel of looks inside and out of the siel dk80, a mid 80s dual paraphonic filter analog using ssm2045 filters. The siel dk80 sample collection is part one of our budget sample collections and as such it features two samples per octave with velocity sensitive patches multisampled. Originally the expander 80 was not supplied with a power supply, as the dk80 one was designed to drive the pair siel expected the dk80 owner to be the typical owner of the expander a great setting for the left pedal is to scroll the patch programs, because in pure mid 80s one needs to select the program with the keypad and then press enter.
The italian company siel released their dk80 synth keyboard version in 1985, which was a 12 voice analogue bitimbric 2 sounds at once synth. Siel dk80 bitimbric synthesizer siel encyclotronic. Oscillator dk80 can stack polyphony voices into 2 different dco modes. Which makes sense, because these arms are not that powerful and you have to do the same task multiple times, it just makes sense, especially if they have to update a lot of cvs at high sample rates and generate all the modulation. Theres only one panel display for the sound parameters, but an innocuous. Siel dk80 expander 1985 analog italian midi synthesizer. The patches scrolls patch american truck simulator.
With synth anthology 2 you get access to an unprecedented collection of hardware synthesizers, every major manufacturer, every type of synthesis, every era, 77 synthesizers in all. Siel dk80 undocumented system exclusive messages and. This instrument is compatible with ableton live lite 9. The unit responds with a patch dump message of 50 fixed bytes, which is a coded message that contains all of the. Siel dk 80 editor and librarian patch base coffeeshopped. Tedious to program via the hardware panel, this layout should make patch creation a painless affair. The expander80 also known as the ex80, is a tabletop version of the siel dk80. Its a siel dk80 as general synth and midi controller, a pc compaq evo as recording box ardour was active at the time and an other pc as soft synth with amsynth later mx4 as well and. The siel dk80 is an interesting analog synth of the past. You cannot sell the product content or give it away for use by others in their sampling or sample playback devices. Hang your posters in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls arent welcome.
Barely fit but makes the thing a little more portable. Siel dk80 tech tips and sound demo and programming overview. The funny thing is it has been heavily slated for being paraphonic but now mono synths are regularly paraphonic people think they are brilliant for it. There are 50 memory patches 40 preset, 10 user but that could be expanded to 100.
Does anybody have any idea how much i should sell a siel dk80 for. The siel dk 80 is one of the synths were considering adding support for in patch base. We have sampled all of the presets 00 49 plus a further bank of 50 from the dk80 exp 80 cartridge as well as a few. Siel was an italian company that always quite clearly had their own way of doing things. It has a polyphony of 8 voices in normal mode and 4 voices in dual mode.
There was kind of an old school horror feel from the vhs days flowing through my mind, so. The siel dk80 released in 1985 was referred to by its formal name the dk80. I had a loaner monopoly when i was young and it hooked me. The dk70 is a fully programmable, battery powered portable synthesizer featuring subtractive synthesis using dco, vcf and vca technology similar to rolands alpha juno series. Live jam for a tb midi stuff cc control panel test still at working sequence play from steppolyarp to siel dk80, a very powerfull bitimbric synthesizer made in italy softly bit of italian.
I really did fall in love with some rld jup 8 pads and to be honest i could not remember when i did smile so much when i played recently a virtual. It sounded like there was a ton of modulation and it had. Noise always present when initializing patch sub phatty. Siel dk80 with expander rare italian synth nib w ps80. Its a rare analogue polysynth from 1985 in full working order. In this short tutorial i show you how to stack synth anthology 2 patches in the uvi workstation to get more bang for your buck. Now if i can just find a decent key movement for it. With dozens of cities to explore from the uk, belgium, germany, italy, the netherlands, poland, and many more, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits. The patches scrolls home demos, game updates, patches. Our samples are taken from a siel dk 80 which had had both filters adjusted to boost and tune the resonance to produce a far superior, and more versatile, sound. One thing i noticed today, however, is that when i use the initialize patch function and then turn down all the oscs and noise source and reset the envs, i get a low level of noise being reproduced on each keystroke.