Jeffrey visits Apollo Studio Again

Yesterday I was visited by Jeffrey again (AKA Synthex). He bought a Doepfer Dark Energy that didn't track very well, so firstly we calibrated and tuned it. Then Jeffrey finally got to play on the Elke Synthex that worked prefectly yesterday. Unfortunately that is not always the case. After that he recorded some music for a new album on several synths like the Jupiter 8, Minimoog and EMS VCS3. We had a great time as usual and for me it was actually good to have a break from my work finally. When they left I did a little extra work on one track that is taking shape quite well already. Then I exported all the tracks to WAV to Jeffrey can work on it in his own studio. It was nice to be in the studio again and I really must make some music of my own again soon :) Jeffreys father also filmed a bit, so I'm sure there will be a video on youtube soon. I will post it on my blog as well if I see it.

Fixed the Elka Synthex Today

The last time we worked on the Surround Speaker setup I had to move the Elka Synthex to make room. Since that move it was completely out of tune. Today I had to remove it again and I decided to open it up. To start with the plastic part right of the keyboard was broken and I glued that back it. Further more I checked and redid all the connections going from the PCB's. And when I put it back in place and tested it everything worked fine again :) I'm very happy about that. It is a great synth and I was not happy to have it leave my studio for repairs. Well another problem solved today :)

Elka EK-22

I haven't written much here the last week, because I was very busy with a track. But I'll try to update you on some new things. Like that I came across this rare polyphonic Analog Synthesizer. It is an Italian produced Elka EK-22 and it was sold from 1986. It has 6 voices with 2 DCO's per voice.

I haven't really tried it out yet, but when I came home I was looking for a picture of it on the Internet and didn't really find a good one, so I took some pictures myself right away and decided to put them online. I'll try to find a nice spot for it and maybe I' write about it a bit more later.

You can click the pictures for a larger version.