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Using the Oscillator Mixers on an Analog Keyboard

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Summary: Learn how to use the oscillator mixers and modulators work in vintage analog synthesizers or keyboards in this free music video on analog synthesizers and vintage keyboards.

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Dan Rapport Dan Rapport has been playing keyboards for over ten years and is an avid collector of vintage keyboards and analog synthesizers. He also plays guitar and has ... read more

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Using the Oscillator Mixers on an Analog Keyboard

My name is Dan Rapport. Today we are going to be talking about analog synthesizers. The next section on our analog oscillator is the mixer section, and this controls the level of the oscillators. So here we have the control for an external input, so if we could plug a guitar or vocals in here, and it would be shaped by the filters and the envelopes, which we’ll get to in the next section. And this allows you to turn it off and on: Oscillator 1, Oscillator 2, Oscillator 3. These are all level controls, and we can turn these up and actually get some analog distortion, if we have them all the way up. And this final switch allows you to turn on a noise source. So let’s hear what that sounds like: here’s with the noise off; here’s with the noise source on. So as you can see it adds a certain degree of funk to the sound, and we can turn the individual oscillators off as well. So now just Oscillator 1 is functioning. We’ll turn Oscillator 2 on, and then Oscillator 3, and then control the individual levels. This is the mixer section.

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