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@dreamsofmachines.bsky.social

I make electronic music. I also repair vintage synths and study their inner workings.

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A Trichocereus peruvianus micrograft after one year of growth. It was a tiny seedling grafted to Pereskiopsis rootstock a year ago.

06.09.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bitwig is incredible, been my main DAW for almost two years.

What DAW are you on? I’m interested to hear other people’s experiences and what’s interesting about Bitwig to them.

03.09.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#dnb #drumandbass #modularsynth #synthsky #electronicmusic

15.02.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Experimenting with some analog synth circuits using OTAs. Just a simple oscillator and filter so far.
#synthdiy #synthsky #electronics

30.01.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Arp Odyssey is one of my favorite synths. They have a wide range of sounds they can produce and they’re also easy to service. This is an Mk1 from the early 70s.
#synthsky #electronics #electronicmusic

29.01.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Modular DnB
#synthsky #dnb

28.01.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Love the EPS. A very under appreciated sampler

25.01.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Drum and Bass in Bitwig with Generative Break Beats
YouTube video by DreamsOfMachines Drum and Bass in Bitwig with Generative Break Beats

Drum and bass using non-deterministic breakbeats
#synthsky #dnb #electronicmusic

youtu.be/nVTbvfDsSA0?...

25.01.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fixed up my first Prophet-5. This one is a Rev 2 from the late 1970s. It had tons of issues but I took them on one at a time to get this guy fully functional. Hope it lives on for many more years at its future owner’s studio.

Now onto the next one! Got a few more Rev 2s and a Rev 3 in the shop.

03.12.2024 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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There was a solder bridge forming a short circuit beneath the IC socket of the 4514 IC in this schematic. It must have been there after a previous failed repair attempt from somebody else. It was pretty difficult to track down! The symptom was many keys (the ones on the two rows) weren’t triggering.

15.11.2024 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Prophet-600 is an analog synthesizer released in 1982. Like many other synths from the era it featured analog circuitry for the oscillators and filters that is controlled by a microprocessor and other digital circuitry. This unit had a short circuit between data lines on the switch matrix.

15.11.2024 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Got a vintage Arp Odyssey mk1 recently. I had the Korg reissue for a while but the real deal can’t be beat.

15.11.2024 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello everyone. I’m a musician by night and a synthesizer technician by day. I work mostly on vintage equipment. Stuff from brands like Oberheim, Arp, Roland and so on. Pictured is an Alesis Andromeda that I worked on earlier this year. It was a nerve wracking synth to work on to say the least.

09.11.2024 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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