Mission Statement: Renting you the synths of your dreams

((or maybe your ex's dreams?))

NOTE: This is for Denver people only or bands passing through town

DUE TO VALUE, I WILL NOT SHIP

@MANMADEMADMAN soundsubs at gmail 303.913.0394

Mission Statement: Renting you the synths of your dreams

((or maybe your ex's dreams?))

NOTE: This is for Denver people only or bands passing through town

DUE TO VALUE, I WILL NOT SHIP

@MANMADEMADMAN soundsubs at gmail 303.913.0394

Studio Electronics MIDIMINI

In the 90's, Studio Electronics would rackmount genuine Moog Minimoog's into a case like this, which allowed for the exact same sound, but in a smaller form factor. Then later, they cloned the Minimoog circuit boards and put them in this case, with added MIDI, LFO, and control like Velocity and Aftertouch via an internal CV converter. Essentially, this is an upgraded original Minimoog with all the girth, drive, and convenience. Feeding back the output back into the EXT allows all sorts of distortion tones, unlike anything you've heard.

"ALL YOUR BASS"

Yamaha SK20 String / Organ / Synth

In the 70's, Yamaha was making great analog keyboards in their SK series, and this is one of them.

The SK20 was a live performance dream: you could mix between an organ, a string machine, and a synth, all with knobs to control the parameters. The organ is deep and gutsy, while the string and synth section are light and fluffy and work in songs like early New Order. You can add ensemble for a fuller, fatter sound, or tremolo for an almost leslie type effect.

TOP SECRET: run this through effects pedals for lofi jams and dreamscapes.

Korg ARP 2600 M

They finally did it: they shrunk one of the greatest synthesizers ever!

The Korg ARP 2600M is the latest incarnation of the all analog semi-modular synth, but at 60% the size of the original. The sound is stunning, and just like the vintage one I had. Only this time, it's conveniently desktop sized, and retains all of the analog features. You can patch the output to the preamp, and overdrive it at 10x, 100x or 1000x. It has both 4012 and 4072 filters, an analog ring modulator, built in speakers, and a real pseudo stereo spring reverb! Updated for modern use, it has MIDI, USB, and acts as a USB host, so you can plug in a USB keyboard or sequencer right to it for use without a computer. It works really well with Eurorack for hours of cross patching and limitless wonder. Yes, it does the R2-D2 sound.

NEW Sequential Prophet VS

This synth will blow your mind and hurt your feelings all at once. It is the perfect semblance of digital and analog technology, and it sounds just like 1986 to me. Its joystick lets you mix between 4 digital waveforms at once, and even record that as a motion attached to an envelope. On its release, Sequential promised "...a Prophet AND a PPG" and it really delivers. It is bright and chilly, yet you can really hear the crunch of those 12-bit waves going into the CEM 3379 chips. It has the world's best patch randomizer and will make sounds you wouldn't think to, because you're not a machine. Speaking of, this is THE sound of NIN's Pretty Hate Machine.

Now with the StereoPing controller as shown for fast easy editing, if you're not man enough.

Also comes with a cartridge giving you 16 banks of 100 sounds, including the factory patches and "best of" from the internet.

Rentals are $100/day, $250/week, $500/month

Deckard's Dream

This 8 voice replicant of the Yamaha CS-80 is "inspired by" rather than a 1:1 clone. However, they somehow subtracted 220 lbs., adding hundreds of presets while preserving the ethos, layout, and tone of its muse. Does it sound like a CS-80? F*ck around and find out!

Waldorf M

Deckard's Dream

The M could easily be named the Microwave III, because that's what it is: digital waveforms through newly minted SSI 2144 filters (formerly SSM), to bring a modern spin on their first synths from the 1980's.

The result sounds crystalline, crispy, rough, gritty, and gives everything you'd expect from the masters of "digital into analog" circuitry. Its everything we wanted from the original Microwave/PPG/Wave in a convenient desktop unit with knob-per-function.

Moog Taurus 3

Deckard's Dream

Moog Taurus 3

The low frequency sounds the Taurus produced were known to rattle subwoofers unlike anything before it or since. New and improved with presets, MIDI, and realtime controls, it's still the one and only.

SOUND GUYS HATE THIS! WHILE FOOT FETISHISTS' DELIGHT!!

CAUTION: please wear a diaper while playing this.

Moog Minitaur

Abstrakt Avalon Bassline

Moog Taurus 3

This tender little morsel of a synth packs a punch. It IS a Taurus, with knobs. The Moog editor turns it into a real powerhouse, effectively a hardware VST. There is nothing mini about it, except for the size.

When they said ALL YOUR BASS BELONG TO US, they meant it.

Whole track, only Minitaur

Moog Voyager OS

Abstrakt Avalon Bassline

The OS stands for "Old School" because this all analog synth comes with only 1 preset, as all mighty synths have: WYSIWYG!

It is indeed reminiscent of a Minimoog, with an enhanced stereo filter, more modulation routings (including FM and sync) velocity, aftertouch, and a legitimate LFO. Comes with a MIDI to CV converter.

I double dare haters to H8 this!

Abstrakt Avalon Bassline

This is everything a TB-303 wishes it was: built like a tank, with tons of pattern memory, MIDI, DIN, and CV/Gate in and out. Its guts deliver the true sound of a 303 as most fanatics agree. You cannot buy these any more, but you can rent one! The RANDOM button will make ACID for free.

Most importantly, Daft Punk 'Da Funk' comes pre-programmed for you!

The Elektron MK2's

If you know, then you know. The Analog RYTM mkII, Analog Four mkII, and Octatrack mkII just beg to be run live to make tunes on the fly. Since the workflow is (impossibly) the same, once you learn it, it makes sense. The RYTM just might be the most powerful drum machine ever, with its analog engine plus samples. Prepare to have lots of new friends!

Alesis ION

The Elektron MK2's

Right After Alesis made the Andromeda A6, they made this. While it is Virtual Analog, you can't tell. The ION is punchy, thick, and somehow warm. It's got a filter model of every hardware synth ever made. Nothing does that. It was ahead of it's time, for a 20 year old synth.

Norand Mono

The Elektron MK2's

Norand Mono

This 2 oscillator fun machine will inspire you to make patterns that you hadn't even thought were possible. You can change everything every single step of a sequence, and it will keep up. It's like a 101, 202, and a 303 were all smashed into a single box. It's a monster.

Am I missing a synth? Got one for me? Email me!

Sequential Prophet-10

This synth is Dave Smiths original poly, so he made an all analog reissue. You can try both the classic SSM and Curtis filter types of the vintage units, and then add velocity, aftertouch, and MIDI/USB via a gorgeous Fatar keybed. The P10 now allows stacking of sounds, and 10 voice polyphony.

Prophet-10 sound demo

Moog One 16 voice

Sequential Prophet-10

With 16 voices of polyphony and 3 oscillators with waveshaping, 2 filters, and Eventide effects, this is now the best analog polysynth ever made. If you can't make something good with this, you might as well admit that you suck.

Video of Moog One Custom Patches

Moog Minimoog

Sequential Prophet-10

Moog Matriarch

Once you use this, you'll never make a bassline without it. This Model D is the genuine re-issue, a 1:1 re-do of the original from the 1970's (just like you!) Stable AF, rugged, with a dedicated LFO and with overload light! You'll love feeding back the external input into itself. The sound of a million records, so make it a million plus one!

Moog Matriarch

Oberheim Two Voice Pro

Moog Matriarch

This is not a monosynth, but there's 4 oscillators. And two filters. Two analog delays.

This is not a monosynth, but it can be. But it can also play 4 notes at the same time.

Sequencer. Colors. Patch points. Stereo analog delay.

This is not a monosynth.

Paraphonic is your new favorite word, isn't it?

Moog Grandmother

Oberheim Two Voice Pro

This is a monosynth, with 2 oscillators, a nasty filter, patch points, sequencer, audio rate LFO, and a spring reverb that will make you cry/seem better than you actually are.

ALL YOUR BASS ARE BELONG TO THIS

Oberheim Two Voice Pro

Tom Oberheim said this was his favorite synth. You might say that too, because it's two SEM's, a 16-step sequencer, a velocity sensitive keyboard, and patch points for your modular system. Everything that comes out of it is rich and inspiring and sounds enormous. One of only about 250 in existence.

Korg ARP Odyssey FS

This is the white faced version of one of the most powerful mono synths ever made. Korg updated it with all 3 filter variations of the originals, USB/MIDI, and drive circuitry. The sound is just how you remember, with all of the modern features. If you aren't man enough to play it by hand, get the SQ-1 with it

Roland System-8

Korg ARP Odyssey FS

Want a Juno-106, Jupiter-8, JX-3P, Juno-60, and SH-101? Want FM plus noise oscillators that you can run through any classic Roland filter? This is it! Roland didn't just make a ROMpler, this is mathematical component modelling of analog circuitry. With wood/metal sides and white LED's, even experts say the models like the Jupiter-8 are indistinguishable from the originals.

Cwejman S1 mk2

Korg ARP Odyssey FS

Polivoks Re-issue

This is the best made patchable semi-modular analog synth ever produced. Handmade by a meticulous synth fanatic (RIP), it cured my gear-lust for an ARP 2600. It is small, stays in tune, and allows routing from the knobs and patch points. Use it standalone or with your Euro.

Say it with me: shway-man!

Polivoks Re-issue

Trust me: an original Polivoks, while neat to look at, doesn't want you to touch it, let alone play music with it. This re-issue is stable while still being filthy and nasty, and is a 1:1 remake with the original creator Vladimir Kuzmin's blessing. It's the real thing. Plus, it's Soviet!

Watch My Demo!

Roland SH-101

Access Virus TI2 Polar

Dave Smith Pro-2

(with Tubbutec mod) I know, I know. There are a million plugins out there that mimic this, and the Behringer MS-1 is better built. But only the SH-101 holds the place as my first analog synth, as in 1990, when your parents were young. And be inspired by the worlds best step sequencer, clocking along to Sample & Hold.

Dave Smith Pro-2

Access Virus TI2 Polar

Dave Smith Pro-2

What would happen if you took a 4 digital oscillator synth that can do paraphonic, routed through Prophet-6 and Oberheim SEM analog filters with 4 delays, analog distortion, and multiple step sequencers with multiple channels? I don't know, rent this and find out!

Access Virus TI2 Polar

This is the most complete Virtual Analog synthesizer ever made. It does standard "analog subtractive" but also does wavetable, FM, and supports a complete effects section per channel. About 120 voices of polyphony. You could be happy with just this synth alone... And RANDOMIZER... and and and

MFB Dominion I

Oberheim Xpander

Access Virus TI2 Polar

Shockingly good German analog synth with 3 oscillators (paraphonic), 11 filters, Fatar keybed, sequencer and arpeggiator, because I heard you sold your turntables and bought an arpeggiator to make a Yaz record.

Oberheim Xpander

Only rent this synth if you want to be Vince Clarke, Trent Reznor, Nitzer Ebb, Flood, and every band you ever listened to growing up. 6 voice poly, 5 LFO's, 5 envelope generators, 12 filters, and 100% menu diving. You know you wanna try modulating everything with everything!

672 HP Eurorack

Oberheim Xpander

Only rent this if you have a Tinder date coming up and you want to impress. Not with music, but with a Eurorack that puts your dates' exes to shame. You can even get some patch cables to look like you know WTF is happening.

Isla S2400

Rozzbox One V2

This new drum machine is a remake of the E-mu SP1200, but done with all the modern equivalents and features. It has aliasing, internal analog resampling and digital filters, and will remind you of growing up and how hard sampling and making beats used to be.

Rozzbox One V2

Perhaps the most rare and yet sought after synth ever. This is a 5 voice polyphonic synth with digital waveforms into a digital filter and/or a transistor filter AND a tube filter. It sounds like nothing else.

It is the ultimate synthesizer snob piece. Find out why!

Nord Modular

Rozzbox One V2

Nord Modular

Little red keyboard that you patch with Windows and then assign to the physical knobs. Every time you patch something together, you'll make something worth keeping. You can make sounds your modular will not, because your modular isn't red.

Nord Grand

Neumann U67

Nord Modular

The Nord Grand has the best action I've ever felt--- made by Kawai-- coupled with 5 of the best sampled pianos I've ever heard. It feels like the hammers are really hitting the strings. On top of that, you also get multiple Rhodes, Wurlitzers, electric pianos, and sourced Mellotron and Chamberlin samples. You can even load your own samples, like bossa nova loops, orchestra hits, or dog whistles.

Neumann U67

This tube microphone is widely regarded as Neumann's masterpiece, great at everything. At the top of the mountain of great mics for vocals, this is the crown jewel. It may be the only one you ever see. Rent it and find out what all the fuss is about.