airSynth
synth/theremin/sound effect generator
source: alesis.com
Alesis airSynth audio demos
Stream all audio examples below
| Preset name with .mp3 demo | My comments |
| HIGH FIVE | |
| 00 Chopper | Apocalypse now! |
| 01 Android Choir | Nice digital syn-choir |
| 02 Beat Machine | Excellent TR-808 type drums |
| 03 FM | Typical FM warp |
| 04 Didgiri-Don't | A didgeridoo virtuoso |
| TONE | |
| 05 Oberon Swell | Great distorted digital lead |
| 06 Demon Pad | From the gates of hell.. |
| 07 Star Chime | Nice happy hardcore sound |
| 08 C-Saw | Very expressive analog monosynth sound |
| 09 Air-amin | Typical Theremin sound |
| 10 Radio Bass | Interference |
| 11 Free Bass | Korg MS-20 like. |
| 12 Distorted Annoyance | Yep - that's what it is ;-) |
| 13 Chewie | Singing robot |
| 14 LFO Abuse | Awesome expressive sound - tremolo speed varies by moving hand |
| 15 Pet Sounds | The classic sound used by the Beach Boys in their hit "Good vibration" |
| 16 Square-amin | A square-wave variation of the Theremin |
| 17 Ther-FM-in | A FM variation of the Theremin |
| 18 Supergrowl | Sci-Fi, Star-Trek |
| 19 Robo-Vox | Robot dog |
| PERCUSSION | |
| 20 Water Drum | Cool percussion!!! |
| 21 Clockwork Bell | Hypnotic computer music |
| 22 Ring Wood | Cute xylophone |
| 23 Plink | A plastic tube being hit |
| 24 Broken Chime | Exactly |
| 25 Yo-Yo Drum | Great elastic drums |
| 26 Boom-Boom Chik | More 808 goodness |
| 27 One Hand Clapping | Clap clap |
| SFX | |
| 28 Time Bells | Awesome for sci-fi soundtrack FX |
| 29 Cyber Chant | Outstanding sound!!! A chatty android! |
| 30 Off The Dial | WWII radio sounds |
| 31 Soul Craft | Choo-choo train of the future! |
| 32 Water Torture | Fantastic! |
| 33 Ishara | The perfect FX sound for natural disasters |
| 34 Vega Transmission | Spot-on Star Trek sounds |
| 35 Whispering Wind | Weird wind |
| 36 Phoneme-anon | Super cool! Another android, this time he's old and sick |
| 37 Idle Growl | At the races |
| 38 Gunplay | Chinese New Year |
| 39 Processing... | Typical -fake- computer processing sound |
| 40 Soap Dish | Awesome 'analogue bubble bath' ;-) |
| 41 Sabre Tooth | The aliens are mad |
| RHYTHM | |
| 42 Bongo Beat | Very, very cool! Roland CR-78 sounds |
| 43 Caloopso | Yep |
| 44 Walking Bass | Contrabass |
| 45 Jungle Boogie | Great rhythms can be programmed on this machine. |
| 46 Auto-Bass | Pseudo Roland SH-101 meets TB-303 |
| 47 Auto-Melody | Another analog sequence |
| 48 Auto-Techno | Classic early '90s techno sound |
| 49 Auto-Pop | '80s style |
| UTILITY | |
| -- Global Tempo | |
Alesis airSynth pictures
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Alesis airSynth
manual
The PDF Manual can be found at www.alesis.com
Resources:
- Review in "Keyboard magazine" Janfebmarch 198___
Features
- very interesting sounds
- dj-friendly, gig ready;
- doubles as Theremin;
- small and portable
| Features at a glance | |
| Year of release: | 200_ |
| Polyphony: | n/a |
| Sound generation method: | |
| Preset memories | 50 |
| MIDI: | no |
| Sound expansion capabilities: | no |
| Sequencer | sort of |
| Arpeggiator | sort of |
| Effects | no |
| Touch sensitivity | n/a |
| Aftertouch | n/a |
Links
| SITE | Type of resource | DESCRIPTION |
| Home page | website. | |