Visit umop.com for 8 million more notes. Here's a dandy song that I wrote a while back when I was unemployed & living with my parents. Look how far I've come! Boy oh boy, those pants made my legs sweat. Try walking around in those things for a while. They will turn your thighs into a couple of overcooked pot stickers. Did you know that they are a size too small for me also? So is the Microkorg. I like potatoes.

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This synth dates all the way back to 1984, as does my inner adolescent as I attempt to explain the very first trick I ever learned on a synthesizer: How to enter unison, or monophonic (solo) mode. My synth sounds like crap in this mode. Maybe yours sounds better? Watch and pretend that learning is fun!

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm Keyboard Magazine video review (my full print review shall be available in the October, 2010 edition) of the amazing Moog Taurus 3 Bass Pedals. True to historical form laid out by the '70s-era Taurus I, this is a wide-bottomed 100% analog synthesizer. I got to spend some time with one of the 1000 units made, plaster my feet all over it and figure out if it actually possible to shred on this 13-pedal, 1-octave beast.

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This video is an entry in the Parker Brother's Chopper giveaway for an actual, functional Light Cycle! It is also a little something special for the Tron fans who have supported my keytar-soloing bullstuff all these years. Enjoy the video & keep your fingers crossed. Maybe someday soon my CT friends will see me pull up to the grocery store on a glow-in-the-dark, hubless Grid Steed.

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More music on umop.com! Background music: "O Face" by Parallax. Get a look inside Analog Heaven Northeast 2011, an annual meetup for synth enthusiasts on the East Coast. Every year we bring a selection of irreplaceable electronic gewgaws from our respective music studios (you can spot my Customsynth Rolands in there somewhere) for each other to admire. Great turnout this year! We even had a visit from the God of Catsynth, apparently.

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Annual gathering of ANHE (Analog Heaven Northeast) in Bolton, MA. Best turnout yet with a wide variety of electronic music industry cornerstone products (both new and vintage) on display.

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Informative as always, I demonstrate two beloved Moogs side by side at Analog Heaven Northeast (ANHE) 2007.

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More pestilence at umop.com! So hey, thanks for checking out "YY ME" all week. Here's something much worse. We call it "Erotominia" a miniature-sounding version of the epic instrumental tune off DT's 1994 album, "Awake." The whole middle part is a big, fat joke, but in Rob's (the guitarist's) defense, he really can play all those arpeggios, just not on a goddamned Barbie guitar. :o)

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More music here: umop.com/parallax.htm Unreleased track written in 1994 with some really unusual scales and soloing techniques. Synths used: Roland V-Synth (custom Angelmuse mod), Korg 01/W, and Roland JD-800.

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More music on umop.com Read my full print review of the MicroStation in the May 2011 edition of Keyboard Magazine. Enjoy this tribute to Christmas and synth metal.

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Howdy, Dave here with a mystery movie from the vault. I dusted off this 2006 pile of monkey butter for no real reason at all except for the fact that 99% of dyed-in-the-wool RAB fans have never seen it. I made it for a Engadget.com reader meetup in Boston, MA, in exchange for a free iPod Shuffle. 100 SONGS!! YEAHHHH!!!!

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More music at umop.com! After almost 30 years of fantasizing, I finally got to talk to aliens at Devil's Tower in Wyoming. This re-enactment of the famous scene with an ARP 2500 takes place right in front of the tower. The keyboard & special effects aren't *quite* as good, and the camera operator couldn't quite contain her laughter, but it was fun anyway.

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Visit umop.com/parallax.htm for more music! Here's another total and complete electro-bastardization of an American classic. This time I run "Devil Went Down to Georgia" thru the techno/prog wringer, with sincere apologies to Charlie Daniels. No vocals in this video, although eventually when I semi-formally record it I'll potentially add some vocoded bullshit (and hopefully leave out some of the flubs, too). For now you can hear it in its current state of already-too-stupidness!

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More music on umop.com. Here's an in-depth review of the sounds & sequencing power of the Korg MicroStation, provided to Keyboard Magazine readers for the April 2011 edition. There's a few '80s songs hiding in this demo for good measure! Hope you enjoy the review!

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All (or at least most) of your favorite cheesy keyboard solos wrapped up in one medley. Sorry about the jacket.

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More music on umop.com. Here we've followed up our all-toy Metallica bastardization with a Rush bastardization. Check out our Dream Theater bastardly bastardpants bastardization also. YAY

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Exploration of the archaic Roland SH-2000 at the Coffeehouse in Middletown, CT. Great studio for anyone in the area looking for a good place to lay down some quality tracks. Will upload a couple more vids I made there soon. Ciao.

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A cross between a Roland JX-3P and PG-200, done up in white! Just messing around with this old Boston tune. Also using its sister synth, the Juno-106, for backing strings. Off camera is a Korg 01/W for my typical old school arranging for backing tracks.

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Fudging around with a very 1980s keyboard, listed on eBay 23-Jan-2007.

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Fiddling around with the Metasonix Wretch S-1000 vacuum tube Synth. Weirdest thing in my studio by far.

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm ! Dave (me) - plastic toddler's keyboard, gang vocals Steve (my brother) - preschooler drum, tambourine, and maracas, plus beer bottles Bones (my best friend) - the pink Barbie guitar That Barbie guitar is relatively in tune for the first few frets, but things get a bit "Arabic" farther up. This could be the first, or last, in a series of plasticine-and-cheese jams we hereby brand "Heavy Little." Cringe-inducing drunkypants fun using my niece's toys.

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More music on umop.com! Taken at Analog Heaven Northeast, May, 2009. The Axis 64 controller running through a gigantic MOTM modular synth. Hexagonal interface offers a whole new way of creating music, possibly more intuitive than regular black and white keys!

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Made back in 2003, here's me with all my hair creating RAB5 the old fashioned way, using paper and pens, scanner, etc. Yuck! Nowadays I use a tablet to draw everything right on the screen. Nevertheless, I made around 40 short animated films the way described in this video. Enjoy.

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Original song - get CD on umop.com! More progressive rock ultra wanky horse puckey for you.

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Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" (off their album 1984), performed on a Roland JD-800 keyboard. Sequenced on a Korg 01/WFD. I made the guitar patch completely from scratch...

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It's old, slightly broken, but fully analog. Watch as I wank out on this shabby old broken thing. Third and final installment of Coffeehouse synth demos.

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm ! By popular demand (or at least, popular "why the hell not"), here's how to play this noodly little Van Halen song on something it wasn't meant for: a keyboard. Hopefully it can be of use to those of you with a keytar or something. I actually play this with my '80s band with my guitarist who allows me to double his parts for added wank factor. Perhaps you too can bathe in similar wank for an equally unlucky audience someday.

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More entertaining goodness at umop.com Kind of a diversion here from my usual video stuff! Drew was kind enough to let me borrow from his "Licking Problem" title for this cute little short film scripted & shot in one evening. Lee-Ann doesn't actually snore this loud in real life...

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More music on umop.com! This one-minute quick demo just scratches the surface of the ARP, an incredibly fun vintage modular that I got to mess around with a Analog Heaven Northeast on May 2nd, 2009.

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Quick demo of an awesome analog modeling keyboard, listed on eBay 23-Jan-2007. "Trilogy Suite Op. 5" by Yngwie Malmsteen is performed, and a little bit of "Subdivisions" by Rush thrown in for good measure. :o)

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Here's a snappy little tune in a not very dance-able 11/8. I stuck a few more solos in there than there really should be. If you like this kind of nefarious note-noodling you'll love my Parallax CDs on umop.com/parallax.htm

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More music on umop.com! Putting the mental in instrumental, once again... Another odd ditty... this one grooves in an alternating 15/8 and 4/4... more epileptic dancing fun for everyone! Backing tracks & rock organ part are all Garage Band... such a great program. Meanwhile, the Nord Lead, Access Virus kb, and trusty old Korg 01/W are along for the ride, with Cthulhu riding shotgun.

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Sure, the keys are smaller than salamander toes. That doesn't mean you can't try and play a squillion notes per second, now does it? Enjoy yet another blistering array of wankadoo note slurrying by Uncle Dave!

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An in-depth look into a strange little box of '70s synthy goodness!

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More music on umop.com! Add a popular '80s song with an unpopular '70s organ that weighs over 400 lbs., with a few '60 tiki mugs, and what do you get? More timelessly delicious cheese than the entire state of Wisonsin, for starters. Enjoy without apologies.

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Original song off my Parallax CD "umop apisdn," performed live on an Oberheim OB-SX, Roland JD-800 and Juno-106. Sequenced on Korg 01/W. Shout out to my favorite blog on the shirt...

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm Here's a tremendously epic speed solo & prog rock synth nightmare for you to feast your brainholes on, kiddies! The entire song employs a supersaw zaptron patch of my own creation on the amazing white Roland JD-800, with squelchy vintage '90s backing track crapola on the Korg 01W. No, no direct line input. First of all, I wanted you to hear the slamming finger slams. And secondly, SLAMMY SLAM SLAM

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm It has been a long time since my last video, but I am back and once again thoroughly fascinating to be sure! Stare blankly at my mountain of synthesizers as I attempt to impress you with my continued reign of three-fingered kung fu wombat wizardry! Gawk splendidly at my three-ton brick of stupefying, scarf-wearing ho-hum I'm bored of typing. This song is called "Circumfusion" and you'll find it on my CD "umop apisdn." If you like it, buy it! If you don't like it, buy it for your math teacher!

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm This is an amazingly huge and beefy synthesizer. I am selling it for a friend of mine, but not until I've had a couple of days to play with it! It is the thickest, wettest, fattest synthesizer among at least a hundred that I've owned & played over the years. When I turn up the Cutoff 100% with the Emphasis at zero, the sky rips open and writhing Lovecraftian demons descend upon my condo complex, raining down javelins of sonic plasma into the fabric of ultimate blabbity blabbity you get the idea. This is an auction demo so there's a few dry moments here and there where I'm autotuning and testing all 67 keys chromatically, but I kept it shreddy enough to hopefully entertain my faithful subscribers for a few minutes.

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm All twelve keys, most in both major, minor, phrygian, you name it, are taken for a lightspeed ride in this comically, idiotically insane 7+ minute keyboard prog-wank solo.

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An outtake of a recent video interview I made for SonicState.com when my Himalayan kitten (Dusty) steals the show and starts playing synth music behind me that actually sounds pretty friggin' good. That jerk. It's bad enough that he's better looking, but I figured I at least had all the talent up in here's.

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Original track off my Parallax CD "umop apisdn." Features Access Virus kb synth and Korg 01/W for backing tracks. Visit umop.com/parallax.htm and purchase a CD if you like jolly good uber-synth-wank.

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm An extremely wankerific tune off my Parallax album "umop apisdn." Why not order one today, so you can help pay for more fancy shirts?

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More music on umop.com/parallax JD-800 once again ass-blasts out its synth-guitar anger in this completely ad-libbed live open mic jam in Bristol, CT. I call this modest little mindquake "Enceladus." It uses a preset sequence on the Korg TR-61... I figured the dozen or so people in attendance wouldn't complain too much. I forget who filmed it, but judging by the stability and amount of available alcohol present, I'll hazard a guess his face was good and shitted.

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm. Here's the 2010 gathering of Northeastern synth nerds! Incredible modulars & vintage analog synthesizers of all shapes, sizes, and tones.

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Brand new trailer for a game I made with Weird Al Yankovic a short while back. Check out a demo for the game at VirusAlert3d.com!

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm Lee-Ann and Dave perform "Sister Christian" with saliva-generous red nosed pit bull Cameron.

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More musical fun at umop.com/parallax.htm ! Soaking in a vat full of 1980s memories. Please pardon the diversion. And, once again, the jacket.

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Have you memorized the alphabet backwards? It's handy if you find yourself being tested for sobriety late at night by a copper. Just don't do it through a jaw harp; you'll ruin everything and end up in jail after all your hard-earned and tooth-chipping efforts. If you like this video, you 1) have too much time on your hands today, and 2) you should check out umop.com and look at all my Flash animations and synthy music hijinx.

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More music on umop.com/parallax.htm Skip ahead to @3:30 for the keytar solo if you're the impatient type. After uploading a live version of another "VIsit the Entropics" tune last week ("Umlaut" - which I promise to redo as well) and being thoroughly disappointed with its audio quality, I decided to offer up this fun indoors direct-audio performance of "Ryu" that's quite a bit more watchable. I'm basically just playing along with the CD here, and the solo is so incredibly hard to double that I decided to harmonize with most of it instead. The result is an occasionally messy wank that has moments of pure alien bliss. Korg TR-61, 01/W, and Axis-1 "Axistron" controlling the Roland JD-800 off camera. The bin boxes all contain Lego blocks; inventory for my Bricklink.com shop. A man's gotta pay the bills somehow.

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