Live 5

Live 5 is out. Check it out. I have Live 4 and it absolutely rocks as an intuitive DAW. You can play the dang thing like a live instrument if you want.

Extreme Synth Weirdness Project

Site dedicated to archiving "sound bites of synthesizer whackiness." You can send them samples of your synth whackiness. Very cool idea. I can't wait to see what comes in. From the site:

"We have all heard the typical synth demos. A milky pad, a cutting lead, a bass sound. What do we really learn about the potential of the synthesizer itself?

This archive represents real live demos of people like you turning knobs and tweaking the boards hard. Show everyone just how messed up your otherwise ordinary synth can be and take us to tweak heaven. If you have a giant modular system, or a homegrown mouse-powered keyboard, we wanna hear it get strange. No size or length restrictions (within reason) so just let fly for as long as you need to."

Aerosol Grey Machine: vintage analog keyboard museum

http://www.dougwyatt.net/news/2005/07/AGM1/

This came in via AH. Ga...ga...ga...ga...ga... Talk about analog gear porn. If I ever make it to Sweden... A trip to the Clavia factory and this will be on the top of my list. And he has a blog! Cool!