Virtual Analog vs. Analog showdown

Well maybe not an official showdown, but keyboards.de has a bunch of A/Bs of the same patches played with the same notes between a handful of VAs and their Analogs. I don't think I've ever seen a list this comprehensive before.

Synths A/B'ed:

- Arturia CS-80V vs. Yamaha CS-80
- Arturia Minimoog V vs. Moog Minimoog
- Audiorealism Bassline vs. Roland TB-303
- Creamware Minimax vs. Moog Minimoog
- Creamware Prodyssey vs. Arp Odyssey
- Creamware Pro One vs. Sequential Circuits Pro-One
- GMedia impOSCar vs. OSC OSCar
- GMedia Odity vs. Arp Odyssey
- Korg Legacy Polysix vs. Korg Polysix
- Native Instruments FM7 vs. Yamaha DX7
- Native Instruments Pro53 vs. Sequential Circuits Prophet 10
- Roland VariOS-303 vs. Roland TB-303
- Roland VariOS-8 vs. Roland Jupiter 8
- Waldorf PPG vs. PPG Wave 2.2

Yowsa! Guess what I'll be doing tonight. Note the Pro54 vs. Prophet 10, poor guys didn't have a Prophet 5 to compare it to. ; )

BTW, credit goes to Colin for finding this site. Amazing find!

Jomox - Jayemsonic Resonator Neuronium

The resonator has been making it's rounds accross blogs lately including Gizmodo of all places. The first 20 units are sold out and have been delivered. The second run is almost complete. Click here for more on Jomox's Jürgen Michaelis Resonator Neuronium. What makes the Neuronium unique is its six analog resonant neurons. Not sure how it works, but looking at the knobs and the description it seems like some sort of FM and mixing accross the six units using the six knobs. Interesting stuff.

"We have 6 neurons with 6x6 = 36 net connections for one parameter. In order that summation and FM is connected, we have 2x36 = 72 net connections with individual pots for each node."

Elka Synthex Electric Harp Samples

Some Elka Synthex samples of the Electric Harp patch made famous by Jean Michel Jarre.

G0_Lharp.wav
G1_Lharp.wav
G2_Lharp.wav
G3_Lharp.wav
C0_Lharp.wav
C1_Lharp.wav
C2_Lharp.wav
C3_Lharp.wav

Update: unfortunately these are gone. If anyone knows where to find them again, feel free to leave a comment.

Waldorf XT Resource Page

Carbon111 left this gem in the comments section of the Some Waldorf Resources post. It's an amazingly rich site with tons of information on the Waldorf XT and Microwave II including the users manual for each, charts of the wavetables, workshops, links to other sites, pictures and much, much more. Not surprising as the site is also home to the DSI Evolver and Polyevolver resource page. Thanks Carbon111! BTW, how many of these resource sites do you have?! : ) You need to add a link to the evolver page and any others to your main page.

Burst Generator

http://www.cyndustries.com/modules_burstgen.cfm

This in via AH. I decided to copy and paste this one as it's perfect as is and I need to run out for a bit. Enjoy and make sure to check out the sound samples.

"some discussion of burst generators came up on the Serge list (SMOG)....
after some dinking around and advice from others I put together some
voltage-controlled burst generator patches based on the Serge Universal Slope Generator.

What's a Burst Generator?
Basically it's an oscillator that gives you a discrete number cycles when you hit it with a pulse. So for example you can get exactly ten complete cycles of a waveform.

Cynthia sells a packaged Burst Generator here...
http://www.cyndustries.com/modules_burstgen.cfm

By adding voltage control you can vary the number and/or the speed of the cycles that you get out of your burst generator.

http://www.mnmlnoise.com/misc_samples.html

several examples of VC burst generators.

The last one is 2 in series. One emits 2 pulses. The other one is used
for pulses and as an FM source!
This is because both the pulse and OUT of the DTG is used.... so we're
getting a VC number of triangle cycles.

--
m/n/m/l
surreal electronic music, sound, noise
http://www.mnmlnoise.com
"

I can't wait to check out these samples!

Doug Wyatt Interview on O'Reilly

O'Reilly has an interview up with Doug Wyatt, co-designer of OMS(also see a brief history) and musician. It's a good read. Inspiring. The interview also includes some sound samples and great shots including the Aerosol Grey Machine I blogged on earlier.

MOTM in smaller Doepfer/FracRak formats?

http://www.synthtech.com/motm.html

In via AH. This could equate to lower prices on some select MOTM modules as well as the smaller format. If you are unfamiliar with modular synthesis, think of them as the legos or erector sets of the synth world. You buy individual components of a synth and patch them together to do what you want. You can buy complete systems from different manufacturers or you can buy individual modules and mix and match. Typically you will want to rack the modules into a case, cabinet, rack or other fixture of choice (really wish I had a good picture here). Different manufacturers typically adhere to different dimensions for their modules so they can fit nicely together in a rack. MOTM modules are similar in size to Moog, while FracRack and Doepfer are considerably smaller. If MOTM does this, you can now house MOTM modules with your favorite FracRak and Doepfer modules and... you can possibly save some money.

The following is a good chart on some differences between different modular systems:http://www.modularsynth.com/chart.html. Track back to http://www.modularsynth.com for general info on modular synths. Be sure to check out MOTM, also a great resource.

In via AH. This could equate to lower prices on some select MOTM modules as well as the smaller format. If you are unfamiliar with modular synthesis, think of them as the legos or rather erector sets of the synth world. You buy individual components of a synth and patch them together to do what you want. You can buy complete systems from different manufacturers or you can buy individual modules and mix and match. Typically you will want to rack the modules into a case, cabinet, rack or other fixture of choice (really wish I had a good picture here). Different manufacturers typically adhere to different dimensions for their modules so they can fit nicely together in a rack. MOTM modules are similar in size to Moog, while FracRack and Doepfer are considerably smaller. If MOTM does this, you can now house MOTM modules with your favorite FracRak and Doepfer modules and... you can possibly save some money.

The following is a good chart on some differences between different modular systems:http://www.modularsynth.com/chart.html. Track back to http://www.modularsynth.com for general info on modular synths. Be sure to check out MOTM, also a great resource.