Back Online!

Sorry about the downtime. Looks like there were some issues with Blogger today. I asked Peter Kirn on CDM if he could put something up letting people know for me, and he did. Thanks Peter!

A6 to Minimoog A/B Sample

Update. The answer is in. The first part is Minimoog and the second is the Voyager. : )

Title link takes you to a great sample Colin Chung put up on AH that A/Bs a bass patch on the Alesis Andromeda with a Moog Minimoog. Right click and save. Listen to it closely. It really allows you to pinpoint the difference between the two. There is a certain something that picks up the second sample where the first sounds a bit sluggish compared to it. If I were training people on the subtle characteristics that differ between synths this would be a great sample. Depending on what you focus on it either sounds very similar or totally different. Subtle differences in sound can have a tremendous impact on the overall feel or color of the sound - like a drop of ink in a clear bucket of water. It might be small, but it's there. BTW, I'm hoping we are all past the synth x is better than synth y arguments. That's not what this is about. They are all different and we know that. This is about listening to the subtle differences in sound. No one call the synth police.

Mars Synth

Now this is a cool shot. Currently on the Synthesizers.com homepage.

Two Synthesizers.com Must Haves Modules

Via the SCI PRONE post on VSE. Links: No Pass Filter, Shock and Awe.

SCI PRONE

Yep, not the Pro One, but the PRONE! Too funny. Title link takes you to the post on VSE where I found this abomination. : ) More shots after the hop. What would be interesting is if this were real like the OSCar in Moog Source case. The SCI Multi-Trak was about as small.

Standing In Front of a Dream - New Flickr Shot

Cool shot. That's Keith Emerson's Moog modular in the background.

Hartmann Goes Offline

Update via tahome in the comments of this post:
"There's new software for the Neuron and NeuronVS by one of the former developers of the synthesis technology (Stephan Bernsee) at http://www.osxtools.com"

In via reader voss. Well this sucks. We knew it was coming, but not this soon. Also, I did not expect the site to go down this quickly. Hopefully someone saved it off like the Waldorf site. If someone did and wants me to host it, just shoot me an email - matrixsynth [@] hotmail.com. I wish I grabbed the site before this.

______ mail from Denis Goekdag _____

Dear users of Hartmann Instruments,

please excuse this unsolicited email, but i believe this information
be of interest to you as a registered Hartmann user.

As of today, the Hartmann Music servers have gone offline due to
Hartmann Music's ongoing file for bankruptcy, which means that there
will be no further techsupport or downloads available from Hartmann.
However, i have decided to provide free techsupport for these
products at the site of my own company, Surround SFX. This site is in
no way affiliated with Hartmann, so please be aware that i can
obviously not offer warranty, spareparts or software updates. You
will, however, find a couple of cool FAQ's, How-To's, free models to
download and a community of users that will gladly help you should
you have problems with or questions about your Hartmann
product....oh, and *me*, the former techsupport-guy at Hartmann ;-)
Surround SFX will also be offering some exciting products for and
around the Neuron/VS series of synths in early 2006.

Here's the URL for the support forum:

www.surroundsfx.com/forum

Best regards,
Denis Goekdag aka Mobilegazer aka "the techsupport guy"

New Macbeth Forum

Title link takes you there.

Rhodes Chroma Ad

Title link takes you to a Rhodes Chroma ad I just read on the Rhodes Chroma site. I'm increasingly amazed at how versatile this synth is. A prime example is that you can actually reverse the direction the keyboard plays. Yep. You have to wonder what the story behind that one was. Amazing synth. Title link takes you to more including comments by Herbie Hancock and Josef Zawinul.

UC-1 - Pro One Sequencer Mod

Interesting sequencer Mod for the Pro One. Via Ben Vehorn on AH.

x0xb0x & MG-1 Demo

Title link takes you to a demo of the x0xb0x and Radio Shack / Moog MG-1 via Troy Sheets on AH. "The MG-1 is the growly little brat, and the x0xb0x is the light-footed pixie."

Dot Matrix Synth

Carbon111 beat me to the post! I knew this would happen sooner or later. : ) I originally saw this via this post on VSE. Title link takes you to Carbon111's post on SYNTHWIRE.

MiniKorg Demo

Jabberwalky posted a 5 minute demo of a Korg MiniKorg on VSE. The demo is one MiniKorg, no effects doing a wide variety of sounds. Title link takes you there.