Siliconsequences on YouTube

Published on Mar 4, 2006 morbius001

"This is a video demo of the Synthesizers.com Q-960/Q-962/Q-963 ability to be "played" on-the-fly, including skip, reset, stage input/output triggers (C)2005-Cybertron Productions. For more info, join our "synthesizers.com user's group" on Yahoo. Also, check out our WIKI pages
For more info,video demos, and music excerpts by Cybertron."

Ebay Synth Tracking Blog?

Title link takes you to a Circuit Bent Item tracker for Ebay set up by Circuit Master of GetLoFi. The cool thing about it is that it saves off the media (images and samples) to his server. These are then permanently accessible via the blog posts. I asked him how difficult it would be to set up a synth version. As expected it would not be difficult at all - he just finished a prototype. What do you think? Personally I think it's a great idea for a number of reasons. One it saves the most interesting bits for posterity, two it's kind of cool having a repository for everything synth on Ebay, and three it brings the items to you, making it easier to track what's coming up. On the bad side? Well, for those rare occasions where you might be lucky enough to be the only person to catch a good deal... Well those days would probably be over. The tool would post any item with the word "synth" on Ebay. Please feel free to post your comments. Great idea, sucks, or who cares... Sorry Doktor Future. : )

EML Poly-Box Samples and the SynthCluster

Click here for a couple of samples of the EML Poly-Box by George Mattson. Check out his monster setup (click the image for a much bigger shot). That is one massive EML Sequencer. You can see the orange EML Poly-Box below and the EML 101 to the left. Also check out George's site for more.

Update: Notes from George:
"They're all EML, The sequencer is running on it's own, the Polybox is following an oscillator on the 101 and the 500 is doing the bass line. The drums are actually a real Pearl acoustic set on Power Dive being played by a guy named Pete Gerdin. The vibraphone sound at the beginning of Happy Tune was the vibratone setting on a Yamaha YC-45D combo Organ. The sequencer just gets programmed and turned loose. I just played along with it."

"the samples were 29 years old and dug up off an old cassette in order to let people hear what a Polybox could be used for besides chords. Remember, the BIG music happening then was Disco. (ugh)"

The Button Box

Title link takes you to the post on the Music Hardware blog with video including a performance and how it works by Evan Morris. What's interesting is in the end of the video he mentions a couple of links but shows links to the MIDIBox website, uCAapps.de. Wonder what the affiliation is...

"homebuilt midi controller from artist Evan Morris. The box is a button based wave sequencing system that chops and loops audio files in real time using a Reaktor Ensemble."

Buchla Music Easel Shots on Electric Music Box

Title link takes you to more shots on Electric Music Box.

Crazy Analog

Title link takes you to Crazy Analog, a S. Korean dealer site with loads of gear shots. This one came in via Ken MacBeth, of MacBeth Studio Systems. BTW, if you are on the hunt for a brand new boxed M3X, at a discount, these guys have a few.

They didn't have a nice shot of the M3X, so here's a Moog Source from them instead.


Via Ken MacBeth on AH:
"Hi All! Many people on this list have asked me or made enquiries regarding the availability of the M3X synth that I used to build- I met my S.Korean dealer, Lee, in Frankfurt- to my surprise, he told me that there are 11 available from midistation in S.Korea and a very good price- they were $2200.00USD- but now Lee has dropped his price to $1450.00USD which is a great deal for those who want a brand new, boxed (un-opened) M3X- these one's are special too- featuring blue led's instead of the orange ones! Crikey- remember when blue leds were in fashion!!"

OHM+ The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

Reed posted a link to this in the comments section of this post on Laurie Spiegal. You can can order it from The Relaxation Company, or if you prefer Amazon, click here.

"Special Edition 3CD + DVD

New Collector's edition of this historic collection!

Leaps in technology: oscillators, generators, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, transistors, magnetic tape, integrated circuits, and the microchip—inspired new instruments: the telharmonium, theremin, ondes martenot,electronic sackbut, clavivox, electronium, moog synthesizer, and computers—and artists everywhere hungry for new modes of expression.

This collection is a humble but bold attempt to give form to the wonderful, multi-directional, inevitable birth of electronic music.

Three CDs—42 original music tracks from 1948–1980

112 Page Book—extensive artist interviews, commentaries, and archival photographs

Special Edition DVD—over two hours of rare performances, interviews,animations, and experimental video."

The Bob Moog Doll - New Flickr Shots

flickr by uetsu. Title link takes you to more.

Alpha Centauri

Shot sent my way via Fredrik Segerfalk.



Here's a shot of the full system on Audio Playground.