Prophet64 SID Cartridge is Out

Apologies for being late on this one. Remember the Prophet64? Well, the cartridge is now available in limitted quantities.





"Prophet64 is a suite of very user friendly music applications for the Commodore 64 platform. Designed to hook up to modern MIDI equipment with either DIN-sync or third party MIDI interfaces, it makes your old computer become a highly useful music tool.

The software is distributed on a hardware cartridge that plugs right into the back of your C64. No disk or tape loading, just plug and play!

The Cartridge contains the whole suite of applications. You can read more about them in the links on the right side bar.

With an array of music software that mimics modern and classic sequencing devices through versatile user interfaces, Prophet64 opens the door for everyone who wishes to explore the world of the legendary audio circuit (the "SID") in the Commodore computers.

Instead of collecting dust in the closet, you can put your C64 at work right beside the synthesizer rig in your studio today! Add some in-fashion bleeps and blops to your latest track, an extra bass flavor, an additional lead sound or why not an 8-bar break with Rob Hubbard drums?

The possibilities are endless."

Title link takes you there.

Monkey Synth

Furious monkeysynth model 32.21.330 rev.C.

"Fifty year old children's toy with cymbals replaced with contact microphones. A beat-box from hell - quite temperamental. In the collection of G. Stevens."

Title link takes you to more gadgets and a sample of this monkey.

Creeeeepy. I thought clowns spooked me out. Via gerald in this post.

Update via the comments:
"I should have sent this link along with the photos: monophidelic"

M64

"M64 is a program that will turn your C64 into a synth module. All you need is a MIDI interface that is either Passport, Datel or Sequential-compatible. To enable users to create good sounds, M64 provides an abstract assembly-like language (ASL). ASL programs are supposed to read MIDI controllers and act on key presses. Read the manual for more information."

Title link takes you there. Via gerald in this post.

logo-64

gerald of logo-64 sent in the previous post on Babyland. I decided to check out logo-64 and liked what I heard. I noticed the following listed as band memebers: gerald - synths : S.A.M. - C64 vocals. I was curious what S.A.M was as well as the modular in the shot and any other synths he used. gerald replied with the below (also be sure to check out the update at the end of this post for an interesting bit of trivia via Cynthia Webster of Cyndustries). Title link takes you to the logo-64 MySpace page.

"S.A.M. - a speech synthesis program for the C64 "Software Automatic Mouth" The modular is my DIY synth. Paia, Blacet, CGS, and EFM modules. Plus a "FracSid" - midibox SID in a modular format with 6 analog CV ins, 8 analog and 2 gate outs. Will take some pictures, record some sounds and make a web page about the FracSID some day... probably put it up on my erinys site.

Synths used for logo-64

Elektron Machinedrum
Elektron Monomachine (by the way, it ships with a preset I made for it - B6, kit22 "gerald", the benefits of being a beta-tester!)
Access Virus Indigo
DSI Evolver
OB Matrix1000
Yamaha DX200
Crumar Performer
Nord micromodular
Casio SK-1, SK-5, SK-60, RZ-1, CZ-101, HK-700, RapMan
Yamaha CS-01
Roland TR-55
Simmons SDS8, SDS400 and clap-trap
Commodore SX-64 with midi-cart and M-64 (http://gallium.prg.dtu.dk/anyware/)

That's all I can think of right now - lots of junk scattered about... all of the synths below the Nord were thrifted."

Update: Interesting bit of trivia via Cynthia Webster of Cyndustries:
"the S.A.M. Software Automatic Mouth listed as a band "member" in Logo-64, was software written back in 1979 or so ago by none other than Designer Mark Barton of Cyndustries Zeroscillator fame, (he wrote the MacinTalk speech synthesizer program a few years later as well!)"

Babyland - Synth Punk

Title link takes you to the Babyland website.

Via gerald:

"My personal favorite synthpunk - Babyland is worth checking out if you haven't heard them before.

http://www.myspace.com/babylandmusic

They're still sequencing with Cubase on a mac classic - have been since 1989. I miss their old "fire" shows - they'd dump motor oil in tin drums, light it up and then play the drums with pipes. Billowing, choaking black smoke, crazy beats, jumping flames - damn I wish it was the early 90's again. They still put on a fantastic show - Dan is a crazy-energetic vocalist.

Also check their main page - www.babyland.info - you can see the mac classic in the video.

-gerald
http://www.myspace.com/logo64"

Very cool, I like what I hear so far. I definitely need to check them out, and logo-64 (good stuff).

Technos Acxel Resynthesizer

Shot of the Technos Acxel Resynthesizer via Jam.se. There's a ton of other gear there as well, new and vintage, worth checking out. More on the Acxel Resynthesizer here.

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

"The seventh annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival will take place Thursday, August 10th to Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at SomArts Cultural Center located at 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. We are planning a full festival this year with electroacoustic composers, sound installation artists, and interdisciplinary performance." Title link takes you to more info including shots from previous years. Hey, Morton was there. :) Via Brian Comnes.

Dwarf by Stefan Trippler

"Multitracked MEK, drums from Spectrasonics Stylus and Steinberg LM4" Title link takes you to a 5.05M MP3 by Stefan Tripper.