PAiA's New Website

Looks like a new website is in the works. Title link takes you there. The old site is curretly still up on http://paia.com/.

Vocoder im Vergleich

Title link takes you to a page listing a ton of vocoders with samples, images and links to more info for each.

EMS 1000 Vocoder pictured.

Haken Continuum Voltage Converter (CVC)

From the makers of the Haken Continuum Fingerboard.

"Even though the Continuum will work adequately with a standard Midi to Control Voltage device, Haken Audio has developed a high resolution converter to fully exploit the fast data rates and ranges of the Continuum. The Continuum Voltage Converter (CVC) generates control voltage signals that are perfectly suited for interfacing with legacy and modern day analog synthesizer systems." Title link takes you there.

Question on Quantity and Quality of Posts

Hi everyone. Believe it or not I've slowly upped the bar as far as what I post. Previously I posted every single thing I came across because you never know who might find value in what. Now there is so much stuff coming in that I think it would be overwhelming and even rude to put it all up. I know I get annoyed when other blogs post too much - I simply can't keep up and it actually pisses me off when more comes in. Sometimes I end up giving up. I don't want that to happen here. Typically I post between five and twenty posts a day. Is this too much? Annone annoyed with how much I post? One thing that concerns me is putting up new posts when people are engaging in the comments of another post, as that post gets pushed down. Is that annoying or not a biggie as you can just scroll down? Also, I only show three days worth of posts on the page, so scrolling is limited to that and then it's the archives.

So I'm just curious what you all think? Should I leave things as is or up the bar a little? A lot of what goes up is obviously personal taste, so upping the bar for me might not necessarily be upping the bar for you, but, what it would result in is possibly fewer posts. Let me know what you think. If no one comments I'll assume no one cares and/or whatever I do is fine.

Homemade Cathode Ray Tube Oscilloscope by Nyle Steiner

YouTube via nylesteiner. Nyle Steiner, of steiner-parker/synthacon fame.
Via Seth Nemec of bananalogue.com.

Roland 100m Sequencer Project

Via ryktnk:

"Here is a link to a Flick set documenting my construction of a new improved version of the Roland 100m analogue sequencer. The circuits are based on the excellent sequencer design by Ray at Music From Outer Space. The hardest bit was sourcing the original Roland knobs!"

Gorgeous. Title takes you to the flickr set.

Wood for Your Soft Synths

Custom wood cases for your PC by Howard Suissa. Title link takes you there.

Doepfer A100 Modular Synth

Peripheral MIDI Controller

"This is a software program that intends to act as a MIDI controller by using various peripheral devices. The initial release(s) will be focused on using a webcam as a MIDI controller with 3 dimensions (XYZ)."

Title link takes you there.
Via Music Thing.

Splice Synth Samples

"Welcome to Splice. We would say welcome to the future of music, but modesty and serious self-restraint prevent us from it... either way it's nice you showed up. So what's the big deal? Splice gives anyone, anywhere the ability to collaborate on music right through a web browser. Users can upload or record sounds, make songs, listen to other user's songs, make remixes, make friends and a whole lot more."

Think of it as MySpace with samples that you can mix and match. What's cool is you can also download individual samples. Think of it as a sample bank. For fun I did a search on Moog. Zero hits. I did a search on synth. 59 sounds, 4 songs, and 11 people came up. Title link takes you to the results. I particularly liked this sample, myself. Via MusicThing.