The Prophet '08

"The rumors are true. (Well, most of 'em, anyway.) Dave has emerged from his underground lair (the Dave Cave?) with a fresh take on a classic, the all new Prophet '08. It is an eight-voice synthesizer with a 100% analog audio signal path. And it will be shipping very soon. More details will be available here on the Web site in a few days. Following hot on its heels will be the Prophet '08 Special Edition, each of which will be hand-signed by Dave and which will feature lighted wheels (RED!) and exotic leopardwood end panels. And for those of you who are wondering what happened to BoomChik, stay calm. Do not panic. Development is progressing nicely. Stay tuned!

Dave Smith Instruments: Celebrating 30 Years of Great Synth Design (a little early...)"

Title link takes you to the official site.
Previous posts

Early Recordings to Feature the MOOG Synthesizer

This one in via Micke on AH, posted here with permission. If you can add to the list feel free to in the comments. "Here follows a number of early recordings that feature the Moog modular synthesizer, all of them from 1967.

The first commercial recording to feature a Moog Modular is afaik Cosmic Sounds by Zodiac which was recorded in the around the summer of 1967.
[image source]














The first pop/rock album to feature a Moog modular is I believe either "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd." by The Monkees or "Strange Days" by The Doors, both of which were released in October/November 1967.
[image source : also see front]












The Byrd's "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" was also recorded in the same period (i.e. fall of '67) but wasn't released until Jan '68.
[image source]















The first record to be entirely recorded with a Moog modular is most likely Beaver & Krause's "The Nonesuch Guide To Electronic Music", released at the end of 1967.
[image source]














Electronic music pioneer Paul Beaver was involved in all of the above recordings, programming and (in most cases) playing the Moog, an early 1966/67 model "Synthesizer III": Moog synthesizer III (1967). This early model came with a different module configuration and was slightly wider by 4 inches than the later model IIIC. [image source]

Have I missed any other album from 1967, or earlier, that features the Moog modular? if so, feel free to add to my list."

Micke"







Note: you can probably pick these up on Amazon or maybe even Ebay. I did not include affiliate links in this post as I thought it would be disrespectful to Micke and the post, but... if you are planning to pick any of these up and you want to support this site, feel free to scroll down to the album section on the right and click on any of the links to search for these.

Emu Audity - Samples

This one in via swissdoc.

Click here for the E-mu Audity page on the Emulator Archive where you will find samples and notes on the E-mu Audity. When you are done there, also check out the E-mu Audity page on Synthmuseum.com. You can also find the samples on theGerman Keyboards.de. Google translated version of the description:

"1977 hangs well-being and blows the modular system handbuilt of E-mu system still from only one product. In order to generate additional incomes, Dave Rossum works as an advisor for other Synthesizer companies and develops one-off productions for different musicians as for example the volume Grateful DEAD…"

E-Mu

Plan-B Model 25 Demos from REWire

via REwire:
"All the Demos feature one or two Oscs (Sine Wave mostly) into the Waveshaper or Ringmod independently and a set from the Ringmod into the Waveshaper and into the VCA for all sounds. I added a bit of reverb to the whole batch as well to give them space. I used LFO's, ENV's and a Theremin Controller to modulate mostly the Waveshaper's CV input. A few of these have audio going onto the CV of the Waveshaper or no input, creating a noise output that can be modulated by the CV input. The Ringmod has a Feedback switch that dirties it up quite a bit.

Sine to Waveshaper - LFO to WS CV input: click here
Saws to Waveshaper - Theremin Control of WS CV: click here
Sine to Waveshaper - Fast LFO to WS CV: click here
Waveshaper Noise - Triangle to WS CV: click here
Ringmod - Flip Feedback Switch: click here
Ringmod Sequence - Env to Freq of Sine: click here
Ringmod to Waveshaper: click here
Ringmod to Waveshaper - Sync LFO to WS CV: click here
Ringmod to Waveshaper - Repeating Env to WS CV: click here
Ringmod to Waveshaper - Env and LFO to WS CV and OSC CV: click here
Ringmod to Waveshaper - Theremin Control of WS CV: click here
Ringmod to CV input of Waveshaper - Triangle to WS Audio Input: click here
Ringmod to Waveshaper - Env to WS CV - Flip Feedback Switch: click here
Sine to Waveshaper - WS to Ringmod - LFO to WS CV: click here"
Plan B

Daft Punk's Magical Pyramid/Spaceship: Infiltrated!

"Yep, there it is. The view from within the technicolor dream pyramid inhabited by those rascally robots Daft Punk. The innards of the very vessel Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo use to make tens of thousands of people all jump in unison and gyrate their hips in some grand, cosmic harmony. Pretty sweet, although it doesn't hold a candle to the view from the outside."

They definitely like their MOOG Voyager RMEs. via antonio. Title link takes you to the full article.

Rush - Tom Sawyer

YouTube via lmpec.
MOOG Minimoog, Oberheim OB-X, MOOG Taurus Pedals.

Stretta on the Tenori-On

Title link takes you to an interesting perspective by Stretta on the Tenori-On. Of course this is all speculation, but it is interesting nonetheless. BTW, note the red lighted Tenori-On in this shot.

"Most of the unit is dominated by the button grid with a handful of extra buttons around the frame and an LCD. This suggests a limited opportunity to tweak the sounds or process. I suspect the LCD and associated navigation system is best suited to mundane tasks like selecting patches, loading samples from the card slot, and setting preferences - not editing. Perhaps software is included that will allow the user to more extensively edit using a computer."

Etiquette Demo 1

YouTube via doublewah. More info on CDM and the Etiquette installation.
This is pretty cool, so do check it out the post and the site.
I know this isn't reactable, but I'm labeling as such so it is easier to find in the archives.

8x16 monome by david phipps (sts9)

YouTube via sts9phipps. via CDM.
"The diy 8x16 monome controller, built by david phipps, kit by monome.org. music is 'b-nice' (monome version), live versions with the full band sts9 available at sts9music.com."

Rebel Droid

Title link takes you to a track "rebel_droid_-_a_single_voice" by Rebel Droid. See if you can guess the synth used.

"Last night I was working on my synthesis chops with a particular synth and when I struck upon a fun little idea that is the polar opposite of the way I normally work. I make nu-skool breaks most of the time and tend to make things extremely complex and densely layered but tonight I made a complete little song using just 3 oscillators, a ring mod and a noise source from a single mono patch. It was recorded on the fly in one take with no overdubs and no multitracking and no rehearsing. There are also no effects whatsoever except for a small delay and a convolution reverb. There isn't even any eq.

It's basically me playing an arp pattern mostly with one hand while tweaking knobs with the other but don't let that fool you.. it's kind of surprising how well it turned out. It's a little unpolished of course but it is just about a complete song and, yes, it is a single mono patch! I particularly like when the first bassline comes in and how I only turned the noise source on once near the beginning for percussion and it did the rest on it's own! There's a lot of randomness and little bleeps and squeals in there that I can't fully explain. It's also interesting that if you played the patch normally without the arp and with all the oscillators it doesn't sound anything like this!

It's not an earthshattering concept by any means but it's kind of a testament to what you can do with limited resources, some strict constraints and a little creativity.

Anyway.. I deliberately left out what synth it is to see if anyone can guess or at least guess what they think it sounds like."

noiseprofessor's Xpander Demo

download here
"Moody demosong made with an Oberheim Xpander only. Recorded with multitracker to show off the possibilities for doing percussive sounds, which is often said that the Xpander can`t do this. Sure used some Delay in mixing process. Note: Even the drums & percussions are made with this synth."
Previous tracks by noiseprofessor

Dual x0xb0x Demo

YouTube via october71.
"Here I am demoing the two x0xb0xes I built, #117 (my personal one) and #329 (for a customer). This isn't intended to be a real song, just a demo of the two of them together. Equipment used: 2 x0xb0xes, Korg ER-1 Sequencing my Novation Drumstation, Alesis Ineko, Ibanez SM7 Distortion Pedal, Behringer UB1622FX-PRO Mixer."
via october71:
:and here's a couple of pictures:
271964814.jpg
3675255/271964799.jpg
More of my electronics/circuitbending projects can be found here:

http://www.picturetrail.com/october71:

Public Image: Careering

YouTube via Galgo23. 1980. Sent my way via SRH.
Features the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.

Modular 2003

YouTube via liquidcolor.
"This is a short video of the modular from 2003. There is a Tama Techstar drum brain in the top right, but I don't recall if it was wired in. Sounds like it could have been. Wiard, Blacet and DIY EFM."

Synton Syrinx

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Roland Jupiter-8

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

ARP Quadra

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Sequential Circuits Split 8

Title link takes you to shtos via this auction.

"he Sequential Split 8 is Japanese produced analog synth marketed by Sequential Circuits. It is very similar in voice architecture and sound to the MultiTrak and SixTrak. All of these synths as well as the Akai AX 60 use one Curtis SENTE (CEM 3394) chip per voice. The Split 8 has eight voices where as the others mentioned above only have 6. The Split 8 seems to be designed for more use as a traditional analog poly synth like the Prophet 5 than as an analog workstation like the SixtTrak and MultiTrak. The Split 8 is capable of doing splits and layers and this is really its strength. As it has 8 voices, you can double up the oscilators and still have 4 note polyphony! By creating a split you can basically have a 4 voice synth with two oscilators per voice that can be detune really thickening up your pads. In split mode the Split 8 is also capable of Poly Mod like the Prophet 5 which uses once voice in the stack to modulate the other. Neither the SixTrak or MultiTrak have this ability. The Split 8 can also stack up all 8 voices to have one massive monosynth; great for supper thick leads and weighty basses!"