"For the Synth Guys and Gals who take pictures of their cats and their babies. We've gone for a pregnant female praying mantis that lives in our yard. She's awesome. She catches Bees and eats them. She waits on a leaf on our baby lemon tree --- patiently waits and then BAM! IN THE FACE! A bee buzzes down to suck on some nectar and is trapped by the Mantis Lady (and their insides are deliciously eaten, as seen, in other photos) "
YouTube via therealretrosynth. via brian c. "Suit & Tie Guy jams on a x0xb0x, Roland CR-8000, and combination of STG and .com analog synth modules at Analogue Heaven Midwest 2008."
Nintendo DS plays Access Virus and Korg Radias from Toumal Rakesh on Vimeo. "I was fooling around with DSMIDI via WiFi (http://dsmidiwifi.tobw.net) and used the DS to control both my Virus TI and my Korg Radias - over WiFi of course! I used the Korg KP3 to sample several passes until I had what you hear there, to which I played a few notes in the end. It's a bit like painting a room through the keyhole of a closed door ;)"
"Jessica Rylan demos a noise generator circuit for her workshop at Bent Festival 2008" I did a quick search on Jessica Rylan and found these posts. One of the early flickr shots from Dec, 2005. And... she runs Flower Electronics. Off to go update the older posts.
via this auction
"'The Drum synth experience...a new dimension in sound'
That's what it says on the front of the owners manual (photocopy version you will get with this) and that's what they said when this came out (I believe late 70's early 80's).
It is powered by 2 x 9V battery this one has actually been beautifully modified to accept a mains supply. It comes with an original single braced stand which has seen better days but works perfectly (included in the sale). You can mix this through your electronic drum module, or simply plug into a PA or Hi Fi system. You will love the crazy sounds such as 'Disco', Helicopter', Patrol Car', 'Surf', 'Match of the day' or 'funky toad' or simply create your own....all you need is a guitar type lead and an amp, These are extremely rare, and this one is in extremely good condition."
images via this auction "The Waldorf Nano SynCard is a plug-in sound expansion module designed for use with CME UF MIDI keyboard controllers. The Nano SynCard provides 24-note polyphony and contains over 1,000 classic Waldorf MicroQ synth sounds. It easily installs into the back panel of CME's UF Series keyboards. It is unique in that it is the only product on the market that allows a controller keyboard to be turned into a full-on synthesizer, complete with real-time control.
Up to two Nano SynCards can be installed in each keyboard and independently controlled via the CME's front panel knobs and sliders. When two cards are present, splits and layers can also be created. The cards feature left, right, and stereo (headphone) audio outputs; power is supplied by the CME controller. The 1,000 sounds include a wide assortment of trademark Waldorf basses, solo tones, pads, percussion, and effects."
"From Sonic State: 'Screaming monophonic leads are possible, but this synth produces also the coolest and heaviest bass sounds, and also has that famous JMJ-strings. Killer synth.'
From Sound On Sound magazine: 'The MX3000 was Multivox's finest hour. With bass, poly, and lead sections, an ensemble effect, and a phaser, it falls into the same 'multi-keyboard' camp as the ARP Quadra…
'The bass section offered three basic sounds, with three contour types, each with variable release. The lead synth consisted of a traditional VCO/VCF/VCA signal path plus an LFO and, despite its apparent limitations, it produced some interesting sounds. Nevertheless, the polyphonic section held the most promise. This offered eight editable voices, of which three (piano, harpsichord and honky-tonk) were velocity-sensitive.
'Given the similarities to the Quadra, it makes you wonder how much of the MX3000 was copied from ARP's ideas or designs. Keep an eye out for the MX3000. If you find one and don't want it, I'll buy it…'"
"Here's its story: A friend of mine made commercials back in the early 80's. He bought this Bass Line new for some sound experiments, tried it once, and then off it went into his closet. 25 years later he sold it to me, and I never used it, not even once. It stayed in my clean, dry closet until now.
It has its original case, which is partly responsible for the unit's pristine condition. The manual is an original Roland Bass Line manual, but is not original to this unit. The power supply is New Old Stock (I found it in a small music store). All in all this is a rare occasion to buy an almost-new Bass Line with all the extras."
images via this auction "Synth has two oscillators with triangle, saw, and three square waveforms with different pulse width. You can choose from 32’ to 2’ register for every oscillator. You can modulate the first oscillator by the second (crossmodulation). There is portamento effect for the first oscillator. Polivoks is duo-phonic synth it means that you can play two notes at the same time. The heart of the Polivoks is originally designed 24db dualmode filter, well known by its killer resonanse, unique and unstable sound. Filter can be switched in LP or BP mode. There is LFO with 4 waveforms, it can modulate every VCO, VCF and VCA. Mixer section consists of 1osc, 2osc, noise and external signal.There are dedicated ADSR envelopes for VCF and VCA.Envelopes has autotrigger mode when signal repeats from attack to decay stage." Demos at the auction while it's up.
via this auction "rare 26+ year old ENTIRE issue of the great AES Journal, the leading audio engineering and recording studio magazine in the world.
Each issue, like this one, is filled with great articles and great ads in the area of sound, audio and sound recording.
This is a complete, entire issue, and in EXCELLENT condition.
This issue is particularly good for this article or articles:
1. "A Computer-Controlled Polyphonic Synthesizer" by E-mu Systems honcho David P. Rossum, who describes how his new keyboard works with an early computer from the time of it's inception in 1975 to the time of the correct computer and program being found in about 1980. Some very useful info for all E-mu folks!
2. "Digital Additive Synthesis for Computer Music" is by Brown University profs, and you'll enjoy that too...
Many other great articles and gear adverts in this complete issue!"
via Tom Bugs: "Hiya, It is (finally) time to get back to BugCrushing - this time with two versions - in the shop now! Plus:::: announcing a few shows and workshops:::::
*The re-emergence of the BugCrusher08, but now in stomp format* The BugCrusher08 is the daddy of the crusher-range with VoltageControlled Crushing and Filtering. Quite a complex box with many areas of versatility, this new stomp version is basically the same as the desktop version released back in January - there are some sound examples online from this.
Released in a batch of 8 at £170 plus shipping (inc AC power pack, instructions and 3 year guarantee) (I will be releasing more in the next months too)
*The Micro enters production* Following an initial short-run back in December, the BugCrusherMicro has been redesigned and improved for a regular production version. This is the most compact crushing option with just one dial and measuring just 120 x 65 x 40mm!
Released in a batch of 12 at £70 plus shipping (inc battery, instruction sheet and 3 year guarantee) (There'll be a follow-up batch of these pretty soon)
*Weevils* ...all the Weevil08s are gone for now, but I'll be getting back to them shortly. Still no moves on the AudioWeevil front (darn-it)
*Initial announcement of shows & workshops* The BugBrand Modular has been updating its wardrobe for some summertime shows.... There will be a one-off collaboration with drummer Roger Skerman in support of The Necks - 17th May at the Cube Cinema, Bristol And then a week in Berlin with two shows and a workshop building some new noisy on-board-synths (like souped up PostcardWeevils!) More details on such things in the next few weeks. http://bugbrand.co.uk/pages/bugbrandhome.htm
**** That's all for now - but, as I say, there should be a secondary round of both BugCrushers following shortly.. All best & cheers, Tom"
via Floppy on the AH list, posted here with permission:
"i got the clockwork for a while now and finally discovered its great features. first i was disapointed because the manual doesnt mention all of its functions, and its not really selfexplaining. i mailed the guy who made it and he helped me with some advice that can now be read on his homepage ** i use the clockwork mainly for triggering percussive sounds as this machine takes me to completely new patterns! you might know the point where you feel like hacking the same old beat into your tr 6/7/8/9 over and over again wondering if theres still undiscovered patterns hiding under this 16 steps... the easy access to the 3 different rhythm scales (normal 4th, triplets and dotted) and the possibilty to combine them with each other makes it the perfect solution against boring drumloops.
im using an akai mpc as master clock and the clockwork is slave so i can record every drumloop seperately on the mpcs audio input. this method is as tight as possible i think. for some loops i just record single instruments on the combined output of the clockwork, when maximum flexibilty is needed, but its also possible to play a full drumset (4 tracks) and record it at once.
when using analog drumbrains that accept velocity sensitive trigger inputs, i realized that there is another hidden shuffle possibility : the lenghts of the gate signal can be either very short -that results in a single hit. with a bit of lenght -that gives something like a flame / roll medium lenghts - that results in the exact middle of a beat (offbeat bass) longest gate - this grooves in the opposite of nr. 2 it seems that the end of the gate signal does trigger again but with only half of the velocity. when i discovered this i was already dancing to my clockworks beats, its definately the most groovy unit i ever played with. im thinking of getting a second clockwork soon."
YouTube via kaizokuhousou. via Nusonica "2008 15th June. I demonstrate Moog & Clavia Synthesizer in Osaka Japan. Wanna you to visit to Umeda Nakai Gakki"
YouTube via Hanni13579 "Playing a few of the performances I created using the sounds form my soundbank. Unfortunately these Performance patches aren't available for download, but feel free to create your own ones.
The rhythms are all created using the internal arpeggiator. The kicks are available as single voices without tune and so I could use them here.
P.S.: I'm sorry for the video perspective and my left hand not always visible. It din't have much to do anyway."
Kwotemusic has a post up on his experience building a Blacet Dual Filter module.
"I built the Blacet Dual Filter module the other day and it was quite the learning experience. I had built the Dual Linear VCA before but had a helping hand so this time around I was really forced to learn things more fully."
If you'd like to see what Plan B has been up to, click here for previews, descriptions and photos of the 15 new Plan B products which will be released over the Summer and Fall of 2008, including the ELF series modules and Model 30.
YouTube via psvbluemts "Except from TV documentary about Australian venture capital industry in 1984 showing rare footage inside the Fairlight factory. Features Peter Vogel, Kim Ryrie, Mars Lazar." Update: you might recognize the Fairlight in the last video from this post.
click here Prof. Aaron Lanterman Some examples of what's listed: # Session 1: 40 Years of Music Synthesis, Day 1 (Moog/Buchla up to DX7) (video) # Session 2: 40 Years of Music Synthesis, Day 2 (DX7 and after) (video) # Session 3: Op-Amp Review, Day 1 (video) # Session 4: Op-Amp Review, Day 2 (video) # Session 5: Meet the Korg MS-20, a typical semimodular analog monosynth (video)
"I've finally got videos of all the lectures from the Spring 2008 version of my class on "Electronics for Music Synthesis" posted to blip.tv. Previous versions of the class were called "Theory and Design of Music Synthesizers" - I retitled the class to more clearly indicated the increased analog focus and decreased digital focus of this version of the class (but there's some random bits of DSP-ish stuff in there, like discussions of aliasing).
There were 22 lectures this semester. Alas only 21 are posted, since I had technical issues with the camera one day."
YouTube via suckho. via Failed Muso. "BeatEd homepage: http://www.byterapers.com/BeatEd/
BeatEd is a simple drum machine application for Symbian S60 mobile phones. It was originally developed in couple of nights to get a drum machine and metronome application for personal guitar playing purposes. After getting a lot of new ideas and positive feedback, I decided to improve it a bit and make a decent public release of it. So here it is, have fun!
Feature highlights: - Easy to use beat editor, even easier beat player. - Change tempo and volume while playing. - Edit beat on-the-fly while playing. - 16 bit 16 channel audio mixer. - Extremely accurate beat timing (1-999 BPM). - Real-time VU meters. - 16 different drum tracks. - Supports S60 v3.x mobile phones. - Adjusts to different screen layouts. - Random volume variance. - and much more..
Supported devices: - All S60 3rd edition devices (Forum Nokia list)
"This music video documents the production of the song "change" by maison vague. The footage is drawn entirely from the actual sessions, along with images of some of the equipment used in the production. The song is built on a relentless Jupiter-4 arpeggiated bass line, triggered by a CR-8000 drum machine, modified with individual mono outputs, synced to Pro Tools via an MSQ-100 MIDI sequencer. As the Jupiter-4 has no MIDI, this was the only way to keep things *somewhat* in sync during overdubs. Although the OB-Xa features prominently in the video, the majority of the synth sounds in this song come from the Jupiter-4." Lyrics here - check out the video description.
YouTube via Newueel "Triple fun with two Korg MS-20 analog synthesizers and a Korg SQ-10 analog sequencer! The SQ-10 is basically used for controlling the filters for both MS-20s.
The first MS-20 (middle) is triggered by the SQ-10 and plays some rythm and bass. Both filters are controlled by different SQ-10 patterns (Channel A+C), the bass (pitch) is controlled by the keyboard. Both VCO's are used for bass sound colour, VCO-2 is a little detuned.
The other MS-20 (below) is triggered by its own keyboard and is used for melodic adds. The highpass filter is controlled by the modulation generator and the SQ-10 pattern (Channel B). Also some portamento is added to this pattern. The control wheel controls the clock speed of the SQ-10 and doubles it up a couple of times (used at end).
=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -= These synths are also part of a much bigger lineup used by our musical explorer team (Cosmic Spring). You also might want to check out the following site: http://www.cosmicspring.com (includes free music downloads)!"
via this auction "blue LED power light Buffered 1/4 inch audio outputs for Oscillator 1, Oscillator 2, and Noise. 1/8 inch modulation outputs for Triangle, Square, and Random waveforms. 1/8 inch VCF modulation/CV input. Blend controls to fine tune the amount of modulation to VCF and VCOs. When none of the added jacks are used and the blen controls are set all the way up, this Rogue will preform 100% stock."
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