This image is courtesy of CZ Rider. "Here is a photo of some of my modular setup: On top left a custom walnut Minimoog/modular with center modules DIY, bringing out the patch points on the Mini, with bottom row in MOTM format. Below a Moog Voyager. On top right a Roland System 100m on top of a 1969 Moog 1P. Below a NED Synclavier II on top of a Hammond L-100 chopper."
YouTube via criadobot "The reacTable in campusbot, campusparty, Valencia 2008 specifications, collaborative electronic musical instrument with a tangible interface based on a table, and inspired by modular synthesizers of the sixties. It was developed by the Music Technology Group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, a research team composed of Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso, Günter Geiger and Martin Kaltenbrunner. Multiple simultaneous users share total control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on the surface of a bright circular table. Manipulating these objects, representatives of the classical components of a modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sound typologies, generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer. There are only 5 reacTable, which included it was sold to Icelandic singer Bjork."
YouTube via pristak777 "Messing around with my finally integrated Eurorack modular and Paia 2700/4700 using the Mobius sequencer. Paia oscillators, filters, and vca's. Doepfer mixer and envelope generator. Livewire Vulcan modulating one filter. PAIA lfo the other. The two oscillators are out of tune at first, but they are mostly brought into tune after a little bit of adjustment from the transposer module."
"This is most likely the fastest tracks I've made for a video. The time it took to make this was about an hour. Evolver sequenced from the EMX, Revolution through ESX's effects.
Nothing much to say, it's a chill track made just because I've had such a long pause in uploading anything new. I'm still making new stuff, but never really got around recording them into a full track.
I just might do a video of a selection of unfinished patterns that I have made during the years."
YouTube via sduck409 "Here's a short demonstration of some of the features of this new sequencer. I'm controlling 3 voices with it - all MOTM 300 vco's through various filters and vcas. All in real time with no input from other sources. The sound quality's not the greatest - just using the camera mike - I had the monitors up pretty loud but the sequencer was closer so there's still sound from the switches. You can find out more about this sequencer at electro-music.com - go to the forums, and look for the klee section in the diy area."
YouTube via triumphthruxton "Vintage Synths Vol 1 - KORG Mono Poly German synth historian Matthias Becker produced a CD series back in 1990 with tracks made with one synth only. The CDs were named "Synthesizers Von Gestern Vol 1/2/3". This track was composed by Klaus Stülen at Originalton West Studio / Köln."
YouTube via triumphthruxton "Vintage Synths Vol 1 - EMS Synthi German synth historian Matthias Becker produced a CD series back in 1990 with tracks made with one synth only. The CDs were named "Synthesizers Von Gestern Vol 1/2/3". This track was composed by Klaus Stülen at Originalton West Studio / Köln. "
YouTube via dkimcg "Don't ask what I did, I don't remember exactly, but there was FM involved, ring modulation and wave shaping, the M25 Voltage processor being used as an audio mixer, Delay feedback from and through the Moogerfooger 104z, and VC of the M10 which was self cycling and being triggered by the Model 28. I was trying to get something that reminded me of a Serge type sound. I don't think I was quite successful, I need more modules to get closer.
I also recorded a second track of audio through the Roland Space Echo, but this track is dry, nothing added in the computer, not even compression, just analog compression through the Urei LA-22 during recording."
YouTube via 909techno "arduino - creating new sequence, repeat 8 times, create another new sequence. sends note, accent, slide to mam mb33mkii and kick, open hi hat and closed hi hat to tr909. will add buttons and knobs to adjust the chances of sequence attributes (more slides, more octive jumps, etc.). you can also consider this video a decent demo of the mam mb33 mkii - all the synth sounds are from it. distortion is built-in. added a bit of reverb and compression that is all."
"This truly vintage and early synthesizer MTI Auto-Orchestra is a sophisticated electronic musical instrument made in the 1970's. It contains a drum machine, an accompaniment generator and a separate bass sound. It was designed to be an electronic instrument for the instrumental soloist with three-note chord accompaniment synthesizer and an advanced rhythm machine.
The chords, with a choice of similar sounds of a piano, an organ or strings, can be set (by outside switches) to be major, minor, dominant seven or diminished chord. The device also offers automated walking bass."
images via this auction "This synth features one analog square and saw waveform VCO (voltage controled oscillator) with a huge pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound.
One square and triangle waveform LFO (low frequency oscillator), that modulates the VCO for the vibrato effect creating old school arcade Atari-like sounds.
White noise generator that triggers the VCO and can create percussion like sounds.
8 step Sequencer with note on/off switch and pitch knob for each step
It features a 1/4 inch audio output, 1/4 inch CV Output (to control other analog gear).
The Mochika2 features a MIDI input to sync the Mochika with any midi device sending midi clock signals, the mochika can sync 1, 2, 4 and up to 8 times the tempo of the master clock midi device, also it can be used as a midi to gate converter to sync other analog gear using the CV output of the Mochika2.
Also the instrument is ligthed with 1 ultra bright red led that indicates the LFO Rate, and 8 red leds to indicate the step that is being played. Very useful when you play it on a dark stage. The Analog Sequencer is packed in a cool laser cut clear acrilic case that shows all the hand made analog circuitry. The instrument is powered directly from 110V or 220V AC. Dimensions: 230mm(W), 170 mm(D), 80mm(H. incuded rubber feet and knobs) Sound Samples , Video and extra large Pictures: Visit my blog: www.atomolabs.blogspot.com"
YouTube via tuoettore "The first Moog Minimoog produced, serial number 1001, captured at the Eboard-Museum of Klagenfurt(AUSTRIA).Very very nice item, many differences from the latest Mini's, flat finishing panel, logo, squared rear alu cover,1 fuse, wood black bottom panel, more index numbers on control pots.Wow!Many thanx to Gert Prix for courtesy."
YouTube via GCom67. I thought this was a pretty cool video so I dropped GCom67 a line asking him what synths he used. I saw the Alesis Andromeda A6 in the tags for the video. The following is what he had to say, "I used the Andy for pads/bass/piano stabs thoughout and some seq/FX (wind etc) parts which are just in the mix, really for thickening the track out. The bongos are from my Big Fish 'The Art of Jo' sample library. The snare and hihats i sampled from an old band sound check i recorded on minidisc years ago. Shaker i did my self with a half full pepper mill and Rode NT2 mic. I love to use Waves SSL vst plugs and RSO Extreme Warmth on the final mix."
bassline: Roland Jupiter-4 arpeggiator in random mode and VCF modulation triggered by the TR-606
sweeping pad sounds: Roland Juno-60
deep bass: Moog Taurus bass pedals (intro and at 2.20)
drums: Roland TR-606
"And now time for another great Van Halen keyboard song. A special thank goes to user Synthartist69 and his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeNj4... which instructed me on how to play that song.
A note on the bassline: it's different from the original one, but it's a mine choice.
The sound comes from The JP8000, which it's being played thru my good old Roland Juno 106, acting as MIDI controller.
Unfortunately my Juno is now suffering for dead voice chips, so it cannot sing in this video at that time.
The patch being used here it's the regular, used and abused 2-oscillators detuned sawtooth sound that you find in tons of songs out there. I've added some filter envelope in order to have a fast raising attack and slow decay, as you can hear in the synth line of the original song, and a little touch of resonance for making the sound a bit brighter.
Sorry for my not-the-best keyboard skills :-P. Any comment or criticism, while being constructive, it's really appreciated. Enjoy and thanks!"
MiMa feat. Liquido - Narcotic
"Here is my rendition of the famous tune from Liquido. I've done a simple all-keyboard arrangement, and I've found that my Roland JP8000 can do the original sound pretty close.
The JP8000 it's being played thru my good old Roland Juno 106, acting as MIDI controller (as done in my Jump! video with the Yamaha SY77 controlling the Korg N5).
Unfortunately my Juno is now suffering for dead voice chips, so it cannot sing in this video at that time.
For those which own the JP8000 out there, the sound it's obtained from a 2 osc patch made by a SuperSaw oscillator, with detune slider at 1/3 and mix slider to its maximum (OSC1), stacked on a regular saw oscillator transposed 1 octave down the first one (OSC2). Do a little detune to OSC2 to widen more the sound and balance the two oscillators in order to have the OSC1's volume a little bit higher than OSC2, and you've done the business.
Sorry for my not-the-best keyboard skills :-P. Any comment or criticism, while being constructive, it's really appreciated. Enjoy and thanks!"
Click on the image for the full size shot. You might recognize the image from this post on the Microscopics gas0095 promo where they were giving away a tiny Minimoog and manual.
www.microscopics.co.uk/blog wrote in to let me know that the tiny pages were actually Keith Emerson Minimoog patches.
If you have a Mini (real or virtual), give them a shot.
YouTube via muzik4machines. via muzik4machines in the comments of this post. "i taped a new version of it. towards the middle of the clip (part 4/4 of a set)" Umm.. what's with the hammer about :53 seconds in? :) You should be able to play the other clips by mousing over the thumbnails at the bottom of this video when over.
via Josh: "My friend Karl and I are organizing an all day festival in Baltimore, MD at our venue The Hexagon (hexagonspace.com). From noon until 7pm we're going to have a Synth DIY / Circuit Bending / Chiptunes meet-up where people can bring their own home-built and modified instruments to set up and show off. This afternoon event is free to the public and there will be performances throughout the day featuring local musicians with home-built electronic instruments including Peter Blasser (sejayno, ciat-lonbarde), Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), T.A. Zook (http://www.myspace.com/tazook), The Baltimore SDIY Variable Ensemble, The Cheater's Club, and others. We will have tables set up with power/small amps, but if anyone has a large modular system they're considering bringing they can let us know by emailing me at josh@hexagonspace.com so we can make sure they have space reserved.
There will be a happy hour / potluck with DJ's from 7-9pm (our space is byob, so bring whatever you like to eat & drink).
At 9PM that night we're going to have an all 8-bit / Chiptunes Baltimore Invasion with Bubblyfish, Glomag, Nullsleep, noteNdo, and others from NYC playing their gameboys and other modified game systems live. There will be live visuals by don miller, voltage controlled, and noteNdo. $10 / will go on until 2AM. Not to be missed!
YouTube via AudioDamage001 "This is a brief run-through of Replicant, our looping/slicing/dicing/repeating/glitchi ng effect." See the write-up on Analog Industries.
"RG is a brand new groove plug-in that is far more than just a "virtual Rhythm Guitar player .
By using the RG onboard sequencer it is possible to create classic Rhythm Guitar grooves, but beyond that you can use the synthesizer features and effects to make fresh new edgy guitar grooves. To play the grooves RG is using a keyboard layout of "major chords" and "minor chords", each with two sequence patterns (A or B) option. It is only a matter of hitting a single note in the major keyboard range or minor keyboard range and the groove plays. The sound sets are clean sampled guitars, which gives you great freedom and flexibility when using the synthesizer features and effects of RG.
Guitar types included are: - The classic Fender Stratocaster ® electric guitar - A 8th note groove type Steel String acoustic guitar - A 16th note groove type Steel String acoustic guitar
The synthesizer parts of RG include a classic analog modelled synthesizer filter, LFO, envelopes and modulation section. The effect section can be built up by using up to 3 effects at a time. Included are midi time-based delays, chorus and also speaker simulators, phaser, flanger and many more. Included are over 500 presets included 300 "RG" grooves and 200 "basic" grooves.
You can find more pics in this electro-music.com thread.
