Flame Talking Synth Sequence Demo

via mok's space
"Just got one of these bad boys and it is pretty deep. Speech synthesis chips controllable (barely) by a set of switches, knobs, and two joysticks. Seriously fun. This is a recorded internal sequence playing back while I'm adjusting different parameters to give a good idea of the range of this thing. There are two chips outputting hard left and right so it's 'stereo'."

Sayer's Studio Setup

File this under one of the great synth pron sites I knew about for years but apparently never put up a post on. I just ran across it on this post by Cross Modulate.

If you haven't been to Sayer's Studio Setup, it is well worth a visit. You'll find images of the studio grouped by year starting with 2002 (bottom) up to June of 2007 (top).

Be sure to check out the rest of the site as well.

A Rozzbox Arrives

via REwire

"I just got my Rozzbox from Roger at Big City Music this evening right after they arrived. No time to play it yet but I look forward to having a blast with it. I've been waiting 2 /12 years since Roger lent me the Mono Rozzbox V1 and now the circle is complete!"

Hank Venture's Umbrella Ride

Mankato Filter demo via STG

"here's another chune i worked up. the Mankato is used on every track. it's called 'Hank Venture's Umbrella Ride.'

i suppose it's a dance track, but a DJ i gave it to today described it as "shiftey" ... better for listening to not so good for dancing. this is probably a side effect of being 5 tracks of improvisation to tape, mixed live with the desk at mixdown. all the sequencing is the Trigger Mini-Store and the Voltage Mini-Store. i used the x0xb0x only to stripe the tape machine with din sync, and as a keyboard controller for the "lead" "melody" track.

the kick drum is the distorted sine from the 6 db output of the Mank, the hats use the Mank as a mixer for the 3 Q106s modulating each other as a metallic noise source (need to work a bit more on that sound), the bass is a couple Q106s filtered from the 24 db output of the Mankato, the chords are 3 Q106s (tuned to a chord, with 2 of the 3 oscillators modulated by the Voltage Mini-Store) through the 18db output (i think. i had intended to but i might have accidentally used another output), and the lead line uses the 6 db output with heavy regeneration.

download an mp3 at: link"

You can find more demos from STG at the The Sound Vault.

Voice of Saturn ~Modulator: VCA, Triangle Gen, AR Gen

YouTube via CuriousInventor
http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/voice_of_saturn_modulator

Flame Echometer Prototype Part1

YouTube via flameampere
"Preview of the FLAME-"ECHOMETER"-Prototyp, the new MIDI-Sequencer/Looper. Session with Moogerfooger's FequBox/RingModulator and MAM "ADX1" (Analog-Drum-Soundmodul)"

Wires wires everywhere. An adventure in circuit bending.

flickr set by antakrt

"One fine autumn day, we got together to circuit bend a piece o' shit old Yamaha PSR6. This is our story."

Moog Realistic Concertmate MG-1: Killer Syth for Radio Shack

YouTube via gearwire
"Nowadays, Radio Shack has earned itself a rep for selling musical products that no serious musician would touch with a ten foot pole lest he or she be ridiculed beyond belief by his or her smarmy musician friends. Though Moog manufactured the Concertmate MG-1 for Radio Shack, it lives up to the Moog name, so anyone who ridicules you for it is committing blasphemy.

Dan Marshall from RedNails gives us a walkthru of the instrument, its capabilities, its quirks and its sound.

See more on Gearwire.com."

Virus C & Nord Modular, one of these creative nights!

YouTube via beckhusen. "Live session with Access Virus C and Clavia Nord Modular G2"

Technics SY-1010

via this auction

"Technics SY-1010 analog synthesizer vintage 1977 Japan rare smallest but fat analog synth with full sized keys SY-1010 is extremely rare cute monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Technics in 1977. cute! very small and light weight analog synthesizer it has full sized 32keys 1VCO, noise,VCF(resonance self-oscillating),ADSR,LFO,and each various controls VCO is free scale(not change by octave range)like modular synth simple architecture but very easy to use and can creates versatile sounds fat analog bass sound to warm leads,retro SFX sounds etc good synth for both recording and live performance(small and light weight and looks cute)"

Don't forget...

it's cute.

Syntecno TeeBee Mark III

images via this auction
"Syntecno TeeBee MkIII . Some people say it is the best TB 303 Clone ever made. Its Sound is amazing and thick. These were hand-made in Holland, and have been out of production for a long while now. The Original creator is still supporting them. This one has two fender guitar knobs instead of the stock knobs on the Tuning and Cutoff. They work as well or better than the Originals. In addition to being an Awesome analog TB 303 type instrument it has:

# Audio Input for filtering.
# Ms 20 style Ring Modulator built in.
# MIDI to CV Converter Built in with 4 CV/Gate outputs
# Aggressiveness control for the resonance
# 50 note or 100 controllers Sequencer
# MIDI IN / OUT / THRU & 2 MIDI merge
# SYNC OUT (which clocks to the MIDI so you can Sync your 606, 808, 303 or other SYNC gear to your MIDI gear)

# These were 1000$ New ~8 years ago, and based on their rarity, I would imagine the price would be a ton more than the asking price soon. It is a very useful tool with all the converters, and sounds it can produce."

Roland JU-6

images via this auction

ARP Pro Soloist

images via this auction

WOINNE on Digital Fringe

Click here for a modular track by ghostdog on Digital Fringe. It's all done with the Way Out Ware ARP 2600 softsynth. Do check it out. Pretty impressive stuff.

Raymond Scott: The First 100 Years on BoingBoing

Cool to see something from our neck of the woods on Boing Boing. The following is just an excerpt. Be sure to check out the full post on Boing Boing for more.

"Since Scott couldn't hire the perfect musicians, he built them. From the 1940s thru the 1970s, Scott, whose recording studios doubled as science labs, worked increasingly with home-built techno sound generators. He's one of the great overlooked pioneers of electronica, with US patents to prove it. His 1963 Soothing Sounds for Baby series of repetitive, high-tech nap-inducers set the template for ambient music. In 1970, Motown founder Berry Gordy was so impressed with Scott's Electronium, an analog console that composed by artificial intelligence, that he commissioned a unit. Two years later, Gordy hired Scott at Motown-L.A., where the mad scientist toiled until 1977."

brazilian diy

"When I was a child I loved music and wanted to play the piano. However, my family had no money to buy such an expensive instrument. As my father was an electronic hobbist, he started to build this electronic organ from scratch. It started with a simple one-transistor oscilator that produces a sawtooth like waveform, and just replicated such oscilator as many times as the keys he wanted. So this beauty has full polyphony, and each note has to be independently tuned by turning small trimpots. My grandfather also worked on the instrument shaping the keys and building the case, which are made of wood." You can find the rest of the story including images on Marcelo Johann's This is my Father's Synth!. via vito mf

Pimp My Korg - Electribe - by Queaver and Versis

YouTube via kwiwer. via synthtopia
"How to pimp a Korg Electribe ES1 + the new Acidlab Bassline 2"

How Not to Blow Up Your Modular

YouTube via stretta
"A tutorial on how to connect Analogue Systems modules safely to a Doepfer cabinet"

長身系ＡＶメーカーのためのシンセサイザー組曲

YouTube via medapai. "KORG DS-10" May not be the safest thing for work.
"KORG DS-10 一台で完結している楽曲です。普段、仕事ではacid music studioというソフトをサンプラー的に使ったり、同ソフトでmidiデータを作成したりするのですが、今回はそうしたソフトで作りこみは行わず、一発録りしてゆきました。但し、録音時にARIONのSAD-3というパチもんディレイをミキサーに咬ませ、センド・アンド・リターンさせています。結果、チープな音に近付いていると思います 。
さて、final heightとは私が個人で運営している長身系の女子を取り扱うインディ系アダルト・ メーカーになります。
http://www.medapai.com/
18歳以下は入っちゃダメよ"
"KORG DS-10-shot one of the songs. Usually work in the software sampler acid music studio to use them and the software to create and midi data, but this is such a dent in the software without making the first attempt to録りYUKIMASHITA . However, when the recording ARION SAD-3 of the delay in a blender and spit-bite from them anymore, and send them to return. The sound of approaching the cheap.
Now, final height and I was running the self-tall adult female system to deal with Indiana manufacturers.
http://www.medapai.com/
Do not enter the age of 18 years."

Tyme Sefari as a bit reduced CV recorder

YouTube via dkimcg
"I tried using the Harvestman Tyme Sefari as a CV recording module a little more seriously last night. I was able to get it to record some LFOs that sounded rhythmic and have the frequency CV of the Tyme Sefari control the playback rate of the recorded gesture. Too bad I didn't record it, because it sounded better than what you're watching. This video is purely technical experimentation, it kind of annoys me actually, which might be good. I have the TS record the Dalek Modulator which is being modulated by the Dual Cyclotron. The CV if the ringmod out of the Dalek is recorded by the Tyme Sefari, and the DLY out send it off to the PlanB Model 15's FM input, fully cranked most the time. The CV's also sent to the Polivoks filter's frequency CV input and attenuated. That goes through the M13 and is controlled by the M10 which is triggered by the M24 Heisenberg. The M10 also triggers the playback of the Tyme Sefari at points in the video too. The Heisenberg is also sending the stepped output into the Tyme Sefari. Finally, the LFO is turning on and off the recording and panning (which you probably don't hear). That's about it for the patch. You don't actually "hear" the Tyme Sefari. It's basically FMing the M15 and the Polivoks VCF."