Opensource Multitouch Music Apps ssandler.wordpress.com

YouTube via cerupcat. Be sure to forward towards the end of each.
"Two applications I created for a multitouch table I am building. Both applications are still a work-in-progress.

Find more on DIY multitouch tables and applications at my blog ssandler.wordpress.com or www.nuigroup.com.

Thanks to Adi, Deej, and Muhneer for making these videos on their tables since mine is still in progress."

DIY Multitouch Table ssandler.wordpress.com

Multitouch Audio Shape Sequencer 2

YouTube via cerupcat

Multitouch Audio Table - AudioTouch OS - Long Version

YouTube via cerupcat. via sequencer.de
"AudioTouch is an interactive multi-touch interface for computer music exploration and collaboration. The interface features audio based applications that make use of multiple users and simultaneous touch inputs on a single multi-touch screen. A natural user interface where users can interact through gestures and movements, while directly manipulating musical objects, is a key aspect of the design; the goal is to be able to interact with the technology (specifically music based) in a natural way. Users can load, exit, and move musical applications using gestures as well as have a multiple applications operate within the same work environment. The design is built into a table that hides all the hardware necessary for tracking multiple inputs as well as displaying visual feedback on the touch surface."

EMS Synthi-e

flickr by Herman Beun

"Stefan Németh (synthesizer) and Steven Hess (drums) on TodaysArt 2008."

Anyone know more about this performance?
http://www.todaysart.nl/2008/
Found some more info with links: Nemeth & Hess
Nemeth on MySpace
EMS Synthi-e on MATRIXSYNTH

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Sega Mega Drive Directly Controlled via MIDI Keyboard

YouTube via littlescale
"In this video, the Sega Mega Drive II is controlled via the MIDI keyboard controller. Various parameters can be controlled from the keyboard, as one can hear in the video.
http://little-scale.blogspot.com"

buchla 259e-261e knob twiddling

audio via vgermuse

image of the actual patch pictured.

"Just the straight Buchla 259e and 261e with simultaneous knob twiddling."

Destination Space

via Dana Countryman

"Just a quick note to mention that my new CD with French synth pioneer (80 years old!) is out now on Oglio Records. It's called "Destination Space", and features 17 brand-new compositions. Out on Amazon and iTunes.

It's a Moog-filled potpourri of Spy Rock, Science-Fiction theme, Perrey's usual trademark fun songs, and even a little Spaghetti Western flavor on one tune! Lots of retro sounds, and JJ's amazing tape loops....

The final track "Beyond The Milky Way" features a computer-programmed singing voice -- singing the first lyrics EVER on a Jean-Jacques Perrey recording Ð this being his 22nd album in his long 50-year career. We're doing two RARE concerts, to debut the new CD:

NEW YORK CITY
Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman, with Circuit Parade
Oct. 1st, 2008, 7:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 11205
Info Line 212.505.FISH

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman, with Unireverse
Oct. 3rd, 2008, 8 pm
MONTREAL POP FESTIVAL
Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire
2111 Boul St. Laurent
Montreal, Québec
(514) 845 - 2014

The NY show will be the first time JJ has been back in the Big Apple in 38 years!

Hope some of your blog readers can catch these shows. This will likely NEVER happen again...!
Sound samples are here.

Thanks,
- Dana"

GrooveStep Now Available and Free

"GrooveStep is a portable sample based step sequencer and that allows people to write music anywhere with the Nintendo DS.

GrooveStep is preloaded with hundreds of sounds and also gives the user the ability to mix existing sounds to create new ones.

Create rich layered grooves with 16 tracks, perfect for Hip-Hop, Techno and other electronic styles.

Song Features:
16 monophonic tracks with up to 2 samples per track
Tempo: 30-300 BPM

Pattern Editor features:
Variable pattern length: 1-64 steps
Variable pattern playback speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x

Mixer features:
16 channels with volume, pan, solo and mute controls"
http://www.groovestep.com/. via Robert. Be sure to see the video here.

Ring Mod Modular Patch to Celebrate a Better Camera

YouTube via dkimcg
"A patch heavy on ring modulation and an experiment in percussive synthesis.

Yes, it's a new camera. Three people had told me I should get a better camera, 3 is the magic number. So I got a slightly better camera, but still managed to avoid getting a full DVCAM.

I was so happy I made this ring mod patch."

Electronic Music Synthesizers

via this auction

"# "Electronic Music Synthesizers" book by Delton T. Horn, 1st edition, 4th printing.
# 168 pages, black & white, with lots of interesting pictures, schematics, diagrams, & illustrations pertaining to synthesizers of the 1970's.
# Copyright 1980, #1167 Tab Books, Inc.
# Approximately 8.25" x 5"."

MOOG World Map of Synth Service Centers

images via this auction

"his is a MOOG WORLD MAP which lists all of their authorized factory service centers on the back(circa January 1981). Measures 51.5" x 34.75" got it with a used Moog Opus-3 I purchased in the early 1980's"

PAiA Gnome

via this auction

Moog Realistic Face Plate

images via this auction

"Moog Realistic Synthesizer Face Plate for model 42-4000, serial 1635."

George Forman and the 106

via Chang

Kamoni

First of all if you haven't seen Kamoni's videos yet, click here and scroll. You will find some of the most amazing live drumming with an Elektron Machinedrum, Monomachine and drumKat. It forces you to take a different perspective on the technique of playing a synth. Keyboards have dominated technique along with the modular interface of course. Kamoni explores the world of synths via drums. Really amazing stuff.

Kamoni wrote in to let us know that he has a new website at Kamoni.net which he plans to update with new and exciting stuff. Do check it out. If you have an RSS/Bog Reader like Bloglines, you can sub to the site and updates will come to you.

Be sure to check out the following while there:
Kamoni Electronic Kits for Puremagnetik

Sixteen - Generative Sound With KSP

minimoog voyager electric blue

YouTube via graal7

HyperSynth HyperSID

"HyperSID is a subtractive synthesizer with all the C64 SID chip hardware capabilities besides many new software based features So you can take advange of various Controlling features of a VSTi and also real analog sound with SID character.

Real time integration between software and hardware makes HyperSID act like the other VST instruments in your host application."


Features:
- 3 OSC per key (Monophonic)
- 1 OSC per key (3 Voice polyphonic)
- 4 Waveforms per OSC Tri , Saw ,Noise, Pulse (combinatorial)
- OSC transpose range +36 to -36 Semitone
- OSC cent range -50 to +50 Cent
- OSC ring modulation
- 3 Amp Envelope ADSR
- Multimode analog filter 12dB/Octave HP , LP , BP and (combinatorial)
- 1 LFO Part with sync , retrig and invert capability
- 1 Step LFO Part with sync , retrig and invert capability
- 2 General purpose envelope generator with invert capability
- Individual routing for each modulation source
- 88 Parameter for controlling overall synthesizer (automation recordable)
- Flexible preset manager with save and load function
- Built in 64 categorized Factory preset.
- Clean sound without any Self oscillating in most of the Presets
- Automatic real time synchronization between software and hardware
- Independent MIDI out path from host
- Very low CPU usage
"HW Unit (Enhanced Series):
HyperSID HW unit is a custom build synthesizer with internal processor and a real SID Chip! There is no emulation here, All the sounds are generated with a real SID chip. HyperSID VSTi functions as a software MIDI controller for this hardware sound engine.

New features :
1-Support for all SID chip revisions (8580-6582-6581).
2-Balanced audio output.
3-Front panel backlight brightness can be controlled by user-assignable MIDI events (MIDI-driven Visualization)
4-Half-rack-space form factor fits in Universal Rack Tray.
5-Compatible with discontinued series of HW unit.
HW unit is also available in standard 19" rack mount version."

The bottom shot is the legacy hardware unit.

Halloween Theme Song on Synthesizer (Requested Video)

YouTube via Regency500
"This is a requested video from someone on YouTube who's name I still can't remember (I deleted the request from my inbox). But he asked me to play the Halloween Theme song on my Casio. He also wanted to know what model my pianos were. My main piano is a Yamaha YDP-121, which is the big piano that you can see in my other videos, and the Casio is a CTK-401 synthesizer keyboard. I don't like it very much because the keys stick and the speakers crack. So that's why I hooked it up to my Sony STR-AV460. I hope you enjoy the video!
NOTE: this video has some bass to it, you may want to turn down your speakers if they're small ones."

The "Last" Beat written by Klaus Wunderlich

YouTube via KeybOrgel. spot the synths.

ドライブ好き♪

YouTube via PXE02321. "小型新人 おりじなる　DEMO" Moog Little Phatty.

TB-303 controlled with DS-10

YouTube via omnibotoom. For more Nintendo DS MIDI see these posts.

Baby Elephant Walk - Nord C1 (Clavia) Hammond B-3 clonewheel

YouTube via rounder2u
"Here is my version of 'Baby Elephant Walk'.
Henry Mancini wrote the soundtrack for the 1962 movie 'Hatari'. Hatari means 'danger' in Swahili. The movie itself didn't perhaps became an enormous hit, but one song in the soundtrack did very well!
Mancini wrote a brief piece of incidental music to go with a scene where a baby elephant is taken for a walk. The little song became an international hit as 'Baby Elephant Walk', and has been recorded by a large number of artists and in many different styles.
Congo, the baby elephant in the filming, died in November 2000 at the Dubbo Zoo in Australia.
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This is an easy-going song. For a bit of contrast I added some fire in the two solo choruses :-)
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The organ is a Clavia Nord C1 - a Hammond B-3 clonewheel organ.
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Nord C1 Registrations and Settings:
Upper 88 8000 000. No Chorus. Perc On, Soft, Fast, Third.
Lower 00 8700 000. No Chorus.
Bass lower man. Not used.
Leslie in slow position.
Equalizer not used.
Overdrive not used.
Reverb Hall, Soft, 50%.
Tonewheel mode Vintage 2 (high level of tonewheel crosstalk and cable leakage artefacts).
The sound is recorded line out from the organ. No additional external effects, external amplifiers or speakers are used."

FL Tutorial (Roland SH-201 automatisieren) GERMAN

YouTube via MZ331
"Hier ein kleines Tutorial, wie man den Roland SH-201 Synthesizer im TI- Modus mit FL Studio automatisiert.

If there is a request to make an english version of this tutorial, I will do that ;)"

Live pa practice: tr3logie dncflr rmx

YouTube via se7ense7. The mixer is the KORG KM402 with built in KAOSS Pad.
"Just practicing.
Only one sequence,
nothing fancy,
just learning how to work the equiptment."

SYNTON 3000 ANALOG MODULAR SYSTEM

images via this auction

"EXTREMELY RARE SYNTON 3000 ANALOG MODULAR SYSTEM w/ extremely rare and original keyboard + connection cable.

Synton was mainly an importer in Holland. They imported big league stuff. Fairlight, E-mu, Simmons, PPG. They also made some synths: the SYRINX, the series 2000 & 3000 modular the College, as well as some Vocoders."

blurp - mc-202, dr-110, sh-1

YouTube via synthdood
"Roland mc-202, sh-1, Boss dr-110, space echo re-201, msq-100, sequential circuits Prophet 600, alesis mmt-8, JH solina triple chorus, mackie 1604 vlz pro, ableton live."