Blindoldfreak Set Pics

You can find some images of Alessandro Cortini's recent performances with the Buchla 200e here.

Note these are from the same sets in the videos posted here.

http://blindoldfreak.com

EMS Vocoder-System 2000B MkII and Roland SVC-350 Vocoder

YouTube via VoiceEncoder. no video, just audio.
"EMS Vocoder-System 2000B MkII and Roland SVC 350 Vocoder."

vcs3

YouTube via dangorange. I'm watching Lost at the moment and I keep wondering when I'll spot one of these or a nice big modular on the island.

Clavioline Old Analog Synthesizer

YouTube via sirredfox00
"This is a Demonstration of my Clavioline, a rare old analog Synthesizer and some excerps of old popular recordings, where the Clavioline has been utilized:

1. Frank Chacksfield's Tunesmiths - Little Red Monkey
2. Del Shannon - Runaway
3. Demonstration of my Clavioline. It was recorded with my Mp3-Voice-Recorder - so excuse the bad sound quality! Its the pure sound of the Clavioline, its own Leslie-Sound and effects and its Tubeamp (which is also the case for the keyboard), no extern amplifier, fx, leslie etc was used!
4. Tornados - Telstar"

THROBBING GRISTLE Discipline live @ The Astoria, London 2004

YouTube via nightwatch01. Upcoming tour dates on http://www.throbbing-gristle.com/
"The reformed Throbbing Gristle´s first live perfomance since 1981. Recorded at the Astoria, London on 16th of May, 2004.

See Peter ´Sleasy´ Christopherson, Cosey Fanni Tutti & Chris Carter performing ´´Discipline´´ for the first time since Berlin 1980.

Also there is a strange guy in a black/white stripped shirt sitting on stage much of the time, called Jhonn Balance."

Clavia Nord Lead. Also see the Gristleizer.

Update: the original via MetroSonus in the comments:

throbbing gristle - discipline

YouTube via lelliesandremains
"real industrial, yo."

Moog Factory Modifications - Voyager- Flashing Wheels

YouTube via MoogMusicInc
"A quick demo of the Flashing Pitch & Mod Wheel upgrade for the Moog Voyger (Select Series & Electric Blue only). For more info, visit moogmusic.com/modifications"

MAQ16 Switch Mod

YouTube via FIXED1T
"The DOEPFER MAQ16/3 Analogue Sequencer has no front panel switch and its been a constant source of hassle having to unplug its Wall-Wart power supply at the back. Also pulling cables at the back of the rack constantly unplugged it.

I could take it no longer and decided to put a power switch on the front and one which looks like it should be there. The Mod took a few hours to do (safely) but works a treat. I decided to video it from my phone.

Let me know if you need more details on how to add a switch to your unit. The music: Angels v Robots I wrote with the MAQ after making the mod.

Please check out my myspace at:

http://www.myspace.com/fixed1t"

Prophet 600 from Sequential Circuits

YouTube via DeathByDinSync
"The warm sizzle of a Prophet is timeless... The 600 has such a great tone.

I've recorded this same little tune as an alternate take. It can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Random...
Track 11: "Steppin' 600 (11_P600)

More music & info:
http://www.deathbydinsync.com

I'm not really a keyboard player, so excuse the sloppy playing.
:-)"

Korg POly 800 mod

YouTube via abertronic

"with moog slayer / FM and 24/12db mods"

Alisa Analog 2 OSC Mono Synthesizer

via this auction

"THE SYNTHESIZER WAS MADE IN RUSSIA IN THE EARLY 1980'S. It makes a unique rough sound which many other russian synth also seem to make. Its more like signal-generators from the sixties that synth-sound from the eighties. Yet its sound has character and depth and is definitely not in any VA-synth! I'LL INCLUDE THE ENGLISH FRONT PANEL TRANSLATION."

Sound Lab Plus Mini-Synth

via this auction. Note this appears to be the one from these videos.
2 VCOs (1 ramp, 1 ramp/rectangle, w/ hard sync and 1 > 2 modulation)
2 LFO (triangle/ramp/saw/square)
1 Noise Generator (white noise)
1 Mixer (Osc 1, Osc 2 Rectangle, Osc 2 Ramp, Noise)
1 VCF (lowpass/bandpass) with Resonance
1 VCA
1 Envelope Generator (Attack, Release, gate/trigger w/ repeat and S&H trigger)
1 Sample and Hold circuit
12V AC Power Adapter
For more info look at the following link to learn more about the Sound Lab Plus."

Moog Piano Bar

via this auction

"The Moog PianoBar turns an acoustic piano into a MIDI controller. It consists of:

* The Scanner Bar
* The Pedal Sensor
* The Control Module
* The Library Card
* A Carrying Case

Scanner Bar
The Scanner Bar rests on the piano's cheekblocks against the fallboard. It sits slightly above the piano's keys, without touching them.

* Connects to the Control Module with a 6-foot detachable cable (provided).
* Detects the motion of the piano's keys when they are played.
* Detects the Velocity of the piano key's motion.
* Sets up and calibrates in 5 minutes or less. No special expertise required.
* adjustments for height and key spacing to accomodate a wide variety of 88-key acoustic pianos.
* requires flat cheek blocks of at least 1" in width.

Pedal Sensor
Rests underneath the piano's pedals.
# Detects the use of the Sustain and Soft Pedals.
# Connects to the Control Module with a 15-foot detachable cable (provided).

Control Module
As the brains of the PianoBar, the Control Module receives information from the Scanner Bar and Pedal Sensor and turns it into MIDI data.

* Power Requirements: +12VDC, 830 mA; Center-positive barrel connector.
* (2) 1/4" Audio Outputs
* 1/8" Headphone Output
* MIDI In and Out
* (3) Expression Pedal Inputs
* Library Card Slot
* ScannerBar and Pedal Sensor Inputs.
* Translates the motion of keys and pedals to MIDI
* Transmits and Receives on up to 16 MIDI channels.
* Internal Sound Generator features a General MIDI 2 sound set: 64 voice polyphony; 16-part multitimbral; 300 high quality sounds.
* 100 Setups: 60 user, 20 card, 20 factory. Setups configure the 16 MIDI channels: sound, volume, MIDI routing, Zones, velocity curve, pan, transpose and effects.

Library Card
Memory device and spacer for Scanner Bar Setup.
* Stores up to 20 Setups.
* Used as a spacer to quickly set the correct height of the Scanner Bar.

Carrying Case
* Rugged Molded Case for easy transport of Moog PianoBar components."

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MFB Synth II

via this auction

Roland GR-300

via this auction

"GR-300 Specifications
Hexa VCO: Master Tuning, Pitch A (±1300 cent), Pitch B(±1300 cent), Pitch LATCH/UNLATCH Switch (2), Sweep Rise Time (0-6 sec), Sweep Fall Time (0-0 sec), LFO Rate (2-10 Hz), VCF: Preset A Attack Time (0-2 sec), MOD Sens, Preset B Attack Time (0-2 sec), MOD Sens, VCA: Compression Switch (Long Sustain), Footswitch: COMP (Envelope Compression), Pitch A (Pitch A/OFF Select), Pitch B (Pitch B/OFF Select), ENV MOD (VCF Envelope MOD). ENV INV (ENV MOD Invert) String Select: 1-6 Select Switch 6, String indicator 6 ,EXT Foot Control: String Select Switch, Sweep ON/OFF, VCF Pedal, Compression Switch. Input: 24P Connector Output: MIX/SYNTH Guitar. Power Consumption: 20W Dimensions: 400(W) x 100(H) x 290(D)mm (15.7” x 3.9” x 11.4”) Weight: 5kg (11 lbs.)"

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industrial drawing group shots

flickr shots by industrial drawing
(click for more)

pictured here
KORG MS20 X2
3 ROLAND SH101 ..

Korg Wavestation A/D LCD Upgrade

"These pictures don't do justice to the new display. The new display has much higher contrast than these pictures show; the blue background is a medium sky blue and the text is bright white and sharply focused."

You can find more info on the upgrade here.

Blindoldfreak Live in Canada

Blindoldfreak Montreal 30-01-09 Part I-V

YouTube via bloodofreptile

Blindoldfreak Quebec City 01-02-09 Part I - III

YouTube via bloodofreptile
"Sorry for the low sound quality and the darkness of the image. Video shot with a small P&S camera, in a dark room, with some noisy people in the audience..."

Note the above set if the full set with better audio for the two previously posted here. You can also see the Halifax set here.

Finally these are from Alessandro Cortini's current tour for Blindoldfreak originally posted here. There are still shows in the tour including Montreal on this Saturday the 7th. Be sure to see the original post and of course blindoldfreak for more. This is a good opportunity to see the Buchla 200e live.

Update: The modular in the videos is the Buchla 200e running through delay pedals.

Four Operator Cheese

YouTube via villagranit
"Rare FM Answering Machine from Yamaha. In rest mode it shows you date and time and you can save your calls on optional memory cards via memory card slot - thats the TQ 5! Other ingredients: Jomox XBase 09, MFB 502, MAB 303 and Electribe EA1 for sequencing."
Note the MAB 303 is by Will Systems. You can see it clearly in the beginning of the following video.

smalljam

"jomox xbase 09, mfb 502, mab 303, ibanez ad 9 modded (only wet mod for aux use - somehow the mod also fucked up the pedal, but that's even more fun) sound only from camera..."

Puremagnetik Delalias

via KAMONI where you'll find some more info.

"It’s a modulating delay that has some built in digital artifacts and enhanced undersampling aliasing controls. It’s quite cool, if you do the math, you can easily get your aliasing in harmony (or slightly detuned!) with your fundamental - a glorified bitcrusher if you will."

http://puremagnetik.com/

Modular Synthesizer Celtic Melody

YouTube via justwaving
"I was working on an acoustic guitar patch and came up with this tune. The synth is playing on its own."

BOSS Dr-110 Modded with Custom Case

flickr set by james_holden
(click for more including one of the inside)

"Jake Fairley very kindly bought me a Boss DR-110, on the condition that I had to modify it. His is a neat affair, in the original case with 15 or so tiny pots crammed in round the sides.

Mine is a total disaster. I've added midi, and as many mods as I could find, but also made a lot of mistakes so it's a bad tempered, unpredictable beast.

ie a perfect drum machine!"

Open Day 9 - Clavia

YouTube via digitalaudiocentral. via fishek. No, those aren't actually eyebrows.
"Esposizione Clavia all'Open Day 9
www.digitalaudiocentral.com"

NAMM: NAMM Oddities 2009

The NAMM Oddities page is up. You can find the "Techno" section here. You should recognize quite a bit. Oddly the John Bowen Solaris made the cut. The Assblaster I can understand as well as the Motus Mavis star synth. MOTU's Volta made the list as well.

Thanks to nonymous in the comments of this post for pointing the site out. I completely forgot about it this year.

New Blofeld Manuals are online

via Holger Steinbrink of Waldorf on the Waldorf list:

"The new Blofeld manuals including Blofeld Keyboard functions and Multimode are available as PDF. Here are the download links:
English version [8.37M PDF]
German version [8.52M PDF]

Blacet Dark Star Chaos

via this auction

"Analog synth module with versatile noise modulator
Voltage controlled clock frequency pseudorandom noise generator
Voltage controlled noise filter
Noise modulated pulse VCO with VC pulse width modulation
Envelope generator with gate, attack, and decay
3 RU high (5.25", 133.4mm) by 3" (76.2mm) wide; allow 7" (177.8mm) depth. Compatible with Paia FracRak. Voltage required: +/-12 to +/-15vdc regulated. Jacks: 1/8" (3.5mm). Panel is black anodized, with white lettering.
When the Dark Star first appeared in 1982, the brochure had the following description:
"Need an amazing source of synthesized sounds at an absurd price? Here you go....a noise oriented prepatched minisynthesizer built around a powerful LSI chip.
The Dark Star TM provides a digital noise source with variable clock, plus a noise filter, LFO, VCO, VCA and envelope generator; a whole panel of synthesizer modules in just a tiny 6 x 4 x 3" package...
You can use it to simulate all those surf, wind, rain, cymbal, explosion, spaceships hurtling across the void and warping out type sounds. Careful design and wide range controls give you a real sound exploration tool; don't be fooled by the low price. Try it as a percussion kit addition, a drone voice, even as a modulation source. The Dark Star just doesn't sound like anything else--we guarantee it!"
Unavailable for many years, the Dark Star now makes a swing through our planetary system....
This reissue of the Dark Star uses the same basic circuit and updates the design with expanded control ranges and CV inputs for the Noise Clock, Noise Filter, VCO and PWM. Use it as a standalone sound generator or interface it with a modular system for some truly wild sounds!
With the interest in chaos theory and fractals in the past few years, this unit provides an excellent means to explore the effects of chaotic (noise) modulation. The results cover quite a wide range from the haunting to the apocalyptic...
Specifications
Front Panel Size: 5.25 x 3" W (Mounting holes and screws provided for Paia FracRack) PCB depth required: 6" Input/Output Jacks: 3.5 mm Gate Input Level: 5 V* CV Range: 0-5V * VCO Range: 0-6.5 KHz (linear response)*** VCO Waveform: pulse with width modulation Noise Clock Range: 50 Hz-32 KHz Attack/Decay Time: up to 12 S Output Level: 1 V** Power: +/-12 to +/-15 Vdc @+25/-6 mA"

Audio 4 DJ Skateboarding Stress Test with Jürgen Horrwarth

YouTube via NativeInstruments
"On behalf of Native Instruments, Berlin-based pro skateboarders Jürgen Horrwarth, Michael Mackrodt and Jan Kliewer put the Audio 4 DJ interface under an intense stress test, to see how much abuse the aluminum casing and internal electronics can take.

For more info on Audio 4 DJ, see http://www.native-instruments.com/aud..."

White Owl (Circuit Bent Tube Screamer) and SK-1

YouTube via 3rdness
"Deeeelicious!

This is a tube screamer that i've added a few pots on and a photo theremin. Now, in addition to the tasty original sound, it produces a variety of overdrives, oscillating tones, ring mods, and sound crunchies. Rehoused in a "White owl" cigar box.

It also can be used as a stand alone synth. I'll post another video of that.

by 3rdness aka noam schatz

http://www.mobiusband.com/blog
http://www.myspace.com/3rdness"

Diy filter with kawai spectra

YouTube via hilltree
"Universal ,easy and cheap filter to make.
use it as a stompbox or a synthmodule.
I designed this cheap filter with minimum active components, It is even easy to made for a beginner.
Schematics are on my website www.groenewoudnet.nl"

djfhsdkhjf

YouTube via coldhandmurr

Synthesizer Korg 770

YouTube via mouwaap
"Just fooling around with some initial knob, switch and slider settings on my korg 770..."

VOICE BOX with iPodtouch vocoder

YouTube via perfumepod
"electro-harmonix VOICE BOX is harmony machine and vocoder.
It is possible to use it also with musical instruments other than the
synthesizer.
In this video, it tested by iPodtouch(iPhone),and guitar.
very very COOOOOOOOL !!"

cigarduino punk console

cigarduino punk console from frogstar on Vimeo.
"first trial of the cigaruino punk console - based on the arduino punk console by Beavis Audio, but housed in this gorgeous Cuban cigar box. Controls as follows:

top row: pitch duration portamento tempo
mid row: not assigned
bottom row: left black button not/assigned
red momentary buttons - sequencer slots
right black button: on/off
very bottom: softpot not assigned"

Pistol Instrument Cable

You know you want it. You can find them here along with grenades and dice. via Gizmodo.