Doepfer A-100, A-112 pitch shifting

YouTube via yukimizake
"The A-112 module is also an interesting fx device. A-112 on pitch shifting mode, in a feedback loop."

analoq.samplr

YouTube via analoq
"Demonstration of a sampler I've written. I overview its basic features and then use it as a plugin in my sequencer to play a classic MIDI file. More information on my blog:
http://analoq.noisepages.com"

Teezer front and back

flickr by sduck409
(click for more)

"This is my version of Ian Fritz's Teezer through zero VCO. Front panel is my design in MOTM format made by Front Panel Express."

JULIAN SMITH - Techno Jeep (Original)

YouTube via juliansmith87. via Steve Lerner.
"The sounds in this video are ACTUAL sounds from the Jeep. Everyone began rehearsing their parts 2 weeks before we shot the video. It took us 7 hours of filming to get a solid take. Enjoy!

Be sure to download the mastered ringtone for FREE!
http://www.myxer.com/ringtone:2839039/

Download the MP3 - $0.99:
http://www.juliansmith.tv/2009/12/tec...

Digg it!
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/JULIAN_SMIT...

Add me on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/juliansmithtv

Follow me on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/juliansmithtv

http://JulianSmith.tv"

Literal Brain Synthesizer

via CNN. Excerpt:
"An experimental system is letting a paralyzed man turn his thoughts into the beginnings of real-time speech, according to researchers...

Guenther said the electrode in Ramsey's brain was implanted four years ago. Its two-channel recording system only allows 20 to 40 neurons to control the voice synthesizer, but Guenther said newer, 32-channel systems, would allow over 100 neurons to be used.

'We're currently working on synthesizers that allow consonants to be produced relatively easily and we are also working on the hardware that would let us implant a 32-channel system in the next patient,' he told CNN.

'That should give us a dramatic improvement in the user's capability for producing sound, which will allow consonants to be produced, and then complete words.'

He added that it would probably be five to 10 years before the technology would be available to the general public."

via brian c

Roland Jupiter-4 Analog Synthesizer

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

Roland Jupiter-4
4-Voice Analog Synthesizer from the year 1978.
The JP-4 sound is very warm and organic. The 4 VCO`s are always a bit out of tune but this is the typical JP-4 sound. A very nice analog synth!
Unfortunately a bit underrated. Not compared to the bigger JP-6 or JP-8. For me the best sounded Jupiter.

the demo shows some sound settings, arpeggiator and unisono mode
FX: Lexicon MPX for delay and reverb

used by: Human League, Depeche Mode (Vince Clark), Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, Vangelis, Thomas Dolby...."

Update:


YouTube via retrosound72 — May 27, 2010 — "vintage synth demo by RetroSound

Roland Jupiter-4 pt.2
4-Voice Analog Synthesizer from the year 1978.

The JP-4 sound is very warm and organic. The 4 VCO`s are always a bit out of tune but this is the typical JP-4 sound. Not compared to the bigger JP-6 or JP-8. For me the best sounded Jupiter.

the demo shows some sound settings and the arpeggiator
FX: Lexicon MPX for delay and reverb"

Ran Kirlian - Circles I (Ion & DX200 jam).avi

YouTube via RanKirlian
"Improvisation with Alesis Ion & Yamaha DX-200 while creating new sounds. Both synths have delay and the additional reverb is from EMU 1820m while recording. All Circle tracks were recorded in the same session."

Ran Kirlian - Circles II (Ion & DX200 jam).avi


Ran Kirlian - Circles III (Ion & DX200 jam).avi


Ran Kirlian - Circles IV (Ion & DX200 jam).avi

BONTEMPI HT-313 by S-CAT

YouTube via PHONICPOTION.

S-CAT on Ebay

"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 9 MODIFICATIONS"


Update 5/27/2018:

How to kill a Bontempi Keyboard

Published on Jun 9, 2008 parralex

"self-built circuit bending device...still kind of hard for me to get control of this sick thing!"

aks demo

YouTube via stomachlining
"stomachlining says, 'one finger is all it takes'"

dsi tetra

YouTube via drumfish78
"try to listen this track on speakers ... you must actually ... too noisy for headphones ... tested ..."

The flying Moog Liberation;-) Synthjam

YouTube via Synthiefrau
"Hi lovely Synthfolk, I play the Moog Liberation, Synton Syrinx, Roland V-Synth Stringsound. The effects comes from the Doepfer Dark Energie and the Roland Juno 60.
I was stumble over the Cable from my Liberation. My Synth is okey, I am glad;-)"

PHILLIP WERREN - ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1968-71 (BUCHLA)

http://www.castexotic.com/werren.htm
"In 1971 Phillip Werren released a 4 Lp box through Simon Fraser University of his early Electronic Work which was recorded at S.F.U., McGill University & Radio Warzawa, Poland. Only 100 copies where ever made. A few years ago I discovered this record and was completly blown away. The Lp has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthisis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla 100 Series,the first of their modular synthesizers. I tracked down Phil in Toronto where's he's been living a number of years. Phil taught music composition and theory at York University in Toronto from 1977 to 1997,where he headed York's Electronic Music Studio.

The Album was created for the most part at the height of the late 60's at Simon Fraser University. "1968 was a year of great upheaval: at SFU, Canada's Berkeley, 114 people were arrested for their part in the protest over the firing of the entire faculty of the Political Science and Anthropology department. Marcuse, Baba Ram Dass and others came to speak to us at peril to themselves; acid and mescaline abounded and apocalypse seemed to fairly shout out at us in the rarified atmosphere of Burnaby Mountain. The neo-fascist architecture of the university seemed to beg for anarchy and chaos and linear thought itself seemed doomed to extinction."
"The electronic music studio at SFU was at that time probably the most sophisticated studio in Canada. After working in studios at Columbia and Radio Warsaw, both of which were small and somewhat limiting, I found it impossible to continue composing with the Princetonian precision in which I had been schooled. The SFU studio contained the most recent synthesizer designed by Don Buchla. I only vaguely understood what ÒitÓ did and realized that I would have to put aside my rigid preconceptions of how one sound should follow another. The sequencer, a device which can generate a sequence of sound events in a more-or-less random pattern and at times seemed to have a life of its own, became for me a sort-of window through which I could see/hear a universe of sound I had never imagined possible. It was necessary for me to Òstep backÓ from these sequences of sound-events, to control them in some other way: through the mix of one sequence with another in time and space."

This album is a nugget of Canadian Psychedelic Avant-Garde history, up there with the early works of Bill Bissett, The Nihilist Spasm Band, and Intersystems. Also in line with early America works by Robert Ashley, Tod Dockstader, and Gordon Mumma.

Phil and his Engineer friend Tony Crea have transfered the original tapes to digital and cleaned it all up for this CD reissue. Original artwork on the cover was created by local Vancouver Artist JAS Felter."

Bitnotic Chill

"Bitnotic chill 1.5 plays ambient music soundtracks. Each time a user presses Play or
Next, they hear a unique song, that no one has ever heard before. Using the Mood
and Mix controls, users can create their own style of music.

Users can save individual songs or whole albums to iTunes, AIFF, or MIDI files.
Saved music is royalty-free, so users can use it in their own works, including
presentations, videos, and games.

New features include:
• Drums & Percussion track
• Space setting to adjust balance between acoustic and synthetic instruments
• The Pulse control lets users set ranges of busy-ness
• Stations to listen to or to use as the basis of new genres of music
• Updated music algorithms, now with a much better sense of melody
• Much better handling of pentatonic and whole tone scales (using the Octavian music theory engine)
• German localization

It's a free upgrade from 1.0 and still only $19.95.

There's a screen shot and sample music at http://www.bitnotic.com/chill.html"

Note this is not an iphone app but you can also find bitnotic on iTunes:


"Album of Jingle Bells variations, as recorded by Bitnotic's chill / Concordia software for Mac."

korg ms20 parody video

YouTube via kimouts
"A short conversation parody i've made using only an old korg ms20 synth (offcourse with some reverb)"

The Polivoks

YouTube via kimouts
" fiddling with the polivox, sorry for bad quality fox, was recorded on a phone camera "

Yamaha CS10 analog monophonic synth

via this auction
BIN: $449

Yamaha Cs10 sound samples by abertronix

Mirror of the Creator

flickr by djthomaswhite
(click for more)

"Buchla Lopass Gate Clone Revision 2.0 has arrived for testing!!!"

Bottom: Copper Side

Sammich SID

flickr by djthomaswhite

Vesta Kaza DIG-420 Manual

You can find the manual here.

via floppyscratcher

[Retribution Body] Live Radio Performance

via Retribution Body

"I will be performing live on Rare Frequency this Thursday evening, December 17th. Boston-area folks can listen in on WZBC, 90.3 FM and everyone else is inviting to visit the webcast at http://www.wzbc.org/listen.html. My segment will be on around 8:00 PM EST. I also did an email interview for the show, it should be posted soon at the Rare Frequency site.

For those who are interested, there is a ton of media from the last show posted on the blog @ http://blog.retributionbody.com."
ARP 2600 and modular.

Kaleidoscope Synth

flickr by Null Object
(click for more)

"Here are some kaleidoscopes I created from photos of my studio. I call these “The Flowers Of Romance” after the classic PIL album."

Pictured here: TR-909 and Studio

Teisco Sx 400 Vintage Analog Polyphonic Synth

via this auction

Googlish translation:
"Rare to find in such good condition.
phonetically "near allied" of the Roland Jupiter 4th
absolutely brilliant UFO look.
very solid construction.
very good condition, fully functional.
3 poti caps are missing. (easy to replace)"

Sold for: EUR 520.00

via selectivepressure in the comments

Micro Performance Poly Midi 1 special Sequencer

via this auction

Googlish translation:

"Rarer vintage sequencer with many possibilities.

Clock can come from any source:
Intern
External (analog)
External Midi
Tape
Trigger

You can save 5 sequences and play simultaneously.
Detroit techno genius Chord memory function (instant sound Jeff Mills)
Realtime / Step Input

Interface:
MIDI I / O
Din Sync 24 I / O
Analog I / O

Sequences are ultra-tight and selbt the simplest lines will not be boring if they run over 8 minutes.

Ideal as an interface in the analog / digital studio
When combined with an analogue midi synth is very easy to set a really groovy techno achieved with modern DAW's how it is hardly possible."

Simmons SDS 1 Drumtrigger Pad

via this auction

"I never got a drum sound from that pad but only the wildest sibilants. Possibly the eprom is faulty, I did not consider the possibility, so I sell the part to be defective."

Garfield Dr. Click Ultra Tight, legendary Analoge Clock

via this auction
Googlish translation:
"Measurements have shown that 128BPM are not equal 128BPM.
Each device has a more or less deviate from the ideal clock. That is why we like to choose the MPC2000 as a master in a composite of several Midi Clock machines.

Especially when MidiSequencing with a Win / Mac Pc, it is certain soon clear: the MIDI output wobbles and fluctuates around (clock jitter) by the adjusted value of BPM, however, rarely dwells on precisely this.

Garfield Electronics have already built in the 80s some very tight machine, also in BPM values below 80 durchmarschieren absolutely solid.

Output is analog trigger in all sizes and also in DinSync,
which can be easily converted to midi clock.

-2 Independent channels with unequaled rock-analog timing.
-Absolutely reliable master clock source for synth purists
Extreme Swing and Shuffle Grooves realized by commingling of different types of 2 stroke.
-Ideal in analog modular applications."

Roland Tr 330 Analog Beatbox

via this auction

Googlish translation:
"The Rhythm 330 is the fourth drum machine made by Roland in 1973. As besonderheit there is a built-in amplifier and speakers to the side. The sound is about how one knows him of old radios - very soft and nice punchy. Of course there is also a line-out. The balance control can be insipid height between low and back and forth. Simultaneously, the hihat is very left and the bass drum quite muted law. it is possible to select several rhythms to create new patterns."

Elka Wilgamat Vintage Analog Expander

via this auction

"This rare expanders can be connected to Elka Organ or played with a special keyboard. it can produce very unusual electronic sounds."

Update via Matthew in the comments: "wilgaplainboss.mp3)

From the looks and sounds of this the Wilgamat is the auto-accompaniment and drum box from the Elka X-705 (possibly the most fantastic keyboard in existence). Given that Wilgamats regularly clear £100, and Elka Rhapsodies & Elka Soloists make £200 each, the X-705 with two Rhapsodies, one Soloist, one Wilgamat, two drawbar organs, a dedicated preset analogue bass synth and a spring reverb represents something of a colossal bargain as they rarely raise over £300. Unfortunately they're also colossally heavy so look for one in your area. Berliners, get your money out - ;)"

Kawai K7 Stereophonic Drumcomputer

via this auction

"The presets can be combined by pressing 2 buttons are and using the Cancel button, individual sounds are removed, thus resulting unique rhythms. The sound of the sound is absolutely gorgeous and 100% analog."

"My Dadio" Solvent feat. Iris on vocoder

YouTube via s0LVentCIty
"Iris Amm on vocoder. Music by Solvent, vocals and lyrics by Iris."

Buddha machine, FM3, , ...uh!? "Gristleism" !

YouTube via exhadley
"'Gristleism' is a sound generator in a box, that contains 13 loops. It almost like the FM3 buddha but with a different aproach ;)"

Korg Polysix + Yamaha SY77

YouTube via SpacehotelMusic
"Some examples of sounds from the SY77.. and just one sound on the Polysix (it wasn't a full synth demo). SY77 is *NOT* only a 'rompler'. The AFM synthesis system + RCM if you want it gives this synth immense depth and flexibility of sound.

Playing some 'you tube standards' here inc Axel-F and Take on Me for comparison. I wasn't trying to play things perfectly here so excuse timing mistakes and general randomness ;)"

Albert Glinsky - THEREMIN: ETHER MUSIC AND ESPIONAGE

I was just going through the Bob Moog Foundation 2010 Calendar in more detail. I noticed a couple of interesting bits I failed to mention in my previous post. For each month not only are holidays marked on the calendar, but interesting moments in Moog history are as well. In addition to this, each month appears to have a quote from Bob Moog. I noticed that many of the quotes came from Albert Glinsky's THEREMIN: ETHER MUSIC AND ESPIONAGE. From the website:

"Leon Theremin (1896-1993) led a life of flamboyant musical invention laced with daring electronic stealth. A creative genius and prolific inventor, Theremin launched the field of electronic music virtually singlehandedly in 1920 with the musical instrument that bears his name. The theremin--the only instrument that is played without being touched--created a sensation worldwide and paved the way for the modern syntehsizer... Its otherworldly sound became familiar in sci-fi films and even in rock music. This magical instrument that charmed millions, howver, is only the beginning of the story.

As a Soviet scientist, Theremin surrendered his life and work to the service of State espionage..."

You can find more on Albert Glinsky's website. The book of course is available on Amazon. You can find the Bob Moog Foundation Calendar on the Bob Moog Foundation website under the Shop link on the top right. Filing this one under Stocking Stuffers as well.

Making the MPC60 vol 3 sample pack

YouTube via GoldbabySamples. follow-up to this post
"A short promo clip for the MPC60 vol 3. http://www.goldbaby.co.nz/m..."

Renoise 2.5

Renoise is tracker software. What is tracker software? In simplest terms think of it as sequencing software that allows you to trigger either samples or VSTs via multiple tracks. Renoise 2.5 is taking it to the next level by allowing each step in the sequence to to do more than just trigger a sound.

via Renoise, where you'll find more detail: "Just in time for a new decade, Renoise gets an upgrade from executive suite to penthouse with a panoramic view. The Renoise Pattern Matrix, both a bird's eye view and a song editor, is the missing link that pushes Renoise's unique approach to music composition to the next level. It's the perfect companion to the "eyes on the details" appearance and capabilities of the Pattern Editor.

Renoise meta-devices (FX units that receive and transform parameters and other non-audio data) are now interconnectable across tracks. This opens the door to more modular approaches, like linking LFOs or key/audio signals all throughout your mix. Two new meta-devices round-up this "do anything" experience, giving the sound artist the freedom to connect and modulate all parameters with all others.

That's just the beginning. Vastly improved MIDI mapping, automated rendering of plugin instruments to samples, a native guitar & bass amp simulator FX, performance optimizations, GUI improvements and much more..."

Be sure to also see this CDM post for Peter Kirn's take on Renoise 2.5. He states, "imagine if you suddenly got the modulate-anything, script-anything, customize-anything, control-anything-with-anything, use OSC and MIDI and keyboards everywhere you’ve been asking for."

The following is the first user video showing Renoise Beta 2.5.

tonematrix

YouTube via patto2k

"enoise 2.5 beta test. thanks danoise for tonematrix" The following is Renoise 2.0 which should give you an idea of what the prior version can do. keith303 - stuck in the beehive - (polka/pop/trance drum&bass) renoise 2.0


YouTube via keithX303

"This is my entry for the soundevotion competition round 36 called "stuck in the beehive". (1st place) to maintain conformity to the competition rules, no VST / VSTi, midi hardware / synths were used. renoise internal fx + supplied pack of samples (few MB) only. renoise is a cute beauty, isn't it? :) more stuff: http://www.keith303.de http://www.myspace.com/k303 ps: if you like the song and are looking for a HQ mp3 version, get it here: http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2... pps. a cutted version of this tune has also been released at breakpoint 2009 streaming competition. (5th place"

Impressionist Drum Scape II

via the Folktek Arts blog where you'll find more pics and a video of the original, also posted here. Also see this post for some shots and a video of the original Drum Scape Sequencer version.

"This is a co-mission piece based on the original "Impressionist Drum Scape". Huge drums, big bass and beautiful waves."

Folktek on Ebay

x0xb0x with clear front panel

via this auction

Speak & Math Circuit Bent Glitch Synthesizer

via this auction
Circuit bent Speak & Spells and Speak & Maths are referred to Incators. Via suite101.com where you'll find additional info: "An incantor is the name given to a circuit-bent Speak and Spell or Speak and Math. The name was given by the incantor's inventor, Reed Ghazala. The name originally referred to instruments built by Ghazala, but the term has come to describe any Speak and Spell-type toy modified by circuit-bending. If you're unclear on what circuit-bending is, check out An Introduction to Circuit Bending. Because of their availability and ease of construction, incantors have proved to be one of the most popular circuit-bending projects. Even Mick Jagger has one."

You can learn how to make one in this Make: article by Reed Ghazala.

Korg MS-20 with 25 Pin Connector

via this auction
"The synth has an added 25-pin connector on the left side, which does not affect any normal functions, and if you know how to use it it could come in handy. I do not know what it was used for by the previous owner. Because of this modification I am allowing returns"

Returns? I think that is the first time I've actually seen that on Ebay. Anyway, anyone have any ideas what the mod would be for?