Random shaky camera test

YouTube via HarriL

"Just testing theCanon EOS 500D / T1i video mode."

Holiday Synth.mov

YouTube via marsynth
"A synthesizer for the holidays! This unit was made as a gift for a friend; I will be building a few similar, but not identical, units over the next few weeks and will be putting them up for sale (somewhere...).

The audio from the synth was run into a mixer and then recorded with no effects or additional processing.

All sounds besides those from the synth were dubbed for fun!

Everybody loves synths and cookies! Happy Holidays!"

Electro Harmonix Iron Lung Vocoder

"Built around the finest aspects of our praised V256 vocoder, the Iron Lung is the baby brother housed in our smallest, die-cast chassis . The Iron Lung uses the highest resolution of 256 bands to deliver defined vocoder performance while our famous Gender Bender control lets you adjust a male to female emphasis that delivers numerous and exacting possibilities at the turn of a knob. An XLR input allows your microphone of choice to be used with 3 independent gain controls. To round it out, the tone control integrates with the Gender Bender to refine the tone to exactly where you want it to be. Use a guitar or keyboard for polyphonic delivery. One of the very classic instruments from the past made available to every musician at a classic price!"

http://www.ehx.com/products/iron-lung
via Noisebug via twitter.com/noisebug

BugBrand CLK2A - Divisions

via the BugBrand Blog where you'll find more details and images.

"Introducing the new range of CLK clocking modules - the first design is a compact divider offering integer divisions from 2 to 9.
The CLK2A has an input for Clock and another for Reset - each has a 3-way switch to allow selection of External Socket / Off / or Internal Bus, plus a momentary button.

The Bus sections will come into effect once other CLK modules are completed and will provide internal 'Master' Clock and Reset connections (eg from VC-Clock Module).

The outputs change as shown in the Timing Diagram with the pulse length being equal to one full clock signal. A reset signal will instantly set all outputs to Hi and counting continues on the next Clock signal."

New Malekko B:Assmaster

via this auction

Sold For: check back

New Malekko Borg Filter

via this auction

Sold For: not sold

New Malekko Boogie Filter

via this auction

Sold For: check back

ENSONIQ FIZMO

via this auction

Be sure to read about The Fizmo Fix if you consider getting a Fizmo.

Sold For: $725.00

Audible Disease Synth Bomb SB-1

via this Analogue Haven auction

"the audible disease synth bomb sb-1 is a simple yet fun to use hand-held monophonic synthesizer that produces an almost boundless array of sounds! just plug it in and you're ready to start making some severe noise. the sb-1 incorporates four square-wave oscillators running in parallel. the frequency of each oscillator can be controlled by how much light is hitting each of the four photo-eyes... the more light that hits the photo-eye the higher the frequency of that oscillator. cover the photo-eyes with your fingers for a virtually endless palate of sound! oh, did we mention that this thing is loud? well, it is!

operates with a 9-volt battery only. plug a 1/4 inch cable into the jack to turn on the unit."

Sold For: check back

Circuit Bent SOUNDS OF NATURE

via this auction

"circuit bent SOUNDS OF NATURE unit. It has 7 different nature sounds...brook,heartbeat,white noise,sea waves,birds,woods and rain.

I have add 2 body contacts,a pitch pot with ball knob to turn the pitch waaaaay down for amazing drone sounds and a 1/4" output jack to send the signal to an amp or stereo system.

A great source for sampling sounds or for use live on stage. The size of this unit is approx.5" dia. and 5" high. It uses 4 ``AA`` cells,not included.

I have been making and selling strange electronic instruments and circuit bent creations for 27 years. I have been selling on ebay for 9 years. I only use high quality new switches and wire and other electronic components in my circuit bent units. So if you are looking for a quality circuit bent instrument that looks great and sounds even better, look no further, you have found it.

Here is a list of the circuit bent features:
- 2 body contacts that change the pitch and tone of the sound when you touch them.
- 1 Pitch change pot with ball knob to drop the pitch waaaaay down for amazing drone sounds.
- 1 1/4" audio output to send the signal to an amp or stereo system.

This unit will work as normal with all bend switches off.This unit is designed for recording sounds in the studio. It can make some amazing sounds and drones! It makes sounds that you can't get from any other instrument! Great for techno, sound FX, electronic music."

Sold For: check back

CMOS MUSIC I - 1 bit Chiptunes w/o the Programming

YouTube via pixelform
"http://cmosmusic.eventbrite.com/

CMOS Music I // 1-bit chiptunes w/o programming
CMOS Music I // 1-bit chiptunes w/o programming

Saturday, January 09, 2010 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (ET) Brooklyn, NY...

Learn how to make 1-bit chiptunes music without the hassle of computer programming. This is a musical introduction to basic electronic concepts through the use of CMOS digital logic chips. From a hand full of components you will create the world's simplest oscillator and 8 note musical rhythm sequencer. No soldering necessary, you'll take your project home on your very own solder-less breadboard!

Taught by Phillip Stearns aka Pixel Form. See some of his work at http://youtube.com/pixelform.

All NYC Resistor classes are for people 18-years and up. Sorry, minors."

ASMO : Gristleism LFO mod

YouTube via eddie23a. follow-up to this post. Comments disabled here to keep them there.
"Throbbing Gristle Gristleism with LFO pitch modulation and sample trigger.
Schematics and instructions available soon at
http://www.gristleism.com/c..."

Elektron machinedrum SPS 1 UW triggering boss SYB 5 bass synthesizer pedal

YouTube via helefthandedheroes
"Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1 UW GND-SN machine triggering BOSS SYB-5 bass synthesizer pedal. The GND-SN machine routed to an individual out to Boss SYB-5 to INP-EA machine for filtering.
Just realized that the first few minutes had that stupid delay on.
All other sounds are machinedrum GND-SN sine machines!
At the time of recording I was first time trying out the pedal, only discovering the possibilities.
The video is to show what kind of sounds you can get triggering the SYB-5 with a GND-SN and was put into an electronic context.
Not a musical statement.
The video was shot with a Nokia N95, the sound quality is far from amazing.

SLEEP LESS :: LOVE MORE"

Gakken SX-150 sequenced via Novation BassStation

YouTube via thelefthandedheroes
"The Gakken SX-150 stylus gets the CV and GATE information from the ribbon-like slider pad. I just connected the Novation BassStation Rack CV and GATE out to the stylus and voilà! - have my MIDI controlled Gakken. The cheapest way to do this is to cut a patch cable in half, took the plastic bits off the wire coming from the tips of the jacks, roll them together and stick the Gakken's stylus into. You may notice that it only works if the BassStation's CV type set to '00' (Roland/Sequential/Arp) - because of the voltage and plug the Gakken SX's out to a mixer rather than using the built in speaker - this is needed as the ground.

I believe this works with other MIDI-to-CV converters too. This video is to show that it works, not a musical statement. Have fun!"

EMS Synthi AKS Guts

Inside an EMS Synth AKS via John Murphy's EMS Synthi AKS flickr set by snarfusmaximus.

"This lovely piece of equipment was in my posession briefly as its current minder is a friend of mine. One of the VCOs had died and I fixed it in exchange for being able to play with it for a few weeks"

Pictured: "Without the B board"

MD UW and Beer!

flickr by mushboy
(click for more)

"A good evening combo!"

LIGHTS w/ Owl City Banner

flickr by lightsnoise

"LIGHTS will be supporting Owl City in 2010! Show off to your friends by posting a badge on your profile, website, blog, etc!

For tour dates visit: www.iamlights.com/tour"

Casio DG-20 according to the comments in this post. KORG Mini KP.

You might remember Owl City from this post with video and lights from these.

Prodigy lounge

flickr by Squarenoise

"La befana è stata buona TANTO CARBONE"

"La Befana was good as much coal"

KORG

flickr by hayley rocks

ADASYNTH

via Adasynth

"sleep deprived synth design"

http://adasynth.tumblr.com/

Testing Roland Handsonic HPD-15 w/ Sherman Filterbank 2 (by Franck Smith)

YouTube via odiolorgnette
"Testing electronic percussion module Roland Handsonic HPD-15 w/ Sherman Filterbank 2

http://twitter.com/franck_smith
http://francksmith.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.

Handsonic 'Franck Smith' turntable adapted techniques Roland HPD-15 drums electronics percussion scratching Pinky Sonics Sherman Filterbank 2 beat making 'drum synth'"

Richard Lainhart: Live + Workshop [Italy]

"live + workshop

23 January 2010
Palazzo Re Enzo, Piazza Nettuno, Bologna, Italy

h 14:30
I Love Buchla
Workshop on Buchla 200e synthesizer
By Richard Lainhart
[reservation on line noctivagamusica.altervista]

h 24:00
Richard Lainhart Live Performance

www.netmage.it
www.xing.it
www.noctivagamusica.altervista.org
www.otownmedia.com


noctivagamusica
www.noctivagamusica.altervista.org
www.myspace.com/animalogica"

NAMM!!!

HALL E - Booths 1000 - 1999
Analogue Haven (Shawn Cleary): Booth 1859
Bubblesound: Booth 1859
Doepfer (Dieter Doepfer): Booth 1859
Flight of Harmony: Booth 1859
Livewire (Mike Brown): Booth 1859
Make Noise (Tony Rolando): Booth 1859
Monorocket (Steve Rightnour): Booth 1859
Mungo Enterprises (John Pillans): Booth 1859
STG Soundlabs (Eric Williamson - TBD): Booth 1859
The Harvestman (Scott Jaeger): Booth 1859
Tiptop Audio (Gur Milstein): Booth 1859
Malekko: Booth 1857

Hall B - Booths 5000 - 5999
Dave Smith Instruments: Booth 5900
John Bowen Synth Design: Booth 5912
Musikmesse: Booth 5904 Hmm...
Snazzy FX (dan snazelle): Booth 6324

HALL A - Booths 6000 - 6999
Moog Music: Booth 6100
Noisebug: Booth 6108
Analogue Solutions (Tom Carpenter): Booth 6108
Buchla (Don Buchla): Booth 6108
Moonmodular (Gert Jalass): Booth 6108
Beemz: Booth 6110
Synful: Booth 6227
Arturia: Booth 6310
Ableton: Booth 6314
Cycling '74: Booth 6314
Akai: Booth 6400
Alesis: Booth 6400
Teenage Engineering: Booth 6409
MOTU: Booth 6410
KORG: Booth 6440
Nord Keyboards / Clavia: Booth 6474
Novation: Booth 6474
Kurzweil: Booth 6474
Waldorf: Booth 6624
Spectrasonics: Booth 6720
Big City Music: Booth 6735
Metasonix: Booth 6735
Surfin Kangaro: Booth 6735
Mellotron: Booth 6735
SONiVOX: Booth 6828
Access: Booth 6900

Hall D
Eigenlabs: Booth 3100

Arena
Roland: Booth 7400

Big thanks to Brandon Daniel in getting this list started.
Web: http://bleep.fdiskc.com
Twitter: twitter.com/brandon_dnl

You can find an excel spreadsheet of all exhibitors here.
You can find a pdf of the floorplan here.
And for $1.99 you can pick up the nifty NAMM iPhone app here.

Update: nifty NAMM search via Colin of http://experimentalistsanonymous.com

"Hey Matrix, your readers might be interested to know that I wrote a little php script that basically just searches the exhibitor list.

http://experimentalistsanonymous.com/other/namm2010.php

The idea being that I am at NAMM with my iPhone (and no NAMM app) and I need to figure out where analog haven is:

http://experimentalistsanonymous.com/other/namm2010.php?company=haven&sort=company

or I want to find the guitar companies in each hall:

http://experimentalistsanonymous.com/other/namm2010.php?company=guitar&sort=hall

-Colin"

Analog Synthesis in a Digital World - Tutorial by Richard Lainhart

click here for an excellent synth tutorial series by Richard Lainhart, featuring the Buchla 200e.

As you know, Richard Lainhart and his Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum have been featured on this site a number of times.

Thanks goes to Raul Pena III for sending this one in.

Moogerfoogers meet Weevil and Dark Energy

YouTube via henrikbjorkk
"Nocturnal tweaking...
Moogerfoogers in a feedback loop with some Dark Energy and Board Weevil added."

Three Crowphonics CR-01 in action

YouTube via henrikbjorkk
"Just trying out my new toys. These boxes sure get more fun to play with if you have more than one!"

One flew over the Crows nest

"Here is a clip focusing on the audio rather than the visuals...

Three Crowphonics CRO-1 modules, played live. No sequencer or other stuff involved."

Noisebug on Twitter

http://twitter.com/noisebug

Voltage Controlled Pattern Sequencer VCPS.mpg

YouTube via fonitronik.

follow-up to this post

"The 1st short demo of my new VCP Sequencer. VCP = Voltage Controlled Pattern. Yep, an incoming control voltage gets converted into a set of 8bit grey code. those bits switch on or off hte stages of an 8 step sequencer. however, each step/stage can manually set to ON, OFF or VCP too. So you have full control over each step all the time. In this Video the VCPS gets controlled by another Sequencer, the Baby10."

NOT NAMM: miniark.mov

YouTube via snazelle

"here is a very basic video of the 2nd snazzy fx product- the mini ark

(some of you know about last years audio ark)

(you can hear a bit of the actual dry guitar because the camera was so close to my guitar)

anyway, lots and lots of people asked me to make a box based on the audio ark. and this is what i came up with. It was originally designed for guitar, cello, and field recordings.on guitar it sounds much more like a tracking system/harmony pedal. on drums, bowed instruments, field recordings, and noise, it gets very unpredictable and you can always rely on it to create something unique. Right now this is my favorite to play with.


here is the product description

CLICK FOR MORE »

Foregone Inclusion - analog modular synth improv

YouTube via doctorvague
"Korg Monopoly (lower right) arpeggiator being clocked by the top row of the Moon Modular trigger sequencer (upper left). Bottom row of the sequencer is setting the Digital Delay time of the Modcan delay (far right white module). The Korg MS-20 (lower left) is being used for the filters in the feedback loop of the Modcan delay. NOTE: rest of patch and cords was leftover from another patch and has nothing to with what you're hearing. What you're hearing is the Monopoly into the Modcan delay with MS-20 in the delay loop - a very simple patch. The Monopoly is an amazing instrument IMHO. I'm just starting to see its potential. Ditto for the Moon trigger sequencer. It's a whole rhythmic instrument that can be played in real time.

This actually should have been called Part 3. It was the very ending of a much longer improv. The complete track is on Virb - doctorvague - Foregone Inclusion.

May I say just a general very hearty thank you for the kind comments and good juju here on youtube. Thanks to people watching - even you lurkers! And also to the grrrrreat folks who build all this cool stuff to play with and the friends at Muffwiggler's - an awesome hangout. Fun toys - good times."

Please meet RENÉ

YouTube via MAKEN0ISE
"The new sequencer for modular synthesizers, designed by Make Noise and developed with yerpa58. A short bunch of clips I took one afternoon while beta testing. The patch is same for all clips. Doepfer A-110 controlled by RENÉ CV OUT, Square Wave applied to QMMG which is set to BOTH mode and controlled by RENÉ Gate-X and Gate-Y. The RENÉ sequencer is driven by 3 clocks. The master clock generated by the Wogglebug, and then divided by MATHS to create the second and third clocks. Come see the Make Noise RENÉ, MATHS, Wogglebug and QMMG at NAMM 2010, Analogue Haven Boothe."

The white yusynth - first patches

YouTube via yusynthman
"This is a short video of the beautiful white YUSYNTH modular built by my friend Zarko. It is composed mostly of yusynth modules ( http://yusynth.net/Modular/ ) and some modules designed by Jurgen Haible ( http://www.jhaible.de ), and Ray Wilson ( http://musicfromouterspace.com ).
You will find more info here : http://yusynth.net/Modular/hall_of_fa.."

GrooveMaker Reggaeton

YouTube via ikmultimedia
"Hear the sounds of the new GrooveMaker Reggaeton. Put some "gasolina" into your grooves and produce some of the coolest Reggaeton tracks in the "barrio" with GrooveMaker. Take a journey into the urban Latino landscapes from Puerto Rico to Miami with this high energy title packed with unstoppable party-like beats, moving basses and percussions, rhythmic synths and effects."
ikmultimedia on iTunes:

sound experiment diary 2010_0106

YouTube via akihikotube. "sound experiment diary 2010_0106"

RXTX - Electronic Sound and Light Sculpture

YouTube via pixelform

"An electronic sound and light sculpture with light controlled volume. Uses only CMOS 4000 series logic IC and a hand full of passive components. 40106, 4040, 4029, 4051, 4018 and LM386 ICs all utilized for this piece."

808 State Olympic - Music Video 1990

YouTube via TerryF...witt This one brings back memories. I was fortunate to see them live back in the day at a rave in Long Beach. Bjork popped on stage for a bit. Those were my rave days... 808 was a huge "legal" rave but the majority were small warehouses. You'd get a tip or flyer from someone, then you'd have to go to some alley or behind a Jack in the Box to get a little flower pencil eraser or something and instructions to the next check point. You'd do this about three or four times and finally get the directions to the underground rave. One time we finally got to our destination only to have it broken up by the cops. Music stops, flashlights everywhere, and you just make a b-line out of the building hoping you won't get caught. Like Sodom and Gamorrah, don't look back!!!

Synth spotting. Yamaha CS50, Roland JX10 and more. video description:
"808 State is an English electronic music outfit formed in 1988 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and the "state of mind" shared by the members. They were formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson.
This is their music video Olympic from 1990"
Another via this interview on Graham Massey of the Sisters of Transistors and 808 State.

Rachmaninov - Sisters Of Transistors

YouTube via LastfmPresents. Some synth spotting. Roland Promars
"Last.fm/Presents Sisters Of Transistors performing Rachmaninov at Deaf and Dumb in Manchester on 5/05/2008 See all of the videos from this event here: http://www.last.fm/event/551676/videos Check out http://www.last.fm/Presents to find out about all of our other upcoming/past events."

via this interview on Graham Massey of Sisters of Transistors and 808 State.

Telepathic Ableton Live Control

YouTube via 0illuminatedsounds0
"Find out the details on how to do this at www.illuminatedsounds.com" specifically this post.

Kontakt 4 - Authentic Expression Technology

YouTube via NativeInstruments
"This video shows what the new Authentic Expression Technology of Kontakt 4 has to offer."

Seno DS V0.9.0 - TR drums

YouTube via MrA128
"Seno DS TR drums
Music sequencer for the Nintendo DS
http://senods.blogspot.com"

EMPIRE OF THE DEAD by Stomachlining

YouTube via stomachlining. follow-up to these posts
"Skulls, Skeletons, & the Synthis (heard but not seen)...hear more Stomachlining on itunes"
"Tags: ems aks vcs3 analog synthesizers skulls skeletons bones graveyards catacombs empire of the dead "

LEIPZIG k - ANALOG MONOSYNTH at NoiseBug - Bass and Arpegio Knob Tweaking

YouTube via VJFranzK