Sequential Prophet 5

YouTube via onephatcat
"Salesman at Union Grove music in Santa Cruz demos Prophet-5 [with MIDI] for sale. He used to work at Sequential building various sub assemblies of this synth."
http://www.uniongrovemusic.com/
1003 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-4487
(831) 427-0670
call if interested

DIY electronic kit vs Rack Attack & Dw-8000

YouTube via onephatcat | July 22, 2010

"I converted this cheap used Tama Stage Star kit ($75 at a thrift store) with mesh heads ($65) and piezo triggers ($150), foam rubber damping, glued used practice pads and mouse pads ($15-20 total) on the cymbals and hi hats, cut up a Hosa snake and ran it into an Alesis trigger I/O ($130 new) driving a Waldorf Rack Attack drum synth (patches I created myself out of factory presets) I picked up (New Old Stock) at West LA Music.

In this video i record some drums then mess about with dw-8000 while playing back final take. I got some really nice stuff out of the Dw-8000."

"all rack attack except the click I'm playing to (kawai xd-5 drum rompler/synth) and the rest all dw-8000, clock-synced to Digital performer."

The Joy of MIDI Sync

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"Fun with Roland EF-303, Korg DW-8000, MAM-SQ16, Korg EA1, all synced up to MIDI clock. A Waldorf MicroQ is used for the drum sounds and a few other sounds triggered from the SQ16. The MAM MAP1 is synced up (you can see the light flashing) but is not doing anything in this vid."

The Fantastic Musical Journey to the Plasticine World

YouTube via onephatcat | July 18, 2010 Thanks for the shout out!!! That's what I'm talking about! "Claymation. Analog and digital synthesizers. Plasticine Clay Synthesizers. Psychedelic Video FX. This video is inspired by and is in part a tribute to, and contains tributes to, the matrixsynth website. If you love electronic music and electronic instruments, be sure to visit http://www.matrixsynth.blogspot.com Music & Video performed and recorded live on July 4th with Blue Mikey for iPhone. Claymation recorded using HUE HD webcam and Frame-By-Frame for Mac. Video edited and processed in iMovie. Instruments used: Roland DR-110 analog drum machine, Roland EF-303 Groove Effects (syn/delay), MAM SQ-16, MAM Map1, Korg EA-1 synth, Korg ER-1 Drum synthesizer, Korg DW-8000 synthesizer, Waldorf MicroQ. Claymation instruments: MAM SQ-16, Waldorf Microwave XT, Roland EF-303, Korg EA-1 synth, Korg ER-1, KrK Rokit 5 clay monitors, clay mixer." Update: Set and cast of Fantastic Musical Trip to the Plasticine World flickr by joelbrave

NAMM: short visit to Big City Music booth at NAMM show

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Seiko ds-250 with ds-310 synth module

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"The ultra rare additive synth system. Ds250 has midi in out thru 2 channel multitimbral layering, chorus detune pitch bend. What makes this synth great? The ease of use for one thing. Seiko achieved something that the other additive synth makers missed: an easy method for creating complex evolving sounds. Essentially you create three sound spectra, assign one to the attack, one to the sustain, and one to the release phase, and then set the envelope time for the ADSR and you are done! Now other synths such as Kawai k5 & k5000s have serious fine control over the envelopes of the overtones, but in terms of gratification from sound creation, the Seiko kicks a**."

BTW, anyone know where to find a manual for the DS-250?

Seiko DS-250 Additive Synth - "Falling Hours"

YouTube Uploaded by synthspotter on Feb 18, 2012

"I created this song entirely with the Seiko DS-250 synthesizer. After noticing how few videos of the synth are available, I decided to compose a short piece demonstrating some of its sounds. I used about eight total. The only external effects are reverb and delay.

The DS-250 is one of two or three additive synthesis keyboards manufactured in the early to mid 1980s by Seiko, an electronics company better known for watch making. As synthesizers go, the DS-250 is extremely limited. It has just 16 basic preset sounds, with no edit function to speak of. It has two sound banks (Sound 1 and Sound 2), but each shares the same 16 presets. You can select different sounds for each bank, then stack or split them across the keyboard. Each bank has its own individual audio output, selectable MIDI channel, and controls for volume, decay (three settings) and vibrato (with selectable delay). Sound 1 can be tuned +14 cents, and Sound 2 can be tuned a 3rd, 5th, 7th or octave above Sound 1. There is also a pitch wheel, a chorus switch with three settings (including off), and a transpose button that can shift the pitch up to any key as well as up or down an entire octave.

While the pair of built-in speakers suggests that Seiko was aiming for the home-keyboard market, the DS-250 could also be paired up with the DS-310 module, which gave the user a fairly deep level of editing capability. On its own, however, the DS-250 wasn't much. Some nice sounds, though.

For more information about Seiko DS synths, search matrixsynth's excellent blog, matrixsynth.blogspot.com, or watch his video here: youtu.be/wr1gFuRNjMk [posted here]. Also check out onephatcat's video here: youtu.be/GCd3fmjcyAI [posted here]

'Falling Hours' and this video are © 2012 by Christopher Scapelliti"

Tesla-Powered Band Electrifies Maker Faire

"Wired.com checks out ArcAttack's musical Tesla-coil performance at Maker Faire 2010."
via onephatcat and Joel B

See the Tesla Coil label below for more.

Seiko DS-250 and DS-310

YouTube Uploaded by onephatcat on Oct 1, 2011

"A bit of fun playing around with my Seiko DS-250 & DS-310, includes some additive programming, envelope adjustment, playing with detune, chorus, vibrato, vibrato delay and patch layering. Hope the sound quality is decent, I used a new Kodak EIS hd camera I got at a yard sale for $20. (720p, Score!)"

NAMM: A short look @ namm 2010

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"Me short visit to namm show, see modular synths, anti sweat-shop guitar mfg protest (gibson fender and others), Orianthe"

2x Seiko DS-250 with DS-310

flickr by joelbrave

"Two Seiko DS-250 digital synths"

Update via onephatcat in the comments: "A couple of comments on my photo:

When connecting two DS-250's via MIDI, you can control the Vibrato depth/speed, sustain length (for both sound 1 and 2 in Dual mode) , detune, ocatave and chorus on/off/depth controls of the second DS-250 from the first one. The second DS-250 came with a Seiko expression pedal (useful as The Seiko's don't seem to respond to Midi volume control) and some kind of sound cartridge, which was attached to the back with a special bracket (removed so I could attach the DS-310 synth module). looking for additional Seiko paraphernalia, manuals, hardware, catalogs, advertisements, hit me up if you have any or even photographs."

The Joy of MIDI Sync II

YouTube via onephatcat — May 08, 2010 — "Improvisation with midi synced hardware; keyboard solo somewhere in the middle. Instrumentation: MAM SQ-16, MAM MAP1, Casio CZ-1, Korg Electribe EA-1, Kawai K5000s, Yamaha FS1R (doubling the Kawai), Roland EF-303 (Master clock), Korg DW-8000."

Joy of MIDI Sync III

YouTube via onephatcat — May 23, 2010 — "Electronic music performed live from the point of view of the performer. This episode of "The Joy of Midi Sync" features the MAM Map1 arpeggiator as one of the dominant musical elements, and is annotated with subtitles explaining more of what is going on. Synths abused in this video: Kawai K5000s, Casio CZ-1, Waldorf Rack Attack, Waldorf MicroQ, Korg EA-1."

Wall of Waldorf Power

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""new" Waldorf Rack Attack drum synth / drum sequencer has just been installed in my rack along side its sister and brother, the MicroQ and Microwave II. Background track is a Rack Attack built-in demo song."

Dr. Brian Belet performs live at San Jose State University

YouTube via onephatcat. via http://twitter.com/joelbrave

Demo of Krakli Yava2

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"Krakli Yava2 is a synth-edit based vst synthesizer. I liked it so much that the pc it is running in was initially built a few years ago just to be able to run Yava2 without breaking a sweat. It is a Pentium D805, one of the few CPUs at the time that could be overclocked to 4ghz. Not necessary though."

Sunday Funktion

YouTube via onephatcat — June 20, 2010 — "Hot Sunday in the mountains, chillin with some beats & grooves:

Roland Dr-110 with DIN sync mod, Korg ER-1 drum synth, Roland EF-303 in syn/delay mode as clock master, MAM SQ-16 driving microQ drums (as usual) and generating DIN Sync (unusual)."