Altres: An Evening of Space Music - Scotland

Via Electro-Music.com. Title link takes you to post. Looks interesting.



"ALTRES are presenting an "Evening of Space Music" on the balcony of the Mills Observatory, Balgay Park Dundee [map] on Thursday 13th October 2005 (weather permitting - if it's raining we're not doing it!).

We'll be playing two sets of mostly improvised music between 7.30 and 10pm. Come along - it's free!"

I made Music Thing!

Sweet shot of me in via Music Thing (guys I'm a Chimp, not an Ape!) They know that. : ) I'll be a chimp and post this. Title link takes you there.



BTW this has become my background wallpaper. If anyone asks I'll tell them, "Ever hear of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hide? Well, that's actually me after a few minutes under the influence of a modular.

PS: And no I didn't take that shot. Click through title link for who did.

Korg MicroKorg - New Flickr Shot

Two beers, a smoke and a MicroKorg. Nice. : )

Roland History - Sound on Sound Article

Click here for a Sound on Sound article on Roland's history. This came up on the AH thread discussing the SH-3 vs SH-3A. I didn't realise the SH-3 was originally sold under the Ace Tone label.

"Then there was Japan's first synthesizer, the SH1000 (see the box on the previous page) and its more powerful sibling, the SH3, which appeared as both the Roland SH3 and the Ace Tone SH3, and remains highly sought-after to this day."

"Not everything was plain sailing, and it appears that Kakehashi infringed one of Bob Moog's filter patents when he designed the SH3. So a new version appeared in 1974. Externally, the SH3A was almost identical to the SH3, but it sported a new VCF and VCA, and it was this model that Vangelis and a handful of other famous keyboard players adopted in the mid-1970s."

2A03 Synthesizer - NES Virtual Synth

In via Tom McClintock. Interesting. Title link takes you to a site hosting the virtual 2A03 Synth. The 2A03 was the synth chip used in the Nintendo NES.



"For those of you familiar with the 8-bit music scene, the 2A03 was the integrated circuit at the heart of the old Nintendo Entertainment System. The 2A03 was a custom IC containing, among other things, a 6502 processor and audio generator circuits. These circuits are what gave the NES it's unique sound."

"It is an 2A03 freed from the limitations of the original hardware. The core 2A03 "sound" howerver is preserved and faithfully reproduced.

At it's core, the 2A03 contains 4 sound generation circuits:

triangle generator
2 square wave generators (each having a slightly different sweep algorithm)
noise generator"