Thursday, January 05, 2006
Analogue Haven Winter NAMM 2006
If you are forunate enought to go to NAMM this year, this is the booth to check out.
"Analogue Haven will exhibit from January 19th until the 22nd at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Our booth is # 1787 which is located in Hall E. For details including a floor layout please visit the NAMM show's website.
The following manufacturers and gear will be presented at our booth:
Doepfer - Dieter Doepfer and Sibille Heller - Super Suitcase with all A-100 modules including new A-188-1a/b BBD delay, A-101-9 Universal Vactrol, Switched Capacitor Filter, Zero-Thru Quadrature VCO, Touch Sensor keyboard, R2m Ribbon Controller, PK88 and LMK Professional Controller Keyboards, D3m with D3c drawbar controller, all OEM/DIY products, midi-cv and midi-sync interfaces, midi controllers and MAQ 16/3 midi/analog sequencer.
EAR Group - Mike Brown and Peter Grenader - Livewire and Plan B modules.
Eowave - Emmanuelle Gallin and Marc Sirguy - Eowave Bugs and Persephone.
Future Retro - Jered Flickinger - Revolution, Mobius, XS Expander.
Manikin Electronic - Thorsten Feuerherdt - Memotron and Schrittmacher.
Metasonix - Eric Barbour - S-1000 Wretch, TM/TX series pedals.
Modcan - Bruce Duncan - Series B system with all modules including new Analog Sequencer 54b and Clock 53b.
MOTM - Paul Schreiber - Frac Rack series modules with demonstrations from Robert Rich.
Vermona & HDB - Thomas Haller and Denny Schreckenbach - all gear including DRM, Perfourmer and Retroverb
Other gear being shown by us include:
Analogue Solutions - Vostok and possibly Concussor drum series.
Anyware Instruments - SemTex XL.
Cwejman - Eurorack module prototypes and possibly S1mk2.
Elektron - possibly Machinedrum UW.
Infection Music - Zeit.
Jomox - M-Resonator.
Macbeth Studio Systems - M5.
Sequentix Music Systems - P3.
* plus additional special guests"
"Analogue Haven will exhibit from January 19th until the 22nd at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Our booth is # 1787 which is located in Hall E. For details including a floor layout please visit the NAMM show's website.
The following manufacturers and gear will be presented at our booth:
Doepfer - Dieter Doepfer and Sibille Heller - Super Suitcase with all A-100 modules including new A-188-1a/b BBD delay, A-101-9 Universal Vactrol, Switched Capacitor Filter, Zero-Thru Quadrature VCO, Touch Sensor keyboard, R2m Ribbon Controller, PK88 and LMK Professional Controller Keyboards, D3m with D3c drawbar controller, all OEM/DIY products, midi-cv and midi-sync interfaces, midi controllers and MAQ 16/3 midi/analog sequencer.
EAR Group - Mike Brown and Peter Grenader - Livewire and Plan B modules.
Eowave - Emmanuelle Gallin and Marc Sirguy - Eowave Bugs and Persephone.
Future Retro - Jered Flickinger - Revolution, Mobius, XS Expander.
Manikin Electronic - Thorsten Feuerherdt - Memotron and Schrittmacher.
Metasonix - Eric Barbour - S-1000 Wretch, TM/TX series pedals.
Modcan - Bruce Duncan - Series B system with all modules including new Analog Sequencer 54b and Clock 53b.
MOTM - Paul Schreiber - Frac Rack series modules with demonstrations from Robert Rich.
Vermona & HDB - Thomas Haller and Denny Schreckenbach - all gear including DRM, Perfourmer and Retroverb
Other gear being shown by us include:
Analogue Solutions - Vostok and possibly Concussor drum series.
Anyware Instruments - SemTex XL.
Cwejman - Eurorack module prototypes and possibly S1mk2.
Elektron - possibly Machinedrum UW.
Infection Music - Zeit.
Jomox - M-Resonator.
Macbeth Studio Systems - M5.
Sequentix Music Systems - P3.
* plus additional special guests"
Leap Sounds on CDM
This year we had what's known as a leap second, and extra second at 23:59:60. Did you remember to adjust the count to 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,1! : ) Create Digital Music asked readers to submit one second pieces of music in celebration of the leap second. Pretty cool. Title link takes you there.
User Written SE-1X Manual
Now this I haven't seen before. Jfm3 purchased a second hand SE-1X without a manual. When he went looking for a manual to dowload off the net he couldn't find one. So... He wrote his own and put it up for everyone under a Creative Commons license. Way to go! And I thought my little bits here where a bit of work. Title link takes you to the pdf. If you have any feedback on the manual feel free to comment. Below is the Preface.
1 Preface
In November of 2005 I bought an SE-1X second hand on eBay. I was pretty shocked to and that I couldn't download a PDF file of the manual for free. In fact, the charge was relatively high. I posted an admittedly in ammatory message to the Studio Electronics Yahoo! E-group about wanting a manual, I got an angry reply back saying that manuals were expensive to produce, and that it was unreasonable for me to expect
them for free over the Internet. I resolved to write my own manual for the SE-1X and release it under a Creative Commons license. This is that.
Amazing.
1 Preface
In November of 2005 I bought an SE-1X second hand on eBay. I was pretty shocked to and that I couldn't download a PDF file of the manual for free. In fact, the charge was relatively high. I posted an admittedly in ammatory message to the Studio Electronics Yahoo! E-group about wanting a manual, I got an angry reply back saying that manuals were expensive to produce, and that it was unreasonable for me to expect
them for free over the Internet. I resolved to write my own manual for the SE-1X and release it under a Creative Commons license. This is that.
Amazing.
Simmons SDX
Simmons SDX sample based drum system circa 1988. Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. Thanks Matt!
Some details from the auction:
"This is the mother of all drum machines. I purchased this machine 3 years ago and have had a blast with it. Although this machine was released by Simmons in 1988, it still reigns as one of the top drum machines in history. It is also good to note that there were only about 250 of these made EVER. The serial number on this machine is 000074, and I have heard of two other machines, one having a serial below mine, and another right above 200. I have personally conversed with Danny Carey of Tool, who owns two of these machines, and he swears that they are among the best in history.
Simmons SDX console with 4 mb of internal RAM (see picture for buttons and layout of the actual board).
7 white-backed trigger pads (1 HexaBass, 5 Zone-Intelligent Pads, 1 Cymbal pad)
1 hi-hat trigger pedal
71 floppy disks contained tons of samples from drum kits to organs to synths, etc
10 guitar cables (one has the alternate connection in the picture below...the 4 pin cable"
Update via the comments:
"bruce mason said...
I own 3 SDX consoles and a few pads .the pads are not based on normal triggering systems but have a thin layer of plastic film with a 3 way spiral circuit [a little like an electric cooker ring but hexagonal and with three lines running in parallel]..on top of this there is a black film with small raised dots which keep it from contacting the circuit until it is struck.when you hit the pad contact is made and a voltage resistance is created across the spiral circuit.this is how sdx calculates the position of the strike as well as the force.depending on these values it selects from a 3x3 matrix of samples..a central area...an area close to the rim and one in between..the width of these zones is programmable..each zone is 3 deep by velocity.also the pitch/ filter brightness/pan position etc/etc/ of the whole drum [1 to 9 samples] can be defined bey velocity and position creating an amazing warping of sounds if desired.absolutely without peer for the weird stuff.analog filters.digital samples.eats the competition alive.the only other serious choice is the ddrum3.end of opinion."
Some details from the auction:
"This is the mother of all drum machines. I purchased this machine 3 years ago and have had a blast with it. Although this machine was released by Simmons in 1988, it still reigns as one of the top drum machines in history. It is also good to note that there were only about 250 of these made EVER. The serial number on this machine is 000074, and I have heard of two other machines, one having a serial below mine, and another right above 200. I have personally conversed with Danny Carey of Tool, who owns two of these machines, and he swears that they are among the best in history.
Simmons SDX console with 4 mb of internal RAM (see picture for buttons and layout of the actual board).
7 white-backed trigger pads (1 HexaBass, 5 Zone-Intelligent Pads, 1 Cymbal pad)
1 hi-hat trigger pedal
71 floppy disks contained tons of samples from drum kits to organs to synths, etc
10 guitar cables (one has the alternate connection in the picture below...the 4 pin cable"
Update via the comments:
"bruce mason said...
I own 3 SDX consoles and a few pads .the pads are not based on normal triggering systems but have a thin layer of plastic film with a 3 way spiral circuit [a little like an electric cooker ring but hexagonal and with three lines running in parallel]..on top of this there is a black film with small raised dots which keep it from contacting the circuit until it is struck.when you hit the pad contact is made and a voltage resistance is created across the spiral circuit.this is how sdx calculates the position of the strike as well as the force.depending on these values it selects from a 3x3 matrix of samples..a central area...an area close to the rim and one in between..the width of these zones is programmable..each zone is 3 deep by velocity.also the pitch/ filter brightness/pan position etc/etc/ of the whole drum [1 to 9 samples] can be defined bey velocity and position creating an amazing warping of sounds if desired.absolutely without peer for the weird stuff.analog filters.digital samples.eats the competition alive.the only other serious choice is the ddrum3.end of opinion."
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