Serge in Custom Cabinet

Gorgeous. Via Ross:

"Just thought I'd drop you a photo of my Serge made up in a VCS3 style cabinet. My dad made it over a month I learnt quite a bit along the way, the biggest mistake is to not give enough space between the bottom section and the top, as you have to factor in stacking banana plugs. I should have made the gap a little bit bigger, but can always swap the TKB Touch keyboard up two modules:-)

What is strange is that I am using the Serge now in a different way just because of the cabinet? :-)

The next step is to have 2 more panels in another cabinet on top featuring Livewire, Plan B and Doepfer all banana jacked. Oh and then there is my VICMOD Modular synth which I am building with our group, so the future is looking modular."

c64 Orchestra on YouTube

"C64 Orchestra approached two of the most experienced C64-users from the 1980s, Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel. The current work of these two Commodore 64 musicians intend their compositions to be exploited with the aid of a classical orchestra. The compositions that they are going to play:
Rob Hubbard's compositions:
Monty on the Run, One Man And His Droid, Commando, International Karate, Master of Magic.
Jeroen Tel's:
Cybernoid II, Hawkeye, Myth, Supremacy, Iron Lord.
Midway 2006 will see this production premiered."

Great documentary. via Tim Peters. Thanks Tim!

Synclavier Lap Synth and Possible Soft Synth

Thought this shot was kind of funny. The Synclavier isn't exactly the sort of synth I think about taking with me out to play on my lap in the woods. I guess if someone is bold enough to bring that out along with the computer, there could be a power generator sitting just outside that shot.

Via Failed Muso where you can find more shots. As for a soft synth, he also found this intersting blurb on the Synclavier site:

"I am researching the possibility of creating a Synclavier® "plug-in" for several hardware platforms that would recreate the "Synclavier® Sound" by accurately modeling the actual operation of the original Synclavier® hardware. I am convinced that, by utilizing 96/192 Khz 24-bit technology, such a plug-in could faithfully reproduce the sound of a variable sampling rate digital audio system. This project will take between 12 and 24 months."

ML-303 on Acidcode - Precursor to the x0xb0x?

Bread, wine and a "303." I could go for that. Click image for the full shot. The caption on Acidcode reads, "... a little more than just a discontinued DIY project ;)" followed by a link to ladyada and the x0xb0x.

Update: according to Moogulator of sequencer.de there is no direct relation to the x0xb0x other than they are both clones of the Roland TB-303. The ML-303 was made in Germany. Not sure where ladyada is.

""here's a link [on sequencer.de] to the user manual for the ML-303 BassLine."

Via Awakened_Yeti in the comments of this post.

Alien Head Theremin

Photo cell theremin. It picks up light changes in the room.
Title link takes you to XLPCTheremin.com.

Shot, samples and discription pulled from this auction.

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"THE NEW AND IMPROVED (MORE LOW TO HIGH RANGE) LARGE PHOTO CELL INSTALLED ON TOP OF THE THEREMIN WILL PICK-UP ANY EXISTING LITE IN THE ROOM, AND TRANSFORM IT INTO SOUNDS THAT ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD.THE THEREMIN REACTS TO ALL TYPES OF LITE, INCLUDING FLASHLITE, LASER POINTER, TV, OR ANY OTHER LITE SOURCE.BY SIMPLY WAVING YOUR HAND OVER THE PHOTO CELL SIDE TO SIDE, UP AND DOWN YOU ARE ABLE TO CHANGE PITCH, AND VOLUME.TO GET THE SOUND EFFECTS YOU HAVE TO CONNECT TO AN AMP.(ALL MY XLPC THEREMINS ARE BUILT TO BE USED WITH AN AMP.). CONNECT EFFECTS PEDALS (DELAY - DISTORTION - PHASE SHIFTER - ETC.) TO THE THEREMIN CUSTOMIZE AND EXPERIMENT, LET YOUR IMAGINATION GO. GREAT FOR DJ's, IN THE STUDIO OR LIVE ON STAGE.JUST CLICK ON THE LIGHT SWITCH FOR ADDED ATTENTION. ADD MY XLPC THEREMIN TO YOUR SET-UP AND EVERYONES HEAD WILL TURN!!!

The XLPC Theremin includes:

8 ohm Speaker (very small - low volume)
Red On/Off Switch
Silver Pitch Volume Knob
Extra Large Photo-Cell (New and Improved)
1/4" Output Jack (Amp. Cable not included)
1 AA Battery (mounted outside the base for easy access)
Soft Plastic Green Alien Head Lamp "

Genoqs Octopus OS Update v0.98

• Step chords: steps may carry individual chords, in addition to the "legacy" track chord system.


• Step chords can be strummed, and strumming may also apply to velocity, pitch, and length.


• Step repeats: you can set a step to multi-trigger.


• Step events: steps may be programmed to trigger a track event, modifying any track attribute


• MIDI IN recording: note and controller data records onto tracks, polyphonically (in the case of notes).


• Undo capability for editing.


• Grid scale: basically an intrument-wide scale setting, in addition to the page-wide scale settings.

massturbator recording session on YouTube

Matrixsynth by Frédéric

I like it! : ) Thanks Frédéric.