Nice. Put this on along with your Synth tie, lapel, bling, and skirt and you'd be good to go. Title link takes you to more on Music Thing.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The Synth Buckle
Nice. Put this on along with your Synth tie, lapel, bling, and skirt and you'd be good to go. Title link takes you to more on Music Thing.
Little Phatty Champagne
In case you haven't heard, Little Phattys are shipping. Someone on AH had there's delivered. Hmm... Wonder if Carbon111 got his yet. image via CDM
Udpate via the comments:
"Mine showed up the friday before last.. It's everything they promised, and the presentation is perfect. There's also a CD-Rom with articles and audio from Bob and the memorial celebration, as well as a really cool poster of Bob."
That's pretty cool.
Linux Rock Star on the Alsa Modular Synth
For any Linux users out there, there is a new Linux music blog, Linux Rock Star. Click here for a post on the Alsa Modular Synth.
"This full modular synth (with "modules" that allow one to build a complete synthesizer) has one of the fattest sounds and most realistic I have heard from a virtual synthesizer (I've been using them since the days of Vaz Plus 1.7). There are thick basses, lush pads, searing leads, all the cliches plus all the weird sounds one can dream up. There are some amazing sounds that remind me of Klaus Schulze in the presets."
via CDM
Northern Air - The Wretch
Michael Weeks has contributed to quite a few posts on this site, so it's only appropriate I mention his new release Northern Air. Title link takes you to more info. Make sure to check out the video (there's an iPod formatted version after the jump as well). Congrats Michael!
Technomania on SonicState
Sonic State has launched Technomania, a video grab bag of randomn synth clips. Below are links to the first two episodes. Episode 1
James Anderson and Circuit Bending
The Fairlight on Discovering Electronic Music
Russian Polyvoks
Fumitaka Anzai and a Lego Moog Modular
Mootbooxle and his Synthesizers.com modular
Episode 2
Roland CMU-810
The Moog Modular on Discovering Electronic Music
ARP 2500
James Anderson and Circuit Bending
Fumitaka Anzai and a Mellotron 400 patch change
via sequencer.de
Denkitribe on YouTube
video upload by Denkitribe
video upload by Denkitribe
Two new Electribe EMX Videos via Denkitribe. The effect pedals are Behringer. Via HarriL whom you might remember from these Electribe EMX videos.
dj sofia loaf on YouTube
via jesse. That's his daughter rocking her sampled voice on the Korg Kaoss pads. : )
Defcon Badge Event Generator
Defcon 14 Badge Hacking Contest Winner - Proof of Concept on YouTube
Title link takes you to the full set of videos. If you don't know what DEFCON is, go here. In short it's a hacker convention. I pulled the following posted by shagghie on this VSE post before it dissapears into the ether:
"Don't ask me how, and definately don't ask me why, but I managed to win a competition I didn't even know was going on at Defcon this year... I hacked the defcon access badge and turned it into an event generator for my analog synth, using $20 of parts from Fry's and some god aweful zero-rosin solder and wayyy to hot of a cheap gun! Originally, I was trying to decipher the last 'mode' on the badge that put out random patterns for the blinking LED eyeballs on the badge...turns out it was a pseudo random pattern after all, but in the process I did discover it repleated every 58 seconds, and that the internal clock ran at exactly 64 bpm.... If you double that you get 128bpm, which is a nice healthy dancable pace... So that's when I thought to install a few piezo tweeters on the badge and tap directly off the IC in order to hear the pattern, and then realized I could install a 1/4" phone plug jack and tap both channels (left and right eyeball) and route it to my analog synth's envelope generator, so that i could great note shapes from both channels. Well, the rest is history, and I was able to get some nice phat techno beats out of it after tuning the synth for awhile. Amazing what redbulls and Fatburgers can inspire!
Little write-up in the Washington Post :/ link
Some pictures of other hacked badges and the badge's creater Joe Grand (aka Kingpin of L0pht Heavy Industries): link
Some VIDEOS of the badge in action, the "Blue Light Concert", the semi-lame demo at the awards ceremony, and a small clip of me setting up for what turned out to be a 7 hour long set at Caezer's Challenge private party. I had to jam for 7 hours straigh, performing live, with no loops, no .mp3's, and help from the occasional curious hacker that would step over to play the keys while I manned the machinedrum...
link"
Title link takes you to the full set of videos. If you don't know what DEFCON is, go here. In short it's a hacker convention. I pulled the following posted by shagghie on this VSE post before it dissapears into the ether:
"Don't ask me how, and definately don't ask me why, but I managed to win a competition I didn't even know was going on at Defcon this year... I hacked the defcon access badge and turned it into an event generator for my analog synth, using $20 of parts from Fry's and some god aweful zero-rosin solder and wayyy to hot of a cheap gun! Originally, I was trying to decipher the last 'mode' on the badge that put out random patterns for the blinking LED eyeballs on the badge...turns out it was a pseudo random pattern after all, but in the process I did discover it repleated every 58 seconds, and that the internal clock ran at exactly 64 bpm.... If you double that you get 128bpm, which is a nice healthy dancable pace... So that's when I thought to install a few piezo tweeters on the badge and tap directly off the IC in order to hear the pattern, and then realized I could install a 1/4" phone plug jack and tap both channels (left and right eyeball) and route it to my analog synth's envelope generator, so that i could great note shapes from both channels. Well, the rest is history, and I was able to get some nice phat techno beats out of it after tuning the synth for awhile. Amazing what redbulls and Fatburgers can inspire!
Little write-up in the Washington Post :/ link
Some pictures of other hacked badges and the badge's creater Joe Grand (aka Kingpin of L0pht Heavy Industries): link
Some VIDEOS of the badge in action, the "Blue Light Concert", the semi-lame demo at the awards ceremony, and a small clip of me setting up for what turned out to be a 7 hour long set at Caezer's Challenge private party. I had to jam for 7 hours straigh, performing live, with no loops, no .mp3's, and help from the occasional curious hacker that would step over to play the keys while I manned the machinedrum...
link"
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