Modular Synthesizer Fun

Modular Synthesizer Fun "All analog synth pumps it out MOTM, Cat Girl Synt, Oakley, Synthesizers.com, Club of the Knobs, Depfer, Analouge Solutions."


Synthesizer with wavefolder sync'd to 808

YouTube via synthesizerman. Title link takes you to more.

Update for search to take care of typos quoted above: Cat Girl, Doepfer, Analog Solutions.

Music Arcade - Radiophonic Workshop

Doctor Who / Dr. Who Theme


Fairlight

YouTube via Fynci. Title link takes you to more.

Update via Doktor Future in the comments:
"Dr. Who needs no banjos or Moog ladders. It's not about the East Coast vs. West Coast sound at all -- it's about the UK sound, which, as you know, comes from outer-space.

In fact, EMS in the UK got their start by stealing an Atron energy nebulizer from a type-40 TARDIS. Normally, this would not be cause for concern as the device was genetically keyed, but the average UK citizen is so inbred that by lucky statistical chance, EMS found not only that they could activate the device, but that somehow they could get impressions from the Matrix itself!

After many astral voyages at the EMS laboratories, it became clear that true access to the historical knowledge of the Time Lords would be impossible due to the defenses of the latent psychic energy of all timelords past, so they set to work on a device capable of distracting the Matrix's mental defenders.

This became known as the EMS 100, and became the centerpiece for their own make-shift TARDIS.

About this time the BBC needed some ideas for good shows, so the EMS folks created another EMS 100 unit at the BBC Radiophonic headquarters so their engineers could also be inspired by the hyper-galactic knowledge of the Matrix.

Of course, portable versions of their technologies were placed in select hands over the ages. Each artist was given a goal: design a unique composition that can distract the time-lord defenders so as to access the true Matrix directly.

One of the most introspective works, giving almost total sub-conscious access to the Matrix was the well known album 'Dark side of the moon'. What is not well known however is that the word 'moon' in the title of the Album refers to "Pazithi Gallifreya" (Gallifrey's moon), and the nodum-quazmulcator buried within its surface.

Humanity owes so much to the psycho-quantum-sonic attributes of the the EMS line of 'synthesizers'!

Sadly, once the Presidents Council discovered the breech, they issued an edict to EMS to halt production of their technology to all without Gallifreyan permits.

This has created an underground bidding war for EMS devices. Even though the atron nebulizers have been disabled by the Time Lords, many still collect the devices to reminisce to the 'good ol days' when Matrix security was as porous as the US Government's firewalls.

There are rumors however, that a new type of Atron-nebulizer emulation may soon be available.

If so, and we can only hope, that a new wave of EMS devices will be available for todays generation of psycho-temporal-astral knowledge seekers."

Serge Modular - 1

flickr by mono-poly. Title link takes you to more.

Museum of Synthesizer Technology

via this auction

This is a great book btw, especially if you are into synth pics.

BTW, don't miss the updated Synth Books, Synth CDs and Synth Movies section on the right of this site. If you know of any to add feel free to send them my way or comment. Note I don't want the cd list to get out of hand, so I'm limiting that section to CDs that showcase a given synth or two max.

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Roland SH-101

Title link takes you to one more shot pulled via this auction.

Under The Sea

Cord posted the following to the Waldorf list. I asked him if I could put it up and he gave the all clear.

"I made a short track with my XTk (10 voices), only the drums are from my MPC1k (and there is only snare and bass). I actually wanted to get more familiar with the JJ OS for my MPC1k (I am only used to the 60) and came up with some ideas. I always wanted to put these bubble sounds into something. Nothing great, just something I put together in my limited spare time...and do not expect Trippler quality here! But maybe you like the PPG aura, I wanted to create."

Title link takes you to the mp3.

Dr. Device

New product coming from Audio Damage. Title link takes you to the teaser on Analog Industries.

One Synth CDs

Ross sent me the following list of one synth only CDs. I put the ones available via Amazon on the right section of the site under CDs. BTW I previously had CDs, DVDs and Books all in the same section. I decided to break it out so it's easier to parse. If anyone knows where you can get the other CDs let me know and I'll update the list. For now I just created artist links, so what you'll find will be hit and miss.

Buchla
Morton Subotnick
– Silver apples on the moon
– Touch

Pauline Oliveros
- Electronic works
- Alien Bog/ Beautiful Soop

Douglas Leedy
- Electronic Zodiac

EMS Synthi/ Synthi 100
- Douglas Lilburn – Complete Electro Acoustic Works
- University of Melbourne – Electronic Music
- Cor Fuhler – Whistlelight
- New Zealand Electronic Music
- Greek Electronic Music 1
- Thomas Lehn - Feldstarken

Serge Modular Synthesizer
Warren Burt
- Sketches of Scenes and Seasons
- Studies for Synthesizer
- Harmonia Mundane
- Bobo The Clone

ARP 2600
Dub Taylor – Lumiere

FM Synthesis Pioneer
John Chowning - Turenas

Squelchy goodness

flickr by Grantski.

Title link takes you to more shots by Granktski including some architecture. There are only a couple of synth shots, but it is kind of interesting seeing them with other shots that use scale.

Rob Acid

YouTube via RobBabicz. Send my way via aux. Title link takes you to Rob Acid's website with gear pics and more - check out the studio link. You can also find some videos of him live on YouTube.
BTW, anyone know what gear this is?

Update via brian in the comments: "It is a UE-100, a tube driven, single channel parametric EQ made by Klein and Hummel in the early 60's (1961 to be exact). I also found a link to it's schematic in German [here]."

Ensoniq EPS Factory Samples

Title link takes you to a few factory samples of the Ensoniq EPS sent my way via dm. He also sent me a link to this zip of Kawai XD-5 factory samples. The Kawai XD-5 is on the bottom of the rack in this image. You can check out dm's site with music here.

KORG MS20

Title link takes you to more shots via vectorsynth.

The DHARMA Initiative Modular

via Luca

BoGeTi

Via Boele of SCD on the Waldorf list:

"November 2001, dr. Georg Müller, Till Kopper and myself [Boele] on:
Electro Harmonix Synthesizer
Minimoog
Waldorf Q (with useless stepsequencer)
Waldorf WAVE
Roland TR606 through the filters of a Korg MS20
Another Waldorf WAVE
Waldorf mQk
Waldorf Microwave
Moog Prodigy"

Title link takes you to the MP3

Waldorf Promotional Video

Title link takes you to another Waldorf promo video. This one via Tsching on the Waldorf list.

Buchla 100

Via this auction.

Details:
"SYNTH WAS PURCHASED ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO, IT WAS PURCHASED USED. IT HAS BEEN MAINTAINED IN MY STUDIO ALL THE TIME, IT HAS SEEN LITTLE USE UNDER MY OWNERSHIP AND I THINK IT’S TIME SOMEBODY ELSE HAVE FUN WITH THIS ONE AND I NEED THE MONEY AS WELL. SYNTH COMES WITH A BUCHLA MANUAL, LOTS OF PATCH CORDS. SYNTH WORKS FINE BUT IT MIGHT NEED CALIBRATING BY NOW.

MACHINE WAS KEPT IN A DUST AND SMOKE FREE ENVIROMENT.

Buchla synthesizers are the classic creations of Don Buchla, a circuit designer who produced synthesizers when they truly were analog beasts. Buchla started making his first synthesizers on America's west coast for the purpose of simplifying the tedious process of creating "Musique Concrete". Musique Concrete can be thought of as the predecessor to Electronic Music. It was a form of music in which recordings of various sounds on tape were cut, spliced, distorted, and manipulated in various ways before being spliced back together into something that should sound like music...almost like super old-school sampling & sequencing! This concept was the driving force behind almost every Buchla synthesizer made - an electronic device that can create some basic sound, manipulate it, tune it freely, and sequence it into organized sound, hopefully something musical! With that in mind, Buchla synthesizers were among the first to use indivudally tuneable keys for limitless micro-tuning possibilities, analog sequencers, and complex waveforms other than basic sine, sawtooth, and square waves.

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Herbie Hancock Demonstrates the Fairlight on Sesame Street

YouTube Sharpblue

Update: Previous Sesame Street vids

Drum Machine Sessions by electro303

Roland Drum Machine Sessions


KORG Drum machine Sessions


Kawai Drum Machine Sessions

YouTube via electro303.

Cwejman Drumset by Verstaerker

Title link takes you to the post on sequencer.de where you'll find a link to the download.

Samples include Hihats, Toms, Kicks, and snares all made with the Cwejman.

Update: Here's the direct link in case you can't find it. I also mirrored them here in case the link goes down.

Ambiosonics

"What is it? A nice mix of ambient and groove orientated electronic music created absolutely live on stage.

Where and when does it happen? At "Die Bank", Mueller Strasse 43, Muenchen, first floor, every third thursday of the month."

Title link takes you there. You'll find images and mp3s. BTW check out what looks like a joystick or switch where the volume knob on this Roland JX-3P should be. Not sure if that's just the pot shaft minus the knob or something else. Click the image to see it larger. If anyone knows more about it, feel free to comment.

via sequencer.de

Waldorf Q Demonstration