Happy Syntho De Mayo - AHNE 2007 via Stretta

And the official set via Stretta. Title link takes you to thumbnails for each shot in the set.

"Analog Heaven Northeast gathering May 5, 2007 "Syntho De Mayo"

Buchla & More - AHNE 2007

flickr by stretta.

Title link takes you to more. There are also great shots of PPG, Oberheim SEM and more.

Update: Wait a sec... Isn't this Dave and The Packrat? Yep, this must be shots of this year's AHNE gathering. Nice. I think the East Coast has it better.

PunkdISCO Studio

via punkdISCO.

BTW, that desk is called the Jerker from Ikea and punkdISCO is giving it away for free , SE London collect. If you are interested you can find his contact info on punkdISCO (top left of site).

MOOG Voyager
Native Instruments KORE

Korg Polysix - old, busted hotness

YouTube via hamsterdunce aka Dave of umop.

Korg Mono/Poly Futre Retro Mobius Patch

YouTube via tardis454. "...And yes I'm getting a better camcorder for longer videos soon!" Can't wait. : )

Percussa AudioCubes controlling Ableton Live (Demo 2)

YouTube via Percussa.

"Percussa AudioCubes controling Ableton Live. More info including pricing, shipping etc at www.percussa.com"

Subotnik - Until Spring - 1976

Remember this T-Shirt? Here's the album it was inspired from.

Via Reed.

Tango and his Modcan/Cynthia

via Kyle

Yamaha CS40M with Mods

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Details:
"skilled engineer/ geek/ synth nerd (the one and only Robin Whittle of TB-303 "Devilfish" mods fame) got his hands on it, and modded/ retrofitted it out so that:
There are an additional 2 banks of sound/ memory locations, accessible via the front panel using 2 small switches. These have already been programmed with some crazy-ass synth bass/acid/pad sound. Gorgeous. There is also some type of filter mod (apparently Moog Rogue replacement of at least the LPF but I haven't been able to verify this, so you best just judge by sound examples...there's an 'unknown' 1/4 inch jack inserted in the back housing also, which may be for some type of external input/ output."

SOUND EXAMPLES HERE:
www.deepchild.com/CS40m_random.mp3 http://www.deepchild.com/CS40_chord_evolve.mp3

Mirrored here

via Loscha.

EMS Synthi Hi Fli

via this auction.
Details:
"very rare EMS synthi hi fli .A,K.A ( the sound freak ) guitar synthi from 1974 used on pink floyds dark side of the moon and many other great albums genisis zeppelin proco harum etc comes with original foot pedals ( two in one ) and original carry case in good working condition

Main Controls and Effects (Left to right on control panel)

* Top Boost Slider to provide up to 30db boost at high frequencies. The output from this section goes to the Octave Shift, Sustained Fuzz and Ring Mod sections.
* Octave Shift Slider mixes in a Sub Octave signal.
* Buzz Switch adds high frequency overtones to the sub octave signal.
* Ring Mod Slider mixes in a signal an octave up when single notes are played or "ring modulated" effects on chords.
* Decay Rate Rotary control for the decay time of Ring Mod and Octave Shift signals.
* Sustain Fuzz Slider mixes variable upper harmonics.
* Attack Rate Rotary control varies the rise time of the sustained fuzz signal.
* Pedal Switches Each switch routes either the left or right pedal to voltage control the Slider above it. Each switch also has an inverted setting so that single pedal movements can produce complimentary effects.
* Solo/Strum Switch to alter the Hi-Fli's sensitivity to playing style.
* Bypass Mix Central Slider to blend the effects and original signal.
* Modulation Selector Rotary Switch selects: Slow Modulation range, Fast Modulation range, Rising Mod envelope, Falling Mod envelope, Rising Ramp and Falling Ramp.
* Treatment Selector Rotary switch selects: VIBRATO, PHASING 1, PHASING 2, WAA-WAA (single resonant peak), WAW-WAW (six resonant peaks) and MEOW (two sets of three peaks in opposite directions).
* Modulation Speed Slider to fine control the modulation rate.
* Modulation Ramp Time Slider to set ramp time between 0 and 5 seconds.
* Modulation Depth Slider controlling depth of modulation applied to Phase Filter.
* Frequency Shift Slider to bias the symmetry of modulation.

Mains powered: 100-135 or 200-260 Vac
Input Signal: 10mV (min) to 3V (max), 100kohm impedance.
Output Signal: -20dbm (min) to 0dbm (max)."

Aelita

Click here for shots via this auction.

Details:
"Synth was made in 80's years in USSR. Aelita is rare synthesizer actually much more rare than well known polyvox soviet synth. Aelita's sound can be very organic, mellow and very fat, agressive also. Synthesizer has very original "transformer" design with removing main operation panel.

Aelita has three oscillators with square, pulse and saw waveforms.There is LFO with triangle,square,saw and ramp waveforms.Every oscillator can be independently detuned in one octave range. We have possibilities in any chord playing here.You can switch oscillators from 32' to 2' registers.Every oscillator has it's own level slider in mixer section.Oscillator's pitch can be modulated by LFO and first oscillator can be modulated by third oscillator.Than we have nice sounding 24db lowpass filter with screaming resonanse and fat low end.Filter has it's own ADS envelope, keyboard tracking and can be modulated by LFO.VCA has ADS envelope with release switch.There is unussual unison mode when you can get signal of all oscillators in 4 registers in one time."



Samples:
1)1osc_registers_waves.mp3
1 oscillator from 32' to 2' registers switched on square,pulse and saw waveforms. All track is dry signal.

2)filter.mp3
filter's cutoff slider tweaking with increasing resonanse. All track is dry signal.

3)3osc_saw_dryandreverb.mp3
every oscillator's slider moving in mixer section to rich unison. First half of track is dry signal and little reverb added than.

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MOOG the Source

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Lots of these on the bay lately. I wonder if the Little Phatty has something to do with it.

kung-fu

YouTube via pre1204. Sent my way via Pete. Awesome. I always wondered what Hiromi sounded like. Click here for more videos.

Upate via Sonicbrat:
"Hi being a fan of Hiromi and having seen her live, she is highly versatile. This video doesn't doe her justice and they either revamped the song for the tv version or it was their earlier version. I am not sure ... but this is how Kung-fu sounded like in concert, a lot more intense :)"

Mike Dred Live Acid

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Love the gear numbers.

"Kit:
3x Roland TB-303, 2x Korg KMS-30, Waldorf Pulse Plus, Yamaha RY30, Yamaha FS1R, Boss SE-70, Sony DPS-V55M, The laptop is simply sending a 2 bar midi loop to the FS1R on one track as my MMT-8 was knackered. All other synth sequencing is via 303s. Normally computers are banned!"

BLOC Weekender - Feb 2007 - universal indicator at bloc


Kit:
"1x SH-101, 2x MC-202, 3x TB303, MPC 2500 as a Drum Machine with Drum sounds created on a System 100 model 101 & 102 & MC-202, Waldorf Pulse Plus, 1x Roland MKS-50, 2x Korg KMS-30, 2x TC Electronic Fireworx, 1x Eventide Orville, 1x Boss SE-70, 1x Boss SE-50, 1x Yamaha RY-30, A few other bits and bobs.

It was mind boggling tying to work this lot freestyle. I don't do song modes (with the exception of the odd complex 303 sequence) or program change - it's too restrictive."

Universal Indicator [live] @ Bloc Weekend 2007


"It's a shame it's a clip of transition rather than full on modulation. Here you get to see me trying to dial in fx settings, create a sound on the pulse plus and an mc 202 in realtime. Working my old school mackie 1604 too. But yeah you get to see a fair bit of the kit. Took 2 hours to set up and another hour to fix sync problems. Was a good party tho."

Slave To the Rhythm

via Peter:
"I was looking for a t-shirt from a particular artist and in the process came across this: link. he pictures is tiny, but it's got a giant modular on it :)."

Pretty cool. Anyone know where this picture comes from?

Update via Peter: "I'm not really sure where the design of the shirt came from but the company is run by Nick Philip who worked on the same magazine with Spike Jonze when he was an aspiring teenage photographer. His fashion stores (Anarchic Adjustment) in Japan were some of the first to have instore DJs. The artist I was looking for was Nic Ainley (www.shinybinary.com), his designs are ridculously detailed photoshoped works of art. Nothing to do with synths but amazing none the less."

Update: And here's where the image came from: link