Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Stevie Wonder Pappa Was a Rolling Stone with talkbox
YouTube via BMZSOUL. Thanks goes to Failed Muso for this great find.
I'm guessing he's driving the ARP 2600 in the background.
Cynthia Programmer
"Back in March of 1977 the delightful Mr Serge Tcherepnin wrote a do it yourself article in Synapse Magazine for a handy control voltage "Programmer" module. Playfully he published it using the alias of Mr. "Arpad Benares" and now close to thirty-years later we are pleased to offer the very same Benares Programmer fully assembled in Modcan A-series banana format as a very limited edition!Putting this wonderful nostalgia aside for a moment, this Programmer is a terrifically useful tool for your modular. Think of it as a Sequencer with five stages of four knobs each. You can access the stages sequentially, or individually, and in any random order of your choosing by either driving the Programmer to a specific stage with an input pulse or with your finger using its big sexy industrial crisp-action LED pushbuttons.
Each button has an individual Gate Output to activate other modules in your system, and there is a Common Pulse Out jack to fire your envelope generator no matter which of the buttons is pushed for traditional keyboard applications. Actually you can put several of these double wide Programmers in rows to form even longer keyboards!
For convenience the original design has been updated to include white Strobe Up and Strobe Down jacks. A fun new way of sequencing can be explored by putting different LFOs into both jacks at once - for push-me pull-you tug-of-war type rhythms and melodies like "three notes forward, and one back".
Programmers can of course be used to play four-part melodies or pre-programmed chords, but they are often used to control other various parameters of a large patch such as the cut-off frequency or resonance of filters, or the amount of lag, or or the speed of a clock, or the wave selection of a MiniWave module, or literally any handful of things that need to be pre-programmed for big sweeping changes instantly, (in a live performance for example).
If you need more than two hands for major shifts in your music, just Program it!"
Programmer on Cyndustries
Tonal Plexus TPX6s
YouTube via AaronAndrewHunt. sent my way via fischek.
"Here is a sketch using 2 main ideas. The first is a motive including the 11th and 13th harmonics, and the second is a sequence using natural 7ths. Sorry, the camera angle is not the greatest as it hides what my right hand is doing. The sound is 019 ChrchOrgn from the internal synth, with reverb setting on 07 (delay), all max values. This was a single take. See more at http://www.h-pi.com"
Roland TR-808 and a Chicken
flickr by drb3nwayOr rather a rooster.
Click here for one more shot of a TR-808 on a farm sent my way via Giorgio.
Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - Loreley festival
YouTube via ArtBonVivant.
I'm guessing that's his stack of Quasimidi Polymorph's behind him. I actually saw Dead Can Dance live once.
"Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Schulze was play at the "Night Of The Prog" on the "Open Air Festival" stage Loreley (Germany) on 18 July 2008. Another band there was Tangerine Dream."
the ASM-1
YouTube via lesingemonotone
"Synth based upon Gene Stopps' ASM-1. Still work in progress and quite noise video unfortunatly."
The Optigan Archives Vol. 1 Sample DVD-R!
YouTube via peahix
"This video features a series of very simple demos of sounds from the Optigan Archives Vol. 1 Sample DVD-R, compared with their related sounds from the Optigan/Orchestron/Talentmaker sample CD. (Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeUeME... for an infomercial for that CD.)
This is an exclusive set of loops and keyboard samples culled from the original Optigan/Orchestron studio master reels.
While the Optigan itself always sounded very lo-fi due to the limitations of its optical-soundtrack technology, the original master tapes retain their hi-fi sound quality (albeit in mono).
The Optigan master reels are a vast archive of early 1970s era musical building blocks, covering a wide range of popular styles from the period. Ultimately, only a small portion of this material ever made it onto production Optigan discs. For this initial collection of samples, I'm focusing on that small portion and related out-takes. Future volumes in this series will comprise entirely unfamiliar material- out-takes which never saw the light of day on any Optigan disc.
To find out more information about this DVD-R, and to place an order, please visit http://shoptigan.ecrater.com/product...."
Replicas [cover] by Failed Muso
YouTube via FailedMuso
"A fairly simple and short cover of "Replicas" by Tubeway Army/Gary Numan. Based more on his live version than the album track. Everything programmed on Reason by me with the lead line, also from Reason, played live on my Akai MPK49 (you have no idea how many takes it took, mainly because I am shit at playing live !)
Enjoy.
Of course, all copyright belongs to Mr Numan and Beggars Banquet and whoever else. I am simply demonstrating my [lack of] skills."
Tiptop Audio Distributes Through Schneider's Buero
via Tiptop Audio:
"It has been a while, but we have some exciting news! We officially have distribution in Germany through Schneider's Buero! As you already know we have one of the absolutely best distributors here in the states, the amazing Analogue Haven but we really felt that we were leaving our European counterparts out of the loop!
This has been a very exciting process for us and we are proud to have finally secured overseas distribution, but to top that off, it is with one of the best and most well-respected distributors in Germany! What more could we ask for?"
The Messy Studio
click here for the full set. I picked one of the messiest shots of course, so be sure to click through for some of the better gear shots. There are some good ones.
Ghetto Lab
Ghetto Lab from jon johnstone on Vimeo.
"Finished my MFOS Sound Lab. Listen to the sweet sweet sounds!
Actually I have no idea if this sounds right or not. I'm just happy that my second project, after an atari punk console, didn't burst into flames when I turned it on."
PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer gearporn
YouTube via dkimcg
"More experimentation with the triple event timer. Turns out it's really really nice for making little tribal sounding resonant drum patterns when used with the Model 13 Dual Timbral Gate. You can really hear the vactrols here since the gates are literally just open or closed with a pulse. That resonant almost membrane type sound is the slowness of the vactrols. Sweet huh? So in this patch the Model 10 was free to do other stuff, but I think it was just cycling back into the control processor for the second timing on the right side. Ah, that loudness in levels must have been feedback. Sorry about the levels being way too loud at parts, I think the voltages got too high too. I need a voltmeter in the rack...
YOu can see pretty clearly what the Model 17 does with the LFO feeding into it going slow. The timer's positive direction send out one set of pulses to the 1st gate, the negative direction send out a 2nd set of pulses to the 2nd gate giving you two voices played with one LFO timing everything out. 6 triggers events total, so you can do some nifty timing stuff with it. See the other video for a better idea on the outbuts at the lower section."
advanced Loading... PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer Outputs
YouTube via dkimcg
"Not too complete, the negative triggers don't seem to be firing anything in this patch (probably pulsing to a filter or something while quiet), but you can see the or outputs which look like they could be used for a backbeat drone or trigger another note/event.
See the other video for a better idea of what the triple event timer can do. I really like this thing a lot now that I know what it can do. No stereo really, it's a raw recording with no delay or anything, just the two gates mixed together in mono."
Machinedrum and A.S. 8500 Short Sequence
YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's a tough little sequence from the Analogue Systems rs200 Sequencer module synced up with the Elektron Machinedrum via the rs140 MIDI/CV module. The rs140 is one of the most feature-laden MIDI to CV converters available, and it's in eurorack format!
http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/bigcitymusicdo...
http://www.bigcitymusicblog.blogspot.com"
"They say it's gonna rain" - on Böhm Station One
YouTube via organfairy
"I don't know very much about this German workstation. In fact I have only found out a fraction of its capabilities. But I have used it to play the rhytm and some of the voices on this song. The rest is played on the Yamaha organ which also acts as keyboard for the Böhm."
MFB Filterbox Demo
YouTube via tobsenteque
"Clocked MFB Filterbox applied to a Synth Sequence. Some additional EFX"
The tiny YMO click module (take2)
YouTube via denha
"This makes a model of MOOG moduller sequencer. The sound has been changed."
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