Goodbye 2008 - The Most Important Decision of 2008

Two vids. One good, one bad, you decide below. Not sure if this is fair as the bottom video isn't even from 2008, but neither is most of the content on this site, so... :) Vintage or...

Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008 (Official Video - Klaas Vocal Edit)

YouTube via HammerDontHurtEm. via Lt. John Rambo's Goodbye 2008 post which obviously instigated this post and thus gets the title. "A freak like me... just needs the Trinity."

Disclaimer: so as you've probably figured out by now, my number one rule in putting up a post is that you have to be able to ID the synth. I'm usually pretty strict on this, but during the holidays I lighten up a bit. As for this post, the excuse for posting is the KORG Trinity. Or is it the Triton? Who knows... Enjoy the sax... or not.

As for the second video...

Fluke - Atombomb (Video Version)

The synth connection is... the KORG Trinity... and the Synth Babes of course, although the only real Synth Babe is in Fluke. I actually saw Fluke live over a decade ago. I remember the female in the band playing the Trinity live. I was quite impressed. At the time my friend gave me a call and let me know Spectrum was playing the same night. I already had tickets to Fluke so I went with Fluke. My friend told me Spectrum had this funny little suitcase synth which turned out to be the EMS Synthi. In hindsight, Synthi aside, I made the right choice. Fluke was indeed impressive and this video was a track for the times. Good memories... New Years shouldn't just be a reflection of the prior year in my opinion, but rather your life up until this point. Past. Present. Future. Make it all good.



The vote for the hell of it...



BTW, I'll be putting up my traditional Happy New Years post with stats for the year tomorrow on the day. As the festivities will obviously happen before then, have a VERY HAPPY (AND SAFE) NEW YEAR! SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!!!

MB-6582

flickr by SineSurfer
(click for more)

inside the MIDIBox SID

Noisebug Buchla and Plan B at Winter NAMM

http://noisebug.net/
http://buchla.com/
http://www.ear-group.net

Dictee Supreme

YouTube via bubagoo.
"This is a heavily modified learning toy called La Dictee Magique.
That's the french version of the much more common Speak&Spell.
I added the standard range of glitch and pitch bends and also added:
-Pitch modulation LFO
-2 Baby driver toy sound circuits
-Voice changing megaphone sound processor circuit
-Atari joystick control port (for triggering sounds and glitches)
-Defibrillator paddle control jacks (trigger sounds and HOLD effect)
For more info go to casperelectronics.com"
The Magic Dictator! as in dictation of course.

Roland TR 700 Rhythm 1974?

YouTube via abertronic. "its big and from the 70'S"

Big Toad with Newt Sequencer Demo

YouTube via bluelantern320
"Demo of a rare Big Toad Synth with all CV's routed for Semi Modular action. Only 1 was made and auction on ebay."

BIGTOAD alone

"DEMO OF A RARE SEMI-MODULAR TOAD SYNTH USING A KORG EA-1 AS A MIDI CONTROLLER (NOTES ONLY)."

Doepfer Analog Modular Synthesizer System

via this auction
"Livewire:
Frequensteiner multimode filter

Doepfer:
2x A-110 VCO
A-146 LFO
A-131 Exp VCA
A-143-2 quad ADSR
A-119 Ext. In.
Blanking panels"

Update: this was supposed to go up on MATRIXSYNTH-B. Oh well... there you have it. Click on each for the full size shot.

Oberheim Matrix-12

via this auction

via N o n p l u s

Paul McCartney - Coming Up (Music Video)

YouTube via beatlesfan4ever13. Yamaha CS80. I'm guessing the brass is the CS80.

Transanalog Casio SK-1 MIDI Retrofit

via TRANSANALOG
"Works for SK-1, SK-5, SK-8, SK-10, and DM-100 (top keyboard). Available soon for PT-1, VL-1, Yamaha VSS-30 and many others.

All features accessible from side of keyboard!

User selectable MIDI channel or set it to respond to all MIDI channels. Can also be set to respond to the first MIDI channel received after reset.

SK-MIDI retrofit turns on and off with the keyboard. Will not drain the batteries.

Responds to MIDI notes 53 to 84.

Optional out of range loop feature allows the SK-MIDI to respond to MIDI notes 0 to 127.

Best of all - the internal speaker is retained!"

ARP Axxe 2310 (Old Version)

flickr set by transanalog
(click for more)

"WWW.TRANSANALOG.COM

The original version of the ARP Axxe in surprisingly good condition. Has the Moog type ladder filter that caused all the patent infringement problems for ARP. Part of my personal collection."

inside an ARP Axxe

Eurorack Modular Synth

flickr by Richard M
(click for one more)

full size

Joe and Synth

flickr by benus

full size

KORG MicroKORG

frost

via customsynth.co.uk

"have a great new year"

Access Virus TI Polar
Roland VSynth White
Roland Fantom White

Last MoPho noises in 2008

mopho16.mp3 via Stefan Trippler.

"Stylus drums, lots of fx, little patience as always ;)"

salzmanufaktur feat. psychotronic - scheisskreis

YouTube via salzmanufaktur
"Playing around with the Elektron Machinedrum, Sony Vegas 8 and an old VHS recorder.
Happy 2009!"

The Buchla Bongo - MAKEN0ISE

YouTube via MAKEN0ISE http://makenoisemusic.com/

"One of the defining sounds of 60's electronic music created with the Buchla instruments, the electronic bongo is easily re-created using modern euro-rack format synthesizer modules such as the Quad Multi-Mode Gate."

Underworld "Cups" Tutorial

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YouTube via Felix2036. Anyone ID the synth?
"Check out my vid on how to play that searing synth pattern from Underworld's "Cups" (the second part). It was kinda hard putting it all together; the syncopation between left & right hand is a killer. Took me a couple of hours to master. Still, it's worth it. Enjoy!"

MaxMSP 5 synthesis experience

YouTube via jamesvla
"here you have another synthesis patch I've made with MaxMSP.. It combines pre-estabilished stuff with generative/stockhastic elements, in order to make some sort of crazy thing"

DS-10で除夜の鐘2008/2009

YouTube via aqi
"自然発生的に起こった「KORG DS-10による除夜の鐘」制作ムーブメント！僭越ながら、そのまとめ動画を制作いたしました。まだ買ったばかりの方からスゴ腕の名無しさん、そして有名なアノ 人まで・・・十人十色の除夜の鐘を堪能しつつ、新年を迎えましょ う！！！ 尚、108つめはスタートから大体19分のところとなっておりま す。 本年中は本当にお世話になりました。また来年もよろしくお願いい..."
Googlish:
"Just happened "KORG DS-10 from the bell," making movement! The僭越, has produced a video together. SUGO名無SHI arm has just bought from the still, while 10 people enjoy the colors of the bell of the famous people and ANO,迎EMASHOU the New Year! ! ! The second is about 108 from 19 starts and you are minutes away. Thank you very much this year. I also request for next year's best ..."

ThumbDrum

"If you’ve ever found yourself drumming with your thumbs on your keyboard or tapping on the table, then you’ll love Thumb Drum. It’s made to be fun for everyone, adults and children, musicians and non-musicians alike. It’s all about the simple enjoyment of tapping and making music. ThumbDrum is way more than your ordinary drum machine. On top of being able to play five different Drumkits (Real Drums, Drum Loops, Ancient Music Box, Cool Sounds & Singer Voices) you can also record up-to 16 short sounds samples which can then be mixed together to create a new customized drum-kit.

It has a stunning user-interface, and if you have large fingers, or prefer to play using landscape mode - you can select to view 4, 9, 12 or 16 drum pads - whichever setting you find more comfortable.

You can also choose between different skins to change the appearance. ThumbDrum also has virtually no lag and can play jams super-fast.

Have fun ThumbDrummin’."

You can find ThumbDrum here:

via Palm Sounds.

Voyager Spacecraft

SonicStateTV via moognut
"A space video made using video clips from NASA and music soundtrack created using a M-AUDIO KEY RIG keyboard and Synth software. http://www.webwonder.co.uk/"
Not sure what soft synths were used, but I figured this one was worth posting for the new year. The last day of the current year is usually when people look back and reflect on their lives over the past year. Watching this video definitely made me reflect on the planet. It's absolutely mind boggling to think we live here just floating around in space. Life is a fractal of sorts.

a very good 2009 to all!

YouTube via vonhaulshoven. via the forum.
"happy new year. I say it with a stone age sequence improvisation (the last thing I do in 2008)"

GForce Webcast 2008

"GForce Webcast 2008

It’s been a busy year as usual culminating in the release of the M-Tron Pro in late October and no sooner had people started taking delivery of the instrument, the tracks started to arrive here at GForce HQ.

Once again we were uber-impressed at both the high quality and wide variety of musical styles cascading out of our speakers and within weeks we had so many good ‘uns we realized we had enough for another webcast.

So welcome to what seems to be an annual event for us, highlighting and broadcasting the pick of the bunch. Also, as this is a reflective time of year, we’ve compiled a small pdf document giving you some inside info as to what went on in 2008 along with some of our favorite images of the last 12 months.

GForce 2008 Retrospective

We’ll see you in 2009 but in the interim best wishes to everyone who’s both helped and inspired us during 2008.

Have a great Holiday

Dave, Chris and the entire GForce team."

You can find the webcast with track listing and instruments used here.