Tuesday, February 17, 2009
live techno session on my QY70 ...I know its a little slow ;)
YouTube via LxAxRxS
"enjoy! plesae watch full length. THANX FOR WATCHING!"
Little Star
YouTube via notepool2
"Within 15 minutes of being introduced to this Opal Prototype, 11 year old Lisa McAllister learned this melody with chord accompanyment with no previous experience on any musical instrument."
monome sonome 1
YouTube via analoq
"I mapped a subset of the sonome layout used on the Axis64 and Opal keyboards onto my monome. I learned part of the minuet in G (played in C, sorry) to demonstrate. See this: http://www.theshapeofmusic.com/note_p...
The note arrangement was invented by Peter Davies who is here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/notepool2"
mnm arp drums
YouTube via vcovcfvca
"This simple 2 bar pattern contains a BBOX track that I manipulate with a 2 step arpeggiator set as follows: SPD x6, MODE KEY, PLAY TRUE, RNGE 2OCT 0JMP 0 and AMP, FLT and LFO trigs all enabled.
Note that the two arp steps are represented by the first two (red and/or green) trig lights that I manipulate throughout the track. When the first trig is green the original trigs are playing in time with the music. When the second trig is green the "arpeggiated trigs" are being played.
If you only play the second trig (and not the first) you basically get only the arpeggiated trigs which are "off" from the original beat by whatever amount based on your arp settings. This allows you to temporarily create a funky fill or break beat that tosses the downbeat into the air temporarily.
If you pull the first trig back in after 2 beats then the listener can easily get back on track and you can keep the groove going. If you let the second trig play alone longer, however, you make things all the more confusing for the listener as the downbeat gets lost.
I start out demoing with the music, then play the beats without the music so you can hear the offset more easily. It takes some practice but this is a cool, simple, effective way to add some life into your drum tracks without programming fills manually, etc."
AKAI MPC 4000 / Norteña del Sur / Nortec
YouTube via bostich1
"'Norteña del Sur', originally constructed with the AKAI MPC 4000 (Music Production Center)
www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundma chine
Bostich+Fussible/Tijuana Sound Machine / Nortec Collective"
$1 Nanoloop MIDI Sync for Game Boy!
YouTube via littlescale
"$1 Nanoloop MIDI Sync for Game Boy! More info: http://little-scale.blogspo..."
Synth Collage
via Balastronhave fun spotting the gear
[iPhone Beats] ir-909
YouTube via siedgey
"Here's a 606/707/808/909 application in action - you program the beats in the familiar TR-style, there is 4 patterns for each kit and all parts can be muted / solo'd just by touching the screen.
My favourite part, though, is that you can alter the pitch / decay / attack / volume by holding a button and tilting the phone. I just can't get enough of making little beats on the bus... ;-)
Anyways, here's a little pattern I made just to show it off. It was kinda hard to play with the camera in front of it so apologies for the slight shitness of it. I have another app which has 2 synths and a drum kit which I will maybe show off soon! Before getting back to making proper tunes. Ahem."
You find IR-909 on iTunes here:
CRUMAR Bit 01 Rack
via this auction
"The Bit-01 is a rackmount 6-voice programmable polyphonic analog synthesizer with digital control similar to the Bit One and Bit-99 keyboard synthesizers. The 2 computer controlled oscillators, 6 VCF resonant filters, 6 VCAs and 2 LFOs each per voice, easy hands-on editing and a layer/split function make this one phatt analog poly-synth! The MIDI implementation is useable but poor and there are 99 memory patches. The Bit-01 is well suited for studio use and in all forms of electronic music."
Baldwin Discoverer
via this auction"The keyboard is 30 1/2 x 12 x 4 Inches and weighs about 21 pounds... The keyboard has a mostly metal case with plastic keys... The keyboard produces Harpsichord, Marimba and Vibes sounds. It also has a series of sliders that allow you to produce a "Solo" sound by moving the Flute 8', Flute 9', Oboe, Violin and Vibrato. There is also a rhythm/drum section and some of the functions can be recorded."
ENSONIQ ESQ-1
via this auction"SPECIFICATIONS/FEATURES:
8-voices of analog
8-voices of digital
stores up to 24000 notes in 30 sequences
40 preset sounds
ring modulator
sequencer
oscillator-sync"
MFB Polylite
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via this auction"FOUR VOICE ANALOG Voltage Controlled SYNTH; you may read the full spec here... POLYLITE. The package is remarkably small and easy to use, there is a FREE EDITOR for full software control and another proprietary editor available from REKON AUDIO. THE INTEGRATION WITH MIDI IS VIRTUALLY SEAMLESS, so literally any midi controller may be used to give the necessary ' knobs & buttons ' to tweak. Use in conjunction with a SYNTHLITE 2 which is readily available from Analog Haven and you have FIVE VOICES, as the format is identical & provides all the tactile control needed."
Oberheim Two Voice
via this auction"Oberheim Two Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer (Model TVS-1, Serial 259). It contains 2 Synthesizer Expander Modules each of which is electronically a complete synthesizer, an 8 position, 2 voice Quantized Mini-Sequencer with Sample and Hold, and a true 2 voice polyphonic, 37 note digital keyboard. This combination of electronic music modules allows the synthesizer user to control 2 completely independent synthesizer voices, and the 2 voice digital keyboard can be operated in either the polyphonic or monophonic mode. The synthesizer is in great condition and was purchased new in 1976" Note the synth is built into the case.
Crumar Performer
via this auctioninside a performer
note the separate brass out
• Crumar Performer
◦ Polyphony – Fully polyphonic 49 voices
◦ Oscillators - 1 for Brass; 2 for Strings
◦ LFO - 1 with delay length, rate and depth controls
◦ Filter - Simple low-pass with resonance for Brass; 3-band Low/Mid/Hi equalizer for Strings
◦ VCA - Attack/Decay for Brass; Attack/Sustain for Strings
◦ Keyboard - 49 keys
◦ Control – CV/Gate◦ Date Produced – 1979
• Power Cord
• Crumar Performer Service Manual complete with schematics and troubleshooting (electronic version)
Oberheim Xpander
via this auction
Minimoog and Clavia Nord Lead in background. They look like miniatures from this perspective.
Yamaha TX816 FM Tone Generator
via this auction"The TX816 has 8 TF1 modules, each of which can store 32 voices."
Essentially 8 DX7s in a rack.
Roland TR-808 Knob Stickers
via CustomSynth
"ROLAND TR 808 DRUM MACHINE RESTORATION INSERTS PACK
16 OF EACH WHITE AND ORANGE
STICKY BACKED SO THEY WONT KEEP FALLING OUT"
note these are from http://customsynth.co.uk/
Be sure to see their other items as well, currently they have MOOG and Oberheim restoration stickers.
Bug Labs BUGsound Now Available
You might remember BUGsound from this post. It is now available. You can find more info onBug Blogger.
"Priced at $99 and shipping now, you can buy BUGsound from our store today. We really look forward to seeing what cool apps the community can make with this latest BUGmodule. BUGcommunity member finsprings used the BUGbase, BUGmotion and BUGsound to create phunky, a pretty nifty accelerometer-based sampling app. Check out the video [below] to see it in action."
Update: I found their YouTube channel. You'll find some good demos there as well.YouTube via finsprings
"Demonstration of the BUGmotion and BUGsound modules. Available for download at:
http://buglabs.net/applicat..."
Connecting BUGmodules
vh module
Audio module
Update: and of course you can run Quake on it:
Quake on the Bugbase with dual screens
Carbon111 - Shadow
update to this postIt's now available:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/carbon1112
Update: See the track list including synths used on SYNTHWIRE.
An interview with James A. Moorer
This one sent in via fabio. You can find the full interview on Unidentified Sound Object. The below in quotes is some background info on James A. Moorer followed by a snip on how he used ASP for synthesis on Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Doom. Note the following is only an excerpt for the archives should the interview disappear. If you want to cut to the chase, just click through the above link for the full interview.Image via James A. Moorer's personal website.
Background info for the interview.
"Matteo Milani had the pleasure of interviewing James A. Moorer, an internationally-known figure in digital audio and computer music, with over 40 technical publications and four patents to his credit. He personally designed and wrote much of the advanced DSP algorithms for the Sonic Solutions "NoNOISE" process which is used to restore vintage recordings for CD remastering.
Between 1980 and 1987, while Vice-President of Research and Development at Lucasfilm's The Droid Works, he designed the Audio Signal Processor (ASP) which was used in the production of sound tracks for Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and others.
Between 1977 and 1979, he was a researcher and the Scientific Advisor to IRCAM in Paris.
In the mid-seventies he was Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1975.
In 1991, he won the Audio Engineering Society Silver award for lifetime achievement. In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for Technical Achievement with his partners, Robert J. Doris and Mary C. Sauer for Sonic Solutions "NoNOISE" for Noise Reduction on Television Broadcast Sound Tracks. In 1999, he won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award for his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film. He is currently working at Adobe Systems as Senior Computer Scientist in the DVD team."
snip from the interview:
"MM: Can you talk about the synthesized arrows in Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Doom?
JM: This was done by linear prediction. Ben had recorded the sounds of arrows going by, but they were too fast. I took 100 ms from the middle of one of those sounds and created a filter of order 150 from it. When driven by white noise, it made the same noise as the arrow, but continuing forever. He then put that sound in the doppler program to produce the sounds of the arrows flying by.
In addition to being a numbers prodigy, ASP is quite garrulous. It can synthesize speech, the sounds of musical instruments, and even special effects by the same mathematical techniques. In Indiana Jones, for example, there is a hang-onto-your-seat scene in which Jones and his pals, while dangling precariously from a rope bridge slung across a deep chasm, come under attack by a band of archers. Lucasfilm technicians had recorded the sound of a flying arrow in a studio, but they discovered that the whistling noise did not last long enough to match the flight of the arrow on the film.
ASP came to the rescue. Moorer copied 25 milliseconds from the middle of the one-and-a-half-second recording and spliced the duplicate sounds to both ends, all electronically. Then he manipulated the arrow's noise so that it faded as the missile moved from left to right across the screen. To ensure total accuracy, Moorer even used ASP to include a Doppler shift - the change in pitch from high to low heard when an object sweeps rapidly past. Thus, as the arrow flies by actor Harrison Ford's head the audience hears a subtle change of frequency in its noise. In this way the sound track dramatically increases the audience's sense of the hero's peril.
[excerpt from Discover Magazine, August 1984]"
Update via SteveL in the comments: "I had the pleasure of working with Andy Moorer while I was as a junior sales and QA engineer at Sonic Solutions from 1993-1996 during their peak years in the audio editing market. Andy is truly one of the legends of electronic music, a smart businessperson, and all around great guy. His development of NoNoise was groundbreaking at the time, and we also developed a fiber optic shared audio networking platform that was many years ahead of its time with features like bandwidth reservation. I will never forget figuring out that he was one of the people behind FM Synthesis- I told him I was fond of those old Yamaha TX-81Zs and he said 'I think I have a copy of the patent in my drawer'"
Electric Music Box 2
YouTube via PositronMusic. More videos here. All parts here.
"Number 2 in a series of live patching with the legendary Buchla 200 System. Live patching of Buchla and other powerful modular synthesizers are performed in every Positron concert, new gig comming soon, for more info and music please visit : http://www.myspace.com/positronmusic
Patch and music by Antonio Isaac"
Wendy playing the Mellotron Bees
YouTube via RothHandle
"Yesterday I had a recording session with canadian musician supreme Wendy McNeill. We have played together in different settings but this was the first time we actually recordfed something "for real". This music is for a dance company in Canada so I will probably never get to see the music in action but I am very certain that it will be great.
This little snippet is of Wendy playing Mellotron 400 #1517 with Bee tapes. These tapes were recorded by Gaby Stenberg in the early 70s as a sort "tonality in everyday life" experiment.
This film was made at Roth Händle studios in Stockholm. If you are curious about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu"
justAsession no.4
YouTube via unklekarma. I think circuit bending may have met it's match.
"justAsession no.4
ET - Pick up the phone!
Andreas Stoubye Johansen & Kaare unkle:karma Bøje performing live on mobile phones, Emma ReezaFRATzitz distortion and T-rex tremster.
Recorded using Shure PE5EQ, Soundcraft Compact 10 & TC konnekt.
Cubase on PC.
Some EQ, reverb, compression and limiter were added in the final mix.
(Clipping might occur)
Now lean back and listen to some of the most known sounds ever created.
Please visit these fine websites:
www.justastudio.net
www.justahead.net
www.socya.net
www.faktory.dk
www.youtube.com/dr3sse
www.myspace.com/dress3
www.youtube.com/unklekarma
www.myspace.com/unklekarma"
Korg M3 Soundtrack Mix - Schoenberg Orchestra
YouTube via KidNepro
"M3 Soundtrack/Film Mix - Our second collection of sounds for the Korg M3 is now available. Soundtrack Mix contains 64 Programs, 32 Combis and 60 Megs of new samples. All well crafted and fully KARMA-fied!
Named for the composer Arnold Schoenberg, this is an example of atonal music using the Korg M3 KARMA generated effects. Video created with the help of the iTunes visualizer.
Music and Video: Steve Proto
More info and demos at: www.kidnepro.com
©1984-2009 - Kid Nepro Productions"
ElectroKraft Ring Modulator + Low Bandpass Filter / TR-606
YouTube via bostich1. via this auction
"Point Loma having fun with:
ElectroKraft Ring Modulator + Low Bandpass Filter, TR-606 , EMS VCS3 , ARP 2600 S/H, ARIES MODULAR SYSTEMS AR-317.
www.myspace.com/bostichpointloma
www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundmachine
ElectroKraft Ring Modulator + Low Bandpass Filter:
Metallic, clanging noises. You can produce robot-like vocals, spacey sci-fi sounds, metallic distortion/fuzz. I added a low bandpass filter to allow onboard control of the input frequencies. You can produce a whole host of sounds with one of these depending on what you use as the input sources. It requires 2 input sources and has one output. Use guitar and synth, guitar and bass, bass and keyboard or microphone and synth. A well known effect in the experimental music realm. Used by bands such as Sonic Youth. This is a passive device, requires no power source. The frequencies are determined by the 2 input sources.
I have loved this unit, and hate to see it go, but it needs a new home. This is your chance to own the real thing! on ebay!"
Ohm Force Frohmage: Vive La Free Plugin
YouTube via gearwire
"Ohm Force's free lowpass filter (and more) plugin Frohmage looks like a big brick of cheese with graffiti carved into it. As if that weren't cool enough, this plugin is versatile and easy to use. Join Monsieur Holland for a demo avec funk.
See more on Gearwire.com."
Juno-106 programming
YouTube via lesingemonotone
"Swiftly noodling through some of the sounds the Roland Juno-106 is capable of in manual mode. Also switching to Poly2 mode with portamento."
lpd-2
flickr by pocketfunkfull size
Just thought this was an interesting shot. People doing their thing with synths in the great outdoors. There are some nice shots in the set. Not a synth but the buttons on this microBR look great. We need more transparent buttons.
Roland TB-303
via this auctionThis is the one in this video.
Comes with a nice silver Roland purse.
"The main audio output works well with a clean signal, but there is some noise from the headphone output (from blinking LEDs, etc)"
Anyone know if that is normal on 303s?
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