flickr set by avygravy
"Pictures from a class led by Yashas Shetty and Marc teaching students to make cool home-made electronic synthesisers to jam with."
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Srishti Synthesiser Class Jam 1 - 2009
flickr set by avygravy
"Pictures from a class led by Yashas Shetty and Marc teaching students to make cool home-made electronic synthesisers to jam with."
Test patch for the PAiA 9700s modular synth
YouTube via shobley
"I made this movie as a reference for other 9700s builders. It uses MIDI pitch, trigger and gate, OSC2 and modulation, the VCF (both filters ganged) and the envelope generator.
As far as I can tell, everything is working correctly, and the output sounds like this...
[The midi keyboard was shifted down to octave -4.]
Check out my blog for the color coded image file of this test patch.
http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/200..."
LeadOn
YouTube via blackmuzzle
"Sequenced entirely on the Fantom, LeadOn was yet another learning experience using a different workflow, not to mention a new keyboard workstation. It's a playful, jazzy piece of electronica.
Equipment: Access Virus TI, Elektron Machinedrum, Roland Fantom G6
More music available at http://www.playspoon.com"
Bladerunner atmosphere part 2 Desolation path
YouTube via mik300z. follow-up to this post
"Uploaded this a couple of weeks back, and removed it, apologies!! Anyway , here it is, the feedback from my other vangelis covers prompted me to take another view..."
ESQ1 Parameters for my Vangelis CS80 brass sounds
"the parameters in the video are for the patch which uses the mod. wheel to express the sound (my favourite)!.. By hitting the filter button and changing "wheel" to "env 2" you allow the patch to flow on its own. There are many variations of it, try experimenting with the LFO's and envelopes to suit . I find this patch with the mod wheel to be the best, certainly does not have the warmth of the CS80, but very inspiring.
The track I made for the video is the opening of "love is" by Jon and Vangelis"
Barış Manço - Gülpembe
YouTube via rethoro. Yamaha SHS-10 keytar. via Matt on the AH list.
"'Gulpembe' video clip from 1980s.."
Mujik Now Available on iTunes
available on iTunes here:
see this post and the post linked there for vids.
http://www.luckyframe.co.uk/mujik/
"Do you want an iPhone app to make beats? And produce like totally awesome tracks with a zillion channels and plugins and automation and 808 simulators and stuff yeah? Oh. Well, this is not for you. Mujik is more than a music app - get away from fake sliders and buttons and enter the world of Mujik, with charming graphics, lovely music, and a wonderfully tactile interface. It’s not rocket science, it’s just fun.
Mujik is brought to you by Lucky Frame, a small team of awesome people based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s lovely here, you should come visit."
via AmazingRolo in the comments of this post.
Roland Juno-106 Chip Clone Available and More
via The Analogue Renaissance
"I have a new version of my 80017A clone available, a clone of the MC5534A wave generator chip is in production now, a rev 2 model of the acid screamer is being sold and sealed switches for the 303/606/808 which should last a life time are stocked. Also some tips with pictures on how to service a juno-106 are published."
You can find them under the Products section at:
The Analogue Renaissance
Airwolf theme on the Roland Fantom G6
YouTube via joukoq. sent my way via Toumal.
"I got the Fantom G on Friday and threw together this as a practise project. Used preset sounds with some minor tweaking. For somewhat better quality: http://kiekko.tk/q/airwolf.mp3
I routed all instruments through a Super Filter MFX to do some kind of fade in/out, but didn't find a way to automate this, so I've done it in real time here.
The melody probably isn't 100% right. It's mostly based on listening to the Commodore 64 game tune a long time ago. I never actually saw the series. It seems the TV show and C64 melodies differ a bit."
Sequential Circuits Prophet 10 - Original Brochures
via these auctions"two different Sequential Circuits Prophet 10 synthesizer original brochures. One is a 4-page affair they call the Spec Sheet that is what you'd think of as a sales brochure, the other one appears to be a mailer that folds with similar P-10 propaganda. The text talks about all the features, controls, filters, amps, etc. for the unit."
ARP Synthesizer Flyer - Avatar Omni
via these auctions"ARP synthesizer flyer, or mailer, or something. April 1978, Volume 7, Number 1
Has write-ups and info on users of ARP products.
Photos include Pete Townsend, Tom Coster, Evenstar, Allan Zavod (Jean-Luc Ponty), Christine McVie, Philip Wu, Mike Rutheford, and Bernie Worrel (Parliment Funkadelic).
Bi-fold format, 4 pages."
Yamaha TX7 Tone Generator - Original Brochure
via these auctions"Yamaha TX7 Tone Generator module which was the tabletop version of the DX7.
Tri-fold format, 6 pages. 1985"
Yamaha DX7 desktop wedge. It came with presets and was only editable via MIDI.
Chroma Polaris Synthesizer - Original Brochure
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via these auctions"Quad-fold format, 8 pages. 1984"
It's fascinating to look back on how manufacturers marketed their gear.
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Aries System 300 - Original Brochure
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via these auctions
"black & white brochure for the Aries System 300 modular synthesizer.
Lots of cool specs and photos of the modules along with oscilloscope images.
16 pages in a center-stapled booklet format. 1977"
Korg Poly-800 Synthesizer - Original Brochure
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via these auctions"It's more of a color newsprint on coated paper that measures 21.5" x 16" when unfolded. 1984"
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Crumar GDS Synthesizer - Original Brochure
via these auctions"Crumar General Development System synthesizer.
Tri-fold format, 6 pages. No date.
This one's kind of underwhelming on the inside. No graphics, just text."
Update via Qwave in the comments:
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"The scans origin from the US Keyboard magazine I used to read every month in the late eighties and early nineties."
Yamaha S50D Symphonic Ensemble - Original Brochure
via these auctions"Yamaha SK50D Symphonic Ensemble. The SK30 is also depicted on the back.
Bi-fold format, 4 pages. 1981"
Yamaha CS-Series Original Brochure - CS-80 CS-60 CS-50
via these auctions"12-page brochure detailing the workings of the CS-50, CS-60, and CS-80.
I can't find a specific date for the printing, but it is brochure number 78610, so probably 1978. It's been in the archives all these years.
The first page is a foldout showing a large photo of the CS-50.
It devotes a couple of pages each to the different models talks about all the features, controls, options, etc. for each of the units, and has a block diagram of each on the last page. The back page is a comparison chart."
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Studio Electronics Omega 8
via this auction
"Each vloce has the Moog Filters, the Oberheim HPF, LFP, and BPF filters, BUT you cad also add CS80, ARP 2600 and TB303 filters later on. You can also expand this to the full 8 voices...
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
Voices: Four, expandable to Eight
Multitimbrality: Four part; Parameters: patch, number of voices, mono or poly. Audio outputs: one stereo per voice. One main stereo and main mono output.
Moog Jam - Voyager Minimoog Sound Design
YouTube via ozorg
"Just jamming and searching for some fresh electro club sounds using the moog voyager minimoog. Sorry for the bad sound quality ;-)"
Eric Satie's Gnossienne No 1 for Modular Synthesizer
YouTube via justwaving
"This is another of Satie's beautiful melodies done using just analog sequencers. It uses the Synthesizers.com Q119 and Q960 and the Analogue Solutions Oberkorn 3 as well as the MoonModular M563 trigger sequencer. It also uses MoonModulars M564 and Club of the Knobs C962B sequential switches. The M564 is used to switch the gate busses and the COTK is used to play the three rows of the Oberkorn and then 16 steps of the Q119. The M563 is used to control the timing of the bass and chords. Trying to synchronise the three step sequencers, two sequential switches and the trigger sequencer with each row shifting at different rates proved to be very challenging. The only effect used apart from the Modcan digital delay is a little reverb."
iPhone Synth
Now this might be interesting. A keyboard controller with built in iPhone slot. I might want the iPhone sitting horizontally though. via
Synth Jam live !!! play Minimoog, little Phatty, V-Synth, Synthesizers.com
YouTube via Synthiefrau
"Hello lovely Folks, this is my new song. I work with the 119 Sequenzer from my Dot.Com Modular, Minimoog,
Moog little Phatty ( I want to sell him!!!), Roland V-Synth, Welcome and enjoy to the analogue Sound Universe!!!
Greetings from Germany"
Bach's Bourrée #1 from Orchestral Suite no. 2 on synth
YouTube via syntesen. follow-up to this post. more
"For this fast-paced piece from Bach's second orchestral suite, i chose the Native Instruments Pro53 software synthesizer (emulation of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5) as the logical continuation from the Moog Modular on the Gavotte (suite #4 in Bm).
Even though the Pro53 only has two oscillators, a single filter, I was able to coax some very nice sounds from it, naturally tuned in Werckmeister III-tuning for maximum authenticity.
The continuo (improvised chordal and ornamental line, typically played with a harpsichord) is one of my finest yet, I believe. And it was fully improvised in one go to guarantee that taste of synthetic authenticity you just don't find these days ;)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it."
ARP 2600 restoration
YouTube via MusicMiK
"Another small video series. This is the first part of my efforts to restore an ARP 2600 for a friend. It shows the unit immediately after the friend dropped it at my place, showing all the problems it has.
This video handles repair of the electronics, especially my way to fix faders and potentiometers with isopropanol and vaseline, which was quite successful up to now and much less aggressive than the classic contact sprays, which tend to just give a short-time effect.
2 more videos will follow showing the results of those efforts."
ARP 2600 first tests
"The second part of the ARP 2600 restoration video series.
This video shows the result of the fader cleaning. Besides this, i replaced all the tantalum capacitors, also washed the jacks with the isopropanol spray, while one jack even needed disassembly to clean the contact spring, as the switch function didn't work reliably.
I also cleaned the enclosure and the knobs.
See the repair photos here:
http://www.mik-music.org/gallery3
(The last page holds some photos of a mod i did a while ago and doesn't belong to this restoration)"
Musette Johann Sebastian Bach
YouTube via jopachelbel
"Musette,Johann Sebastian Bach,Hofberg Harmonium,"
Zwei altniederländische Weisen Samuel Scheidt
"Zwei altniederländische Weisen,1. Ach du feiner Reiter,2.Wehe,Windgen,wehe;Sam uel Scheidt,
Hofberg Harmonium."
Impromptu FranzSchubert
"Impromptu from Franz Schubert,Hofberg Harmonium,"
Sonomute-sonoscape.1
"nano step micro digital electronic minimal live
live session performed with Chimera bc8 and ipod touch."
via Timur in the comments of this post.
More Details on the New Fairlight
via failed muso via the Fairlight list:
"We’re hoping to have some more detailed specs this week, however I can answer a few questions in general terms.
The CC-1 can perform very complex algorithms and lots of them, with almost no latency. So yes, we are modelling the quirky hardware of the CMI. The sound of each CMI was subtly different, due to their analogue bits, so it won’t sound exactly like any one CMI, but lined up with a few CMIs you won’t be able to tell the difference.
The sound will be user selectable, to be like a series I,II,IIX, III etc. Or you can dig deeper and make it sound like nothing else.
One of the many nice things about the CC-1 is that it has no inherent bit width. “Normal” processors generally offer say 32 or 64 bit operations, where as the CC-1 can be configured to any number of bits. So if something works most effectively as 33 bits, so be it. And the bit widths can be mixed within the one signal path.
The “n” polyphony is achieved by “n” individual circuits set up in the FPGA working in parallel, as opposed to the software emulation model which is necessarily sequential. The channels can have different configurations is required; in any case there will be subtle coefficient differences between channels to reproduce the individuality of outputs that has often been cited.
How much polyphony? All we know at this time are the extremes – it will certainly be at least 16 like the original Series III but given that the Crystal Core when used in a DAW delivers up to 230 channels of mixing ALL of which have full processing (8 bands EQ, 3 stages Dynamics), you can safely assume a lot more than 16 will be possible.
Re pricing: yet to be finalised, but the choice to go with the CC-1 does come at a price. Although the CC-1 is not sold currently as a separate card (it would be no use without the software etc that goes with it), the retail price would be around the $5,000 mark. So you can do the sums, the CMI 30-A is not going to be price competitive with the mass-market synths which abound.
Peter"
"We’re hoping to have some more detailed specs this week, however I can answer a few questions in general terms.
The CC-1 can perform very complex algorithms and lots of them, with almost no latency. So yes, we are modelling the quirky hardware of the CMI. The sound of each CMI was subtly different, due to their analogue bits, so it won’t sound exactly like any one CMI, but lined up with a few CMIs you won’t be able to tell the difference.
The sound will be user selectable, to be like a series I,II,IIX, III etc. Or you can dig deeper and make it sound like nothing else.
One of the many nice things about the CC-1 is that it has no inherent bit width. “Normal” processors generally offer say 32 or 64 bit operations, where as the CC-1 can be configured to any number of bits. So if something works most effectively as 33 bits, so be it. And the bit widths can be mixed within the one signal path.
The “n” polyphony is achieved by “n” individual circuits set up in the FPGA working in parallel, as opposed to the software emulation model which is necessarily sequential. The channels can have different configurations is required; in any case there will be subtle coefficient differences between channels to reproduce the individuality of outputs that has often been cited.
How much polyphony? All we know at this time are the extremes – it will certainly be at least 16 like the original Series III but given that the Crystal Core when used in a DAW delivers up to 230 channels of mixing ALL of which have full processing (8 bands EQ, 3 stages Dynamics), you can safely assume a lot more than 16 will be possible.
Re pricing: yet to be finalised, but the choice to go with the CC-1 does come at a price. Although the CC-1 is not sold currently as a separate card (it would be no use without the software etc that goes with it), the retail price would be around the $5,000 mark. So you can do the sums, the CMI 30-A is not going to be price competitive with the mass-market synths which abound.
Peter"
Manuel Göttsching and Kinga Trailer "Postcards from Japan"
YouTube via MS805. KORG Poly-800. via Asia Synth Station where you'll find one more.
"Manuel Göttsching and the Visual Artist Kinga live at the Anoyo Prism Festival on 29.04.06 in Japan."
Time Domain Processor
samples on Buchla Tech"There's no art here, it's just an ARP sequencer, 259, 281, 292 together with the delay unit."
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