"A new screaming and twitchy baby is born! Mot-Box is a sound generator built for musicians and sound designers. It's capable of producing sounds from drones to helter-skelter noises.
Mot-Box has four audio oscillators, two lfos and two 1/4" jack inputs, available to connect external analog gear. All in a rugged box, with cherry wood side plates. Check out the Kinetik Homepage" You will find more info including samples. Update: some vids here.
In case you attempted to purchase a 2010 Bob Moog Foundation Calendar and were unable to, the calendar is now available for purchase on the Bob Moog Foundation online store. Details at my previous post.
Note: you'll find some groovy Ts and other swag at the online store as well. All great stocking stuffers!
You saw the vids here. Now it's time to vote. Via the Moog Music Mailing list:
"The deadline for posting videos has passed and the online poll has been set up on the Moog Music Forum. The entries are incredible. The outpouring of talent and imagination that went into the making of these videos is inspiring. Our deepest thanks go out to all the contestants.
On Monday, November 30, at 12:00 pm EST, the video with the most votes in the poll will be the 1st prize winner. At that time, the judges will also check to see which video has the highest number of views on YouTube. The video with the highest number will be the 2nd prize winner. If a video wins the poll and has the highest number of views, the lucky winner will receive both prizes!
Even though it's too late to post a video, you can still participate in the contest.
Go to the Moog Music Forum. Register for the forum, if you are not already a member, and vote for the video that you feel is the best. [note you can see who's winning in that link]
YouTube via bluelantern320. bluelantern on Ebay
"This is a demo for the new Steiner VCF. I am using a Tom Whiltshire Digital Sample and Hold to do the modulation. A Double Saw wave is being fed into the unit."
YouTube via galaxykidgamma "Did you all know that the Launchpad has a secret Space Invaders mode? Well it doesn't! This is a midi clip I programed so when I'm not pushing buttons on the launchpad it looks cool, sort of like an idle mode. If anybody wants the clip email or pm me."
KORG TV / Die DONCAMATIC, eines der ersten Produkte aus dem Hause KORG
YouTube via KORGTVGERMANY "Die hier gezeigte Doncamatic steht im Eingangsbereichs des japanischen Hauptsitzes der Firma KORG und wurde Anfang 2001 restauriert. Die Doncamatic war eines der ersten Produkte der damals noch jungen Firma KORG. Es handelt sich dabei um eine für damailige Verhälnisse sehr flexible und gut klingende Rythmus Maschine mit eingebauter Verstärkeranlage." Googlish: "Doncamatic shown here is at the entrance to the headquarters of the Japanese company KORG and was restored in early 2001. The Doncamatic was one of the first products of the then fledgling company Korg. This is a for damailige Verhälnisse very flexible and good sounding rhythm machine with built-in sound system."
"con un poco de practica se puede tocar alternando entre la superficie continua y el sector cromático"
Googlish:
"with a little practice you can play continuously, alternating between the surface and color sector"
"This amazing synth bass controller features an ash body, a maple neck with a 21-fret rosewood fingerboard, a stabilizer bar, a polycarbonate nut, two single-coil pickups, a Roland synth pickup in front of the bridge, an adjustable Roland bridge, and chrome hardware. It also has a master volume knob, a cutoff frequency knob, an edit knob, a pickup balance knob, a guitar tone knob, a balance knob, an LFO modulation knob, and a mode switch. A 1/4" output and a 24-pin synth output can be found on the bottom edge of the body, therefore this bass can jam as a regular electric bass guitar and/or as a synth bass controller!"
YouTube via ROCKETBOOM. Features MAX/MSP and Jitter. Luke Dubois created Jitter. "Rocketboom Tech's Ellie Rountree explains generative music and talks to "laptop musician" Luke Dubois about his work in this medium.
This episode was made in collaboration with Intel!
Larry Fast (Lawrence R. Fast) is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975-1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contribution to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, and Hall and Oates.
Fast grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he obtained a degree in History. There he took his previous training in piano and violin and melded them with computer science to become interested in synthesized music and to build his own primitive sound-making electronic devices.
He was introduced to Rick Wakeman, the keyboard player from the band Yes during a local radio interview, and traveled to the UK to work with Yes on their 1974 album Tales from Topographic Oceans. It was there that he got a recording contract with Passport Records.
[edit] The Synergy project Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy. Some of this work was used as the basis for music in Commodore 64 and Amiga computer games, notably Rob Hubbard's score for the C64 version of Zoids, which was an unofficial cover of Synergy's Ancestors from the 1981 album Audion.
The first album in the series, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, was released as an LP in 1975. In the following decade, he released eight more Synergy LPs on Passport Records, all of which were later re-released on CDs. The tenth album in the series, Reconstructed Artifacts, was released in 2002, and contained completely new performances of select compositions from the previous albums, using modern digital synthesizers.
The albums in this series, with original release date, are:
Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, 1975 Sequencer, 1976 Cords, 1978 Games, 1979 Audion, 1981 Computer Experiments, Volume One, 1981 The Jupiter Menace (sound track of film The Jupiter Menace), 1982 Semi-Conductor (compilation with two new tracks), 1984 Metropolitan Suite, 1987 Reconstructed Artifacts, 2002"
YouTube via Kobolnova "This is the version with no rhythm:i used 7 synthesizers for this song,some are MIDI connected,for a bigger and richer sound,i added a beautiful video effect from the Pinnacle video program "Dream Voices-Alnitak" is composed,produced and LIVE performed here by Alnitak c2009 And my next song wil be:"Green Flashes-Alnitak" LOL!" "Tags: yamaha sy-77 elka synthex gem s2 roland jx-8p d-50 juno 106 korg radias"
YouTube via AnalogAudio1 "The monophonic Minikorg 700 was the first synthesizer from Korg. It has 1 VCO, 1 "traveler" filter (12 dB, highpass/lowpass) 1 envelope and 1 LFO. It has a very special sound - some like it, others don't - I love it.
It was used by Vangelis in the seventies. Also it was Kitaro's favourite synthesizer. I played the Minikorg with Lexicon MPX 500 reverb and Roland DEP-5 delay."
via Jeremy of MODEL WORKER: "Through some very odd circumstances (miracle?) all of our synths have returned to us, it seems largely related to them finding the post you put up for us. After over a month we had figured they were probably gone forever... It all came back packed neatly in the back of a van.
Attached is a pic of 1 half of the gear before it was stuffed into 1 of two cars to take it back home."
Finally we know what those sequencer looking things are. They appear to be some sort of preset patching system. Check out the mechanical nature of it.
This one in via Joao (thank you Joao!!!)
"you can spot the greek master improvising in his setup and there are some closeups of his custom made modules he uses to switch patches. Pretty awesome stuff... they have a mechanical stuff that goes around where he writes symbols that symbolize different instruments so that he can easily pick his favorite sound. This is matrixsynth material..." Indeed. Vangelis gear mystery solved.
it includes the following modules (from left to Right):
DTG (Dual Transient Generator), MIX PRO (Mixer Processor), FREQUENCY SHIFTER, C/M (a Gate switch, plus lin and exp attenuators), X-Fader.
the official price is 2400 USD.
it is a great m-odule for anyone wanting to get the Serge Frequency shifter module in M-format, plus of course , vc-dual envelope generation, vc-slewing, vc-audio/trigger dividing, vc-gate delay, envelope following, cv mixing/scaling/offseting, vc-X-fading, audio vca, attenuation (exp. and lin.) and manual gate generation."
"So that even more musicians, DJs and producers can experience the power of the pedal, Moog Music is announcing a special promotion. From November 15, 2009 through December 31, 2009, the Multi-Pedal’s price will drop to $399 at participating US dealers and through the Moog website."
I just spotted this thread from droffset on electro-music.com. I thought it would be worth a post for those curious about synth DIY. The Drum Synth will feature the following:
MD24 MIDI to Gate PCB by Highly liquid
2x CGS Gate to Trigger Converters
4x Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synth
1x CGS Cynare
3x Coron DS8 clones by m.Bareille
2x Thomas Henry UD-1
1 set of Klee Sequencer PCBs by Scott Sites
"Testing some panel designs for the quad MPSs based on the four elements. Can you tell which is which?"
You can track progress on the thread linked above.
VCF FM : Amazing new sounds are now added through this feature. Six FM Sources are available.
LFO Clock Input : Syncing the Apreggiator and LFO to external drum modules and sequencers in now possible. As well, interesting feedback loops can be created.
PW Modulation Source Selection : Now you can choose a pulse width source. It is indeendent from the LFO's waveform setting. OSC sources are included.
Pulse width to near 0% : Pulse width effects are now made more extreme and powerful.
External Audio Input : Just plug in a foot pedal or a CV from a midi convertor and your SH-101 will sing
LFO Rate Scalar : Ever hear a bell sound out of SH-101? Try this on Hi!!! Want a really slow sweep.... you got it too.
Overdrive : You may notice that this acts more like a "filter cleaning" knob as the filter is overdriven at it's minimum setting and clean at the max."
YouTube via Thalassa77 "Synthesizers.com and the MFOS Sequencer: main sequence
Moog Realistic MG-1 lead sounds.
Redtron : Mellotron Sounds.
No midi sequences were used , all was recorded on one take and no further mixing after recording, Everything is improvised,please forgive my mistakes ( a lot of them :P )"
YouTube via rishabhrajan "Commuity Core Vision, Pure Data and Logic Pro used to create a 16 note progression that is controlled by fingers detected on paper surface."
Touch DJ is the first full-featured DJ MP3 application on the iPhone platform. Touch DJ offers realtime independent manipulation of 2 MP3 files, including scratching, looping, positioning, equalization, effects and and pitching. The unique futuristic user-friendly interface of Touch DJ and the highly advanced zero-latency sound engine bring fantastic results comparable to what can be done with professional hardware equipment.
Traditionally iPhone and iPod Touch have only one stereo audio output which broadens the possibility of using them as a DJ device. Touch DJ overcomes this limitation by offering innovative and unique way of deejaying which doesn't require additional headphones for prelistening to the tracks. This technology is called "visual mixing" and it implies the graphic display of the track waveforms next to each other. The low-bass (kick) parts are detected and rendered in different color compared to the rest sonic frequencies, making beatmatching as easy as adjusting the tracks position and pitch so that the kick parts become visually matched.
As an alternative for the users who really need to prelisten to the tracks, Touch DJ also offers a second "Split" mode of mixing which requires the usage of a special l/r splitting adapter. Among extra features - LP filter FX for each track, vinyl Spin and Break effects, onboard sampler with 3 sample slots (accepts .WAV files) and the ability to record samples via the microphone. As a bonus, Touch DJ is shipped with 25 dance tracks provided by DanceMusicHub.com."
YouTube via ChrisLody "I fired up my microKorg last night to find it had a hardware fault. I switched it on to make this video because the fault was a bit intermittent and I wanted a record of it to show tech support, but actually seems to have got worse over night.
Things get quite scary from about 3:30 onward as the problems get worse the longer it is left switched on.
The noise can clearly be heard going through the internal delay at 4:25 onward, so the fault has to internal.
Very upset, can't function without this keyboard : (
bassline: SCI Pro-One, internal sequencer is triggered by the TR-707
intro vector sound, lead, pads and fx sounds: SCI Prophet VS
drums: Roland TR-707"
YouTube via bluelantern320. bluelantern on Ebay
"This is a demo for the new diode Ladder VCF. A vco is mixed with some music. I am toggling the LP BP and HP switches."
steiner vcf 002
"This is a demo for the new Steiner VCF. I am using a Tom Whiltshire Digital Sample and Hold to do the modulation. A Double Saw wave is being fed into the unit."
steiner vcf 003
"This is a demo of the new Diode Ladder VCF based on a Steiner design. There are two Square waves being fed in. An LFO is doing the modulation of the cutoff. I am sweeping the Bi-polar FM knob."
YouTube via ThePurityControl "A bit of Saturday afternoon messing around with the Roland AX Synth. Sound is run through a Vox tube overdrive for added bite and Lexicon MX300 for reverb."
The video is of Phoolan using the gear as a cat gym, apart from the first 20 seconds where she uses the plant pot as a toilet(!)"
Roland Jupiter-6 and Manikin Memotron.
YouTube via ThePurityControl. Naked man ass in the first 3 seconds. "My first modular synth noodle video, having a play around particularly with the Doepfer A-188-1 BBD and A-124 'Wasp' Filter.
External effects are just a Lexicon MX300 doing 'tape echo' duties :D"
Modular Arse Pt 2
"Using the A164-1 Manual Gate to trigger stages of the A143-1 Complex Envelope Generator, which are modulating the mix balance of the A134 VC Panning Modules (which double as crossfaders), to vary the mix of the A114 Ring Mod to unmodulated audio. There are 2 ring mods in use, one with a tuned modulator, and the other with an untuned."
Modular Arse Pt 3
"2x Doepfer A120 'moog' filters having the cutoff modded by the same LFO but with one getting an inverted signal, same LFO moding the crossfade between the filters.
The A164-1 manual gate is triggering an envelope to sweep one of the filters too. Lexicon MX300 is on effects duty.
Went hand held on the camera this time, which is a little wobbly but gives a much better idea of what is going on and a little more sense of action. Aspect ratio is odd because i accidentally held the camera end on and had to flip it all round 90 degrees in Movie Maker! I am rubbish!"
YouTube via manufacturedZ3R0 "Two circuit bent casios built into an old school wooden synth casing.
Melodic, random, noisy, it pretty much does the lot.
SA1 mods: distortion, pitch, filter, variable speed 2-8 step arpeggiator/LFO with depth control on each step, note hold on two switchable octaves, deep crash.
PT10 mods: drone distortion, pitch, drum booster, lead booster, LFO with depth and rate."
M-Z3R0 - dreadnought - part 2 - modulated deep crash + lfo action
"Deep crashed drone and glitching.
The upper half of the dreadnought is crashed while the lower keys are used for playing and LFO action. Later in the vid the deep crash/glitch control is used to vary the processor crash."
M-Z3R0 - dreadnought - part 3 - dark side chip tune
"Commodore 64 inspired chip tune and hi speed lfo drone.
Another run on the dreadnought. This time with some c64 drums added in ableton live (taken from the games delta and armalyte) and a selection of hardcore drum hits later on to build the track.
A good example of how this thing can be used in various lo-fi styles."
YouTube via manufacturedZ3R0 "Modified in a similar way to my other 505 except this one was already 'perma bent' to a minor degree when i picked it up. The drum sounds have always been slightly odd and the toms and low conga sound strange when you turn the pitch up beyond it's standard setting. Building a distortion circuit into it proved to be a major headache due to it's bizarre flaws so i took a look at www.burnkit.com and found a cool square wave injection modification there. It may not have the nasty edge of my other tr505 built into it but it has a larger range of sounds. It still sounds cool through some distortion though so at 2.59 i processed the audio in soundforge through the ohm boys vst plugin ohmicide before compiling the video. Ohmicide is the best vsti distortion out there in my opinion and gives a good example of how cool this thing would sound through some decent hardware fx.
Thanks to the guys at www.burnkit2600.com for putting the time into their site and sharing so much good info on not only the tr505 but the 626, hr16 and lots of other stuff."
"A new screaming and twitchy baby is born! Mot-Box is a sound generator built for musicians and sound designers. It's capable of producing sounds from drones to helter-skelter noises.
via this auction
In case you attempted to purchase a 2010 Bob Moog Foundation Calendar and were unable to, the calendar is now available for purchase on the Bob Moog Foundation online store. Details at my previous post.
You saw the vids here. Now it's time to vote. Via the Moog Music Mailing list:
via this auction
see this post for reference
"So that even more musicians, DJs and producers can experience the power of the pedal, Moog Music is announcing a special promotion. From November 15, 2009 through December 31, 2009, the Multi-Pedal’s price will drop to $399 at participating US dealers and through the Moog website."
via this auction
Pulse width to near 0% : Pulse width effects are now made more extreme and powerful.
