Tuesday, January 19, 2010
NAMM: John Bowen Solaris Videos
YouTube via jzbowen
Videos:
Solaris-Rotors
Solaris-Vector Mixers
Solaris-VCAs, EGs, & LFOs
Solaris-Oscillator Types
Solaris-Global pages
Solaris-Global pages
Solaris-Mixers & Insert FX
Solaris-Looping Envelope
Solaris-graphics display & AM sections
Solaris-FX
Solaris-The Filters
Solaris-Arpeggiator & Step Sequencer
Solaris-Oscillator extras and Modulation pages
NAMM: SNAZZY FX TRACER CITY DEMO AT NAMM 2010
YouTube via snazelle
"Dan from SNAZZY FX gives a quick rundown of THE TRACER CITY from their booth at NAMM 2010. You can find this and other SNAZZY FX products at http://snazzyfx.com .
GET READY TO FREAK OUT "
Buchla 259e with EG Modulation
YouTube via boobtube356
"Long video. The 259e bank is being morphed with envelope modulation. Plucked sounds result. Other sounds possible as shown. Adjustments are very slight and demonstrate the range available. It's an amazing sound source. Headphones recommended."
SimSam sample-rate-cruncher toy
YouTube via 4mspedals
"Unveiled at the beginner's class at Handmade Music Austin #4 (Jan 2010), the SimSam is a "sample-rate cruncher" that's glitchy as all get-out, but only costs about $8 in parts (including pcb and battery snap). It's an effect with an input and output jack; and it's a noise-maker since a jumper shorts the output back into the input when nothing is plugged into the input jack. We built 28 SimSam's in a couple hours at the workshop... heh heh.. thats a lot of messed up sounds...
The SimSam was designed by Dann Green of 4ms Pedals, and its part of the whole Andromeda thing, even though it doesnt have infrared."
Kegel - Folktek Micro-Feedback Wave: Looped & Live
YouTube via arthurpainter. Folktek on Ebay
"This is essentially a record of a first encounter with my latest Folktek instrument: the Micro-Feedback Wave. I started by looping a phrase on my Korg Kaoss Pad. The resulting sound was then manipulated on the MFW, as you can see and hear. Again, thanks Arius and Ben."
XHALE - IN2 YOUR MIND ''HD''
YouTube via XHALE303. "synth art" begins at 2:03 with the TB-303. Various synths featured: Roland TB-303, KORG Poly-61, KORG Polysix, Moog Voyager, KORG Triton, Akai MPC?, etc... Access Virus C, Roland MC-303, Yamaha AN1x and more come in later.
"ARTIST: XHALE
SONG: IN2 YOUR MIND
GEAR: MPC4000, JP8080, KAWAI K4R
MADE IN 2009
3D ANIMATIONS: SKETCHUP7 & MOVIEMAKER"
NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010 Pictures via Big City Music
You can find a link to the set on the Big City Music blog here.Pictured:
Analogue Systems modular with The French Connection Ondes Martenot style controller.
Metasonix D-1000 Vacuum-Tube Drum Machine
NAMM: Final Pics via fdiskc
The final pics from Brandon Daniel of fdiskc are up here.
Pictured:
Waldorf Zarenbourg
ZVex Effects Invento box
NOT NAMM: AtomoSynth Medussa
via AtomoSynthAtomoSynth on Ebay
"The Medussa synth features:
one analog square and saw waveform VCO (voltage controled oscillator) with a huge pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound.
Glide module to add a portamento effect to the VCO.
One Low-pass vactrol based VCF (voltage controled filter)with cutoff and resonance controls and whith a decay knob which controls the cutoff parameter.
The Medussa features a 16 step analog-style sequencer.Non-volatile internal memory to storage 3 sessions of 4 patterns each (while playing you can swith between the patterns in real time).
LCD blue back-ligthed display (very useful on dark stages).
5 buttons and pitch knob to control the sequencer (play/stop, cursor + and -, Ok and back buttons for intuitive control)
1/4 inch audio output, and a MIDI input to sync the Medussa with any midi device that sends midi clock signals, the Medussa can be synchronized at 1/4, 1/2, 1 and 2 times the tempo of the master clock midi device.The instrument is ligthed with one ultra bright led that illuminates the panel layout and one ultra bright led to indicate the step that is being played, also very usefull (and nice) in dark stages.
The Medussa is packed in a cool laser cut clear acrilic case that shows all the hand made analog circuitry."NOT NAMM: FunkBox Drum Machine iphone app demo
YouTube via syntheticbits
"Demo of the FunkBox Drum Machine iphone app from Synthetic Bits. FunkBox is a pocket-sized emulation of classic vintage beatboxes, along with all their dirt and quirks. Grab a Funkbox and get busy making yourself some funky beats. Available now from the Apple iTunes iphone app store!"
on iTunes here:
Official Press Release:
"Sometime late last night the FunkBox Drum Machine dropped on the iTunes App Store, bringing some much needed fun and funk to grateful humans across the planet Earth. The latest release from iPhone developers Synthetic Bits, this app brings all the sound, feel and features of a vintage drum machine to your iPhone, without letting the slick iPhone interface detract from the quirky charm of the original boxes blinky lights, clicky buttons, and sticky sliders.
"Putting in all the most useful parts of a classic beatbox was important, but what we really wanted to do was capture the real feel of using these things. They aren't cut and dry and precise - they are quirky, they're dusty, they're funky." says Art Kerns of Synthetic Bits. "Mostly we tried to make something that people could have fun just playing around with, because it can have all the features in the world, but if it isn't fun you'll never actually use it."
The idea for FunkBox came while Art was working on recording a retro-styled electronica album (Submodern's 2009 release "Slowburn") where he used an assortment of old vintage drum machines from the 70's and 80's. Rather than mousing around with the latest drum plugins, or triggering samples from within a modern digital audio sequencer, he sat down and recorded all the beats for the album using those original dusty, finicky, and funky decades-old beat boxes, giving him a new appreciation for their quirky interfaces, classic sounds, and limited but inspiring feature sets. Synthetic Bits' goal in making the FunkBox app was to create something similarly fun, funky, and easy to use.
"It's cool because you don't have to be an electronic musician to enjoy this thing," explains Synthetic Bits' co-founder Chris Kerns. "I didn't have any experience with drum machines and still had a lot of fun messing with the different beats and boxes in there, even if I didn't understand what everything did at first. And then when you're ready, you can also get a little deeper and really tweak things."
FunkBox brings everything you need to make your own dirty, funky beats on your iPhone, anywhere you go. A variety of preset beat patterns, tempo adjustments on the fly, classic drum box sounds, a live mixer, and for those who want to really get in there a classic x0x style drum programming grid. Beat heads everywhere can use the Funkbox to drop dirty beats sampled from Synthetic Bits personal collection of coveted vintage drum machines: the Roland TR-808, Roland TR-909, Roland TR-606, Roland CR-78, Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2 (the drum machine that Sly Stone nicknamed "the Funkbox"), and Korg ER-1. Yep, all the classic beatboxes that were used on all your favorite old school electro, techno, hip hop and synthpop tracks, and that are still being heavily used and namedropped to this day by artists like Beck ("Bangin' like an 808..."), Outkast ("I know y'all wanted that 808..."), the Beastie Boys ("...nothing sounds quite like an 808!"), and others.
"I was just trolling around the iTunes App Store this morning, and realized something was different," observed Chris. "Do you smell that? I think someone just brought the funk."
The FunkBox Drum Machine is available for download in the "music" section of the iTunes App Store today."
DIY RING CHAOS SYNTH
via this auction"The Ring Chaos synth includes two squarewave vcos and a basic ringmodulator. It can be used with midi2cv devices, cv-keyboards, sequencers, audio outputs of drumcomputer, laptops, etc."
Additional details and samples here.
NOT NAMM: Image Line Drumatrix
"The Drumatrix [now Drumaxx] percussion modelling instrument gives you total control over 10 physically modelled drums that can be routed to independent outputs for external effects processing.Great, but why should you care when the internet is awash with fantastic sounding drum samples? In two words, expressive realism. Once a drum sound is recorded, the performance and modulation options are limited to filtering, volume or similar 1-dimensional filtering effects. When a single drum sample is triggered in a roll you get the familiar 'machine-gun' effect, it just sounds artificial. Multi-sampled, multi-layered drums can overcome this limitation but need multi-megabyte or even Gigabyte! drum libraries, and even then, you are still limited to the sounds originally recorded.
Drumatrix is not based on samples or even commonly used 'synthesis' techniques, where oscillators are mixed and the result is 'electronic'. Drumatrix is a truly 'modelled' drum, and not just a single drum, Drumatrix can model bass drums, hi-hats, snares, realistic and yes electronic sounds too. But what about the traditional 'Achilles' heel' of synthesis, cymbals? We have left the best until last, Drumatrix models cymbals & metallic 'ethnic' percussion instruments with ease.
At the core of Drumatrix is a model of the drum-head. Here the vibrating membrane is represented in a mesh of inter-connected of points, each given physical properties, mass, inertia, stiffness, damping and all that good physics stuff. For the musician, this means Drumatrix can model the drum-head with multiple parameters such as material, thickness, tension and even shape. More importantly the parameters can be modulated in real-time as a function of velocity or external controls. The drum body is also modelled, in terms of material, size, vibration damping and shape. All this gives you multi-dimensional performance possibilities, a Matrix of variables providing the almost infinite complexity & subtlety of hitting a real drum.
Key features:
10 Physically modelled drum pads.
Multi-output for individual effects processing on each pad.
Huge range of modelling possibilities covering sounds from cymbals to kettle-drums.
Velocity modulation matrix for detailed expressiveness.
Integrated Stepsequencer with trigger-key playback.
Integrated effects.
Single-pad version 'Drumpad' available for tight integration with FL Studio Stepsequencer
Drumbot jam
Drumbot jam from Michael Una on Vimeo.
"My new drumbots banging out a few rhythms. The beats are programmed in Ableton live, then sent via MIDI to a Highlyliquid MD24 kit, which converts MIDI to voltage. The voltage then feeds some relays and transistors to power the solenoids."
Moog Realistic MG-1 Restoration
flickr set by Pablo Penas(click for more)
Click on the images for larger shots. The switches and sliders in the middle shot look like little garden / plant boxes.
PPG WAVE 2 SYNTHESIZER
via this auction"A German PPG Wave 2 synthesizer.
An amazing sounding analog/digital hybrid vintage synth.
A classic and warm sound.
Generate over 2,000 different waveforms. [anyone confirm this for the original Wave 2?]
Loads of knobs. LCD screen.
Sequencer will Record any filtering and wave changes in real-time.
The PPG wave has been used on thousands of hit records for nearly three decades. Everyone has used one. David Bowie, Trevor Horn, Stevie Wonder, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson...you name it. This is it."
Update via Achim:
"The original Wave2 has 32 wavetables plus the upper wavetable. If you
count the interpolated waves (only every fourth slot has an actual
wave), then yes it's "over two thousand". The number of distinct ROM
waves is "only" around 300."
L.I.F.E. with B.O.B. Handheld Synthesizer
via this auction
via TechnoMage where you'll find additional info: "the little infinite frequency expander is essentially a compact self-contained hand held inspirational tool for everybody interested in the creation of sound. It is difficult to describe the sounds that the little infinite frequency expander can produce, words such as… "organic", "unexpected", "ambient", "hypnotic", "subtle", "analogue", "fun", and other expletives have been used by musicians who have used the device , usually followed by "can I keep it ?" and "how much ?"."
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Functional test of Korg Sigma
YouTube via sequentix KORG Sigma on Ebay
"This is a quick run-through of each switch and knob on the Korg Sigma I have up on eBay to show that it is fully functional as described. Starts with a brief snippet of each instrument sound with its control adjusted. Then a little bit of the synthe section, followed by the inevitable Forbidden Planet knock-off that the 'ring-mod' function demands."
Mellow MuRF Synth Sketch
YouTube via br0therl0c0
"A minimalist live experiment. One note from each synth, modulated and manipulated to try and get something interesting.
Voyager OS through MuRF which is sync'd to Electribe drums using the tap-tempo input (no MIDI-MuRF here). Fun because the MuRF keeps finding new tempos to try and lock to. Foot pedal is controlling MuRF mix. Prophet '08 and Andromeda are using internal sequencers for simple rhythm. Andromeda runs through MF-104Z delay.
Knob tweaking and sloppiness ensues."
Early Hinton Modular
via Graham Hinton Hinton Instruments: "Briefly, it was developed in the early 70s as a very high spec instrument while I worked in a nuclear physics laboratory. I actually believed that the major manufacturers' published specs were true, so I met or bettered them. (It was quite a disappointment when I later worked in a studio with a Synthi 100 and found that it didn't come close by a long way. Same again years later when I got my hands on a large Moog modular.)Brief spec:
Fully modular, hot pluggable 4U 19" rack mounting.
Every input has a voltage 3.5mm jack AND a summing Lemo 00 connector. So any input can have more inputs added as needed, mixers or the big matrix can be added. Or both with a Lemo T-piece.
Open collector (wire-OR) logic control on the rear panels. That's like Moog S-trig for Gates, but there were counters and other logic modules too. The Envelope Generators gave out logic pulses at each stage so two or more could be locked together at a particular phase or cascaded.
By '75 it had a 256 step digital sequencer programmed from an eight voice digital keyboard scanner, both built in discrete TTL. (It pre-dates microprocessors and synth chips.)"
Update: a close-up of the modules.NOT NAMM: HINTON INSTRUMENTS NOW SHIPPING SWITCHMIX
"HINTON INSTRUMENTS NOW SHIPPING SWITCHMIX: A TRUE SUMMING ANALOGUE PATCHING MATRIX FOR AUDIO AND CONTROL VOLTAGESSomerset, England, 19 Jan. 2010 - SwitchMix is a compact, true summing patching matrix of illuminated switches, designed for use in modular synthesizer systems, and for other specialized audio interfacing applications.
Signals are routed through fixed precision resistors, with all the necessary buffering and support circuitry to provide true summing of audio or DC coupled control voltages. Only one operation is required to make a connection, and the illuminated switches provide immediate visual feedback.
SwitchMix can be shipped with either balanced or unbalanced compatible inputs and outputs. Balanced inputs make it a suitable choice for Silent Way and Volta users to easily interface a DAW with an analogue synthesizer system.An 8x8 matrix designed to fit within the popular Eurorack format is available as a standard product.
Prices start at £399. Larger 12x12 or 16x16 SwitchMix systems can be custom built to customer specifications, either in Eurocard format, or on custom panels.
ABOUT HINTON INSTRUMENTS:
Hinton Instruments has provided a range of audio engineering services for the professional recording, broadcast, film, and entertainment industries since 1984.
For further information or to place an order, please contact Graham Hinton at Hinton Instruments:
Email: enquiries@hinton-instruments.co.uk
Phone: Int. +44 (0)1373 451927.
Web: http://www.hinton-instruments.co.uk/switchmix"
Happy Birthday Jean-Jacques Perrey!
I posted the video below earlier. I just found out it is Jean-Jacques Perrey's birthday today! He turned 81! You can wish him a Happy Birthday here.
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman in NYC, 1st October 2008 YouTube via mee3d http://www.jean-jacquesperrey.com/ "After almost 40 years, Jean-Jacques Perrey returns to New York City, the birth place of his seminal 1960's moog albums. For one night only, on the 1st October 2008, Jean-Jacques performed with musical partner Dana Countryman at (le) poisson rouge club to celebrate 50 years or recording and performing. Part One... featuring the following songs:- Atomic Twist, Pizzicato Samba, Destination Space, Kittens On The Moon, Strangers In The Night, Chicken On The Rocks and Baroque Hoedown." click here for all posts featuring Jean-Jacques Perrey.
Update:
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman in NYC, 1st October 2008 (Part Two)
Synth DIY weekend 2010 9th-11th July, Cambridge UK
via the SDIY list:
the page for this year's UK Synth DIY weekend in Cambridge is now online.
The weekend is the 9th to 11th July.
Photos from past years on Paul Maddox's website"
the page for this year's UK Synth DIY weekend in Cambridge is now online.
The weekend is the 9th to 11th July.
Photos from past years on Paul Maddox's website"
NOT NAMM: boominstick-iPhone.m4v
YouTube via healthclubmusic
"2 Boomin Analog Bass Drum Boxes hit with drum sticks.
Made by Health Club Music
Based on the Roland TR-808 Bass Drum.
www.healthclub-music.com"
Update:
Boomintrigger
"2 Boomin Analog Bass Drum Boxes triggered by a Roland TR-606.
The only sounds heard are from the Boomins. From low sub-bass to clicks and chirps.
Boomin is made by Health Club Music.
www.healthclub-music.com"
NAMM: Tip Top Audio - NAMM 2010
YouTube via thedeepelement
"Gur Milstein from Tip Top Audio gives a run through of new products at NAMM 2010"
NAMM: harvestman.mov
YouTube via thedeepelement
"Scott Jaeger of Harvestman shows his Piston Honda Oscillator at NAMM 2010"
NAMM: harvestman namm drone 2010
YouTube via meatlog "I left this one running for a day and a half."
NOT NAMM: synthesis technology e340 demo
E340 noodle by ignatius
"Synthesis Technology E340 demo. noodling on day one. e340 + modcan sequencer + Asys envelope + wiard/malekko Borg as VCA and sometimes i let the filter do a little work and sometimes FM the e340 w/plan B model 15.. but mostly it's the saw/sine output of the e340 w/some chaos. oh, and at times you are hearing both waveforms simultaneously. final output was from modcan 21A VCA."
"Synthesis Technology E340 demo. noodling on day one. e340 + modcan sequencer + Asys envelope + wiard/malekko Borg as VCA and sometimes i let the filter do a little work and sometimes FM the e340 w/plan B model 15.. but mostly it's the saw/sine output of the e340 w/some chaos. oh, and at times you are hearing both waveforms simultaneously. final output was from modcan 21A VCA."
Peavey Spectrum Synth Demo
YouTube via stuthomson
"The most mysterious, misunderstood and under-rated digital synth ever made. Look under the hood 123 waveforms (I kid you not). 4 oscillators, 2 filters (each configurable to LP, HP and BP). Four (yes, I said 4) envelopes, 2 LFOs and lots of other goodies but no effects!. Dont buy the module without obtaining software I use WinSysex with the Spectrum Synth .ini file. For this demo I have the unit connected to a NanoVerb chorus"
Synthesizer-Magazin #18 and #17
via sequencer.de
http://www.synthesizer-magazin.de/
#18
DSI Prophet 08 – Neoanalog gegen Saurieranalog
Roland VP770
Akai Mini Controller Pad/Keyboard
Trilian
Ableton & Cycling74 – Max4Live
PSP / Nitro
Record
It looks like I missed #17 which featured:
Challenger Analog-Synthesizer
Roland Jupiter 4 & Promars MSR2
Broken
Xils-Lab - Xils III - Wo gehts hier nach Bad EMS?
Sidsonic Library
FXpansion D-Cam Synthesizer
NI Komplete 6, Kontakt 4
Apples Rechner, Snow Leopard und die Musik
LABELS/MORE:
Ableton,
Akai,
DSI,
Max/MSP,
Native Instruments,
Propellerhead,
PSP,
Roland,
Soft Synths
親子
flickr by mugenkidouUpdate via Keith in the comments: "For anyone wondering, the Japanese means 'Parent and child'."
Korg Kaossilator
flickr by Jeff Howard(click for more non-xray shots of the inside of a KORG KAOSSILATOR)
"A while back I became fascinated with Nick Veasey's xray photography. I figured there must be a way I could create images with a similar end result but bypassing the need for the actual technology (and all the radiation that comes with it).
So while I was taking apart my Kaossilator to fix, I figured I would give this a try. To start, I took images of each of the individual parts. I then turned all of the images to b&w and inverted them. I then brought all of the images into one file as separate layers and began to align them while adjusting the opacity of each. After a bit of experimenting and some touching up, this is what I came up with.
Next project will be doing this with a camera I'm planning to take apart to convert to infrared. No promises as to when I'll get that up here though."
Yamaha SK-10 string/organ/brass synthesizer
YouTube via abertronic
"This a demonstration of the Yamaha SK-10 .
Please come check my shop at" Abertronix on Ebay
Roland Jupiter 8 "Rainforest" by Paul Hardcastle
YouTube via intromix
"A remake I made using the Roland JP-8 for all the synth sounds, for the final track I played live. Other sounds featured are Piano, TR-808, Flute, and Xylophone. "Rainforest" by Paul Hardcastle was originally released in 1984 on BlueBird Records (England)"
chorus On Prophet 5.wmv
YouTube via pascalum
"Test de la pédale Super Chorus Boss avec le Prophet 5 Sequential Circuits"
NAMM: OCTAPAD Introduction by Michael Schack
YouTube via RolandChannel
"http://www.roland.com/products/en/SPD...
Rolands original Octapad profoundly changed the landscape of electronic percussion. The size of a briefcase, the Octapad offered drummers and percussionists the equivalent of an entire electronic rig in one self-contained unit — a new level of convenience and expression. Today, decades later, an exciting new chapter in Octapad history begins. The SPD-30 blends the worlds most essential sounds with the latest triggering technology in a road-tough package thats ready for the most demanding performers."
OCTAPAD Phrase Loop Examples (Vol.1)
OCTAPAD Phrase Loop Examples (Vol.2)
OCTAPAD Expanded Examples (Vol.1)
OCTAPAD Expanded Examples (Vol.2)
TD-12KX Special Performance with OCTAPAD (Vol.1) by Michael Schack
TD-12KX Special Performance with OCTAPAD (Vol.2)
Beat making recording on Wavedrum (wd-x) by Franck Smith
YouTube via odiolorgnette
"Real-time beat making & hybrid electronics using custom drum-kits settings on Wavedrum (wd-x) percussion synth + Sherman Filterbank 2 & Moog Ring Modulator.
See also previous video
http://twitter.com/franck_smith
http://francksmith.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette
IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.
Wavedrum wd-x "Franck Smith" digital drums live electronics percussion beat making "drum synth" Korg Sherman Filterbank 2 Moogerfooger Moog Ring Modulator analog filtering "
Circuit Bent Casio PT-87 "THE CASIOOG" Sneak preview
YouTube via radial77
"Sale details soon. LFO, pitch, distortion, modulation etc.."
1980s arcade sounds synth workstation - triple arcade sound effects box 76477 x 3 + amp
YouTube via horchacha
"here are three complex sound generator chips
they were used in space invaders, old video and pinball games,
the pc jr... remember the bird sound and waterfall in king's quest?
well here are three of them as a hybrid. they are a cross between
the 1982 blacet dark star chaos and the bullet se-01 sound effects generator.
12 switches 6 pots each - 2 watt amp
power supply
i tried to do the soundtrack to bezerk
what do you care
yes i know it used the pokey
send me some pokey
the stain on my shirt is pretty bad sorry
dave wright
www.notbreathing.com"
Roland rs 09 Strings Organ Synthesizer
YouTube via abertronic
"This a demonstration of the Roland rs-09.
Please come check my shop at" Abertronix on Ebay
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