Noiselab Demo

YouTube via deathindustrial — May 01, 2010 — "This is a demo of a custom "noiselab" modular synth I recently picked up from Blue Lantern. 2 oscillators, 2 LFOs, 3 channel mixer, VCA with push button gate option, noise source.

This demo was recorded via mediocre digital camera (sorry about the mic quality) with the only effects an old Ibanez bass EQ (functionally a *very* gentle overdrive) and some compression for level control. Thanks to Froghat for holding the camera. Session edited to try to show some of the box's range. A maximum of 4 patch cables in use since that is all I have at the moment.

Cheers to Flavio for a rad synth."
bluelantern on Ebay

Monome + Arcade + SL Mk2

YouTube via yeudaba — May 01, 2010 — "Yet another demonstration of my new controller a Dreamcast arcade stick. more details and my music http://www.sidebrain.net"

CATcerto. ENTIRE PERFORMANCE. Mindaugas Piecaitis, Nora The Piano Cat

follow-up to this post and this post. via Greg
YouTube via sanmartinfields — July 07, 2009 — CATcerto (entire performance). Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra, conductor and composer Mindaugas Piecaitis.

http://www.catcerto.com
http://www.piecaitis.eu
http://www.ravenswingstudio.com/NoraW..."
You really can make anything out of nothing.

Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver Keyboard

via this auction

" Includes international power supply for 110V – 240V AC operation (13-15 VDC, 400 mA)

The evolver series consist of 3 variants : the original monophonic evolver desktop unit, a 4 voice poly evolver rack and the inevitable poly evolver keyboard. The Evolver is a one/four voice analog synthesizer. It is fully programmable from the front panel.

The following specs are for one of the voices:

Four oscillators in total: two analog, two digital

Analog Oscillator waveshape are Sawtooth, Triangle, Saw-Triangle, and Pulse (with voltage-controlled analog Pulse-Width modulation)

Digital Oscillators select from 96 wavetables from the Prophet-VS (128 x 12 bits), and 32 user-loadable (via MIDI) Wavetables (128 x 16 bits). The Digital Oscillators get trashy as the frequency gets higher, as with the original VS

Hard Sync on the analog oscillators

FM and Ring Mod on the digital oscillators

Separate Glide per oscillator, with two glide modes

Real voltage-controlled analog lowpass filters - not digital recreations. 4-pole/2-pole switchable, fully resonant (in 4-pole mode). There are two separate filters, one for the left channel and one for the right

Analog Voltage Controlled Amplifiers (VCA), again one for each channel

Dual digital 4-pole Highpass filters (one per channel); place before or after analog electronics

Stereo audio inputs; Noise generator

Envelope Follower and Peak Detect from External Input to use as modulation sources

External Input can be used to gate envelopes and/or step the Sequencer

Three snappy ADSR envelopes

Four LFOs (sync with sequencer and MIDI)

Dual (left and right channel) tunable feedback loops; modulate frequency and amount

Delay with 3 taps; each with separate time and amount modulation. Syncs to sequencer/MIDI. Normal feedback and additional feedback path through analog filters

Distortion! Digital, one for each channel, can be placed before or after analog electronics

4 Banks of 128 Programs for 512 total Programs - dump to/from MIDI

16 x 4 Analog-style sequencer - syncs with MIDI

Extensive Modulation capabilities, including audio-range modulation. Bipolar (+/-) modulation

Easy to program matrix-style front panel with 8 endless-turn rotary encoders

A bunch of MIDI stuff

The internal controllers and DSP chips can be reprogrammed via MIDI, for easy feature additions."

Analogue Solutions Europa

flickr by making_sound
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"Test du nouveau sequencer d'Analogue Solutions"


YouTube via MrMakingsound — May 01, 2010 — Exploration du nouveau séquenceur d'Analogue Solutions.

Session d'enregistrement avec Kent

MrMakingsound — May 01, 2010 — Session d'enregistrement avec Kent

Lainhart Live Online Audio/Video Performance Friday May 7

"Friends: Sponsored by the ImprovFriday group, I'll be performing a realtime audio/video set from my studio on Friday, May 7, at 9 PM EDST (GMT -4). In honor of ImprovFriday, I'll be playing structured improvisations for electric guitar and lapsteel processed with the Kyma System and laptop, and streaming live video and audio of the event with interactive chat on the ImprovFriday site:

http://improvfriday.ning.com/

To find your local time, go here

I hope you can tune in, and I encourage you to join the ImprovFriday group for more wonderful spontaneous music from around the world."

Richard Lainhart will also be performing Monday May 10 with Buchla and Haken Continuum along with Jessica Feldman and Michael V. Waller:

"LMAKseries - Live audiovisual performance event

Monday, May 10, 7:30 pm
Featuring: Jessica Feldman, Richard Lainhart and Michael V. Waller

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, filmmaker, and author - a digital artisan who workswith sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he's been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. Lainhart studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany. He has composed music for film, television, CD-ROMs, interactive applications, and the Web. His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, Airglow Music, Tobira Records, Infrequency, VICMOD, and ExOvo labels. He has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Fondation to contribute a work to New York Soundscape. Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown at festivals in the US, the UK, Canada, Portugal, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Korea, and online at Souvenirs From Earth, ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. In 2009, he was awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts. In January 2010, he performed as a featured Live Media audio-visual artist at Netmage 2010 in Bologna, Italy."

LMAKprojects
139 Eldridge Street
New York NY 10002

korg ds-10 track 48

YouTube via korgds10 — May 01, 2010 — "Korg DS-10 tune. Visit http://korgds-10.blogspot.com for more DS-10."

" Mai "- franck vigroux-michel simonot

YouTube via fretless — May 01, 2010 — "music : franck vigroux from the album "camera" police film : michel simonot"
used gear: mini moog, korg electribe

close up der Woche #18/10 -Moonmodular

Moonmodular close up of the week via Aliens Project. Click here for more.

http://moonmodular.com/

Korg Vocoder Expander and Interface

via this auction

"Here we have 3 of Korg's Classics. Vocoder, with original Mic, Expander Module, and Interface... 1 of the pieces is 240 Volt, 2 of them are 110V."

UNIVOX Mini Korg #1151 Synthesizer

via this auction

"This is a UNIVOX Mini Korg Synthrsizer serial number 1151 which makes it a 700 or 700s series."

MAM ADX1

via this auction

"MAM ADX1 analogue drum synth. Comes with 5 different sound sections that have all their own output + 2 main panned outputs. Midi In/Thru with midi in selectable channel via a DIN switch. The device doesn't have a internal sequencer but it can be played manually. Capable of producing some of those classic sounds (especially for the Hihat) and also comes with an FM extension that makes wacky percussion sounds. Modulation (LFO) on the metal, synth and bass section enable to produce a different sound at each hit."

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Yamaha CS 01 AUTHENTIC COMBO SYNTHESIZER SERVICE MANUAL

via this auction

ARP Odyssey MKI 2800 Restoration

flickr set by Pablo Penas
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Update:

ARP Odyssey MKI 2800 Demo

YouTube via Thalassa77 — May 01, 2010 —

"ARP Odyssey MKI 2800 White Face. This is the first version of the ARP Odyssey. The main difference between this version and the MKII and MKII is the filter. The Odyssey 2800 has a 12db/Oct filter and later versions ( MKII and MKIII ) have 24db/Oct filter This synth has been serviced / restored by me : * General cleaning * All sliders have been changed for new ones * All switches have been opened and cleaned inside * Pot has been opened and cleaned * PCBs have been cleaned * Keyboard mechanism has been restored * Keyboard bushings has been changed * Keyboard has been aligned * Cv/Gate/trigger buses have been cleaned * CV/Gate/Trigger inputs/outputs has been installed * Filter Audio Input has been added * Synth has been recalibrated If you want to see photos of this restoration clic here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablopen..."

Four-pole lowpass voltage controlled filter, using vactrols

YouTube via abovenyquist — May 01, 2010 — "Project for Spring 2010 "Electronics for Music Synthesis" class at Georgia Tech. See here for more info:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma..."

Also added to this post.

KORG monotron Demo 2 -- Star Wars --

YouTube via karenevil — May 01, 2010 — Demo of VCF oscillation... This whistle tone is from VCF, not VCO.

Aelita synth : POWER OF SOUND 2

YouTube via cores303 — May 01, 2010 — SOUND OF AELITA SYNTH

Nanoloop on ipad

YouTube via deepliferecords — May 01, 2010 — "Demo of this gameboy-homebrew all growed up to a full blown ipad app"

nanoloop on iTunes:

Piston Honda, Sidstation and TR-606

YouTube via pss50 — May 01, 2010 — "The Harvestman Piston Honda, Elektron Sidstation, Roland TR-606."

uSOS

YouTube via RetributionBody — May 01, 2010 —

"A quick video to show of my new uLFO and Sound of Shadows delay. Bed drone of AFG Pulse out into SEM20, AFG Saw out into a LPG on the QMMG, then into the SoS (with a Plague Bearer in the feedback loop), and a bit of high sine wave love from the Cloud Generator. uLFO patched all over the place.

Better audio can be downloaded or listened to at: http://retributionbody.bandcamp.com/t..."

Thirty-Three Winters

"RetributionBody — April 10, 2010 — Celebrating my birthday with my cat, Ernie. Download all 27 minutes of drone-y goodness (recorded on real mics not built-in to my phone) here: http://music.retributionbody.com/trac...

Retribution Body will be performing at Cafe Fixé in Brookline, MA April 13, 2010.
Info about the show can be found here: http://nonevent.org/upcoming/retribut..."

Also see Spring Drone and Zazen II. All posts featuring RetributionBody here.

studio setup | may 2010

flickr set by hpsounds
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Electrify Demo

YouTube via shagghie — May 01, 2010 — "First app bought with the ipad 3G today. amazing piece of software...and this is rev 1!
www.electrifyme.net for more info"

DIGITANA Electronics EMS Synthi HiFLi Re-Release Update

Plans for the HiFli re-release was announced in January. The following is an update via Steven Thomas of DIGITANA Electronics England:

"Hi all..just to advertise that I have made an agreement with Robin Wood at EMS to built 15 re-release Synthi HIFLi's under license. The agreement is that I build 15 to sell directly. After that I may build more and also build for EMS to sell rebadged as an EMS product, depending on how sales go.

So far I have 9 people down on my build list.

For pricing, estimated build times and how to get on the waiting list see :-

http://www.synthi.co.uk/hifli.html

where further information and several sound demos may be found.

No deposit is required. Each person on the build list will be offered the chance to purchase or not when their unit is ready.

So far 2 units have been completed.

I plan to update the webpage with serial numbers as each unit is built so people can keep track.

cheers

steve thomas
(digitana)"

ReBirth for the iPhone

YouTube via PropellerheadSW — April 26, 2010

"ReBirth is back! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been resurrected and made available for the iPhone. http://rebirthapp.com

ReBirth faithfully emulates dance music's three backbone devices: The Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines. Combine these with FX units, fully featured pattern sequencers and a quick-acting, scalable iPhone interface and you'll soon be making techno on the train, trance on the tram or beats on the bus."

x TB-303 Bassline synths
TR-808 Drum Machine
TR-909 Drum Machine
Pattern Controlled Filter
Distortion unit
Compressor
Mixer
5 user mods
Pattern sequencing
Full automation
Combine patterns to build songs
Share songs with other ReBirth users

"ReBirth is back...In your iPhone! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been reincarnated. This time around, ReBirth takes the form of a seriously block rocking iPhone music app. Released in 1997 and discontinued in 2005, Propellerhead ReBirth was the first music software to reproduce the sound and behavior of those three classic Roland devices that defined the sound of early Techno and Acid House: the TB-303 Bassline Synth and the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm Composers.

With dual basssynths and pattern sequencers, two sets of drum machines plus FX and mixer sections, ReBirth gives you an extremely streamlined but very powerful music production environment. Every knob and button on ReBirth's devices can be tweaked and turned in real time, so when you plug your iPhone into that massive sound system, you're in charge everything from pattern selections to the depth of those nasty Acid filter squelches.

ReBirth for the iPhone may be small and ever so cutesy looking, but it's no toy, believe it. With a fully featured song mode and advanced copying and pasting capabilities, ReBirth is a fully featured iPhone music software product that lets you arrange and compose full tracks for saving to your iPhone. You can even share your songs with other ReBirth users - one single click will upload your composition to the ReBirth server, allowing other users to enjoy your music in their iPhones.

ReBirth for iPhone – music production software for the iPhone, perfect for music making on the go and with the sought after sounds for everything from Techno to Electro, House to Hip Hop, Electronica or whatever style you are into."

Propellerheads on iTunes:


No word on an iPad HD implementation. This will of course work on the iPad, but at lower resolution.

Update: 1st user video:

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MAESTRO RARE SOVIET USSR DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER

via this auction
"Keyboard electronic musical instrument (KEMI) "Maestro" is a portable polyphonic four-voiced synthesizer with microprocessor control (KR-580) & pre-programmed timbres "presets". It has been assembled on FORMANTA factory, the one which made well-known POLIVOKS.

Number of presets- 20. There is possibility to get vibrato frequency with depth & frequency control. This instrument includes "chorus" effect with depth control, filter with cut-off frequency & resonance control. There are also "arpeggio-tremolo" arrangement with speed control and joystick that pitch shifts & vibrato depth controls.

Specifications:

— Number of octaves in a keyboard, 3
— Weight with case, 15 kg (approx. 36 Pounds)

Some examples of how it really sounds:
http://ruskeys.net/eng/base/maestro.php#sn"

video here

Korg EX-8000

via this auction

Novation Bass Station Custom Patches HD part 1

YouTube via ChrisSpazz — April 30, 2010 — "The Novation Bass Station rack is a pretty powerful analog synth in a relatively small package. One thing Youtube is lacking is a decent demo of it, with direct audio, so I thought I would contribute my own complete with custom patches I made.

I have no keyboard skills at all and I chose the Akai LPK25 for this video because of the small size & arpeggiator feature.

I'll be uploading many more synth demos in the next while so be sure to subscribe."

Novation Bass Station Custom Patches HD part 2

Dub Step Arcade Now Available

Kits are now available at The Magic Mess

"The Dub~Step~Arcade console is an analogue square wave synthesiser based around two popular oscillator circuit’s, Firstly the dub-siren which is simply a pitch that rises and falls in relation to the speed and wave-shape of an LFO (low frequency oscillator), and secondly the stepped tone generator by Forrest Mims (Known as the Atari punk console) hence the name Dub Step Arcade!
The design also incorporates basic synthesiser features such as Attack-Decay Envelope generator and LFO Modulator.



The Dub~step~arcade is available as a D-I-Y kit for you to build yourself. All The electronic components as well as pots,knobs, switches and jack sockets are provided for the following controls
1 ~ main oscillator pitch control
2 ~ modulation depth with LFO-(square/triangle) or AD gen select
3 ~ steps control with lfo-square/triangle modulation select
4 ~ attack and decay envelope generator with fire and auto repeat
5 ~ LFO modulator with speed control with square / triangle wave-shapes
6 ~ VCA level control with manual constant setting or A/D gen source select
7 ~ Control voltage input (controls the main oscillators frequency)
8 ~ Trigger input (envelope can be triggered by external sequencer)
9 ~ 9V battery or 9V power option

The kit comes with the ability to be powered by either battery or by 9Vdc from a transformer (with a 500ma rating). The design has a voltage regulator (9v) to protect against wrong polarity and as voltage supply effects pitch and volume. I recommend using rechargeable battery's or transformer supply as the current consumption can be quite high so battery life is short."

Samples at The Magic Mess
via Matt the Modulator in the comments of this video post of the Dub Step Arcade.

Numerology 3 Teaser: Evolve

Numerology 3 Teaser: Evolve from Five12 on Vimeo.

"Early testing of the Evolve function. The setup shown has pitch changes on X, gate changes on Y and velocity changes on Z. Transformations for each dimension (X, Y, Z) are fully customizable. In addition to manual triggering, this example shows triggering via three sequencers, one for each dimension."

SequencomatV3 functions

YouTube via tonvibration — May 01, 2010 — "Showing the main functions of my new Sequencomat (Midi-stepsequencer in MaxMSP with Lemur touch surface) More details at http://music-interface.com"

1Song1Week1Year - Week18 - Set01 B

YouTube via DJDJSMusic — May 01, 2010 — "Week 18 in my project to write one new song every week for the year 2010.

I noticed a few weeks ago that most of my songs only take 3 or 4 layers on the Tenori-On and I thought to myself as the Tenori-On has 16 layers would it not be possible to program in 3-4 songs into one set of blocks and fade up and down the layers for each song in order to create one longer "mix" track. Also as it takes so long to load each user sample set you could allocate the 48 samples (3 voices x16 samples each) among your 4 songs and end up with a set of blocks that could give you a continuous 20-30 minuets of playing. Or even longer if you start mixing and mashing up your songs.

So that is what I am going with Set01 -I know it's a great title:)

Last week I used the first 4 layers for Set01 A and this week I'm using the next 4 layers for Set01 B. - I've changes all layers to Score mode.
I've also used the bass line from Set01 A in this so there are 5 layers used in this song."

Roland Fantom X series Leads by S4K ( free patches / sounds )

YouTube via Space4Keys — May 01, 2010 — "Category Leads Board Roland FantomX series Format .svs .svd Files Description Roland Fantom X Leads ( FREE ) by S4K"

Stream of Consciousness - harpsicord Wizard Dream Collections ( coming soon on M3 M50 ) )

"Space4Keys — May 01, 2010 — Stream of Consciousness - harpsicord Dream
M3 M50 Wizard Dream coming soon on marketplace.


performed by Luigi Accardo

http://www.space4keys.com"

The Invisible Force Behind the Universe - Demo Video 4 TDM 3 VSti by HGFortune

YouTube via HGFSynthesizer — May 01, 2010 — "The Invisible Force Behind the Universe - Demo Video for The Dreammachine 3 VSTi by HGFortune and a little hommage to Betty Page ;-)
Tracks by Dimiri Schkoda, video by HG Fortune

Use good speakers for listening.

have fun
HG"