Paulo Beto (Anvil FX) and the EMS Synthi A

Paulo Beto (Anvil FX) and the EMS Synthi A from arthur joly on Vimeo.

Roland JP8000 and JP8080 Alan-M Trance / Dubstep Patches [HD]

YouTube Published on May 22, 2012 by alanmarcero

"http://www.alanmarcero.com for free patches for your synthesizers. Demo done with a Roland JP8000 and external VSTs. I tried to use minimal processing so the synth could speak for itself.

Quite a classic virtual analog synthesizer, the JP8000 / JP8080. Included are 128 patches, both A and B user banks, to take your JP into the 21st century. This vintage monster is still quite capable of very modern sounds.

There are already quite a few patch banks for the JP8000 / JP8080. I did not try to copy them. Rather, I tried to show off everything this amazing VA can do apart from only supersaws. It has some monster FM capabilities in addition to beautiful filters and snappy envelopes. But, fear not, I intend for my bank to be all you need for your JP, so I've also included some classic sounds like massive supersaws and plucks.

Note that some external FX where used in the audio demo, namely a simple external delay plugin and reverb. I feel the JP's chours and EQs are a large part of its vintage character, so I used them appropriately in my patch bank."

Ensoniq EPS 16+ Sampler (Rack) with Extras

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"CD with ISO images of all of the official Ensoniq sound libraries, OS 1.30 on disk along with Waveboy plug-ins (see picture with red disk), 2 SCSI cables, a SCSI hard disk, and both the original manual and an excellent supplementary manual that I haven't seen anywhere online.

Autechre and El-P are two producers that have exploited the power of this sampler beautifully --- it has a very unique sound to it, which I personally found great for drums and sampled chords. Raw and crunchy if you want it to be, and one of the quickest samplers to use once you learn the workflow."

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Sequentix Cirklon Sequencer with CVIO Breakout Box

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Vintage 1978 PAIA P4700J Synthesizer & Componets

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"Vintage 1978 PAIA P4700J Synthesizer & Componets & All Programming Literature

This synthesizer is in great pristine condition. It has a box of programming literature, tape cassettes, the original invoice, the original warenty, & all schematics. It does not have the cords but it powers on."

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Pittsburgh Modular Analog Delay

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"A brand new analog delay module designed around a pair of 4096 Bucket Brigade Delay Line (BBD) ICs to produce a distinct analog delay effect. The maximum delay time when shipped is set at 9/10ths of a second but this can be adjusted up to 2 seconds. The Analog Delay offers voltage control of the delay time, feedback, and wet signal. A true bypass switch allows the delay to be enabled and disabled quickly.

Size: 16hp
Depth: 35mm
Power Usage: 35mA

Analog Delay Control Descriptions:
Rate Control Knob / Rate CV Input:
The Rate control knob adjusts the delay time of the Analog Delay module. Left is a shorter delay and right is a longer delay. Delay time is controlled internally by a VCA. The Rate control knob controls the delay time by producing a 0-5v control voltage that controls the rate VCA. The Rate CV Input accepts 0-5v signals. The incoming voltage is added to the voltage produced by the Rate control knob to determine the delay time.

Bypass Switch:
A true bypass switch to enable or disable the analog delay effect.

Feedback Control Knob / Feedback CV Input:
The Feedback control knob adjusts the number of repeats in the wet signal. Left is fewer repeats and right is more repeats. Feedback is controlled internally by a VCA. The Feedback attenuator knob controls the amount of repeats by producing a 0-5v control voltage to to controls the feedback VCA. The Feedback CV Input accepts 0-5v signals. The incoming voltage is added to the voltage produced by the Feedback control knob to determine the number of repeats.

Wet Control Knob / Wet CV Input:
The Wet control knob attenuates the wet signal available to the Feedback output and Mix output. The amount of wet signal available to the outputs is controlled internally by a VCA. The Wet attenuator knob controls the level of wet output by producing a 0-5v control voltage to to controls the wet VCA. The Wet CV Input accepts 0-5v signals. The incoming voltage is added to the voltage produced by the Wet attenuator knob to determine the amount of wet signal available to the outputs

Dry Control Knob:
The Dry control knob attenuates the dry signal available to the Mix output.

Feedback Output / Mix Output:
The Feedback output is an output of the wet signal taken after the wet VCA. The Feedback output is the same signal that is sent to the Mix output. The Mix output is an output of the wet signal taken after the wet VCA and the dry signal taken after the dry control knob."

Pittsburgh Modular Dual Index

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"Manufacturer Description:

A dual, high quality, linear voltage controlled amplifier with both offset gain and CV attenuation for each channel plus a mix out.

2 Standalone VCAs
Fully Buffered Mix Output
CV Attenuator Knob
Input Gain Knob
CV Range: 0-5v

Module Controls:

Index 1 (VCA 1)
CV - CV Input used to control the VCA.
CV Knob - CV input attenuator.
In - Signal Input
Out - Signal Output

Index 2 (VCA 2)
CV - CV Input used to control the VCA.
CV Knob - CV input attenuator.
In - Signal Input
Out - Signal Output
Mix - Fully Buffered mix of the VCA 1 and VCA 2 outputs.

Size: 8hp
Depth: 35mm
Power Usage: 30mA"

Yamaha DX200 FM Synthesizer

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Roland TB-303 Bassline Synthesizer

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Roland Jupiter-4

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1978 Vintage Roland RS-505 Paraphonic Strings SN 022475

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Modded White Arp Odyssey SN 282096

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"It has a mod to help timing when used live. The two oscillators hard sync was accessed via two, 2 position micro switches to help stop the LFO from drifting."

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Oberheim OB-SX

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Paia Modular Synth 2700 4700 with Button Keys

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"Here is a Rare Custom Paia Modular synth. It has the rare button keys that was an option in the 70s instead of normal keys."

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Circuitbending a Yamaha SU-10

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by ggijs

"http://gieskes.nl/undefined/circuit-bending-tests/?f=yamaha-su10"

Albatros - volo AZ 504 (1976) [Toto Cutugno feat. Silvia Dionisio!]

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"Albatros - volo AZ 504 (1976)
(S. Cutugno, V. Pallavicini)

Toto Cutugno feat. Silvia Dionisio, dal programma RAI "Adesso Musica".

INFO: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatros_%28gruppo_musicale%29"

Toto & Minimoog

Make Noise Phonogene & WMD Gamma Wave Demos

Make Noise Phonogene demo

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by cray56

"A demo of the Make Noise Phonogene filmed by CV Slime 800"

Published on May 25, 2012 by cray56

"WMD Gamma Wave demo filmed by CV Slime 800"

triqtraq - jam sequencer for iphone

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YouTube Published on May 22, 2012 by triqtraq

"== follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/triqtraq ==

triqtraq is the ultimate jam sequencer for electronic music producers or DJs who want to make music on the go, or improvise live...
While it lets you create great sounding musical ideas with ease, triqtraq offers many surprising musical features that will please even the most experienced beat creators.

triqtraq is available from the App Store now.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/triqtraq-jam-sequencer/id488578848?mt=8

For more information visit http://www.triqtraq.com"


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A Fascinating Look Back at Fate with Bob Moog

Chris Stack of EXPERIMENTALSYNTH.COM has a fascinating post up reflecting on some of his experiences related to Bob Moog. I don't want to give any of it away so just click through and read from start to finish. After you do (spoiler alert!) check out this post and this post. Note these posts are not part of the story, nor fateful in the set of events, but they are related and interesting for those that might not have known.

MacBeth MK1 Modular

via Ken MacBeth on Facebook

"This is my portable- half prototype -half factory made 'barabus' MacBeth Mk1 Modular! The keyboard seen here is from an 80's BBC micro converted for CV and Gate!"

Monotron Mod, Stage #2

Monotron Mod, Stage #2 from Keith Handy on Vimeo.

I've added a cutoff slider at the end of the Giant Pitch Lever, which can be played with the thumb, leaving one hand free for additional controls. The slider has a rubberband pulling it back to "closed" position, which makes "playing" it a little more like playing an instrument. Still need to add pitch markers though.

Part one: That American Ingenuity - Giant Custom Wooden Monotron Controller

BBC Radio 6 - Building the Ultimate Moog Playlist

via BBC Radio 6

"Last Wednesday would have marked the 78th birthday of Dr Robert ‘Bob’ Moog – the man who revolutionized music with the invention of the Moog synthesizer.

This instrument was seized up the likes of The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder in the late 60s, but it was the introduction of the Mini Moog in 1970 which ushered in a new age for synthesized music. Thanks to its portability and price, it was seized upon by aspiring electronic musicians, paving the way for prog rockers like Yes, Tangerine Dream and synth pioneers Kraftwerk .

This week Google dedicated their homepage to the Moog, and with such an outpouring of analog synth love online this week, what better perfect subject to base a playlist on for this Sunday’s Now Playing on?

We want to hear your suggests for the ultimate Moog playlist..."

via ‏@willgilgrass

MB909 PCB

via Jef Vermeulen on
The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"my drumsequencer first PCB (TR909 sequencer clone) came in, more info on http://www.synthage.com/"

Also see:
MB909 song made with a roland 909 clone (9090) and the xoxbox
TR 909 sequencer clone teaser

Hertz donut + broken silicon card for ZDSP

Hertz donut + broken silicon card for ZDSP by ignatius
"just messing around with the comb filter patch on the broken silicon card for the tip top audio ZDSP. sound source is a harvestman Hertz Donut sequenced by TipTop Z8000 clocked by an LFO manipulated by some intellijel spock and 4MS clock divider/multiplier. no external FX used."

This one reminded me of electronic wind chimes.

Roland System 100 - OSCar Synthesizer - Roland TR-727 and Friends playing D/B

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by djessay101

"A little Drum and Bass Session with old Synthesizers ect.....
Hope you enjoy my new Sound Quality :-))
Just for FUN!!"

Akai MPC-60

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Suzuki Omnichord OM-300 with MIDI SN 04782

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ROLAND SH-101 SN 52084

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KORG MS-20 SN 141562 with White Overlay

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ROLAND Juno-60 SN 276997

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Modded Moog Realistic MG1

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"Fully functional, completely refurbished by a technician.

Every pot/slider replaced. No black foam

S-Trigger has been converted to GATE to be more usable with sequencers.

There are 2 switches and 1 knob on the side panel. This mod is for sync sweep sounds. You can switch from either envelope, or LFO to modify the pitch of VCO2. This mod adds an entirely new realm of possibilities to an already versatile synth.

Every key is working great. Slightly crackly volume pot, and tuning pots a bit jumpy.

All of this + a Roadie hard case that fits the synth exactly."

cable

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Kenny's death and Micro-Blackdeath tweaking @ Musikgear

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by theau61

"afterwork shot"

AudioCubes, Reason and an Outboard mixer input

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by Percussa

"Jeremy dePrisco made a video with Reason, 4 AudioCubes (http://www.percussa.com) and an outboard mixer input"

Artist & ARTURIA #17 - Jean-Benoît Dunckel (AIR) meets the Arturia MiniBrute

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by Arturiaweb

"We had the great pleasure to meet Jean-Benoit Dunckel, one half on the talented french electronic duo AIR and early fan of MiniBrute, for a live improvisation and a video interview !"

tf3 classic play

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by UNDEADINSTRUMENTS

"one bass, a percussive set and different trys: sequencer clock, automate clock, both in the same direction, automate against the sequencer, semi-synchronism using link feature, wobbly 16 steps rythm running in the sequencer meeting binary automate trigs. infos at undeadinst.com"

Update:

timeFrogIII: last croaking of may - graph view

Published on May 25, 2012 by UNDEADINSTRUMENTS

"a small 4 virtual instruments set running with Ableton, in overlay what outputs really from the timefrogIII thanks to a screenvideo of my dirty debug tool.
0:30 the channel2 appears but is muted, unmuted at 0:45, just got crazy to synchronise videos until I remind that...
5:32 the automate is used against the sequencer until voiding it."

Chilled Out Summer Synth Jam

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by snolan1990

"I haven't put anything up in a while because I have been away from home and more importantly my synths at Uni. I'm not a 100% happy with this but I have been working on it flat out for the past few days so I thought I would record a version before I pulled out all the patch cables.

Please excuse the sloppiness of that synth guitar, I have to record that bit live because quantization messes up the flow of anything like that and the JX-3P can't receive pitch bend data which is obviously pretty important.

I'm not too sure why the video is all hazy and laggy but I think it might be something to do with my camera adjusting to the light out my window before I moved it into the relative darkness of the room, anyway you get the idea with the footage.

For those interested in the technical side of it all.

Drums are a combination of Roland TR-626 and TR-707 samples in the Akai S900. Bass is Roland Juno-60. The pads are Roland JX-3P through the RAK DD-2000 digital delay. The faux electric piano is a Yamaha TX81Z preset through a Guyatone PS-013 chorus pedal (I love the combination of FM and that chorus) The Lead is a very simple patch on the HackMe Rockit which I recently constructed from a kit. The Choral patch thing towards the end is a Kawai KC-10 preset with loads of delay from a Frontline DDS-20 digital delay. Finally the synth guitar is the JX-3P "Dist Guitar" preset through a DigiTech Hot Head distortion pedal, then through the Noise Gate of the Alesis 3630 and finally with a bit of the RAK DD-2000 delay. (The waves were just dragged in next to the track in Audacity, I had tried sampling it in the Oberheim DPX-1 but it lost too much fidelity to work, I could have put it in the E-mu ESI4000 but It would have covered about 4 floppies and I couldn't be bothered to load for 10 mins every time I wanted to work on it)"

Moog Source Demo

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by Ascent68

"A demo of my Moog Source."

Dirty Electronics Testing Instruments

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by sonodrome

"Dirty Electronics Instrument Testing

Optophonotrope & Spinner
Using Optical Analogue Pianola Circuit

Performers: James & Simon"

Lunetta Guitar

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by NakagawaGakki

"This is the first run of a new instrument I am building. An 8stringed Synth Driven Guitar, rather than a "Guitar Synth".
As part of my 3month Artist Residency at the Artifactory (April-June 2012) I wanted to learn more about CMOS Circuitry / Boolean Logic particularly using the 4000 range chips AKA Lunetta Chips.
This will be an ongoing project and I hope to have a completely self contained Modular Synth/Guitar hybrid to both perform/interact with and possibly setup as a self playing instrument aswell.
Each module is made in free-form style (Point to point, Space Wiring) where no PCB or prototyping boards are used. Each Module will be based on a 50mm x 50mm format using SIP connectors and Breadboard jumper leads to patch the modules together.

In this video the modules are temporarily affixed to a wooden frame but the Lunetta Guitar will have a grounded wire frame between each guitar neck where modules will be secured.

There first Module Ive made that is driving the motor plectrums in this video is based on the online build notes of the crazy 8Bit Cipher Gate Sequencer circuit from Non Linear Circuits:
http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/data/data.html
Its very playable and rhythmic in a "nonlinear" sense.
Next job is to get more current to the motors (or switch them out for servos) and build an ebow type circuit to vibrate each string independently.

There are lots of Lunetta circuits to be found on the vibrant forums of Electro-Music:
http://www.electro-music.com/forum/index.php?f=160&sid=cc1a6c915ec8d6a536b072ee72a8ae76"

Jupiter 8 + Jupiter 6 "FunkaLot"

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by synthartist69

SpringSim (Accutronics Digi-Log-Reverb)

YouTube Published on May 25, 2012 by fonitronik

"simple demo of a simple module :D"

Pics posted here.

The Beauty of Synthesizers Moog Voyager + Waldorf Micro Q Improvisation

YouTube Published on May 24, 2012 by Gtechture

3am Voyager Jam

Published on May 25, 2012 by Gtechture

"A Yamaha RS7000 is being used to sequence a Moog Voyager and a DSI Mopho"

Rheyne - Live Jam #45 (5/24/12)

YouTube Published on May 24, 2012 by RheyneMusic

"Live looping improv jam with a DSI MoPho, Akai MPD26 and APC20, two iPads, an iTouch, and a DJ TechTools MIDI Fighter 3D. One iPad is running Audanika's SoundPrism Pro, triggering NI's Massive through an iConnectMIDI. Lemur is running on the other iOS devices, wirelessly controlling mixer functions and effects in Ableton Live. All audio is passed through a PreSonus 1818VSL connected to a Macbook Pro.

All loops are recorded live. Download or stream the audio at SoundCloud: http://snd.sc/JgCRhM"

Freq Bob

YouTube Published on May 24, 2012 by Ebotronix

"4x Moog FreqBox
4ms Peg RCD
Analogue Systems 4x RS 110
Doepfer 4x A 134 pan by A 143-9
foh choices
Make Noise Maths Moddemix QMMG Wogglebug
Malekko Jag
Moog CP251
SSL Modulation Orgy
Toppobrillo Sportmoulator
Logic via Kenton Pro 2000II
Ultrabeat Drum"

dualLFO and delays

YouTube Published on May 24, 2012 by shaft9000

"quickie modcan
- dualLFO is the only sound source.
- 4VCA and quad LFO aid in cross modulation of the dualLFO, some slight lowpass filtering from the 48dB filter(but only cutting@ 6dB/oct here).
- utilizes both super and digital delay modules. super delay(analog) does not enter the mix until second half."

oberheim matrix 1000 test

YouTube Published on May 24, 2012 by tblv9300

Vortex VSTi Introduction

YouTube Published on May 24, 2012 by HGSounds

"Vortex is a Multitimbral Sequencer from Homegrown Sounds, features 12 independent sophisticated step sequencers, 12 internal synths (or use with external midi), and FX engine, real time rhythm and pitch re-scaling triggers and much more. See hgsounds.com for full details and demo."