P5 Powerglove and G2X on YouTube

Published on May 9, 2006

"Testing out Essential Reality P5 Powerglove with some G2X patches. Awesome :)"



Via Luca of ProgSounds. Very nice indeed. Thanks Luca!

Serge Modular Synthesizer

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. Via Luca of ProgSounds.

Image Zoom for FireFox

Cool extension for FireFox sent my way via Loscha. If you have Firefox you can install this extension and zoom in and out of images on this site and any other site for that matter without leaving the page. It just makes it one step easier. Thanks Loscha!

Firstman SQ-01

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

Details:

"Model SQ-01, Make = Firstman, which is a Multivox company.

This rare mono synth does some really deep, very analog bass. Somewhere between a Moog bass and an SH 101. You can enter notes into sequences with the one octave of membrane keys, ala EDP Wasp. There are 4 banks or 4 sequences of memory that can be written and recalled.

ALSO, you have CV in and out and clock in and out for control. With using the same CV converter I use for my Roland Sh 101 it plays just fine. Also I have stepped the sequencer in sync with my TR 606. So both sync of sequencer and CV playability are possible. This is a very rare item, let the audio demo speak for its self at http://www.myspace.com/omosc just scroll down to Firstman demo and have a listen, the first part is dry, the second half is with delay and verb...awesome filter, cool sequencing, vintage analog and no one else in town will have one."

Seqs

This one in via Pual Nagle on SynthSights. Hmm... I do think it's about the gear after all, well just a little... Is the Radias even out yet?

One more shot....

Title link takes you to Bogus Focus Records, home of both shots.

Skydancer Media

Gorgeous shot from Skydancer Media via Richard Wentk on SynthSights. Hmm... I thought SynthSights wasn't about the gear. : ) Title link takes you there.

The Human League Circus of Death on YouTube

Another via dmxkrew. I was going to just append a link to my previous post for this one, but come on... there's a cat and tons of synths, so... it get's it's own post.

The Human League Boiled on YouTube

This one via dmxkrew. I love the synth in this video. BTW, anyone know what it is? My brain stopped working about two hours ago...

Via the comments it is the Roland Jupiter 4.

Psychedelic Philicorda

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

Details:
"This is a non-working Philicorda, believed pretty much complete except for the panel underneath the keyboard and one switch top, but making no sound. It would be possible to repair it, or replace the innards with another example, because the whole point of this is the superb psychedelic painting on the case.

It's the work of Alistair Campbell, aka The Great Unknown. He has been painting in this style for thirty or more years, including doing the cover art for a classic book on psychedelic bands, but generally only sells art to friends or gives it away. www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/libertycaptions/ tells you a bit more about him.

This amazing image is the result of about 50 hours' work - and a lifetime of mystical experience."

Nice Rack - Avalon Superstar

Check out their synth list on VSE post. Yowsa. Title link takes you to Avalon Superstar's website. Once there, the gallery link takes you to more pics. I couldn't figure out how to enlarge them in either IE7 or Firefox, so if you figure it out feel free to comment.

Sensomusic Usine

"Usine is a universal audio software especially designed for live or studio utilisation. Usine is made by musicians and audio engineers to respond to their specific problems in a lot of domains like live sampling, effect processing or sound design. Usine is a real musical instrument, flexible and powerful if you like to transform, resample the sound on stage (not only push the play button of your sequencer!), improvise and create unusual effect."

Title link takes you there.

Aurora at SDIY 2005

Looks like the Aurora made an appearance at SDIY 2005. That's Paul Maddox of Modulus Electronics and the Monowave playing it. Some notes on sound according to two that have actually played it: according to Chris Strellis "It was OK - a bit confusing routing some of the modulation sources to destinations. Definately Moogy sounding and probably worth the money. It was for sale then at something like £400. I passed on it." According to dmxkrew, "just saw your post on the aurora, it's hand built by adrian who runs SRS in bedford, UK, which is where my mum lives so I usually go there when i need something fixing. adrian is a nice guy and good at fixing stuff, he let me have a play on the synth when it wasn't quite finished, sounded great, the design owes a lot to the SCI pro one in my opinion." At the price under 600 Euro, I'm thinking this might actually be a great little monosynth. More on the Aurora here.

Update via the comments of this post: " have had the AR1 for quite a while now and have used the synth on many recordings for solo projects under Brendan Pollard and Rogue Element.
She is extremely versatile, moog sounding but with careful manipulation even ARP. Fantastic for sound effects, leads, basses, etc.
Our studio is 90% analogue and she was definitely a worthy addition to our collection,
Cheers
Brendan www.rogue-element.uk.com"

Bottom Line - New Flickr Shot

flickr by donalhanley. What is this and what does this knob do? Looks like a Novation to me. Bueller? Bueller?

Update via the source himself:
"Its an X-Station. The Effects section (which features delay, reverb, chorus, compression, distortion and EQ) has three generic knobs - Level, Top Line and Bottom Line. It adapts to whichever effect is currently selected, so for Delay it controls feedback, for Chorus it controls Rate, for EQ base level etc."