Explosion on YouTube

MooT BooXLe performing on the Synthesizers.com modular analogue synthesizer. This is not a perfect performance, as it was improvised in one go."

This is pretty cool. It does pick up so keep watching if it seems slow to start.

Messing with a SubMuxDeluxe...

Title link takes you to a 2.47M mp3 Via legion of Help Wanted Productions.

"Two new Cyndustries modules arrived this week; a Submuxdeluxe and a mixSix. I put them to immediate use in this demo using the Submux as a sequencer. I'm feeding it a VCO and LFO from a Fenix and taking the various outputs (including the stair out feeding a second VCO) into the MixSix. The warbling drone that begins and ends it all is a DSC being tortured by a Burst Generator and Triple Rez filter. Ok so that really doesn't belong on a demo of the Submux but sue me, I can't do anything "normal" with this thing in my hands."

Nice cat shot via legion. BTW, if you can understand what he is saying you have advanced from apprentice to journeyman my fellow synth geek.

Sequential Circuits Split Eight Advert

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

via Brian Comnes

Gallery of Photos on Electro-Music.com

Members of electro-music.com can now add their own photo albums to the Gallery of Photos. Title link takes you there. Pretty cool.

via cebec.

Michael Firman's Electronic Music Site

Serge, Wiard, Robert Moog and more. Title link takes you there. Via sequencer.de.

That's a shot of Grant Richter, creator of Wiard, with of course a Wiard modular.

MAM ADX1 Drum Synth

Title link takes you to more shots pulled from this auction. I never realized they were this small. Check out the wall wart next to it for scale.

All analog design
51 Front-panel controls!
MIDI In and Thru
5 Sound Sections with 5 Individual Outputs
Trigger buttons for each of the 5 Sound Sections
Stereo Outputs
12 volt AC wall adapter included

Inquisitor Betrayer

I posted about Inquisitor Betrayer's Tangerine Dream site yesterday. I tracked back to the main site and found this cool little shot. Title link takes you there. No studio shots as of this post, but there are some interesting mp3s and links. The site does take a sec to load.

EAR Website in Transition

Looks like the site is in transition, as of the time and date of this post of course. Title link takes you there. I'm curious as to what's coming.

Roland Paraphonic 505

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

via Brian Comnes.

For more on the Roland Paraphonic see this Keyboard Magazine article. Scroll down when you get there.

"In the Dark Ages of electronic music, the words “synthesized strings” conjured images of just one sound; the Solina String Ensemble and its closely related cousin, the ARP String Ensemble. They did one thing well, which was to crank out sustained sawtooth-wave approximations of a string section. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, fully programmable polysynths such as the Prophet-5 from Sequential Circuits and Roland’s Jupiter-8 made dedicated string synths redundant, especially when programmable polysynths became more affordable with the advent of the Roland Juno series and the Korg PolySix.

But squished somewhere between the era of non-programmable mono synths (Minimoogs, ARP Odysseys, and the like) and the revolutionary programmable polysynths were a number of “in-between” units such as the Moog Opus 3, ARP Quadra, and Roland Paraphonic 505. These weren’t truly programmable, but they had separate — and polyphonic — brass and strings alongside a “lead synth” section. The sum of the parts wasn’t ever really competitive with real programmable polysynths, but these faux polys were a little easier on the wallet than a $5,000 Prophet or Jupiter-8."

Hollow Sun Nostalgia

Title link takes you to the Hollow Sun Nostalgia product page. What's cool about it is every instrument listed on the page has a details page with info and some history on the piece. So even if you are not interested in the product, the site acts as a great resource. I wish more product sites actually did this, so cheers to them. I should note they received good reviews from Sound on Sound - track back to the root of the site to see.