primitive two-oscillator synthesizer

flickr by jgb.

"two WaveTek signal generators connected in series. For crunk jamz. The last one in the chain drives a 1" speaker. It will easily deafen you. The front panel is set in Univers, BTW."

VAC: Toxic Coma

"All tracks were made with Renoise Tracker. No hardware. All software and samples."

hefix93 of Velvet Acid Christ

Title link takes you to more info on the album including full downloads for each track.

Renoise Tracker

"Renoise is the next generation of music tracker software, combining studio quality sound and virtually infinite expandability with a clear and concise interface putting every parameter and option literally at your fingertips!"

Title link takes you there. See this post for an album made with nothing but Renoise.

Mellotron EMI

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Details:
"MELLOTRON (produced by EMI, serial n°26 out of 100 !!!) *** 1973 *** These Mellotron have differents looks than the original, if you look under the keyboard, you'll see that you have more space for your legs, also the black plate is domino style, it can be inverted to the white side. sounds are the 3 classics: 8 choir, Mk2 Violins, Brass B."

via Johan.

Gristleizer

YouTube via masqueradeNpurple.

"Playing guitar through the gristleizers VCA for a slow chop and some self oscillation near the end causing octave down jumps."

Previous post with details. Note this is up for auction.

Max Mathews Remixed

In case you missed the update to this post, thumbuki sent the following in via the comments:
"There is also an event for Berklee alumni the following evening in San Francisco:
Monday, April 30, 2007
Max Mathews Remixed
6:30 PM-9:00 PM
Recombinant Media Labs
763 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA
Monday, April 30, 2007
6:30 - 7:30 PM Alumni Reception
7:30 - 9:00 PM Performance/Interview

Join the Berklee community as we celebrate the 80th Birthday of The Father of Computer Music - Dr. Max Mathews. The event will take place at Recombinant Media Labs and will feature: Dr. Richard Boulanger and Dr. Max Mathews reminiscing, demonstrating, performing, and jamming on Wireless Radio Batons, the $100 OLPC Laptop, and Wiimotes control Csound via OSC. The event will also showcase Berklee Alumni remixes of Max Mathews 1957 Computer Music Classics!

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Brian Grzelak.

To register for this event, click here
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Berklee Events"

Red Roland SH-101

Title link takes you to some nice shots via this auction. Click the image for a larger shot.

via loscha

Tube Gristleizer

Update: video here.
Update: check out the update below.

via this auction

Details:

"ONE OF A KIND handmade and modified TUBEGRISTLEIZER. The gristleizer was an effect made famous by throbbing gristle which was played by everyone in TG and can be heard on many throbbing gristle recordings, live performances and is still on their solo recordings. The circuit itself is a fairly loud tremelo(VCA)/squelchy filter(VCF) under control of an lfo. The VCA gives you that dark brooding pulsing sound from a slow steady blast to helicopter fast chopping action. with guitar it can sound bassy or razor sharp and rather piercing, with synths it gives movement and can alter harmonic content. the VCF can scream when in self oscillation mode and turns any boring synth or feedback loop tone into a nice sounding near modular beast!

The LFO on the original gristleizer was slightly different, using a switch to change waveshape, the LFO on this circuit uses a pot to alter wave shape from ultra chopy to sloped triangle.saw shapes. This is the signature sound of industrial music! HEAVY pulsing and throbbing beats or lighting fast chop chop!

In addition to the gristle circuit, the effect also has a HI VOLTAGE (200v+) tube preamp/distortion for completely destroying the sound. the circuit was lo fi at first but now its plain garbage! By turning up the gain for the preamp the sound ranges from light harmonic clipping to a blown speaker blasting away. I take no responsibility for damage to amplifiers or recording equipment.

SPECS:
* tremelo/filter switch
* self oscillation switch
* tube power switch
* LFO shape Control
* LFO speed Control
* LFO Depth
* Oscillation Frequency Knob
* Tube Gain
* Tube Input Level
* 1/4" Mono Input and output
* powered by dual 9v and 120vac

No sound samples at this time but there will be videos on youtube by tomorrow night, showing off self oscillation (not on original gristleizer), with guitar or with a simple squarewave bass tone... just search it."

Update via BugBrand in the comments:
"I'm just about to meet up with Roy Gwinn (literally in a couple of hours time) who wrote the original article back in the 70s for Practical Electronics magazine (he was 16 when he published it!) from which the Gristilizer came.

If you're interested, Clone Analog Gear have a pdf of the article::

http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/

http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf

It was published as the Guitar Effects Pedal."

Update via Chris Carter in the comments:
"My original Gristleizers were based around the PE kit (PCB & components) produced by Phonosonics in the UK in 1977. I've never made any secret of this, and in fact for a while had the PE schematic on my site. However, I added some mods of my own and designed a completely new case and made units for myself, the band and friends, probably about 10 in total. Cosey's still works to this day but mine was unfortunately 'lost' shortly after appearing in a exhibition in London a couple of years ago. I'm going to upload some photos of an original Gristleizer to my site soon and I'm currently in the process of building myself a replacement.

original Gristelizer photos and additional info now available here: www.throbbing-gristle.com/gristleizer and/or here: myspace.com/chemistrylessons"

Also see this post including comments.

Kawai Synthesizer S-100P

via this auction

Kawai 100P Specifications
* Type: Synth/ keyboard/
* Synthesis Type: Analog
* Controllers : 1
* Effects :
o Number of FX units :
o Number of different effects : 2
* Keyboard :
o Number of Keys :
o Can send on 0 simultaneous MIDI channels
o Responds to :
o Sounds can be split by :
* Inputs and Outputs :
o Number of Audio Outs (excluding Phones) :
o Number of Audio Ins : 0
o Number of MIDI Outs (excluding Thru) : 0
o Number of MIDI Ins : 0

Comments about the sounds :
Lovely, warm expressive anaogue sound. Sounds to check out :
Voice, electric bass

via loscha.

Update: this appears to be the same synth as the Teisco 100P.

"Blue Light" by Dreamaiden

Here's an interesting release. "Blue Light" by Dreamaiden will be released in the massive online world, Second Life. The synth content? Aside from the drums it predominantly features the Alesis Andromeda A6.

via Steve: "I thought you might be interested to know about a synth based CD being launched in an interesting and unusual way. The CD is "Blue Light" by Dreamaiden. I was the mastering engineer on the project and it is a great showcase for the capabilities of the Alesis Andromeda. With the exception of the drums, the album is almost entirely created on the Alesis. Dreamaiden also runs the Abbacadabra gallery in Second Life, where she is hosting two launch parties for the CD on the 21st and 22nd of April. There is a listening booth where tracks from the CD can be auditioned, and DJ Plum is the MC for the event which is available as an audio stream. Here is a gratuitous shot of Dreamaiden in her second life persona! :) [Note the Roland JP-8000, what looks like an OSCar and one more synth in the shot below].

Her website also features a free mp3 download as well as a montage mp3 of the whole CD.

Cheers

Steve"

Little Phatty Filter In

Title link takes you to the demo via Suicide Lane.

Creating music with science

"Can an old electronic toy make melodies? JACOB ADELMAN finds a festival full of rewired gadgets used as instruments.
Hans Koch stood on stage with the disemboweled guts of a computer spread out on a table before him. He prodded the motherboard, floppy drive and modem with a pin and doused them with salt water. The components -- attached to a mixer and amplifier -- emitted bursts of noise that layered into a collage of static and feedback."

Title link takes you to more including a podcast.

Tristram Cary Interview on The Music Show

"Tristram Cary: Yes, that's right, and that's the master patch on the pin matrix of the VCS3. I mean we designed the VCS3, three of us in 1967 in direct competition with Bob Moag [sic, Moog], who was, poor chap's dead now, he had cancer, ten years younger than me. But we went over and saw Bob Moag [sic, Moog], I mean he was a great friend a very nice man. But his synthesizers were very expensive in England, so we said Well, we can - and I'll tell you what, there's a very interesting connection here because Don Banks, who was a good friend of mine in London, and I knew Don for 20 years before poor chap died of leukaemia [sic], he was doing films and stuff like me, and he came and saw us over in Putney, and said, Look, I'd love to get into electronic music, but I haven't got any knowledge, I can't build anything, can you make me something? My limit is 50 pounds, he said, can you make for 50 pounds a box of some sort which would be useful to a composer. So we got together, and we put it together, David put it together, and he was delighted. Don started using it straight away."

Title link takes you to the full interview. Via Rick. Also check out this post.

KORG Polysix Overlay

via one of the anonymous in the comments of this post:

"found this in the same site. curious?"

Yep... Anyone have any ideas?

Ga-Ga for Waldorf

Image via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments of this post. There is just something about this shot that makes me go Ga-Ga. In case you missed the update:

"... and it is my WAVE +16 (= 32 voice) shown here. A snapshot by someone taken during my last year's Planetarium concert of "EL-KA" (http://el-ka.synthmusic.info german only) in Bochum/Germany.
If you look to the yellow Waldorf Q in the back, you will notice the joy-stick someone added to my instrument.
Here is one from the other direction: link
You will see the other half of EL-KA there: HaJo Liese.
The CD recording is available at www.syngate.net and other EM music shops. And we will play at the Univercity of Eindhoven/The Netherlands next week's Saturday at the E-Day (http://e-day.groove.nl)

And by the way: I run the unofficial Waldorf WAVE pages located here:
link (german and english)

keep on turning these knobs

Till "Qwave" Kopper"

Wooden Box Synth

YouTube via fallingfragments. Via the comments of this post.

MOOG The Source

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Oxford Synthesizer Company OSCar

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Quasimidi Rave-O-Lution 309

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

309 Video

Roland SH-101

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.
Specifications:
* Type: Synth/ keyboard/
* Synthesis Type: Analog subtractive
* Polyphony:
o Max: 1
o Typical in use: 1
* Multi-timbral (number of parts): 1
* Oscillators per Voice :
o Min : 1
o Max : 3
* Controllers : GATE OUT/In and CV out/IN
* Drum Section :
o Number of Drum Kits : 0
o Number of Drum sounds : 0
* Keyboard :
o Number of Keys : 3 octaves
o Can send on simultaneous MIDI channels
* Memory :
o Patches : 0
o Performances : 0
* Inputs and Outputs :
o Number of Audio Outs (excluding Phones) : 1
o Number of Audio Ins : 2
o Number of MIDI Outs (excluding Thru) :
o Number of MIDI Ins :
* Upgrade Options : This is one of the most easily modifiable analog synths. Analogue Solutions sells kits for making it MIDI, giving you INPUTS to the filter or making it COMPLETELY MODULAR(everything can be crosspatched with other CV-gear).