Sunday, July 15, 2007
Gary Wright - Heartbeat (1981) music video
YouTube via FuraRockDiscos
Guess the modular/s. MOOG Liberations all around.
Inside the x0xb0xmod
Two shots of the inside sent my way via limor, aka ladyada. Title link takes you to discusson on layada's tea party.See this previous post for more info and vids.
COMMONTONES - Roland MC-303 Demos
On July 1, I posted about COMMONTONES, a project by Sonicbrat, Eric, and LDT, in which they would produce a track once a week. The interesting bit is that each week the role of contributors to composer changes. Contributors will provide samples for the composer to work with. This week Eric will be the composer and LDT and Soncibrat will be the contributors. Title link takes you to a post by LDT which includes his contributions, mainly Roland MC-303 samples. You'll find the samples along with notes on the 303. You can find a post by Eric following LDT's post on COMMONTONES that pictures the additive soft synth, Morphine just recently posted here.
The Latest on Synthwire and Matrixsynth-b
Just a heads up, I added two new sections to the right just above the Google Search box. "Currently on Matrixsynth B" and "Currently on Synthwire". These are the last five posts on each site. Be sure to check them out so you do not miss what's coming in there as well.
x0xb0xmod
"This is a major mod kit for the x0xb0x. Everything you need to know can be found at x0xb0xmod.The new feature set includes the following:
New Controls:
VCO1 Level
VCO2 Level
VCO2 Tune
VCO2 Fine Tune
VCO2 Waveform Switch
VCO Xmod
Filter Overdrive Range Switch
ENV2 Attack
ENV2 Decay
ENV2 to VCF Depth
ENV2 to VCO Depth
ENV2 to VCO2 On/Off Switch
ENV2 Trigger Source Switch
VCO to Filter Mod Amount
VCO to Filter Mod Source Switch
VCA Attack
VCA Decay
VCA Decay Range Switch
VCA Release
VCA Release Range Switch
Accent Decay
Accent to VCA Amount
Accent Release (Sweep Speed)
Filter Tracking
Slide Time
Hi Resonance Switch
Gate On/VCA On Switch
Envelope Re-trigger Button
Cutoff High Range Switch
Overdrive On/Off Switch
Overdrive Amount Switch
Overdrive Tone
Overdrive Low Freq Switch
Overdrive Type Switch
Power Switch
New Inputs/Outputs:
Gate In
CV In
Accent In
Slide In
Accent Out
Filter Mod CV In
Filter Mod CV In (Audio)
VCO Out
VCF In
VCF Out
Accent Sweep Out
New Indicators:
Gate On LED (logo)
ENV2 LED
Accent Decay LED
Env Decay LED
Hi Resonance LED
Cutoff Hi Range LED
links to the audio demo's:
x0xb0x Mod Audio Demo1
x0xb0x Mod Audio Demo2
x0xb0x Mod Audio Demo3"
via Brian
Update: see this post for some shots of the inside and a link to discussion on ladyada's tea party.
Gary Wright - Love Is Alive (Midnight Special, 1977)
YouTube via rg2027x.
"Keyboardist/Songwriter Gary Wright performing "Love Is Alive" on the Midnight Special TV show, 1977. Featuring a young Steve Porcaro {keyboards for TOTO, Herb Alpert, Pablo Cruise, Brothers Johnson, etc.} on synthesizers along with a rockin' female cowbell player ;-) Awesome Minimoog bass. Enjoy this great song from the 70's decade of musical innovation & legendary songwriting."
Octave CAT SRM II
Title link takes you to shots via this auction."The Cat is similar to the ARP Odyssey, but not as similar as some people think. Things that make this synthesizer unique are: The 2-voice keyboard, which has a second sample-and-hold for the second voice, so both notes die out when you let go of the keys. Each oscillator has a sub-octave output allowing you to get 4 separate notes from the machine at once (although two must be octaves of the other two). VCO 1 also has a triangle wave output, which ARP left off of the Odyssey. Finally, the keyboard is switchable between 2-voice (poly) and 1-voice (mono) modes, allowing you to work monophonically if you want to. The ARP can't do that, so if you're using the ARP's ring modulator you will get random timbres if you aren't careful to release each key before pressing the next one.------ Dave Wilson from synthmuseum.com"
Also see this post for a video demonstration including differnces of the SRM 1 and 2.
GENIUS AT WORK
flickr by Roytex."John Carpenter mans the keys circa June 1978 at Sound Arts Studios in Los Angeles. The soundtrack for "Halloween" was written, performed and recorded in about two weeks."
click here for the full size shot.
Update via the comments:
"No..no..no, this picture is definitely not from the original Halloween session back in June 1978*. I'm pretty sure it was taken during the Halloween III sessions at Alan Howarth's Pi West Electronic Music Studio, Glendale CA, ca. June/July 1982.
* the music for the original Halloween movie was recorded at Sound Arts, Los Angeles and featured Moog modular programming by Dan Wyman."
Casio VL-1 VL-Tone
YouTube via DrSqu
"Casio VL-1 is a cult of the mini synthesizers. Monophon, build between 1981 and 1984. It inclouds a synthesizer, sequencer and a calculator. In this demo is show some funny things about it. Do you remember the song "Da da da" by "Trio" in 1982? Here, 25 years after, you'll see how to play it right. And with yout hands you also have a wah-wah ;) Interessting is the synthesis with some waveforms, ADSSR and 2 LFOs."
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