I finally got around to listening to the Yamaha AN200 demo linked to in this previous post. The demo mp3 is being hosted on a file share site here. It took forever for me to download on a cable connection so I thought I'd put it up on Twango for others to enjoy without the wait. It is probably the most diverse demo of a synth I have heard to date. At first I questioned the auction's claims to the AN1X being designed to emulate the TB-303, Prophet-5 and Minimoog, but you can clearly hear the emulations and more in this demo. Hit play and check out the other posts for the day. This marks number 40! Must... take... a... break...
mp3 demo here
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
wire to the ear Free TimewARP Soundset
click here for the post with samples."My absolute favorite soft synth is a recreation of the ARP 2600 from Way Out Where. It’s called the Timewarp 2600 and it screams, bleeps, grinds and explodes. No other plug-in I own has such detuned madness happening inside it. Today I give you my first free sound set for the Timewarp 2600. If you don’t own this synth you owe it to yourself to head over to Way Out Where’s website and try the demo."
via Oliver Chesler (The Horrorist) of Things to Come Records.
KORG KOASS PAD KP3 OS 2.0
Looks like OS 2.0 is up on the JP KORG site. Nothing on the US site as of this post. via sequencer.de:- Polyphonic Sample Edit Mode
- New Sample Playback Trigger Gating Options
- New Loop Type Option
Update via Sean in the comments: "english language download at link"
side view
flickr by nakedintruderfull size
"side view of fully assembled 'mystery module'" coming from The Harvestman.
mystery module
The Electronic Arts Foundation
"The Electronic Arts Foundation was started by Tom Rhea, David VanKoevering, and Les Trubey (my father) to promote electronic music and preserve historical electronic musical instruments.What follows is the text of an article written by Tom Rhea in 1976 for Contemporary Keyboard magazine. Reprints of this article were included in an info package with each synthesizer sold.
Tom Rhea is the president of the Electronic Arts Foundation, has done extensive work as an electronic music clinician, and has served as a synthesizer consultant to keyboard players such as CK Advisory Board member Keith Emerson. Rhea has a Ph.D. in music from the George Peabody College, in Nashville, Tennessee, with The Evolution Of Electronic Musical Instruments In The United States as his dissertation topic. Tom is also a member of MENC (Music Educators National Conference) and the Audio Engineering Society, and has written instruction manuals for Moog Music's performance oriented synthesizer line."
link to full article
Reissued: Gakken Denshi EX Electronic Experimenter's Kit
"The kit includes instructions for 150 different projects. The text is Japanese only, but there are illustrations of each project to help you put them together, although the final result may come as a complete surprise. The projects include several radios, a lie detector, motorcycle and gun sound effects, wireless microphone and a variety of logic circuits [AND, OR, NOT, NAND and NOR]."Someone needs to come out with an audio/synth centric version of one of these. regardless, this does look pretty cool. I have a Radio Shack Electronics Learning lab with a bread board and well written project guide. I highly recommend these things if you want to learn the basics and just have a fun toy to play with.
You can find more info on the Gakken on Retro Thing.
Con Brio ADS200... in a van... down by the river...
A little humor in the title for any fans of Chris Farley and his classic Van Down by The River skit on SNL (Saturday Night Live).
Humor aside, Brian Kehew of The Moog Cookbook sent me some exclusive shots of his Con Brio ADS200. You can check them out here. More will follow after the show mentioned below. If you remember from this previous post, only two of these were made and this one has just been resuscitated. If you are in the area you can see and hear it at "The FAIR and the MUSEUM: Sat/Sun 10-6 pm!! Exhibits from 2-6pm!"
More info on this shots from Brian:
You will see -
1) Con Brio ADS200 - the one I've had for over almost 15 years. This was me driving it up to a "vintage computer warehouse" in Silicon Valley - hoping we could get it running again.
2) Con Brio ADS200-R, which was picked up on the way, where it had been stored in a garage! Or the main part of it - minus the keyboards, which are already taken out. It hadn't worked when it was put away either - and no discs or manual, alas...3) One of the main boards inside (forget which one), there are about 10 inside, various functions.
4) The wiring BEHIND that very board - now you can see why this stuff was so expensive to make - this is called "wire wrap" construction, and VERY time intensive - and you can't make a mistake!"
genoQs Dev Environment Tutorial
Grabriel of genoQs wrote in to let me know a tutorial on setting up an Octopus OS development environment is now available here as a pdf. "Credit for this document goes straight to John Kimble, who was brave enough to take a few hints from us and turn them into a perfectly running installation of the Octopus development environment. At the same time, John was kind enough to capture his experience and gained expertise into a written document, which he supplied to us so we can make it available to the rest of the Octopus community.
Thank you, John!"
And thank you Gabriel for making the OS available to the community.
Genoqs Octopus Basic Demonstration 6
YouTube via DayflightTrok. Be sure to check out the previous demonstrations.
"free definition about how notes should be played in a sequence."
Crumar Spirit
YouTube via fututronic. via Nusonica.
"The Crumar Spirit was designed in 1982 by Bob Moog, Jim Scott & Tom Rhea. It was not a commercial success so only fifty to one hundred of these beauties exist!
It has a 37-note keyboard with 2 VCO's. There are saw, triangle, and several square waveforms on both oscillators. You can sync both oscillators. The oscillators have an octave range from 32' to 4'. Ring Modulation, low and high pass filters, 12 DB & 24DB slope, single & multiple triggering, keyboard filter tracking, band pass filtering, loudness envelope, filter envelope, arpeggiator linked to LFO (mod-X) with 4 different arpeggiations, LFO 1 modulated 6 different ways, a second waveshapable LFO called (shaper-y) with 4 fixed waveforms and shape control adjustable from saw to reverse-sawtooth, performance panel to include Auto & preset glide, and 3 performance wheels, pitch, Mod-x, and Shaper -Y. with the latter 2 having 5 different destinations. An audio mixer with ability to mix OSC A & B with Ring Modulator, and Noise. LFO 1 also has a red noise generator as well as a brightness control for overall boost of the high frequencies. A filter envelope with inverted and normal ADSR & a loudness envelope which can be bypassed. Output Jacks: External Gate in, External Pitch in, Keyboard Pitch out, Keyboard Gate out, OSC B Pedal, Filter Pedal, Shaper Audio Out, ADSR Mix Out, External Audio In.
Features * Bob Moog design! * 37-note keyboard * Saw, triangle and several square waveforms on both ocillators" Crumar Spirit video.
Silver Mystery Modular
Currently up for auction on VEMIA. If anyone knows more about this one feel free to comment or email me (contact info is on the bottom right of the site).
Variophon and Martinetta Enthusiasts' Page
via Steamy Vicks in the comments of this post.
click here for the website in both German and English.
MOOG Sonic V Brochure
via this auction. via Bill.
"Extremely rare brochure from the early 1970's. 8 1/2 x 11", 2 pages. I wonder if these ever even made it into production? I've seen lots of old Sonic 6 synths, but never one of these. And what happened to the Sonic 1 through 4 models?"
According to the book Analog Days (p. 254): “In a nine-month period between December 1971 and September 1972 Van Koevering recorded 121 different sales in 107 different cities in 25 different states. In this period he sold 86 Minimoogs and an additional 168 synthesizers (Sonic V, Sonic VI, and Satellites), plus a range of accessories, including Moog T-Shirts.”You can find the book on the right Synth Books section of this site.
MOOG 902 VCA Brochure
images via this auction. via Bill."Extremely rare brochure from 1974. 8 1/2 x 11", 4 pages. Much better graphic design."
Synthesizer-Magazin #5
German Synth mag via seqnuencer.de is out.
Click here for more info.
Synth content featured:
* Cwejman - Wowa tells ..
* Yamaha CS01- underestimated & small
* Moog Modular system today - what bringts and how can such a thing today?
* Native Instruments-solid-solid one in the face, or are they "just software"?
* Theremin Story
* Virsyn Poseidon Resynthese or Rehsynthese? The moose test!
More Circuit Bending Challenge 2007 Coverage
Click here for the post on GetLoFi. You will find tons of videos and images.
Synton Bow Tie and Hankerchiefs!
Too funny. via
this auction
"Great fun - a mint unused unopened Synton promo bow-tie and handkerchief, in blue. Very much from an era when men like Bob Moog and Felix Visser wore suits and had long conversations at trade shows. Sold in celebration of Synton, now that Felix is selling up his own gear and retiring."
Also one in
silver grey. (another of the Syrinx colours!)."
Note these are interesting items Peter Forrest is putting up to promote the VEMIA auction. You will notice a number of posts going up here this week. Peter has been gracious enough to offer me some very nice hi-res shots of items going up. We get the shots for posterity and those that might be interested in picking up any of the items will get the heads up. Do note that not every single synth will get a post, so be sure to check out the auction periodically for updates.
MFB Step64 step sequencer + ARP Odyssey Mk3 by RetroSound
YouTube via retrosound72. Sent my way via Marko.
"ARP Odyssey Mk III + MFB Step64 step sequencer more info: www.retrosound.de
The MFB Step64 is a step sequencer with 64 steps, up to 4-voice polyphony, 15 shuffle settings, MIDI in/out and 4xCV/Gate outs."
ARP Odyssey Mk3 Analog Synthesizer by RetroSound
YouTube via retrosound72. Sent my way via Marko.
"short demo of the ARP Odyssey III with FM, sample & hold and VCF-Modulation
more info: www.retrosound.de"
SONOLUMINESCENCE
"Todd Barton, Terry Longshore, Suzee Grilley, Michael Maag and Bruce Bayard creating improvisational sound, movement and light." [link]Todd uses a variety of synths in his performances, ranging from the Roland JP-8080 pictured to a moog, serge, buchla and pro-one.
The image in this post is the PR photo for an upcoming sequence of three concerts. Pretty cool when bands use images of synths so prominently in their promotional material.
click here for their website were you will find some performance clips, images and more.
Circuit Bending Challenge Roundup
"Furby and Jesus, keyboards and guitars and laser gun blasters, pre-natal heart monitors, toys and instruments and strange unidentifiable electronics — in one day, all these things evolved from one thing into … something else. Babies and bigger adult people took to their shops, spent huge amounts of money (one dollar! two dollars!), and came up with remarkable designs. Some were beginners trying their first simple bends, some were serious builders, constructing really playable (if glitchable), convincing instruments. If you’ve never considered bending before, this could change/blow your mind. And for bending lovers, we have quite a range. Thanks to our friend Circuit Master at GetLoFi and Mike Una here on CDM, here come pages of results from the Circuit Bending Challenge I… -PK"Click here for the post on CDM.
Sequential Circuits Remote Prophet
images via this auction. via Dave.
"The Prophet Remote is an oddity easily stumbled upon in music shops and the like. It was designed as a strap-on remote keyboard for the Prophet-5. That's right, now the keyboardist can join the ranks of the hip-swayin' and hair-tossin' guitarists at the front of the stage! The Remote connects to the Prophet-5 via a 20 foot long cable designed to interface with only the P-5.The Prophet Remote has controllers in the hand grip for pitch bending, LFO modulation and volume or filter cutoff. There are also program / bank select buttons for loading up different patches."
Analog Heaven Compilation - 2007
" Analogue Heaven is an email list established in 1993 for the discussion of analogue music equipment. This compilation, created in 2007, is a collection of contributions from list members, centered around the theme of "Sputnik" to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the launching of the Russian satellite.Technologies used include analogue synthsizers and effects. Where possible, a list of tools and a description of the creation process are provided by the author(s) of each piece with accompanying links to MP3 and FLAC files. Individual MP3 are 320kbps."
click here for the site with tracks and descriptions.
Note the compilation is still being created. Some tracks are up but others will surely follow. I was going to hold off on putting up this post, but the AH list has over two thousand members from what I've heard from numerous sources, so anything that goes to the list is pretty much public the second it arrives. Be sure to check back for additional tracks. If a "the compilation is done" email is sent to the list I will do my best to put up another post.
Update: The page is just a placeholder for the time being. I'll put a new post up when it is done. Sorry folks, I jumped the gun on this one.
ASR-10 Sampling
YouTube via Hitman019 (click for more ASR-10 videos).
"Sampling on the ASR-10 taught be its creator."
Sandin Image Processor Plans
There has been some discussion on the Analog Heaven mailing list regarding video synthesizers. Greg sent me the plans for a classic video synth, the Sandin Image Processor. Click on the icon above for the PDF.
Yamaha CS80 Birthday Card
1/8th scale cardboard CS80. You can see more about it and see more shots on RL Music. When you get there, click on the B on the top right of the page. via Peter
Yamaha AN200
images via
this auction.
MP3 demo here.
"This is a 5-voice AN1X with an additional 3 track groovebox style sequencer with built-in AWM2 waveforms for rhythm, bass and fx samples. Entire compositions can be easily made on this box or use it's innovative realtime performance features to create beats to songs on the fly. It has a 4 track free-style parameter sequencer/complex envelope looping generator. This allow you to create high-speed, complex modulatation waveforms to use in any 4 parameters at once. This feature allows you to introduce an endless variety of natural variation into the timbral elements that make up the sound. It gives the sound of the AN200 a kind of animation within the sound, the same way a filter sweep or PWM does, or even oscillator sync. It indeed makes the sound come alive. Because these tracks work at high speeds it gives the AN200 a unique feature not found in other analog modeled synths. Yamaha also includes extra features and routing not found in your typical modeled synths. There's different kinds of sync, FM configurations, new oscillator types, etc. All these features allow this to produce a wide range of all the classic analog synths as well as many hybrid sounds never heard before. It basic design is based on a morphing architecture. That means each preset is made up of two sounds. There is one morphing knob that lets you choose to hear either sound by itself(at the extreme ends), or a true morphed variable combination of the two. Note that this feature doesn't simply crossfade the amplitudes of the sounds the way a mixer would across two tracks. The knob actually adjust each parameter of the first sound towards the values of the other parameters that define the 2nd sound. It's a true morphing function and sounds radically different than simple crossfading. With this revolutionary architecture, almost any animated electronic sound can be realized on this synthesizer.
Here's another description that you may find helpful:
This uses the identical digital circuitry and chips as in the classic AN1X synthesizer, and Yamaha PLG150-AN Plug-in Board for the Motif, CS6X, MU90, MU100, MU128, MU2000, S80, S90, etc, as well as the Keyton plugin box. What makes this technology stand apart from the other virtuals is that Yamaha modelled AN after a SCI Prophet 5, Oberheim, and a MiniMoog Model D. You can get all these types sound character, plus much more you never heard before. This synth has broken new ground in synthesis and sound development by taking the critical elements from these vintage models and fusing them together in an incredibly flexible way. Some highlights are, two main Oscillators, one sub. Oscillators can be patched in series for one to modulate the other in the audio spectrum well above what an LFO can achieve as well as filter/OSC modulation. PWM, different kinds of sync, ring, multimode filter, matrix modulation, etc. However Yamaha didn't stop there, they included a 4 track high resolution free-form envelope generator where each of the 4 tracks are recorded in realtime using any controller knob, then can be assigned/re-assigned to any parameter for automatically generating the ultimate timbral ANIMATION in sync with each key trigger, or even in a random, free-running mode. That alone makes it sound bright and alive. The second revolutionary feature when this came out, was realtime morphing between two scenes, which are really the same as saying two different patches. So for example you can truly morph a Taurus bass into a dark and clangorous series of Cathedral Bells. This is a real morph between two distinct sounds, not simply an amplitude crossfade. This transitional effect sounds radically different and punches thru any mix. This effect really starts getting the AN sound outstandingly close to the kind of animation the Minimoog invoke."
Atari 2600 Synthcart
via this auction.
screenshot
controllers
cartridge
"The Synthcart is a unique Atari 2600 cartridge that turns your 2600 into a pop music sensation, letting you play music using a pair of Atari's keyboard controllers and can also be controlled with an optional 2600 MIDI kit.
AtariAge sponsored a Synthcart Beat Programming Contest in early 2002 to allow people to create and contribute beats to be included with the Synthcart.
This listing includes:1- New NTSC format 32K Sythcart cartridge and full-color manual by Paul Slocum.
1- Clean Pair of Video Touch Pad Controllers
1- New pair of Synthcart keypad overlays.
1- Atari 2600 Darth Vader refurbished and customized with 1/4" jack output and composite video output.
1- Highly Liquid internal MIDI 2600
1- Atari AC adapter.
1- Original Star Raiders Video Game Cartridge.
- Play using an assortment of familiar Atari sounds
- Use two different sound types at a time, one assigned to each controller
- Intelligent voice management constantly re-assigns the two oscillators for maximum perceived polyphony
- User interface designed so that you can program and play the synth without a TV. This Atari has been modified with an audio out, you just need your Atari and an amp.
- Easter egg: secret light show mode that displays color patterns based on sound output. To activate, put the scale on "major" and put the left keypad on "pitfall" or "saw" and play the notes: 4 7 8 9 8 9.
MIDI Capability:
- 8th, 16th, and 32nd note arpeggiator
- Can arpeggiate both oscillators simultaneously
- Beat Box with many pre-programmed beats and fills
- Play two beats simultaneously to create custom beats
- Two tremelo settings
- Four attack/release settings
MIDI Features:* Translates incoming MIDI notes to keypad control signals
* Powered by game console—separate power supply not required
* User-selected MIDI input channel
* Power and activity LEDs"
See the tag below for previous posts including samples.
Crumar BIT One 1 Synthesizer Schematic
via this auction. Note the seller has a ton of other synth scans up as well. I put this one up as I haven't seen it before. The designs synth manufactures come up with for their documentation (colors, fonts graphics) always fascinate me.
CTO XYEB - New Harvestman Mystery Module
flickr by nakedintruder."harvestman mystery module - ships in 2 weeks"
click here for the full size shot.
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