EDP Gnat Synthesizer Schematics

Tim Stinchcombe reverse engineered the EDP Gnat and has posted the schematics online.

"I originally bought one of these out of idle curiosity - having read all about the Wasp and its use of digital inverters in the analogue section, I couldn't resist buying a Gnat (a 'Special' in fact) when the opportunity arose. It was sold as none-working, and after replacing a few chips, I got it working. On acquiring a Wasp, and then a second Gnat, it became clear there were differences between both the Gnat and the Wasp, and between the Gnats themselves. Nothing for it to but to reverse-engineer the whole thing, and have a look-see myself! The schematics are only hand-drawn, and I make absolutely no guarantees to their correctness whatsoever (more notes follow)"

click here for the for more including a link to the schematics.

Scream 2007: AnalogLive! Images via Amateur Chemist

Click here for the full set of images on Amateur Chemist.

Pictured: Peter Grenader's setup. Peter Grenader organized the event and is the man behind Plan B.

Be sure to check out the comments of this previous post for some good reviews over the show. There are also more shots added to the set.

Prophet '08 Desktop

Before you get too excited, this is only a photoshop via babic via sequencer.de. What do you think?

Molar VST

YouTube via spmaspma.
"walkthrough of setup assumes you know MonoChrome VST, as Molar is the audioversion."

Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 1 and 2

Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 1


Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 2

YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Back in January we went to California, USA, to attend and report on the NAMM 2007 music trade show, in association with our sponsors, Novation. We're going to put them on Youtube now: have at you!"

EMS VCS3 MKII & Universal Sequencer

YouTube via buchla300.
"Very simple patch and sequence.
VCO 1 to the left speaker through the reverb
VCO2 to the right speaker through the filter"

E-Mu Proteus Pack

"Digital Sound Factory has reissued the original Proteus sample content for use with Cakewalk's Dimension Pro and Dimension LE synthesizers. Founder Timothy Swartz is a 20-year veteran of E-MU Systems and producer of the original Proteus sound sets used in their hardware products. Using the original sample content, combined with the advanced parameters available in Cakewalk's Dimension, these new instrument programs were perfectly matched and tuned to the original hardware products.

The E-MU Proteus Pack consists of over 3,500 immediately useable, go-to sound programs, perfect for any style of music you can imagine. And when you combine them with the infinite synthesis options of Dimension Pro, they also provide the perfect springboards for custom sonic creations."

click here for more info including samples. This pack has been making some buzz. At first I thought it would be a VST of the full blown synths, but briefly looking at the site it appears to just be a sample pack. If anyone knows more, feel free to comment.

Roland RS-09

flickr by enjoy february

full size

"Roland Organ/Strings RS-09 Analog synth."

Pearl Syncussion SY1

via this auction, via Magneteyez. Note this is a re-listing of this auction. It fell through so it's up again. New post for the new shots and as a courtesy for the support.

Brian Kehew of The MOOG Cookbook Looking for a Website Designer

Via Brian Kehew of The MOOG Cookbook.

"I have some good info collected on old Minimoog, lots of details of the variations/changes over the years. It was intended for a website that never happened. Also have good info on the 360 Systems keyboard - which is a constant mystery to people who own one. I have spent some years doing research on it. Finally, the Con Brio restoration/documentation is going on - and also need a good website. I want simple stuff, nothing tricky, but would like it to look good. This is nothing "for pay" as these sites would be just to disseminate good information to people who need it. I want help from someone who is quick at website work. Just text and photos, maybe hosting and playing a few soundfiles?"

You can reach Brian at briankehew at gmail.com

Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away (1988)

YouTube via JimmyToast. Sent my way via Xavier. Roland JX-10 with PG-800 programmer.
"Live from 'Delicate Sound of Thunder'."

Roland Juno-60 + Sequential Circuits Pro-One + Roland TR-707

YouTube via retrosound72. Sent my way via Marko.
"short sync-test with the Roland TR-707 and the SCI Pro-One built-in sequencer. The Pro-One was triggered by the TR-707 and the Juno-60 was played the melody. recorded only with a small pocket cam. more info: www.retrosound.de"

Roman Sowa's Synth Site

click here for Roman Sowa's synth site. You will find a DIY modular section, a custom Polysynth, Mini MIDI controllers, DSP Development System, and more. There are descriptions, schematics, and samples of the modular and the 8 voice polysynth which features both a DCO and Wavetable.

Roman Sowa's simple AD633 RingMod

flickr by fonik2000

full size

www.sowa.synth.net/modular/rm.html

korg mono/poly synthesizer

flickr by tomn7 (click for more).

full size

David's "STAR WARS" on KOCO 5 Alive News (1978)

YouTube via quantumdave. via Nusonica.

"In 1978, KOCO 5 Alive News came to Producers Workshop to do a piece about the music business. It ended up being a feature on me . . . Al Franken. Just Kidding. Me . . . David Powell, and my synthesizer version I was working on from the "original" score of
'STAR WARS'."

Veqtor - Analogik1

"So, I had been spending loads of time at EMS, where i study electro acoustic music composition and been recording a bunch of sessions with a buchla, serge and spring tank reverb and I thought: “Hey, this is pretty cool, maybe someone would like to listen to this?” So I decided to release it for free! Basically everything is recorded on the fly, sometimes several takes on top of eachother. I plan on releasing more of ‘em as I go along, I’m actually on my way there right now. What are you waiting for?"

click here for the download.

Aliens Project Toy of the Month - MOOG Modular

click here for more images and samples on Aliens Project.

POLIVOKS (aka POLYVOX, POLIVOX, POLYVOKS) - Interviews

"For many years Russian Federation has been an isolated economy. Ministry of Culture, for example, wouldn't allow import of foreign instruments and Soviet musicians at the time didn't have a musical instrument that would offer capabilities and sounds of the equipment available to the rest of the world. This had triggered creation of a completely new and unique instrument.

Polivoks was designed by an engineering team lead by Vladimir Kuzmin from the Urals Vector Company later built by Formanta Radio Plant in the early 80's. First commercially available Polivoks was sold in 1982 with the last unit sold in 1990. Polivoks is one of the most popular vintage synths today because of its history and extraordinary industrial look. Many consider its sound capabilities to be comparable to a MiniMoog."

click here for more including two interviews. via Kevin in the comments of this post.

"Counterfeit Umbrella" Video Single!

YouTube via inverseroom.
"Inverse Room dramatizes the recording of his song "Counterfeit Umbrella" earlier this month at Mabel Sound."

"--it's not a very synthy song, just one solo line from the Frac/Euro modular (with particular attention to the Harvestman Malgorithm and Wiard Borg Filter). But you can also make out some other vintage keyboards in there, including the Yamaha SY-2, SCI Pro One, Yamaha YC-25D, and a Wurlitzer 206."

You can find more at www.inverseroom.com

Workspace and Environment: Atom™

I have to get me a chair like that for my MicroKorg.

click here for the post on trash_audio.

Electronic Music Box #4

via this auction. via Tony

"The Electronic Music box is a hand built, custom designed, small format, one of a kind, modular analog electronic instrment. The design is inspired by classic Buchla and Serge modular synth systems.

Listen to it here:
Make Noise

The enclosure is reclaimed medical surplus.

The interface is entirely modular and analog and uses mini banana cables (supplied) for signal distribution. The size is 5"x7"x3"

The unit can run from a signle 9 Volt transistor battery or a 9 Volt wall transformer (supplied).

This instrument consist of the following sub-modules:

1 Clocked LFO Bank. A master clock drives a bank of 5 LFOs all of which are rythmic divisions of the master clock. The LFOs are arranged slowest to fastest (left to right) with the slowest capable of 3 minute cycles and the fastest going well into audio range (for sideband). Each LFO has it's own attenuator (useful for setting modulation amonts and achieving desired pitches from the oscillators).

3 Triangle Core Linear Voltage Controlled Oscillators with dynamic wave clipping which allows for the triangle wave to be shaped into a square wave as well as different variations of trapeziods. Each oscillator has 2 Frequency Modulation inputs, 1 output and panel controls for Frequency and Wave Clippping.

1 Six Channel Mixer with 2 attenuators and Master Volume Panel control.

1 Expression Pedal/ external input. 1/4" TRS socket with +5V supplied to the ring allowing for the use of an expression pedal. Additionally, this socket can be used as an external input for either Control Voltages or Signals.

A single LED indicates power on/ off, and a Wall Transformer may be connect via DC barrel jack on the faceplate.

With this box you can creat everything from gurgling sequences to pure noise to complex drones (listen to the demos). The LFOs are not the only sorce of modulation. The oscillators are capable of modulating each other and the external input allows for modlation from an another source.

The Electronic Music Box will ship with MANUAL, power supply and 14 mini banana cables."

MAQ 16/3+Doepfer+Dalek----3

YouTube via DavideModu.

Polymoog - slightly broken!

YouTube via buchla300.
"Here is my Polymoog 203a taken out of it's case for the first time in years! I bought it as in need of work, but it doesn't seem that bad. A few voices don't work, sometimes craps out and some waveshapes need sorting etc etc but, worth doing though as I LOVE polymoogs. Better than people think. Crap phone quality video. Sorry!"

keybdwizrd - Battling Monsters (softsynths)

YouTube via keybdwizrd.
"All software synths used. Bass - Oddity played via Polar keyboard. Sync Lead - NI Pro-53 played via M-Audio MIDI controller. Synth Lead - Arturia Minimoog V played via Micro X keyboard. Drum track sequenced in Digital Performer using MOTU MachFive2 sampling software."

KIMI dance the house !

YouTube via imkimi. "dance dance"

Yamaha CS50

images via this auction

"serial # is: 1841. 77 pounds by itself"

BTW, do check out Matrixsynth-b. Some interesting items have gone up.

PAiA Strings n Things

images via this auction

It's smaller than I expected.

Why do I feel like I'm setting myself up for something...

White ARP AXXE Overlays

via this auction

Not the best images, but you do not see them in white often.

Note the auction is not for the ARP AXXE but just the patch overlays.

E-Mu SP1200

images via this auction

"The SP-1200 was THE drum machine & sampler combo of legendary status among old school rap and hip hop artists from the eighties and nineties. It is similar to today's Akai MPC samplers - it is a sampler plus drum machine. It has limited sampling specs: 22 kHz and 12-bit resolution. However the dirtiness of that sound is great for hip hop and house music. They say it sounds like "old vinyl"... It features groove quantizing and a disk drive for sample storage. As an upgraded version of the 1985 SP-12, the SP-1200 focused on its coolest feature - sampling. The preset drum sounds of the SP-12 were omitted, leaving room for up to 32 user samples of your own custom sampled and edited drum sounds.

Although this machine was originally released in 1988, E-mu has reissued them again and again due to popular demand. They continued producing them until they ran out of the SSM filter chips they used, around 1998. It was just too legendary to give up as it was THE beat machine for old-school rap and hip hop! Pictured above is the final reissued version in 1997 with the cooler looking all-black case. With the SP-1200 it's easy and fun to grab those sliders and tune or tweak your sampled drum sounds all around!

Specifications
Polyphony - 8 voice
Sampler - 4 2.5 second blocks (10 seconds)
SPECS - 256 KB memory
22KHz 12 bit sampling
Patterns - 100
Songs - 100
Keyboard - 8 Touch Pads
Memory - 32 patches
Control - MIDI, SMPTE"