Hack a Day - How-To: Make a digital synthesizer

"This simple guide will show you how to build a digital synthesizer that generates and manipulates square waves. Your synthesizer will have one oscillator, which produces a variable pitch controlled by a potentiometer, as well as an LFO which modulates that pitch at a variable frequency. The part count for this project is quite low, and it can be built for under $20."

click here for more info including the parts. via Dustin.

Jomox T-Resonator Dual Mono

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Stereo is on the next vid (Mac vs PC, ugh) coming soon but here is a fun one for now with the Elektron Machinedrum."

LYRICON WIND DRIVER SAX SYNTH

via this auction

ion

flickr by actuel

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"elektron-users community gifter. hearts"

keysB$W

flickr by emotional investor

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KORG MicroKorg

The Pod - "Techno is not a Joke"

YouTube via clothears2000. For The Mighty Boosh fans out there.
"'Techno is not a Joke'.
Animated adventures of techno art collective The Pod. The Pod are a late eighties electronic dance outfit trying to cope with the mid nineties post rave come down. 'The most technologically advanced sit com in the world'. I made this about five years ago and has never really been seen except at a few screenings and festivals. Stars myself and Julian Barratt. Still one of my favourite films. Julian is brilliant and my performance isn't too bad for once. Also stars my mate Andy Bone."

Videos:
The Pod. part i. The Animated Adventures.
The Pod. Part ii The Animated Adventures of The Pod. .
The Pod. Part iiiThe Animated Adventures of The Pod..
The Pod Techno Dawn
"The Single Techno Dawn was released by The Pod on the 1st of January 2000."

And more:
The Pod - Community Techno Unit

YouTube via gullilaura. Via Music Thing where you can find more.
"Julian Barratt + Tim Hope = The Pod!
Uploaded by Whiterose from the Mighty Boosh forum"

The POD

YouTube via catmink
"Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) and Tim Hope in their experimental techno group before the mighty Boosh.
Take the piss out of Donna Air, tell us the meaning of life and then deliver one of the greatest pieces of music never to be known to mankind. . . . untill now"
via Music Thing

78 (Modular Synth VS jazzbass)

YouTube via tyu10002000
"ARP 2500 Modular Synth+JAZZBASS chalenge! BASS!! A favorite. There is it in a column. An analog synthesizer. In a phrase. I arrange a base."

Machine Boy

"Building A Better Boy was created
with a Roland MC50 & Alesis Micron synth
handling the bassline, the speech is created with
an apple mac running Simpletext in os9, the
melodyline is a couple of Subtractor synths in Reason and the
Boss DR55 handles the drums.
The track is assembled and finished
in Logic Audio on a G4 mac."
http://www.myspace.com/machineboyuk
http://www.shotguncharlie.co.uk/machineboy.htm

Machine Boy - Building A Better Boy

YouTube via shotguncharlielabel
"Machine Boy's plan on Building A Better Boy....for all!!"

Analog Echo EM-006

YouTube via moogfreak
"Hello outside. This is a video about an old little juicy echo-machine called "Analog Echo EM-006". In this video you can see and more important hear, what this nice-sounding vintage-echo-machine can do with the beat of an also old analog Roland TR606 drum-machine."

BOSS GE-10 graphic equalizer

YouTube via moogfreak
"This is the vintage analogue BOSS graphic equalizer GE-10. In this video I will show the potential of this old nice-sounding EQ by equalizing a sequence played with the moog prodigy analog synthesizer. Please excuse the little pumping of the compressor from my videocam."

MC303 sound demo

YouTube via se7ense7
"long video with me browsing through a lot of the sounds of the MC303 groovebox by Roland. I bought this little piece of equiptment as an add-on to my synth and recording based studio, and to be able to make little sketches just using the MC303. I use it mainly as a soundsource, and I sure love those sounds. You just have to know where to use them. Pz, ARD"

Some Buchla History via mosc

You can find the full post with links and more images here on electro-music.com.

A brief excerpt:
"I have no experience with that particular system. I worked for Buchla when he was making the 200 series synthesizers. Actually, I was working for a project called the Electric Symphony Orchestra for which Buchla was the Technical Wizard."

Update: another link via the 200e list.

Sound Design: The Wind Saw Sweep

YouTube via MinorAchievements.
"This video shows you how to create a wind saw sweep. A common synth effect found in many songs.

I demonstrate it on the [KORG] Oasys and in Reason (Thor), but the same logic can be used for almost any analog synth.

The song shown in it is Pictures by the Sneaky Sound System.

Sorry about the screen movement during the reason demonstration. I'll avoid that in future."

playing the Juno-60

YouTube via lesingemonotone
"Showcasing a few of the sounds the Juno-60 is capable of."

Roland VP-330 Vocoder + Juno-60 + Moog Taurus by RetroSound

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

bass: Moog Taurus bass pedals
arpeggio sound: Roland Juno-60
analog strings and human choir: Roland VP330 Vocoder Plus Mk2"

Access Virus TI Polar Fun Patches & Playing Style Demo

YouTube via acaruso36

"In this Video, I used Access Virus Ti Polar. I experimented with the Factory Patches and filters and effects control knobs that make the patch Sound interesting. While playing this Awesome synth, I keep addapting the playing style as I adjust the Patches in real time."

Blackey

YouTube via shadowfac via the forum.
"One-hand tweakformance with a Clavia Nord Modular G2, Korg Electribe ER-1, Emu MP7 Command Station, and Boss DR-770 drum machine."

Panther Modules

"Designed by Ken Stone, and bought to market by Laurie Biddulph of Elby Designs, TheBeast is proud to present The Panther Modular.

The module range is intended to work within the current market framework, set out by doepfer, analogue systems, et.al, but, insted of simply offereing yet another 'moog ladder' filter, to offer some truely unique modules, be it in function (Ken's 'Super Psycho LFO' is a fortcomming module) or in sound (try recreating the Steiner filter eleswhere!)

These modules, of course, are fully compatible with the Eurorack systems offered by Doepfer, Plan-B, Analogue Solutions, and the like, and electronically compatible with Analogue Systems modules, although different power cables must be used."

click here for the full list of Panther Modules via The Beast, makers of the Roland TB-303 Beast mod. via sequencer.de

TR-808 Obliterated by Iron Man - Synth Fans at Marvel Comics

Well, sort of. Watch the video here. It comes in the second episode. They are short so if you have the time watch the first, then scroll down to "Iron Man's Adventure Continues." It's in that one. Direct link here for the archives.

via ben shannon.

Sonic Boom and His EMS Synthi AKS

Click here for more images via Charlotte.

Update: The doll according to Charlotte now resides with Sonic Boom. She made it two years ago and gave it to him when she went to see him live. Her brother made his head, you can see more of his quality work here (pretty cool smurf art). I asked Charlotte if she had a website to see more of her work. She doesn't, but she is part of the beloved Tigersushi Corporation. You'll find some interesting posts there. She likes to work collectively with her bother. "I would love to make more action figures from musicians and of course moreover playing analog synths, well... maybe one day."

Moog Freqbox mf-107 Oscillator. Hexfix93’s Take.

You can find the full take here.

"The moog freqbox, a versatile fx pedal unit that can be used as an oscillator in a modular synth setup. When I first plugged them in, I noticed how huge they sounded. How alive. They reminded me of the older moog stuff, like tarus pedals and model d minimoog. With two, the oscillators would beat and sound pretty vintage. These things are FAT. The biggest. The sync sounds were so mean and huge, it would make my whole house shake. I ran these into my doepfer custom eurorack filled with rare boutique modules. I loves how the moog oscillators sounded through the polivoks filter the most. I prefered these oscillators for BASS duties. There is this warm beef that you get in the 60 to 200hz range on the low end of the frequency spectrum. No other synths and oscillators can pump this style of sound out. These pedals really did sound more vintage to me than the little phatty and the new minimoog voyagers. They had plenty of high end frequencies which I think are lacking a tad on the newer moog synths."