Amin Bhatia - Virtuality - Update

I just received my copy of Virtuality by Amin Bhatia. You might remember the CD from this post. To my surprise, the liner notes in the CD includes a number of descriptive texts with images on the various synths used in the recording. Very, very cool. If you remember the previous post, the CD features a version of Bolero that is built upon classic synthesizers over time. If you appreciate synths, it doesn't get much better than this.
I added a link to the right of the site under the Bob Moog Foundation. Do check it out.

Nord Lead 2x Nord Stage Improvisation

YouTube via americantango
"Improvisation on Nord Lead 2x for the lead sound (lexicon mx200 for FXs) and Nord Stage 88 for the synth pad."

Summer NAMM: Roland GW-8

YouTube via soundonsoundvideo

Rootbeer - Fuzzface

YouTube via mercimer
"Basically its me and alex messing around with a guitar synthesizer. Everything in the musical experiment was made up on the spot, but we hope you enjoy it anyway. Follwers will hopefully come soon"

GET OFF MY BUNNY

YouTube via ilessthenthreeyou
"me rachel annalee and katie playing with my voice synthesizer"

My Curse (full) on a keyboard

YouTube via mtg8321. The ANTI-SYNTH!!! http://www.myspace.com/metalpianoman
"Here's my cover of Killswitch Engage's "My Curse".

A few things about the music, video, and images.

1. This is played entirely by ear. It took me about 3 or 4 days to learn fully.
2. The keyboard is a Korg Karma using an Overdrive guitar sound.
3. The audio was recorded via Pro Tools.
4. The images are pictures I took out in Colorado, in 2006.
5. I edited the video today.

Send me comments, leave me messages, let me know what you think."

Analog Solutions Red Square V2

images via this auction
"Having an "open" system like this, compared to a non-modular synth, gives you a large number of creative opportunities such as applying pedals and effects - things like adding reverb to an LFO signal, tremolo to VCO, distrotion to the Envelopes, etc, via something like a Boss Line Selector pedal. The low pass filter gives a different flavor compared to typical 24db diode ladder types. Great fos bass, hard sounds, pads with unique character via the filter. Audio in and out are present on both front and rear of the unit. Midi In and Thru on back. Unit has built-in 16bit Midi-to-CV converter.

* 2x VCO with tri, saw, sqr; pull tune knob to get lower octaves
* excellent Sub VCO
* LPF with cross-modulation
* Noise
* Ext. signal input
* AHR envelope; settable to AR
* ADSR envelope w/ +/- env shape
* LFO tri, saw, sqr; rate mod in
* Ring Mod
* 16-bit Midi-to-cv with pitch & trig, plus extra accent and control cv outputs

Comes with original accessories -- manual, power cable, and patch cables (6, not pictured).

This unit is set for operation at 115V."

Studio Electronics SE-1x

images via this auction

EDP WASP

via this auction

Yamaha CS30

images via this auction

"This CS-30 has two VCOs, two VCFs, two VCAs one LFO, three EGs and 8 step analog sequencer. All sections are routable by selector switches, just like modular synthesizer without patch cables."

Jim Patchell DSM1

"Here is what I have in mind for the moment. This, I propose, to implement in a Xilinx XC3S1000 fpga. I am going to use a Diglent Spartan 3 Starter board with that part mounted on it. This should be able to cover all that is proposed. I will be controlling it with an Atmel ATmeaga2561 microcontroller.

I should be able to run this at 96KHz sample rate, my goal is, however, to run at 192KHz sample rate. The tough one is going to be the filter. I am currently writing the code of the low pass filter. I know that 512 of anything seems like a lot, but, that is just sort of how things break down in the Spartan 3. If it works...I don't think I will need to worry about running out of oscilators. I still need to figure out some way to get modulation into the picture, but, that I am sure will come later. I want to get the basic system down first. It would be kind of keen to be able to do FM modulation from channel to channel..."

More info on the Jim Patchell DSM1 here. Note the filter for the Mattson Mini Modular is based on a Jim Patchell design.

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flickr by thegibbon
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Update: anyone know exactly what this is?

Circuit Bent Furby

via Califaudio

Moog Minimoog

Smorgasbord

via customsynth.co.uk

SCD live (Boele Gerkes)

YouTube via boelegerkes
"SCD live in the studio on various analog and digital synthesizers: Waldorf WAVE, Roland JP-4, SH-7, Alesis Andromeda, Korg MS-20, Yamaha CS-30, CS-60 and SY-2, Jomox Xbase 09, Sequentix P3 stepsequencer, Roland V-synth."

Re: The World's Biggest Trance Lead?

YouTube via lactatingwalrus. "ho ho ho ho ho" Be sure to see this video for reference.

Prova Supporto Mobile Improvvisato

YouTube via crow981
"Supporto MOnitor + Korg X50(Low Quality)"

Virus TI song

YouTube via scoopicman

"Song made with 16 TI sounds. Recorded into the OASYS' HD recorder."

My Microkorg MSB

YouTube via comauk

Added the "shift key" hold function for VIRUS TI.

YouTube via denha
"Short push is "shift key" hold. and semilong push is "shift key" release."

KAKU P-MODEL-Antimonesia

YouTube via vistoron. Interesting alternate controllers. via sequencer.de
"Live Vistoron. A huge Ashu-on (Sound Subspecies) Cultivation Chamber set up on stage."
Update via the world of next tuesday in the comments:
"This is off the DVD "LIVE VISTORON / KAKU P-MODEL"
You can order it and his other albums on an English webpage here:

http://www.susumuhirasawa.com/teslakite/e/

Also some legal free mp3s here
http://www.teslakite.com/freemp3s/e/

KAKU (meaning "core") P-MODEL is the 2004 one man band incarnation of P-MODEL, one of the founding Techno Pop bands in Japan along side YMO beginning in 1979."

SNAMM08: New Kurzweil Keys

via Sonic State.

Updates:

SNAMM08: Korg Nano Announcement

via Sonic State.

Akai AX80

flickr by Ricardipus

full size

"A digital-analogue hybrid synthesizer from the mid-1980s. For those so inclined, it had weedy sounding oscillators, deadly fat 24dB/octave Curtis analogue low-pass filters, a raft of LFOs, and a rather dodgy keyboard action. I bought mine new. Loved it then, love it now.

Some examples of this and other electronic junk from the 80s and 90s can be heard on the audio clips at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar of this site."

via Ricardipus in the comments of this post on the Sequential Circuits Split 8.

The Shape of Music - Opal MIDI keyboards

info including video at The Shape of Music.

via Wavedeform in the comments of this post on the Axix-64.

Vocoder Madness

via robovoice on this electromusic.com thread. EMS Vocoders:

Newcleus - Computer Age (Push The Button)

YouTube via josieldeassis
"Productions, formed in 1977 in Brooklyn, New York, which included teenagers Ben "Cozmo D" Cenac and his cousins Monique and Pete Angevin. The group's popularity grew as it played block parties in Brooklyn. By 1979, the primary group's members were Cozmo D, Yvette "Lady E" Cook (who would later marry Cozmo D), Monique Angevin, and Bob "Chilly B" Crafton (who would later marry Monique)."

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