The Bass Is Back!

"If you're serious about bass (and who isn't), you won't want to miss this unique opportunity to own New Moog Taurus Bass Pedals.

These pedals will faithfully reproduce the original Taurus I bass sound. There will only be one run of 1000 of these pedals produced.

This offer ends February 15, 2009.

We are only producing 1000 of these pedals. And the first 250 customers will receive a discounted purchase price of $1695 with an initial deposit of $500.

Regardless of quantity ordered, this offer ends February 15, 2009. All Taurus pedals ordered after the first 250 will sell for $1995. "

You can find more info including audio on the Moog Music website.

Preliminary Specifications
The most important aspect of the design is to reproduce the original TAURUS I sound-engine as faithfully as possible.

• 100% Analog Sound Engine based entirely on original TAURUS I circuits
• "Taurus I" style (one and half octaves on the floor)
• 2 VCO Oscillators, ADS Contour Generator, 1 VCF Filter, Output VCA
• PRESETS: 16 Banks x 4 presets = 48 Total Programmable Bass Sounds
• BANK 0 will contains the Original Taurus I Presets: VAR, TAURUS, TUBA, BASS
• MIDI: DIN and USB, Merging and Routing
• ARPEGGIATOR: MIDI Sync, TAP TEMPO, Internal
• CV Inputs: VOLUME, FILTER, PITCH, GATE"

Sound on Sound Buchla 200e Review Online

you can find the review here.

"Despite the success of Hollywood, some icons never cross the Atlantic successfully from West to East. Say 'Babe Ruth' to the average Brit, and you'll conjure an image of a small girl too young to play ball games. Likewise, say 'Don Buchla' in the UK, and you'll probably be asked whether he was a character in The Godfather. Strangely, that description is not as far from the truth as you might imagine. In the USA, there are three 'godfathers' of synthesis: Alan Pearlman, Bob Moog, and — largely unknown in the Auld Country — Donald Buchla.

Buchla was a contemporary of Moog, and like Dr Robert, he produced his first synthesizers in the 1960s. He continued to do so throughout the '70s and '80s (see the box on the history of Buchla & Associates overleaf), but the commercial acclaim and recognition afforded to Moog eluded Buchla, and he concentrated on controllers in the '90s. By the early years of this century, he had slipped into the backwaters of the music industry, but in 2002, he decided to reinvent his most successful synthesizer, the Series 200 from the early '70s, bringing it up to date while retaining as much backwards compatibility as possible. Three years later, the result has arrived. It's a feature-packed synthesizer with a staggeringly huge price tag (see the final page of this article). It's the Buchla 200e." Note the printed review was from 2005.

Update via Wavedform in the comments: "The SOS review seems like Gordon Reid really wanted to review a different system, and not the system as it was.

The Keyboard review was a little more even-handed, I thought."

MusoTalk 211 - Studiolegenden - Moog Modular

YouTube via musotalk

Clavia nord rack 2x.avi

YouTube via audiokeys

Appendage, Klee, GM Voice

YouTube via timsynth
"This is a feeble attempt to "Play" the Scott Stites Appendage Touch Ribbon Controller, along with the KLEE Sequencer(the bass pattern), and Thomas Henry GM Voice(the drums). It's my first attempt and marginally musical :-0 The circuit is DIY snd is built on perfboard inside the box. See electro-music.com for upcoming PCBs and technical details.

Regards,
Tim"

KKP SleepDrone 5 outputs

YouTube via bigcitymusic

"We're just having some fun using the King Capitol Punishment Sleepdrone 5's separate outputs for each oscillator. One's running to the WMD Geiger Counter, one to the Catalinbread Teaser Stallion, one to the Catalinbread Valcoder, and one to the Zvex Vexter Fuzz Factory."

Saxxy Voice-Controlled Synth

via this auction

"Saxxy is a voice-controlled synthesizer shaped like a mini sax, I guess.
You sing/hum/scream into the mic at one end and Saxxy spits out tuba, clarinet, or sax sounds that track the pitch of your voice. You can also shift any of the sounds 2 octaves up or down.

This is a surprisingly fun little device that can actually sound quite cool, and it's great as a non-keyboard approach to sound generation. The tuba sound pitched down an octave does some cool bass too.

Takes 4 AA batteries and has a 1/8" headphone output."

Roland Juno-6

images at this auction

Experimenting with Electronic Music

via this auction

"Within its pages is an overview of the history of electronic music, from RCA's tube-based Mark I to modern solid-state synthesizers, with photos of the Minimoog and the Moog Sonic Six, as well as the Tonus ARP 2500, 2600, and Soloist consoles. For you tinkerers out there, the book also contains numerous construction projects, including two (2) separate transistorized theremins complete with detailed alignment instructions. All projects come ready-to-build with full schematics and parts lists.

Contents include:
* Musical Electronics
History - Mechanical Tone Generation - Electronic Tone Generation - The Music Synthesizer

* Sound and the Electronic Signal
Sound - Harmonic Motion - The Sine Wave - Additive Synthesis - Square Wave - Sawtooth Wave - Beat Notes - The Envelope - White Sound - Using the Complex Wave

* The Instruments
Mechanical Tone Generators (string, wind, and percussive) - Experimenting

* Microphone and Pickup Applications
Principles - Ceramic and Crystal Applications - Homemade Ceramic - Homemade Percussion - Dynamic Microphones - Magnetic Pickups - Homemade Magnetic Pickup - Condenser - Impedance

* Building a Small Electric Organ
Tone Generation - General Construction - Tremolo Modulator - Mixer - Homemade Keyboards - Combining the Stages

* The Electronic Modifiers
Tremolo Circuit - Envelope Control Circuit - Trigger Circuit - Attack Envelope Generator Circuit - Photoelectric Modulator - Reverberation - Chime Device - "Fuzz" Circuit - Sustain Circuit

* Electronic Tone Generators
Multi-waveform Generator - Pink Noise Circuit - Two Theremin Projects - Automatic Percussion Circuit - The Almost Nightingale - Mini-Organ

* Odds and Ends
Two-Channel Mixer - Three-Channel Mixer - Voice Selector - Variable Bandpass Amplifier - Active High-Pass Filter - Resonant Filter - Tube Filter - Tape and Echo"

Yamaha AN1X

images at this auction

Roland JX-8P

images at this auction

VINTAGE OBERHEIM OB-Xa with DSX

images at this auction

Moog Opus 3

images at this auction

Roland SH-101

via this auction

Harmonic table keyboard DIY

YouTube via akorbeti. follow-up to this post.
"This is the first step of making a DIY (obviously) harmonic table MIDI controller. It is based on the midibox.org core module. For more info and other similar projects, visit http://synth-diy.blogspot.com"

MOTM-820 Assembly

see the full post on Sequence 15
snip:
"With all of the transistors in, this phase of assembly is complete and the board is ready to wash. In its kits, Synth Tech divides board stuffing and assembly into two phases: all of the parts that can tolerate water immersion are installed first, using an organic acid-based solder. This solder does a good job of removing oxidation from pins and board traces, but it must be washed after soldering to remove the acid flux. After the final wash, the remaining components are installed using a "no-clean" solder that doesn't have to be washed, but requires more care in soldering. The board, ready for wash"

analog computer city

flickr by ssm1981

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Catgirl Synth PCBs

Modular 8

flickr by myspecialalonetime
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Ean Golden will rock you w Korg Nano Pad

YouTube via eangolden
"Here is a quick routine I came up with today using the Korg Nano pad. I have 2 tracks in Traktor Pro and a gater effect on the vocal. Check out http://www.djtechtools.com for the full review and more techniques like this one."

Moog Music Minimoog Voyager: Like MS Excel, It's Got Filters

"In Canada, Bill Holland's fascination with "knobs" would probably get him in some sort of trouble, but here in America, his knob-ledge comes in handy quite often, especially when he needs to exit an enclosed area or, like in this video, he wants to change the filter parameters on a Moog Music Minimoog Voyager.

If you've ever wondered what people were talking about when they said (or wrote) "ASDR," this video will answer all your questions, and then some.

See more on Gearwire.com."

Moog Music MoogerFooger FreqBox And Moog Minimoog Voyager

YouTube via gearwire
"We conclude our look at the Moog Music Minimoog Voyager as Bill Holland has some fun hooking it up to the Moog MoogerFooger FreqBox. The two in tandem are more dangerous than Rodman and Van Damme in Double Team.

Check it out as Bill summons the robots via a robot call only achievable through select combinations of Moog products.

See more on Gearwire.com."

KORG Wavestation on Cafe 80

via Khoral Cafe 80 where you'll find a great post on the synth series including samples. Be sure to check out the rest of Khoral Cafe 80 for more.

prueba color tracking + tiction + fiddle

prueba color tracking + tiction + fiddle from Fello on Vimeo.
escritordeconejos.blogspot.com/ via Aleksandar

Marion (Oberheim) MSR-2 Poly Analog Modular Synthesizer

via this auction

"Concernig the O.S. VERSION:
- Following Internet searches, I believe these are the latest OS versions:
MSR (mainframe) Version 1.09 / ASM (synthesizer module) Version 1.13
- As you can see, the mainframe of the actual item has OS 1.09; can´t really tell the ASM version at this point

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Some facts/rumors about the MSR-2:
- It has Audio-In, so you can process external audio signals thru the envelope/filter et al.
- The Marion MSR-2 is known for having the 'Oberheim sound' packaged inside a compact single-space rackmount module with modern digital reliability and MIDI implementation.
- Despite its rather harmless and simple appearance, the MSR-2 allows for some fairly complex but intuitive programming. The filters, envelopes, LFOs and other parameters are very analog-like in their sound and editing methods.
- The module is 16-part multitimbral.

8 voices and HROs (high resolution oscillators) used in here, midi control, the rest is quite like the Matrix 6, this mainframe can hold up to 2 complete ASMs (16 voices) and a main graphic EQ. planned: sample player, wavetable synth, FX, FM?.. - Module never came up.. has triangle to saw morphing.

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Styrofoam - Brigh Red Helmet (studio footage)

Youtube via pointmisser
"working on a very early demo of "Bright Red Helmet". I think only the machinedrum beat and some of the keyboard parts survived the final cut. This was also before cleaning up the studio and getting the new desk etc. Things look much nicer now.."

ARP - SOLINA String ENSEMBLE

images at this auction

"Solina String Ensembe (ARP license)"

via marko

r2-d2 in heat

"Here's a little knob-twiddling with 1 VCO, 1 VCF, 1 Trigger Gen, 1 S&H, 1 ENV Gen, 1 Square Wave Gen all in real time on a Steiner Synthasystem. Enjoy, vgermuse"

Casio CZ - Analogue Sounds 1 - Bassline

YouTube via benanderson88
"The first of a set of video's showing how analogue a CZ synthesizer can sound."

Analog Synth DIY VC-THF Demo

YouTube via Redled72
"Es handelt sich um ein spannungsgesteuertes Klangregelmodul für 2 Kanäle. Die Tiefen und die Höhen des Audiosignales können mit Hilfe von CV-Spannungen in einem Bereich von +/-16dB angehoben und gesenkt werden. Quasi ein spannungsgesteuerter Hoch und Tiefpass. Die Steuerkannäle können auch zusammengeschaltet werden. Steuersignale können invertiert und !invertiert angelegt werden. Im Beispiel wird nur 1VCO verwendet, daß Audiosignal durchläuft den Phaser, dann das VC-THF und dann den Moogfilter. Das VC-THF wird mit dem Sinussignal und dem Rechtecksignal des VCO gesteuert. Ein LFO moduliert das Moogfilter. Zusätzlich wird das Sägezahnsignal noch als Steuersignal für das Moogfilter verwendet."
Googlish:
"It is a sound rule voltage module for 2 channels. The depths and the heights of the audio signal can with the help of CV tensions in a range of + /-16dB be raised and lowered. Virtually a high-voltage and low pass. The Steuerkannäle can also be combined. Control signals can be inverted and! Be inverted. In the example, only 1VCO used audio signal that passes through the phaser, then the VC-THF and then Moogfilter. The VC-THF is the sine signal and the signal Rectangular VCO controlled. An LFO modulates the Moogfilter. Additionally, the Sägezahnsignal as control signal for the Moogfilter used."

Appendage Ribbon Controller - Perf Version

YouTube via timsynth. follow-up to these videos.
"Just the first video to demo the Scott Stites Appendage Ribbon Controller. This is a DIY perfboard. Goto electro-music.com for details under "Softpot"."

Buchla Mixers on Buchla Tech

"With the release of the Buchla 206e, there's been some chatter about mixers. Evidently some people wanted to have the patch storage, but not the MIDI control for their 200e. But people more like me said they would like a 1 space all analog mixer for their system. This got me thinking, "what have the mixers been so far?"

206 "elegant" 2 x 3 channel mixers that are also summed to operate as a mono 6 channel one. It has mute and monitor switches on all channels.

205 2 x 5 in 4 out matrix mixers that also sum to make a simple 10 in 4 out one. Monitor switches on each input channel. Not exactly small at 3 panel spaces.

207 jam packed 6 input stereo mixer with manual pan on 4 channels and CV pan on 2. Pre amp. Monitor and mute switches on all channels. Monitor output on the front.

The 226 and 227 are quad interfaces that for the purpose of this discussion are irrelevant."

You can find the full post at Buchla Tech.

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PROPHET-10 ANALOG SYNTHESIZER DEMONSTRATION

YouTube via redmartian
"This is a demonstration of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-10 Synthesizer."

Roland Juno 106 "Junior" with LFO Triggering

YouTube via rolandsh1000

"A short demo of driving a Juno-106 from it's Patch Shift jack with an LFO. This can rapidly shift the patch that's loaded and, if keys are held down, the envelopes are retriggered. It's an interesting effect.

First, this Juno is obviously a chop job - I got the idea to do this from Henrik Nydell's terrific webpage which generally details the process. He called it a Junior-106, so that's what I call mine. It was quite a bit of work, but I like the 106 better in this size. I have photos on Flickr showing the insides of the Junior. It's snug in there, but it all works.

Second, the idea for driving the Patch Shift with an LFO came from a blog posting by Kevin Lightner, synthtech extraordinaire, on the moogmusic forums. So all credit to him for this nifty trick."

You might remember the Junior 106 from these posts.

WSG, MFOS Weird Sound Generator

YouTube via mforcemultiplier. www.musicfromouterspace.com

King Capitol Punishment SleepDrone basic

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here is the SleepDrone 5 from King Capitol Punishment. Built like a tank (heavy enough to kill an intruder), the Sleep Drone 5 feels like it was made for a military operation.

There are four oscillators, four LED's, four individual outputs and a main output. There are also eleven knobs and thirteen switches.

Instructions: Plug it in, twist knobs, have fun. bigcitymusic.com"

Vukodlak Productions- Hammond Vibrato Scanner

YouTube via ZmajSnoshaj

"Vukodlak Productions brings you "Hammond Vibrato Scanner". An musical adventure into the removal/disassembly/cleaning/and reassembly of a vintage vibrato scanner from a 1968 Hammond T-212 spinet organ. I spent many hours on this part of my restoration project in both learning about the scanner and it's design and making this music video, which in my opinion, is my most unique and comprehensive work to date.
Again I have many "thank you's" to give out on this one. First and foremost credit goes to Steve Leigh of SL-Prokeys for our 2 hour phone conversation regarding the vibrato scanner *among other things*... your advice and wisdom have made this and many past projects possible. You're a rare man Steve.
I'd also like to thank my Dad again for putting up with me and for showing interest in my work. God is good.. all the time ;) Another well-deserved round of applause to Christina Oldi of Greece for her master craftsmanship of jewelery and her insight into the finer details of my projects... and to Johnnie Shaffer for loaning me a lamp to work on my organs with *I love this little lamp Johnnie ;)*. And to Peter Hopkins for coming by during the most critical moments and laying waste to my progress :p *I need to be pulled away sometimes bro... hehe*.
Music credtis for this production go to the usual greats with one new addition. Title song is by Texas Blood "End Of The World"... you guys have been very patient and I thank you. First song is Life's Decay's "Gloria"... a wonderful track that has taste of their "Inksterna" song and aftertastes of "Descence"... excellent music guys :)) Second song is by friend and idol Fabio Frizzi for his "Hotel Lament" from the cult classic horror film "The Beyond", the second film of the unofficial "Gates of Hell" trilogy... you are an enigma to me Mr. Frizzi :))
Third track of the video belongs to The Horrorist, Mr. Oliver Chesler. Big thanks for his permission to use "Wire To The Ear" to finish of this work. You are a grandmaster of circuit bending and all things musically electronic Mr. Chesler ;) :))
This video has taken me a ridiculous amount of time to produce and much drama has transpired as a result of it so sadly, I may be taking a break from editing for awhile to join the ranks of the living world, but will indefinetely be back for more ;)
Enjoy."

importance of being analogue2

fickr by susi_oneill

"synth fanatics at 'the importance of being analogue' event at Futuresonic, Manchester May 2008"

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anyone know more about this event?

The Blip Festival 2008

pictured: IAYD

"About the Show:

Archaic game and home computer hardware is recast into the unlikely role of musical instrument and motion graphics workstation in the BLIP FESTIVAL 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge. The Blip Festival takes place DECEMBER 4—7, 2008 at The Bell House, and is presented by Manhattan art organization THE TANK and NYC artist collective 8BITPEOPLES.

***We are pleased to announce that there will be 2 for 1 drink specials from 7-8pm NIGHTLY during the festival! Also, the complete schedule is now officially ANNOUNCED!***

Of particular note, we are extremely excited about the international performers set to play this year, particularly those making their US DEBUT:

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