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Sunday, March 29, 2009
"Living VCOs"
MP3via JH Living VCOs
"My goal was to build a set of VCOs that have the untamed bass range power of early EMS and Moog VCOs, but which are tracking a keyboard voltage over 5 or more octaves nevertheless. I found that "untamed" Beating in the bass range and controlled beating in higher octaves is not possible with standard exponential 1V/Oct oscillators. A good part of that special sound of early Moog and EMS oscillators is not because of any "randomness", "unstability", "instability" or "noisyness", as so often is said. A good deal of their behavior is because of that, but it is not the whole story. There are also some very deterministic factors in these old circuits which have been unpleasant side effects for the designers back then, but which are worth a closer analysis when we're designing a musical VCO today. This is implemented in form of three "linear detune" potentiometers on the JH-5A VCOs."
FARFISA POLYCHROME - vintage synthesizer / string machine HQ sound demo
YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"This video shows the Farfisa Polychrome played with a Roland DEP-5 FX processor for delay effects.
The Farfisa Polychrome from 1979 is one of the rarest Farfisa keyboards. It is a flexible string synthesizer / string ensemble with a very characterful, musical sound.
It has a PERCUSSIVE section, a STRING section, a ENSEMBLE section and a VOCAL CHORUS section. The most sections have VCF cutoff / resonance controls. It has a great phaser (with SPEED, EMPHASIS and TREMOLO controls), a noise generator, single outputs, an external input jack (for external signals, which can be treated with the Polychrome's chorus and phaser) and a lot more... It even has aftertouch! And it's fully polyphonic, too..."
Oberheim OB 1 + Roland TR 808 + Pearl Syncussion + Korg Z1
YouTube via djessay101
"Korg Z1 for Pad-Sound, TR 808 for Hihat + Roland DC-20, Pearl Syncussion for Kick, Oberheim OB1 with LFO Filter"
Oberheim DX demonstration, making beats
YouTube via frostedminipete
"Awesome vintage drum machine. Commonly used in early hip hop...also, bass drum easily recognized from "Blue Monday" by New Order (they used a DMX, slightly more advanced version of the DX). This guy is currently for sale on eBay."
Mini Synth Jam 1.0
YouTube via br0therl0c0
"Just a sketch. Mostly analog, and all live. Andromeda arpeggio, Prophet 08 bass through Moog delay w/ expression pedal hooked into delay time. Electribe drums."
How to program a Roland TB 303 and TR 909
YouTube via klausito1970
"Another howto, this time for a Roland TB-303 Bassline and a TR-909 Rhythm Composer. For the 303 I used the pattern from Fatboy Slim's song: "Everybody needs a 303". The 909 pattern is a quite simple Kick, Snare and Hihat pattern.
Future Retro Mobius sequencer is master midi clock and the 303/909 follow as slaves. The 303 is connected via a Doepfer MSY2 converter.
Thanks for watching and have fun with your Roland stuff."
Korg Vintage Analog Synth MaxiKorg 800dv
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via this auction"he wonderful Korg MAxiKorg or 800dv is one of a kind. A unique analog synth from the pre-chips era. 4 VCO capable of producing FAT 4VCO monophonic leads or Dual 2-VCO duophonic chords or sequences. Upper VCO has coarse tuning, fine tuning, Octave 64-32-16-8-4-2, Waveforms Triangle-Square-Saw-Pulse-PWM (chorus)-Pink Noise. Plus Mixer with Ring-modulated 32-16-8-4-2 Sub-Oscillator.
Add to that PWM, Vibrato Speed and Depth with Delay, Pitch Bender Delay and Time and Portamento.The lower VCO has about the same functions, but with White Noise instead of Pink noise (also has a Ringmodulated Saw with Octave Select). On top of that, you get Two VCA with selectable range Mod Source, and Hold, AR or ADS mode, one for each VCO pair.
Add also the famous 4 VCF filters sliders controlling 2 Highpass and 2 Lowpass cutoffs, with 3 steps selectable resonance and VCA mod. On top of that, you have a Pulse LFO allowing to repeat triggers in 5 different modes, like two voices at the time, voices alternating for pulsing leads, ajustable speed and Decay.
You also have two switches for controlling the playing mode, choosing which voice plays when one key pressed, or two key pressed.You have access to individual voice volume control and independent audio outputs.
The keyboard is extremely stable, without drifting over time, and easy to tune."
Airböurne Synthesizer System
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You might remember the Airböurne from this post on my visit to Synthorama. Be sure to click on the Airböurne and Synthorama labels below for more.
Update you can see a video of the Airböurne modular here minus the sequencer. You can actually see the blank panel case of the sequencer at the start of the video.
New to the system is the Airböurne Sequencer AMS-496.
Update: Martin from Synthorama wrote in with more details. The Airböurne Synthesizer System will be shown at the Musikmesse at the Ghielmetti booth in hall 8, row H, booth 14. Martin will be there throughout the show. The following is some more detail on the sequencer:"The sequencer has 4 independent tracks with up to 96 notes. You can place plugs in four different colours, corresponding to the four tracks. It is possible to place notes over 5 octaves. Every track you can also transpose 2 octaves down and 2 octaves up, so you have 9 octaves in total.
In the brown rows you can place white plugs if you want a gliding effect between the notes. You can choose every note of every track.
The red rows for Skip and Stop are not implemented yet. The red Repeat row allows to set an end of a melody, from where the sequencer repeats the melody.The green Duration rows allow calibrated note lengths for every column. If you wish to have different note length at the same column for the tracks you must use the green Gate Hold rows for combining the note lengths.
The blue Volume rows allow to change the volume of every note of every track in 9 different levels. The blue Pan rows allow to define on which channel the notes will sound. You have the possibility to choose left, right, mono and random pan, for every note and every track. There are built in four independent pseudo random generators.
The white pitch rows are splittable in up to three independent sections. Here you can place up to three melodies. For every section you can define how many repeats (1 to 64) they have to run. So you can create small songs with three sections.
The internal beat generator counts from 20 bpm up to 300 bpm and the frequency you can alter with an external control voltage. With an externel quarter note clock the sequencer synchronizes in the limits between 10 bpm and 400 bpm. Later it will be possible to synchronize it via Midi clock (not implemented yet).
At rear you have the possibility to use the Pitch-CV, the Gate and the Trigger Outputs for every analogue synthesizer which uses 1 V/octave. The volume and pan signals are not available for analog synths because they are digital coded for the Airböurne Synth AVS-04 only.
On the exhibited model not all ist working perfectly.
Actually these malfunctions are known:
The bottom row (lowest C) of the pitch panel reacts not in the same column at the other rows.
The functions skip + and skip - are not working properly.
Sometimes some notes disappear or have the wrong pitch or note length. This is a timing error in one of the FPGAs.
The number of pitch plugs you can place on one row is limited, dependent of track, to 3 to 12 plugs.
The LSB digit of the internal beat generator will be only updated if the sequencer is in Repeat Mode :-) This is a real nice software bug in one of the micro controllers."
Arp Odyssey II+ Roland TR808 + Roland Juno 60 + Sonor Minimamut + Akai VX 600 Part 2
YouTube via djessay101.
Part 1 here. More here.
"Tr808 trigger out to Jupiter 4 (second snare),to Sonor minimamut (second kick) and to Korg MS02 (trigger to Roland System 100 Sequenzer which trigger the Arp Odyssey)
Juno 60 Strings:-) and Korg SE300 for space sound Arp Odyssey
Akai VX-600 for Synthbass"
DotCom CD Slideshow
YouTube via davidryle
"Some ideas I have for covers fro the CD project for Yahoo Groups at synthesizerscomgroup."
100% Korg Ds-10 - Neighbourhood Watch by ChrisLody
YouTube via ChrisLody
"This was a bit of an experiment in minimalism for me. All the audio was sequenced on korg Ds-10. I tried to change the patterns as little as possible throughout the sequence while still trying to keep it interesting.
The video was filmed from my studio window on my cameras low light setting for the smear effect. I thought I was going mad when after a few minutes of watching the playback the bushes seemed to spell a word that seemed quite fitting...."
RC CIRCUIT BENT 'QUASAR' SOUND GENERATOR THEREMIN SYNTH
YouTube via djwidow420
"CUSTOM BUILT OPTICAL THEREMIN SYNTH BASED ON TWO IMPORTED 12BIT RUSSIAN SOVIET OSCILLATORS; FOR TRUELY BIZARRE SOUND CREATION.BY RESONANCE CIRCUITS"
Das magische Auge
YouTube via meky992.
"Konzertausschnitte aus ' Illuminated Soundscapes '"
via Hajo on the Waldorf list:
"here are some impressions of our Electronic Live event with a midi
controlled laser show from the 28th March 2009 in Duesseldorf
You here the Blofeld at 6:40 minutes (RICOCHET Arp) thanks to Boele"
micronaut - axial
micronaut - axial from Chris Randall on Vimeo.
Chris Randall of Analog Industries and Audio Damage.
"This is a video shot and edited entirely by my 16-yr old cousin Michael for one of my micronaut tracks while he stayed with me for his spring break. It was shot with a Cannon HV20, edited in Final Cut Express, with minor post in After Effects. It consists of footage he shot around PDX. Just to be clear, my input consisted almost entirely of explaining to him how quickly the edits should happen for "glitch" style videos, and showing him some Chris Cunningham work. Otherwise, he came up with this entirely on his own.
For the micronaut song, gear used is MKS80 for the melody, Goldbaby samples for the drums, Soniccouture Abstract Bass (pt. 3) for the bass, and some sample I had lying about that I can't remember the source of for the electric piano part. Audio Damage effects, plus the Eventide H8000 for the pitch-shifted part on the melody and reverbs. Recorded and mixed in Cubase."
Utiliser le Kaosspad3 avec le Kaonome
YouTube via pasgasman
"Using some possibilities of Kaonome froms salamanderanagrams you can load here http://circuitbent.wikispaces.com/win...,it's a donationware,be cool. To work, you need "max runtime lite' and applications on monomewebsite.Open max runtime, then open polygone64.mxb,open Kaonome and click on prefix and play. Have Fun"
Cortez SynthStick Ribbon Controller
YouTube via JorgeCortez01
"Trying out my prototype SynthStick. A very basic Square wave Atari Punk module modification, played thru a synth bass pedal and a sustainer pedal"
SynthStick Ribbon Controller
How to make house bass sound with Novation V-Station VST
How to make house bass sound with Novation V-Station VST from Greeg on Vimeo.
"This short tutorial shows how to make nice house / electro bass sound with Novation V-Station VST Instrument. Well, actually it's high layer bass sound - you can layer it with some subbass. Notice how FM Level Knob can dramatically change the sound. Also Oscillator 2 has volume set to 0 but still it affects an output sound thanks to FM (Synthesis) Knob
You can find this preset + whole sound bank for V-Station (and other synths) at vst-cafe.blogspot.com"
SuperCollider: a 60-second intro
YouTube via mcldx
"How to make sound in SuperCollider, in 60 seconds.
(CC-BY 3.0)"
SuperCollider mobile device prototype interface
"A demo of my prototype interface for mobile touchscreen devices to play a SuperCollider synth. The interface is made using GTK."
SuperCollider on Eee: first demo
"I've just got SuperCollider running smoothly on an Asus Eee PC (on the default Xandros Linux that comes with it), so here's some video evidence... (by the way, towards the end I accidentally put the unit to sleep, silly me)"
8 Bit Larynx - York 2007-07-23 - MCLD
YouTube via mcldx
""8 bit larynx" performed at the NetVoTech concert (which was all about the musical use of voice+technology). In this track I use my voice directly to control an emulated ZX Spectrum 128 sound chip.
For technical details of the "timbral remapping" process I'm using in this piece, please see my research paper at http://tinyurl.com/2rf9ue (there's also a video lecture: http://tinyurl.com/3buzq9 ). Hi-qual video at http://tinyurl.com/2n8odr"
Roland jx3p sounds
YouTube via se7ense7
"I just got this piece of gear yesterday, thought I put up some sounds already...
This is nothing quite like the Juno 60... much dirtier and/or more mellow. Very strange...
I like what comes out of this 1983 midi-capable Roland synth."
video circular VIII oo4
YouTube via zebranalogiczetangas http://zebranalogic.com/
the circular oscillator VIII
"This is the new creation of zebranalogic, this module come with the next implementation: midi input with dips switch to select transpose, range, channel. This unit have also others implementations like: vcf light, vcf , vca, 4 vco, distortion and more. For more information you can go to the web site of zebranalogic...... www.zebranalogic.com .......and keep in touch."
909 kick
YouTube via WISSJE
Roland TR 727
Not seeing the listing with video. Here's a link to TR-727 on Ebay.
Roland TR 909
TR-909s on Ebay
GorF Build Tips
via Vacoloco Ramblings where you'll find the tip and more images of the DIY GorF sequencer.
Roland D-550 and PG-1000
via khoral's Cafe 80 where you will find the track accompanying this image.
Circuit bending a Korg DW-8000
YouTube via GoodVIllain. via the forum, via GoodVillain's MySpace page.
"It is really dark because my cameras recording feature sucks. But the sound was dead on and I think that is the only thing that matters. Shorting out the legs for ICs 43-46 will cause the sweet glitching sounds. Those are labeled IC43, IC44, IC45, IC46. All other ICs will ruin your DW-8000. Thank me for sacrificing my DW for you. Also potentiometer substitutions can be made for trim pots VR1 and VR2 for some better pitch like tweaking. There are a ton of other trim pots but they didn't seem to make a difference."
Modularen 2
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Catgirl Synth DIY Serge style modular
"Topp 281 Quad Function Generator
CGS64
CGS38
CGS39
CGS36
CGS59
CGS09
CGS31
Awaiting knobs."
Update via kroffe in the comments:
YouTube via zthee
"A crap recording of me playing like the first patch on my new DIY modular panel. Missing knobs and the VCA isn't working.
Includes:
Topp 281 Quad Function Generator
CGS64
CGS38
CGS39
CGS36
CGS59
CGS09
CGS31"
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