Moog Pedal with Spinal Tap modification

flickr by peff

this knob goes to 11

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Percussa Cubes basics

Percussa Cubes basics from Livid Instruments on Vimeo.
"Impressions and demonstration of using the Percussa Audio cubes with the tutorial Ableton Live set. The center cube detects the faces of the other cubes to send MIDI notes to Live to change loops. This video was originally made for an article for createdigitalmusic"


Percussa Cubes with Resonant Synth from Livid Instruments on Vimeo.
"Using the distance sensors on the audio cubes, I'm controlling synth parameters with one cube to "shape" the sound with my hands, then using another as an "exciter" to make the sound happen by waving my hands in front. Much as a violin needs a bow to excite the string to vibrate, and a flute needs air to make its sound, this synth I programmed in Cycling '74's Max/MSP (based on CNMAT's "resonators" object), relies on a virtual breeze from my hands to make sound."


Scratching with Percussa Cubes from Livid Instruments on Vimeo.
"I set up four loops in an audio looper program I've been working on for future release by Livid Instruments. I'm using the speed of my hand gestures as detected by the four distance sensors on the audio cube to change the playback speed and direction of the loops, similar to scratching a record."

Teenage Engineering OP-1

Teenage Engineering
"OP-1 stands for Operator 1.
The OP-1 is a pocket size controller for your favorite software sequencer. Connect it to your laptop and it lets you control your sequencers transport with the common play, stop, rec, forward and rewind. Use it to control your software synthesizers with the 4 rotary encoders and 16 dedicated quick keys for fast selections.

When you disconnect the OP-1 from your computer you suddenly have a stand-alone portable wonder-machine with 8 synthesizer models, 8 samplers and effects like Delay, Flutter, Filters and EQ all built in. Use all that synthesizer power to record your work with the truly unique (at present time, secret) sequencer. We promise you a really cool and creative way to record your sounds and tweak them in a completely new way.

Use the magic step sequencer/arpegiator to get the notes right. If that is not enough use the built in motionsensor that sense every shake or move you make and turn it into really cool sounds.
Then relax and sample a beat from the built-in FM radio or memorize a tune by whistle it into the built-in microphone. Play your piece to your friends through the built-in speaker. Or...convert it right away to mp3 and mail it to them."

More info on site.

OP-1 Display test

YouTube via teenageengineering
'This is how the display will look like on the OP. It's got extremely high PPI, the contrast is crazy, and according to myself, the gfx is bananas!"

wired

flickr by sonoman2

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KORG MS10

A Working SID Synth

via synth-diy where you'll find more shots.

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a.digital.moment.

flickr by no Cane Rosso in my blue sky

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Waldorf Micro Q Keyboard
Yamaha DX21
KORG Electribe ESX
Roland MC-303

Moog Taurus Synthesizer Bass Pedals

via this auction

Some shots of the inside and underside. Note the filter pedal / switch.

Yamaha PSS-100

via this auction

"find out more here"
excerpt:
"This multipulse squarewave synth keyboard from 1989 has wonderful C64 homecomputer sounds, including some of the famous arpeggiator timbres those are missing on most other squarewave keyboards. Although this is not a SID Station and has no filter, it is one of the most versatile and interesting sounding squarewave instruments and (like MC-3) basically a 'must have' for a real squarewave lover."

Sequential Circuits 610 Six-Trak

via this auction

DIAMOND - Uranus

via Suno Elettronico, an Italian synth site. via Francis in the comments of this post. Check out Suno Elettronico for more.

"Tipo: sintetizzatore
Tastiera: 73 note (Do-Do).
Oscillatori: 4 VCO indipendenti (32', 16', 8', 4', 2'); generatore di rumore bianco e rosa.
Forme d'onda: 3.
Filtri: 4 VCF indipendenti.
Effetti: glide; batteria elettronica con 12 ritmi
Accessori: 2 pedali di espressione."

rs 290 + rs 200 AS

YouTube via vectorass
"it`s not the music but some strange weird sounds from Analogue Systems rs 290 Sampler\Delay + rs 200 StepSeq."

The easiest way to play the X-Files theme

YouTube via cmatsuoka
"... (or something closely resembling it) is using a delay effect. I noticed that most X-Files theme tutorials out there either skip the signature echoing entirely, making the tune much less recognizable, or play it by hand, adding complexity to the performance. This short howto illustrates how easy it is to play the piece using the appropriate effect."

x0xb0x+miami

YouTube via pac209
"Available in 2009: a good 808 clone and a good 303 clone, both with shuffle and good sequencers. Makes me wonder why it took this long to happen...."

RIP Maurice Jarre

Sad news sent my way via George Mattson

"Jean-Michel’s dad died yesterday.

He had quite a composing career winning Academy awards for his scores from Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago and Ryan’s Daughter.

He also composed his first electronic score for “The year of Living Dangerously.

RIP Maurice. My condolences to Jean-Michel."

Condolences indeed. Such a great loss.

Maurice Jarre on Wikipedia
Maurice Jarre on IMDB
Jean Michel Jarre on Wikipedia

A couple of videos in his memory:

Maurice Jarre - Lawrence Of Arabia

YouTube via freeasabirdd
"Maurice Jarre conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on "Lawrence Of Arabia" - A musical tribute to Sir David Lean, 1992"

Maurice Jarre - Doctor Zhivago

"Maurice Jarre conducts in tribute of David Lean, 1992. (Sound track of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO writen and conducted by Maurice Jarre,1965)"

MFOS 10 Step Sequencer (CV control demo)

YouTube via tylersplan
"10 step sequencer controlling an MFOS VCO sine wave."

MFOS 10 Step Sequencer (Gate/Ext Start Demo)

"Showing the gate function on a sine VCO being run through a VCA, with a gate controlling an AR gate for the VCA."

Airböurne Synthesizer System Video

Just in case you missed it, see this post for updates and a link to video. Note I labeled the post Featured so you can get to it again by clicking on the Featured link on the top header menu of this site. If you are going to the Musikmesse, be sure to take lots of pics and video. :)

[KORG DS-10] Blade Runner (Opening?BGM) - Vangelis

YouTube via kcyonao. sent my way via シン石丸
"I tried.
Live performance in DS-10"

Update:

[KORG/AQ DS-10]How to make "Fat Synthe like Theme of Blade Runner "

tb-303 bath

via CustomSynth

"every synth has a bath before a makeover"

nice rubber ducky.

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Inside the C-Thru AXiS-49

You can find more images and details on MusicScienceGuy's Website

You can find more info on the C-Thru AXiS-49 on the C-Thru Music website.

Frame Based Synthesis by Cylob

"Demonstration of Frame Based Synthesis technique. Three different recordings have been crossfaded into each other, however each recording contains raw SuperCollider synthesis with no additional editing or processing. The crossfades appear at 2:43 and 12:30. For more info, visit cylob.blogspot.com or www.cylob.com"

Moog Flypast

flickr by Mooganic

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"Using Quadcamera on the iphone to produce a Lomo style whilst flying over the controls."

Blue Roland Juno-60

flickr by pugsfly
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"Overview of the Juno-60 that I got for a low low price. Unfortunately, the panel was painted by a previous owner, and something wrong with the tactile switch. Other than those, everything seems to be working fine."

Monotouchlive

YouTube via oh96
"monotouchlive on my 15" widescreen touchscreen.."

reacTable a la UAB

reacTable a la UAB from sunxez on Vimeo.
"Demo del reacTable a càrrec de Dani Gallardo dins el programa de l'Artefacte'08. Emmarcat dins l'Any de la Computació de la UAB i amb activitats organitzades pel col·lectiu Electrotech.no?"
Anyone know what language that is? I thought it might be Portuguese, but Google isn't translating it. Could it be Basque? via Auditory Canvas
Update via Jordi in the comments: "It's Catalan, as the UAB (the university which developed the reacTable) is in Barcelona. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language"
Update via elgauchoandres in the comments: "...and translating (more or least): Dani Gallardo demoing the reacTable on the "The Gadget '08" activities program of the UAB organized by the colective Electrotech."

Synthpond driving MKS-80 via OSC/Pd

Synthpond driving MKS-80 via OSC/Pd from Chris Randall on Vimeo.
"As the title says. Synthpond running on my iPhone is talking to Pd via OSC. I made a patch to turn the Synthpond OSC data in to MIDI notes. I've got Pd sending MIDI to Cubase via MIDI Yoke.

The MKS-80 is receiving note data from MIDI Yoke in Cubase. All effects are from an H8000FW except reverb, which is [redacted].

Regarding the specific Pd patch, I've got the Synthpond /freq to MIDI note, and /life to velocity. Now that I've got the proof-of-concept out of the way, I'll probably route xPos and yPos to CC data to control panning and such, and perhaps wire the Synthpond affectors to fire something else. Once I have the patch more usable, I'll put it up for download on Analog Industries."
You can get synthPond on iTunes here:

and synthPond Lite here:

Chip Friend User Resource

http://www.chipfriend.com/
"The Friend Chip® machines utilized early Microcomputertechnik for musical purposes, and where designed by Dipl. Ing. H. G. Zemper and Ton-Ing. J.O. Bergler in the late 1970 - 80 ies. Today the company still makes fine machines, but mainly for AES/EBU distribution. The above picture is of me working with a MR.LAB® in the summer 2007. This Website is soon to be a fully functional USER- RESOURCE and it´s purpose is for You who own, or have had any experience with the equipment from Friend Chip® Berlin to use it and to contribute. " via Analog Sweden

JD73 Plays the Nord Electro 3 PT1

YouTube via goldphinga. via fischek.
"JD73 playing the new Nord Electro 3. Some funk for y'all!"

JD73 Plays the Nord Electro 3 PT2

"Part 2 of my Nord Electro 3 demo showing off the C1 organ...enjoy"

Don't go (Yazoo) - short demo arrangement with DSI evolver

YouTube via laubimusic77. sent my way via fischek.
"was curious, if evolver has some "pro one" feeling under the hood. So I turned the digital osc. off... - what do you think?

everything's just pure evolver overdubbed, always one program - no doubling, fx, eq, etc."

Sequencer - Seku

The Seku by Mauno Tuominen (http://www.studiomanus.com/seku.htm)."

"Heart of SEKU is CMOS 4520 dual synchronous divide-by-16 counter. RESET-in-jack must be normalised to ground when not used (16-step mode). Length of the sequence can be set to N by patching PULSE OUT from N+1 step to RESET IN jack. When no clock is connected to CLK IN sequencer can be manually stepped from STEP button.

CMOS 4067 1-of-16 analog switch is used for GATE, CV and PULSE outputs. Inhibit-pin of GATE OUT 4067-switch is clocked at the same frequency as the 4520 with 4001 nor-gate turning each GATE OUT off before turning the next GATE on. You can mute any one of the 1-16 steps with the STEP MUTE switch."


video upload by sigmambient

"Self made analog step sequencer controls Korg MS10 and Roland S100M synthesizers. First row controls MS10 pitch and S100M noise-drum gate. Second row controls MS10 filter-cutoff.
Synthesizer sounds are modified live when sequence is running. More information about SEKU and Sigma on www.studiomanus.com"

You might remember the SEKU from these posts (scroll).

Testing the modular.

YouTube via zthee. via kroffe in the comments of this post on the Serge looking CGS DIY modular. I added this video to that post as well. Comments disabled here to keep them there.
"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"

Health Club Sonic Snailcase

"Health Club Music's new Synth is on eBay. There's a cool sample and hold and Morph Lag on it. The filter resonates and self-oscillates tougher than a Korg MS-20 and now both oscillators and filter are all 1 volt/ octave! Leave it up to your ears. There are samples on our site!"

You'll also find more images and details there as well. At a high level the modular features the following:

2 voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) (1volt/oct)
1 low-frequency oscillator (LFO)
1 Attack-Release (AR) Envelope Generator
1 12dB, Band Pass/ Low-Pass Voltage-controlled Filter (VCF)(1volt/oct)
1 Mixer
2 voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCA)
1 white noise generator
1 Morph-Lag Processor

You might recognize the Health Club SONIC SNAILCASE from this synth on a rope post.

Producing with the Andromeda A6

YouTube via PSTCE. sent my way via fischek.
"This is Pete from The Crystalline Effect & Shiv-r.
Working on a TCE remix for exclusive release on a compilation by Advoxya Records. This video is about the "swooshes" or "cymbal crashes" over the top of the track, and creating them with the Alesis Andromeda A6. The original song has been released on the album "Identity" released at the start of 2009 and the remix will be featured on the "PABS 3" compilation due for release in late 2009.
Both releases available at www.advoxya-records.com.

My projects:
www.shiv-r.com
www.thecrystallineeffect.com"

The Sweeps - Le Voyage LIVE

YouTube via inkoggnito77. sent my way via retrosound72
"70s inspired instrumental tune by *THE SWEEPS combining some old Super 8-material (ca. 1976) with live footage. In the beginning it's just Fender Rhodes and Crumar Multiman, the Minimoog solo is coming after the break. The effects are offered by the Moog Prodigy. More infos via http://www.myspace.com/thesweepsmusic"

New Serge M-odule ASR Quantizer

via Carbon111 on the Serge list

"$1700 usd

The ASR Quantizer is a wonderful mate for your favorite sequential voltage source as well as a good clock for said function blocks.
It contains, from left to right: TGC, NCOM, ASR, ASR and an QUAN.

The ASRs and the QUAN with its scale-changing ability make this a great melodic mutator as well!

Best Regards, James
--
http://www.carbon111.com"

Update: some more detail from Bakis:
"a new Serge M-odule has been released:

the 'ASR Quantizer' (ASR/QUAN) M-odule.

it contains (from left to Right): VC Timegen Clock, Divide by N Comparator, 3 step Analogue Shift Register (x2), 6 vhannels Quantizer.

this is a great module for sequencing aplications, and not only:

it can generate arabesque melodies with its two ASR's that can be chained to form a single 6 channel ASR) usinf 3 VCO's. or you could use the ASR's clocked at audio rate as a weird wave processor....

you can further quantize various sequencer channels with the Quantizer, or quantize the outputs of the ASR's...

with the 'Divide by N Comp' you get a comparator, a clock divider up to /31 (with odd and even clock divisions), an audio wave divider to create subharmonics, a staircase wave generator with N steps, (all these with the N defined manually or via VC) a tool to create sharp clocking pulses, etc...

the Quantizer features six channels of quantizing plus two toggle switches, in addition to its gate input jacks, for selection of intervallic step variants (manualy or via VC).

and of course the 'VC Timegen Clock' that can act as vc lag, vc AD, vc LFO, lowpass VCF, vc-clock source, audio divider, envelope follower, etc...

put all these together for countless more applications.

ASR/QUAN price: 1700 USD."

AHMW 2009 Pics by tragedybysyntax

You can find more pics on muff's forum here. Cool bunnies.

via epinastyelektronix in the comments of this post.

I added an AHMW label below for all posts mentioning AHMW including prior years. Click on it to see them.

Roland TR-707

via this auction
"original box, power supply, and a memory card. Little brother to the 909 it has various elements that are similar to the 909 - the clap and hats for example.But the 707 has unique sounds that make this machine stand out from the other roland beat boxes. It features separate outs for all the drums, mixer for all sounds. Not to mention both midi and din sync making the 707 an obvious contender for syncing your vintage roland gear to midi gear."

Update via matsyendra in the comments: "That's not a good description. The clap and hats are not at all like the 909, and it only can sync Sync24 and MIDI if it's used as a master clock."

Orgasonic Baldwin Organ and other

YouTube via nathanielscott
"I salvaged this old organ from a dumpster. Many of the keys did not work and there were several electrical prolems. But I kept it because it had a built in rotary speaker. I left it at my friend Stephen's studio for a few years. He recently told me he needed it out of the way. Since it was in my living room I decided to fix it up.

The video is of the first tune I recorded with it. Nothing really any good, just me nood around with the video camera on. Then I layered a few other instruments. The video starts with me creating a sample on my Casio SK-1 then creating a short sequence on its on board sequencer. Then plug it and a toy drum machine into my home made sequencer to get the rhythm going and the rest is an afternoon's worth of not getting anything else done."

the shape of music

YouTube via analoq
"During the process of adapting the sonome layout onto my monome, I wrote some software to help me locate common patterns. This video explains and demonstrates the layout and software. If this doesn't make much sense, just relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichten..."

Yamaha CS70M Print Ad

via this auction