"The Peasant is a banjo player, and so thought that it would be very interesting to use a banjo to control the analogue synthesizer. A number of years ago a pitch-to-voltage convertor circuit board, designed for guitar use, was purchased from fellow DIY enthusiast Harry Bissell. This pcb only used the bottom three guitar strings to extract the CV output, and so it was decided to expand the board to work with all five strings on the banjo."
If I had my own space capsule this is what I'd want in it.
Anyone know what that is under the Rolands on the right?
Update: answer in the comments. Also.. Note the two CSQ-600 sequencers on the top right and the CSQ-100 top left. What's directly above the SEMS? Update: PAiA 4700
Foreground: Moog Micromoog, Roland VP-330, Yamaha CS-5.
# Nicaraguan Cocobolo
# RGB LED backlight and clear acrylic wheels via Blind Date
"Bryan is known around the country to be one of the best to hit the keys. He also plays the drums, guitar, keyboards and sings background vocals. His most recent work has been as the exclusive keyboard player for Boys II Men. He has also played with Frankie "Double Dutch Bus" Smith, Sister Sledge, The Delfonics, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Ray, Goodman & Brown, and Blue Magic."
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The China Concerts (Part 8 of 9) - Jean Michel Jarre
YouTube via 9thenazeing. China’s First Post-Revolution Concert was a synth concert. 1981 with Jean Michel Jarre and featuring the Electro Harmonix Mini Synthesizer. You can see Jean Michel Jarre and the Electro Harmonix Mini Synthesizer at 8:01. Some general synth spotting as well. Via EHX.com, where you'll find a great image of Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthew showing the Mini Synthesizer in Russia two years earlier. These are fascinating views of history and how music bridged and you could say broke through cultures. You can read more about the Russian trip here.
Via EHX.com: "Jarre breaks the barrier and steps out into the audience with his Electro-Harmonix Mini Synthesizer, using it as a literal and figurative bridge between East and West"
video description: "Peking: October 21st and 22nd, 1981 & Shangai: October 26th, 27th and 28th, 1981.
... After two years of negotiations, the Government of the People's Republic of China agreed for the first time to officially invite a western contemporary musician to give a series of concerts in Peking and Shangai.
... On October 12th, a team of sixty musicians and technicians left Paris for Peking with 15 tons of stage gear in the plane's hold. A gigantic stage installation, one of the most sophisticated concert happenings yet seen, and the technical, diplomatic and human accomplishment of five triumphant concerts fired the Chinese public with enthusiasm.
... The film of the China Concerts retraces this unique adventure, and, with Jarre's music, illustrates post-Mao China: its sufferings, its beauty, its desire for modernity, its aspiration for liberty ... images captured in 1981, at a historical moment when it seemed China was opening itself to the outside world...
... In 9 parts. :-(" You can find the other parts here.
"Drones returning to their homes, dusty air. All Serge 4 takes with Creature, Quad Slope, Dual Osc and Wave Proc.... Dry, no effects." via b3nsf. Also see these posts for more.
YouTube via bigcitymusic "Someone asked about running guitar into the FB2 and this is one of the settings we came up with. We're also using the Eventide TimeFactor, which is amazing. It's set to a very short delay time in Digital Delay mode. Funky!"
"Vintage korg polyphonic ensemble ii pe-2000 ensemble s for univox. Model k-5. Serial no 780004. Ac 117v, 50/60 hz, 30 watts. Eight sounds you can blend two at a time, 2 pipe organ, 2 brass, 2 chorus, 2 strings. Attack, sustain, bass, and treble bass/cut. And phase shifter"
via this auction "Details: * Maker: Roland * Model: Groovekeyboard EG-101 * Filter, Ring Modulation, Reverb and other features accessible through knobs during real-time play * On-Board Sampler/Recorder; 7.81KHz and 31.25 KHz sample rates; Pitch, Time Stretching, Filters, Effects, Auto-Looping available on sampling * 24-Voice Polyphony * 49 Velocity Sensitive Keys; Velocity Sensitivity can be turned on and off * 11 Part Multitimbral * 12 Drum Kit sounds * 64 RPS Phrases * 448 Preset Memory * MIDI In/Out Controls, Headphone Jack, Sustain Pedal Input"
via this auction "Drawbar Synthesizer for a Hammond B3 Organ. These parts were in working condition when they were removed from my Hammond B3. * Drawbar Synthesizer Converts nine of your drawbars to true electronic organ sounds. * Adds a totally new spectrum at a touch. The Concert Company Drawbar Synthesizer has been designed for use with Hammond Organs using drawbars. * It is easily installed and will completely transform the sound of each drawbar into a totally new and exciting synthesizer voice. * This is not a conversion of the original drawbar sound. It is a startling new pure electronic voice at a different pitch. * Each drawbar serves as a volume setting so that each new synthesized voice may be mixed at varying intensities to create thousands of totally different sounds and new effects. * There are no under key contacts or switches to install. * The unit takes a single 4' signal from the organ and divides it into 4 equal octaves, completely voices and mixes each into 9 synthesized voices and then injects one each back into 9 different drawbars. * This unit gives the user two different string type percussions, one sounds like anelectronic piano in the treble clef. The second percussion is a snarling buzz for space odyssey tunes. * There are three strings each with a variable delay attack and a variable delay vibrato. This makes the violin sound very realistic. * The cello and viola have a variable delay tremulant. * There are two clarinets, one at 8' and one at 16' which may be blended together and mixed with all other voices. * There is a brilliant English post horn, and a trumpet that speaks with real authority. * This is a monophonic poly voiced unit which will work with both spinets and 61 note consoles. * It may also be connected to operate through the presets with a different voice on each preset.
via this auction "TSP Falter, Shudder and a GetLoFi Atari Punk 2.0 deluxe console - heavily modified and CV controllable in one monster of a box. Lots of controls, lots of possibilities. The sound sample below is the box being triggered by a Frostwave sequencer while tweaking various knobs. The CV can also be switched off.
Sound sample" All of the basic controls for each component are present, with additional controls for FM/Feedback and Starve (the lovey skull knob), plus the capacitor bank switches on either side of the skull knob for MASSIVE BASS!. Runs on a Boss-style 9Vpower supply
YouTube via mik300z "A 3 minute pop song which I wanted to do mainly to see how well I could compose and produce it . A kind of "feel good" instrumental, all studio work , no software or computers in sight lol! I really would appreciate honest/critical comments on this ,cheers."
More info on the new Persophone is up on the Eowave site. Be sure to see the third video here. Technical Specifications:
Synthesis section -2 analogue oscillators with tune, fine tune, space - 12dB lowpass filter with adjustable resonance and frequency - LFO and adjustable LFO speed and depth
Ribbon features - duophonic pressure and position sensitive ribbon - variable ribbon scale from 1 to 10 octave - halftone mode
Controllers - 16 routing presets (8 fixed, 8 assignable) - modulation key - 2 pedals in - pressure on the ribbon - positions 1&2 on the ribbon
I/O - CVout 1/2/3/4 - MIDI in/out - 2 pedal in - audio out - USB - external power supply
Major upgrades - duophonic ribbon - 2 oscillators - usb - 4 CV - 16 routing presets - variable scale
"Again, captured straight off the simulator, this shows that we are in much better shape than yesterday, and clearly shows why the UI implementation needed to be changed. Previously the keyboard was physically realizable - 3 faces mutually set at 120 degrees in a 'Toblerone' shape, one with an F root, one with a C root, and one with the control panel - you just had to rotate in the right direction to get the thing you needed.
Now it's a bit Escher - there are 7 faces to the 'keyboard' now, but still at 120 degrees to each other, featuring fatC, fatF, thinC, thinF, Control Panel, Chord buttons (NOW WITH CHORDS!) and the 'wait for version 2 you impatient Ellaheads' Step Sequencer. Also notice that the big triangular buttons have gone, and now both displays are touch-sensitive - I was getting really confused by my own inconsistent user interface and figured Apple would never do that on a product, why should I?
A few bugs still in here, and I need to implement a few things yet - * fat key overlays for 'blue touch' rendering * fat keyboard layout (to support playing - that's important!) * chord programming interface * persistent options (i.e comes back where you left off)"
"Update - very nearly there. Now to implement the code associated with the chord panel - record, clear, keyboard shifter thing at the top right - and we will have Ellatron 1.2 ready for beta testing. Beta testing will be pretty simple for this version, we may have version 1.2 ready for the app store within just a few days."
"Feedback loop generated from Sherman Filterbank, Schippmann Ebbe und Flut, Moog MF-102 ring modulator and CP-251 control processor. avoidthecomputer.com" Great site BTW. :)
YouTube via abertronic. via this auction "Rare vintage spring reverb by Korg. A lovely spring reverb sound with lots of depth and warmth. It also has a gate section which enables you to basically add a reverb to a certain threshold and adjust the delay time of it. Stereo ins and outs. If you are sick of software emulations of reverbs that just dont have something special ..then this might be just the thing for you."
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