2010 Goals for Ruin & Wesen

* polishing the Minicommand firmwares
* creating a community around Mididuino
* releasing our first analogue synthesizers

Read more about each on Ruin & Wesen

Optigan Call for Music Concrete

via Optigan.com

"In December 2010 we plan to release an experimental Optigan disc called “Musique Concrète,” which will essentially be a collage of 57 sound loops in the tradition of early electronic studio tape music. We’re completely disregarding the Optigan paradigm of chords and keys, and simply assigning a different abstract sound loop to each chord button and key. We thought that the most interesting approach for this disc would be to invite Optigoners everywhere to submit sound loops of their own making (please, no samples from commercial or copyrighted sources), from which we’ll choose the best for inclusion on the disc." See the link above for more info.

Scion Magazine 15: Casper Electronics

Scion Magazine 15: Casper Electronics from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

"With a drill and a soldering iron, circuit bender Casper Electronics manages to make a toy megaphone sound even weirder. For much more go to scionav.com/lifestyle/scionmagazine."

The Akai iPK25 Still Lives?

It's listed for $99 on the Nova Musik website here. No release date listed, but according to Chris in the comments of this post, Guitar Center and Musician's Friend have the release date listed as March 3rd. Still nothing on the Akai site.

Update: I heard from Akai. It is still on track, same price and release date. The name has officially changed to the SynthStation25. The info page was removed at Apple's request.

"The Akai iPK25...now renamed SynthStation25 does in fact live. When developing hardware for Apple ipod products, Apple has a large number of hoops for developers to jump through. There was one hoop we missed so Apple made us take down the information from our web page. We are now working our way through this issue and it will be back up on the web page when we are allowed to put it back there. This has not affected shipping dates or anything, just our ability to have info regarding it up on our web page."

1Song1Week1Year - Week04 - DotGame

YouTube via DJDJSMusic. more vids here
"Week 4's song in my project to write one song each week for the year 2010.
This week once again thinking of the electronic music of the 70's and 80's that inspires me.
But once again at 120 BPM with a solid beat"

Circuit Bent Yamaha RX7 and Nintendo NES

YouTube via Destroyifyer
" This is a circuit bent Yamaha RX7 and an NES. As a warning, there are many loud, high pitched sounds in this video."

via this auction
"4 point patch grid on both machines, RX7 has a 24 channel mixer split into 4 groups of 6 by 3 switches. The RX7 has 6 fully routable pots (four 50k, one 250k and one 500k) connected by 5 switches and a 6th routes the last to the first making a loop. The NES has 8 routable pots (six 50k, one 100k, and one 250k) connected by 7 switches with an 8th that routes the last to the first. The video and the sound of the NES can be modified, triggered and controlled with the RX7, and the NES can mod its own picture by itself as well as sounds of the RX7. Both machines are fully functional, the NES is excellent and plays games without hesitation or glitches. RX7 will come with many of the drums edited, which can all easily be reset to the original factory settings if desired. A couple of the factory kits have been delightfully mangled to be very non-decaying and sound oriented to take a break from drum sounds if you wish... these can be easily overwritten (although they have been saved with the factory settings if they are missed). The RX7 is capable of making many non-drum noises and by both using the patch-grid and programming the machine a good selection of sounds can be achieved. It is recommended to research the RX7 and its capabilities if unfamiliar with this machine. Accessories include an NES controller, a 9V power adapter and random game for the NES, a power adapter and owner's manual for the RX7, as well as plenty of patch cables. The price of shipping includes insurance. For international bidders, please contact me a day or so in advance for a shipping quote. These machines will go to the highest bidder and ship out somewhat immediately.

Right-click and "save target as" or similar mac operation to listen.

Sound Sample One
Sound Sample Two
Sound Sample Three"

Sold For: $425.00

ELKA SYNTHEX SAMPLED (2)

YouTube via soundsofsynthex.

via this auction follow-up to this post.

"(my apologies for not being a musician...lol...Also the noises crackels and pops are due to the videocamera poor quality microphones...the samples are crispy clean :-)

My own project of the Elka Synthex multisampled professionally, on 2 DVD, 9773 WAV files for a total of over 8 Gb covering all 80 factory presets and memory presets, a great chance to own the sounds of this fantastic synthesizer. Choose your format from the following:

Halion (Steinberg)
EXS24 (Apple)
Kontakt (Native Instruments)
Sampletank (IK Multimedia)
Reason (Propellerheads)
VSampler (MAZ Sound Tools)
Soundfont (EMU)
Gigasampler (Tascam)
Structure (Digidesign)

You are buying 2 DVDs with a unique product not available anywhere else, result of hours and hours of efforts in achieving the best possible quality. Free shipping worldwide."

Korg micro preset cleaning.

YouTube via yamahacs80
"démontage & nettoyage complet du micro preset"

Atari Punk Console 6 OSC

YouTube via gaufresderiz
"Costruito con 3 integrati 556 e un amplificatore 200x... un mixer 3 canali e prossimamente un overdrive...
Inserito nel modulare con l'A-119 e alalizzato con il VD-01 MFB"

tb-303 t-shirt

YouTube via ballacid

RJC 1000 - Tutorial

"The RJC 1000

The RJC1000 is the first music production tool to create customized music for the new generation of smart music players such as the iPhone. Using this software, you will get access to a growing number of reactive music modules such as the worldquantizer and twistybass. They will make it easy for you to create very engaging new music experiences by integrating the players accelerometer, microphone, compass or signal processing facilities into your music.

You can now create tracks where the movements of a listener control the melody of your song or the percussive noises in the listeners environment become part of the beat structure of your song.
Apply a range of realtime effects such as Eargasms or Dub Delays to the players microphone and combine the result with your music. This is reactive music, this is the 21st century ;-)

For a good idea of what RJC1000 does, have a look at the manual: http://trac.rjdj.me/wiki/RJC1000-manual"

Metasonix D-1000 Says Hello...

Demos / samples on Muff's

You'll also find some additional info and shots. I'm not sure if you have to be a member of Muff's to see the thread. If so, you can find the demos on Zerosum here.

via brian c. Also see Metasonix R54 Supermodule Says Hello

NeoKitsch plays with the Haken Continuum and the Folktek collection

YouTube via NeoKitschMusic. Folktek on Ebay
"Experiments with the NeoKitsch studio instruments, and exploring possibilities for the next album."

MVI_0681.avi

YouTube via mikeonop. ID the synth.

Big Happy Bang Cat

Big Happy Bang Cat from the people that brought us what you see when you die.

via Ben (shoontz) Shannon

Pear Syncussion SY-1 analog drug synthesizer

via this auction
That's what it says. :)
"Pearl syncussion SY-1 analog drum synthesizer only. Made in Japan. 2 identical channels, with 6 preset oscillator modes, I suspect each channel has 2 oscillators and the 6 modes are preset variations and modulations of both. On each channel, 8 beautiful sliders control, tune, decay, width, sweep speed, sweep range, lfo speed, lfo range, and output. Sliding switches control "sweep up-off-down" and "lfo squarewv-off-sawwav" and sample and hold."

Sold For: US $450

via selectivepressure in the comments.

Roland Jupiter-8

via this auction

"This is an early DCB version and almost looks like a REV A that had the DCB added later."

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev 2

via this auction

Live Set Part 1/3 with Korg SX

YouTube via Vectorixx
"well there is not much to add, all made with the sx, no external instruments.
vocals taken by grindhouse EP, which is definetely a burner,
and some jürgen paape vinyls. (glanz)"

Live Set Part 2/3 with Korg SX


Live Set Part 3/3 with Korg SX

ELKA SYNTHEX SAMPLED

YouTube via soundsofsynthex

via this auction

"ON SALE ON EBAY 110488160488
(my apologies for not being a musician...lol...Also the noises crackels and pops are due to the videocamera poor quality microphones...the samples are crispy clean :-)

My own project of the Elka Synthex multisampled professionally, on 2 DVD, 9773 WAV files for a total of over 8 Gb covering all 80 factory presets and memory presets, a great chance to own the sounds of this fantastic synthesizer. Choose your format from the following:

Halion (Steinberg)
EXS24 (Apple)
Kontakt (Native Instruments)
Sampletank (IK Multimedia)
Reason (Propellerheads)
VSampler (MAZ Sound Tools)
Soundfont (EMU)
Gigasampler (Tascam)
Structure (Digidesign)

You are buying 2 DVDs with a unique product not available anywhere else, result of hours and hours of efforts in achieving the best possible quality. Free shipping worldwide."

Roland TR-606 after repairs

YouTube via AnalogSweden
"A quick demonstration of a Roland TR-606 after repairs"

Novation Bass Station and Drum Station Demonstation

YouTube via AnalogSweden
"A quick demonstation of a few items we have for sale."

Gemini AL3

YouTube via Sigmundleid

"Gemini AL3 - diy analog synthesizer - Do it yourself"
Gemini AL3 - diy analog Synthesizer - Techno - EBM - Industrial " Switched-On "

Preview of the new synth on a breadboard

YouTube via thebetatesters
"http://www.thebetatesters.net
Just a quick shot of the new synth that should be available very soon!"

Terratec Komplexer - Freeware Wavetable Tool

via sequencer.de (Googlish here). [Note a new version is available, see the second update further below]

"Is ne mixture of Waveterm and Fairlight including Lightpen - Operation ;-) , mit der man Transwaves für Ensoniq Sampler malen oder resynthetisieren kann. With which one can paint Trans Waves for Ensoniq Samplers resynthetisieren or. Version 2 wird auch noch ein HQ - Stereo - Morphing enthalten, wenn ich's dann mal fertig kriege. Version 2 will also contain a HQ - Stereo - Morphing, if I then get ready times. WTMAKER ist quasi Abfall... WTMAKER is virtually waste ...

Viel Spaß/Frust bei der Erstellung eigener Komplexer - Wavetables. Have fun / frustration when creating your own Complex - wavetables."

Update via matgrk in the comments:

"WTMAKER is 16/32 Bit OS only

- put the EXE into an own directory
- put a WAV (MONO, 44,1 kHz, 16BIT, >0.5 sec) into this directory and rename it "input.wav"
- doubleclick onto the wtmaker.exe
- if operation is successful, it writes a file named "userwt.wt"

I'm sorry for the circumstances, but wtmaker was only written for my personal use in less than 2 hours (I needed a wavetable ... *lol*). If there's a need for such a prgram, I'll write a more usable version the next days.

The picture above is from another program I'm working on. WTMAKER is a kind of batch utility, wich uses some code from the program you see on the picture.

Sorry for my poor english. :-)

Mathias Gurk
www.mathias-gurk.de.vu"

Update2: via matgrk in the comments: "A new version of wtmaker is available:

http://home.arcor.de/blacktomcat666/allg/WTMAKER.EXE

Now you can drag and drop WAVs (16bit,44,1 kHz,Mono,>0.5 sec) onto the exe. You don't have to rename the files. Futher the *.WT file has the same name as the input file. I hope this changes improve the usability. "

Update3:

TRANSWAVE - TERM small demo track

YouTube via blacktomcat666. via sequencer.de.
"Additive wavetable generator for samplers with loop position modulation.

Bass: Access Virus B
Drums: Technics WSA1
Transwaves: Wusikstation VSTi"

Inside a Roland MKS-30

via this auction

Sold For: US $179.50

via selectivepressure in the comments

Analog Synth Health Club Switcheroo Synthesizer + keys

via this auction

"Health Club Switcheroo Plus Mini Controller!

Analog Synthesizer
2 Oscillators (saw on vco1, saw and pulse on vco2)
1 Filter (Band and Low Pass)
Filter can Self-Oscillate too! (v/oct)
1 VCA
1 LFO (Square, Triangle, Saw, Ramp)
1 Attack Release Generator (Can loop like LFO or sync with LFO)
1 Envelope Follower (can trigger Attack Release or mod filter and vcos)
1 MINI CONTROLLER with stylus wand (very fun for playing melodies)
1/4-inch Jacks for Audio In, Audio Out, CV In and Gate In."

videos posted here
http://www.healthclub-music.com/switcheroo.htm

Sold For: US $510.00

via selectivepressure in the comments

Original Moog Taurus Bass Synthesizer Pedal

via this auction