Friday, January 06, 2012
Jupiter-8, Juno-60, TR-909 & SH-101 Italo ditty
YouTube Uploaded by SynthManiaDotCom on Jan 6, 2012
"The huge, mega-classic Jupiter-8 brass, often used in Italo in the early/mid '80s."
circuit bent space explorer SOLAR optical theremin synthesizer
via this auction
"dementia labs new fantasy art synthesizer series SPACE EXPLORER this is the SOLAR EXPLORER (its an optical theremin ..get it ? light?..the sun?) the next in the series will be the LUNAR EXPLORER ( it will be a looper.....orbits the earth...get it?) the next in the series will be TERRA EXPLORER...IT WILL BE A LOFI MIC the next in the series will be a delay unit shaped the same called TIME/SPACE EXPLORER>>>all will have diff color schemes...BUT WHEN STACKED SIDE BY SIDE AND ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER THEY WILL BE AWSOME!!! AND THEY HAVE IN AND OUT GUITAR JACKS SO YOU CAN DIAISY CHAIN THEM WITH GUITAR PATCH CORDS....space has never been funner!!! scope the trippy video to see hoew this sounds !!!...THEREMIN WAND INCLUDED WITH THIS UNIT sold as is"
YouTube Uploaded by SuperRoss007 on Jan 2, 2012
Comparison of vintage analog Soviet synth Alice 1387 and VSTi Alice2012
YouTube ploaded by tikovbcn on Nov 1, 2011
"At beggining you can hear real analog Alice 1387 , from 35 sec - its VSTI emulation purchase at http://www.tikov.com/softrave/alice2012.htm Softrave presents Alice 2012 Vsti. This instrument is based on waveform samples from Alice 1387 vintage analog soviet synth produced in 80 `s. The idea was to recreate deep low sounds of Alice 1387 as close as possible to original. This synth is good for electro, techno, idm ambient and other electronica styles. This synth will be developed further, i have some ideas how to improve it. Upgrade to next versions will be free for all customers."
The Pianome
"It is interesting that the piano, an instrument created to popularize equal temperament, is so biased to certain keys.
The Pianome is an ongoing project in an effort to exploit alternative methods of utilizing a Monome, or any grid controller. Columns of buttons output MIDI notes chromatically upward, and in 4ths across from left to right. Very similar to the structure of a lute, or bass, offering a grid or pattern based approach to performing piano music, rather than each key being a different "finger pattern", as in key biased instruments like a piano.
For added velocity, currently mapped to shift pitch registers for added range, I turned my audio volume pedal into a MIDI controller by controlling a generated tone, who's RMS data is being analyzed, scaled and converted to MIDI in Chuck, and sent back to Ableton Live, where MIDI piano is being triggered.
Since this video, I have built a Chronome, which allows for, among other features, pressure sensitivity. This will allow for a more expressive Pianome. That coupled with double the buttons (and better piano samples) will offer a much more comprehensive fingerboard with the complete range of a piano, rendering the piano almost obsolete."
MLR in Reaktor!
"The original MLR was written in Max/Msp by Brian Crabtree, inventor of the Monome. I have rebuilt his program in another language, Reaktor for many reasons: to best understand how a program works, bottom up; because I would like to see the program have more functionality, and I am more fond/capable of/with Reaktor over Max/Msp; and because Reaktor adds certain features that Max/Msp does not allow for. For one, the ability to use any program created in Reaktor as a VST, automatically in your favorite DAW.
After I am complete advancing the program the way I would like to in Reaktor, I will code it in C as a standalone program."
KVINTET RARE VINTAGE USSR SOVIET ANALOG SYNTH
mechanical animals
(RSS)
"Specifications:
— 5 Octave Keyboard
— Controls on the front panel:
Volume control, Sustain, Brass timbre, Vibrato frequency, Vibrato depth, Detune
— Section of effects (ON): brass, organ, piano, clavesin, chorus, vibrato delay
— Voltage 220 V, 50 Hz
— Weight with case, kg < 15
[DEMO] Roland D-50 Linear Synthesizer
YouTube Uploaded by thiagogomestoledo on Feb 26, 2011
"A full, complete and superb demo of this amazing synthesizer.
Specifications and history:
http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/d50.php
This synth have 8 banks with 8 patches (total of 64 patches without memory card). I divided into categories:
1 - Pianos and Elec Pianos (00:02)
2 - Bells / Mallets / Misc (02:33)
3 - Organs (04:30)
4 - Bass / Splits (06:45)
5 - Strings (08:38)
6 - Brass (11:44)
7 - Leads (13:40)
8 - Pads (15:59)"
via The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge
QuNeo & FX
YouTube Uploaded by KeithMcMillen on Jan 5, 2012
"In this video, Pressure, X, and Y CCs have been mapped to different parameters on 16 audio effects allowing for dynamic and performative audio mangling. Each Pad turns effects on and off, as well as tweaks their knobs and tickles their faders. Vertical sliders change volume, horizontal sliders mix in more audio effects, the long slider cross-fades, and the rotaries are tempo control. Very fun to play, very expressive, and very exciting."
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kmi/quneo-multi-touch-open-source-midi-and-usb-pad-con
I think they surpassed their goal. $124,874 of $15,000 as of this post.
Quneo & Live VJ Performance
Uploaded by KeithMcMillen on Jan 5, 2012
"QuNeo is a powerful controller for any expressive art. Putting multiple parameters into each pad allows fun effective mapping of gestures onto video generation and processing. Here QuNeo is controlling Isadora video software but can work with any program."
Intro to Synthesis Part 2 - Types of Synthesis & Programming Examples
Part 2 is up! You'll find it added to the main post here.
Synthesis Technology MOTM Modular
via this auction
"The following modules are included:
1 300 Ultra VCO
1 410 Triple resonant filter
1 700 Dual VC router
1 101 Noise/S&H
1 490 Micro VCF
2 800 Envelope generator
1 380 Quad LFO
1 420 VCF
1 320 VC LFO
1 120 Sub Octave MUX
1 Ring Mod (not pictured, still in kit form)
1 900 power supply
2 19A Rail kits"
Inhalt & the Uber Rare SMS Salamander Modular
via matia: "I wanted to send you a little teaser pic of my new synth room called The Lab. It's the sister site to our main production and recording facility called The Bunker.
I've been busy working on music and my project Inhalt had a release on vinyl in England on Andy Blake's World Unknown label. We also just signed with Dark Entries Records to release our debut 12 inch EP. Everything is done with analogue synths and drum machines and recorded on tape (both 2 inch and 1/4 inch)."
You can find the current World Unknown release at Phonica here.
Korg & Serge in there as well.
NAMM: Introducing K-Bow from Keith McMillen Instruments
YouTube Uploaded by KeithMcMillen on Jul 12, 2010
"violinist Julia Ogrydziak introduces the KBow by Keith McMillen Instruments.
visit us at http://www.keithmcmillen.com/kbow"
"* XYZ 3D Accelerometer - measures the playing force and angle of the bow
* Hair Tension Sensor - detects how hard the bow presses against the strings
* Grip Pressure Sensor - gives a measure of how hard you are gripping the bow
* Bow to Fingerboard - a measure of the distance you are playing from the fingerboard via the antennas embedded in the bow
* Bow Length - by interacting with the included fingerboard emitter, an infrared light sensor shows the distance from the bow frog to the strings of the instrument
* Bow Tilt - measures the angle of the bow, useful to know which string is being played"
Keith McMillen of course brought us the SoftStep and QuNeo alternate controllers. It looks like they are on a roll. See their website linked above for more and the Keith McMillen label below for posts featured here.
Kenton Modular Solo in Eurorack Format
Noisebug (RSS)
"Manufacturer Description:
The Modular Solo is supplied complete with ribbon cable ready to fit into any Eurorack (A100) format modular system.
Power is supplied by the power supply in the modular case via the backplane
Power consumption +12V supply 85mA max / -12V supply 3mA
+5v supply is not required (needs +/-12V only)
CV & Gate signals can be sent via the ribbon cable to the system bus - selected using jumpers
MIDI In & Out on DIN sockets (MIDI Out can be switched to give DIN Sync 24 instead)
Analogue output CV on 3.5mm mono jack (V/oct or Hz/V or 1.2V/oct)
Gate on 3.5mm mono jack (Gate or S-trig – with or without pullups)
Aux1,2,3,4 on 3.5mm mono jack (all continuosly variable)
2x independent clock outs on 3.5mm mono jack
Weight 170g
Dimensions 128mm high x 50mm wide x 80mm deep
D to A conversion for main CV 16 bit high quality / low drift DAC
Non-volatile memory EEPROM (no back-up battery required)
Processor 32 bit ARM processor"
Creature #1
YouTube Uploaded by damieninspace on Jan 6, 2012
"Inspired by one of David Tutor's Neural Synthesis recordings, this is the first test of a patch that feeds back on itself and will eventually morph over time."
Video Tracks from The Synthi Group Vol. II
the synthi vol. II - digitana - Vayu Somnium.mov
YouTube Uploaded by thesynthi on Jan 6, 2012
"Download: http://www.archive.org/details/ca345_tsg
Artist: Digitana
Title: Vayu Somnium
Time: 5:15
Device: All sounds made entirely with a single VCS3 controlled by a
TKS , and an EMS RVG.Some delay effects used on some tracks and slight
overall reverb added to the master for ambience.
Genre: psychedelic/experimental
Contact: http://www.synthi.co.uk
Location: UK"
YouTube Uploaded by thesynthi on Jan 6, 2012
"Download: http://www.archive.org/details/ca345_tsg
Artist: Digitana
Title: Vayu Somnium
Time: 5:15
Device: All sounds made entirely with a single VCS3 controlled by a
TKS , and an EMS RVG.Some delay effects used on some tracks and slight
overall reverb added to the master for ambience.
Genre: psychedelic/experimental
Contact: http://www.synthi.co.uk
Location: UK"
It's a Moog anyway
YouTube Uploaded by skoulaman on Jan 6, 2012
"It's clear, it's about a solo performed with the Moog Little Phatty (upgraded tribute to version 2). Ritme is performed with other synths and a arpeggiator. Halfway (3 min) I put some more effect in the Moog solo (its a chorus/delay preset from the Lexico MPX 100 and a analog Yamaha E1005 echo). The sound becomes more intens and Iike that better.
Enjoy listening
greetings Hans 'Skoulaman'"
POLIVOKS USSR SYNTH
mechanical animals
(RSS)
"POLIVOKS POLYVOX * VINTAGE DUOPHONIC USSR SOVIET ANALOG LEGENDARY SYNTHESIZER"
REDSOUND Darkstar XP2
Broken joystick on this one.
"RedSound DarkStar XP2 synthesizer. Features of this versatile, compact synth include 8-voice polyphony, pulse width modulation, ring modulation, resonant filtering, ADSR enveloping as well as velocity-sensitive response, 5 simultaneous timbre capability, and a very simple user interface.
Modular synth: Monolith2 custom cabinet
Click through for the mouse overs for each module and more pics.
"I don't really know much about this synth except that the modules that I have working sound great and are mostly made up of discrete parts. I bought this off of a coworker when I was working at a music store several years ago. Originally, there was a different case, with speakers and a copper touch-plate keyboard and the word "Monolith 2". The inside was a nightmare of spaghetti wiring. I decided to tackle one thing at a time and first rebuilt the cabinet and added the multiples at the bottom. Someday, I would like to get the keyboard working."
A bit ARP 2500 inspired in design mixed with some steampunk. The top row reminds me of a specific type of graphic design, but I don't know the name.
M-Audio Venom Sound Design Tips and Tricks – Oscillators
The first thing that comes to mind is how the frequency of an analog oscillator drifts over time. It slowly meanders in a seemingly random fashion as the circuit reacts to small variations in temperature and other factors. To quickly add some of this behavior to a Venom sound, turn up the Drift parameter using the oscillator section of the Vyzex editor."
via the M-Audio Venom blog where you'll find the full post including:
Tip 2 – Using the Waveshaper to generate PWM
Tip 3 – Unusual uses for drum sounds
Tip 4 – Using Oscillators 2 and 3 as LFOs
Tip 5 – Frequency modulation of Noise
Vintage Casio Casiotone 403 Organ, Analog Drum Machine & Synthesizer
YouTube Uploaded by trashbaggage on Jan 6, 2012
as promised
YouTube Uploaded by noystoise on Jan 6, 2012
"quick update video before work
sound is coming from my computer speaker because my other camera is dead...
more to come very soon."
Buchla 200e: 266e Sample and Hold Sequence
YouTube Uploaded by djangosfire on Jan 6, 2012
"Experimenting with the 266e Source of Uncertainty's "Stored Random Voltage " lower section. A 261e is used to clock the "sequence". The 266e grabs "notes" from a 281e falling transient (that is pulsed by the 261e). SO - as the tempo/frequency of the 261e changes . . so do the "notes" created.
The 258v VCO's are the target of the sequence. Using a 255 Control Voltage Processor to attenuate the 281e transient into the 266e - allows for sequence note modifications on the fly . . . the 261e clock is passed through the 255, and is used to balance the stereo imaging.
Lot's of manual knob twiddling - more experimenting - fun stuff!!!"
customScales1 - Cellular.m4v
YouTube Uploaded by rrr00bb on Jan 6, 2012
"Initial user interface for custom scales. Using 53ET based Pythagorean scales, with low quartertone put temporarily in just to show how it works. Legato and polyphony behavior are controllable now. This is ThumbJam being controlled, but SampleWiz does this correctly, and Arctic may have this working reasonably well in private beta builds as well."
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay
Early Moog Modular Filter Bank Identified
See the top red update from Brian Kehew dated 1/6/12 in this post.
GRAHAM MASSEY on Synths & the 808 State Sound
YouTube Uploaded by TerryFuckwitt on Jun 16, 2008
"808 State is an English electronic music outfit formed in 1988 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and the "state of mind" shared by the members. They were formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson.
This is their music video Cubik from 1990"
via A Guy Called Gerald, article via DJMag
The sampler opened up a huge sound world to us and would be the key instrument in terms of giving a track an identity. For instance, the chords on 'Pacific State' were created by sampling a chord from a Juno 106 keyboard layered with a d50 string sound with a bit of filtering in the Casio FZ1 sampler. The bird sound on that record was an Akai sample demonstration disc of the Canadian Loon. "'Cubik' was again a multi sample stacked up with sounds from a Waldorf microwave and a Chase Bit 99 digital keyboard played by a Casio Midi guitar, which we had just got that day."
Click through for more.
New York School of Synthesis - Intro to Synthesis
Intro to Synthesis Part 1 - The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis
YouTube Uploaded by matrixsynth on Jan 4, 2012
Videos for parts 2 and 3 further below.
Update2: Dean also wrote The Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers & Drum Machines (on Amazon here).
Update: Details on how to get your own New York School of Synthesis T-shirt here!
Also see: The Yamaha DX7 II FD D Video Manual by The N.Y. School of Synthesis
Dean Friedman of New York School of Synthesis back in the day. This is a great intro to sound synthesis. Currently Dean is an indie recording artist with a slew of international chart hits and critically acclaimed albums to his credit. You can see what he's currently up to on his website www.deanfriedman.com and his YouTube channel www.youtube.com/deanfriedman.
I want to thank Dean Friedman for giving me the permission to put these up and swissdoc for sending them.
Dean Friedman on Wikipedia - be sure to see his full bio for his musical accomplishments. The following is just a portion pertaining to his book on synthesis, the "New York School of Synthesis", and this video:
"In 1985, Friedman produced a seminal work on the newly emerging synthesizer industry called Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines. Whilst dated, this tome is still of use in evaluating devices that crop up on the second-hand market. Friedman also set up the "New York School of Synthesis" and provided a series of videos entitled Intro to Synthesis'. Friedman presents the rudiments of this topic in an audio-visual format, whilst incorporating a unique sense of humor." Note the videos must be from 1988 or later as they reference the Korg M1. Thanks goes to Caixa in the comments for catching this.
You can find Dean's website here: http://www.deanfriedman.com/
Synth Trivia: At the end of the video the credits mention the synths were provided by The Music Connection in Happinger Falls, N.Y. I did a quick search on them and nothing came up.
Note: I added a link to this post in both the Synth Books and Synth Movies sections. There's actually two copies of Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines on Amazon [link] at the time of this post.
Intro to Synthesis Part 3 - Additional Synth Features, Performance Controls & Wrap Up
YouTube Uploaded by matrixsynth on Jan 4, 2012
Videos for parts 2 and 3 further below.
Update2: Dean also wrote The Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers & Drum Machines (on Amazon here).
Update: Details on how to get your own New York School of Synthesis T-shirt here!
Also see: The Yamaha DX7 II FD D Video Manual by The N.Y. School of Synthesis
Dean Friedman of New York School of Synthesis back in the day. This is a great intro to sound synthesis. Currently Dean is an indie recording artist with a slew of international chart hits and critically acclaimed albums to his credit. You can see what he's currently up to on his website www.deanfriedman.com and his YouTube channel www.youtube.com/deanfriedman.
I want to thank Dean Friedman for giving me the permission to put these up and swissdoc for sending them.
Dean Friedman on Wikipedia - be sure to see his full bio for his musical accomplishments. The following is just a portion pertaining to his book on synthesis, the "New York School of Synthesis", and this video:
"In 1985, Friedman produced a seminal work on the newly emerging synthesizer industry called Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines. Whilst dated, this tome is still of use in evaluating devices that crop up on the second-hand market. Friedman also set up the "New York School of Synthesis" and provided a series of videos entitled Intro to Synthesis'. Friedman presents the rudiments of this topic in an audio-visual format, whilst incorporating a unique sense of humor." Note the videos must be from 1988 or later as they reference the Korg M1. Thanks goes to Caixa in the comments for catching this.
You can find Dean's website here: http://www.deanfriedman.com/
Synth Trivia: At the end of the video the credits mention the synths were provided by The Music Connection in Happinger Falls, N.Y. I did a quick search on them and nothing came up.
Intro to Synthesis Part 2 - Types of Synthesis & Programming Examples
Intro to Synthesis Part 3 - Additional Synth Features, Performance Controls & Wrap Up
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Cybernetic (Studio Wormbone)
"'Cybernetic' from Studio Wormbone gives you a taste of what tomorrow will sound like. Intricately fluid transformative machine motions, robot vocalizations, megatron impacts and droid melodrama, this is pure metal-on-metal warfare!"
Pictured: Arp Oddy and an Evila Modular used in the creation of the soundpack.
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