DopeDOD & MiniBrute

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by Arturiaweb

"Peter Songolo, producer for the critically acclaimed Dutch Hip Hop band "Dope DOD", shares his love for the MiniBrute analog synthesizer as it perfectly fits his needs for raw, aggressive urban & Dubstep basslines."

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Circuit Bent "James Brown Keytar Synth" - Hey Page, Check it out!

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Published on Aug 20, 2012 by DoctorBlankenstein

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"This is the circuit bent 'James Brown Keytar Synth'.. ok, well the synth isn't really a keytar.. BUT it has a picture of James Brown and his MOOG Liberation Synth (now Page McConnell's from Phish) on it! It's really a circuit bent greeting card.

This piece sports two body contacts, pitch control, warp button and a mono output... this thing is weird, fun and actually pretty versatile with it's limited'ness. ;)

This piece came out pretty cool, take a look. Make sure to check out the website and subscribe for more odd Dr. Blankenstein creations.

Thanks for watching!"

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FEATURES:

- Unit plays a 15 second sample of James Brown's "I Feel Good!"
- 1 Pitch Control Knob (from really fast / high pitch... to bit crushing slow)
- Momentary ON/OFF switch (allows you to hold or stutter the sound)
- Red "Capacitor Warper" Button (hard to explain, watch the demo video)
- Cool Color RGB Changing / Randomly changing how it flashes mounted power LED
- 2 Body Contact points for pitch change, distortion and other glitch effects
- 1/4" Mono Output Jack
- Quality / Professional build
- Funky James Brown them
- One of a Kind numbered piece!

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x0xb0x

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Published on Oct 15, 2012 by bcastromusic

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"The specific features of this x0xb0x are as follows:

Hand built using original TB-303 transistors including 2SC536F, 2SA733P, 2SK30A(O), 2SK30A(Y), 2SC1583 & 2SC2291.
Built using all original specified parts as described in the Parts List on the Adafruit website.
Front and rear panel purchased from official x0xb0x supplier Willzyx.
Pre-loaded with SokkOS 1.9.1 firmware.
Available with US/Canada/Japan 110V or Europlug Type C 220V power supply."

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Yamaha AN 200 Analog Modeling Synth

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"Some people choose to just open these up and remove the PLG AN-150 card inside to use in Motif or other compatible Yamaha workstation..."

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Roland MC 909 Sampler Groovebox Workstation With RAM Upgrade

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"The internal memory has been expanded to 144 MB and there is also a 128 MB Smart Card included. Comes with the power cord and manual..."

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TB-303 Hot Wheels Acid Bus

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The only thing that would make this better is if there was a Con Brio inside of it.

4 Vocoder's

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by Ebotronix

1.Alesis MetaVox
2.Clavia Micro Modular
3.Digitech Talker
4.Roland SVC 350
carrier Flame Talking Synth Modul
input Moog Freqbox quartet
CP251
Buchla System #1
Doepfer 2x A132-3
4ms Peg RCD VCAMatrix
Make Noise Format Jumper Wogglebug
Roland System 104 Sequencer
Kenton Pro 2000 II
Kick Logic Ultrabeat
FX Boss VF 1 Line6 Echopro Lexicon PCM 80 TC M3000

Powertran Transcendent 2000

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Yamaha CS80

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Uploaded by MrBurntsalad on Oct 15, 2012

"My CS80: a brief demo showing some of the basic features of this legendary synth."

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"This example is extremely clean, plays beautifully, has had a lot of circuit replaced by KRS as well as having a good 2 or 3 tunings through the years to keep it in perfect condition. It has also been re-tolex and it comes with its original and very rare manual."

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Vintage Moog Taurus I Synthesizer Bass Pedals

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Sugar Bytes Cyclop Tutorials Part 4: Advanced Modulation

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by MusicMarketingTV

"In this conclusion to his Cyclops series, Prof. Garbutt gives us the goods on using the Gater, A/B Amount and Sound controls. These features enable easy and powerful morphing of tone and modulation settings manually or by internal step sequencers."

All parts here.

Intellijel - uVCF State Variable FIlter demo

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by intellijel

"General overview of the uVCF filter including the LowPass, Bandpass and Highpass outputs, sine VCO functionality and FM"

uVCF formant sounds

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by intellijel

"This patch demonstrates formant like sounds on the uVCF filter using two fm sources."

Poor MIDI Timing and Note Jitter in iOS

Published on Oct 12, 2012 by Kevin McCoy

"This really prevents iOS from being a serious platform for software instruments, despite its merits of having a touch interface and amazing sounding apps. Please comment if you have a solution!"

If anyone has a chance to look into this, feel free to comment or shoot me an email. Obvious things to consider are the app you are testing with, the MIDI interface being used, the iPad & OS versions, and any apps running in the background.

Update 1: discchord wrote in to let us know he ran a few tests. As I suspected it appears to depend on the setup and the device.

"Earlier iPhones were not nearly as beefy as iPads, so developers tried to support them as best they could with crazy high buffers that are easier on the CPU, but slower to react...

Considering how much of a mess my MIDI chain is, I think it is safe to say that a wired MIDI connection is reliable on iOS. Any faults come down to software that isn't designed to cope, or possibly an even worse MIDI setup than mine. Though I honestly can't imagine how that could be; I bought the Uno because it was the cheapest USB-MIDI interface I could buy locally!"

You can find the full results here. Be sure to see the previously linked post there for some initial tests as well.

Update 2: some notes on the results via David Lackey on this Facebook thread. It's worth noting David is the man behind Innerclock Systems and of course a bit of an expert behind timing and syncing gear.

"Again at the risk of sticking my neck in it - I just opened up that 240 BPM Wired 16th File [Quoted as 'There is slightly more wandering here, but still not enough that you'd notice. Take a listen for yourself.'] in Sound Forge and placed accurate markers on the events. At a perfect (no jitter) 240 BPM there should be exactly 3000 samples between each 16th audio event when recorded at 48kHz right. Here are the numbers:

2782/3358/2850/3286/2769/3335/2806/2774/3344 etc etc These variations amount to regular push-pull in tempo by more than 40 BPM PER EVENT in most cases I measured. I don't know about most people here but 40 BPM drift between 16ths is VERY NOTICABLE to my ears at any tempo.

....and I've just realized - those Discchord tests dont really tell you much about iOS Midi stability at all - take them with a large grain of salt - the 16th Midi Events they used are generated real-time by Live and USB Midi Interface - the Jitter probably has as much to do with the source events as the receiving iOS application.

You can see clearly that highly subjective and poorly researched statements like this: 'I hope this puts to rest the notion that MIDI Jitter prevents iOS from being a serious platform for software instruments.' need substantial qualification and backup before they can be taken seriously. For these tests to show true iOS application Midi Jitter we would need to see the jitter contained in the source Midi Events themselves first - or at least use a reliable hardware Midi Sequencer with proven event and tempo stability like an MPC-3000 as the Midi Event Source rather than DAW/USB/Driver generated Midi which is notoriously prone to slop and jitter anyway.

I'll run the same tests on Magellan/iPad2/iOS6 tonight but use MPC-3000/16ths as the Midi Event Source and post the results at 60/120 and 240 BPM."

See the Facebook thread in case any updates go up over time. 

Update 3: David Lackey of Innerclock ran some litmus tests. See this post for details.

Update 4: It looks like the iPad did fairly well with MIDI OUT depending on the app. Via David Lackey on the Facebook thread:

"Just had time last night to test outgoing Midi Event stability from two Apps - Magellan and Little Midi Machine - identical 16th note patterns using identical Roland UM-1G Core Midi Interface - you can see by the numbers that that Core Midi is certainly capable if the coding is up to the task. Little Midi Machine shows no more than 6 samples of jitter between 16th generated Note Events at 120 BPM. Magellan is still up there in the 500 plus samples jitter.

Details here: http://www.innerclocksystems.com/New%20ICS%20iLitmus.html"

Update 5 via Rob Fielding of Mugician, Geo Synth, & Cantor in the comments:

"This is probably not "MIDI" latency, but audio latency. The issue of iOS using oversized audio buffers is something that a minority of us iOS app devs (me especially) have been screaming about for years, especially just before Geo Synthesizer was released. Controller apps are crippled by this phenomenon at the moment, though the situation improved a lot last year. If the buffer is 512 at 44.1khz, then that's a 10ms buffer. If it's that large, then you will get jitter lower bound as a random variable from 0 to 10ms of latency no matter how fast everything else is. And in practice, there is always more overhead coming from elsewhere, including the hardware scanning for fingers to turn into touches, OS overhead, and MIDI packet sending, etc. I use 256 sized buffers (Mugician, Geo, Cantor), but I don't take MIDI in; so I experience this issue with almost all of the other iOS synths I run MIDI into. The apps that use a buffer size of 512 or higher are generally unplayable with Geo Synthesizer because you can play it so fast; you can really feel the difference between 512 (10ms) and 256 (5ms) buffers, though overhead makes total jitter almost 30ms. But the +/-10ms is enough to throw off rhythm.

and btw... iOS defaults to 1024 sized buffers but can usually go to 256 or 128 (good). Android on the other hand is a joke. Most Android apps have hundreds of seconds of latency (like 8192 buffers and even higher...yikes!) just due to audio buffer sizes, which means that hardware performance increases can never make a dent in the problem. Samsung Galaxy Nexus can get down to 512 I hear, which is almost to where it needs to be. It really needs to be 64, but 128 is doable for some synths, and no synths should settle for more than 256. I think AudioBus requires you to do 256. (But that's a whole new issue, because you are probably effectively chaining together audio buffer lengths when you pass from one app to another.)"

Glitch Breaks & Drum-Screens by Zviij

Published on Oct 14, 2012 by zviij

"Glitchy drumming inspired by Aphex Twin & Venetian Snares productions w/ GlitchBreaks App. + Korg Kaoss Pad KP3 (x2) and Korg Kaoss Quad. Performed by sound artist & noise designer Zviij © 2012.
* Booking : zviij AT zviij.com
• Discography:
- Zviij "Quadrifolium" (Album/Digital) http://zviij.bandcamp.com/album/quadrifolium (Bandcamp)
- Zviij "Sub-system design" (Album/CD) http://www.odiolorgnette.com/discography.html
- Zviij "Naked flowers" (Album/Digital) http://zviij.bandcamp.com/album/naked-flowers (Bandcamp) http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/naked-flowers/id475830077 (iTunes)

Zviij — (born Franck Smith) is a French sound artist, noise designer and electronic musician, active as a soloist, living and working in Brussels.

http://www.zviij.com"
iTunes:
GlitchBreaks - Alex Matheu
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LinnDrum LM2 Samples

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1978 ARP Ad

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"ARP Odyssey and Axxe '...now the most playable' two-page colour advertisement from page 34 and 35 in the March 1978 issue of Contemporary Keyboard."

Happy birthday, Tangerine (Mac OS X and Windows intro)

Published on Oct 12, 2012 by Alexander Matchugovsky

"Code by NightRadio, music was tracked by Manwe in SunVox (remake of "Early Fall" tune composed by Tangerine in Scream Tracker 3). Download app/exe : http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=60492"

If you are new to SunVox, check out the SunVox Tutorials by SolarLune

Sunvox is also available for iOS:
SunVox - Alexander Zolotov
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Alesis A6 Andromeda Synthesizer with Hard Case

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Logan String Melody Mk 1

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"The Logan String Melody was a portable keyboard produced in two versions from 1973 to 1982. Within Italy it was sold under the Logan brand, and outside Italy it was distributed by Horner.

The first version had many variations. The second, called the String Melody II, was the final version, produced from 1977 to 1980.


It came in a heavy wooden case and weighed 23 kilograms. It has full polyphony with a variable-gain amplifier for each key and a Jarred-like chorus.

The keyboard consists of four octaves split into two nearly equal sized ranges. In each of these ranges a combination of three string sounds can be mixed. Each string sound is a copy of the other but one octave higher in pitch.Each half contains a 3-octave mixer and a sustain fader; on the lower half two monophonic bass sounds can be added."

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E-mu Emulator II

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Roland EP-09 ANALOG electric piano SN 003859

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ROLAND RS-09 Organ/Strings SN 895483 with Original Gig Bag

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ROLAND SH-2 with Original Roland Case SN 117257

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YAMAHA CS-15 Vintage Analog Monophonic Synthesizer SN 1482

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YAMAHA SS-30 Analog String Synth SN 1555

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"Very rare yamaha ss 30 vintage string synth , never released in the US. Probably one of the lushest sounding string synths around. It uses divide down for its tone generation but there are two tones for each note so you can detune one against the other for a wide sound. Add in the ensemble and vibrato and it all adds up to some very lush sounds..."

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FutureRetro XS Synthesizer

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genius

flickr by By ohgigi

"tanner builds synth's out of old key boards.
he designs the boxes the panels and the skematics,
he builds every square inch by hand.
i am amazed.
this one is selling for 1100.00 u.s. dollars. ~. about 1/3 of what it's worth.
i'm imprESSed. . . but i'm his mom :)"

Lariat Rituals & Tokyo Lick

Published on Oct 10, 2012 by jeffreystolet

"Real-time performance of data-driven instrument - Gametrak and Kyma"

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Tokyo Lick

Uploaded by jeffreystolet on Jun 30, 2007

"music composed and performed by Jeffrey Stolet using custom software and infrared sensors"

PPG Wavegenerator, first test of upcoming voice-per-channel MIDI mode

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by Geert Bevin

"I've been helping Wolfgang Palm with adding a new feature to PPG Wavegenerator that allows per-note expression over MIDI by implementing a voice-per-channel MIDI mode. This is a quick test of the first fully working version he sent me today. It's short, but I hope it shows the possibilities of this feature with new electronic instruments like the Eigenharp.

Note that this demo is only using one single sound that has independent expression in three axis for each individual note.

I'm using a modified version of the standard 'Jigsaw Lead' patch that has up-down movement mapped to per-note filter cutoff (Y movement in PPG), pressure (X movement in PPG) to note volume and left-right movement to per-note pitch with a 5 semitone interval.

More information about this excellent iPad synth here:
http://wolfgangpalm.com/

This new feature is probably going to be available as an additional in-app purchase."

iTunes:
WaveGenerator - PPG - Wolfgang Palm
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"Loops" - on Roland SH-2000

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by organfairy

"This is a melody that was composed by Belgian trio Telex in the early 1980's. But it was only recently I heard it for the first time when I got the "Belgium, one point" CD box.

"Loops" is a slow and somewhat sad song about everything in our lives seems to repeat itself - "Seems like yesterday reappear tomorrow" - and there are a lot of strange little details going on in the arrangement. So it was not a straight away task to learn how to play it.

I play the melody on the old Roland SH-2000 synthesizer. I use Roland Rhythm 77 for the rhythm (obviously), and Roland JX-8P synthesizer and Technics SX-C600, Elka EP-8, and Yamaha HE-8 organs for the rest."