ion All Star Guitar with Launch Key and Arpeggionome

Published on Jan 17, 2013 ilovemyminimo·20 videos

"Very cool little guitar that uses your iPad. So many apps work without any difficulty. Love it"

iTunes:
Novation Launchkey - Novation
iOS Devices on eBay - Daily Tech Deals
ion All Star Guitars on eBay


Launch key midi bridge to Arpeggionome
Published on Jan 9, 2013

"Quick demo to show these to apps playing nicely together. Go arp happy! I just realized that another person actually thought of this first but didn't do a video...so credit goes to Derek Buddemeyer!! for putting this to apps together...and apparently you dont' even need midi bridge for them to work...awesome!"

iTunes:
Arpeggionome Pro - Alexandernaut
MidiBridge - Audeonic Apps

iPad Synth Guitar with ION All-Star Guitar

Published on Dec 29, 2012 Brian Ping-Yao Wang·16 videos

"Just made a quick custom controller app to use ION All-Star Guitar to control iOS synth apps. Apps used: ThumbJam, Audiobus, JamUp (for delay & reverb effects), MIDI Bridge, custom controller app for All-Star Guiar (supporting velocity, aftertouch, mod wheel, pitch bending)"

ION All-Star Guitars on eBay

JP80 + JP8 + JP6 + Ion "3 Jupiters"

YouTube Published on Apr 20, 2012 by synthartist69
The three Roland Jupiters together.

"Here we have a Jupiter 80, Jupiter 8, Jupiter 6 and Alesis Ion. The Ion is being used for the Arpeggiator. The patch on the Ion is called "Infrastructure". The patch on the Jupiter 80 is called "Big Mouth Pad" which is the first patch of the new 2.0 version."

Namm 2012 ion ION GUITAR APPRENTICE by Rock oN Report

YouTube Uploaded by RockoNCompany on Jan 20, 2012

"Namm 2012 ion ION GUITAR APPRENTICE by Rock oN Report"

Musikmesse 2011: Craig Anderton's Keyboard Report

YouTube Uploaded by HarmonyCentral on Apr 14, 2011

"For some reason, there was a lot of keyboard action at Messe - huge synths, new workstations, groove-oriented keyboardt, keyboard controllers, even iPad piano methods wrapped around a controller. This video covers all the highlights."

Cats at rest

flickr by sarendipatree.

Alesis ION and Ensoniq ESQ1

Title link takes you to more.

synth rack

"Kurzweil K2000, Alesis Ion, Ensoniq SQ-80, DSI Evolver, Yamaha QY-70, AirFX and Electro-Harmonix 2880 looper."

flickr by sarendipatree. Title link takes you to a few more.

Synth P*rn on SoNiCbRaT

Sherman Filterbank II


Roland JUNO-106


ROLAND RS09


Alesis ION


Kawai K5000W

Roland SH-101 Modded

Click each link for more.

Rockets

Via fmasseti:

"this pic is from a concert of a french group called Rockets ... very famous in france and italy during the late 70s ealry 80s i love that Korg PS ion the back ground .. "

Title link takes you to the Rockets Fan Club where this image is from. Click on the image for a much larger shot.

Update via the comments: "They were not an entirely french group. Later incarnations of the group was italian and during a period Sal Solo (ex. Classix Nouveaux) was the lead singer. Their early albums are however true classics and are highly recommended for anyone interested in early synthesizer based pop music."

Update: Check out their video here.

Soundtower Software

This is another case of where the heck have I been. Carbon111 posted about the Soundtower Evolver editor in the comments of this post. I knew about the editor, but I never realized how many editors they had. According to Carbon111, "The Soundtower one was easy to use, graphically nice, robust and has excellent support - not to mention its free with the Polyevolver and has Dave Smith's endorsement. Soundtower's editor for the Microwave XT is my favorite software editor ever. These guys do good work."

http://www.soundtower.com/

Digitalogue Synthesiser Resource

Title link takes you to a new digital synthesizer resource site. This is a hobby site by OriginalJambo, so don't expect too much. Currently there are some ESQ-1 samples and info up. The following appear to be coming next: Alesis Ion, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Kawai K1, Roland D50, Roland Juno6, and Yamaha DX7. Nice cat.

Vyzor Ion

Editor for the Alesis ION and Micron from the makers of this DSI Evolver editor. I found this one in the comments of this VSE thread. Make sure to read the thread if you are considering it. If anyone has experience with thier Evolver editor, please feel free to comment on the quality and overall experience.

Unease

Title link takes you to the Unease equipment page where you will find pages with more info and samples for the following: Sequential Circuits Pro One, MFB-Synth II, PAiA 9700S, Alesis ION, Access Virus Indigo, Roland Juno-106, Waldorf Pulse, Ensoniq ASR-10, and Casio CZ-101.

Bernard Szajner's Laser Harp

"The first laser harp ever made was a framed laser harp. It was created 1981 by the frenchman Bernard Szajner and was named “Syringe” from a science fiction book."

"Technical explainations:
His harp was powered by a Spectra Physics 5 Watts argon ion laser. The beam was sent through a fibre optics conductor to a line grating, where the beam was split into the 12 “strings” of laser light"

Via Frederic
"The synth behind Bernard Szajner is a RSF Modular"

Title link takes you there.

Alesis Ion - Inside and Out

Title link takes you to more shots of the Alesis Ion - inside and out. Via Yan.

Ion Shadows - New Flickr Shots

Flickr by NoNightSweats. These are shots of PhilT's setup. Title link takes you to more including an ARP Odyssey.

PhilT's sites:
sydney post-punk
a slow rip

ION and JP8000 - New Flickr Shot

flickr via malota.

Alesis ION - New Flickr Shot

flickr by malota. Title link takes you to more synth shots.

Alesis ION Filter Types

There has been some discussion on AH on the Alesis ION filter types. It's interesting that they are not listed in detail on the Alesis site. I thought I'd put up a post with the list so far. Title link takes you to a Sound on Sound review of the ION where the majority of the below came from. However, some new filters also listed below, were added since the SOS reveiw. Here's a link to the details on the OS updates to date.



'mg': a four-pole low-pass modelled on that of the most famous monophonic analogue synth ever made.
'ob': a two-pole low-pass closely resembling the one in a classic synth xpander... whoops, I mean expander module.
'ob': a two-pole band-pass.
'ob': a two-pole high-pass.
'rp': a four-pole low-pass modelled on the one in a popular semi-modular synth.
'tb': a three-pole low-pass (think 'little silver bass synth').
'jp': a four-pole low-pass (from an eight-voice synth noted for its coloured buttons amongst other things);
'Eight-pole low-pass': all the filters from here on were created for the Ion; this one gives a very steep cutoff.
'8ve dual band-pass': two two-pole band-pass filters spaced one octave apart.
'six-pole band-pass': like an exaggerated version of the 'ob' band-pass.
'phase warp': an analogue phaser effect based on eight all-pass filters in series.
'comb filter 1': multiple resonant peaks and notches which are not harmonically related.
'comb filter 2': as above, but the signal is additionally filtered to warm up the sound.
'vocal formant 1': three band-pass filters emulating 'ah' and 'oo' vowel sounds.
'vocal formant 2': as above, but 'oh' and 'ee' vowel sounds.
'vocal formant 3': a five-band formant filter.
'band limit': a two-pole high-pass filter and a two-pole low-pass filter in series, limiting the signal to everything between them; resonance adjusts bandwidth.

New Types:
'OP 4-Pole Highpass - This filter is based on our "MG" 4-pole lowpass filter model. It has a steeper cut-off and more extreme resonance than the "OB" highpass. Like the "MG", it will self-oscillate when the resonance is turned all the way up. It can thus be used as a fourth (or fifth) oscillator.
'Comb 3 - Based on a different design than Comb's 1 and 2, it has deeper notches and more pronounced resonance.
'Comb 4 - Similar to Comb3, but with negative feedback. This will oscillate and even clip when the resonance is turned up.

ION Dusk

No title link.