Meeting of the Knobs 2009 Gallery

You can find the full set of images here at synthesizers.com.

Pictured here:
Roger Arrick of synthesizers.com taming the dotcom modular

Mark Glinsky's Aries Modular

Mark Glinsky's Memorabilia (click the image and read the notes from Keith Emerson)

Meeting of the Knobs 2009 on Wavemakers

more images on Wavemakers-synth.com

Orange Future Retro Rave-o-lution.

MOTK7

YouTube via davidryle
"more from the Meeting of the Knobs 2009."

MOTK6

YouTube via davidryle. Click on the MOTK label below for more.
"Meeting of the Knobs in Bedford, Texas on June 27th, 2009."

MOTK5

YouTube via davidryle
"Meeting of the Knobs 2009"

Meeting of the Knobs 2009

YouTube via zibbybone
"A few clips of the toys from this gathering."

Meeting of the Knobs 2009

"A day of tweaking
Vintage and Contemporary Analog Synthesizers, Casual Conversation, and Plenty of Drooling

Saturday, June 27, 2009
10am till 5pm"

More info on Synthesizers.com. You'll also find images from last year's event.

Synth DIY meeting Dallas Texas 3-22-09

via the AH list:
"We will be having our 3rd DFW Synth DIY meeting 3/22/09 at the And/Or gallery, 4221 Bryan St. Ste B Dallas, TX 75204. It will begin around 3pm.

http://andorgallery.com/

There will be various projects presented including Lars' Video Synthesizer. I will have one of the Electro-Music.com cloned Low pass gates, a CGS tube VCA, and some of Ian Fritz projects to show. If you have a project you have been working on please bring it to show. If you have a project you need help with, bring it by and we will do our best to help.

Come hang out and tweak some knobs."

NEW POLIVOKS CLONE VCF COmING SOON

via orange_LED on the forum. Note the image here is actually The Toad (listed for auction here) referenced below, and not the new filter.

"I finished a prototype of this filter and have the pcb laid out already. It is a matter of meeting my budget to have these made. Most likely it will be released late November early december.
Here's the Info.
-it will be self powered and an External VCF for your Modular or DJ/VSt/VA filtering purposes. it will come with a Wall wart plug.
-it has Line Level boosters so if you plug in a 'low' level signal it has a Gain Knob to amplify it. If you do that to a high Synth Level signal you will make a cool distorted signal. It is possible to plug in a guitar direct and amplify.
-there will be 2 of those Boosters and they will have an final 'input' Knob to fine tune Distorted (just the way you want it)sound going into the VCF and Attenuate. Otherwise if you cranked the GAIN all the way it would be over kill sound going direct to the vcf with no way to adjust it. The whole sound input thing was all well thought out.
-it will have (1) onboard LFO, a slim down version of the TOAD lfo.
-I figured out a REZ HACK FOR THIS TOO! there will be 2 switches to give you different flavors of the unique Rez on this thing.
-all the inputs/outputs wil be 1/4" phono
-it will look like the same design as the Toad (lexan and wood) and be called a 'the Tadpole VCF'.
-The size is a little smaller than a DR670 drum machine.
-I have to build one from the final PCB and see about parts/etc before I decide on a price. The goal is to sell it less then 200.00
**Here's more happy news: I got all worked up about this external vcf idea and already have an EMS VCF clone laid out also But I only managed to cram the VCF only, no onboard LFO"

Hataken Interview

Back on March 31, I put up a post on Hataken, a Japanese DJ artist who primarily uses analog synths. At the time, Shane Chisolm, the manager of Don Juan Dracula mentioned Hataken was working on a remix version of DJD's "Take Me Home". Shane asked me if I'd be interested in doing an interview with Hataken, and I thought why not. It would be interesting to hear his perspective on the world of synths as a live DJ artist. The following is the result of that interview. Note, this is a long one. You will want to use page down to scroll through. If it is too long for you, I recommend reading one or two questions each time you visit the site. Each DIY item below would typically have been a separate post. There is a lot of interesting stuff here. That said, I start with an introduction followed by asking Hataken how it all started for him. Note the focus is primarily on synths as this site is about everything synth, and Hataken delivers. The gear he has both worked with and designed to meet his specific needs is overwhelming. There's also an interesting interlude on experimenting with frequency counters to produce specific frequencies of sound known to have healing properties, and of course there is a bit of the age old discussion of digital and analog.

Before we start the interview, I want to thank Hataken for taking the time out for this, and I want to thank Shane for suggesting it. It's a fascinating history of a DJ synth artist with interesting perspectives that I'm sure I will come back to over time. Be sure to check out the video and link to more at the end. And of course be sure to check out Hataken's website.

1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

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