Crystalline Stricture Performance One

video by Mindburner

Short electronic set

01 Waterfall [CS]
02 Rocks And Sand [CS]
03 Matter Of Class [CS]
04 Enemy [RIVAL]

Transcendent 2000 & OSCar.

AE#135 Oscar Synthesizer Part 3, Name That Tune Results, Digital Oscillator Theory Of Operation

Artifact Electronics

"The results of our Name That Tune competition followed by an explanation of how the digital oscillators operate in the Oscar.

00:00 - Oscar Synthesizer Part 3
00:34 - Name That Tune results
04:35 - Oscillator intro
05:33 - Sine Wave Theory
12:22 - Wave samples
20:21 - Variable sample rate playback
24:41 - Variable wave pointer increments
34:54 - The Oscar oscillator circuit
47:55 - Outro"

Artifact Electronics OSCar posts

AE#133 Building An Oscar Music Synthesizer On A Bunch Of Prototype Boards

Artifact Electronics

"I wanted an Oscar Music Synthesizer for a while, but the longer I waited the more rare and expensive they got. So I finally built one with documentation and software available publicly on the internet.Here's a brief summary of the whole process."

AE#134 Testing The Oscar Music Synthesizer Built On A Bunch Of Prototype Boards
Artifact Electronics

Legendary Synth Designer Chris Hugget of EDP, OSC, and Novation has Passed Away

I'm hearing news that Novation's Chris Hugget passed away on Friday. Anyone coming to this site, likely knows he designed the original EDP WASP series of synths, the Oxford Synthesizer Company's OSCar, and more recently, various synths for Novation. Novation has a timeline of his creations here.

"Most people know him as the genius behind Wasp and OSCar, the legendary monosynth from Ultravox's Love's Great Adventure, Stevie Wonder's Skeletons, and Jean-Michel Jarre's Revolutions Overture.

Chris' synths have been used by everybody: Orbital, Ultravox, Tom Yorke, Trent Reznor, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Stevie Wonder, Jean Michel Jarre, Keith Emerson- the list is endless. His heritage synths are sought across the world, and sell for upwards of £5000.

He is a true synth legend. He is also our synth designer. Every Novation synth has been conceived, shaped and refined by his passion and expertise, which spans five decades."

Below are a few videos that pay tribute to his work. You can find additional posts mentioning Chris Hugget here.




Novation // Innovation Since 1992

Inside: Novation's Innovative Instrument Laboratory (Electronic Beats TV)




The WASP - A Very British Synthesizer


Alex Ball

"The WASP is an iconic British synthesizer designed by Electronic Dream Plant in 1978.

EDP were Adrian Wagner (yes he was a relation), Chris Huggett and Steven Evans. They only traded until around 1982, but that wasn't the end of their synth story. Chris Huggett in particular has had a prolific career in the industry, founding the Oxford Synthesizer Company in 1983 and releasing the (also iconic) OSCar and subsequently (after work with Akai), he joined Novation, who are still trading to this very day.

Back to 1978, the concept of the WASP was to build a powerful, low cost synthesizer. That seemed to have worked as one of the original reviews I found uses the headline "The Synth we can all afford" but still dubs it a professional instrument.

I also found a Moog price list dated June 15th 1978 and it lists the Minimoog as $1,995, the Multimoog as $1,495 and the Micromoog as $895. Assuming they sold for about the same in the UK, the equivalent prices would be approximately £1,090, £820 and £490 respectively. The aforementioned WASP review also states that an Odyssey is still over £1,000 in 1978, so with the WASP priced at £199 this demonstrates what a bargain it was at the time.

In fact, I had a brief conversation with a friend who remembers running out to buy it the moment he heard about it in 1978 and he still has his. It was also the first synth of Dave Stewart and Nick Rhodes among others."

In the Studio - Fun With Analog Stacking

Published on Aug 25, 2017 Gedemondas

"Sometimes it's fun to stack a bunch of analog monosynths (and a couple of digital polyphonic ones) into one super-stack and mess around on the master MIDI keyboard, in this case a Native Instruments KK S61. For more actual music, click here! https://soundcloud.com/angels_with_ce..."

Roland D-50, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, OSC OSCar, Roland SH-101, JP-8080, & TR-909, Korg Minilogue & MS-20, and a Moog Prodigy.

0-COAST MIDI CONTROL

0-COAST MIDI CONTROL from Peter Speer on Vimeo.

"Controlling the Make Noise 0-Coast synthesizer with external software (Max/MSP, OSCulator, Ableton Live), a Nintendo Wiimote and a KMI QuNexus keyboard.

Note: all effects (Reverb, Bit Crush, Beat Repeat) are in Ableton, not the 0-Coast.

More info: http://makenoisemusic.com/

diode-ring.com"

Electronic Sound Maker & Computer Music Magazine Scans

You'll find them here. Keep scrolling when you get there.

Pictured here:

Teisco 110F
OSCar with Voyetra 8 Ad
Synton Syrinx

You can click on the pics to read them.

BTW, anyone know how to pronounce Teisco?

CLICK FOR MORE »

Synthesiser von Gestern Volumes 1 - 3

Synthesiser von Gestern Volume 1
Published on Feb 22, 2015 baward

"From the 1990 CD, ‘Synthesiser von Gestern' ('Synthesisers of Yesterday’) or 'Vintage Synths Volume 1’"

Playlist:
SVG1 1/22 Arp Odyssey
SVG1 2/22 Yamaha CS-60 part 1
SVG1 3/22 Oberheim SEM
SVG1 4/22 Korg Mono/Poly
SVG1 5/22 Minimoog
SVG1 6/22 Memorymoog
SVG1 7/22 Roland Jupiter 8
SVG1 8/22 Yamaha CS-60 part 2
SVG1 09/22 Sequential Circuits Pro One
SVG1 10/22 Korg PS-3100
SVG1 11/22 Roland SH-5
SVG1 12/22 Rhodes Chroma part 1
SVG1 13/22 Korg Poly 800
SVG1 14/22 Roland System 100
SVG1 15/22 Roland Juno 60
SVG1 16/22 Mellotron
SVG1 17/22 EMS Synthi A
SVG1 18/22 Rhodes Chroma part 2
SVG1 19/22 PPG Wave 2 2
SVG1 20/22 Yamaha CS 15
SVG1 21/22 Korg MS-20
SVG1 22/22 Moog System 55

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GForceSoftwareTV

Published on Jun 4, 2013 GForceSoftwareTV·77 videos

Chillout at 200 bpm

Published on Sep 13, 2012 by sEQuenz23

"1904 Steinway meets 2012 drum n bass. With the help of Ableton Live, Lemur on iPad, and a Wiimote it might just be possible. Live looping and sound effects are controlled with Lemur on the iPad, and drum loops are triggered with a Wii remote.

You can download the Ableton Live set (Live 8 needed), Lemur file, and OSCulator patch below if you'd like to have a play or use it as a starting point for your own live-looping experiments. If you're on a PC, you can use GlovePie instead of OSCulator to get the Wiimote to trigger drum loops.

http://sequenz.co.uk/sound/PianoEffectsLiveSet.als
http://sequenz.co.uk/sound/PianoEffectsLemur.jzml
http://sequenz.co.uk/sound/PianoEffectsOSC.oscd

I also used the excellent free Aurex MFX1 effects rack which you'll need to download to use in the Live set. Details and link to download are here:

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/2012/06/14/mfx1-master-effects-racks-aurex/"

iTunes:
Lemur - Liine
iPads on eBay, on Amazon

FRACT OSC teaser

Published on Oct 24, 2012 by FRACT OSC

"Experience the world of FRACT, a first-person adventure game inspired by electronic music.

EXPLORE an abstract broken-down world built on sound
REBUILD its structures and forgotten machinery
CREATE your own sounds and music within the game

Find out more at http://fractgame.com

Help us out of Steam Greenlight:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93104891"

See the FRACT label below for more.

Music (and Animation) Made with Buttons - by Satellites

YouTube Published on Jul 18, 2012 by kidwithoutradio

Update 7/31: In case you missed it, click the link below for the album. Embed below as well.

"http://www.kidwithoutradio.com

Sound:

New song "The Answer" from the new album "Ghost". Release: 7/24/12

Animation:

Each button = one frame in the animation & one sound. As a result, any movement on the screen is a result of each button pressed, and is not simply caused by sound. Each button has it's own unique still picture assigned to it. All together the frames took me over 80 hours to create/design, resulting in a little over 50 seconds of footage.

The new controllers:

-1 32 illuminated game button (UHID) controller custom built by me, controlling the sounds and frames simultaneously.

-1 iPad running Touch OSC, in custom housing used to switch banks of sounds and images.

Software:

Ableton Live (Music), Cell DNA (Animation), junXion (UHID Controller), OSCulator (iPad)

Design:

The album cover for the new "Ghost" record is featured in the animation. The 8 sided star has been used in various cultures throughout the world as a symbol of balance, harmony, and cosmic order. The original star design however has 16 sides, but multiples of 4 are used because of the 4 bar measure & 32 buttons on the controller. This makes it easy to achieve an animation that moves evenly.

Side Note:

Four days before shooting this I stuck a screwdriver through my finger working on an electrical connector. A piece of that connector was lodged in my finger. After my own attempts to cut it out with an Xacto knife, I went to the hospital. They told me that I had to wait 6 days to get the metal piece out. So I said fuck it, and shot this video with that half inch piece of metal in my hand. If you look closely you can see my left index finger isn't doing too much.

*In vein of The Music Made with Buttons Series by Egadz & Edison."

TouchOSC+iPad+Max/MSP+AndromedaA6 synth

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
YouTube Published on Jul 6, 2012 by cha0smoon

"testing a Max/MSP patch/standalone interfacing with TouchOSC on an iPad and Andromeda A6.

Its inspired by the Suzuki Omnichord, but i can add my own scales over the positions."

Geir Jenssen's studio

flickr By Dan Correia

"Talk about minimal. Can you believe the mind that produced Substrata uses such a sparse arrangement? Two vintage analogue synths (Powertran Transcendent 2000, Oxford OSCar), one modern digital "virtual analogue" (Nord Rack 3), a mid-90s sampler (Akai S3200) and a MacBook Pro. I'm not sure what is the tiny controller, maybe an Akai nano Keyboard? Photo by Geir Jenssen."

via @Ultravod

"Geir Jenssen's amazingly minimalist arctic studio"

OSCar Synthesizer - Minimoog - Korg Monopoly - Roland TR-606.AVI

YouTube Published on May 21, 2012 by djessay101

"just for FUN :-)))) little Demo of the OSCar Synthesizer :-)))"

SketchSynth - A Drawable OSC Control Surface

SketchSynth from Billy Keyes on Vimeo.

"SketchSynth - A drawable OSC control panel

My final project for Golan Levin's Interactive Art and Computational Design class at CMU, Spring 2012.
Built with openFrameworks, ofxCv, OSC, and Pure Data.

More info: golancourses.net/2012spring/05/13/billy-keyes-final-project-sketchsynth/
Behind-the-scenes view: vimeo.com/42053693

Music: ioflow - mnml autmn

Thanks to Golan Levin, the CMU Art Department (Bob Kollar), and Nick Mazurek for lending me equipment for the project and the video. Also, thanks to Kyle McDonald for his excellent ofxCv addon, which makes it incredibly easy to work with OpenCV inside openFrameworks."

SketchSynth (behind-the-scenes) from Billy Keyes on Vimeo.

"A view of the debug/setup screen of my SketchSynth program. It shows some of the stages of the image processing and how the projector is aligned to the camera."

Not to be confused with Sketch Synth 3D for iPad

STEIM's junXion - Data Processing and Mapping for Game Controllers & Video

what's junXion? from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

"tutorial #1 about Steim's data processing and mapping software junXion, which can be used to translate game controllers, video, osc, arduino's into MIDI and OSC messages. The tutorial is presented by Andreas Otto, a.k.a. Springintgut."

using a joystick with junXion from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

"tutorial #2 about Steim's data processing and mapping software junXion, which can be used to translate game controllers, video, osc, arduino's into MIDI and OSC messages. The tutorial is presented by Andreas Otto, a.k.a. Springintgut."

using Timers in junXion from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

"tutorial #3 about Steim's data processing and mapping software junXion, which can be used to translate game controllers, video, osc, arduino's into MIDI and OSC messages. The tutorial is presented by Andreas Otto, a.k.a. Springintgut."

using the Wiiremote as a musical instrument from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

"tutorial #4 about Steim's data processing and mapping software junXion, which can be used to translate game controllers, video, osc, arduino's into MIDI and OSC messages. The tutorial is presented by Andreas Otto, a.k.a. Springintgut."

using video tracking in junXion, part1 from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

"tutorial #5 about Steim's data processing and mapping software junXion, which can be used to translate game controllers, video, osc, arduino's into MIDI and OSC messages. The tutorial is presented by Andreas Otto, a.k.a. Springintgut."

video tracking with junXion, part2 from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

"tutorial #6 about Steim's data processing and mapping software junXion, which can be used to translate game controllers, video, osc, arduino's into MIDI and OSC messages. The tutorial is presented by Andreas Otto, a.k.a. Springintgut."

FRACT OSC DevDiary - Explore, Rebuild, Create

YouTube Uploaded by PhosfiendSystems on Feb 9, 2012

"CHECK OUT WWW.FRACTGAME.COM FOR MORE INFO

A quick look at some of the things we have planned for FRACT OSC - a first person adventure game inspired by synthesizers (no kidding!). We're building some really interesting tools that combine exploration, puzzles and musical creation - and we're really excited to share them with everyone!"

FRACT Prototype Trailer

Uploaded by PhosfiendSystems on Feb 8, 2012

"This is the trailer we released last year (January 2011) for the FRACT prototype. This early version of the game went on to win best student game at the IGF awards in 2011!

The prototype can still be downloaded for free at FRACTGAME.COM"

Thick

Uploaded by PhosfiendSystems on Feb 7, 2012

"[Originally posted 2011/05/09]
Ominous fiddling - coming to an abstract virtual world near you.

For news, updates on development and other goodies, visit FRACTGAME.COM"

Easy OSC learn with Sensomusic Usine

(Your smartphone as a remote to control your VST's)

Uploaded by sensomusic on Jan 10, 2012

"Here a presentation of a new feature for OSC control in the new version of Usine ( http://sensomusic.com). if you know the midi learn, now count with the OSC Learn ! Move a parameter on your smartphone, ipod or android tablet , Usine automatically recognize and name the parameter ! Never be so easy to use OSC in an audio appz !"

And from March of last year:

Sensomusic Usine 5.50

Uploaded by sensomusic on Mar 23, 2011

Using LibreOffice as a Tracker/Sequencer (I suck at Spreadsheets)

YouTube Uploaded by cappelnord on Jan 2, 2012

"Watch in 720p.

A Spreadsheet could be used as a music sequencer. The sound actually isn't produced by LibreOffice but by SuperCollider. Python is used to bridge the applications via CSV/OSC. If you know your Spreadsheet software well the built in functions can be used. I don't! I also struggle with the interface :-) The last time i used spreadsheets is 10 years ago or so.

This was the second time trying this so i make a lot of mistakes. It's more a proof of concept.This was a 3 hour hack so don't excpect much from the source code. But here it is:

http://www.cappel-nord.de/files/libre-jam.zip

You have to figure out how it works for yourself. I don't give any support :-).

I did it for the lulz."