Zoom MS-70CDR, EHX 720, Ambient Toy Piano Jam

Published on Dec 28, 2019 Waveformer

"So... My wife gave me a toy piano for Christmas. The kind with cute animals on.

My second thought was that it must be possible to create some kind of listen-worthy music with this.

The piano sound is sample-based, with three different samples spaced over a two octave keyboard. For some reason, the sample is looped for the last half of the sound duration, and the loop length is slightly off, so the second half of the sound is slightly detuned. The keyboard itself is monophonic, only one key press is detected at a time. But a sample will keep playing to the end, even when a new key is pressed, so it's possible to "strum" a chord, sort of. Closer inspection also revealed that this marvelous instrument has a built-in sequencer.

It's battery powered with one speaker, but no line out. So I did a small mod and mounted a volume control, a minijack output, and an on-off switch for the built-in speaker.

I decided to go for the ambient genre, and to get some help from three Zoom MS-70CDR effect pedals, and a Electro Harmonix 720 looper.

The internal sequencer is used in the second half of the jam, and I throw in some subtle animal noises for good measure.

Enjoy :-).

Patches:

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Going ambient on a budget

Published on Nov 10, 2019 Audio Wanderer

"Where a method to make luxury ambient sounds without going bankrupt is explained. No wallet was hurt making this video."

Princess Music Synthesizer for your Girls

Published on May 17, 2014 Daniel Vince·6 videos

Something for your next synth meet. You can sit on the little stool and tweak away for people.

"Getting presents and presents for the little princesses in your home is always such a complicated task, specifically being a papa like me. Their little minds are always packed with imagination and curiosity, and they request even more every year, it is definitely not a simple job to discover something that will cheer them up.

We have actually uncovered this remarkable Princess Girl Voice Synthesizer orgasm Toy Keyboard Play Set. The instrument has a 37 Secret Piano and included a Microphone in addition to bundled with a Stool. This is a complete highlighted Piano and the Microphone allows the Princesses to sing along while playing, isn't really that cool?

What's excellent is that both playing and singing can be tape-recorded. The girls can listen through how they sound and exactly how they can do much better. They can repeat their tunes for you when you are back house. There are also various sound effects available on the Synthesizers that they can blend into the music and have fun!

Wouldn't this be a terrific present for your little women? Check it out by clicking this Link today!"

TOY #10 QUICKSHOT STUDIO 4 (1988) | funny demo

Published on Oct 25, 2012 by AnalogAudio1

(c) 2012 by AnalogAudio1

"Are you tired of cold, digital sounding recordings? The fully analogue QuickShot Studio 4 allows you to bring back the warmth of analogue in your recordings. The Studio 4 contains a great mixing console, a tape recorder, a microphone and very useful effects for the daily studio work...

QuickShot has also produced other high quality studio equipment like the 'Sound Machine'. This is a similar machine, just instead of the effects it contains a synthesizer ;-).

It came with shoulder straps, microphone and headphones.

As a kid I always wanted it, but nobody wanted to buy it for me... my parents had no clue how important analog recording to me was :-)"

TB-303 Hot Wheels Acid Bus

via Paul Barker on Facebook

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

1989 Hit Guitar NASTA

via this auction

"The box says reverb control, but there is not reverb, there is a pitch bend wheel that WILL blow your mind."



YouTube via weesta | August 02, 2010

Toy Keyboard Poster

Available on Etsy

"Toy keyboards are the best. Ever.

This is an offset-printed poster of imaginary toy keyboards that I wish were real. I wish. I wish.

Specs!: 11"x17" including a 1/4" white border. Printed with vegetable ink on 100% recycled paper. Each poster is hand-signed and shipped in a mailing tube. Perfect gift for the music dweeb in your life.


Reduced price on two or more. Just shoot me a message!
Free shipping in the US! "

What do I do with this?!

flickr by rosieapples

"This is the cute little Odeco I ran home and bought after seeing the gorgeous Momo owned by Becca at the London meet recently. I am really pleased with her although she is nameless at the minute. I was thinking maybe Ringo because of her bowl cut :P"

Tim & Eric - iJammer & eBumper

YouTube via prettycreaturesKY. "NO PARENTS ALLOWED!!!" via Josh Kay

Crash Course in Science The Uncle Floyd Show

YouTube via tumblebugmechanism. via sequencer.de.
"Television appearance by Crash Course in Science on The Uncle Floyd Show.
CCIS appeared four times on this amazing show. This clip was their second appearance.
They perform "Cakes in the Home" and "Kitchen Motors" and chat with Uncle Floyd."

Update via Pol in the comments: "Great "nostalgia" ;-). Seen them a few weeks ago at the Belgium Independent Music Festival in Antwerp:"

Crash Course in Science - Flying Turns (Live @ BIM 2009)

YouTube via satosato1
"Crash Course in Science - Flying Turns (Live @ BIM 2009)"

FamilyJamTime2

YouTube via digitalfalcon00. "More fun with the Prism Laser Guitar"

EDP WASP

via this auction

"Made 1978 England
Serial Number: 002497"

The Fonz
Mr. T
The Mummy
Devo
Mork
Bob Moog
Yamha CS30 in the background

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Vintage 50's Keyboard Konsole

via this auction

As analog as it gets...

Dr. Who Tardis for Your Bedroom

Some lucky 10 year old kid got this Dr. Who Tardis built for his bedroom. Anyone know more about this? I'm particularly curious if it makes any sound of course. Everything I've seen goes back to this anemic article on The Sun which doesn't reveal much.

It would definitely make for one hell of a synth.

Mame + sound card + oscilloscope = star wars arcade game

flickr by Moose2000

full size (be sure to check this out)

I wonder what it sounds like.

Update: video of it below. via Zamise in the comments.

oscilloscope star wars


Oscilloroids

via Scott in the comments.

Piano Calculator

Product page in Japanese. And in Googlish.

Unfortunately, I don't think this one is programmable like the Casio VL-Tone.

BeeGees Rhythm Machine

via this auction

You know you want it.

"This little gem has a 1 1/2 octave keyboard and a diverse selection of 3 rhythms--disco, latin and pop! It even has tempo adjustment for the rhythms and tuning control for the keyboard. Plus you get a box with some really happening pictures of the BeeGees. Runs on a 9 volt battery. This toy is for ages 8 and over. Please do not bid if you are under the age of 8."

Bee Gees Rhythm Box

via this auction.

Kraftwerk and their BeeGees Rhythm Box.

LE CYBERSONGOSSE

I recently saw this on sequencer.de. I wasn't sure if I put up a post on this before, however I was pretty sure I saw it on Music Thing and/or CDM. Sure enough I did. I sent an email to Tom and Peter and Peter was kind enough to reply with links to the posts. Here are the links to the posts on Music Thing and CDM.

Peter Kirn also sent the following:

"Check out these links for some amazing photos:
modeles
pedagogie.html

What I can't find -- and you'd probably need someone who has connections to IMEB for this -- is what happened to the public software release that was supposed to happen. There's nothing on the site, and the documentation of the project appears to be abandonware. (Hopefully that's just the site itself.) That'd be nice, as they redeveloped the software in Max/MSP."

If you know anything, please comment.

Update via Peter Grenader in the comments:

"If I'm not mistaken, this is a big midi controller designed to control patch parameters within software synthesis progrmas such as Csound and MaxP. This is what was explained to be a year or so.

Also, I believe Max was developed by Cycling 74, not the IMEB. Barry Vercoe I know developed Csound with IRCAM."

Update via the comments: "Actually, Max was developed by Opcode, who later added MSP. Then Cycling '74 bought it in 1999, and have been developing it ever since. What the post was actually saying is that the IMEB developed their own program using Max/MSP, not Max/MSP itself."

Update via Peter Kirn in the comments:

"Some historical corrections:

Csound was developed by Barry Vercoe while he was at MIT, not IRCAM. Csound is in turn indebted to Max Mathews' Music4 (and variants), as developed at Bell Labs from the late 50s through the 60s. Csound has grown a lot since its original version, however, through contributions by Dr. Vercoe and many others.

Max was not originally developed by Opcode; Max and the audio environment Max/FTS were the creation of Miller Puckette while he was at IRCAM (and I think IRCAM still holds some of the copyrights to that version of Max and its descendents). Max/MSP as we now know it did result from the Opcode variant of Max, that's true, though it has had an ongoing, bi-directional relationship with Max/FTS and later Pure Data, as developed by Miller Puckette, and has evolved through contributions of many people. Max Mathews is the namesake for the software Max, but supposedly specifically for an archaic reason having to do with scheduling (as well as, I'm sure, his admiration for Max Mathews' contributions to digital synthesis).

Back to the original question, I think people are right in that this is a hardware controller for a Max/MSP-based software patch. The modularity, having previously been in hardware, is now apparently in the software. The patch is promised to have been publicly released in the PDF docs for the instrument. So it's out there somewhere -- I just don't know where!"

Update: also see The Gmebaphone Concept and the Cybernéphone Instrument