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Hank Venture's Umbrella Ride

Mankato Filter demo via STG

"here's another chune i worked up. the Mankato is used on every track. it's called 'Hank Venture's Umbrella Ride.'

i suppose it's a dance track, but a DJ i gave it to today described it as "shiftey" ... better for listening to not so good for dancing. this is probably a side effect of being 5 tracks of improvisation to tape, mixed live with the desk at mixdown. all the sequencing is the Trigger Mini-Store and the Voltage Mini-Store. i used the x0xb0x only to stripe the tape machine with din sync, and as a keyboard controller for the "lead" "melody" track.

the kick drum is the distorted sine from the 6 db output of the Mank, the hats use the Mank as a mixer for the 3 Q106s modulating each other as a metallic noise source (need to work a bit more on that sound), the bass is a couple Q106s filtered from the 24 db output of the Mankato, the chords are 3 Q106s (tuned to a chord, with 2 of the 3 oscillators modulated by the Voltage Mini-Store) through the 18db output (i think. i had intended to but i might have accidentally used another output), and the lead line uses the 6 db output with heavy regeneration.

download an mp3 at: link"

You can find more demos from STG at the The Sound Vault.

Voice of Saturn ~Modulator: VCA, Triangle Gen, AR Gen

YouTube via CuriousInventor
http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/voice_of_saturn_modulator

Flame Echometer Prototype Part1

YouTube via flameampere
"Preview of the FLAME-"ECHOMETER"-Prototyp, the new MIDI-Sequencer/Looper. Session with Moogerfooger's FequBox/RingModulator and MAM "ADX1" (Analog-Drum-Soundmodul)"

Wires wires everywhere. An adventure in circuit bending.

flickr set by antakrt

"One fine autumn day, we got together to circuit bend a piece o' shit old Yamaha PSR6. This is our story."

Moog Realistic Concertmate MG-1: Killer Syth for Radio Shack

YouTube via gearwire
"Nowadays, Radio Shack has earned itself a rep for selling musical products that no serious musician would touch with a ten foot pole lest he or she be ridiculed beyond belief by his or her smarmy musician friends. Though Moog manufactured the Concertmate MG-1 for Radio Shack, it lives up to the Moog name, so anyone who ridicules you for it is committing blasphemy.

Dan Marshall from RedNails gives us a walkthru of the instrument, its capabilities, its quirks and its sound.

See more on Gearwire.com."

Virus C & Nord Modular, one of these creative nights!

YouTube via beckhusen. "Live session with Access Virus C and Clavia Nord Modular G2"

Technics SY-1010

via this auction

"Technics SY-1010 analog synthesizer vintage 1977 Japan rare smallest but fat analog synth with full sized keys SY-1010 is extremely rare cute monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Technics in 1977. cute! very small and light weight analog synthesizer it has full sized 32keys 1VCO, noise,VCF(resonance self-oscillating),ADSR,LFO,and each various controls VCO is free scale(not change by octave range)like modular synth simple architecture but very easy to use and can creates versatile sounds fat analog bass sound to warm leads,retro SFX sounds etc good synth for both recording and live performance(small and light weight and looks cute)"

Don't forget...

it's cute.

Syntecno TeeBee Mark III

images via this auction
"Syntecno TeeBee MkIII . Some people say it is the best TB 303 Clone ever made. Its Sound is amazing and thick. These were hand-made in Holland, and have been out of production for a long while now. The Original creator is still supporting them. This one has two fender guitar knobs instead of the stock knobs on the Tuning and Cutoff. They work as well or better than the Originals. In addition to being an Awesome analog TB 303 type instrument it has:

# Audio Input for filtering.
# Ms 20 style Ring Modulator built in.
# MIDI to CV Converter Built in with 4 CV/Gate outputs
# Aggressiveness control for the resonance
# 50 note or 100 controllers Sequencer
# MIDI IN / OUT / THRU & 2 MIDI merge
# SYNC OUT (which clocks to the MIDI so you can Sync your 606, 808, 303 or other SYNC gear to your MIDI gear)

# These were 1000$ New ~8 years ago, and based on their rarity, I would imagine the price would be a ton more than the asking price soon. It is a very useful tool with all the converters, and sounds it can produce."