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【DEMO】Gakken NSX-39 Published on Mar 27, 2014 musictrackjp·230 videos

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If you are not familiar with Gakken, it's a Japanese magazine that sometimes comes with an included gadget. There was an SX-150 and SX-150 mkII analog synths, two theremins, and a GMC4 microcomputer. A search on Gakken will bring up some videos and pics. You can find Gakken products on eBay here.

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Modified Gakken SX-150 Freak Out

YouTube Uploaded by vcs3dreams on Nov 13, 2011

"Modified Gakken Synth + diy sequencers + diy voltage controlled modulation generator.
Gakken for sale on etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/listing/81933368/analog-synth-control-voltage-synthesizer"

Gakken SX-150s on eBay

Jean-Michel Jarre OXYGENE on Gakken Analog Synthesizer SX-150

YouTube via ozashikiTECHNO
"Gakken Analog Synthesizer SX-150 Sound Test.
Original Music by Jean-Michel Jarre OXYGENE part1.
学研 大人の科学マガジン シンセサイザークロニクル ふろくアナログシンセサイザーSX-150でテスト演奏しました。曲はジャン・ミッシ ェル・ジャールの幻想惑星です。"

GAKKEN HACKING, DUOBLEE LOOP. ANALOG SINTHESIZER

Published on Sep 10, 2012 by double loop

"HACKING GAKKEN SX 150."

Gakken SX-150s on eBay

SX-150 & A100

YouTube via unyo303
"GAKKEN Analog Synthesizer SX-150 and Doepfer Analog Modular Synthesizer A100

SX-150
http://otonanokagaku.net/magazine/sx1..."

SX-150 & A100 part2

YouTube via unyo303. Part 1 here.
"GAKKEN Analog Synthesizer SX-150 and Doepfer Analog Modular Synthesizer A100
SX-150
http://otonanokagaku.net/magazine/sx1..."

Gakken SX-150 on Microscopics

see the full write-up with images on the microscopics blog

"My good friend Charles Webster brought me a small gift from his recent Japanese/ Australian tour to help beef up the Microscopics studio: a copy of the latest Gakken magazine which also comes with an analog synth as a simple-to-build construct kit. There’s no soldering, or hair-pulling, you just need a small screwdriver and about half an hour.

It’s like a souped up Stylophone and about the same size, with a pen (you can pretend it’s a Fairlight light pen) that makes contact with a metal (or carbon in this case) keyboard to play the notes, except the SX-150 keyboard is continuous with no note divisions, so you’ll have to determine the notes by ear like on your Theremin. It also has a filter, LFO, simple VCA and pitch envelopes, and an external input to process your Minimoog." flickr set courtesy of microscopics.

Mod-o-Tron Mini, Mod-o-Tron & Frankenribbon

Published on Feb 13, 2013 stexe·65 videos
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"Starting with a clean sine wave, then at 0:10 adding a short, high feedback delay. At 0:48 I bypass the pressure plate with a slide switch and adjust the volume knob. 1:20 demonstrates the cutoff, then the plate is turned back on for some staccato notes. LFO comes in at 1:43.

half the size of my original Mod-o-Tron: 3 x 17" faceplate, and only 1" high. Case is made from tinted acrylic and MDF. Runs efficiently on two AAA batteries. Uses a Korg Monotron Delay, linear potentiometer and force-sensitive resistor. Cost was about $90 total for all electronics and materials.

My other two ribbon synth designs:"

Mod-o-Tron

Uploaded on Dec 7, 2011
"Analog ribbon synthesizer. Uses the circuit from a Korg Monotron and a customized 18" ribbon with reversible direction. Only 3/4" deep. Runs on rechargeable batteries. Built from MDF and acrylic."

Frankenribbon Solo

Uploaded on Nov 11, 2011

"My ribbon-controlled invention, built from two "pocket" analog synthesizers (Gakken SX-150 and Korg Monotron) with many additional components and hacks."

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monotrons on eBay
Gakken SX-150s on eBay

In Japan, you can buy an analog-synthesizer at bookstore.

YouTube via bhaus Gakken SX-150 on Ebay. via Asia Synth Station
"Janglish Jungle #01 "SX-150""

Gakken SX-150 modification: pressure sensor controller

YouTube via CoagulaTube | October 11, 2010
Star Trek Theme. Follow-up to this post.
"If you wish to read my tutorial on how to modify a Gaken Sx-150 to use a pressure ribbon controller please visit http://www.coagula.org/content/pages/..."

SX-150

flickr by CookieM
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Some shots of the Gakken SX-150 packaging.

Mario Bee SX-150

flickr by rbdx

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Gakken SX-150 Sound Demo

Uploaded by Wiktorion on Dec 31, 2009

"I know it sounds horrible but nobody can make the SX-150 sound good without using CV."

Analog Synthesizer SX-150 Mark II from ThinkGeek

Published on Nov 28, 2012 by ThinkGeekQuickies

http://www.thinkgeek.com/ed85?cpg=yt

Aka the Gakken SX-150 Mark II. You can find them and the original MK1 on eBay, but ThinkGeek's price is only $99.

[DS-10] ニンジーン Loves you yeah! [SX-150]

YouTube via truewall125789. Note you can still find the Gakken SX-150 on Ebay and of course the DS-10.

SX-150

flickr by Easy Skywalker

"Now with resonance pot! SCREEAAMM!!"

Quasimid Rave-o-Lution 309 and x0xb0x with Gakken SX-150

SX-150 Trill Machine!

YouTube via btpro
"Modify Gakken SX-150 Synthesizer. I made Trill control machine with Lego mindstorm."

The Toa Mata Band - Tiny Robots Playing Tiny Synths

Toa Mata Band - A little tribute

Published on Apr 8, 2013 Opificio Sonico·4 videos

"This teaser is a personal tribute to the band who inspired my work from the 80's ...enjoy!

The toys robots band playing live some tiny synthetizer and each member is controlled by an Arduino Uno which is hooked up to an iPad running a MIDI sequencer app.

The instruments used in this video are: Gakken SX 150 and SX 150 MKII, Dubreq Stylophone, Amdek PCK 100, Nintendo DS with Korg DS10 cartridge.
Arduino also controls the RGB LED WALL in the back.
Concept & Video by Giuseppe Acito


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Toa Mata Band Episode1 Published on Mar 5, 2013

"This video is about an electronic band of toys-robot that play some tiny music instruments drived by Arduino Uno and Clavia Nordbeat, a MIDI sequencer app for iPad."

Toa Mata Band - Episode2

Published on May 19, 2013

"Toa Mata Band is back and for the first time they perform live!
In this video some various drum-synth and glockenspiel keys are played by each robot and I'm jam together them.The performance was recorded live in four takes in early May 2013, and after edited and mixed in studio."

SX-150 Noise Generator

YouTube via btpro
"Add noise generator to Gakken SX-150 synthesizer."

Gakken SX-150 Schematic

via HOSHUYAMA on AH.
"Its schematic is already revealed in its instruction manual, however, it does not include component values. To get the schematic with component values, which is essential for us, I made one from the open information on the internet and some measurement of an SX-150. Actually, this small synth was designed by our Naoki Iwakami (AKA. "GAN" in this list). The design is unusual to save the cost, but very clever and unique!"