GenoQs - OCTOPUS

Interesting new sequencer coming out. Click here for more info.

It reminds me of a mix between the Latronic Notron Sequencer and Buchla's 250e pictured below.

Legowelt... Ah, gear lust...

Legowelt sums up gear lust perfectly. Click here for more pictures. Crazy cat, Legowelt is... I love his writing sytle.

From the site:
"The studio is where its at'..the place where the music is made.A sanctuary, a gearfreak's fatherland or whatever. A dangerous place also...You might spend days here forgetting there is a world outside. The machines are no machines anymore: you treat them with respect, they have personalities...some of them love, others don't give a fuck...but they are alive...and might even be considered close family.

Its difficult to describe to a stranger what it is like to be a 'gearfreak' (i.e. having a keen interest in electronic music instruments, especially old analog ones). Bob Moog ( a famous inventor of synthesizers) once said: "its halfway between being a musician and hot-rodding your car" and thats pretty much right...its nerdy but macho at the same time, and for fellow gearfreaks there is nothing quite like the exhiliration of the 'gearlist'...where the people tell what gear they use and have.

That is the point of this part of the Legowelt site, to see what gear is used in the Legowelt studio. For a non-gearfreak this might be complete nonsense, but for those who dig it....here it is (with the additional pictures!)..and also remember there is some fancy shit here, but also lot of tracks are actually made ghetto style in the living room or on the road on cheap ass equipment such as Amiga computers, boss drummachines and borrowed portable grooveboxes, just to be mixed in this studio on the mixing desk...and fuck yeah sometimes that don't even happen. "

And I'm back!

Had a great weekend at Ocean Shores, WA with my wife, kid and good friend Scott. Just caught up on email and some goodies came in. Posts coming shortly!

See you Sunday!

Well, I will be officially offline for the weekend in a few minutes. Every now and then you just have to do it. : ) I'll be back online Sunday. Have a synthtacular weekend! Sorry for the cheese. Every now and then you just have to do it. ; )

Hardcore Gear Porn Friday at Analog Industries

Analog Industries just announced Harcore Gear Porn Friday. Very cool.

Absolute Beauty

Check out these beautiful shots of the Orange Waldorf XTK and Yellow Waldorf Q from moose. Note the wood on the Q. He stained it a purple hue. Click here for more shots and close ups on the hue. Absolutely gorgeous. Man I miss Waldorf...

More OB-Mx Samples and Pics

Two more samples and some pics here. Me want one.

MOTM Madness - Featuring Yamaha GX1 Filter clone

The Yamaha GX1 was the great behemoth that led to the more affordable Yamaha CS80. The sweeping brass sounds in Blade Runner are the CS80 courtesy of Vangelis. One thing that absolutely makes the CS80 is the character of the filter. It is extremely distinct and offers a character to the CS series sound that is unmistakably unique. It's a gorgeous sounding filter and the MOTM-485 diode filter captures it. You can hear a bit of it in the demo. I asked Paul about the demo sounding a bit out of tune and he said that's just Dave Wright. Good enough for me. Enjoy. : )

Make sure to check out other MOTM demos via http://www.synthtech.com/news.html.

Track module listing from the man behind MOTM himself:

http://www.carrionsound.com/485plasticworld.mp3

- five tracks in multitrack
- one track - bassline - vco-485vcf-mixer-soundcard (midi 2 cv controlled)
- one track - fast bassline - vco - 485vcf-mixer-soundcard (midi 2 cv w/ gate on burst generator to adsr to vcf)
- one track - drone - vco-time machine-490vcf(w/ lfo on it) -mixer-soundcard
- one track - drone - vco-infinet melody generator-phaser-mixer-soundcard
- one track - mpc1000 w/ beats - 485 vcf (w/ hand tweaking) - to soundcard - to mixer
- MOTM-485 diode filter based on the Yamaha GX-1 circuitry (mainly) + other MOTM goodness

Paul S.

Update:
I was trying to figure out a good way to describe the GX1/CS80 filter. I wanted to say nasal, but not quite. I just realized how much is sounds like processing sounds through a swarm of buzzing bees. I also was trying to think of what this particular track reminded me of and realized it's Ultravox. Like something that could have been on a b-side from the Rage in Eden days.

Analog Table Sequencer

Found this on Music Thing. Would be fun for playing shots. Of course you'd have to convince yourself that any spilt booze ads character to the table.

Update: unfortunately the image is gone for this one.

Mmmm.... Magic Mushroom

Here's another nice shot recently added to Flickr. Made this one my wallpaper for now.

Update: unfortunately the flickr image for this one is gone.