The Melloman - DIY Mellotron built from Walkmans

Nice.

Via Boing Boing.

New Modcan B Series Analog Sequencer

"Inspired by the excellent Milton Sequencer designed by Peter Grenader at Buzzclick music. The VC SEQUENCER 54B retains the core ADC voltage controlled step selection circuitry of the Milton while contributing a few new features and variations to Peter's design."

Click through title link for more details.

1975 Mutron Bi-Phase

Nice shot sent to me from Andre Vezina. Thanks Andre!

Shalmaneser: Feature Wars & SuperCollider

Tim Walters on SynthSights announced that all tracks on his Feature Wars album is now available for download. 90% of the album was done with SuperCollider a real time audio synthesis programming language. Title link takes you to Tim Walters site where you can hear it for yourself. For more on SuperCollider, check out Wikipedia and the SuperCollider homepage.

AH Bay Area Gathering Shots

Title link takes you to more.

C64 on Retro Thing

I love it when Retro Thing puts up retro synth content. Title link takes you to a new post on the Commodore 64 Sid Chip which includes a shot of the Sidstation and a link to a C64 blog I haven't seen before. Check out the following shot of a C64 and SCI six-trak and drumtraks.

Click here for the source and a much bigger shot.


Speaking of retro synths. I've been meaning to put up my favorite retro synth for some time. Coming up... : )

The Crystal Method - New Flickr Shots

Jackpot. Title link takes you to a ton of shots. Looks like they are using an Andromeda A6.

Fairlight Voicetracker

I just saw a post on electro-musci.com for a Fairlight Voicetracker for sale. I never heard of one before, so I decided to look it up. Apparently it's a device that converts voice input to midi output.



From the site:

"In 1985, Fairlight Instruments introduced the Voicetracker VT-5, a device that allows you to operate MIDI and control voltage synthesizers with your voice or any monophonic instrument, rather than with a MIDI keyboard. It was priced at US$2495 when it first came out.

The Voicetracker's 8MHz 68008 CPU analyzes an input signal to determine the pitch and harmonic content of the sound (such as dynamics and breathiness). It takes about 1ms plus several cycles of the incoming sound to determine the pitch. As you might guess, the pitch information is output as MIDI note values and analog control voltages, while the harmonic content analysis can be used to control a synthesizer's filters (among other things)."

Title link takes you to more.

Solvent City - Analog Goodness

Via Jason Amm of Solvent City on AH. I decided to check out his site for more and was glad I did. His music is simple, magical and beautiful. A wonderful treat to my ears. Title link takes you to his site. Make sure to check out the studio link for some great synth shots.

Roland System 100, models 101/102 (w/Midi)


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SOLVENT European tour 2005
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Thursday October 20: BERLIN, Germany

Thursday October 27: AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands

Friday October 28: UTRECHT, The Netherlands

Saturday October 29: GENOA, Italy

Monday October 31: ROME, Italy

Wednesday November 2: BOLOGNA, Italy

Thursday November 3: VICENZA, Italy

Friday, November 4: PARIS, France

Saturday November 5: LIEGE, Belgium

Sunday November 6: HAMBURG, Germany

Radikal Technologies Spectralis Shot

Just a shot of a Radikal Technologies Spectralis on the *bay. It went for $1575. Not bad considering they go for $2500.