The Funk-A-Duck and MIDI Trumpet

Click here for the techno geeks page of the NAMM Oddities 2006 site. You'll recognize some others there as well. BTW, Frostwave makes some amazing filterboxes. I have the Resonator, and MS-10 filter clone. Build quality is outstanding and the filter on that thing will rip the paint off walls. Via CDM.

Brand New Micro Q Spotted for Sale at Thomann

Now this is kind of interesting consider Waldorf has been gone for some time.

Famous Sounds on Synthmania

Title link takes you to a page on Synthmania that has a long list of samples of famous sounds. Ever wonder what the Hoover sound everyone refers to actually sounds like? Check out "mentasm.mp3" when you get there. The Lucky Man solo? Also there.

Mindtrip - Moog MG-1 and Roland SH-1000 Tune

Title link takes you there. Posted by macman on the-gas-station.

Whacked Pro One Demo

Title link takes you to a post on VSE with a crazy Pro One demo by Jabberwalky. It's worth checking out if you want to hear a wide range of some of the quirky sounds a Pro One can make. There is also a super fat sounding Roland Jupiter 4 demo doing the THX theme by premieklovn in the thread.

Synthesizers.com Review - Build a Modular for $120 a Month

Title link takes you to a synthesizers.com review posted by tunedLow on the VSE forum. It's a good overview of his first impressions. At the end of the review he mentions, "If you're daydreaming about going modular, the entry level at 100 bucks a month can't be beat. Their descript of the plan sounds pretty flexible too." I totally forgot about this. Synthesizers.com has a deal where you send them $120 a month and they send you an item a month. In a year you have a usable modular. You can find more detail here: http://synthesizers.com/system-entry1.html. Hmm... If I remember correctly, I'd be finishing up my modular just about now if I signed up when they started this deal.

EMS Vocoder 2000

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this aucion.

Moog Voyager P*rn

Title link takes you to more shots.

Moog CV-352

Title link takes you to the post on CDM with more info and a bigger shot.

Gregg Janman's Modular Noodlings

Gregg recently posted this MP3 on the Analog Heaven mailing list, as an example of the Metalbox 8008, a Roland TR-808 kick drum clone. The MP3 also includes a Blacet and Wiard modular. I asked him if it would be ok to post the sample as I thought it was really good, it's very clean so you can hear each instrument clearly. He gave me the go ahead and a whole lot more. Below are some notes by Gregg and a few more samples and descriptions of each. Very, very cool. Thanks Gregg!









"i post a lot of info about my modular to the black dog forum here.

i have a 37 module (and still growing but nearly complete i feel) frac
rack system with a mobius and fat controller sequencer, and a
moogerfooger mf-101 lpf. apparently it's the only frac rack modular in
japan ;)

that dimension c track is two modular voices (one blacet pwm wave into
moog filter, one blacet/wiard miniwave into blacet stonz phaser into
wiard boogie filter, both sequenced by the same cv from the mobius) plus
effects (2 blacet time machines plus a boss dimension c pedal) tweaked
and recorded live in one take and then post processed digitally with a
little reverb, compression, limiting and eq. the weirdest thing is that
if you listen to it for a while, it REALLY sounds like a grand piano!!!

here are some other modular noodlings:

1. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-ChineseLantern.mp3
   
   an example of putting the feedback signal of a delay through a phaser.
   the main patch is the wiard noise ring output quantised by the miniwave
   to a pentatonic scale set to "play" the vco's randomly, through the
   above mentioned effects.



2. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/OneDropDrums&Acid.mp3
   
   slow and dubby acid with the heavily modded tr-606.



3. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-VeryPhat.mp3
   
   an excercise in phatness.



4. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/DoubleDelaySweep.mp3
   
   how BIG can those blacet time machines sound?



5. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/3SquDroneEndorphin.mp3
   
   a long drone, nice but boring? would make a good "bed" for other stuff.



6. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/Babaluma-TheKindThatWinds.mp3
   
   techno track, lots of modular, 606 and 8008.



7. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma&Decadnids&Elf-Maggie-YamatoFluteMix.mp3
   
   splitting a stereo mix digitally into m/s components, then processing
   the m and s signals through DIFFERENT modular patches, back into the
   digital realm where the m and s signals are recombined into stereo...
   mmmmm....



8. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-HymnForJohn.mp3
   
   a complete track featured on the http://www.darkwinter.com/ album "full
   cold moon", a tribute to john balance of coil, and featuring tangerine
   dream/coil style modular sequencing.



9. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-TsunamiTidalWaves(PowerAmbientRemix).mp3


a full track, and one that i'm very happy with, even though it's old and
was made almost entirely in the digital domain (audiomulch on the pc). i
hope to be able to make stuff like this with just analogue gear in the
future.

anyway, feel free to post any of this stuff on your site. i'm always
looking to collaborate or master other people's stuff when my schedule
allows.

best wishes and thanks for listening and commenting, i really appreciate it!

gregg janman."

Thank you Gregg!