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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Weird Noises That Blossom Into Symphonies - NY Times


Title link takes you to an interesting article in the New York Times on the Yamaha Tenori-On, the theremin, and Buchla. Regarding the Tenori-On: "It's a digital instrument in a new form," said Toshio Iwai, a 43-year-old interactive artist and University of Tokyo professor who created the device. "It plays light as well as sound." ... "The aim of this project is to create a musical instrument for nonmusicians," Mr. Iwai said. "I'm not a musician, but I had a dream to play an instrument on the stage." This is later countered with, "The potential in such an interactive system is finite," Dr. Winkler said of the tenori-on. "It's a cool thing for kids to play with, but I don't know any musician who would want to be stuck with this guy's music."

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.

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