J Marimba Ponies

Title link takes you there. Check out the Sabre Dance video for some phat bouncy Moog Bass. Via Music Thing.

Using an Analog Sequencer on YouTube

Nice. I hope we start seeing more of this on YouTube. Title link takes you there.

Casio VL1 - Da Da Da Meets DM

Title link takes you to a post on VSE by DX covering Depeche Mode's Everything Counts with the Casio VLTone. Enjoy, or not. : )


Image via sequencer.de

GetLoFi Builds a 4 OSC Synth with Atari Joystick

"Yet another variation on the 4093 oscillator design, this one uses 4 directions of the stick for patching the outputs from off to on." Title link takes you to more details, images and video.

Mort Garson

In via j. Title link takes you to a post on Post Punk Junk on Mort Garson with mp3s. Some interesting stuff. "Standing alonside the pioneering greats of ’60s electronic music such as Jean-Jacques Perry and Walter/Wendy Carlos, Mort Garson let forth a stream of concept albums in the late ’60s through the mid-’70s that always tickle me." Thanks J!

seesselberg synthetik 1

In via PhilT. "thought you might be interested : http://insectandindividual.blogspot.com/ is hosting mp3s of a long deleted 73 album by seesselberg called synthetik 1. it's "electronic experimentation on homemade synthesizers" and sounds pretty good, if a little tentative. you have to use rapidshare to get it so follow all the prompts carefully for free downloading. it's got a pic as well.
regards,
philT"

Prevoius posts on seesselberg including this video mentioned by dream chimney in the comments.

Korg MS20 - New Flickr Shot

Shot by 0++0

Buchla Responds

There was a two part review of the new Buchla 200e in the December 2005 and January 2006 issues of Sound on Sound. There was a bit of buzz about them as the first of two was not very favorable, specifically regarding the build quality. I'm still waiting for these articles to come up on the non subscription SOS site. Well, it looks like Don Buchla responded to the review and his comments are available online. Title link takes you there. Enjoy.


"Hopefully, I leave your kind and tolerant but inquisitive and deserving readers with a slightly better sense of what we're all about. Reliability is of the highest concern to us, and we intend to continue making instruments of unimpeachable quality. We do our best to build fine instruments at fair prices, but we promise to avoid the cheap. Fame, fortune and financial success are of secondary importance, and we'll happily flail about in "the backwaters of the music industry" for a long time to come." Don Buchla on SOS.

Meet the Femto-Moog

Title link takes you there. : )

Sampler anti-aliasing and pitch-shifting comparison

Interesting page testing a number of samplers. Samples, results and more listed. They also have an interesting analogy of audio aliasing and film (see below). Title link takes you there. Via the mighty Moogulator blog.



"It's easiest to describe aliasing in terms of a visual sampling system we all know and love - —movies. If you've ever watched a western and seen the wheel of a rolling wagon appear to be going backwards, you've witnessed aliasing. The movie's frame rate isn't adequate to describe the rotational frequency of the wheel, and our eyes are deceived by the misinformation!"