Rickenbacker 360 & Moog baby - New Flickr Shot

Savart's Wheel

Title takes you there. Beautiful sample of this obnoxiously putrid beast on site. "Savart'’s Wheel, designed by Bart Hopkin, is widely acclaimed for the fact that it makes the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound imaginable. The instrument is made up of a series of disks of graduated size mounted on a motorized spindle. The exposed outer edge of each disk is lined with ridged material, with ridges spaced about 1/8 inch apart. As the spindle rotates, the player holds a sort of plectrum against the ridges as they rotate past, producing some number of ridge-bumps against the plectrum per second. That frequency is the frequency you hear; it is what provides the pitch." Via Peter Grenader on AH.

A Tribute to Dr. Robert Moog - Santa Ana, CA

Tonight, Sat March 4. Via GB on AH. Title link takes you to more info.

MooT BooXLe's Synthesizers.com movie

Title link takes you there. Via bleepsandbloops.



"Me demonstrating the creation of sound using my Synthesizers.com Modular Synthesizer. I'm also using the Moogerfooger CP-251 Control Processor and a Roland RE-101 Space Echo. The video was produced and recorded by me. Visit http://www.mootbooxle.com!"

MIDI "fingerboard" - New Flickr Shot

Interesting piece. According to the caption that's a MIDI ribbon controller based on the Kurzweil Expression mate. Shot by royce. "This is a somewhat customized midi controller based on the kurzweil expressionmate. i used to play violin, and especially loved string quartets, so i wanted to have a "fingerboard" for glissando and vibrato effects."

Update: I asked royce how he positioned it when he played it. He replied, "i pretty much play it like a cello, although still use keys for discrete pitches. also use a footpedal extensively. this wendy carlos ripoff used it quite a bit for natural vibrato effects (i used to play alot of classical violin): rrooyyccee-aaddaaggiioo.html

pinkus - New Flickr Set

Title link takes you to shots of pinkus' studio. A bit blurry but that's some fine gear.



Thanks pinkus!

Blurry Roland - New Flickr Shot

Makes your screen look dirty doesn't it? Shot by unrest.

MS2000B Diagram - New Flickr Shot

Shot by floorvan. There is also a shot of Clara Rockmore in the set for theremin fans.

International TB-303 Day!

Well, sort of. Fiercefish posted that today is International TB-303 day. I asked if this was real, and he replied sort of. Robin Whittle declared International TB-303 day on March 3, 2003, 3/03, get it? The crazy thing is I remember this! I searched the archives and found the post on AH. Title link takes you there. Below is a shot of an AcidLab sent my way via Fiercefish and a demo. Thanks for reminding us Fiercefish!

TB-303 AcidLab via Fiercefish


Fiercefish AcidLab Demo

"As mentioned earlier, here http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1GUJ9UGH6SEHG01VTE4R8RO2N6 is a demo of my acidlab modded TB-303, for this demo I just concentrated on the FM, decay, and overdrive mods. It is a 2 bar pattern running with a 606 as a timekeeper, no eq was used just the 606 into the mix in on the 303 recorded in mono into audacity on my mac, I added a bit of reverb to the whole mix and did a small amount of audio editing to add a little interest.

I wanted to keep the sound fairly "acid" for this demo so the tweaking is limited to a slight extension of what a standard 303 can do, the acidlab can do some seriously crazy stuff especially with the controls at the extremes and I have recorded about 1 hours worth of other settings but need to edit them down to smaller snippets, they will be just the 303 on its own (no 606) and with no fx or eq, I should post them sometime in the next week.

Enjoy (or not!)

Happy 303 day!

FF"

Alesis Fusion on Synthwire

Carbon111 got himself an Alesis Fusion. Title link takes you to his first impressions.