Rough Mixes on Gnostic Rocket

Title link takes you to a couple of cool mixes on Gnostic Rocket. The gear used is listed including this ARP 16-voice electric piano and of course, the Springboard Dub. I particularly like "a huge blubbery creature with piggish eyes." Both solid tracks in the making.

sendling

Title link takes you to more shots put up by softfreak of his first electronic improv concert as sendling. The synth in the shot below is a Yamaha RS 7000. Via this post on electro-music.com. Shots by anne rosset.

Anykey Studio and the Andromeda A6

Title link takes you to Anykey Studio with tracks featuring the Andromeda A6.



"The A6 is used on every track, but also the S.E ATC-X. ATC-X do a more
of the vintage sounds, leads ,drones etc. But I also us the DX200, it's a
nice contrast to the analog sounds."

Verde! - New Flickr Shot

Verde means green. I like green. Shot by JoNiuX.

Korg Trinity

The Inside of an OSCar

Two shots via Brandon Daniel.



http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/ahba/2004/nakedoscar1.jpg
http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/ahba/2004/nakedoscar2.jpg

Update on Matrixsynth Ts

This is what they were supposed to look like:



This is what mine looks like:



Horrid! I'll be closing the shop, refunding the couple of people that bought one and letting them keep this little bit of Synth history. : ) Sorry about this. I'll be looking locally at shirts next. BTW, I'll be closing the shop as soon as the orders are done and I receive confirmation from those that ordered them, so technically you can still order shirts, but if you do, I will NOT refund on new orders because I simply can't afford to. So PLEASE DO NOT order unless you actually want one of these soon to be rare collector items! Heh, sorry, had to to. : ) Apologies to the two that ordered. I sent each of you an email so I can reimburse you. If you do not get that email, send me an email.

Casio CZ1000 Featured on Gnostic Rocket

Specs, shots, samples and part of a cat. Title link takes you there.





A book on synthesis by Casio. Trip.

The "Can't-Resist-A-Sizer"

The Eaton-Moog Multiple-Touch-Sensitive Keyboard. It has two rows of keys.

Update: Found a video link on The Ledger.

What if this is Moog's new announcement? Probably not, but who knows... ; )

Note: The sound of it reminds me of the Novachord Restoration Project.

Title link takes you to the full article on the Lost Eaton-Moog Synth Keyboard.

Note that Eaton will be performing in New York on March 19:
"Eaton's works will be featured in a concert at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 19, at St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 69th St. in New York. The event is a collaboration of the New York Composers Circle and ModernWorks. The suggested donation is $15."

Some bits pulled from the article:
"It's called the Eaton-Moog Multiple-Touch-Sensitive Keyboard, a name only an engineer could love. That's fine with Eaton. He and Moog (rhymes with "vogue") spent four decades honing a tool for virtuosos, not a toy."

"It's very difficult to play. But an instrument should be difficult to play. That's the only way to master musical materials, by overcoming these difficulties," says Eaton, 70, surrounded in his cramped attic studio by upright pianos, ancient computers and programs and scores from his 20 operas."

"What is unique -- and challenging -- about the Eaton-Moog keyboard is how many ways each key can be programmed to respond. How far you depress a key matters. The actual area covered by your finger changes the sound. Sliding your finger across a key's length or width can approximate, say, a vibrato effect on a violin string. How hard you push a depressed key matters, too."

"Eaton jokingly dubs this keyboard the "Can't-Resist-A-Sizer."

"How does it sound?
Think theremin -- from quavering soundtracks of cheesy sci-fi movies -- crossed with a baseball organ. Throw in some psychedelic chemicals, and you begin to get the idea."

Aphex Twin Sleevenotes on Yamaha CS-5

Nice! You'll ether love or hate this one. Music Thing always seems to find the best auction peices on VEMIA. This time, it's the sleeve notes for Aphex Twins' Selected Ambient Works Volume II inscribed on the bottom of the synth. According to the auction they were done by Richard James himself. Title link takes you to some more intersting tidbits in the post.

Lost Eaton-Moog Synth Keyboard

Interesting. Synthtopia has a post up on a Lost Eaton-Moog Synth Keyboard. They are asking if you know more about it, to contact them. I wonder how this compares to the Haken Continuum. I wonder if John Eaton knows about it.

"Composer John Eaton is waiting for someone to develop a "lost" instrument, the Eaton-Moog Multiple-Touch-Sensitive Keyboard. The keyboard design was a collaboration between Eaton and Robert Moog, and features keys with enhanced capabilities, enabling new methods of touch control of synthesizers.

The [device] is "the world's most sensitive musical instrument next to the human voice," according to Eaton. "Playing it is a kind of combination of playing a a very sensitive stringed instrument and playing a keyboard instrument."

The keys on the 49-note keybaord respond to five motions: the distance a key is depressed; the finger's front and back position and motion on each key; the finger's side-to-side position and motion on each key; the total area a flattened finger covers on each key; and pressure on a key after it is depressed fully.

These five, fully independent controls send signals in digital streams of numbers to a computer, which routes the signals to affect any possible aspect of musical continuity desired--loudness; vibrato; tremolo; reverb; tone color or instrumental change; the speed, pitch, and any other application that can be dealt with by a modern sound synthesizer or sound-generating computer program.

The prototype now lives in Eaton's attic, according to an article in the NJ State Ledger."