Minion's Got Balls

Saw this one on Digital Music Mag. I read about the dancing balls and decided to check it out. It's actually pretty good and it's free. Can't beat that.

"When you just have to have four filters being modulated by a total of twelve LFOs, you need Minion!

It's got balls, you see. Four of them, pinging and swinging their way around an innovative XYZ pad that's used to control the plug-in and to give visual feedback. And for each ball, there's an effect module, and each of those can produce one of a variety of filter effects, including several filter/distortion combinations. Minion also comes with numerous presets that demonstrate the range of audio warping possible. And did we mention that it's free? (Yes, yes we did.)"

Title link takes you there.

Shadow XTk

What better way to follow up a shot of an orange XTk than with a shot of the Shadow XTk. One of two in existence. Click title link or image for a bigger shot.

And no, it's not mine.

Update: More shots via Axon Vox. Also added these to the title link share.

Waldorf XTk - New Flickr Set

Looks like Carbon111 set up a flickr site and this shot just popped up in my reader. Cool. Title link takes you to the set.

The DMX Files

Title link takes you to The DMX Files, a site dedicated to the Oberheim DMX drum machine.



I recently had a thread going with Ed of dmxkrew. The conversation lead to the Oberheim DMX drum machine. I have an Oberheim DX and that bass drum kicks. It always fascinated me that the DMX kick did not get the same attention as the 808 or 909. Yes the 808 and 909 are analog, but that solid kick in New Order's Blue Monday was a DMX, and it has one hell of a punch. Ed brought up a good point, you can sample a DMX and pretty much get exactly the same sound out, but an 808 or 908 just doesn't come out the same.

Nice Modular

Another shot from softestthing via the comments of this post.

Roland RE-200

Not a synth, but you can run one through it. : ) Just don't see these everyday. Title link takes you to the shots pulled from this auction.

Emergency Services - New Flickr Shot

flickr by мסмסяפаи.

New Moog Specs are Up

In case you missed the update to this post. Title link takes you to the full list on Moog's website. Scroll when you get there.

Pi Sequencer on Voltage Controlled

Too cool. Title link takes you to the post.

My First Step Sequencer

Title link takes you there.



ndc Plugs has released My First Step Sequencer, a simple 16-(or 8-)step sequencer aimed at children. It comes with a shuffle mode and a note randomize button, as well as a scale-forcing control, to make it so that you can only select notes within a particular scale.

The notes are represented by animal heads in the carriage windows, with the velocities being represented by flowers on the carriage doors. The octave can be changed by clicking the body of the engine. A signal at the bottom right is a global mute - setting it down will stop the plugin from outputting MIDI data. The arrow at the bottom left can be used to display a number of advanced options, left to right:

Shuffle.
Number of steps (16 or 8).
Scale: lets you ignore certain notes, to enforce a particular scale.
Notes: Switches between displaying the notes as animal heads, or their actual values.
Random: randomizes the note values.
My First Step Sequencer is available for free as a VST effect plugin for Windows and Mac OS X and it is open source, so the source code is also available.