Synthesize It - New Flickr Shot

flickr by devowski.

"quick fat cap fun to warm up the freezing gloom of mid-june?"

Update via J-chot in the comments:
"a fat cap is a type of spray paint nozzle, it makes fat lines, and it looks tlike the type he used there..."

Kitaro on YouTube

Update: I finally got around to checking this out in whole. Yes sometimes I don't even have time to check out my own posts. Sad I know... I just noticed that he's playing relatively older synths compared to the others on stage. There of course are his favorites, a Korg 800DV and 700s, however the one he predominantly plays in this piece is a Casio FZ-1 of all things. Pretty interesting when you realize he could be playing any synth he wants. Kitaro clearly has his favorites just like the rest of us. That's pretty cool. You don't see Kraftwerk doing that. Also, I beleive that was the tour I actually got to see him live in the early 90s. I remember the performance and him playing the taiko drums.

SPACE on YouTube

Update: Is that a minimoog in his lap or is he just happy to see her?

space synth / moog mf-103 - New Flickr Shot

flickr by JSRockit.

more on the space synth here and here.

TLN-904 Veeblefetzer

Cool shot of the TLN-904 Veeblefetzer from this sequencer.de post on the Happy Knobbing Meeting. Title link takes you to the product details page, but make sure to check out sequencer.de for video and more coverage of Happy Knobbing 2006. Moogulator , who runs the site, commented on how they just wanted to set up something simple in Europe after seeing all the cool synth meetings in North America. After seeing his coverage, I'm starting to think their event beat all of ours combined! Talk about a gear fest. Of course it makes sense as a lot of the great synth manufacturers are there, and of it did occur in Germany. It is just me or does Germany just ooze synth? : ) Images of Kraftwerk and huge Doepfer modulars speaking to eachother just come to mind.

"The TLN-904 Veeblefetzer is a signal level meter for modular synthesizers. This module produces no sound; it is used to indicate signal level (voltage level) for both audio and control signals. I built this module because I got tired of hauling the scope over to my synth every time I wanted to check the level of a signal, or to figure out if a signal was bipolar or unipolar. It also provides lots of blinkenlights to mesmerize anyone who comes within visual range of your synth."

Alesis - New Flickr Shto

flickr by maggiexmischief. Alesis Micron.

HCGPF on Analog Industries

And it was a synth one. Title link takes you there.

Explosion on YouTube

MooT BooXLe performing on the Synthesizers.com modular analogue synthesizer. This is not a perfect performance, as it was improvised in one go."

This is pretty cool. It does pick up so keep watching if it seems slow to start.

Messing with a SubMuxDeluxe...

Title link takes you to a 2.47M mp3 Via legion of Help Wanted Productions.

"Two new Cyndustries modules arrived this week; a Submuxdeluxe and a mixSix. I put them to immediate use in this demo using the Submux as a sequencer. I'm feeding it a VCO and LFO from a Fenix and taking the various outputs (including the stair out feeding a second VCO) into the MixSix. The warbling drone that begins and ends it all is a DSC being tortured by a Burst Generator and Triple Rez filter. Ok so that really doesn't belong on a demo of the Submux but sue me, I can't do anything "normal" with this thing in my hands."

Nice cat shot via legion. BTW, if you can understand what he is saying you have advanced from apprentice to journeyman my fellow synth geek.

Sequential Circuits Split Eight Advert

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

via Brian Comnes