The Music Thing Office

Title link takes you to a shot where you can mouse over each instrument. He even has a crackle box in there. Nice. : )

Via Music Thing.

GooGooFish

Title link takes you to GooGooFish. The owner of the site, Chris, contacted me in March about setting up a site to host some samples of the Maplin 5600s and some other synths. I pointed him to a couple of ISPs and he took it from there. I had no idea he was going to create such a cool site. On his project page you will find more info, images and samples of Chris' projects below. BTW, I was tempted to put up a single post on every single one of these, but I figured one big post would be better.

Enjoy.








Roland SH-09 Modded

"My solution was to make a module to fit into my deopfer system and bring all the patch points where I need them. The module is connected to the SH-09 by a SCSI cable which when disconnected leaves the running as normal. The module gives you access to all the wave outs, all the sub outs, all the LFO outs and all the ENV outs including the follower. Also you have an LED which works in conjunction with the LFO LED on the synth."

Click Box

"This was a project I started in Australia after I discovered this little book called 'Electronic Musical Projects' published by BPB, which are based in New Delhi. From the back of a camper van somewhere hot and sunny I built my first version of this project which they call the 'Novel Sounds Generator'."




Casio PT-10

"The six switches above the speaker slow down, speed up and generally mess with the drum and keyboard sounds. On one far end there is an audio out and the other end an audio in and sequencer in, this advances the built sequencer on when a voltage pulse is received."




MIDIBox FM Synth

"This is my take on the MIDIBox FM Synth. The case is from a cut down wedge style Commodore C64 case ( the SID chip is destined for a MIDIBox Quadra SID! ). Foolishly I decided to fit a kettle lead plug on the back which meant it was a bit of squeeze fitting everything in. The front panel was engraved on a laser cutter and the buttons made out of coloured silicon rubber. "


Doepfer "Joybox"

"This midi controller was made for a friend using a quad speaker setup. His aim was to have a control surface using Max/MSP to move sounds around the performance space. We decided to use joysticks found in Play Station hand controllers after he had success using them in a previous project for his BA."




Maplin 5600s

"Selling my Maplin 5600s was the silliest thing I think I've done! I bought it about Five years ago, half working, as a project to get some practical experience with electronics. After a couple of weeks I realised what a huge job it was so I contacted Mr Oakley and he got it up and running for a very reasonable price."

Yellow Knobbed Butt Probe and Serge VCS

Title link takes you to more shots.

via phil hendricks

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.