elegant people - weather report on YouTube

Some Oberheim 4 voice, ARP 2600, Rhodes and more, although only the Rhodes seems to get the action in this performance. Via Pete.

Bruce Haack

Remember Bruce Haack and The King of Techno? Title link takes you to some audio of Bruce Haack's work courtesy of Pete.

Cooper Black in the Moog Documentary

flickr by sealine76. I just like this shot for some reason. More on Edd Kalehoff here. Anyone know what documentary this was from? I don't remember it from the current one for some reason.

Update via Max Kalehoff in the comments:
"It originally was from a Schaefer beer commercial, which featured my dad, Edd Kalehoff, playing the Moog. I recently wrote a post on it here: link."

I remember this from the recent documentary now. There was a clip from the beer commercial.

mdn303 - New Flickr Set

mdn303 just posted a buttload of synth shots on flickr. There are some really nice ones in this set. Title link takes you there.

Coagula - Industrial Strength Color-Note Organ

"Coagula is an image synth. This means that it is both a program for creating and manipulating images, and a program for generating sound from those images. You can use Coagula to generate rich and complex synth sounds. There are special drawing tools to help you create the pictures." Title link takes you there. Via Doktor Future in the comments of this post:

"I have solved the Buchla problem. Get Coagula, which can make music from a JPEG. Load the Buchla JPEG into Coagula, and hear the Buchla MP3. Finally we can hear MP3's of even retro synths too precious to record and share, or imaginary synths that don't even exist.

Thanks Coagula!"

Update via Brian Comnes in the comments:
"Well FruityLoops softare has had a picture to sound conversion tool for several years....stick in a shot of Pamela Anderson and you hear Kid Rock howling at the moon ....whether or not that is Buchla-like is another matter"

blue science - New Flickr Shot

flicker by arrika. Inside a Blue Roland SH-101. Title link takes you to grey science.

Buchla 100

Two shots in via Rick of electricmusicbox.

"This is a Large 38 module CBS era Buchla 100 assembled around 1969/70. The System has undergone complete repair/restoration including refinishing of the cabinetry and cleaning of all the front panels and hardware. It looks sureal in person, the pictures don't do it justice."

micro composer - New Flickr Shot

flickr by arrrika. Synths and cats, synths in nature...

Prophet VS Rack for $175

Title link takes you to the closed auction with a Buy it Now of $175. Just wanted to shar the pain...

"This is a rare but very cool find. It's in excellent working condition and in very good shape aesthetically considereing its age! It was used by a world class film composer. You probably would hear sounds from this unit in some of his earlier film scores. Power cord is included but no manual. Vector Synthesis is a type of audio synthesis introduced by Sequential Circuits in the Prophet VS synthesizer during 1986. The concept was subsequently used by Yamaha in the SY22/TG33 and similar instruments and by Korg in the Wavestation. Controlling the mix of four sound waves by defining a point on a vector plane using a joystick The Prophet VS vector synthesizer, which was Sequential's only digital synthesizer, came out in early 1986. Boasting a synthesis scheme known as vector synthesis, it combined the revolutionary digital waveform generator and vector joystick to the tried and proven analog Curtis filter, and resulted in a unique instrument with a very distinct sound. It still sees heavy use today despite its reliance on rare custom components with a high failure rate. Vector synthesis provides movement in a sound by providing dynamic cross-fading between (usually) four sound sources. The four sound sources are conceptually arranged as the extreme points of X and Y axes, and typically labelled A, B, C and D. A given mix of the four sound sources can be represented by a single point in this 'vector plane'. Movement of the point provides sonic interest and is the power of this technique. Mixing is frequently done using a joystick, although the point can be controlled using envelope generators or LFOs. "

Matrixsynth Flickr Badge and Set

You might notice a new flickr box in the right nav. It's not an ad. It's a random image player of all the shots in the Matrixsynth flickr set. Title link takes you to the set. I created it because I thought it would be a cool alternative to digging through the archives. Each image is a shot from a post in the archives. Click on one and it will bring you to the shot on flickr. The description of the shot on flickr is a link to the post on Matrixsynth. The idea is if you see an image that strikes you, click on it and check out the post. So far I have July 2005 through September 2005 for a total of 440 shots. I will add to the set as I have time. The goal is obviously to get every single shot in a post in the set. I promised myself I would put this up on my one year anniversary finished or not. The Matrixsynth flickr set of all posts also just went public today. If the images in the right nav are too small, try it instead. Please enjoy. This was an excruciatingly tedious and time consuming thing to do. : )