Lost Signal

Charles of Lost Signal sent me some links to his MySpace site and studio shots. Check out that setup.

Title link takes you to lostsignal.com.

Mark Demos His JOMOX XBase09SE on YouTube

Mark gave me the ok to post this video. It was originally on rapidshare which I can't stand, so I asked him if I could put it up elsewhere. I went with YouTube so I can embed it in this post and so others out there can check it out.

via Mark:
"I was wondering what any of you all thought of this drum machine. I just got one and I like it a lot, particularly the highly editable sequencer (you can store different sounds for each step in a pattern). Not really too concerned about the comparisons to old x0x drum synths, more if anyone else has used this and your +'s and -'s. For me, so far, so cool. I also made a small demo quicktime of me using it, where I just play stock sounds and patterns and screw around with the parameters... Seemed like there isn't too much demo stuff out there for this box, so I might start putting more videos up."

Definitely welcome here. Thanks Mark!

The Moog Cookbook - Blackhole Sun Video on Dailymotion

The Moog Cookbook - Blackhole Sun
Uploaded by fhouste

Moog Cookbook on MySpace
Moog Cookbook Homepage

COTK Modular Video on Dailymotion

Moog Modular
Uploaded by deb76

Found a new video source, Dailymotion. This video was uploaded by deb76. I'm wondering if this is our good friend deb7680 of Chroniques De La Mao. Deb, if you are out there, let us know.

Update via the comments:
"That's not a moog, it's a Club of the knobs modular.

You can sort of see it on this clip too."

"I second that - it is COTK-modular. There are plenty more videos on their page"

Thanks, title updated. I can't change the video name as I didn't put it up.

Sonicprojects OP-X

Remember the OP-X? The site's been updated a bit. Title link takes you to some samples and more info. And yes, there is a sample of Van Halen's Jump.

Moog Little Phatty Samples by Eric Frampton

Title link takes you to a 1.4M mp3 of Eric Frampton strolling through the Little Phatty presets.

"This is me very quickly going through some of the presets. No sequencers, no production, just a line out of the LP into ProTools, editing for time, normalized, and nuttin' else."

Thanks Eric!

EKO PONY Synth

via this auction.

If you know more about this piece, please comment, but it just looks like one of those combo string/brass/organ keyboards with preset rhythms. The auction details compares it to a Juno 60. Yeah right. Buyer beware. Interesting piece though. I'm putting this up for the archives...

via dmxkrew

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Handmade Electronic Music

"Early electronic music (& the recording of music itself) was born of experimenting artists & engineers, patiently listening to the bleeps, swoops and crackles of electricity as it flowed through components loving soldered together by hand. The early pioneers of electronic music had to build their own instruments from scratch, finding new sounds as they went, inventing entirely new musical languages & forms, pulling new sounds from the ether.

In Nicolas Collins’ book ‘Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking we shake off the bounds of mass produced software, of expensive consumer electronics and re-enter the exploratory worlds of early electronic experimentalists such as David Tudor & Alvin Lucier, riding the pulsating waves of sonic history through to contemporary hardware hackers & instrument builders such as Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos, Phil Archer, John Bowers & of course Nicolas Collins himself."

via PS. On Amazon

Update: consensus in the comments is that this is a good book.

BTW, If you are into handmade electronic music also check out the NORCAL Noisefest. via Brian Comnes.

Livewire Electronics Breaks off from EAR Group

It's official. Livewire goes solo.

"INTRODUCING LIVEWIRE ELECTRONICS

Livewire Electronics announced today that it has set out on its own and is no longer associated with The EAR Group.

"Demand for Livewire products has grown dramatically over the past six months and I feel we have outgrown the benefit of being part of a collective.", says Livewire owner and EAR Group co-founder, Mike Brown.

'I'm sure that the other companies still associated with EAR will continue to put out excellent products.'

More information about Livewire Electronics and their products can be found on their new website at: http://www.livewire-synthesizers.com.

Inquiries can be sent to:

info[]livewire-synthesizers.com."

Reverence by Audio Damage

Another by Chris of Analog Industries. Title link takes you to images, samples and more info.

Audio Damage makes top notch products.






» Simple-to-use reverb settings, with pre-delay, time, and size, plus an extensive filtering section to shape the reverb tail

» Fluid and logical vintage-style user interface

» Optimized reverb algorithm for low CPU load

» MIDI Learn feature for full hardware control of all parameters (VST only; handled by host in AudioUnits version)