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Black Eyed Peas Minimoog Voyager at Night

This one via Lee. Wow.

"Did a gig as stage tech for the Black Eyed Peas last weekend, got a few pics of their keyboard rig including

cool shots of their Mini-Moog Voyager, daytime and at night just before their performance.

Also, there's a pic of their Pro-Tools rack that has a Paul J.Cox custom "Live Sequencer Changeover Unit"...for backing tracks failsafe!"

Very cool. Thanks Lee. Title link takes you to the other shots. BTW, that's my new wallpaper.

Blue Cat Audio Digital Peek Meter Pro

Digital Peek Meter Pro lets you take the audio input of whatever you feed it and apply it's audio envelope to MIDI CC.

"you can now send MIDI CC messages following the envelopes and transformed envelope. The Tutorials section will let you discover these unique features: manage any parameter of any plug-in or external MIDI hardware with the envelopes of the audio signal!"

Title link takes you there. Make sure to check out their other products as well.

Gary Numan on SonicState

Note the following is just video 1 of 7. Title link takes you to the article on Sonic State. Click on the "Flash Video" link when you get there for the others.

Korg KAOSS Pad 3 on Sequencer.de

Title link takes you there.

Sonic State Talk - 012

"Up for chit chat this week are the new Virus Ti OS update and all things Virus, Moog Little Phatty gets on the cover of FM, Waldorf's imminent resurrection, Computer Music's inspiration feature, Myspace to sell music, Creative settle with Apple and get 100 mill, Steve Gadd is a groovy drummer, the origins of band names 'n stuff.

(note: contains some adult content)"

Ok, now I'm curious. Title link takes you there.

Yamaha CS50, CS60, CS80 Voice Card

The Yamaha CS50, CS60, CS80 Voice Card. Reminds me of an amuzement part.

shot via this auction.

MacBeth Studio Systems Update

Remember this post on the new Moroco Synth? Looks like it has been officially announced on the website along with the M3X2:

"Hi All! It's been some while since I updated the website- I've basically been building up M5s and also working on two new prototypes! These being the long awaited M3X2 and a new varient of the moroco stereo filterbank- it's now the moroco stereo synthesizer! Within the next few days, I shall provide you with protoype pictures to let you all see what is happening..."

The image to the left is MUSE. Note the M5 behind the drummer. Click the image for the full shot.

Title link takes you to MacBeth Studio Systems.

via Yves of yusynth.net

Destroyer by Trogotronic

Title link takes you to a post on Sendling, on the Destroyer by Trogotronic. I wasn't going to put this up as I already posted on Trogotronic, but when I saw this something immediately came to mind. Thomas Dolby and his custom MIDI controllers: one, two. The difference is these actually produce sound. Note this is not a slight on Thomas Dolby. I think it's pretty cool that he turns old devices into unique MIDI controllers. Hmm... with all the buzz around circuit bending and DIY, you'd actually think there was more modding of old non-synth equipment out there.

P.S. Don't miss the sample of the Destroyer on Sendling. No offense, but that is one of the most annoying sounds I have ever heard. Wow. : )

Kleonard.com

Title link takes you to Kleonard.com where you will find pages on the Alesis Andromeda, ARP 2600, Hammond A-102, Mellotron, Realistic/Moog MG-1, Minimoog, and more.