EMU Modular

flickr by Inglizian.

Title link takes you to the full set.

via Alex in the comments of this post.

Et Cetera - Raga Lady/Blue Thursday Morning/Sunrise (1971)

YouTube via orangefunk.
Synth content starts at 5:05. What's interesting is the EMS VCS3 is used more as a solo lead synth rather than effects. via frederic.

Pot Chiclets

"Pot Chiclets are small printed circuit boards to aid in assembly of MOTM format kits with Spectrol 148/149 or 248/249 and Bourns Type 91 potentiometers. No more painstaking and time consuming J lead preparation and heat shrink is required! Free standing Spectrol pots without PC board mounting pad locations typically require bending and forming the pins into J leads, doing the same to the wires to be attached, hooking the two J leads then soldering each pin/wire together, hoping you didn't forget to add heatshrink over the wire before soldering. With Pot Chiclets, simply solder your potentiometer to the PC board, then solder wires to the PC board. You're done! Boards are professionally manufactured, silk screened, single side copper, solder mask."

I just like the name and look of these things. I grew up on chiclets. : )

More Buchla 200e Demos

Title link takes you to new demos up since this post. Metalliton just added. Via Todd.

Solvent performs at the Balc Swamp Arts Festival

YouTube via CornslawIndustries2. Via Solvent on AH:
"for those interested, someone just sent me a YouTube link to some footage of me playing live in Ohio a couple of weeks ago. i was surprised to find that the footage and sound quality are actually pretty decent so i figured i'd share it here...live Voyager action in the first song (Some Assembly Required), and using the Roland VSynth XT for vocoder in the 2nd song (Remote Control)"

Synth Tower

via Jez.

AVR Synth

"The AVRSYN is a monophonic "virtual analog" synth based, originally, on the Atmel AT90S8535 microcontroller and was designed by Jarek Ziembicki. His aim was to check to see if a simple micro could be used for sound synthesis purposes. And the result? The AT90S8535 managed to do all the tasks: front panel switches and pots services, receiving and processing MIDI messages, and sound generation!

The synthesis architecture is simple:-
two DCO's, a DCF, and a DCA. There is also an LFO and an AR/ASR envelope generator.

Sound samples: 1 2 3

Paul Maddox jumped in at this point and started to design a pcb for the unit but selected the
ATMEGA16 as the AT90S8535 is no longer a production item. Paul has had to temporarily withdraw from this process and so I have taken over the reigns and am releasing the pcb, along with an optional kit of components, to assist those who wish to build and/or develop their own AVR-based synthesiser."

via CDM

Akai MPC500 Official Site Up

Title link takes you there.

Doktorfuture's "Radio Modular"!

Update: I added a permanent link to the feed on the right.

Via Paulsop, aka Doctor Future:
"I've hooked up a feed of the main mixer from my modular and now stream it on the net. link

Here is a pic of what is making the sound.

Tonight's (and probably for the next few days) selection is minimal: 4 noise sources: white, pink, +/-, and + from a Modcan 07a (link). The +/- and + are sent to a Moog 904a lowpass and lovely glassy late model Arp Odyssey 4072 (Modcan 36a). These sounds are then sent to the Quadraphonic 33a surround position module (LFO's decide what the positioning is), and also through, to various modulated extents, two Ibanez AD202 and a Pioneer SR202 reverb. Envelopes and triggering is from Metalbox. Each day I'll tweak it (requests?) and keep it streaming.

I'm working on levels and stuff. There's no compression or anything. Just the modular->Motu Traveller->to stream. Let me know how it sounds? I am terrible with levels.

The modular is always on, and always squawking out something. Can't guarantee it'll be any good, but as far as I know, it's the first 24/7 modular source, so "yayz me!" It's all creative commons attribution stuff, so samples can of course be used.

Now, if other folk want to try something like this, I have plenty of bandwidth to host their radio streams. We could even make a 'meta modular' where we could, in real time, mix various modular streams (in a modular of course), and stream that out :)"

Very cool. Feel free to comment if you are interested."

The GRP Synthesizer

Via Antonio Tuzzi:

"Hi Matrix,

Paolo is friend of mine and he is building synth on demand: already 15 built! he has a very clean style, as you can see from the ebay A3 synth (on this ebay auction)

Is a mini style synth, but with 2 LFO, hard sync and cross modulation between the 3 oscillator and a ring modulator!


You can check his style in this other creation the 6 oscillator monster: the GRP Synthesiser"