PNW06: David Skinner Demos his Synthesizers.com Modular

One last video of David Skinner and his Synthesizers.com modular at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting. Click here for previous posts featuring David Skinner and his synthesizer.com.

BTW, this is my last video for this year's PNW Meeting, so for those of you that need a break from the videos, your break is here. : ) Thanks for bearing with me all, this blog is where I archive this stuff for me and others to look back at over time. Trust me, putting these videos up was a bit more work for me as well.

PNW 06: John Bowen Talks About Sequential Circuits

Uploaded on Apr 19, 2011 matrixsynth

Eleven videos of John Bowen talking about his experience at Sequential Circuits at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting. Apologies for the number of videos and short lengths of each. If you don't have time to watch all of this in one sitting, this might actually be to your advantage. Update: At 2:08 in Part 6 John mentions his classic sync preset used by The Cars Let's Go. Earlier in the vid, he also talks about conversations with Pat Gleeson and the concept of charging for presets.

PNW06: Carbon111 Demos the Little Phatty

Carbon111 Demos the Little Phatty at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting.

PNW06: Minimoog

Minimoog shown at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting. This is a pretty good example of the symptoms in this post. BTW, I didn't catch the presenter's name, if you know it feel free to post it in the comments.

PNW06: James Gallent Talks About His Moog Etherwave Theremin

James Gallent talks about his Moog Etherwave Theremin at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting.

PNW06: John Bowen and Stephen Play the Prophet 5 Rev 1 and 3

John and Stephen play and talk about the SCI Prophet 5 Rev 1 and Rev 3 at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting. The Rev 1 is on the left.

Warning: For those of you that complained about the last Creamware/Prophet 5 video, you might want to skip this one as well. This is synth geek material.

SMS?

Posted by synthbaron on Synthwire. Anyone know what it is?

Update via anonymous in the comments:
"this is an SMS MARS with the planet 7 (?) expander. Neat little modules. Its a single rack space. 1 each of: vco, vcf, lfo, eg, vca. Patch point on the back of the rack. The planet module brings all patch points to the front (actually for 2 mars units) and adds a couple utility modules (mixers, inverters, etc)."

SMS (Synthetic Music Systems)


Upate via Chris in the comments:
"I was lucky enough to buy on of these from the designer 5 years ago, and was silly not to buy a second one that went through ebay a few months back, its that good !!! The two 1u racks sit above and below the 2 u unit which brings all the patch point to the front and include noise, ring mod and many more extras. I'll try to put up some samples up on the web site soon so you can have a listen. The filters are moog 24db and the VCOs have a very useful vc morph, from saw to saw and square to narrow pulse. I have to say again I love this synth, maybe evern more than my Organ system it is realy that good. The designer worked on a second version with analouge systems called the Spawn which was reviewed in SOS. I also have to say the designer was a lovely bloke, if anyone has his email I would love to get in touch again.

Chris

PS if people have a preference to alonger Mp3 or smaller wav files like my other samples let me know and any requests will be considered."

ASM-2

Remember the ASM-2? Here's one with a wooden faceplate via Sendling.

Daddio's LEGO MIDI Guitar

Via daddio:
"It's made with a DJMC, Digitar, and and Expressionmate for the "neck". Held together with Day-Glo legos - UV reactive!!!! Sort of a home made midi guitar I suppose, but I don't play it like that."

Click image for a much larger shot.

Roland PG-1000

Title link takes you to a few more PG-1000 shots pulled via this auction. The PG-1000 is the dedicated contoller for the Roland D-50 keyboard and D-550 rack.

Via anonymous in the comments of this post:
"The shear number of sliders on the PG-1000 is astonishing, but even more astonishing is the fact that each slider gets routed to one of four different active layers at any given time depending on the mode the box is in. On top of that, there is another mode that controls totally different parameters (labeled in a different color) that are common to pairs of tones. So, each slider has, IIRC six different fuctions. It sounds confusing, but it really isn't in practice.

The D-50 is an amazing pad machine. pulse width modualtion and four LFOs, resonant filter plus interesting envelopes."