The Waldorf Forum is Back

Title link takes you there. The forum was closed with the Waldorf insolvency. It was then hosted by private servers by Paul Maddox and Till Kopper up until Thursday August 31, 2006. Now it is back with Waldorf. via Dr. Georg Muller.

Update via the comments:
"I was not hosting it. That was only done on Paul Maddox' server. I was only the admin.
Thanks for all the Waldorf forum member who supported us by donating money to pay the bills. The money for a whole year was donated within a few hours. And the donations came from many different countries.
Thanks to Waldorf. They gave us the nice synths.

keep on turning these Waldorf knobs

Till "Qwave" Kopper
(now moderator of the new list)"

Peavey DPM-C8

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

• 88-note, wooden, weighted, velocity and channel pressure sensitive keyboard.
• 64 patches, eight fully variable zones per patch.
• Three assignable wheels, four assignable sliders and four assignable buttons.
• Serial port for mouse connection.
• MS-DOS compatible disk drive for patch and SysEx storage.
• Large LCD display.
• Four independent MIDI Outs, two merging MIDI Ins.
• Two CV pedal inputs, two dual footswitch inputs.

via Matthew.

Brown from Livewire Electronics on KXLU

Rtopia just posted some shots of a radio appearance of Mike Brown of Livewire Electronics. Title link takes you to shots. To hear the mp3 go to rtopia and do a find for KXLU. The first find will be the shots, the second the mp3. I tried to link directly to the post, but it looks like it is down. The mp3 is definitely worth the extra effort if you are interested in hearing some Livewire modules and Mike Brown.

Update: You might recognize the case here and here. It's the custom case for NIN. Thanks goes to Unrest for spotting it, via the comments.

Update via r in the comments: "the custom modular was made for Alessandro Cortini.

Athough he did tour with NIN earlier this year - he's currrently touring/performing with his own band modwheel mood

It's all his - he paid for it : )"

AH Bay Area Gathering 2006 Gallery on rtopia

Title link takes you to another set on rtopia. When you get there do a find for 2006. I tried the direct link to the post but I'm getting a 404.

HR16 Bend

Title link take you to more info and shots of this bent Alesis HR16.

Ray Kurzweil on TEDTalks

Title link takes you there. No direct synth content, but I thought it would be interesting to hear what the man behind the Kurzweil line of synthesizers has to say about technology.

Rhodes Chroma

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

Synthi AKS For Kontakt 2

"Synthi for Kontakt 2 is a surprisingly versatile library, giving you horror klangs and snappy zaps, snarling ring-mod leads and basses, and fat, rubbery mellow textures ready to slot into your productions. You'll be astounded at the sheer size and sense of life in the sounds. With complete control over filters, envelopes as well as the Spring Reverb convolution impulse, you'll be able to tame the beast. Well, almost."

Kraków / Polysix / Atari 2600 / Soundic

flickr by polantra

d16 group Audio Software - Drumazon

"Take a look on our newest product - the Drumazon. It's virtual drum synthesizer emulating the well-known classic drum machine.
Drumazon will be released on December 15-th but it's available now in special pre-order offer (read below). More details on Drumazon soon... Visit the audio samples section and hear it now. You can also take a look on its GUI"

Title link takes you there. Via SIGHUP a brand new blog.


And the PHOSCYON


virtual 909
virtual 303