Inside The Future Retro

Title link takes you to more shots of the Future Retro via shaft9000 in this VSE post. Shaft9000 gave me the go ahead to back them up as he will be taking the shots down in time. BTW do check out Shaft9000's AWT for music and more synth shots and info. There are some nice synths there.

Hand

flickr by Decadent.

How to Stream Audio over the Web

Title link takes you to a pdf on how Doktor Future set up Doktor Future's Radio Modular. Via this Matrixsynth forum thread.

ipMIDI

Now this could be interesting. Think community based interactive mega synths - we all interact with it via MIDI over the net.

"MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN.

You can route MIDI over your Ethernet network, using ipMIDI ports to send and receive MIDI data between PC's connected to your LAN. For example, if you have a music studio with several computers connected via MIDI interfaces and MIDI cables, ipMIDI will replace them all.

Any MIDI application on the LAN can communicate with any other without any new physical connections, eliminating separate MIDI cables and additional hardware interfaces and if you are running a wireless IP network (i.e. 802.11 a/b/g) you don’t need any cables at all! This is becoming more in demand, the ability to just establish a temporary local wireless network and hook in the PCs."


via sequencer.de

Spring is coming

flickr by Dr. Bleep.

Bleep Labs

A Helitron and His Spectralis

Title link takes you to the MySpace page with tracks featuring nothing but the Radikal Technologies Spectralis. Audio quality on this one is superb.

via this Matrixsynth Forum thread, where you will will discussion on the Spectralis along with a link by Moogulator to his Spectralis page with more info and samples.

Nova Aurora

YouTube via http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=gstraatman. Sent my way via Joe:

"It is the hit Aurora from the synth band Nova. It was a number 1 hit in the Netherlands in 1982. Rob Papen was a member of Nova: link. Same Rob Papen who helped developing Albino and Blue VST synths: link.

According to the dutch 'synthforum' this song was recorded with :

Korg Sigma (Lead en Bass)
Korg MS-10 en SQ-10 (sequences)
Korg MS-20 (Lead Panflutisch sound), effect sounds en other sounds
Diamond Strings (the strings at the beginning of the song)
Roland CR-78 for the drums"

Anyone know which one Rob is?

JanVanVolt's Synthesizer

Image of JanVanVolt's Digisound VCDO via the comments of this post. Title link takes you JanVanVolt's Synthesizer page with more.

Roland TR-909

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

via loscha

KORG Polysix MIDI

Two options for KORG Polysix owners out there.

Korg PolysixM (extensive and expensive) - $380 installed, $200 kit.
""Korg USA proudly announces the PS6-MRK MIDI Retrofit Kit for the Korg Poly-6 Synthesizer. Thanks to modern software/hardware technology, a great classic analog synthesizer, the Korg Poly-6, has now been upgraded with one of the most advanced and comprehensive MIDI Retrofits ever devised for a pre-MIDI synthesizer. With MIDI, your Poly-6 can now join the MIDI revolution, easily connecting with other MIDI synthesizers, expander modules, sequencers, drum machines, personal computers and more ... "

KORG Polysix MIDI (cheap and simple) - $70 installed
MIDI In only

KORG PolysixM pictured