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dr rhythm DR55 modified /circuit bent

"-kick decay knob -white noice control knob -maximum accent -5 fills and breaks or more if combined, what they do depend on your rythm program -resonant bleep over snare and hihat. knob also controls tone colour of hihat and snare -dc adaptor inlet"

Title link takes you there. Via Dennis.

Update: check out the comments for a link to some samples.

This Week In Synths on CDM

BTW, since we are on a CDM roll, title link takes you to their ever amazing This Week In Synths column. It goes up every Friday like clockwork, and so far has been quite amazing. You can't go wrong with Mexican Wrestling and Donny. I know the author of the column personally. Top notch guy!
; )

Music for Skateboards - Musique Concrete

Brilliant.

Title link takes you to the post on CDM.

Music Concrete for searching later.

COMMONTONES

via SoNiCbRaT:

"I am doing an online collaboration with LDT from Bangkok and Eric Saliege from France... do check it out... we will be using synths and effect processors and some other to make music... basically it's to make one music a day, daily, for the month of May... :)"

Pretty cool. Title link takes you there. The first entry is up and includes, "a toy piano, a contact microphone, sampled on KORG Kaoss Pad III and grained, Roland SH101. Recorded live, except drums added later using Reaktor 5 and layering the toy piano samples, pitching them down and reversing them at parts."

BTW, if you haven't checked out an RSS reader this would be a good opportunity. The COMMONTONES site is a blog on Blogger. With a reader like Bloglines (my favorite), you can subsribe to it and you will get updates in Bloglines as new posts go up. You can subscribe to the sites on my blogroll on the right and any other site with RSS. It's super useful in that you don't have to remember to check back and you don't waste cycles going to the site only to find there's nothing new. With an RSS reader, if there is an update it comes to you. You can then click through and check it out. I currently track 216 feeds this way. Imagine going to 266 sites several times a day to look for updates. Not gonna happen, but with Bloglines I can just bring up one site and see it all.

Fender Clip Art

"This artwork was included with a promotional package sent to dealers in February 1984. Of interest is the appearance of the ARP style slider caps."

Title link takes you to more info and a much larger shot, on the excellent Rhodes Chroma site.

vintage casio synth sweet!

YouTube via ortizimojams. Read the post on CDM.

simulacreant - Evenfall Mini Modular Tracks Update

Remember this post? The page is now complete. via cebec via the Matrixsynth Forum:

"The Evenfall stuff is complete, for now, but I plan to add more to the Kyma album. Then, a Serge album, and finally, a Fenix album. After that, maybe an EP of music that isn't just a 'synth demo'! : )"

Update: you can now find the track on this post.

The New and Improved Scott Stites Synth DIY

Currently listed:
- Triple Wilson SVVCF
- Thomas Henry UD-1 Drum Voice
- Thomas Henry SN-Voice
- The Thomas Henry XR VCO
- MultiPhase Project Journal
- MultiPhase Project
- The Mutant Vactrol Filter
- Looney Mod For Ray Wilson's Wacky Sound Generator (WSG)
- Sundry Items
- Dim C/TZF
- Construction of the Dim C/TZF
- Dim C Finished!
- Dual René Schmitz Late MS-20 Filter
- The Model 2 Klee Sequencer
- Klee Samples

Title link takes you there. Birth of a Synth pictured.

Thomas Henry Designs Forum on Electro-Music.com

Via Scott Stites:

"Electro-Music has started a new sub-forum for Thomas Henry designs. It'll feature discussion of his previous designs, and hopefully even future designs from Thomas Henry. Thomas himself has already been known to drop by the forum."

For the DIY crowd and anyone interested. Title link takes you there.

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