Stian Skagen

YouTube via nymusikk. Sent my way via Basti.
"Live at Ny Musikk in Oslo. November - 2006. Filmed by www.nymusikk.no"
This is a long one, so if you are pressed for time, main transitions happen 2:30 into it and again 4:13 into it. Note that the counter on the YouTube site for videos count up while the counter when I embed counts down, so read 2:30 as two minutes and thirty seconds after the vid starts and not 2:30 in the player's display. You'll have to do the math.

Update: also check out this vid.

compact11

via Shin in the comments of The Flying Machine post. I almost didn't put this one up due to lack of synth content - I try to limit effects posts to effects made specifically for synths, but... I thought the construction of this unit was interesting. Here's the product page Shin linked to and here's the Google translated page. In short it's a digital delay. Guess what the design is doing in the images. As always you can click them for a bigger shot.

Oscilloscope Test

YouTube via verstaerker.
"little Cwejman Sequenced displayed on my new toy"

Syntezatory.prv.pl - Roland JX-3p

YouTube via Jexus.

"1983 Roland JX3p. Brought to you by WC Olo Garb. The sounds have been programmed by WC Olo Garb./// Syntezatory.prv.pl Videos: showing you not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer."

MULTIVOX FR-3 Rhythm Ace

via this auction. Note the auction lists this as the FR-3S. Anyone know about the S?

Oberheim 2 Voice

via this auction.

jumpstart synth jam

YouTube via jumpstartz. Via the Matrixsynth forum.
"setup: korg dw8000, novation xiosynth, roland pc-200, kurzweil k2600r, jen sx1000 and macbook with logic express (goodbye dw8000...)"
Check out jumpstart's myspace page here: http://www.myspace.com/electromovingpictures

Music from Marz - New Tapewarm Site

Title link takes you there. Something tells me the page with this shot will get the most hits. The animated version is after the hop.

123synthland Big Vintage Synth Sale

Looks like 123synthland, aka minime123, is having another massive synth blowout sale. Too many shots for even me to grab, so I thought I'd just put up the link.

ARP Odyssey


Update: check out this KORG rk100, also part of the set.

Spectral Audio Cyclus 3

From the makers of the ProTone and Neptune line of hardware synths.

* A combination of analogue style and digital style sequencing.
* 112 patterns with each 8 tracks. Each pattern can be named ( 8 characters ).
* Easy to learn and operate
* 30 songs with each 253 steps of pattern change and TRACK ON/OFF change (always shifts in the end of track one).
* All tracks can loop independently. They doesn’t have to be equal in length.
* Each of the 8 tracks has 5 subtracks: note(pitch), xtranote, step length, note off time, velocity, ctrl value, ctrl length, ctrl glide on/off. The ctrl tracks can also transmit pitch bend, prg change and sysex messages. You have to choose between xtranote or controller subtracks.
* Last step (Loop point) can be set separately for each of the subtracks, for creating ever-changing complex tracks.
* Change basic pitch, note spread, subtrack loop points, step note pitch, xtra note pitch, step length, step off-time, step velocity, ctrl values, ctrl step lengths, ctrl step glide on/offs, copy a track (or part of it) to itself or another track and randomize, all in analogue style, while the Cyclus is running.
* Create new tracks from an external midi-device, in real or step time or by tweaking the Cyclus knobs (analogue style). After a real time recording, it analyses the note and controller data, and creates analogue style tracks from them, which then afterwards can be totally analogue style tweaked, even when the Cyclus is running.
* Create songs step by step, or start the Cyclus in song rec mode, and change patterns in real time.
* Tempo is stored with each pattern. In song mode patterns are played back in their own tempo.
* One track can modulate the basic pitch of another track.
* Pitch bend values can be transmitted instead of note values, to create something that sounds like a real analogue sequencer over midi.
* Track midi key split function: a track can run on 2 midi different channels, above and below a split point. The upper zone can be transposed. This function also works on the midi input, when merge (canalize) is on.
* Spread transform function. If you have created a great piece of music, with note spread set to ’8’, and you want one of the notes to be 1 octave higher, just enter the spread transformer, and change the note spread to f.ex. ’64’, without changing your melodic line.
* Plenty of memory for all patterns/songs. Will never write ”out of memory”.
* Transmits/receives midi-clock.
* 154 x 132mm
* Use for Desk or Rack mount with Ears.
* Possibility for battery operation (see section support)

Title link takes you there. There are links to more images at the bottom of the page.