E-Mu Drumulator

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Anyone know what the mod on the side is?

Casio DM-100

Click here for shots via this auction.

"The Casio DM-100 is basically a Casio SK-5 and a MT series keyboard in one housing. I believe it was the only mini-keyed keyboard to have dual keyboards on it.

Strangely though, not all of the SK-5 features are present (or at least brought to the control surface). Absent is the ever-useful lions roar, laser gun, dog, and surf sounds, but it features a few others instead. It does keep up to four samples and retains the useful sample tune, reverse, loop, and amp envelopes. The samples are stored in the memory after power off as long as batteries or AC adapter are present. I never cracked it open to see, but I imagine that some of the other SK-5 features are still there on the circuit board and accessible to hardware hackers and circuit benders. It has a built-in microphone as well as a 1/8" line-in jack for the sampler. The larger speakers on the DM-100 make it sound better than any SK-5 ever did.

The bottom keyboard has a PCM sampled soundset with the ability to layer any two of the 20 sounds together for a total of 210 possible combinations.

It also has rhythm accompaniment as well as Casio's auto chord accompaniment feature. It has a mixer section to balance the sound output of the top and bottom keyboards with the accompaniment and a 1/4" headphone jack on the front. On the back are RCA outputs, a 9V DC-in (AC adaptor not included) and individual tuning knobs for each of the keyboards so you can get detuned chorus-style effects out of this thing if you play both boards at once."

via devetron

Update via Alex in the comments: "Hate to break it to you, but the sampler is not based on the SK-5. I've owned two of these and had a good, long look inside them. The sampler is basically a stripped down SK-8 with the same instrument set and sampling capabilities.

So, you won't find any lion's roar or laser gun in this keyboard, I'm afraid. Neither will you find the oriental features or even any of the ROM related features."

Santuaries Makes the Associate Press

Remember Sanctuaries? Title link takes you to a write up via the AP.

"It was one of the more unusual summer concert tours veteran composer Gary Chang had undertaken, performing futuristic, electronic music in centuries-old sacred cathedrals.

Chang, who has composed dozens of soundtracks and scores for movies and television, recently returned from Italy, where he brought modern surround-sound-type compositions to some of the country's most venerable landmarks.

'It was kind of a monumental idea,' Chang said with a laugh. 'Let's send 500 pounds worth of gear halfway around the world and drag it around to churches.'

But he'd been fascinated for decades by the acoustics of the ancient cathedrals and always wondered how they might sound when filled with electronic compositions that were filtered through a state-of-the-art 5.1 theatrical sound system."

Roland SH-101, Doepfer, Sherman and More on SoNiCbRaT

Title link takes you to more shots. Some demos might be coming as well.

Victorian Synth

YouTube via emutronic. Via Sonic State.
"Demonstration of how to construct a basic Victorian synth."

atari punk bug

YouTube via stamperadam1. via Sendling.

Sal Mar Performances

YouTubes via ZanterM

"I took this video in April of 2004 at "New Directions in the Study of Musical Improvsation: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Conference" hosted by the UIUC Musicology division. It features David Rosenboom, dean CAL Arts [Music School], playing the SAL MAR for the first time in 20 years ; the culmination of the efforts to revive this amazing instrument! Viva la Sal! Viva la SAL MAR! MZ"


picture of David Rosenboom with the Sal-Mar Construction as restored by engineer Greg Danner, University of Illinois, April, 2004. via AudioLemon.

You can find additional posts featuring the Sal-Mar here.

Briand, Daddio and Metasonix

Via brian comnes:
"he [daddio] and I recorded a TM3 VCO into a TM6 filter and then into series of Moogerfoogers....we really like what the Murf did to the metasonix things, (melodic drums?) we also used the Moog Analog delay external looped into the Murf while receiving TM-2 sound bursts gated by a Korg ER-1 ...we were also getting CV from a CP251 to liven things up a bit. We also ran the TM3, no envelope, just sweeping CVs for pitch into a Moog Freqbox and couldn't get much out interesting by themselves, but when gated by the ER-1 it made for some tasty drum hits"

mp3s via daddio of tapewarm:
raw recordings:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j119/tapewarm/dance.gif

no, these:
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/201Rezoswing.mp3
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/204Ticker.mp3
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/205ratAtat.mp3
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/208progsnake.mp3
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/210Horny.mp3
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/211bugs.mp3
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/212quacker.mp3
http://www.tapewarm.com/Bri/213Banjo.mp3"

Pixelh8 - Chocolate Milk

YouTube via Hiddenfortress.
"Pixelh8 demonstrates the practical use for the gameboy music tech synth. This video was very hard to do without a metronome :)"

Catch the end of the following video for a clip of Chocolate Milk with a much fuller sound.

Pixelh8 - Two Festivals One Day

ReBirth RB-338 (live)

YouTube via Denkitribe.
"Excerpt from streaming live August 5th. In this live I performed improvisation on RB-338. There are no pre-recorded sequences. Propellerhead RB-338 (bassline and drums) Ableton Live (effects) Novation ReMOTE 25 LE and KORG KAOSS PAD KP3 (MIDI remote control)"