DIY Music / Making Your Own Cardboard Synthesizer

YouTube via lavieenjaune.
"Testing our cardboard synth. Based on the 'Your First Synth' how-to shown here via Music From Outer Space"
More info on fotosis.

Dead Presidents Society

"The Dead Presidents Society is a group of friends who share a passion for the influence of technology on music, and who meet every Thursday morning at a coffee house in Berkeley, California. The group's name was born out of the fact that a number of the members were formerly presidents of electronic music product companies that died. :)"
The members are... Click on the image and see if you can spot them. : )

Title link takes you there. via Johan

Laura Scarborough

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Title link takes you to Laura Scarborough's website where you will find more shots, vids, samples and more.

via Appliancide in the comments of the previous post.

More DSI Prophet '08 Samples

Copy the following link and paste it into your address bar:

http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8a.mp3

Then change the p8a.mp3 to p8b.mp3, then p8c.mp3 and so on.

Thanks to Mr. Array for the tip.

Comments disabled to keep them all on this post.

ZIZZLE Zoundz

Ok, this is pushing it as far as synth content, but there you go... If it only supported MIDI in and out.

"ZoundzTM creates a fusion of self- composed music with an accompanying light show. With it, users can create musical light shows never seen before. They can create their own riffs by placing one of Zoundz TM’ pawns on an interactive “hot spot” on the sound board. Each pawn associates with the sound it makes and by placing them on different locations and in different combinations, users can compose music all their own. The music portion can be fine tuned with the mode switch which enables users to adjust the tempo of the music, raise and lower the volume, increase or decrease an echo, or sustain and draw out specific sounds. Each interactive “hot spot” lights up when a pawn is placed on it and will groove to the tempo of your music. The color of the light also reflects what type of music the pawn produces with red indicating a sharper tone while blue reflects softer more soothing sounds."

ARP 2500 and More

via Francois on AH. Original link.
More:
"2 Polykobol from the 4 installed here. I am designing a full midi for it. For 8 voices poly and multi.
http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=polykobolvu9.jpg

3 Korg PS 3100 midified: One of them is my first analogic synth.. bought in 1988.. 8-) http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korgps3100gl6.jpg
Below, description of the midification:
http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=9388.0

6 voices of Kobol.. From the 21 voices here.
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=koboltowerxx0.jpg

Home built midibox sequencer prototype
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sequencersy7.jpg
Here, description of the final sequencer http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=9387.0

Another view of the music room:
http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=room2yt7.jpg

You don't see on the picture, others Kobol rack, one ondioline, a clavinet D6, a VP330 and other synth as well as home built synth."

New DSI Prophet '08 Teasers

Two samples and a vid at the end of this post.

The LEDs for the 8 voices.

Tony Wilson RIP

via Mark:

"Tony Wilson, founder of Factory record label (New Order, Joy Division, Happy Mondays, etc) passed away on August 10th. http://neworderonline.com/News/NewsRoom.aspx"

monome-DS

This one in via Robert. You can find discussion and the download on this gbadev thread while it's up. If anyone has a screen shot of this, feel free to send it in. A monome for the Nintendo DS.

Details:
"monome~ds v1.0 by GrizzlyAdams

Simple simulation of a monome 40h like device with some artistic license.

40h buttons: send midi keydown / keyup events 0-63
40h lights : respond to midi keydown / keyup events 0-63

Channel buttons & Up/Down DPAD: select current channel

Connection light:
the small light at the bottom of the screen under the divider between the
40h buttons and channel buttons shows the status of the connection.
Yellow = Connecting
Green = Connected
Red = Disconnected/Error

By default it starts in local loopback mode, press START to connect.

There is no config menu in this version and you are stuck with the first WFC profile.

Future plans:
- glowing channel buttons showing data flow (33% = data, 66% = selected, 100% = both)
- actual emulation of a monome 40h / wrapper for running monome firmware
- wfc selection
- 2nd display-only monome

NOTE: this program is NOT from, licensed by, or supported by monome."

DSI "Prophet '08"

In case you missed the updates to this post, the new rumored synth is going to be an eight voice analog synth based on the CEM chips used in the Evolver with the sequencer, arpeggiator and memories. It will sound different than the Evolver. More details in the previous post. Comment disabled here to keep them all in one post. If anyone has more info on this including any pics or samples, please feel free to comment.