Waldorf XTk

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Note the Q Phoenix under the XTk and of course the XTk logo. There is also an Alesis A6 in one of the shots.

via Mr. Array.

picsynthv2

flickr by dar303.

click here for the full size shot.

"PIC-microcontroller based digital synth/sequencer/filterbox with Wasp filter"

Update via ScarKord in the comments: "Quick bit of Googling came up with this link... Here's what they say about it... ...powered by a 9V-battery and the size is 11x5x3 cm Controls:Five pots (tempo/duration, data, cutoff, resonance and volume) and seven buttons (play, rec, stop, pattern, step forward, step backwards and rest) Status is indicated by an bi-colour LED (rec, play, stop, external trig mode, end of pattern) Four jacks are located on the back of the unit (external trig in, external audio in, filter cutoff and output) Four different sequences of 16 steps are stored in the internal Eeprom of the PIC18F84. The sounds are PWM-based 8-bit sounds with both tones and different pitched noise."

Daniel Hansson RIP

Title link takes you to the sad news on the Elektron website.

Update: when I first heard the news I was speechless. What do you say when something this tragic happens. He was too young. I put the post up with just the words above. I've received a couple of emails from readers stating I should put up a post. I'm guessing they missed the original post. Because of this I'm updating this post to make it a bit more visible, so others do not miss this terrible news. I decided to make this the last post of the day. I've lost people extremely close to me in the last few years and it is a painful, personal, and traumatic experience. Words cannot express how sorry I am for those that were close to Daniel Hansson and all who are saddened by this loss.

Yamaha TG-33 Demo by smackos

Title link takes you to the mp3. Via smackos in the comments of this post.

THeff's Model 2 Klee

Via Scott:
"THeff has built the only Model 2 Klee I've ever seen other than what I have on breadboard. The guy built the thing on perfboard - one board! It's a Model 2, which differs a bit from the electro-music Klee Sequencer PCB project, but the difference is pretty minor. His thread is here.

A couple of pics of the sequencer here and here [pictured].

And some samples he's posted in the thread (he's picked up on it pretty quickly - programming a Klee is definitely a different process than programming a standard step sequencer):

1st_klee_demo_210
happy_klee_718
leave_it_to_kleever_330"

Update: I asked Scott for a little more info on the Klee. Here is what he had to say about it:

"the Klee is something I pretty much cooked up in this thread:

http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12940

It's a lot of reading, though =0). Earlier this summer, Andy Sharp, Tom Fenn and I cooked up a scheme to produce PCBs of the project and sell them at a small profit, which we're donating to the electro-music forum for operating expenses, and to go towards a new server (a bit late on that one, judging from the recent crash there).

I've got a fairly complete (but not totally complete) draft of the Klee theory here:

http://electro-music.com/forum/download.php?id=8646

It's from this thread:

http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19278

The doc explains what the Klee is and does and how it differs from a "normal" sequencer. It's a draft with a couple of minor typos, and I haven't yet gotten into the last part of the functionality - the interval switch."

Cyborg System 100 in da House

Roland System 100s racked like a modular.

via Aliens Project. BTW, it looks like the Aliens Project now has a blog. Excellent. via sequencer.de.

Rendez Vous 2 Jean Michel Jarre Cover

YouTube via fischek.
"I've used the sampled Elka Synthex patch (SF2 format) and FL Studio for creating and looping the rhythm."

MemPot v1.0, potentiometer with a memory

"Introduction
MemPot was developed by Dan Blackburn and me as a control interface for circuit bent instruments and sound generators. MemPot is a built around PIC 16F819 microcontroller that reads analog resistances, records them to memory and plays them back via digital potentiometer DS1267 chip. The memory buffer size and the playback speed can be adjusted."

Title link takes you there. Previous posts.

SuperVirus

"Software editor for Access Music synthesizer Virus A, B, C, Classic, Rack XL
Solar3D software proudly presents SuperVirus Version 2.0! There are a lot of new features available in this version...

* Browse for categories of Single programs
* Jump to bank- buttons with DirectSelect menu
* Background dependency check for Multi programs
* 999 clipboards for Single programs
* complete support for A, B, C, Classic, RackXL
* complete Multi program support
* unlimited Undo/Redo for incomming Sysex messages if you edit directly at the Virus hardware controls
* Big face lifting"

Title link takes you there. There is a 30 day trial download. via sequencer.de.

Hints of New Things from Zebranalogic

There are a couple of posts up on the Zebranalogic blog discussing some of what they are working on. First is Digital Audio Techniques. "In our research of audio development, we are working with some digital techniques for digital systems. Like the Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) technique. With this one we can simulate analog waveform with a dsp processor. The result is pretty good and depends of the number of digital samples. The output is ploted in a GLCD (Graphic LCD ). The frequency of the wavform is variable by software with a knob..."

The second post is New MIDI design which mentions, "In order to complete our blocks for a new audio machine we are designing a more complete MIDI circuit. Part of the process is the system simulation. In the picture we can see the capture of the values of Status byte, note, velocity and note off, all are the same in this test because we are entering the values with a PC keyboard ...we are working a lot to design a bigger machine with more details and best options..."