Switched-ON Rock

"The Moog is played by Kenny Ascher, arrangements are done by Alan Foust and Norman Dolph produced & tuned.

Some liner stuff:
The amazing thing about all the sounds is not that they are done one voice at a time, but rather one finger at a time. The silly machine only plays one note at a time and the temptation play a chord must be overcome... you only get the lowest note if you press more than one key. Improvisation is difficult but far from impossible if you redefine the problem."

Title link takes you to a free download stream of the album on Wiel's Time Capsule.

Plan B Model 11 - Prototype Demo and First Image

via REwire: "This is a demo/song using the New Plan-B Model 11 Evil Twin Bandpass Filter. I used the Prototype version and the final will be the same but a bit wider. I ran just one or two oscs, drums and some vocals all through the filter (with a bit of Reverb and Delay in my DAW). It has a 6db and 12db output that I frequently panned left and right for stereo effects. This is a Bandpass Filter that uses Vactrols (4 inside) and has controls for Frequency, Bandwidth and Resonance with CV of F and BW. When the Bandwidth is narrowed down, the resonance gets extremely crunchy and it seems to self oscillate in an erratic nature that makes it sound like all hell is going to break loose. It has a switch that patches in a second feedback mode for even more distortion, hence the "Evil Twin" reference. In my demo, I patched all sorts of LFO's, ENVs, Filter FM and hand control to twist every patch through the ringer. Can't say I've heard anything like this that wasn't coming out of a vacuum tube!"
REwire_-_My_Evil_Twin.mp3

SID Synth

Two shots via this auction. Update: be sure to check out the comments of this post.

"This is a hand made Analog Synth with SID 6581 as the sound engine. It has a 2x16 Blue LCD, blue LED power and midi in

indicator There are (6) Big Black Buttons to select menu functions. There are midi in and outs on this unit.

_it has blue and red LED's
-this version has artwork on front panel
-All internal wiring is CAT5 and hot glued down at the solder locations to survive a very long lifespan
-the front and back panels are very thick clear and Transparent Blue plexiglass.
-12v AC power adapter is included (WALLWART)
-a HEATSINK is on the SID6581 for cooling and heat management.
-It can be edited via CC midi messaging.

Here is the myspace link to here a demo of what it is capable of: It was mixed down in CUBASESX

All songs are 100% SID only, the first song only has VOCODED INTRO."

Audio Damage Liquid Now Available

"Liquid is a through-zero flanger, and excels in adding vintage vibe to your recordings. From a subtle ADT effect on vocals or electric piano on up to massive "Jet" style 2-buss flanging, Liquid will bring the classic sound of real tape machine flanging to your modern DAW.

A normal flanger, at least in today's world, is just a delay line set to a very short time with some feedback. In "analog" pedals this is done with a bucket-brigade delay chip, and in DSP-based effects like digital pedals and plug-ins, it is one of the easiest effects to create. However, the original flanging effect was created by running two tape machines with the same material in sync, then varying the speed of one of them (sometimes by actually applying pressure to the flange of the tape reel with a finger) to cause some rather extreme and odd comb filtering.

Made popular by George Martin (and used heavily on John Lennon's vocals on many tracks from Revolver on) and Phil Spector (who used it on, well, just about everything), it is a classic effect that was difficult to achieve in software. Until now."

Title link takes you there.

DSI Prophet '08 SE

Pic of the DSI Prophet '08 Special Edition sent my way via Stephen Jones. Click the image for the full size shot.

MAM RS3 Resonator

Click here for shots via this auction.

"Three bandpass filters, controlled by various modulations. Includes original box (not shown) and power supply. Front and rear inputs; input jack for external modulation. Stereo outs. This makes an excellent 'secret sauce' tool for absolutely all gear when run on an fx bus, or straight from your synth/pedals/etc."

Next SuperBass 4.4

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"100% analog. Imho the best 303 emulation, but it also goes beyond that with extras like sub oscillator and distortion. Also has filter input in the back, which allows you to play a sounds through the sweet filter section of the unit. Knobs send MIDI, unit responds to CC data. Has autoslide legato on/off for those TB 303 lines."

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.