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These things are scary together...

via daddio of www.tapewarm.com

"2 Kaoss pads, several passes layered in Wavelab, Holloween eve:

iiii.mp3
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no added fx, no other instruments, some noise reduction and eq"

Alesis Andromeda A6 with Modded Case

Two pics of an Andromeda A6 with titled control panel sent my way via Xavier. Note this one is different than the Alesis Aurora.

"The owner found a picture on the internet and wanted to modify his Andromeda to look like the picture. He had probably stumbled upon a pic of the Aurora. He said that the modification was both very easy and very cheap to perform, using a 1mm thick aluminium sheet and pieces of oak wood. Some other guys thought that it might have been a lot of work to have all the connection separated from the main panel but the owner explained that the Andromeda is indeed split already. When you crack the lid open, connections are at the bottom and all that was needed is to have pieces of aluminium to have the front panel stay at the correct angle, a 10x15mm square section wood stick to fit between the keyboard and the front panel and an angled 1mm aluminium sheet to fill the gap at the back. No need to have the logos redone at the back. Then, the wooden ends were prepared, varnished and attached to the synth."

Synthyaro Plays The Unknown Man - Vangelis

YouTube via synthyaro. KORG R3.

Juno Still Life

flickr by barjack.

full size

Roland Juno-6

Computer Music Top 10 virtual synths episode 1

YouTube via CMSpecial. via TY Floyd on the Matrixsynth Forum.
"We countdown the best virtual synthesizers in the world, as voted for by Computer Music readers and forum users. Episode 1 features positions 10 to 5."

Workspace and Environment: Jeswa

"Regardless of the space, I've always been one to keep it minimal. My setup for the last 10+ years has been more or less the same - A bunch of computers, out of sight & earshot and as clean & minimal a setup as possible. I've always had one modular or semi-modular (Roland System 100, Arp 2600, Doepfer A100) through the years to get out of the box with. There are a very few VSTi synths I love, IMHO there are no mediocre ones, sorry."

click here for the full article on trash_audio.
Spotted: Cyndustries Zeroscillator, Plan B, Doepfer, Analog Systems.

Modular Formats

In case you missed the update to this post, Click the pic to the left for a super sized shot of the image. It was sent my way via John Loffink, author of the article linked to in the prior post and host of The Microtonal Synthesis and The Wavemakers Synthesizer web sites. He also mentioned there was a typo in the article. Via John: "Article has a typo, mentions Analogue Solutions as having Bode FS and Putney tribute modules, should be Analogue Systems. That will be corrected in an errata." Modular formats chart.