MUSE Receptor

images via this auction

"version 1.0. The unit comes with a 160gb hard drive and 256mb of RAM. You can easily upgrade the specs through MUSE. For those of you who do not know what the Receptor is, here is a brief overview.

The Muse Receptor Rev C is a 2U rack-mountable module that runs standard Windows VST instruments and effects. Receptor can process and play back 16 simultaneous audio sources, which can be either internal VSTi instruments or external analog/digital inputs. It can also run up to 57 VST effects at one time. But that barely hints at what you can do with Receptor!

* Play, edit and store VST plug-in effects and instruments on a hardware device
* Incredibly powerful and versatile
* Intuitive mixer-style interface handles up to 16 audio sources at once
* Connects to your Windows or Mac computer for downloading and editing presets
* Comes with free VST plug-ins!

This is the perfect tool for either live performance or in the studio. You can now use all you virtual instruments without the limitations of your CPU."

Kratzhaus

YouTube via acidmoongfx. Via sequencer.de.
"1st blood: Korg Kaossilaor and Kaoss Pad 3. Bank C sound is re-re-resampled with KP3 itself. A, B and D are Kaossilor sounds."

Two Wiard Wogglebug Samples

Both by mono-poly

Come sei veramente - Jazz vsn su Clavia NS

YouTube via liar82. Sent my way via fischek.
"Come sei veramente riarrangiata in chiave jazz sul Clavia Nord Stage"

The Mae Shei - Run To Your Grave

Some Suzuki Omnichord action and more.
"Directed by: The Mae Shi Edited by: Jay Trautman Shot by: Jessica Brower
Co-Starring members of: Health, 14 Year Old Girls, Holi Buffaglo, and DJ Kyle H. Mabson"
The Mae Shei on Virb.com. Sent my way via Roberto.

Update: Interesting Buchla tie in via sir_dss in the comments:
"This is a great band from LA that Ezra Buchla founded with his friends. Ezra only makes appearances now and again with them and now is in the equally amazing Gowns.

http://www.myspace.com/gowns

It was crazy/awesome to see them with $10k worth of 100/200 system modules at a show at The Smell(local all ages punk venue) doing this totally modern hardcore with fucked up electronics in the mix.

I really geeked out when I first met Ezra and just wanted to talk about Lo Pass Gates...I was pretty annoying. If you meet Ezra don't bother him about his family business!

The Mae Shei are all great chaps! "

Jungfrau

flickr by Easy Skywalker

Yamaha DX9
Novation BassStation

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Hollow Sun - Akai AX80 and AX60 for the Alesis Fusion

click here for the free downloads as well as good overviews of the two synths on Hollow Sun.

via Gwenhwyfaer in the comments of this post.

The Three Blomigos

George (swissdoc), Till and Boele at it again. They sent some images to the Waldorf list and of course this is what came to mind. Mini escapade by me.

In order:

Earning their lunch with the Blofeld

Lunch at McDonalds

Blofeld Road - A good days work is complete!

And their three Blofelds. Note the MicroQ knobs on one. Close-up shot here.

Update: Three more knob types:
evoblo.jpg
pulseblo.jpg
saffireblo.jpg
bloP08.jpg

You should be able to guess these based on thier names.

Udpate: More info from Georg on the three Blofelds

"Blofeld Messe Prototype
Frank Schneider hat to tinker around here during last night before the Messe to make the display fit (somehow the wrong displays have been delivered)


Blofeld Pre Series Version
Different labeling on the Matrix and the right display, so quite tidy internally

Blofeld Production Version
Midi LED added, Power Switch added

Non Waldorf content, upper row:
Electro Harmonix Phasers, two different black Russian Small Stones,
two different green Russian Small Stones (older model), a new USA
version and a Behringer UP100

We did in fact recordings of the Phasers (incl. a DOD one, not shown)
driven by the noise of the Blofeld. Maybe more on that later..."

Three Waldorf 4-Poles

image via Till Kopper on the Waldorf list.

"Boele, Georg (swissdoc) and Till having fun."

I'm guessing this is one of each.
See if you can spot the differences.

Below are the 4-Poles, Small Stone pedals, and of course the Waldorf Blofeld.

Update via Till in the comments:
"These are 5 (five) small stones. And only two of them are the same revision. Only the two black russians are identically. But soundwise the are all close, but not identically."

Update via Georg aka swissdoc:
"Again some detail on the 3 versions of the 4-Pole, from top to bottom:

4-Pole Beta Unit (Curtis)
This one was used by me during the beta phase back in time, hey, I was using once a postcard to report some bugs to Stefan while beeing on vacation in the "Fränkische Schweiz".

As you can see, the labeling was changed later to fit the features which have been packed in during development.

4-Pole Production Unit (Curtis)
The buttons are swapped, correct. I assume that happened during all the swapping of EPROMs during beta phase.

4-Pole Production Unit (Pulse Filter)
Silkscreening slightly changed here, most important is the change from 9V AC power input to 12V DC. Usefull when you are chasing up one or the other version.

Looks like this version has a green/red LED to show the overdrive status of the gain stage.

Again, we did some recordings, 3 saws from the Blofeld run into the 4-Pole (Curtis vs. Pulse Filter). More on that later plus detail shots from the interior and back of all tree units. Georg."

Anxiety Psychosis

YouTube via SynthKraft. Follow up to this video. www.synthkraft.de
"Another prerelease of my upcoming album. This time a more psycho one, hope you like it."
"Synths used: Moog Rogue, Clavia NordModular, Oberheim Matrix 6, Korg Trident. For those strange soundeffekts is recorded the unfinished track via my Rode NT-2A mic and deliberately overload the signal. Lots of distortion and filtering did the rest."