Me checking my E-mu EMAX (DM keyboard)

YouTube via DX5.

Some INXS in the intro.
"This is my new E-mu EMAX. Just checking the library. I start with ARCO STRINGS original emax disk. Then, some third partner disks. Some sounds remind Depeche, others Pet Shop Boys, etc...

This sampler was used by Depeche Mode, at Music for the Masses age (later they switched to EMAX II on Violator). Below it, a Yamaha DX7II FD; so that set is exactly the same that Alan Wilder and Martin Gore played on 101 Pasadena live. (Of course, the same without the depeche samples and the midi triggering pads :) )"

Sequential Circuits Prophet VS + Roland Juno-60 + TR-606

YouTube via retrosound72

"synth demo track by RetroSound

legendary vs-choir and fx sounds: SCI Prophet VS
bassline: Roland Juno-60, arpeggiator is triggered by the TR-606
drums: Roland TR-606
external effects: a little bit reverb and delay

hand-played"

Inside an Oberheim SEM

images via this auction
"2 Oscillators - VCO’s - sawtooth and variable-pulse waveforms. +Sync.

1 Filter - VCF multimode: low-pass, high-pass, bandpass and notch with filter envelope generator ASR (Attack, Decay and Sustain).

1 Voltage Controlled Amplifier - VCA with amplifier envelope generator ASR (Attack, Decay and Sustain).

1 Low Frequency Oscillator - LFO"

Roland SH-5

images via this auction

Inside a MOOG The Source

images via this auction

Serial # 2641

Wiard Joystick

via this auction
"The Wiard Joystick Controller provides two joysticks (with CV output), two manual triggers (for manual start of envelopes or sequencers), a custom vintage voltmeter, two patchcord converters and the unique style common to all Wiard products. The Joystick Controller is a must-have for anyone using their modular system as a performance or recording device."

This unit will work with all analog modular synths. The CV range on the joysticks is -15 to 15v. Although I include the power supply, please note that this unit does not come with any housing. It can be rack mounted, but the wires in the back are exposed."

Build a Better Music Synthesizer by Thomas Henry

via this auction

"THE highly coveted bridge between beginner and advanced electronic musicians, "How to Build a Better Music Synthesizer" by Thomas Henry.

I've never seen a book of this subject (or remotely this subject) cover all the ground that needs to be covered to build your own analog synth.

Written in 1987 before the true digital age of music, this book was like a gift from god among a very particular group of people."

NAMM: Plan B Wave Splicer - First Listen

via Peter Grenader of Plan B:

"On this Namm-eve I give you the first audio sample of the proposed Plan B Wave Splicer:

http://www.ear-group.net/splicesamp.mp3

The patch is not complex. A single Model 15's saw is being fed into the Waveshaper of a Model 26. That output is fed into INPUT A of the Splicer. Into the Splicer's INPUT B is the Square out of the same Model 15. A single Model 10 is being self-cycled and is pacing a sequencer which is controlling the Model 15's pitch. The Envelope output of that Model 10 is sweeping the VC Splice Input of the Wave Splicer.

There is no PWM going on, the timbral sweeps are being caused by the edit point of the Splicer being VC's by the Model 10.

See you at Namm."

Jupiter sounds (so strange!) NASA-Voyager recording

YouTube via hryzunik. via Mr. Array.
"From an original CD: JUPITER NASA-VOYAGER SPACE SOUNDS (1990) BRAIN/MIND Research
Fascinating recording of Jupiter sounds (electromagnetic "voices") by NASA-Voyager. The complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind , planetary magnetosphere etc. create vibration "soundscapes". It sounds very interesting, even scary.
Jupiter is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. The entire planet is made of gas, with no solid surface under the atmosphere. The pressures and temperatures deep in Jupiter are so high that gases form a gradual transition into liquids which are gradually compressed into a metallic "plasma" in which the molecules have been stripped of their outer electrons. The winds of Jupiter are a thousand metres per second relative to the rotating interior. Jupiter's magnetic field is four thousand times stronger than Earth's, and is tipped by 11° degrees of axis spin. This causes the magnetic field to wobble, which has a profound effect on trapped electronically charged particles. This plasma of charged particles is accelerated beyond the magnetosphere of Jupiter to speeds of tens of thousands of kilometres per second. It is these magnetic particle vibrations which generate some of the sound you hear on this recording. Visit http://www.inner-net.com/bmr/bmrpg2aa... for more sounds."

NAMM: Metasonix G-1000

Nice shot and full disclosure now up on umop. Click the image for the full size shot.

Update: I missed it, but apparently Mike Brown of Livewire came up with the name. You can read more about it on the Metasonix site.