Hands-on, Interview: Stribe Multi-Touch Controller

Remember the Stribe? CDM has a great interview up with creator Josh Boughey. Click here to check it out.

Intro:
"Once the domain of the few, creating and customizing sophisticated DIY controllers is now more accessible than ever. That means, if you can’t find what you want, and you’re ambitious and knowledgeable enough, you go make your own. Josh Boughey was impressed by the Monome enough to buy one — but the Monome, a grid of on/off buttons, doesn’t provide any kind of variable control. So Josh built his own, combining a series of parallel touch strips with LED indicators. (The lights are the tricky part, requiring an obscene number of connections.)"

Carl Stone and Peter Grenader at LA Sonic Odyssey, March 28-29

"Carl Stone's Al-Noor and Peter Grenader's Secret Life of Semiconductors will be presented among other studio electronic works at the 2008 LA Sonic Odyssey Festival in Pasadena, CA, March 28 and 29 at 8:00 P.M. For more information, go here."
Pictured: "the analog synthesizer used to create The Secret Life of Semiconductors."

Serge M-Class Prices Are Up

Via Egres, The Unofficial Serge Synthesizer Website.

Gator - $1499.00 USD (pictured)
Creature - $1499.00 USD
Sequencer-A $1650.00 USD
SQP Sequencer - $1200 USD
Triple Oscillator - $1650.00 USD

Follow up to this post (comment there)

Update: be sure to check out the comments of the prior post. There's some good info from Carbon111 who will be creating some pages for the new Serge systems as well. If that doesn't get you excited just check out http://carbon111.com/. He has some of the best pages on individual synthesizers out there including Serge.

Ileana Grams-Moog on Bob Moog

Ileana Grams-Moog wrote a touching post on Caring Bridge. The following is only a short excerpt, so do take the time out to read the full post.

"It has been almost exactly two and a half years since Bob's death, and over a year since my last entry. I had no idea that people were still visiting this site and posting tributes to Bob until my stepdaughter Michelle, the director of the Bob Moog Foundation, told me so. My chronic fatigue generally keeps me from using the internet.

I am so touched and grateful to know how much Bob meant and continues to mean to so many people. For my daughter Miranda and me he was as close to perfect a (step)father and husband as is humanly possible. Those qualities that we loved clearly affected the thousands of you who had only a brief encounter with him, but that made such a deep impression on you that the memory of it is still alive. It is traditional in Judaism to say, after mentioning the name of someone who is no longer alive, 'May his (or her) memory be for a blessing.' Bob's memory is a blessing for all of us who knew him, whether for a few moments or for years."

via Cikira

ROBOTERWERKE Drum Machine - Update

I updated this post with a little more info via Hajo including a scan I found on the web.

KID 606

This one via Ross.

"OSCar playing the TR606 and Korg Mini Pad."

Roland CR-8000 Switching Board

via this auction.

via Justin who is selling this to fund his "tr-404 (cr-8000/tr-505 drum machine hybrid) project which details can be found here"

edie versus the voyager

Two shots via trey

"we ended up having a moog voyager that needed a home for a couple of days. it was a lot of fun getting to really get deep into it in my own studio, but the real joy came when my one year old daughter, edrye, discovered the large, knobed behemoth make crazy sounds in daddy's studio. i sat her down, and showed her around a little, all the while snapping as many photos as i could."

MFOS Stereo Panner (Leslie Cabinet Simulator)

YouTube via djthomaswhite
"This is my MOTM format build of the MFOS Music From Outer Space Analog Stereo Panner circuit. This is not your typical stereo panner or tremelo! There is a "rotor" function which ramps the speed of the panning from A to B. A is a slower pan rate and B is a faster pan rate. The distance between the slow and fast rates is decided by an on board trimmer on the PCB. Ray really made an awesome circuit here and I really recommend you build one for yourself in your format of choice. Find more information and PCB's for sale at www.musicfromouterspace.com. You can find more information on my builds at www.naturalrhythmmusic dot com. Thanks for stopping by!"

Catgirl CGS Analog Gate Sequencer 1 of 2

YouTube via djthomaswhite
"Catgirl Synth Analog Gate Sequencer built by Thomas White (www.naturalrhythmmusic dot com) from pcb's designed by Ken Stone."

Catgirl CGS Analog Gate Sequencer 2 of 2