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Donkey's new keyboard rig

This one via Dave of umop:

"Here's an entertaining drawing for your readers today... a sneak peek at Donkey's new keyboard rig for the upcoming 20th installment of Retarded Animal Babies! :o)

The foreground synths are 100% autobiographical (including the "Frankenstands"), but the background, not so much (yet). Maybe someday!

Look for the new episode to be out by Easter, I hope.

Older episodes (very NSFW!) on Newgrounds: link"

See if you can ID the specific synths. This one should be a breeze. Labels as hints below.

BTW, the Retarded Animal Babies are in need. Check out Muff Wiggler for more - no money involved. Update: also check out Eric Barbour's (Metasonix) blog.

Update: the episode is now up.

The S-101-x Synthesizer

"The S-101-x is a monophonic analogue synthesizer built by me over the course of some three-four years. I started planing to build a semimodular prepatched synthesizer sometime in the late summer of 2004 and it was more or less built, set up and properly tuned in January 2008."

You can find more info here. via David via the Synth DIY mailing list and via /kroffe in the comments of this post.

Gator

No, not the new Serge Gator of course. This one appears to be a DIY device. You can find more info here.

"The Gator is my implementation of an AM based synthesizer.

4 "suboscillators" with variable wavefom (saw / square) and range (LFO to above audio frequency) amplitude-modulate each other in a sequencial order. They form a chain of AM'd oscillators with a very complex output waveform which can be non periodic, i.e. never repeats itself - based on the interaction of the 4 underlying suboscillators.

The Gator features two of these chains (of 4 suboscillators each). For less chaotic results these chains can be synced in a special manner, still maintaining enough individual variations.

Frequencies of all 8 suboscillators can be controlled by knobs or via light dependent resistors. Special routing switches and knobs allow to dynamically change the way of AM - with an attenuating pot to define the amount of AM.

The signals of both oscillator chains pass through a 5 band equalizer - one independent EQ for each chain. Optionally a passive, coil/transformer based ring modulator can process the signals before sending them to the output socket on the rear."

via Sendling.

Weltmeister Basset on KAADA WRONGROOM

Remember the Weltmeister Basset? KAADA WRONGROOM as a post up on it with a few more pics including one of the inside. My prior post linked to above also has more images.

mad scientist drummer live performance

YouTube via batzberlin. Via seb on the Matrixsynth Forum. "finally did my first solo concert with my drumset and a Nord Modular G2 + Nord Rack 2" "Seb plays "Steve": Live drums and synthesizer performance at Antje Øklesund Berlin, Germany."

trigger drums synthesizer song