Black Mountain--Stormy High (080221) [7/7]

YouTube via wavawmoff
"black mountain stormy high in the future british columbia bc"
I've received a couple requests to put this up, so why not.

via dp: "Thought people might dig the you tube footage of my pals Black Mountain. Jeremy Schmidt plays a moog source, the brain from moog bass pedals, a cx-3, and fresh new memotron. Schmidt is also an analog synth guru, and has a great solo synth cd under the name sinoia caves."

via J: "Black Mountain performing on Conan O'Brien, Synth player Jeremy Schmitt is playing a Manikin Electronic Memotron, Moog Source and a KORG CX-3. He also does solo synth music under the name "Sinoia Caves." In the realm of early Klaus Schultz, Tangerine Dream.
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAGBR010

and is a member of B.C.V.C.O.
(British Columbia Voltage Controlled Orchestra)
a new all anlog synth group from Vancouver, Canada.
http://www.castexotic.com/bcvco.htm"

Oscillator Cross Modulation "Chatter Box"

YouTube via isotopeofme in response to this post.

Pt 1 Analogue Systems rs370 module 6-Voice Synth + MUCH more

YouTube via bigcitymusic.

"Here is the multi-faceted rs370 eurorack module from Analogue Systems. Known as the "Polyphonic Harmonic Generator", it is a 6-voice polyphonic modular synthesizer w/ extensive control via MIDI and control voltages (CV) simultaneously. If that isn't enough it is also a polyphonic MIDI to CV converter!
* 6-voice polyphonic
* 4 oscillators per note
* 6 envelope generators( 6 stages and 10 control points) which can be patched out and back into the synthesiser
* 6 VCA's
* 2 LFO's (each with 5 waveforms plus midi sync etc)
* Arpeggiator (with 4 different modes and MIDI sync)
* 3 types of synthesis: Subtractive (using the built in analogue waveforms), Additive and Wavetable.
* 46 User Memory locations filled with 43 Factory Sounds that are held in Rom and can be overwritten or recalled at any time.
* Many outputs and inputs and further expansion can be obtained using either the rs375 or rs376 expander module."

Update:

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Jean Michel Jarre [Oxygene] Covers Banned from YouTube

Update: see this new post for Jean Michel Jarre's official response.

No more JMJ cover videos on YouTube:

"Dear Member:
This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by FRANCIS DREYFUS MUSIC claiming that this material is infringing:
Oxygene 13 Jean Michel Jarre Cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8CY0rKXank
Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account. In order to prevent this from happening, please delete any videos to which you do not own the rights, and refrain from uploading additional videos that infringe on the copyrights of others. For more information about YouTube's copyright policy, please read the Copyright Tips guide."

Update: it might only be Oxygen covers? Note the following is speculation:
"The whole story seems to have something to do with a conflict between Dreyfus and Jarre regarding the copyright for Oxygene.

Also, as I've learned by reading the forums, it seems that Dreyfus doesn't actually own the rights for public performances. Only for the recordings.

I don't see Mr. Jarre complaining... "

Why am I posting this here? Well a lot of the better videos showcasing what particular synths are capable have been with JMJ covers.

FLAME Clockwork Videos

Click here for the videos on the FLAME website. More info on the Clockwork here.

PROTOTYPE MIXER CRAIG ANDERTON

This one is not actually a synth, but a vintage mixer by PAiA's Craig Anderton. You can find it here along with a number of other synth auctions from minime123. Although it is not a synth I decided to put it up because of the link to synth makers PAiA as well as it's design. Every now and then I will put up posts of non synth related gear from synth manufactures to reflect on some of the other projects they took the time out to work for. For me it's just an interesting bit of synth history.

Free Roland Samples on Ohdeo.com

G-Red wrote in to let me know he has started a site with free Roland Samples. The site is Ohdeo.com. It does require you to register to access the samples in a forum type site. I asked him why registration was required and he said it's to prevent other sites from linking directly to the samples without credit. Makes sense to me.

Synthesizer Surprise

Synthesizer Surprise from Liam Devowski on Vimeo.
Note this one is from the artist Devowski. You can see some previous posts featuring his work here and his official website here.

KORG MS20 Phone Conversation

via h. You can find the mp3 here.

EXTRAPOLE - Multimode for LP4P VCFs

"The project proposed here is an extension board to add 15 functions to the MOTM 440 VCF and more generaly to almost all 4 poles Low Pass VCFs with a similar topology ...

The idea of this extension come directly from the Oberheim Xpander/Matrix12 multi-function VCF schematic : the 4 poles of a classic low pass filter are mixed together with different coefficients to get multiple functions. The Multi-function VCF page contain math explanations and a copy of the original schematic, so i won't reproduce them here, just the list of the 16 VCFs functions as a reminder..."

click here for more info on Papareil Synth Labs. via Not Even Remotely Funny in the comments of this post.