MATRIXSYNTH

Prno Song

YouTube via SoundwaveXX
"Screwing around with a Softsynth Demo, that keeps mumbling throughout the song 'thanks me for trying me' Since I hate Softsynths though, I didn't finish this song either, but I'm going all-hardware from now on and with the help of a soon to arrive Yahama MO6 I will bring you this painfully obvious Gunther and the Sunshine Girls-Rip-Off new and improved :)."

Jomox XBase888 Drum Machine - standard patterns & sounds

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"http://www.bigcitymusic.com
Here are some standard patterns and sounds from the Jomox XBase888."

Recording the Claptrap for Rhys Marsh

YouTube via RothHandle
"This last MOnday I overdubbed some Clap trap to the end section of the Rhys marsh track all lights fade. For more info please visit www.roth-handle.nu"

CASIO SK-1 "Modded Retro-SK" circuit bending

YouTube via retrosound72. "my new modded SK-1 with great analog like sound"
Update: see this post.

VactrolSynth_v.3

YouTube via cretin432. "more info @ http://cliplead.blogspot.com/"

PAiA Gnome

YouTube via slondo1. via Nusonica.
"My dad found this at an auction. I cleaned it up and put some batteries in it, and it seems to mostly work. Seems they were sold as DIY kits around 76-82. Its kind of a relic."

Yamaha CS-15 Video Demo Part 2

YouTube via stenophonic. Follow-up to Part 1 here.
"Demo of the Yamaha CS-15 analog synthesizer, part 2 of the video demo.

Overview of the envelope generators, VCAs, oscillator glide, high frequency LFO modulation.

The closing sound is the CS15 with some delay and slight reverb. All of the sound within the demo was made using NO effects, other than a simple three band EQ from my Roland KC-550."

The Clavia Left Lead

"In a strategic move to strengthen its presence on the MI market, Clavia has today announced that it will start developing a serie of instruments aimed at the left handed musician. "We have realized that there are so many left handed musicians out there, that never have gotten the chance to properly explore the thrill of playing a keyboard."

"Guitars and microphones for left handed users have been readily available for ages. Sir Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, and the late Jimi Hendrix and Judy Garland are just a few of those who we feel have been totally neglected by keyboard manufacturers for far too long. We aim to make every one of our current products in a left oriented version, starting with the Nord Wave", says Clavias recently appointed division manager Mr Styrbjörn Babord. More information will be released shortly."

More info on the Clavia website.

Raymond Scott 100

Science Reporting has an excellent post up on Raymond Scott. The following are a few excerpts (be sure to check out the full post on Science Reporting).

"In 1942, he became Music Director for CBS Radio and made history by hiring black musicians. His CBS band was the first racially integrated band for radio. In 1946, he founded Manhattan Research Inc, "the world's most extensive facility for the creation of Electronic Music and Musique Concrete." It was the first electronic music studio...

In 1949, Raymond said, 'Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely think his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.'

By the mid-50's his studio began to look (according to friends such as Robert Moog) like a science fiction set. Over the years, Raymond invented numerous electronic musical instruments including the Clavivox and the Electronium.

Robert Moog credits Raymond as an important influence on the invention of the Moog Synthesizer. In 1962 and 1963, Raymond released Soothing Sounds for Baby. It was entirely electronic music he composed as an "aural toy" for children. While it was a commercial failure at the time, some now regard it as a strong pre-cursor to ambient music (over a decade before Brian Eno's recordings)."