ixiQuarks introduction

YouTube via ixiaudio. via synthtopia
"This video shows the ixiQuarks tools browser, opens up the AudioIn tool and a spectral view and wave view. Then a bufferPool is loaded (into RAM) and soundfiles viewed in a soundfile view. A live sound is then recorded into the bufferPool and played back. We then see an EQview (showing 31 bands). The sounds from the bufferPools are then manipulated in the SoundScratcher instrument which allows for warp (granular synthesis), buffer scratching, and various other methods of granular synthesis. We see how two windows can be used at the same time."

Dave Clarke 2008 original

flickr by benedict stuart


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Stamba's hardware live act setup

via stamba on the forum.

Bob Moog - Radio Interview 05-09-2002

You can find the MP3 with a couple of images here.

via 36 15 MOOG

TBX1 demo 1

YouTube via AaronAndrewHunt

"This is a demonstration of the H-Pi Instruments Tuning Box TBX1 ($299), a device which retunes standard MIDI keyboards so that any key can play any pitch you want. In this demo, a Yamaha PSR-310 ($149) plays an arpeggio throughout, sending MIDI notes of a C-Major chord, which you hear at the beginning going through the box in bypass mode (no retuning). That chord then gets retuned in 15 different ways, and I noodle around (not much keyboard skill shown here) over the arpeggio in each tuning. Each of the 15 presets stores a tuning and a bank / patch change. The box stores up to 128 tunings in 4 layers = 512 tunings, each 128 notes. Check it out here: http://www.h-pi.com/TBX1intro.html"

GEM WX2 Destruction

YouTube via Tittlekopf. via SubSynthesis. These videos always make me cringe.
Click here for the infamous video of Richard Devine setting an Open Labs Neko on fire.
Note Richard Devine will be performing at the City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival.

Description of above video:
"Verschiedene Wege ein defektes GEM WX2 Keyboard zu zerstören: Hammer, Zaunstangen, Feuerwerk Bazooka und ein Pontiac Firebird. Von und mit Doktor Untenlieger.

Musik:
Alobar - Input
Welle:Erdball - Arbeit adelt
Welle:Erdball - Starfighter F104G
Tax-5 - Video Sports
Tax-5 - Iron Sun

(C)2008
www.Tax-5.ch
www.alobar.tax-5.ch"

Erasure-I Love To Hate You ( Brazilian TV Show -Xuxa)

YouTube via BetoFS. Anyone ID the keyboard?
"Great,funny and hard to find video on brazilian TV Show for kids named "Xou da Xuxa"
No programa infantil da Xuxa...um arraso!!!"

via Sasa:
"This is really hilarious. In the following video you will see Erasure playing 'live' at the show of Xuxa. She is a brazilian star well known in all South America. The green character is called Dengue. At about 1:50 you will see him joining Vince Clarke on the keyboard. The funniest thing I've seen in months. BTW, this video also shows how much Erasure was ahead of their time - the keyboard was completely wireless."

Synth: Modular demo, MFB into Polivoks into Frequensteiner.

via hexfix93:
"I love this modular I have built. This demo shows me what I love about both filters, the bubbly resonance of the harvestman polivoks, into the aggressive cutting sound of the livewire frequensteiner. I recorded this into my mackie onyx, out into the rme fireface 800 into logic, I used a limiter on it, 6db only. The mfb osc is a pwm sound. I could never make this sound on a Future Retro XS. The more I mess with this thing, the more I realize how great the doepfer rack is, how many great custom boutique third party modules are available for this format. Thanks to Analog Haven and the advice of Shawn I have been able to slowly build up a system that really fits my needs and gives me a solid mono synth that is capable of making alien soundscapes and rhythms. No digital synth gave me the bite and juicy resonance on filters like these have. It almost sounds like real water bubbling. Turn this up loud!" You can find the demo here.

Votrax SC-01-A Speech Synthesizer

YouTube via ThisIsATest000
"A Votrax SC-01-A Speech Synthesizer is dusted off and placed in-circuit for old time's sake. Amazing, but it works! In fact, I've set up a CGI so you can send your own phonemes to this very SC01A.

I've published examples, translation tables, and a live CGI interface so you can mess around with it.

Go to http://www.riana.com/electronics and choose 'Today's Experiment'."

CASIO VL-1 No.7 by S-CAT

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. "CIRCUIT BENT with 9 MODIFICATIONS"