Tiptop Audio Z5000 review by Stretta

You can find the full review on The Stretta Procedure.

The following are a couple of excerpts:
"I spent all of last night playing with it, giggling. Tons of fun. I love putting reverb before the amplifier so the lines you play are smeared, but still gated by the keyboard. A reverb module makes patching far more easy, and opens up creative opportunities you may not have considered before. The Z5000 also includes a handful of other programs like chorus, flanging, but the real focus is on various reverbs. Now I really want the Plan B Model 40 Elf-series headphone preamp - everything is contained in the modular case!"

"When you get a new module, your old instrument is entirely new again. This is the really cool thing about modulars, and a concept I'm dying to exploit in software. You want to try the module with everything else you already have. It makes the entire system more powerful. You're not just buying a single new module, you're gaining what that module can do, in interaction with everything else in the system."

It's also typically much cheaper to pick up a new module vs. a new synth if you need a quick GAS fix.

Mooged Out

"In case you missed it…

Here it is folks…pictures and a review from the Mooged Out: Asheville CD Release party, featuring Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band!

First, a big “hat’s off” to all the musicians and volunteers that made this incredible night possible. You all helped to raise thousands of dollars for the foundation–a big help in preserving Bob’s archives. Get your copy of Mooged Out: Asheville as a gift with a $25 donation."

More images and words on the event on the Bob Moog Foundation Blog.

Pictured: Playing a Voyager with Booty Band: Lisa Huang

klee2_01

flickr by fonik2000

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"my version of Scott Stites KLEE2 sequencer built from the electro-music.com PCB edition."

klee-firstImpression

klee-firstImpression from loopcycle on Vimeo.
"The CV output A is feeding the pitch of oscillator A.
The CV output B is feeding the pitch of oscillator B.
Gate busses 1, 2, 3 are triggering three envelopes, which are opening two filters and one VCA.
The Klee is running in 16x1 mode.
You can see the lights chase each other from stage 1 (upper left) to stage 16 (lower left)."

Buchla 227

flickr by verbos

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Hobnox Audiotool im Test

Hobnox Audiotool im Test from Phlow on Vimeo.
"Audiotool von Hobnox | Mit den Audio-Werkzeugen auf Hobnox verfolgen die Programmierer einen spannenden Ansatz: Musik produziert man im Browser und steckt dort Geräte wie Synthesizer, Drummachines und Effekte zusammen - ähnlich wie wir es von Reason kennen. André Michelle, der Kopf hinter der Flash-basierten Musikproduktionsumgebung, erklärt uns im Interview was das Hobnox-Tool bezweckt, was geplant ist und welche geheimen Funktionen und Tricks das Audiotool schon jetzt bereithält."
"Audio tool Hobnox | With the audio tools to pursue the programmers Hobnox an exciting approach to music produced in the browser and there is equipment such as synthesizers, drum machines and effects together - similar to what we know of Reason. André Michelle, the man behind the flash-based music production environment, explains in an interview what the Hobnox-purpose tool, which is planned and what functions and secret tricks the audio tool already in store."
You can check out Hobnox (literally) online.

Hard Soft Synth and tr-808

Hard Soft Synth and tr-808 from Gijs on Vimeo.
"Audio processing the tr-808 with the HSS. In the beginning it uses a chopper effect (i don't know the common name for this type of effect..). The HSS chops up the input signal, and plays the short loops after another. Then there is a ring modulator effect And in the end there is a bit crusher effect, with a legato sweep between the changes."
This is the last post of the HSS for now - you can find more by clicking on the Gijs link below the video.

Hard Soft Synth on Oscilloscope

Hard Soft Synth on Oscilloscope from Gijs on Vimeo.
"Playing some of the sounds that the HSS can produce, visualized on a oscilloscope..
In this case the HSS prototype 1 was used.
gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=hard-soft-synth-1"

HSS Proto1 to Proto2 Random

HSS Proto1 to Proto2 Random from Gijs on Vimeo.

"Prototype 1 is used as a CV input and Audio input (at the same time) for Prototype 2.
gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=hard-soft-synth-1"

Electrochemical Synthesiser

Electrochemical Synthesiser from pask present on Vimeo.
"Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations.

The device demonstrates how complexity can be generated using simple 'analogue' and wet components.
The inspiration for the synthesiser came from the website 'Peculiar sounds from Aluminium' by Nyle Steiner.

R.Brown 2007, 2008"