The Bevis Board

"Do you want to learn about building guitar stompbox circuits? Have you been frustrated before by soldering, or trying to buy the right parts? Have you tried your hand at various kits, but want to learn more about how circuits actually work? Do you want to hear how certain designs sound before you plunk down your hard-earned cash on boutique or commercial pedals?

Well my friend, I think I may have something that will interest you: the beavis board."

"The beavis board makes it easy to:
* Build a huge array of stompbox circuits including overdrives, distortions, fuzzes, filters, amplifiers, tremolos, noise generators, oscillators, and more.
* Learn about the different components and how they work to shape your guitar's signal
* Modify stompbox designs to tailor your sound.
* Easily try out your circuits through a true-bypass breakout box
* Have a giant buttload of fun"

Alamooga Esinlenmeler (Metin H. Alatli) - Sentetik Oyun Havalar (1975)

on 36 15 MOOG

ARP 2600 in the shot

Synth?

YouTube via SThomme2008
"8bit? I used guitar effector.I did'nt use guitar."

Stillwell Audio Olga

"Olga is a virtual analog synthesizer unlike any other, designed from first principles to be distinctive. Imagine a handmade experiment from an unlikely place, a synthesizer so full of life and character that it earns the right to be called a musical instrument. Olga encourages risk, experimentation, and exploration, and rewards you with unexpected and exciting sounds, vibrant and human. This is the dusty gem you could spend your life searching for.

Bezier Antialiased Dynamic Analog Synthesis System: Olga uses a truly new approach to DSP waveform generation to emulate glorious analog imperfection. Olga’s free running oscillators are in a constant state of structured variability, a deeply musical instability, free of aliasing artifacts and light on your CPU.



Gaussian Reactive Oscillator Overdrive Virtual Engine: Throughout Olga’s signal path, levels can be pushed through saturation and into full overdrive, with a thickness that develops organically, breathing life and character into your music." More info and samples at Stillwell Audio.
via sequencer.de

Abyssal says thanks!!!

via AtomoSynth, makers of these devices.

Steampunk Analog Modular Synth

Jules Vernian Analog Synthesizer
"Peter wrote me a while back with some pictures of his latest project, a Jules Verne inspired analog synthesizer with etched brass control panels. Now, I cut my teeth on a vinyl copy of Switched-On Bach and I've been a fan of analog synth heroes Tangerine Dream since High School. So I was very excited to see this.

Peter used the electrolytic etching process that I've previously worked with to etch the control panels for his synthesizer. The synth is designed to be modular and re-configurable so Peter was looking for a process that could be repeated in-house at any time in the future should he wish to add or change modules."

You can find the full post with interview and more pics on The Steampunk Workshop. via JackAstro


YouTube via flowerseven
"I'm using the drum machine as a trigger for the filter envelope."

'Oldest' computer music unveiled

"A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.

The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester.

The recording has been unveiled as part of the 60th Anniversary of 'Baby', the forerunner of all modern computers.

The tunes were played on a Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine." You can find the full article with audio and video on the BBC. via Larry Legend. First ever recording of digital music.

pr0n synth

via mike

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Red MacBeth M5N

genoQs Octopus MIDI Sequencer

images via this auction
"The Octopus world consists of entities or objects, attributes that are associated with them, and functions that modify those objects or their attributes. The idea is to allow modifications of the objects in the most flexible manner and real time, which is done using an intuitive control model and the comprehensive Octopus user interface. The master Octopus object is the GRID, which contains PAGES, each of them containing TRACKS, which are made up of STEPS. Each object is associated with attributes and functions that can be operated upon.
Sequence grid: 160 pages Tracks per page: up to 10 Track resolution: 1/16, 1/32, 1/64 of a note User Interface
Elements: 258 pushbuttons, 21 endless encoders Front panel: 630 x 270 mm
Concurrent play: up to 16 pages Editing capabilities: full during play, seamless saving Track play: polyphonic, roll, shuffle
700 x 450 x 140 mm, 8 Kg" via mike

Stupid Modular Tricks - Duophonic Synth Patch and Overdrive

YouTube via mooguphonic
"Using a duophonic patch on a Synthesizers.com modular synth. Also demonstrates a variation on the old minimoog overdrive trick."