Replicas [cover] by Failed Muso

YouTube via FailedMuso
"A fairly simple and short cover of "Replicas" by Tubeway Army/Gary Numan. Based more on his live version than the album track. Everything programmed on Reason by me with the lead line, also from Reason, played live on my Akai MPK49 (you have no idea how many takes it took, mainly because I am shit at playing live !)

Enjoy.

Of course, all copyright belongs to Mr Numan and Beggars Banquet and whoever else. I am simply demonstrating my [lack of] skills."

diy modular

YouTube via widdlytube.

via Sonicbrat.

Experimental Garage Sale 2008 Roundup

images and recap of the event are up on GetLoFi.

Tiptop Audio Distributes Through Schneider's Buero

via Tiptop Audio:
"It has been a while, but we have some exciting news! We officially have distribution in Germany through Schneider's Buero! As you already know we have one of the absolutely best distributors here in the states, the amazing Analogue Haven but we really felt that we were leaving our European counterparts out of the loop!

This has been a very exciting process for us and we are proud to have finally secured overseas distribution, but to top that off, it is with one of the best and most well-respected distributors in Germany! What more could we ask for?"

The Messy Studio

click here for the full set. I picked one of the messiest shots of course, so be sure to click through for some of the better gear shots. There are some good ones.

wiardv2

flickr by kay_wrad
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Ghetto Lab

Ghetto Lab from jon johnstone on Vimeo.
"Finished my MFOS Sound Lab. Listen to the sweet sweet sounds!

Actually I have no idea if this sounds right or not. I'm just happy that my second project, after an atari punk console, didn't burst into flames when I turned it on."

studio cleanup

flickr set by kernelslacker
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PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer gearporn

YouTube via dkimcg
"More experimentation with the triple event timer. Turns out it's really really nice for making little tribal sounding resonant drum patterns when used with the Model 13 Dual Timbral Gate. You can really hear the vactrols here since the gates are literally just open or closed with a pulse. That resonant almost membrane type sound is the slowness of the vactrols. Sweet huh? So in this patch the Model 10 was free to do other stuff, but I think it was just cycling back into the control processor for the second timing on the right side. Ah, that loudness in levels must have been feedback. Sorry about the levels being way too loud at parts, I think the voltages got too high too. I need a voltmeter in the rack...

YOu can see pretty clearly what the Model 17 does with the LFO feeding into it going slow. The timer's positive direction send out one set of pulses to the 1st gate, the negative direction send out a 2nd set of pulses to the 2nd gate giving you two voices played with one LFO timing everything out. 6 triggers events total, so you can do some nifty timing stuff with it. See the other video for a better idea on the outbuts at the lower section."

advanced Loading... PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer Outputs

YouTube via dkimcg
"Not too complete, the negative triggers don't seem to be firing anything in this patch (probably pulsing to a filter or something while quiet), but you can see the or outputs which look like they could be used for a backbeat drone or trigger another note/event.

See the other video for a better idea of what the triple event timer can do. I really like this thing a lot now that I know what it can do. No stereo really, it's a raw recording with no delay or anything, just the two gates mixed together in mono."