Stilwell Audio Olga SCHWA Ashtray

Remember the Stillwell Audio Olga? On the product page, the image of the soft synth is here to the left. Below is an image from the music of sound. Note the ashtray. It reminded me of Gmedia's M-Tron and the coffee stains pictured further below. I'm curious how many other soft synths come with "real life" aesthetics.

Slower tempos with PlanB and Ringo Modulations

YouTube via dkimcg
"I originally had another video to upload, but this patch was so much more interesting, I decided to upload this. I Just picked up a MakeNoise Mod/Demod, combined it with the PlanB M35 to do some more ring modulation and wave shaping to get that high frequency piano type sound. The lower voice is the PlanB M11 Evil Twin being FMed by the saw of the lower frequency M15 which is being FMd by the higher freq M15, I'm not quite sure what is modding and demoding and ring modulating and wave shaping anymore, but it ends up like a piano up high. The kick is the Jomox MBase01 being triggered by the slow 1/4 notes outs of the master clock M28 which also pulses and triggers many other things which i didn't write down.
No sequencers, just the M24 generating frequencies and control randomness and the M28, M19, and M17 generating most the timing. Delays are the Roland RE-201, reverb a Lexicon mpx200 and software, Filtered Coffee filters the kick."

Harlem Nights does Synthpop New Wave

YouTube via harlemnightsmusic
"I kept having this eighties synth track in my head, couldn't recall the original artist, so I recorded something similar in my studio. Anyone knows the original to this??? BTW it's my first turn on a video editor, gonna do this more often & better
Have fun
Harlem Nights"

Me playing New Order "Blue Monday"

YouTube via DX5.

"My own "Blue Monday" view. Sounds don't come up in the same order than original, I decided to play it in a free way.

I've made it in two hours (including searching sounds, assigning sounds to the Emax, making an easy backtrack, etc).
Recorded at the first take, so there are some mistakes as always.

Above: Roland JP8000 (Lead sequenced on pro tools).
Mid: Roland D10 (drum kit sounds)
Below: E-MU Emax.(Hook's bass and choir)"

Ensoniq ASR-10 Demo

YouTube via kimsacramento
"Demonstration of booting an ASR-10 from a SCSI drive, loading a bank of tracks, and triggering them. (FOR SALE $850) MP3 of all tracks at: www.kimberry.com/ARCHIVES/1990s/sixsigma /"

stribe + scalar

YouTube via soundwidgets
"Using the stribe with an app called 'scalar' by vlad spears. it is similar to 'balron' for the 40h. the stribes are divided into 8 sections, and so act sort of like a grid of buttons, sort of not. 'scalar' is written in Max/MSP v. 5 more info here: http://www.soundwidgets.com/smf/"

SX-150 Phrase material

YouTube via btpro

New Blofeld System available

via Stefan Stenzel on the Waldorf list:

"Hello,

I just uploaded the firmware version 1.03 for Blofeld:

Blofeld_V1_03.zip

This is mainly to be considered a bugfix release, addressing many problems that users kindly reported to us. So the most prominent bugfixes are:

-PPG Filter in combination with wavetables without noise
-Phaser in FX1 slot without spurious crackling
-Parts 5..16 stereo and optional mix into FX2
-Only audible Effect parameters editable
-Eliminated spurious encoder crosstalk

There are many more bugs that have been fixed, but we are too embarrassed to admit those ever existed.

Regards,
Stefan"

Update: a sysex conversion via Till Kopper:
http://faq.waldorfian.info/Blofeld_V1_03.syx (110 421 bytes)

Mike Peake on Virb.com

Check out a few Buchla tracks by Mike Peake here.

via Peake in the comments of this post.

bloeclipse

All Waldorf Blofeld track via Stephan Trippler: bloeclipse.mp3
"All sounds from the Blo, no additional processing"

Update: "With some more weirdness and vocals from www.nin.com:
http://www.trippler.net/files/blo/blovessel.mp3"