Monome: Polygome Drums

Monome: Polygome Drums from Agargara on Vimeo.
"Monome app "Polygomé" (by Stretta), controlling an instrument rack in Ableton Live. Sorry for the shaky camera, I was holding it in my left hand while my right hand did all the work. More info about the monome at monome.org/"

Moogfest™ 2008 Honors Bob Moog, Features The Moog Guitar

"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (August 2008) – inTouch Entertainment, in cooperation with Moog Music, Inc. presents Moogfest 2008, Monday, October 13 at the Hammerstein Grand Ballroom in New York City. A stellar lineup of top Moog users will gather for an evening of ground-shaking music to honor Bob Moog and commemorate his groundbreaking achievements.

“This is our fifth year presenting this tribute to Bob and we’re excited about moving to The Hammerstein, which is more than twice as large as our previous venue,” said Mike Adams, Moog Music President. “Every year the artists who play at Moogfest tell us what a fun event it is, and as a result we have been privy to many fine performances. This year’s lineup and our annual “Bob Tribute” award will make for another fantastic evening for music fans.”

Moogfest 2008 will also feature Moog Music’s transforming new instrument, The Moog Guitar.

Performers scheduled to participate include Umphrey's McGee, Eric McFadden Trio, Bernie Worrell (P-Funk), Aron Magner (Disco Biscuits), Jamie Shields (The New Deal),
Joe Russo (Benevuto/Russo) and others.

Bob Moog's namesake analog synthesizers helped catapult the careers of such diverse artists as rockers Todd Rundgren, Edgar Winter, Gary Numan and Devo; funksters Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp; disco producer Giorgio Moroder with disco diva Donna Summer; fusioneers Chick Corea with Return To Forever, Herbie Hancock with The Headhunters, Jan Hammer with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Klaus Doldinger with Passport and Joe Zawinul with Weather Report; New Age icon Tomita and classical performer Wendy Carlos.

Moogfest 2008 offers an opportunity for artists to play alongside the world's leading Moog players. Entry submissions should be made by September 10; artists selected will be compensated an amount to be determined based on draw, experience, etc. For more information visit www.sonicbids.com/Moogfest.

Tickets for Moogfest 2008 are available through Ticketmaster. For more information on Moogfest 2008, visit moogfest.com. For more information on The Moog Guitar visit moogmusic.com."

Teleport - Hartmann Neuron Track

via Lord Avon in the comments of this Hartmann Neuron post.

"I owned a neuron for a while, it was the first synth in YEARS to get my interest (and to date, also the last one)... I made a track purely with the Neuron called 'Teleport', multi-tracked and mixed in ProTools (reverb is protools, everything else is Neuron).

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I had to sell it due to financial reasons, if I had the money, I'd buy another tomorrow."

Retro Sampler SK-1

flickr by Lara May

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"got my music gear today, Clavia Nord 2X, Streetbox Drum machine and this cute psychotic sounding Casio SK-1 :D"

Serge Patch for r2m playtime 2

Here's an image of the Serge patch used in this post.

via vgermuse

Yet Another Assy Modular Patch

YouTube via dkimcg
"One of the first "drones" I've patched together that I liked enough to record and use my camera phone for your viewing pleasure. The drone is heavily influenced by the M38 Wavesplicer, and ring modulation. Randomness is the M24 controlling triggering and the length of the M10 notes. Longer notes drone, shorter ones don't. I also got a Doepfer VCADSR in there helping out in the drone. BTW, the M10 is using the inverted output (-, not +), and is being used more for timing than with a VCA. Envelopes are the ADSR and the Triple timer going through the CV Processor and mixed with the M10's inverted (to be positive) envelope, and the ADSR, and a new Doepfer LFO. More modulation sources, yay. I have a Cyclotron, a Dalek Modulator, and another Wavesplicer on the way too."

Roland SH 201 - On the run "feedback"!

YouTube via semdedo
"Improvisation based on the Pink Floyd's bridge song 'On the run' Made on the Roland SH 201 Synthesizer with feedback delay effect, causing that LOOP felling. Sounds like a Pink Floyd / Emerson, Lake and Palmer reunion heheheh"

Y!2PC 28 SX-150 sound demo

YouTube via yumyumentertainment
"YUM!YUM!PLANETCHANNEL 28
gakken analog synthesizer SX-150
It's my first pure analog synth.
SX-150
1 VCO(saw only)
LFO(triangle or square)
pitch envelope
cutoff
resonance
attack & decay
external source & output jack
simple synth. This video used SX-150 sound. "

diamond skeleton fx sub-octave synthesizer demo

YouTube via diamondskeletonfx
"http://www.diamondskeleton.com/ psychedelic hand made effects
the first half is with the filter on and im just kind of going a bit crazy and making noise and twisting knobs on the guitar (sorry it went for so long. i like making noise) and the second half is with the filter switch off with 1 octave down. the cameras memory filled up before i got to show much with 2 octaves down. at 2:20 im playing 2 notes at once with plain octave down setting to get that wobbly tremolo sound."

Atmel Project AVR Full Color Game Console (Only two chips used!)

YouTube via uze6666. Click on the AvrX label below for more. via ladyada's ranting where you'll find a pic and some more info. ladyada is the woman behind the x0xb0x.
"The Uzebox is a home made game console based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller. The design goal was to be simple to assemble for any hobbyist and great sound and graphics with absolute minimum hardware: an AtMega644 microcontroller, an AD725 RGB-to-NTSC converter...and a bunch of resistors!

You get 256 simultaneous colors, 240x224 (40x28 tiles) graphics, a 4 channels sound engine with MIDI driver, NES joysticks ports and a MIDI IN input to compose your own songs straight on the console. The kernel is fully interrupt driven to generates video sync, mix music, read joypads, etc. so games can be written in plain C, no insane cycle counting required :D !

Considering this a 8-bit general purpose microcontroller with only 4K of RAM and 64k of ROM (and no external RAM or frame buffer), it was quite a challenge to cram all that stuff in there. The site will soon have the schematic. All code will be open source and the hardware well...open hardware!

For now, I've completed a Tetris DS clone for the console.

Enjoy!

http://belogic.com/uzebox"