Rhythms with the Flame synth.

YouTube via RothHandle
"Last friday one of my machines decided that I needed to spend some more time with the Rhys Marsh track I have been working on so it sort of erased all the names of all of the files and let my try to find them again...I think I might be finished on Thursday.

Anyways I took a short break and messed around with some pedals trying to make a rhythm using the sounds from the flame synth as the base. After the flame synth we have the moogerfooger analog delay and then the murf and then my latest pedal...the teaspoon from the squarewave parade.

This was filmed at the roth händle studios in Stockholm. If you are curious about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu"

KORG MS-20 patching party

YouTube via Zolophile
"FIVE MS-20's chained together. The SQ-10 sends a trigger pulse and each MS-20 delays it slightly (using ENV 1)."

Frank Zappa's E-mu Modular

via the Mediatheque Museum. In Googlish here.

"The copy of the Music Museum was donated in 1993 by the musician Frank Zappa, one of the most famous users of modular and one of the few to be used on stage.

Patrick Gleeson has also used the modular EMU in an impressive system comprising more than 90 oscillators (Rainbow Rising). S'ajoutent à la liste de ses prestigieux utilisateurs Herbie Hancock, John Mac Laughlin, John Adams, Vince Clarke, et le groupe Tangerine Dream. In addition to the prestigious list of its users Herbie Hancock, John Mac Laughlin, John Adams, Vince Clarke, and the group Tangerine Dream."

LATIN ROLL

via brian c:
"this is a simple PAIA 9700 patch, one oscillator sine wave that runs into a EH Bi-filter and then through a Mood delay, that big recurring pitch/timbre shift is the Bi-filter kicking in and out on the LFO

drums are SCI TOM -

'nuff said , I liked the PAIA Patch the most, but most of the character is off the Bi-filter and Moog MF104z"

Crumar Toccata happy ending

Remember this Crumar Toccata?

Jeremy wrote in with the following:

"Karl Schmeer told me how to fix it, and so I stopped the continuous key (right blue X) and re-wired the dead key (left blue X). Now I've got a working organ which sounds good, and I'll be making use of it on my new tracks. Enclosed is the blue keys, rubbed out... All the best, Jeremy"

EMS VCS3 & Casiotone MT-30

flickr by asmo23

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Apparently this is in the Science Museum in South Kensington, London. I recently stayed in Sound Kensington and had no idea this was there. Oh well... Next time.

Thomas Henry Keyboard

via antman49443 on this electro-music.com thread. "State Machine is doing a lot of background work prior to releasing. It's documented up the ying yang from basic assy to advanced background. You can read until your eyes glaze over..but it will be very newbie friendly. Also, he's preparing quite a few add-on boards to make things easier for newbies to assemble this thing. I don't want to give away too much at this point, but here's a spoiler for you"

Bluesynths Images I 2008 - Die ersten Bilder

You can find more images of the event on sequencer.de. That would be the Yamaha DX1 pictured below. There are some nice shots in this set. Remember, you can find previous posts by doing a smart search on the top left corner search box on this site. Try a search on Bluesynths for more shots of this event and prior years.

Sound demos of the YUSYNTH modular system

You can find a new demo section on YuSynth here. Two tracks are currently featured as of this post:

"Mocking Aqua
This is an attempt to recreate the sound of murmuring water, it's all done with yusynth modules and was recorded in two takes. It was meant as a kind of tribute to "Aqua" by edgar Froese.

Mesmerizing Bounces
This a short demo of the system driven by an external sequencer. It was recorded in one take (no overdubbing), only an external echo effect was added to the raw sound. MP3 compression altered the sound of the cymbal making it sound crushier than it was... Too bad!"

Pro-One Dub - Audio Demo

"The sounds are effects for a dub track at 73 beats per minute. I ran them through a couple of tempo delays and reverb to create some atmosphere. Even after using this instrument for more than ten years I still manage to get new sounds out of it."

You'll find the demo on Audio Cookbook.