Le Orme - Rosso Di Sera (Popcorn 1982)

YouTube via silverhammer79. via Ian. Anyone ID the three Casios?

Arp Axxe Vintage Analog Synth MIDI Control Doepfer

YouTube via WayneJoness
"A Doepfer MCV4 is used to drive the Arp Axxe. I put a simple pattern in Digital Performer, and manipulated the controls on the Arp Axxe as the sequence played."

Arp Axxe Vintage Analog Synth White Noise

"This clip demonstrates the sound of the white noise generator in the Arp Axxe processed by the low pass filter."

Roland Jupiter-4 + JX-8P + TR-707

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo track by RetroSound

VCF mod bass: Roland Jupiter-4 sync with the TR-707;
at 1:55 I switch on the JP4 arpeggiator
pad sounds: Roland JX-8P
drums: Roland TR-707

no overdubbing, no sequencer software used"

Clavia DDrum Rack

flickr set by Waveterm

"This is the first DDrum products.

The Pad came first and the rack after that.

The rack contains up to eight modules and each module has the same electronics as the pad.

Very cool and sounds like the best vintage drummachines. E.g Linndrum, DMX etc....."

Blofeld Firmware V1.04

via Stefan Stenzel on the Waldorf list:

"I just uploaded the Blofeld V1.04 firmware to our server:

Blofeld_V1_04.zip

This version shall serve as a cure for some of Blofeld's misbehavior:
-S&H and Random LFO shapes decorrelated
-Sustain works as Modulation Source
-Tempo always edited from Part 1
-Multi Sound buffers accessible by SysEx request
-Effects shown properly after Init and SysEx reception
-Occasionally silent Delay and Reverb fixed
-Snow problem eliminated

Relating web content will be updated this afternoon.

Regards,
Stefan"

Plogue Bidule Experiments

"Improvisations, expérimentations et compositions avec le logiciel de musique électronique Plogue Bidule"

Plogue Bidule Experiments in French
Plogue Bidule Experiments in Googlish

As the name suggests, this is a blog all about Bidule. You will find posts with images, samples and more.

Click the image here for a MATRIXSYNTH by Plogue Bidule Experiments

Top 20 Weirdest Instruments - Part 5

Suzuki Omnichord, EDP WASP and Bentley Rhythm Ace.
See the write-up on Sonic State. You can find the prior videos posted here.

genoQs Octopus

via BERND KISTENMACHER

"With Andreas Michel, editor of the German “Synthesizer-Magazin”, I arranged to write a field report about the Octopus. The article will be explicitly no test report, because this would be too boring. The report is expected to be released in issue no.11 and I will put then a summary of the article in English language into this blog."

Roland TB-303 and TR-606 with Customsynth Cases

via these auctions:

Roland TB-303
Roland TR-606

customsynth.co.uk

Update: I thought this design looked familiar. Take a look at www.thebeast.co.uk

Note that there is no mention of The Beast in the auction.

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POLLEN

"the pollen is a compact variable analog noise generator with a few extras. the two main controls are "grain" which helps shape the static, and "pitch" which controls a self oscillating filter that helps to alter the pitch of the static and has a switchable range, high / low. there is also an external audio input with its own volume control and a switch to kill the internal noise source so it will allow the pollen to be used as a distortion box. the output is up to about 7 volts so that it can be used as a control voltage source. the output knob will allow you so turn it down to safe audio level as well.

CONTROLS
grain: gives you control over the static breakup and amount, this control is not very linear so certain setting ranges will change more drastic then others

pitch: this is a control for the self oscillating filter used to alter the pitch of the static, just so we're clear there is not way to use the filter alone or to cause it to not self oscillate
range switch: high / low range control for the pitch
input: this is the audio input volume control, its used to adjust the breakup threshold and lower / quieter settings usually yield more interesting results
output: the output volume
noise source kill switch: this will switch out the noise source inside so that you can use the pollen to process external sources only
power switch: um yeah the power switch
clipping led: shows you when the internal sounds are clipping, usually a good thing. not to be confused for a power led which does not exist.
input jack: mono audio input here
output jack: mono noise out here"

More details and samples at the squarewave parade