Bloom, iPhone ambient app by Brian Eno

YouTube via koyamatsuo. "generating ripple-like sound by tapping iPhone."
You can get Bloom here:

Highly Liquid VL-1-MIDI

"Features

* Adds a standard MIDI IN port to your Casio VL-1 "VL-Tone"
* Control VL-1 keyboard with MIDI notes 55-83
* Notes triggered with MIDI are functionally identical to local keypress
* Does not interfere with "stock" functionality of keyboard
* Power and activity LEDs
* User-selected MIDI channel

Kit Contents
* Printed circuit board
* All required components
* Standard MIDI jack
* Hook-up wire
* LED panel bezels" http://highlyliquid.com/kits/vl-1-midi/

Pepepe at the "Reactable"

YouTube via mannauseisen
"Lautstark (Star TV) war in Barcelona an der Red Bull Music Academy. Und in einem der Studios stand der unglaubliche "Reactable" (welchen übrigens auch Björk auf ihrem letzten Album -Volta- verwendet hat) ...
Pepepe war der einzige, der den Tisch so richtig im Griff hatte, was er uns hier mal schnell demonstriert."

REACTABLE IBIZA 2008

YouTube via SeductorDJ. via synthtopia.

Substance - New Proppellerheads Blog

You can find it here

Slakrz Tangitable

flickr by SHIFTLOCK

"One of two (known) tangitables. This one controls a modular synth, while the other controls a beat-sequencer using pennies and fiducials."

Okita_layout

flickr by synthmonger

"This is a slightly slimmed down Okita Vocoder. I built it from an old school kit. Much time went into this! I had to etch the boards and drill every hole. I built it per schematic and there were a few errors in the original design that have been removed or corrected. After having fun with it for a couple months I've decided to get rid of it and build one that is completely me design and does exactly what I want it to do.

If you're interested in this I will be selling it for a fair amount. mshaner84@gmail.com for details."

Drawdio - a Pencil that draws sounds

YouTube via wakeupsilver. via ladyada's ranting where you'll find one more info including one more video.

Synthmonger "mini"-guitar synth

via synthmonger on this electro-music.com thread.

"I've been working on a guitar synth the past few days. I'm building a mini and mega version. Basically the mega version has more sub-octaves, pwm, and a vca for A/D controls.

I'm stuck on the layout. I just can't decide how I want things laid out. Ideally, I want each section (mixer/pwm/EF, etc) together but trying to lay them out symmetrically has been difficult for me. The posistion of the knobs must follow to the layout in order to fit in the case properly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


Just to let you know I'm not using 1v/oct frequency converter to control the vco's and it tracks pretty darn well. I'm sync'ing 40106 vco's that are based around my design. It's a fairly simple circuit that is a helluva lot of fun to play with!

The layout doesn't have the stompswitch or led indicator on there yet, but it'll go in the middle towards the bottom. The back will have vc inputs for each pwm, vco freq, and vcf." See the thread for updates.

Roland SP-555

via Aliens Project where you will find two more shots.

The First NEW Optigan Disc since 1974!

YouTube via peahix. Be sure to check out optigan.com blogtigan! for more.
"Over the years, I've had lots of folks propose various schemes for making new Optigan discs using computer software. Finally, someone has come through with a workable system! Robert Becker is the engineering wizard that made this technological advance possible! And what kind of sounds do I give him to make the first test disc with? Crappy-ass cheesy 80s synth pop!!

OK, this is just a quickie demo, and actually the sound quality on this video isn't that great but trust me, the disc sounds fantastically lo-fi and sounds just like an Optigan disc except with brand new sounds!

We screwed up a few of the chord button assignments, but that's an easy fix. The drum sounds are from an Oberheim DMX. The chord patterns are sounds from Native Instruments Reaktor, sequenced in Cubase. And the scale tones are also from Reaktor.

We're working on developing a scheme for making more discs and making them available. All I can say right now is that generating a master is very expensive, and additional copies are also quite expensive. So unfortunately we won't be able to just do whatever the hell we want. But soon I'll post a survey of some sort at optigan.com so y'all can weigh in on what kinds of discs you'd put down some cash for!

Oh, and yes- we'll be able to make new Orchestron discs too! (In theory we could make new Talentmaker discs, but the demand for those probably would not justify the expense.)"