DS-10 song - BeatX

YouTube via etdaisuke
"KORG DS-10 SONG "BeatX"
The best DS-10 song I made at present :)"

Waldorf Blofeld Synthesizer - Logic Pro 8 Environment

FEATURES
- almost all synthesis parameters included
- 5 OSCs, 2 Filter, 4 Envelopes, 3 LFOs, 2 FX, Arpeggio Control
- all parameters are designed bidirectional, they will respond to changes made on the blofeld
- parameters are mixed controller-changes and SysEx-commands
http://www.redstair.com/

Customsynth.co.uk White Clavia Nord G2X

images via CustomSynth

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Metalbox Dual Chime

This one has actually been around for a while. One just came up for sale on the AH list. I thought I'd check out it out on the Metalbox website and decided to put a post up. I find it fascinating when modules like this are created. I'm curious how many others are focused on producing unique and sometimes unexpected instruments. The Squarewave Parade's shakers come to mind.

Info from the Metalbox Dual Chime page:
"Two synthesized cymbal voices utilizing ring modulated square waves for a classic analog drum machine sound. Each independent chime has three individual frequency controls for the oscillators and decay time adjustment. Use alone or with other modules to create personalized hi-hat and cymbal sounds.

Controls:
* OscXX - frequency adjustment for individual oscillators
* Decay - determines length of chimes decay

I/O:
* Gate input - triggers chime
* Audio output - chime output

Frac spaces: 2
Current draw: 20ma
Price: $175
Alternating chimes with decay manually adjusted"
You can find a sample on the Metalbox Dual Chime page.

Note this is a Ken Stone CGS design per ~ in the comments.

Synthesizertreffen Kufstein 2008

YouTube via EMadTEL. Note the GRP Synthesizer and Yamaha CS80.
"Klaus Weinholf plays piano"

MOTM on Video games

"Russell Brower has done great MOTM work at Blizzard. If you play WoW, most of the wind/rain effects are all MOTM. His best MOTM work is the game soundtrack for "Black Hawk Down" (Hans Zimmer did the movie)."

Here the track My Synthesis Technology MOTM Analog Modular Synth.

PIC based Analog Synth you can build

"Features
* Dual oscillator mono synth
* Really easy to build using just 1 custom programmed PIC chip, 4 ICs and single 12v supply
* All circuits built on veroboard - no printed circuit board making skills needed
* PIC based dual oscillator and digital keyboard scan
* Analog VCF/VCA/Envelope
* Waveforms : sawtooth, square (with pulse width adjust), triangle
* Tuning presets : in-sync, out-sync, detune1 and detune2
* Expandable, first two modules shown below.
A real analog synthesizer to build using easy to get components, capable of a wide range of sounds. The two oscillators can be detuned for that classic synth sound."

More info including samples here. PICSynth

MATTSON MINI MODULAR VCO TEST MMM

YouTube via redmartian
"Testing two the new VCOs. One sample and hold is routed to the modulation input of VCO 2 and the second sample and hold is routed to the CV input of VCO 2. VCO 2's triangle is then fed as modulation input of VCO 1 which then has two square waves and a saw tooth mixed in output."

October 15, 2008 Jupiter 8 Update

YouTube via zibbybone
"My tech said the Jupe 8 was ready - all calibrate and Encore MIDI kit installed. This thing sounds amazing, but the VCA for 4 voices is not right. You can tell that 4 trigger with instant attack, but the other 4 have slower attacks."

Why does the Juno-60 sound different from the Juno-106?

Juno-60 diagram on top
via Sequence 15
"So let's start by getting a couple of things on the board out front. The VCO, VCF, and VCA circuits are nearly identical. "How can you say that", you might ask, "when the 106 uses those 80017A's that keep failing, and the 60 doesn't?" Consider: The 60 uses a VCF filter circuit based on the IR3109 quad OTA. It uses a BA662 VCA to control the resonance. A second BA662 serves as the voice's VCA proper. As for the 106? The notorious 80017A is really just an encapsulation of three ICs and some resistors. The IC's? An IR3109 and a pair of BA662s! It's the same circuit, just in a smaller package. A lot of people don't realize that when you look at an ordinary IC, most of what you see is packaging; the actual integrated circuit is a tiny bit of silica embedded in the plastic. Roland bought a bunch of unpackaged 3109s and 662s and had someone encapsulate them, and voila, the 80017A was born. Similarly, the Juno-60's DCO circuit: the counter IC that times the DCO, the reset transistor, and the wave shaping circuitry are encapsulated into the much-less-infamous (because it seldom fails) MC5534 in the Juno-106. The voice circuits are, for all practical purposes, the same." So why do they sound different? Check out Sequence 15 for the full post.