Fourth Annual Austin Analog Synthesizer Party Texas

via Chad A on AH:

"That's right: the Fourth Annual Austin Analog Synthesizer Party is coming up this Sunday. I hope to see many of you Texans on this list at the Salvage Vanguard Theater on 2803 Manor Road at 3pm this Sunday, the 16th.

I will likely bring my Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Korg MS-20 and accessories, and collection of analog drum machines (in lieu of the modular). In years past we've had a bunch of great synths, both DIY and vintage, including a polyphonic Blacet modular, a Crumar Spirit, an EMS VCS3, a Tridex Muse clone on a breadboard, and an ARP 2600.

This year, after the party, there will be performances by local synthesizer bands, starting at 7pm. Performing will be:
Douglas Ferguson: http://www.myspace.com/douglasferguson
Operation Playmate: http://www.myspace.com/operationplaymate
Low Red Center: http://www.myspace.com/lowredcenter

If you are bringing a synthesizer, please also bring a stand, a power strip or extension cord, and headphones.

See y'all at the biggest synthesizer meet in Texas."

ULTRAVOX - HYMN - ORS 82

YouTube via transceive. Spot the synths. Don't miss the ARP Odyssey solo by Billy Currie starting at 3:22.
"LIVE TV PERFORMANCE ON THE OXFORD ROAD SHOW NOVEMBER 1982"
Also... ULATRAVOX has announced a reunion tour. So far dates are only in the UK.

casio sk-1 w/ ltc1799 oscillator and lfo

YouTube via spunkytoofers
"kits available via www.getlofi.com
a single sample being looped on the keyboard is mangled and shaped in various ways via bends, ltc1799, and lfo."

Andreas Tilliander - Juno Chords

YouTube via repeatle
"Jamming in the studio, dubtechno stylee. 20081111."

Stribe1: Touchstrip + LED Bargraph Display

YouTube via CuriousInventor
"A touch-strip interface with dual LED bargraph columns. The video shows it being used with an Arduino, Max/MSP and Reason."

ARP 2600 GREY MEANIE + ARP SEQUENCER

YouTube via sonil23
"Just a quick show of my arp 2600 grey meanie which is super rare playing a simple sequence via the arp 1601 sequencer. Enjoy!"

Korg Micro-Preset monophonic synthesizer

YouTube via sounddoctorin
"Bob Weigel of Sound Doctorin' http://www.sounddoctorin.com (see the newly reorganized synth technical resource!) demonstrates the Micro-preset from 1977 or thereabouts. This one has a few non-original knobs but most are original. It was a wreck when it came in. Now it's awesome. I think it'd be great with a keytar apparatus. I should seriously mod a pitch bend neck into it. The sounds are sweet! It uses two Korg 35 filters, one for the left three buttons which allow use of the 'traveller' filter slider and one for the right three. The large knob is a footage selector but also causes on some of the buttons there to be variations. For example two of them on the 2nd button are pink and white noise. And there are various presets with different filter networks in the signal path to create a particularly nice Bassoon and other great tones. The buttons are generally a percussive synth with preset attack and variable release/decay on the first button from 32' to 2'. The short 32 key keyboard needs that :-). And the second button as I said has two noise settings but the other three are 32' 8' and 2' as I recall. Then the third button is brass from Tuba to high trumpet. Fourth button covers strings sounds, fifth woodwinds and sixth sax type sounds though none of them sound very saxy to me. Good sounds though. The winds strings and brass are more useful to me though and the synthe sounds. Very great machine to cover most of what you can get out of the early korgs plus some unique voicings in an often less expensive package."

SMule: Ocarina for iPhone [Played by The Mule]

YouTube via smuleage
"iPhone | Ocarina | SMule.
http://ocarina.smule.com/
http://themulewashere.blogspot.com
The Mule comes in style and busts out an old classic on The Ocarina"
You can get Ocarina here:

Stochastic Sequence

YouTube via boobtube356
"A Cwejman PH-4 and Doepfer A-147 compete with each other to create a chaotic lead sequence with varying rhythm. The part is played by a pair of Doepfer A-111s. The rest is another A-188-1 based Karplus patch and the usual percussion elements."

Oberheim DPX-1

images at this auction

"OBERHEIM DPX-1 SAMPLE PLAYER. This is a 12 bit unit that can play E-mu II, Prophet 200, 2002, 2002+, Ensoniq Mirage DSK8, DSM8, and AKAI S900."