MATRIXSYNTH

my synth 002 - played by Mr.MC-4

YouTube via sweacco

"my friend Mr.MC-4 performed the synthesizer i had made."

MATSUTAKE / YMO CLICK

YouTube via moog3p.

Be sure to check out these posts for more YMO. See this post.
"Hideki Matsutake is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer.He is a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra in the fourth.Isao Tomita is his mentor."

Little Boots talks via Later...

YouTube via JoeFoneboneEsq.

Tenori-On comes in at 1:19

"Little Boots talks via Later. Chris Lowe is from Blackpool.....
http://www.myspace.com/littlebootsmusic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/"

OSCar 1

flickr by Duck in Fog (Tim)
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Circuit bent Casio PT-100 9 modifications

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Here's my bent PT-100 from ... a few months ago. I never got around to making a video for it until now.

It's the first thing I tried to paint...needless to say, I should've stopped at the light blue keys, but it doesn't look too bad.

Anyway... the mods are
- Starve pot [simulates dying batteries...low pitch, etc]
- Lead distortion pot
- Snare/hihat/bass distortion pot
- Bass drum distortion pot
- Chord distortion pot
- Warbly/wahwah switch
- Pulse 1 (fast) switch
- Pulse 2 (warbly/slow) switch
- added 1/4" output w/ speaker on and off switch"

My first circuit bent Speak and Spell with 12 modifications

"There's no way I could justify paying the $40 these go for on ebay so I never intended on bending one, then I found one at the flea market for $1!

This speak and spell features:

- Pitch down knob
- Pitch up knob
- 5 Glitch switches (some cause short glitches with button presses, some longer with speech intertwined, some cause endless bouts of glitching with no prompting)
- 2 short loop buttons with on/off switches (distort/hold out current sound)
- Musical sound loop button with on/off switch (loops always at the same tempo/length. When bottom glitch switch engaged causes a new loop with every key press. Really fun feature)
- Electronic Satan switch (makes the thing speak like... an electronic Satan... SAY IT.)
- Added 1/4" output jack w/
- Green LED that flashes with audio activity
- speaker on/off siwtch
- reset switch"

NORTEC: Arpa Laser / new Machine for Bostich+Fussible

YouTube via pepemogt
"We are building a Laser Harp from a design made by stephen hobley(thanks), Luis Vargas our technician guru is in charge of making this instrument work, the plan is to use it on our live presentations for controlling our synthesizer, here is a preview, coming soon in our Bostich+Fussible 2009 tour."

AN1x Demos 1-5 by switchdoktor

YouTube via switchdoktor
"Yamaha A1nx , sorry about the sound quality."

Portátiles y no tanto

flickr by sintetizadores
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Oberheim Matrix-12
Roland Jupiter-6
Moog Liberation

2008_11 Soundlab Synth

Three pics from badgermanus' 2008_11 Soundlab Synth flickr set.
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Turbo DW close up II

via this DW-8000 flickr set by The*Archivist

Anyone know of a good site on the Angel City Turbo kit for the KORG DW-8000? I checked hyperreal.org and of course searched for more info, but didn't find much.

via hyperreal:
"It's a guy, I forget his name, who makes a replacement CPU board for theKorg DW-8000 (won't work with the EX-8000). The new board gives you two part multi-timbral, splits, and new modulation routings."

I also believe it gives you a pretty large memory expansion.