YAMAHA DX7 II "FM Synthesizer"

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

some typical self-made and factory sounds from the Yamaha DX7 II FD FM Synthesizer;
some patches are triggered by the MAM MAP-1 stand-alone arpeggiator module"

Voynich Modified Korg Poly 800 Synth Moog Slayer

YouTube via Synthasy2000
"Another Poly 800 to been improved by this simple and effective modification"

Follow-up to this post on the KORG DW-8000. via the AH mailing list where Voynich (Chris Strellis) wrote in regarding discussion of the Poly-800 and DW-8000: "Check out my song "The Power of Nine" to hear the bass line made with a DW8000 in unison.

http://www.myspace.com/strellismusic

Also more of my DW8000 doing the (minimoog) solos in "Airwaves"

http://www.myspace.com/energiefabrik

For the money I'd get a DW8000 hands down, no contest. Cheap, great filters, digital delay-ay-ay-ay and many of the parameter can be controlled over MIDI.

Cheers
Chris"

STEIM is safe!

You might remember this post on STEIM potentially losing their structural funding from the government (see that post for more). Well, it looks like they are safe!

"Dear friends,

We have good news: STEIM is safe for now and will be able to continue doing her work.

The Dutch Council for Culture has reversed their initially negative decision. They were without a doubt impressed by the well over 1000 insightful, eloquent, personal letters of support from all over the world, which we received in just under two weeks. This, as well as some other factors, played a large role in opening their perception of STEIM's importance and contribution to our community and field.

We cannot thank you enough. You helped us realize again how extensive and faithful the network around us is. We are excited and thrilled that we can keep working with you and continue to build collaborations, connections and exchanges.

STEIM is bound for change, but we will fight to keep its spirit intact. Michel Waisvisz has left us, but along with his legacy of inventions and a very human 'touch', he has left a dynamic team behind. Under the guidance of our new director, Dick Rijken, our task is now to create a new structure that will honour both our history as an institution and look forward into the future. STEIM is what STEIM does: supporting a wide community of artists and composers, musicians and other performers in their search for great art, on stage, in the studio, in gallery spaces and on the streets. We will continue to be a safe house for an international community, bringing people together in our guesthouse and studio's.

Together with you, we aim to remain both the oldest and the youngest electronic institute in the Netherlands and are thrilled to continue working with you.

STEIM"

What's wrong with this picture?

via deadAct.com where you will find more.

Justice

via Mark

Voltage Controlled Duty Cycle Sawtooth Circuit

via till.com where you will find the full article.

"There was a discussion on synth-diy a while ago about the problems of building a voltage controlled oscillator with a sawtooth wave output whose duty cycle (the ratio of ramp-up time to ramp-down time) is adjustable with a seperate control voltage.

This is a very hastily written description of my proposal for a circuit that will implement this by warping the waveform of a regular sawtooth wave VCO."

walhalla

flickr by Geert Veneklaas
(click for more)

full size

"Een deel van de beschikbare instrumenten in de CAS-studio, Duitsland , in 1990."

Oberheim Ringmod Prototype - AES Papers

via loscha

"From an AES Paper, appears to be prototyle"

You can find the full flickr set here.

Modular Synthesizer - Zoom Shift

flickr by Maschinenraum
(click for more)

"Front Panel of my modular synth - effect created by long exposure while manually turning the zoom on the lens. No digital editing except for contrast.

Make sure to View Large On Black"

IEC on Korg Polysix/MonoPoly

via http://synthwood.com

"The customer just needs to send us the power/serial number plate and we'll send it back to them with an IEC installed along with 3 solderless crimp on blade connectors. You basically just cut your old power cable off at the plate on the inside and then crimp on the connectors we send."

Doepfer A-106-1 Xtreme filter AR-FM Demo

Doepfer A-106-1 Xtreme filter AR-FM Demo by Veqtor

via Veqtor's corner:
"Audio rate FM using four ADSR's in loop mode, the ADSR's are running in audio-rate.
ADSR1 is doing the syncronization.
ADSR2 is synched to ADSR2 and connected to a real ring mod, X input.
ADSR3 is not synched and goes into real ring mod, Y input.
ADSR4 is synched to ADSR1 and goes to CV3 (adjustable +/-10) on the A-106-1
real ring mod out is going into LP in on the A-106-1 VCF.
Resonance is up quite high, some kind of clipping is always active, either +, - or both."