Casio Christmas

via Kasio Kristmas on the forum

"Greetings everyone!

We just finished our experimental 10 track CD of classic Holiday tunes using only Casio instruments (mostly Casio keyboards, but we also used the Casio DH-100 Sax, DG-20 Guitar, and some Casio hand-held games). The recordings are mostly instrumental, but the few that do have vocals, we sampled our voices using the SK-1 & SK-5 or sang through the Casio VA-10 Vocoder, and Casio Rapman keyboards. This was an entirely fun and experimental project that we are very excited to have released. So far the respones has been great.

We hope that some of you here will have some time to check out what we have done with these old cheesy keyboards.
We have blended the nostalgic sounds of 1980's arcades, new wave, synth rock, modern electronica, chip tunes, ambient, atmospheric, disco, sountrack, jungle, & exotica all into one on this new Holiday CD. Even though limiting ourselveselves to only using Casio Instruments, extra care was taken to keep things interesting! It has many Audio layers and great production value . Isaiah Ikey Owens (The Mars Volta) plays a special appearance on the exotica honored track Mele Kalikimaka.

Thank you for your time and we hope to hear from you.

( ( ( ( ( Kasio Kristmas ) ) ) ) )

www.kasiokristmas.com
www.myspace.com/kasiokristmassong"

trying to get it out

flickr by softestthing

full size

"the *bad* distortion is a time waster and inspiration killer."

KORG DS-10 Straw TalkBox with Nintendo DSi

YouTube via jetdaisuke
"How to make a straw talkbox
http://webdog.be/archives/081208_2206...
a flexible straw made the KORG DS-10 a Talkbox(Talking modulator) with the Nintendo DSi.
the original idea by KORG engineer Mr.Kanamori-san.
http://ascii.jp/elem/191370/index-5.html
ニンテンドーDSiと「ストロー」さえあれば、KORG DS-10がトークボックスになります。君も今日からDaftPunkだ"

Core Coders Music Sampler

"Music Sampler Synthesizer featuring 8 note polyphonic voices, full polyphonic keyboard with quick slide feature, 32 built in high quality stereo samples and 16 user sample memories. Keyboard allows quick positioning to a specific octave or note. Jog Shuttle Wheel is used to select and load samples.


Hardware Requirements
iPhone 2G/3G and iPod Touch/iPod Touch 2nd Generation,

Software Requirements
iPhone OS 2.1 or greater.

Features
1. ★Full 8 Note Polyphonic.
2. ★32 Preset (Built in) Samples
3. ★16 User (recordable) Sample Memory.
4. ★C1~C6 Keyboard.
5. ★Quick note/octave keyboard positioning using sliding bar.
6. ★Key Hold
7. ★Record you own high quality samples."
You can find MusicSampler here:

Core Coders website

::vtol:: diy noise guitar >

::vtol:: diy noise guitar > from VTOL on Vimeo.
"my new custom diy project - read about - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/guitar.html"

Update: one more video

::vtol:: diy noise guitar > from VTOL on Vimeo.

bubblesound

"sem20 v|s|f

2 pole state variable filter
12db high pass, low pass and notch filter
6db band pass

self oscillation in all modes

2 cv frequency inputs with attenuators

notch filter balance sweeps between high and low pass"

Available at Analogue Haven.
via Alex

ZAP THE WORD NOW.

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Speak and Satan :[ Excerpt from my circuit bent speak and read video. I love this guy."

Circuit bent Speak & Read with 14 modifications

"Yep yep yep, here's the speak and spell's yellow cousin. All decked out. Alllll the fixin's. Well. Some of the fixin's.

4 Glitch Switches
Pitch down knob
Pitch up knob
Hold/Distortion loop button and switch
Musical loop button and switch
Vibrato/Pitch down body contact
Electronic Satan voice switch
Blue pulsing LED
1/4" Output jack
Speaker on/off switch
Reset Switch"

Ensoniq ESQ1 - ESQ-1 Demonstration

YouTube via factorrecords

Rhodes CHROMA with MIDI Interface

via this auction

Note the MIDI interface is not the newer CC+ upgrade.

Speech Synthesizer - SP0256 (Circa 1992)

flickr by 3D King

click through for mouse-overs of the components.

"I recently found this project from 1992 while opening boxes from our house move.
I guess you could call it a self contained speak jet unit. The eeprom is cycled via the 4040 to pluck the 'phenomes' from the sp0256-al2 to string robotic words together.
Using the venerable SP0256 speech chip and an eeprom to string the speech elements along this hardware interpretation could be a standalone speech unit. It is sadly not fully functional at present and due to its age not likely to get to my test bench quickly for diagnosis. In it's hay day it said such things as "Hello I am a computer", "Electronics is fun" "G0CPV" and my name.
The timing crystal for those of you who know this chip, is on the backside of the board.
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