Time for some playing

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"Good ol' Ensoniq [SQ1]. This was my first real full-sized keyboard. I bought it back in 1996."

One Of The First Vocoder Machine

YouTube via radioshaolin.

I just spotted this one over on Analog Suicide. I swore I put this one up before, but I can't find it, so here it is. Be sure to check out this Sonovox post for another oldie.

And this is now:

AnalogSuicide.com @ NAMM 2008 - Fun with Roland VP-550

FM and LPGs

via Bleepology where you'll find more.
"FMed model 15s and spiked Doepfer LPGs."

Liquid HiHat Beta PCB Video #1

YouTube via dolphinicus. via Rykhaard on this electro-music.com thread.
Also see Rykhaard's D.A.M.I.A.N. modular site and brand new blog.
"This is the 1st of the videos showing examples of the beta test PCB for my Liquid HiHat module."

Liquid Hihat played by my 1st analog piezo transducer.

"This is a short video showing the prototype of my Ray Wilson Drum Trigger circuit, being used with a digital alarm clock's piezo transducer, to play my Liquid Hihat module. The video is accidentally cut short after approximately 4 minutes, but it's useful for showing the LHH being played from a 'drum pad', of sorts. :)"

Buchla 208 Random PCB

via vtl5c3 on electro-music.com where you will find pdfs and samples.

"Based on this schematic by Scott Stites:

It's a cool little random voltage generator. It uses the CD4015 as its core, has only one pulse input and four pseudo random CV outputs. The board layout has been confirmed. I've built one of these units and think that it's lots of fun. It does a lot for the tiny amount of panel space that it takes up."

KORG DVP-1

Samples and info at Mark Griffith's Music. "Korg Digital Voice Processor, released into the UK market in 1986. Combined Vocoder, Harmonizer, Pitch Shift and "internal waves". It doesn't as far as I can see have a carrier input. It has 8 "internal waves" that can be played via midi."

Jünglinge

"Jünglinge is an (r)evolutionary sound texture creator/generator.

Have you ever dominated 15 stereo oscillators using your thumb?
Now you can with Jünglinge!

Thanks to the incredible processing power of your iPhone™ you can create
hours of (pseudo :P ) music.

Or just wear your headphone and go around generating virtual soundscapes for your real life.

There are about 49.423.255.233.235.235.567. 120.131.257.357.367.356.663.000.000.000 (number generated with a powerful server in ERLANG ;-) ) of possible combinations: you and all the human and alien races should live at least 100 lives in all the parallel universe to hear a minimal part of the soundscapes..."

You can find Jünglinge here:

SID Player

"Sid Player brings you the sound of the Commodore C64 to your iPhone and the iPod Touch. Enjoy game classics such as 'Commando', 'Arkanoid', 'The last V8' or listen to the music of 'Rob Hubbard', 'Martin Galway', and many others.

Sid Player gives you access to the High Voltage Sid Collection (HVSC) consisting of over 33.000 songs from 1125 authors. Thanks to the unique sound aesthetics, Sid music is now considered an art of its own and there's a constant flow of new creations.

A Sid file occupies only few kbytes, thus you can quickly download C64 music via EDGE or UMTS and listen for hours. The search function enables you to find your favourites in a blink.
Source Code

Sid Player is licensed under GPLv2. Source Code is available on request, once the application is on sale in the App Store."
You can find SidPlayer here:

SynthMania studio - December 19, 2008

YouTube via SynthManiaDotCom. Mother... Fuck..e...r... Posting this one for the images and the memories. Anastasia's T99? was the track from my Rave memories. Marley is always good. Who is that at 2:50? Good memories.. OK... I go now...
"SynthMania.com's studio - December 19, 2008
A video fly-by of some classic and modern synthesizers. "

ARP Omni-2 Demo

YouTube via officialmikethompson
"Recently-acquired ARP Omni-2 (mk2 version of the original Omni). There didn't seem to be any decent demos on YouTube so I figured I'd post this. This unit works well with the exception of the release section (foot pedal or slider) where it continues to hold random, stuck-on notes. Time for capacitor replacement! This is a common problem for the Omni anyway."