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A New Access Virus at NAMM?

Rumor has it that there might be a new Access Virus coming at NAMM.

via Mr. Array:

"Tons of speculation is going on out there in regards to a new Virus being released at NAMM. Apparently online stores are listing all lines except the Snow as discontinued. Check out this thread for more info. This might be the last exciting NAMM in quite some time, given the state of the world's financial system."

Again, this is all rumor, so take it as you want. What's a little scary is that last sentence. Hopefully there won't be too much of a lull in the synth market. There's also rumors that Clavia/Nord has discontinued the G2: here and other threads on electro-music.com.

Polymoog restoration

flickr set by unfrostedpoptart

A Synth Dream

Chang sent the following in on the AH list. I've posted Synth Dreams in the past and figured this one was worth a post.

"My dream the other night...

I went to a music shop and bought two new synths. One was called the JP6 by Roland but was not a Jupiter 6. It was built almost like a taller, narrower Korg MS-10 or MS-20, with avery colorful front panel.

The other synth was kind of like a Nord MicroMOdular only when programmed it produced these gorgeous, analog drenched sounds and arpeggios. I and my abovementioned companion marveled at the sounds before the ladder sex. Then at some point later in the dream the guy from the store stole the synth back and I woke up pissed.

I have often dreamt of weird sex. I am only human.

I have never dreamt of synths. I am a geek now. Synths & sex? That's reallly weird."

Someone of course wanted to the know the details. Consider yourself warned... There is no synth content beyond this point, so if you are sensitive towards this stuff, move on...

"YOu ased you sick bastid:

Last night's dream has stuck in my head all day.

I can't figure out which part was the weirdest.

After the cut, there is sexy dreamy nonsense. You have been warned.

So the first weird bit was me having sex with the mother of an old high school friend. Only it was not the actual mother, but some sort of composite. And it began on a ladder. Yeah. When we actually, bedded, I tore away her turtleneck sweater to reveal a large surgical scar down the center of her chest and something written on her abdomen which I cannot remember. At some point earlier in the dream she had told me she had recently recovered from cancer. As we had the dream sex, she moaned, "THE CURE!!! THE CURE!!! THE CURE!!!" which neither took to mean sex with me was a cure for cancer (studies are inconclusive) and not an endoresment for Robert Smith and co."

Now this is a crazy synth dream...

Apollo Studio

Synth.nl has been tracking the building of his new studio online. I've been watching it but holding off on a post until some synths appeared. :)

The have. You can find all posts on the building of Apollo Studio here.

"In this picture you see the left part where my analog corner will be again. In the third cabinet from the right I put the UPS for the studio, but when I switched it on I heard that it has fans and makes noise, so I will move it to the server room. Not all my analog synthesizers are going here by the way, because in the new setup I will also have a special place for all my modulars. They are going to be all together on the second desk that Gerrit is building at this moment."

Divider_euroPCB

flickr by fonitronik

"2-sided layout for a Simple Clock Divider for my Modular (eurorack), providing footprints for cliff 1386 sockets.
www.fonitronik.de"

Philip Oakey & the all seeing i - 1st Man In Space 2 videos

YouTube via crowbaby5. Roland SH-101 synth fest.
"Philip Oakey from the Human League teams up with fellow Sheffielders the all seeing i - there are two live versions on this clip."

via dr ben goldacre
"sheffield band, they seem to get their sheffield mates in all the time, like tony christie, (heh) phil oakey, and jarvis cocker. and one of them was in I Monster and the other was in that band in the Harry Potter movie (true)."

Grr....

Blogger is not letting me upload images at the moment, so I can't post things like this Plan b teaser. Posts with images will come later.

Logic Express 8 - New Beginnings

YouTube via skyskraberen
"New song made with Logic Express 8 and Novation Xiosynth.
The bass is a sample from Future Music Magazine sample cd, the rest of the instrument are played via the midi or the built-in keyboard in Logic (cmd+shift).

The video was made in iMovie using images from when floppy discs were used and saved photos with mistakes in them."

Garageband - Double Virtual

YouTube via skyskraberen
"This song is called Double Virtual and was made using Garageband. All software instruments were triggered and played via the built-in keyboard.

Lyrics written by Skyskraberen and recorded using iSpeak, where you can type in any word and the application will speak it. You can select different voices, this one is Victoria."