Chiphead® 2009 Video Contest: Rockin' Chiphead® -- Click:Watch in HD!!

YouTube via ninetows. Sent my way via Rick.

For the DIY community...

Moog Etherwave theremin comes in at 2:15.

Update via Hawker in the comments: You can find more videos for the contest on DesignCon 2009.

Video Description:
"Contest ID: 1376 My entry for the Designcon® Chiphead® 2009 Video Contest: Rockin' Chiphead®

This project was shot and rendered in HDV 1080i so click "Watch in HD" at the lower right of the video screen. Expand to full-screen, crank up the sound and enjoy!

Lyrics:

I hang out with guys holdin big degrees
Designin boards for the industries
Were usin chips in standard packs
To send out data -- hope we get some back!

Some chips are custom, some chips are plain
Some chips will drive an engineer insane!
We spec em in the design looks sweet,
We buy a half a million before they go obsolete!

Im a Chiphead well, Im a Chiphead yeah, Im a chiphead
I coulda been a doctor or a lawyer instead, but Im a Chiphead

Im a Chiphead -- Im a Chiphead yeah, Im a chiphead
Semiconductors help me earn my bread yeah, Im a Chiphead

I lay out circuits in the day and the night
Always got my headphones adjusted just right
I need three hands, while Im watchin the screen
Two for the mouse and keyboard, one for sippin caffeine

Im a Chiphead -- Im a Chiphead yeah, Im a chiphead
I get turned on watchinschematics get drawn cause Im a Chiphead

Im a Chiphead -- Im a Chiphead yeah, Im a chiphead
I check out the specs on the complex projects, yeah, Im a Chiphead

I go to tradeshows to learn from the pros
I watch the how-to videos
Talkin double-data-rate memory
Data transfer at high at M-H-zs

Integrated circuits come in every shape and size
Gettin smaller and hotter you gotta realize --
If you work with these your gonna need thermal grease,
Fans, clamps and heatpipes so the heatll decrease!

You gotta be a Chiphead! Be a Chiphead be a Chiphead
Be a Chiphead come on be a Chiphead, be a Chiphead..... etc."

Robert Leiner's Aries Modular Site

http://www.leinermedia.net/aries/home.html

"Welcome, this is a site devoted to the ARIES Modular Systems. Here you will find some useful info, pictures, schematics and documentation about the various ARIES systems. If you have any more information about Aries, please contact me.

Aries was a modular synthesizer manufacturer founded by Frank Fink and was located in Salem Massachusetts US. They built high quality modular synths in both factory assembled and kit form. The modules of the ARIES modular system ware at the time manufactured by resident company RIVERA MUSIC (RMS)."

jon appleton demonstrates the synclavier ii (1984)

YouTube via aloofdork. Sent my way via Robert Leiner
"jon appleton demonstrates the synclavier 2"
http://www.appletonjon.com/index.htm

Yamaha CS2x | demo by syntezatory.prv.pl

YouTube via Jexus

"1999 Yamaha CS-2x. Patches / performances edited by WC Olo Garb. Video editing by WC Olo Garb. ||| Syntezatory.prv.pl Videos: showing you not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer.

All drums come from the CS2x too."

Beatmaking on Ableton Live in 2min 30sec

YouTube via cyberspacecowboys
"Played by S_Ishimaru.
MIDI controlers is KORG nano series.
nanoPAD, nanoKEY, nanoKontrol."

Dx7 kjk

YouTube via Space4Keys. follow-up to this post.

The Making of "Funky Little Spacegirl"

See this post for two new videos.

Beat Kangz Demo

Demo added to this post.

SonicProjects Stringer - ARP Omni, Logan, Solina

YouTube via virtualoberheim
"http://www.sonicprojects.ch/stringer/

Already quite an old video, now finally provided on youtube too. All sounds in the video are coming from the SonicProjects Stringer.

Stringer was released in September 2006.

SonicProjects Stringer is a VSTi plugin for windows that provides top quality samplesets of the following 3 string machines:

- ARP Omni 2 ( the successor of Solina )
- Logan String Melody II
- Welson Symphony

You can get more informations about these machines here:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/stringer/...

Each of these machines has its own distinct sound. The three different characters complement each other very well:

ARP Omni 2:
Clear, shining, shimmering

Logan String Melody II:
Fat, warm, organic, middy

Weson Symphony:
Balanced, restrained, smooth

The goal was to achieve the highest audio quality possible in order to leave the original sound untouched. That's why only highend equipment and a reference wordclock were used to sample every single key of the machines at 24 bit resolution. The 241 samples were then restaurated and cleaned from hum and noise. To preserve the original movements within the sound the loop points were searched manually according to the natural "loops" caused by beats which resulted in loop lenghts up to 4 seconds. With this method the looped sampled tone can't be distinguished from the original and there are no noteiceable loop points. A lot of work, but worthy to capture those really glorious sounding machines with the original character leaving untouched.

You can listen to clips in better audio quality than youtube and in stereo here:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/stringer/...

There are two engines that allow to layer and split two sounds, tune and pan them, and change the attack and release times. The two engines even can be sent to individual stereo outs on demand for separate external processing.

The samples are completely loaded into the RAM (140mb), no disk streaming needed. This means: Compact and easy on CPU. Available for Receptor too with free crossgrade from the PC version.

Note that there are also a few other string machine emulating plugins containing "Stringer" in their names:
- Falkelab Stringer
- Numerikart Stringy Stringazoide Stringer
- Easytoolz easy-mr.stringer"

VisualVox polyphonic 0.9

"The time has come to announce the release of the world's first published polyphonic tone manipulation software. The dream of musicians to isolate single notes out of chords and so to manipulate most forms of recorded audio has come true on the 20th of January 2009.

Applications:
* Change chords or single wrong notes in polyphonic recordings
o To fit pieces into your composition that otherwise would not have been accessible due to their key
o To creatively play around with recorded audio like with a midi instrument - it will play your musical ideas by a click but it still sounds like the real instrument
* Isolate the natural harmonics of instruments, manipulate them, take your instruments under the magnifying glasses to understand their sound
* Create real sounding harmonizations, i.e. make chords out of monophonic parts of audio
* Correct intonation problems of any instrument or voice while keeping the formants as they are
Create artificial vibrato, stretch the formants, rearrange melodies, draw frequency curves with your mouse to access monophonic and polyphonic audio in a way it has never been possible before

This first version of VisualVox polyphonic costs only 25 Euros as being a student and not a big company I still need your suggestions to remove any possible inconveniences. The final version 1.0 will cost 99 Euros but the upgrade from version 0.9 will cost only 50 Euros. (Prices do not incude taxes dependent on your location)"

You can find samples on site. via sequencer.de