NAMM: Analogue Systems modular rhythm @ NAMM 2009

YouTube via arrowbang
"Bob Williams of Analogue Systems at the Big City Music booth during NAMM 2009."

SR0 Eternal Monolithic "Pandora's Box" Automatic Fractal Numeric Synthesizer and Radio Transmitter

YouTube via VironCybernet.
"Digital sonification of a fractal at millions of samples per second generates an ultrasonic and radio frequency melody that never ends and theoretically will eventually transmit any sound on any frequency from baseband audio to ultrasonic octaves and shortwaves. Discovered in 1981 by the author of this video, and further ongoing research into hundreds of similar simple algorithms were inspired by the millenium digital music copyright controversy. These algorithms can predictively generate by accessing vast intangible supersets of all possible sounds as an original string of binary or decimal data without storing them in any media. SR0 = "Space Radio Zero". Interesting question: What rights could I have to an invention that transmits a practically infinite set of all digital sounds? I assume that this can only be public domain."

casioFZ1 digital sampling synthesizer

YouTube via benanderson88
"Got my new Casio FZ-1 yesterday, I fixed it up and made some quick patches."

ROLAND JUNO-60 DEMO

YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"The Roland Juno-60 is a classic six voice polyphonic analog synthesizer with RAM memories for 56 sounds. The sound architecture is rather basic, but it has an excellent sound and was used by many professionals like Eurythmics, Howard Jones, the Madonna producers, Paul Van Dyk and many more... it has the DCB interface - the predecessor of MIDI. With a DCB to MIDI interface it is very easy to integrate the instrument in a midi setup.

To my ears the JUNO-60 sounds far better than the very similar JUNO-106 (I had both). It has snappier envelopes and a fater chorus. However, sound is a matter of taste..."

MIDI Game of Life

"The MIDI Game of Life sequencer is made in the JAVA visual arts IDE and library Processing. It runs a loop of varying lengths selected by the user through the game of life algorithm. Each cell of the grid represents a pitch. In the current implementation, like colors are the same pitch - cells' octave can be scaled along the y axis. This is well suited for generating drum sequences or melodic material on the fly. The sequencer runs live and can be played as an instrument by drawing new cells while the game is running.

MIDI Game of Life is based on the original code by Ruin Wesen and makes use of their RWmidi JAVA/Processing library."

NAMM: 2009 Winder NAMM Show

flickr set by Synthesizers

yr3wk33 moog opus 3 improvisation

yr3wk33 moog opus 3 improvisation from longcat on Vimeo.
"recorded in the morning before going to work, just the moog on it's own, with particular attention given to the modulation...

friday the 30th january 2009 x"

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flickr by symtone
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MacBeth

I need to get me that green matrix. Reminds me of my old grid (much nicer of course).

Update: the grid is the cover of this album from Datassette.

Studio Shots by Waveterm

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flickr shots by waveterm

captions:

top: "Monophonics have started to move in"

middle: "Big stack of PPG´s!"

bottom: "PPG Waveterm A and B can you tell which is which?"

Roland SH-101 with Black Keys and Mods

via this auction
"VCF FM : Amazing new sounds are now added through this feature. Six FM sources are available
LFO Clock Input : Syncing Arpeggiator and LFO to external drum modules and sequencers is now possible. As well, interesting feedback loops can be created.
PW Modulation Source Selection : Now you can choose a pulse width source. It is independent from the LFO's waveform setting. OSC sources are included.
Pulse width to near 0% : Pulse width effects are now made more extreme and powerfull
External audio input : the ability to do FM of VCF by an externalaudio source or to simply route a signal into the audio path is now provided.
VCF CV input : Just plug in a foot pedal or a CV from a midi convertor and your sh-101 will sing!
LFO rate Scalar : Ever hear a bell sound out of sh-101? Try this on Hi! Want a really slow sweep...you got it too.
Overdrive Knob"

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