Native Instruments Maschine Demo Performance by NuVintage

YouTube via NativeInstruments
"Kenny and Noel of acclaimed producer duo NuVintage show some of the advanced real-time capabilities of Native Instruments' new groove production studio "Maschine" at NAMM 2009.

For more videos on Maschine, visit http://www.native-instruments.com/mas..."

24x7digital MiniVLTone

"MiniVLTone for iPhone and iPod Touch is a shout-out to the 1980s handheld electronic era, paying homage to the Casio VL-Tone synthesizer. Jam back to the decade of one-hit-wonders and fondly recall the days when MTV still played music-videos! Listening to MiniVLTone's sampled beats will remind you of the rise of New Wave and Synth Pop, as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall, and playing some melodies on the chiclet keyboard will surely take you back to the time of 8-bit simplicity and Rubik's Cube complexity! And don't forget Trio's Da Da Da either! The Challenger and Chernobyl might be long gone, but SWING, ROCK-1, BOSSANOVA and SAMBA rhythms live on in Apple's iTunes App Store!

MiniVLTone includes the following features: 29 chiclet keyboard with OCTAVE control for four full octaves of square-wave synthesizer sonics, analog-style VOLUME slider control, five fantastic INSTRUMENTS (piano, fantasy, violin, flute, and guitar) in full circa-1981 monophonic fidelity, and ten awesomely eighties pre-drum-machine RHYTHMS (march ,waltz, 4-beat, swing, rock-1, rock-2, bossanova, samba, rhumba, and beguine), as well as the world-famously stylish DEMO SONG!

MiniVLTone does not include a calculator, recording mode, one-key-play, LCD display, or ADSR envelope programming, but it also does not require four AA-batteries!"
You can find MiniVLTone here:


Trio - Da Da Da

YouTube via Vohaa

"TRIO
1982/02/12, Markthalle, Hamburg
(maybe 1982, Alabama Halle, Munich)
German tv broadcast
Da da da ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha
03:19
A live performance of the early German-English version.
Enjoy, aha!"

Return to the Helms!

via Peter Grenader of Plan B

"It's with great pleasure that I announce a return to the Helms Bakery Building after nine years. Electro-Acoustic Research and Plan B relocates from 252A S. Main St, Pomona, CA, moving it's synthesizer manufacturing facilities to 8800 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034."

XenoSonic DRSSTC Bach Little Fugue Tesla Coil Yamaha Synth

YouTube via eastvoltresearch. I thought I posted this one before, but apparently not. I must have been thinking of this post.
"A quick and dirty demonstration of the XenoSonic Audio Interface. A Yamaha S03 Synthesizer is hooked up directly to the miniBrute DRSSTC via the XenoSonic Audio Interface.

Since the XenoSonic only produces monophonic output, i prerecorded the Bach Fugue in Gminor on my Allen C-6 Classical organ and then simply added various voices using the Yamaha S03 in real time to the Tesla coil. Its quite a bit sloppy, but thats mostly because i didn't really practice how i was going to play individual voices from the piece and i had a hard time hearing the actual prerecorded music, so its a bit out of synch.

Anyways, enjoy. More information and details can be found at http://www.easternvoltageresearch.com."

NAMM: WNAMM09: Audio Impressions DVZ Strings 2.0

see the write-up on Sonic State. Quite a bit more just went up on Sonic State News. Be sure to check it out.

NAMM: WNAMM09: Moog MP-201 Multipedal Refresher

via Sonic State

NAMM: WNAMM09: Mellotron Remake - Fully Mechanical

see the write-up on Sonic State.

Jam with Blofeld

YouTube via StarfireMX. via fischek. Hi quality embedded.
"Jammin with the Blofeld again, getting a acid sound going. Again all sounds are from the Blofeld played multi-timbraly (that a word?)"

Waldorf Blofeld Messin'

"Just messing with my Blofeld and Ableton Live. All sounds are Blofeld and all played at the same time using seven multi-timbral parts. Nothing fancy just screwing around."

Johannes Kreidler - Charts Music - Songsmith fed with Stock Charts

YouTube via mirko124. via WFMU's, via fabio.
"Melodies derived from Stock Charts, arranged with Songsmith, the Microsoft Composition Tool. By Johannes Kreidler. www.kreidler-net.de"
Stock chart sequences. Someone should make a sequencer that lets you import stock charts.

Shredz64 - Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64 - Part 1

YouTube via SyntheticDreamsVids. via HarriL.

Music/playing comes in at 4:32.

"A demonstration of Shredz64 and the PSX64 interface in action. After over a year of development, I've finally finished it up!

Part 1 features an explanation of the software and a demo of game play with the Zelda Overworld theme (tune remade by Sascha Zeidler).

Read more about it / download at www.toniwestbrook.com"

Shredz64 - Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64 - Part 2

"This is part 2 of the demo of Shredz64 and the PSX64 interface. See part 1 for details of game.

Part 2 features a demo of the "Ex State of Mind" track by Michal Hoffmann."