Blindoldfreak Live in Canada

Blindoldfreak Montreal 30-01-09 Part I-V

YouTube via bloodofreptile

Blindoldfreak Quebec City 01-02-09 Part I - III

YouTube via bloodofreptile
"Sorry for the low sound quality and the darkness of the image. Video shot with a small P&S camera, in a dark room, with some noisy people in the audience..."

Note the above set if the full set with better audio for the two previously posted here. You can also see the Halifax set here.

Finally these are from Alessandro Cortini's current tour for Blindoldfreak originally posted here. There are still shows in the tour including Montreal on this Saturday the 7th. Be sure to see the original post and of course blindoldfreak for more. This is a good opportunity to see the Buchla 200e live.

Update: The modular in the videos is the Buchla 200e running through delay pedals.

Four Operator Cheese

YouTube via villagranit
"Rare FM Answering Machine from Yamaha. In rest mode it shows you date and time and you can save your calls on optional memory cards via memory card slot - thats the TQ 5! Other ingredients: Jomox XBase 09, MFB 502, MAB 303 and Electribe EA1 for sequencing."
Note the MAB 303 is by Will Systems. You can see it clearly in the beginning of the following video.

smalljam

"jomox xbase 09, mfb 502, mab 303, ibanez ad 9 modded (only wet mod for aux use - somehow the mod also fucked up the pedal, but that's even more fun) sound only from camera..."

Puremagnetik Delalias

via KAMONI where you'll find some more info.

"It’s a modulating delay that has some built in digital artifacts and enhanced undersampling aliasing controls. It’s quite cool, if you do the math, you can easily get your aliasing in harmony (or slightly detuned!) with your fundamental - a glorified bitcrusher if you will."

http://puremagnetik.com/

Modular Synthesizer Celtic Melody

YouTube via justwaving
"I was working on an acoustic guitar patch and came up with this tune. The synth is playing on its own."

BOSS Dr-110 Modded with Custom Case

flickr set by james_holden
(click for more including one of the inside)

"Jake Fairley very kindly bought me a Boss DR-110, on the condition that I had to modify it. His is a neat affair, in the original case with 15 or so tiny pots crammed in round the sides.

Mine is a total disaster. I've added midi, and as many mods as I could find, but also made a lot of mistakes so it's a bad tempered, unpredictable beast.

ie a perfect drum machine!"

Open Day 9 - Clavia

YouTube via digitalaudiocentral. via fishek. No, those aren't actually eyebrows.
"Esposizione Clavia all'Open Day 9
www.digitalaudiocentral.com"

NAMM: NAMM Oddities 2009

The NAMM Oddities page is up. You can find the "Techno" section here. You should recognize quite a bit. Oddly the John Bowen Solaris made the cut. The Assblaster I can understand as well as the Motus Mavis star synth. MOTU's Volta made the list as well.

Thanks to nonymous in the comments of this post for pointing the site out. I completely forgot about it this year.

New Blofeld Manuals are online

via Holger Steinbrink of Waldorf on the Waldorf list:

"The new Blofeld manuals including Blofeld Keyboard functions and Multimode are available as PDF. Here are the download links:
English version [8.37M PDF]
German version [8.52M PDF]

Blacet Dark Star Chaos

via this auction

"Analog synth module with versatile noise modulator
Voltage controlled clock frequency pseudorandom noise generator
Voltage controlled noise filter
Noise modulated pulse VCO with VC pulse width modulation
Envelope generator with gate, attack, and decay
3 RU high (5.25", 133.4mm) by 3" (76.2mm) wide; allow 7" (177.8mm) depth. Compatible with Paia FracRak. Voltage required: +/-12 to +/-15vdc regulated. Jacks: 1/8" (3.5mm). Panel is black anodized, with white lettering.
When the Dark Star first appeared in 1982, the brochure had the following description:
"Need an amazing source of synthesized sounds at an absurd price? Here you go....a noise oriented prepatched minisynthesizer built around a powerful LSI chip.
The Dark Star TM provides a digital noise source with variable clock, plus a noise filter, LFO, VCO, VCA and envelope generator; a whole panel of synthesizer modules in just a tiny 6 x 4 x 3" package...
You can use it to simulate all those surf, wind, rain, cymbal, explosion, spaceships hurtling across the void and warping out type sounds. Careful design and wide range controls give you a real sound exploration tool; don't be fooled by the low price. Try it as a percussion kit addition, a drone voice, even as a modulation source. The Dark Star just doesn't sound like anything else--we guarantee it!"
Unavailable for many years, the Dark Star now makes a swing through our planetary system....
This reissue of the Dark Star uses the same basic circuit and updates the design with expanded control ranges and CV inputs for the Noise Clock, Noise Filter, VCO and PWM. Use it as a standalone sound generator or interface it with a modular system for some truly wild sounds!
With the interest in chaos theory and fractals in the past few years, this unit provides an excellent means to explore the effects of chaotic (noise) modulation. The results cover quite a wide range from the haunting to the apocalyptic...
Specifications
Front Panel Size: 5.25 x 3" W (Mounting holes and screws provided for Paia FracRack) PCB depth required: 6" Input/Output Jacks: 3.5 mm Gate Input Level: 5 V* CV Range: 0-5V * VCO Range: 0-6.5 KHz (linear response)*** VCO Waveform: pulse with width modulation Noise Clock Range: 50 Hz-32 KHz Attack/Decay Time: up to 12 S Output Level: 1 V** Power: +/-12 to +/-15 Vdc @+25/-6 mA"

Audio 4 DJ Skateboarding Stress Test with Jürgen Horrwarth

YouTube via NativeInstruments
"On behalf of Native Instruments, Berlin-based pro skateboarders Jürgen Horrwarth, Michael Mackrodt and Jan Kliewer put the Audio 4 DJ interface under an intense stress test, to see how much abuse the aluminum casing and internal electronics can take.

For more info on Audio 4 DJ, see http://www.native-instruments.com/aud..."