MOTM 730 contest

via the My Synthesis Technology MOTM Analog Modular Synth blog.

"Paul [of MOTM (http://synthtech.com/)] writes: '
a) if you haven't already, order a MOTM-730 VC Pulse Divider!

b) patch it up into your (mostly...ahem....) MOTM modular

c) record audio and/or video.

d) send it to me by March 20th. Would like some sort of patch diagram/text description so other folks can try it out.

e) Winner (I get to pick) gets $200. So, your MOTM-730 is at a 50% discount :) Second place gets $100.
Looking mostly for unique/clever applications of all the module's features: variable dividing, stepped CV out, etc.

I have *lots* of these I can ship rather quickly, the joys of robotic SMT assembly and pcb-mounted jacks/switches/pots. I expect all of these currently on order to ship by next Saturday.

Paul S.'"

Instrument-a-day 6: Buddha Bonk

"Buddha Box, wire, brass, and conductive foam.

The Buddha Box is a little electronic gadget that plays any of 12 chants over and over again. I wired it up with a brass tablet and drumstick so I can play it like a drum-- each hit switches to a new chant. (A little bit of conductive foam on the end of the drumstick muffles the tapping sound.)

It sounds like this."
via moonmilk

San Fransisco Tape Music Festival Review by CatSynth

See the full review of the event on CatSynth.

"The idea of going to concert hall and listening to a recording may seem odd, but like any other performance, it is about matching the content and presentation. There are really good tape-music performances, and really bad ones, and I have been to both. The Saturday performance at the festival was definitely a good one. It included classics of electronic music, such as John R Pierce’s Stochatta, one of early experiments in computer music at Bell Laboratories; and Lubiano Berio’s Thema (Ommagio a Joyce). Both pieces were premiered over 50 years ago."

Korg ds-10 song 8 clarity

YouTube via beddi2

Groaning Seq DotCom

YouTube via davidryle
"The Synthesizers.com (Arrick) modular on a drunken bent. Slew limiting and a Lexicon delay with a Small Stone phase shifter makes fun, fun, fun!"

SciFi Seq DotCom

"Hypertensive DotCom (Arrick) modular through a delay."

Roland SH-101 NovaMod synced to Electribes

YouTube via rudeog

"Borrowed my friend's SH-101 with NovaMod. According to my friend, "the NovaMod Rev.2 is by Phillip Pilgrim. I don't know if he is still in business after moving from Nova Scotia to Ireland."
Here I've incorporated the Electribes ER-1 and EA-1 and a Behringer delay pedal for some added excitement. The ER-1 provides a beat, and the EA-1 provides a pulse to the SH-101 to sync it so that the recorded sequence on the 101 can play (somewhat) in time."

OSCAR SYNTH

via this auction

the 258v

clone of the Buchla 258 oscillator. More info on Buchla Tech.

brontologik4 for monome 256 (quick walkthrough)

brontologik4 for monome 256 (quick walkthrough) from pyrolator on Vimeo.
follow-up to this post
"brontologik4 for monome 256

a composing system

6 layer sending midi data (pitch, velocity and 2 controller)
1 layer starting clips in ableton live
8 variations each layer
8 modes (for each layer) to manipulate and arrange pitch, velocity, controller, scales, transpose, key, pattern length, randomness and probability of playing.
load and save single pattern or complete data

This is the first public-beta now.
This is Donationware and will be availible at:
brontologik.blogspot.com/"

analog dreams

flickr by Aaron Kraten