2009 Remastered Vako Orchestron Disc - SAXOPHONE

YouTube via peahix. Details including ordering info at this post.
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Update: better quality on Vimeo:

2009 Remastered Vako Orchestron Disc - SAXOPHONE from Pea Hicks on Vimeo.

TB 303 x0xb0x WASP Overdrive partie1

YouTube via BIM0X. Be sure to watch the second and third vids if you like Daft Punk.
"Demo of the disto i've developed for TB303/x0xb0x.

This module use an Op Amp and LEDs. Remove capacitor C38 and put inside circuit. A potentiometer allows you to control the distorsion amount. Led blinks harder when sound is "arsch".
I had developed an "arscher" overdrive at first but there was no more expressivness with the knobs : it was fully overdriven all the time.
This one allows you to modulate the tone using Env Decay and Accent.

Find more exciting stuff at : http://4colors.free.fr"

TB 303 x0xb0x WASP Overdrive partie2

A little Daft Punk

TB 303 x0xb0x WASP Overdrive partie3

deadmau5's sample cd demo 1

YouTube via feelda303. follow up to this post.
"deadmau5 is broke... he sold me his loops for 99 bucks... it's true!"

Circuit Bent Laser gun Sound FX Glitch Synth Alien Noise

YouTube via BentElectronics
"This is the new model Laser Blaster Circuit Bent By SkinSink of Bentronic Studios"
Available on ebay

Korg NanoKEY Controller Demonstration

YouTube via gearwire
"You might think that Bill Holland's hands only look giant in comparison to the Korg nanoKEY controller, but did you know he could palm a basketball? He's still working on his windmill jam, but this Korg nanoKEY walkthrough sure is a slam dunk!
See more on Gearwire.com."

Buchla Easel Card

flickr by PatchArena
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full size

"This is used to store presets..."

Bottom shot for perspective. Note the small patch point connectors.

Update: Chad made an interesting point in the comments. "You can also brush your finger across the board while playing for cool little blips of sound as new connections are made between your finger and the board. :)"

Circuit bending a Buchla? A bit blasphemous but this would be one way to do it.

Update: if you haven't already, be sure to see these two videos of Charles Cohen for this technique [thanks to Wavedeform for the reminder in the comments]:
CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL
Charles Cohen Vs. Chrome Genie - 1/3/09 - Philadelphia

Update via Christian in the comments: "charles told me that alex, the guy who filmed the video asked if such a thing was possiable. charles had a blank card, whetted his fingers and voila. it had never occored to him before. charles uses both this technique and programed cards during performances: such as the one him and i will be giving on 3/4 at the rotunda (in phila). i'm playing the big buchla :)"

MOOG Little Phatty and MicroKORG

flickr by Micah Wood
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I love how small the microKORG looks in these shots.

full size top
full size bottom

Wall of KORGS and Two Buchla 200e

flickr by guiltysin
(click for a ton more including captions)

These are from the Cantos Foundation

Newly Remastered Vako Orchestron Disc - SAXOPHONE

"Newly Remastered Vako Orchestron Disc - SAXOPHONE

As soon as we have 15 pre-orders, we'll go to press and start shipping. It's unlikely that there will be sufficient demand to do a second run of 25 of these discs, so your best bet is to buy as many of these as you need while you can! Any future additional copies will most likely be done as one-offs, which are twice as expensive to produce, and thus will cost twice as much.

PLEASE NOTE: This disc WILL NOT play properly in an Optigan! They WILL play, but the sounds will NOT be mapped correctly to the keyboard- they will be mapped mostly haphazardly across the chord buttons. Please don't order this disc expecting to easily use it in an Optigan. In the future we will be porting the Orchestron sounds to the Optigan- please be patient! :)

This is not a simple photocopy of an original vintage Orchestron disc, it's completely re-mastered and re-created from scratch, using the original sounds from the Orchestron master tapes. In other words, this disc won't sound 100% exactly like the original discs in every tiny detail. Specifically:

-Since there's usually no way to precisely identify the exact 2-second excerpt that was originally used from each sustained note on the master tapes (some of which can be 8-10 seconds long), we've simply chosen 2-second excerpts that sounded good in our editing situation.

-Our Saxophone disc has a little less low-end and a bit more high-end than the original. These can both be easily adjusted with EQ if you're trying to precisely duplicate the overall tonality of the original discs.

-The loop joints on our disc are very smooth and for the most part don't pop/thud the way the originals do.

-We've staggered the loop joints evenly across the disc (instead of placing them all at 12 o'clock), so that no two notes hit their loop joint at the same time.

-Some of our discs may have very slight periodic crosstalk on some notes (mostly noticeable on higher notes), owing to miniscule variations in the center hole punching tolerance. Said crosstalk should be well within the acceptable limits that Orchestron users are accustomed to.

So, will our disc satisfy the absolute purist? Probably not, and we won't attempt to argue otherwise. But despite the differences, to the more casual player our disc sounds very much like the original. We're confident that you'll love the sound and quality of this disc, but if you're not totally satisfied, we're happy to offer a 100% money-back guarantee. This is a labor of love for us, and we want to make sure you feel the love too!

Since the original discs came in plain white jackets, so will ours. We will be replicating the original printed paper sleeves- spelling/grammar errors and all.

Soon we will have all eight of the original Orchestron discs remastered, as well as a few brand new titles. Stay tuned!

Also, don't miss our new Optigan disc - MOD ROCK!
http://shoptigan.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3876420

For more information, please visit http://www.blogtigan.wordpress.com or http://www.optigan.com"

Update:

2009 Remastered Vako Orchestron Disc - SAXOPHONE

2009 Remastered Vako Orchestron Disc - SAXOPHONE from Pea Hicks on Vimeo.

Chain0 - KORG DS10 Track

Chain0 by Ascdi

"Written February 2009 for the RPM Challenge. Korg DS-10."

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"Stuff you can listen for in this song are a lot of FM (both filter FM and oscillator FM), a very short delay effect (used kind of like a spatial comb filter), 4 custom percussion sounds (my Nord Lead percussion programming experience pays off big time with DS-10, by the way), and a good amount of filter and FM modulation via the Kaoss sequencer tracks."

You can find another track by Ascdi featuring the DS10 here.