Circuit Bent Casio PT-100 keyboard

YouTube via wotatwaat. The payoff comes in at :25. Pretty massive and musical.

Wall of Waldorf Power

YouTube via onephatcat
""new" Waldorf Rack Attack drum synth / drum sequencer has just been installed in my rack along side its sister and brother, the MicroQ and Microwave II. Background track is a Rack Attack built-in demo song."

Sweet MIDI Arpeggiator - freeware

"Older synthesizers had arpeggiators, and now new synths can have them too with Sweet MIDI Arpeggiator. This 'virtual arpeggiator' program contains four arpeggio objects that will arpeggiate all MIDI notes that pass through it.

With this program, you can change the arpeggio direction, number of octaves, and length of the arpeggiated notes. You can also modify the rhythm values of the arpeggiated notes and add another arpeggio object by choosing the same MIDI channel for the object."

JD-800 used with a virtual arpeggiator

"I wondered when I bought my JD-800 whether anyone had come up with a solution to using it as an arpeggiator. With a little digging around online I found one.
The 'Sweet midi arpeggiator' is free and can be downloaded, find it via google. It enables you to send out a midi signal to the software which then returns the midi signal back to the JD-800 arpeggiated. It works in real time so it's as if the JD-800 itself has an onboard arpeggiator. Now everyone that moans that the JD-800 would have been better with one can finally shut up."
You can also use Techno Toys and others on KVR. BTW if you haven't checked out KVR for software, check it out now. It's THE online database for audio software, virtual instruments and controllers.

JD-800 with the 'Sweet midi arpeggiator' demo

Roland MC-909 & Korg Kaoss Pad 3, meditative ambient india style

YouTube via beckhusen
"This is the 3rd project which i made with my new Roland MC-909 Groovebox. This time i combined it with the Korg Kaoss Pad and routed 2 sample patches from the MC-909 to the Kaoss Pad.
The style may be unusually for a Groovebox, i'm still exploring the possibilities and don't want to join only the bum-bum section."

Future Retro Revolution on Aliens Project

more images on Aliens Project

Synth Books via 123synthland

123synthland aka minimi123 has a number of books and synth documentation on his ebay auction list. Pictured here are:

Buchla Electric Music Box 200 Modular Synth System Spec
Aries System 300 Modular Synthesizer Synth Modules Spec
Serge Modular Music Systems Analog Synth Panel Spec

Note I used the scans label below not because these are scans but because people looking for scans/documentation might find these shots interesting. Be sure to check out the auction for more including a Crumar Stratus, Oberheim TVS, Moog Taurus and a Studio Electronics MIDI Moog Minimoog Oscillator Board - hardware not documentation on these.

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Bug Killer - Synth Demo

YouTube via robotmakers Minimoog
"A Robotmakers demo of the MOTM-730 Pulse Divider and the Synthesizers.com Q960 Sequential Controller in a musical context. Be patient for the musical context."

KS RAW TranSID64

"KS RAW TranSID64 is a collection of 68 lo-fi and sid sounding instruments for Reason, the long awaited follow up of our highly appreciated TranSID reason refill series. The ultimate 8 bit resource for reason, TranSID64 brings raw sonic madness to spice up you tracks."

more info including a sample on kreativsounds, via kreativsounds on Twitter.

Null Object - The Raft Building Song

YouTube via nathnullobject
"Banging Techno Sydney Style... While all the European babies are asleep, Sydney party people a rocking out to killers like this. Off the 12 vinyl Null 02 - I Saw Machines But I Heard Monsters" on Null Recordings.
http://www.discogs.com/Null-Object-I-..."

Some details on the gear: "It was written on a Roland System 100. The System 101 was fed into the ring modulator of the System 102. The System 104 step sequencer was driven by a trigger pulse from a Roland TR808, The breakdown in the middle of the track was done by changing the pattern of triggers from the TR808 and mashing down on the System 101 Keyboard. There may have been another synth going into the ring Mod on the System 012 but I can't remember right now. I used the system 10 keyboard as a big transposing CV by pressing down different notes. The crazier I pressed different notes the crazier the breakdown got until i just did one of 70's finger sweeps down the keyboard to return to the main riff. Drums are Roland TR909 and a circuit bent Alesis HR16B. Recorded live in one take to two channel Dat from A Yamaha 12 channel mixer."