lemur meets machinedrum

YouTube via erasemusic
"jazzmutant lemur controlling a machinedrum"

Roland SH-32 Drone

YouTube via hilltree
"Roland SH-32 4 parts Synthesizer stack filter drone.
With some additional fx
The drone was made with the 4 part multitimbral synth stacking posibilities ,and twiddling with the filter resonance and cutoff.
More at www.groenewoudnet"

TR-808 internal sequencer vs. MIDI from Ableton

YouTube via pac209
"this short video shows the 808 first running on its own sequencer, then with MIDI notes coming from Ableton (with internal 808 sequencer stopped). The Ableton pattern has also typical shuffle quantize.
Both modes (traditional 808 with sync in/ out OR special MIDI control of notes with some limited velocity and MIDI clock controlling the 808 sequencer) are possible with the built in interface."

A Fix for Optigan Pitch Problems

"Pitch stability is one of the biggest problems for Optigans. The rubber on the idler wheel gets hard or worn over the years, which makes the wheel slip against the tapered motor shaft. Old wheels can have other problems including notches or flat spots, which cause a knocking or grinding sound when the discs are played. I’ve tried to recondition the rubber and restore the gripping surface with chemicals and fine sandpaper, only to have the pitch problems return a few weeks later."

You can find the full post including the fix on optigan.com blogitan!

Frida doodling the Korg on her DS

flickr by now u see it [nowuseit]

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Andromeda Control 2

flickr by brotherloco
(click for more)

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Pics from SXSW 2009 - Giant synthesizer machine thing at dorkbot

flickr by gserafini

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Xbox 360 Controller - Reaktor - GlovePie - Breaks

YouTube via myredhotcar
http://whatwouldthecaptaindo.blogspot.com/
"We used glovepie to build an xbox controller script before building some machines in reaktor tocreate dum and bass (ish ) beats. The analogue sticks control bass pitch and filter whichs the buttons fire different one shot and looped samples"

Blackbird Pi for Pi Day

BTW, Happy Pi Day!!! It's 3.14 today.

via Richard Lainhart via the forum:

"Friends: here's the link to my contribution to Microsound's annual Pi Day audio celebration:

http://projects.interdisciplina.org/microsound/project.php?name=pi_day_2009

The rules were to use the values of Pi, in any way, to create a piece of music exactly 3 minutes 14 seconds long. My piece, "Blackbird Pi" (the first one up), is the sound of 1000 migrating blackbirds recorded on the morning of March 6, 2009, timestretched to 3.14 seconds and spectrally transformed with 3.14159 entered into the plugin value fields wherever possible. I hope you enjoy it.

For more about Pi Day: http://www.piday.org"

Ethnic digital drum machine w/ Sherman Filterbank & TENORI-ON (by Smith)

YouTube via znshn
"Using traditional percussion samples on TENORI-ON w/ Sherman Filterbank 2, Moog Analog Delay + digital manipulations via Korg Kaoss Pad KP3. Contents : filtering, micro-pulses, timbric percussion patterns, ethnic digital drum machine. IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- TENORI-ON
- Sherman Filterbank 2
- Korg Kaoss Pad KP3
- Moog Analog Delay (MF-104SD)

http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.myspace.com/sthintosmithereens
http://www.myspace.com/znshn

See also http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette"