the shape of music

YouTube via analoq
"During the process of adapting the sonome layout onto my monome, I wrote some software to help me locate common patterns. This video explains and demonstrates the layout and software. If this doesn't make much sense, just relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichten..."

Yamaha CS70M Print Ad

via this auction

Putney Patch Matrix

flickr by peff
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"Living VCOs"

MP3
via JH Living VCOs
"My goal was to build a set of VCOs that have the untamed bass range power of early EMS and Moog VCOs, but which are tracking a keyboard voltage over 5 or more octaves nevertheless. I found that "untamed" Beating in the bass range and controlled beating in higher octaves is not possible with standard exponential 1V/Oct oscillators. A good part of that special sound of early Moog and EMS oscillators is not because of any "randomness", "unstability", "instability" or "noisyness", as so often is said. A good deal of their behavior is because of that, but it is not the whole story. There are also some very deterministic factors in these old circuits which have been unpleasant side effects for the designers back then, but which are worth a closer analysis when we're designing a musical VCO today. This is implemented in form of three "linear detune" potentiometers on the JH-5A VCOs."

Richard Lainhart and the Buchla 200e

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shots via this show

AHMW 2009

Three shots via brian c of AHMW 2009 this weekend.

Spot the synths

Suit & Tie Guy with an Oberheim OB-1 and some Metasonx pedals.

Nice MATRIXSYNTH T! :)

KORG MONO/POLY

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via this auction

Roland TR-606 modulated through circuit bent Hing Hon EK-001

YouTube via frostedminipete :]

FARFISA POLYCHROME - vintage synthesizer / string machine HQ sound demo

YouTube via AnalogAudio1

"This video shows the Farfisa Polychrome played with a Roland DEP-5 FX processor for delay effects.

The Farfisa Polychrome from 1979 is one of the rarest Farfisa keyboards. It is a flexible string synthesizer / string ensemble with a very characterful, musical sound.

It has a PERCUSSIVE section, a STRING section, a ENSEMBLE section and a VOCAL CHORUS section. The most sections have VCF cutoff / resonance controls. It has a great phaser (with SPEED, EMPHASIS and TREMOLO controls), a noise generator, single outputs, an external input jack (for external signals, which can be treated with the Polychrome's chorus and phaser) and a lot more... It even has aftertouch! And it's fully polyphonic, too..."

Oberheim OB 1 + Roland TR 808 + Pearl Syncussion + Korg Z1

YouTube via djessay101
"Korg Z1 for Pad-Sound, TR 808 for Hihat + Roland DC-20, Pearl Syncussion for Kick, Oberheim OB1 with LFO Filter"