Chip Friend User Resource

http://www.chipfriend.com/
"The Friend Chip® machines utilized early Microcomputertechnik for musical purposes, and where designed by Dipl. Ing. H. G. Zemper and Ton-Ing. J.O. Bergler in the late 1970 - 80 ies. Today the company still makes fine machines, but mainly for AES/EBU distribution. The above picture is of me working with a MR.LAB® in the summer 2007. This Website is soon to be a fully functional USER- RESOURCE and it´s purpose is for You who own, or have had any experience with the equipment from Friend Chip® Berlin to use it and to contribute. " via Analog Sweden

JD73 Plays the Nord Electro 3 PT1

YouTube via goldphinga. via fischek.
"JD73 playing the new Nord Electro 3. Some funk for y'all!"

JD73 Plays the Nord Electro 3 PT2

"Part 2 of my Nord Electro 3 demo showing off the C1 organ...enjoy"

Don't go (Yazoo) - short demo arrangement with DSI evolver

YouTube via laubimusic77. sent my way via fischek.
"was curious, if evolver has some "pro one" feeling under the hood. So I turned the digital osc. off... - what do you think?

everything's just pure evolver overdubbed, always one program - no doubling, fx, eq, etc."

Sequencer - Seku

The Seku by Mauno Tuominen (http://www.studiomanus.com/seku.htm)."

"Heart of SEKU is CMOS 4520 dual synchronous divide-by-16 counter. RESET-in-jack must be normalised to ground when not used (16-step mode). Length of the sequence can be set to N by patching PULSE OUT from N+1 step to RESET IN jack. When no clock is connected to CLK IN sequencer can be manually stepped from STEP button.

CMOS 4067 1-of-16 analog switch is used for GATE, CV and PULSE outputs. Inhibit-pin of GATE OUT 4067-switch is clocked at the same frequency as the 4520 with 4001 nor-gate turning each GATE OUT off before turning the next GATE on. You can mute any one of the 1-16 steps with the STEP MUTE switch."


video upload by sigmambient

"Self made analog step sequencer controls Korg MS10 and Roland S100M synthesizers. First row controls MS10 pitch and S100M noise-drum gate. Second row controls MS10 filter-cutoff.
Synthesizer sounds are modified live when sequence is running. More information about SEKU and Sigma on www.studiomanus.com"

You might remember the SEKU from these posts (scroll).

Testing the modular.

YouTube via zthee. via kroffe in the comments of this post on the Serge looking CGS DIY modular. I added this video to that post as well. Comments disabled here to keep them there.
"A crap recording of me playing like the first patch on my new DIY modular panel. Missing knobs and the VCA isn't working.

Includes:

Topp 281 Quad Function Generator
CGS64
CGS38
CGS39
CGS36
CGS59
CGS09
CGS31"

Health Club Sonic Snailcase

"Health Club Music's new Synth is on eBay. There's a cool sample and hold and Morph Lag on it. The filter resonates and self-oscillates tougher than a Korg MS-20 and now both oscillators and filter are all 1 volt/ octave! Leave it up to your ears. There are samples on our site!"

You'll also find more images and details there as well. At a high level the modular features the following:

2 voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) (1volt/oct)
1 low-frequency oscillator (LFO)
1 Attack-Release (AR) Envelope Generator
1 12dB, Band Pass/ Low-Pass Voltage-controlled Filter (VCF)(1volt/oct)
1 Mixer
2 voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCA)
1 white noise generator
1 Morph-Lag Processor

You might recognize the Health Club SONIC SNAILCASE from this synth on a rope post.

Producing with the Andromeda A6

YouTube via PSTCE. sent my way via fischek.
"This is Pete from The Crystalline Effect & Shiv-r.
Working on a TCE remix for exclusive release on a compilation by Advoxya Records. This video is about the "swooshes" or "cymbal crashes" over the top of the track, and creating them with the Alesis Andromeda A6. The original song has been released on the album "Identity" released at the start of 2009 and the remix will be featured on the "PABS 3" compilation due for release in late 2009.
Both releases available at www.advoxya-records.com.

My projects:
www.shiv-r.com
www.thecrystallineeffect.com"

The Sweeps - Le Voyage LIVE

YouTube via inkoggnito77. sent my way via retrosound72
"70s inspired instrumental tune by *THE SWEEPS combining some old Super 8-material (ca. 1976) with live footage. In the beginning it's just Fender Rhodes and Crumar Multiman, the Minimoog solo is coming after the break. The effects are offered by the Moog Prodigy. More infos via http://www.myspace.com/thesweepsmusic"

New Serge M-odule ASR Quantizer

via Carbon111 on the Serge list

"$1700 usd

The ASR Quantizer is a wonderful mate for your favorite sequential voltage source as well as a good clock for said function blocks.
It contains, from left to right: TGC, NCOM, ASR, ASR and an QUAN.

The ASRs and the QUAN with its scale-changing ability make this a great melodic mutator as well!

Best Regards, James
--
http://www.carbon111.com"

Update: some more detail from Bakis:
"a new Serge M-odule has been released:

the 'ASR Quantizer' (ASR/QUAN) M-odule.

it contains (from left to Right): VC Timegen Clock, Divide by N Comparator, 3 step Analogue Shift Register (x2), 6 vhannels Quantizer.

this is a great module for sequencing aplications, and not only:

it can generate arabesque melodies with its two ASR's that can be chained to form a single 6 channel ASR) usinf 3 VCO's. or you could use the ASR's clocked at audio rate as a weird wave processor....

you can further quantize various sequencer channels with the Quantizer, or quantize the outputs of the ASR's...

with the 'Divide by N Comp' you get a comparator, a clock divider up to /31 (with odd and even clock divisions), an audio wave divider to create subharmonics, a staircase wave generator with N steps, (all these with the N defined manually or via VC) a tool to create sharp clocking pulses, etc...

the Quantizer features six channels of quantizing plus two toggle switches, in addition to its gate input jacks, for selection of intervallic step variants (manualy or via VC).

and of course the 'VC Timegen Clock' that can act as vc lag, vc AD, vc LFO, lowpass VCF, vc-clock source, audio divider, envelope follower, etc...

put all these together for countless more applications.

ASR/QUAN price: 1700 USD."

AHMW 2009 Pics by tragedybysyntax

You can find more pics on muff's forum here. Cool bunnies.

via epinastyelektronix in the comments of this post.

I added an AHMW label below for all posts mentioning AHMW including prior years. Click on it to see them.