kaossilator saba7sounds live in car :)

YouTube via sabathehellborn "Kaossilator jam session in my car"

Musikmesse: Gigantic modular synth: Doepfer A-100 at Frankfurt 2009

YouTube via musicradartv
"Doepfer's A-100 Analog Modular System, proudly on display at Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009."
There's some Livewire and Plan B in there as well.

akai ewi and circuit bent casio cz 101 digital midi synth

YouTube via spunkytoofers
"akai ewi4000s is used as a controller. the circuit bent casio cz-101 is basically a chaotic distortion synthesizer in which the bends reacts to the oscillators, envelopes, and waves of the casio cz-101 so each sound preset or user sound can have different results. adding polyphony can create new sounds completely and the denser it gets the wilder the sound. upper registers produce extreme digital aliasing artifacts with different bends and gets stranger with more amount of polyphony."

Musikmesse: Moonmodular M552 CV2MIDI converter - single fire

YouTube via moonmodular. see these posts for more.
"The 960 | A | again for CV, in "reset" mode. (2steps) A single trigger fires the 960 to set position #4., as you can see. (e.g. one posi. trig out of the M564 ore one out from the M563e.) The 960 | B | row, feets the velocity of the Nord Rack2x, wich is routed to the "filter cut of". (The trigger comes, as you can imagine, from the M563v2) PS. I´ am sorry for the floor noises... ;-|"

Afterwork fun with Moonmodular gear

YouTube via moonmodular
"Used : 1 x 960, 1 x M564, (you can´t see, they are on top) 1 x M563v2, the new M552 and one voice from the Nord."

Musikmesse: A portable studio: Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100

YouTube via musicradartv
"Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009 sees Cakewalk release another new hardware option - the Sonar V-Studio 100 - and this time it's for other DAWs as well as Sonar..."

Musikmesse: Layman's Reviews Looks at the Harrington 1200+ VST

"The full feature list includes:
* Three oscillators with PWM and SMS
* Enhanced LFO
* Full Modulation & Controller Routing
* Pink/brown/ginger noise generator
* New "Fast" tempo
* Hold & Re-ticker with FRiB
* Extended key signature range (G to U)
* Mono & Poly Unison Modes (up to 8 voice poly unison).
* Gender spread with full blend
* Ring Modulation
* External Audio Input with H1200+ FX version"
More info: http://www.laymansreviews.com/news_item.php?id=163
And of course...

Admin: First round of Musikmesse posts are up.

Back to playing catch up on regular programming for a bit. Remember, you can click on the Musikmesse label in any Musikmesse post to filter out the rest. Messe posts will continue to come in intermixed with non-messe posts.

Musikmesse: Numark at Musikmesse

"· TOTAL CONTROL [pictured] Bundled with Native Instruments TraktorLE software: TOTAL CONTROL is a powerful software controller for performing and producing with DJ software. TraktorLE gives DJs four optional layouts, including cover art.

CDMIX 1: A dual CD player and mixer in one easy-to-carry unit for mobile DJs. In addition to standard single-track and continuous playback, CDMIX 1’s programmable playback mode enables DJs to set up a sequence of tracks for convenient playback.

· CDN22 MK5: A dual-CD player for mobile DJs and club installs. The CDN22 MK5 has standard RCA outputs for connection to nearly any audio system, and it also has a lossless S/PDIF digital output for even lower-noise playback.

· CDN88 MP3: DJs can scratch in real time using CDN88 MP3’s dual jog wheels and create two different seamless loops, including smart looping with three hot-stutter starts on each deck for extensive creative capability.

· MP302: A highly reliable, dual-deck MP3/CD player. MP302 enables DJs to play all of their CDs and MP3 CDs to save on transport weight. MP302 also has Fader Start, which can automatically start cued-up playback when the DJ moves the crossfader on a compatible mixer.

If you’ll be at Musikmesse, please visit B 21 in Hall 5.0 to check out new products from Numark first-hand."

http://www.numark.com/newmesse09

Musikmesse: TC-Helicon announce VoiceTone Synth

"TC-Helicon announce VoiceTone Synth – radical vocal processing in a pedal
April 1, 2009 | 09:00:00 AM
Incredible new vocal processing pedal from TC-Helicon.

VoiceTone Synth brings together a collection of extreme exotic and contemporary sonic effects, including jagged HardTuneTM effects, classic Vocoder effects, a voice-controlled synthesizer and vocal distortion and megaphone effects. Now vocalists or anyone looking to add a modern edge to their live performances and studio productions can dial-in these effects instantly with the press of a footswitch.

HardTune
The jagged, stair-stepped vocal sound of key-based hard tuning is everywhere in contemporary R&B, Hip Hop and Electronica. This feature has eluded the majority of performing musicians until VoiceTone Synth came along. Now musicians can produce this effect live by simply recalling a preset and hitting the ‘On’ button. Easy key input methods include auto-instrument sensing or pushbuttons with a clear display of the current key. Other features of the HardTune effect include dry voice mixing, octave shift and character modification.

Vocoder
The vocoder in VoiceTone Synth is called 'Massive-Band' for a reason. It effectively scales resolution from ultra-clearly-enunciated Robot voices to the sound of the classic, analog low-band-count vocoders we all know and love. The benefit is that, while typical vocoders require a lot of pre-processing like distortion and EQ to hear the effect properly, with the VoiceTone Synth vocoder effect you can input signals such as clean acoustic guitar and vocode perfectly for sounds that until now have been impossible to achieve.

Voice-controlled Synth
The Vocoder also features a voice-controlled synth mode – considered by many as the Holy Grail for vocoding. Prior to VoiceTone Synth, vocoding required your voice (the exciter), and an instrument input (the carrier) to make cool vocoded sounds. Of course VoiceTone Synth supports the dual input method, but for artists who don't have another instrument or don't play one, VoiceTone Synth can generate a synth part directly from your vocal and vocode that. The result? Generated vocoder parts with one input: your voice.

VoiceTone Synth - key features
* HardTune effect with user-selectable key or instrument-sensing
* Vocoder carrier can be driven by internal voice-controlled synth or instrument input (such as guitar)
* Transducer effects, such as megaphones, distortion and radio voices
* All effects can run simultaneously
* Includes Tone feature for adaptive live engineer sound processing
* Presets that can be edited and stored
* Instrument Thru allows normal instrument amplification and vocoding"