Moog Modular in Second Life

Moog Modular sous l'eau from deb76 on Vimeo.
"J'avais déjà essayé le Moog Modular sur Seconde Life et ça m'avait bien plus comme dans la vraie vie. Depuis, j'écumais les différents magasins de musique virtuel pour en trouver un. C'est fait depuis hier mardi, j'en ai trouvé un très beau. J'ai même investi dans un orgue hammond ainsi qu'un très beau piano Steinway. Et je ne parle pas des guitares.
En attendant quelque chose de plus construit, une petite démo sous l'eau avec ce Moog Modular."
Googlish:
"I had already tried the Moog Modular on Second Life and it's more like me in real life. Since then, j'écumais different virtual music stores to find one. This is done since yesterday, Tuesday, I found very beautiful. I even invested in a hammond organ and a beautiful Steinway piano. And I am not talking about guitars.
Pending something more constructed, a small demo under water with the Moog Modular."


Essai sur un Moog Modular sur Seconde Life from deb76 on Vimeo.
"First mounting Second Life. I like to find sites where you can try visual instruments, discover their potential for animation, gestures being played.
here a test on a virtual Moog Modular. It was a small impromptu much to me and suddenly I nvest in a big Moog Modular in my life.
Of course, the sound was then fitted with a sequence that I made with the Moog Modular V2 Arturia combined with arpeggiator Energy XT."

via Califaudio http://secondlife.com/

Eraser - Bent 2008 Minneapolis

Eraser - Bent 2008 Minneapolis from Derek Sajbel on Vimeo.
"from the upcoming DVD from absurdity.biz's Circuit Bending Documentary Project. Available at the 2009 Bent Festival and soon on the intertubes"

Roland D-50 Bass

YouTube via hvrhd1000u
"Some music from a video project I've been working on recently."
I'm guessing that's a Yamaha S80 on strings.

Musikmesse: Novation 25SL MkII - Frankfurt MusikMesse 2009

YouTube via soundonsoundvideo. "USB MIDI Controller"

Nintendo NES Synth Chip?

Clawjob wrote in wondering if there were any projects out there that use the Nintendo NES sound engine similar to the Midibox SID. So far the majority of what's out there seem to be modded NES systems using the full old case. Anyone know why this might be? The Commodore 64 (C64) SID chip has been used in the Electron SIDStation, Midibox projects and more. Is there anything like this for the NES? I'm guessing the chip isn't slotted making it difficult to separate from the motherboard, but I honestly haven't looked into it. If anyone knows, feel free to comment. I did a quick scrub on the Nintendo label as well as a search on NES and nothing as dedicated as the ucapps Midibox SID came up.

Thom Yorke & the synthesizer

flickr by georgiosp

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"synthesizer" below

Roland SH-201

"artwork by Left Hand Lab"

Elsita guts

flickr by mesak

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"4 sound modules + master section. DIN jacks changed to normal plug jacks by Kujanen. Post soviet leathal power & connections also fixed something like closer to EU regulations."

click here for prior posts featuring some shots of the outside.

"Moog" filter

flickr by mesak
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"hand made (by "Blue" microphone company?) latvian moog filter copy. has ADSR, ADSR depth, gate in (& cv in hack by Kujanen) VOL, emphasis, reso..."


description for inside shot: "Post soviet leathal power & connections also fixed something like closer to EU regulations."

Place of Dead Roads - WS Burroughs and DSI Prophet '08

listen to the track on khoral's Cafe 80

Cactus DesertDrums

via this auction

"Cactus Desert Drums electronic synth drum brain - a very rare UK-designed electronic drum module from the '80s. There's not much information available about this, but I believe it was manufactured in the UK in the '80s in competition with companies like Simmons. Like the Simmons SDSV, it's a modular design - it has 5 instruments fitted, and you can insert up to 5 extra cards - one has been added here. There are 10 trigger inputs and a separate output for each instrument plus a stereo mix output. Each instrument has a range of controls such as pitch, decay and filter, and there's a headphone socket and a digital interface socket of some kind. It's big, heavy, fairly battered and has wooden end cheeks.

It's sort of working - each instrument makes a sound when triggered, and all the knobs seem to do something. I triggered it using a drum machine, but you can use pads, clicks from tape, whatever. The sounds are a bit odd - they should be Bass, Snare, Tom 1, Tom 2, Tom 3 and Digital Tom, but they're actually more like a white noise splash, a thump, a squeak, an orchestral hit, a clank and and a clap. Obviously the sound chips have been modified - I'm not sure whether they are compatible with Simmons chips. So it does make a wide variety of weird noises, but perhaps not what you would expect. No substitute for a modern digital drum kit then, but possibly useful for weird sounds, modification, spares for another Cactus kit, or experimentation."
You can find some specs and an additional image on sequencer.de