Musikmesse: See Akai's new MPD18 and Miniak synth at Frankfurt 09

YouTube via musicradartv
"The folks at Akai give MusicRadar the skinny on what's new for Musikmesse 2009: the MPD18 USB pad controller and the Miniak virtual analogue synth."

Musikmesse: Nord's two-keyboard C2 Combo Organ at Frankfurt 09

YouTube via musicradartv

"Nord's new babies at Frankfurt Musikmesse: the C2 Combo Organ and its sister the Pedal Keys 27 bass pedal keyboard."

The Technics U 90 playing with itself

YouTube via RothHandle
"A short film of Matti Bye enjoying the remarkable autokomp section of the Technics u-90

This little mobile snippet was shot at my Studio, Roth Händle. It is located in Sundbyberg about 20 minutes from the centre of Stockholm. If you are curious to learn more about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu"

Recording the Technics U 90 Church organ bass

Jerry Markham plays Like to Get to Know You Well - Howard Jones cover

YouTube via jerrymarkham
"I put this together to demonstrate Roland's RPS (Realtime Phrase Sequencing) integration into my current keyboard setup. In this video, Roland JP-8000 for bass and brass. Roland XP-60 for pads and RPS. The two phrases were preprogrammed and assigned to the lower two (unused) keys. You'll notice me changing patches between parts of the song. The phrases are staying in time with the internal sequencer clock that is inaudible. I programmed the drum sounds to sound like the EMU Drumulator and SImmons SDSV that Howard was using in 82-83. In addition, the backing sequence was recreated to sound like the Sequential Circuits Pro One that Howard also used around 82-83. So, hopefully you get an idea of what it looked like from behind the keyboard, except Howard had to lug around much more gear. Leave your comments. Would love to hear from you. I'll be playing my own songs in this format in the DFW area in 2009-2010. Look me up at a show."

Analog-ish mess in the kitchen. Monomachine, jomox 888 & future retro 777

YouTube via Thirstmonkey
"Just messing around with the beatboxes in my friends kitchen. I had all this stuff packed in a pelican case to drag around India but recorded hardly anything while I was there. But in the kitchen, that's another story...

PS. if you get bored with the loop-out then check-out the attractive waste bin in the background. sweet!"

MIDI Triwave with Bend Matrix Sequencer (part 1)

video upload by 4mspedals

"MIDI Triwave Picogenerator controlled by the sequencer on the Bend Matrix. Audio is from the Triwave only. Triwave is accepting MIDI Note on/off commands to generate pitches on the internal analogue oscillators, and is also being driven by it's own internal analogue LFOs. From 4ms Pedals"

MIDI Triwave (with Bend Matrix sequencer)

Musikmesse: Klangwabe

http://www.klangwabe.de

Mystery synth from this post solved.

via swissdoc

Musikmesse: The Musikmesse via Sonic State

MESSE09: Doepfer Dark Energy

Be sure to see Sonic State's Musikmesse coverage for more.
A TON of stuff went up. The videos here are just a small excerpt.

MESSE09: Novation's New Remote SL MKII

See the write-up on this one.

MESSE09: EOWave's Persephone Mark II


MESSE09: Akai's MPD18

ROCK SCHOOL - Series 2 - Episode 3 (part 1 of 3)

YouTube via tomstimemachine. sent my way via khoral

"Taking over from where the first series left off, the second set of ROCKSCHOOL television programs focuses its attention on new technology and its implications for the musicians of the day.

Synthesisers, samplers, sequencers and drum machines are all covered, as are electronic drum systems, computer hardware and software (remember this is 1987 - so this is for retro-heads only) and synthesisers for guitar and bass. There are also tips on how to make the most of the human voice, and on songwriting and arrangement.

This series was shown on TV in the UK during 1987.

EPISODE THREE

EIGHTIES SYNTHPOP
CLIP OF THE YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA IN 1979, CLIP OF BRONSKI BEAT.

SO ! - HOW DO YOU MAKE UP THESE SINGLE NOTE MELODIES ?
MAJOR AND MINOR SCALES, TRIADS, CHORDS, CHORD INVERSIONS AND TWO-HANDED KEYBOARD PLAYING.

THE VOCALS
CLIP FROM JAMES BROWN, MIDGE URE ON VOCAL TECHNIQUE AND GRAHAM BONNETT ON LOOKING AFTER YOUR VOICE, CLIP FROM EURYTHMICS."

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dorkbot chicago and wheresthepartyat - new DIY Kit

via brian c
"went to dorkbot chicago tonight... ..had a blast

after a hiatus dorkbot is re-forming and meeting the last thursday of every month

tonight's presenter was todd bailey presenting his variable bit sampler called wheresthepartyat

it will soon be a kit for sale like the x0xb0x

it is a midi controllable sampler sort of like a casio sk1 engine on steroids

todd demoed it and talked about the several generations the design went thru and the design decisions along the way

totally nerdy...totally fun

see better pics [and a ton of more info] at todd's site

more on dorkbot chicago at
http://www.enemysound.com/2009/03/dorkbot-chicago-returns.html

i'm gonna do a presentation some night on digital versus analog distortion with my new metasonix assblaster and agonizer compared to a an alesis bitrman and frostwave sonic alienator

and for more on dorkbot global see http://dorkbot.org/

that's a cool organization

peace
brian"
some more images via
Where's the Party At
8-bit Bendable Sampler

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