Elektrokaos Minimal Techno Nord Modular G2 Performance 1301-vs3

YouTube via MASCHINENMUSIKREC
"Elektrokaos : Minimal Techno Live Performance auf dem Clavia Nord Modular G 2
Part 3 von 6 Recorded live from the Nord Modular G 2 Synthesizer."

Elektrokaos Minimal Techno Nord Modular G2 Performance 1301-vs2

Simple Guitar Synthesizer Reaktor 5.0 Roland GR-300

YouTube via WayneJoness
"I was inspired by a Moog Freq Pedal demo. I took my monophonic Fatman synthesizer, and used an external input (guitar) as the sync source for oscillator 2. Oscillator 1 is still on the control panel, but it does nothing. The external input (guitar) forces the sync of Oscillator 2, making it track the pitch of the guitar. Making this work well depends on the settings of the input compressor, noise gate, and a low pass filter used to roll off the treble from the guitar. These elements are common to all guitar synthesizers. I was amazed at how well the whole thing works with minor tweaking. This unit is monophonic. If you could input each string individually, as with a hex pickup, you could create a very workable polyphonic guitar synthesizer in software only. The other thing needed is a good envelope follower. The file is on the Native Instruments website, available for improvements from other user. Search for SIMPLE_GTR_SYNTH.ens."

Nodal

YouTube via pmcskeeter
"A live performance of music created using Nodal 1.1 by Peter Mcilwain.
Nodal is free software that works on both OSX and Windows. To download it go to:
http://www.csse.monash.edu...."
You might remember Nodal from this post.

PPG Modular Pics

You can find the shots and description in German on Aliens Project. Googlish here.

Carlos Futura - Sound Fantasy (1979)

"Equipment used:
Roland Systme 700 with Sequencer
Audior Delay & Phase-Shifting Units
Oberheim Polyphonic Synthesizer with Programmer
ARP 2600 Synthesizer
Polymoog & Synare Percussion Synthesizers
Roland Micro Composer MC 8"

You can find it on 36 15 MOOG

Richard Lainhart - Arts Center of Capital Region 3/28/09

YouTube via rustyanalog Seven vids. Six videos of performance and seventh is a talk at the intermission.
"Richard Lainhart, award-winning composer and filmmaker, presented a concert of live electronic music at the Arts Center of the Capital Region, featuring new works and improvisations for high-definition film projection and synthesizer in quadraphonic sound. Richard performed with his Buchla 200e modular analog synthesizer, controlled by the Haken Continuum Fingerboard, an innovative 3-dimensional keyboard."

Exploring the Waldorf Q Keyboard

YouTube via attorks
"This a probably a boring video if you are not interested in the Waldorf Q Keyboard. The Doepfer MAQ16/3 sequencer is driving the Synthesizers.com with a bass sound and the self-built Modular with the accompanying melody. The internal sequencer of the Waldorf Q Keyboard is synchronized with the MAQ16/3 MIDI clock doing a 8 step sequence which I transpose with the keyboard (to make the music a little bit less boring ;-). Fiddling with various dials but mainly the pulse width dials on VCO 1 and 2 to scan through the wave tables of the Alt1 wave selection, with the cutoff, resonance and envelop amount for the 24dB lowpass filter and with the decay for the filter ADSR. At 09:35 I switch to the PPG filter but then the video almost ends. You can see or download the full version from my website in a few days."

OXYGENE 4 COVER (EXTENDED VERSION) played on VINTAGE SYNTHS

YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"I recorded this cover of OXYGENE IV - music by Jean-Michel Jarre. Every sound was played by hand and recorded onto multitrack without MIDI - like Jarre did in 1976. It was hard work - it required good timing - but I enjoyed the recording process very much! At the first picture in the video you can see a part of my studio. I used only the following vintage analog synthesizers / instruments:

EMINENT 310 U (for the strings and pads with Small Stone)
KORG MINIPOPS 7 DRUMBOX
ARP ODYSSEY (brass-like lead sound)
KORG MS-20 (bass)
MOOG MICROMOOG for the sequencer sound, white noise FX and the lead sound with ELECTRIC MISTRESS flanger.

It took three days to record and mix this track. Recording and mixing was doing digitally with LOGIC - I also used the reverb and delay plugins - as well as some equalizer plugs.

Sure, Jarre used not exactly the same instruments - (I don't have a RMI or an ARP 2600). However, the ARP Odyssey that I used is the small brother of the 2600 and its basic sound is similar). For the RMI sounds I used the Micromoog, which has very fast envelopes.

As a big JMJ fan I always wanted to make a very good OXYGENE 4 cover - as a maxi-single version, that never existed. For all JMJ fans, here it is...

There are many Oxygene 4 covers on YouTube... but to come as close to the original as this, you need analog equipment - you will not get such a sound from digital stuff.

It is recorded in stereo, enjoy it..."

Korg MS Series - Multifunctional Monophonism

YouTube via Newueel
"This powerful analogue setup with 3 monophonic synths and an analogue sequencer shows the real power of these great little machines!

The MS-50 has a very interesting stereo panning patch. Both MS-50 VCA's are using the same sound source, but the outputs are routed to different channels/speakers. VCA1 (left speaker) is controlled by EG1 OUT. VCA2 (right speaker) is controlled by EG1 REV OUT (reversed output). This way the amp levels for both speakers are always the opposite of each other.
The fade time between the speakers is controlled by the EG1 attack (R2L) and delay time (L2R). EG1 is triggered once every 32 steps (by SQ-10 + MS-50 divider), so the stereo panning cycle is synched with the other SQ-10 patterns.
Also a flanger+delay (from the Kaoss pad) is added to the MS-50 (but the stereo effect is from the MS-50!).

The MS-20's are basically playing the drum parts, but this video also shows how to mix this with melodic parts.

Most of my actions are explained in the video, so just watch and enjoy!"

Playing around with a beat

YouTube via hoeppc KORG Radias
"This is the result of me having enough time left for programming a beat sitting on the couch inside my living room. If this machine would have battery power I'd take it outside."