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Game Audio: Selected Student Works

Game Audio: Selected Student Works from Matt Ganucheau on Vimeo.
"This video is a combination of selected student final projects from the Expression College for Digital Arts' Game Audio class. The students are required to remix the classic video game Space Invaders by creating their own generative audio engine inside max/msp. For more information please visit expression.edu."

Rare Yamaha Prototype Synth DX-2000

via this Craigslist post
"Hi, this is a prototype synth (DX-2000) from Yamaha I bought off of some one who worked there. It was a concept that was never actualized. The synth works identically to the FM8 software and has several effects and operators can call up pre recorded wav sounds which can be loaded in via USB. It features a sequencer and 200 notes polyphony. I have two and am selling one. The unit is one of a kind, you will not find this any where else. I will consider any trades or offers." Anyone know more about this? I sent an email in to see if I can get some shots. I'll report back if they come in.

Update: image from Chip Collection.

New Modules from stg/soundlabs

the Time Buffer
"The Time Buffer is a critical element of the Time modules series. It acts as an inlet, conditioner, and buffered distributor for DIN sync (or Sync 24) from your drum machine or other source of Sync 24 to the Time modules in your modular synthesiser. There is also a courtesy outlet so you don't lose that precious DIN sync output on your master device. For some reason they kept on making boxes that had a DIN jack for sync input or output but never through! Here's a diagram to explain a bit more visually how it all fits together in an example use scenario:" [link]

the Voltage Mini-Store
"The Voltage Mini-Store is an 8 stage voltage sequencer which draws syncronisation from the Time Buffer, to allow it to run at musically-useful divisions of quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes. There is a toggle to select its clock divisor, and this selection does not become active until the sequencer returns to stage one. Because of this behaviour logic, not only the dials but the divisor control itself becomes an exciting performance control in a live or studio situation." [link to more info]

the Trigger Mini-Store
"The Trigger Mini-Store is a 16 stage trigger sequencer which draws syncronisation from the Time Buffer, to allow it to run at musically-useful divisions of quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes. There is a toggle to select its clock divisor, and this selection does not become active until the sequencer returns to stage one or advances to stage nine. Because of this behaviour logic, not only the toggle switches but the divisor control itself becomes an exciting performance control in a live or studio situation." [link to more info]

the Shift Manager
"The Shift Manager connects to up to three Mini-Store units (labeled left, middle, and right) and allows you to control their sequence length and behaviour. These functions are thoroughly delineated in their respective product pages, located here and here.

Here's a diagram to explain a bit more visually how it all fits together in an example use scenario:" [link]

Commodore 64 DIY Custom Retro Laptop

Custom C64 laptop with SID chip. Full details on The Official Site of Benjamin J Heckendorn.

via Retro Thing

SID test YouTube via benheckdotcom

"Testing the SID chip on the C64 laptop. Sometimes they go bad, sometimes C64's have them stripped out, so it's important to know it works. What's a C64 without sound?" Commodore 64 Laptop Demo

"See files copied from a PC! See those files loaded onto the Commodore 64 laptop! Be amazed with wonderment!"

C64 test

"Testing the 1541-III SD "disk drive" on the C64 laptop for the first time."

Messing Around with Boss SYB-3

Details at DyLAB's MySpace

EKO EKOSYNTH 1974

images via this auction

"Extremely rare analog mono synthesizer, made in Italy in 1974...
Technical Data:
Voices: 1
VCO: 1x (Square, Pulse, Saw) + Glide
VCF: 1x Lowpass (12dB? 24dB? I don't know - sorry ;-)
VCA: 1x
LFO: 1x (Square, Saw, Sine) routed to VCO, VCF, VCA and controlled via the parameters "Vibrato", "Wah Wah" and "Tremolo"
Envelopes 2x ADSR
Presets: Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Woodblock, Fuzz Guitar, Spinet, Musical Saw, Violin, Viola, Cello,
Growle
Conections: Out Hi, Out Low (1/4''), Expression Pedal (MIDI-like socket)

ENGLISH & ITALIAN LANGUAGE FULL USER & SERVICE MANUAL DOWNLOAD HERE"

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CS01 and Poly 61 DIY music

YouTube via nathanielscott
"A simple motiff played on a Yamaha CS01 and a Korg Poly 61. I am using no fancy editing or any sync devices, just a stereo delay on the CS01. The CS01 is a bit beat up. I received as a present from my 9th birthday 26 years ago and in those 26 years I have mangled the poor little synth. Just last week though I started restoring it to a more playable condition, starting with tuning up the resonance filter."

Moog on Sesame Street

Sesame Street - Elephants (big, bigger, biggest)

video upload by I'mThisGuy

"Animated segment featuring some nifty Moog synthesizer music. There were several segments made for Sesame Street and The Electric Company that used this type of music, I'll try to put together a playlist of them when I get a chance."

Classic Sesame Street animation - truck puzzle

video upload by NantoVision

"A stop-motion slide puzzle, with some great Moog synthesizer sounds. There are two more of these segments, "It's an Elephant" and "It's a Boy"."