Wednesday, April 08, 2009
DJ Mag - Review the Novation Nocturn
YouTube via djmagtv
"The Nocturn Midi controller gets the look over, plus programming tips and tricks for advanced users."
Roland MC-202 CV/ Gate input modification
YouTube via pac209
"The video shows the MC-202 receiving CV/ Gate directly instead of lag/ delay thru internal processor. You can find the mod instruction on http://www.cykong.com/Synth..."
Novation Bass-Station synthesizer
flickr by Cormac Phelanfull size
"I recently picked up this old analogue synth from a guy in London. Run through a zVex Fuzz Factory and ProCo Rat, it's a dirty, filthy monster of a yoke! Plus, it manages to do a *very* convincing TB-303 impression."
totally wired electronic festival in köln
I have a rule that I only post synths. Now and then I make the exception by posting on some of the people of interest behind the world of synths - the movers and shakers so to speak. Manufacturers usually get the post, but in this case it's two people that bring you synth content on a regular basis, Aliens Project and moogulator of sequencer.de. If you are lucky enough to be in the area, go check them out. I'm curious if monome is directly affiliated with http://monome.org. If anyone knows feel free to comment.
【Mac音ナナ】キラッ☆ feat. Nana
YouTube via F8sequence
"original『キラッ☆』sц〜мi
http://gbuc.net/modules/myalbum/photo...
music：sц〜мi
words：邪楽
PHOTO：Caesar Sebastian
I played with Mac音ナナ [Mac-ne Nana]
it's human voice synthesis library, recorded AIFF data of 104 pronunciation of the hiragana letter such as voiced sound, in a voice of familiar voice actor / Ikezawa Haruna."
Clavia May Release Limited Run of Nord Modular G2 DSP Expansion Boards
If you have a G2 or plan on getting one, read this now. via James:
"There is a tread on electro-music.com that would be of keen interest to all Nord Modular G2 owners who don't have the DSP expansion, It appears that Clavia may do a new run of PCBs if the order numbers are high enough, in this case over 50. Here is the post that started it all:
'Clavia reacted possitively on the request to make a new run of the G2 expansion boards.
There are some restrictions though...
1 Clavia wants to sell at least 50 expansion boards to make it profit able.
2 All the components have to be available still
3 Clavia doesn't sell to private costumers, so there has to be a kind of distributor
4 The price isn't set yet.
So at first a poll how many users want an expansion board.
After 50 positive reaction will be counted in this poll, to which a post must be added containing your name and country (which will give an indication about distributing the boards over the world), Clavia can investigate if production is possible and calculate the price.
electro-music.com will notify everyone by Personal Mail.
Note the prices may not be the same world wide due to distributors and shipping costs.
Maybe it's a good thing to arrange something about 'payments in advance'.
Note Wout Blommers is only the go-between!
This poll is only a first step in the whole process...
If there are any problems or a break down I'll let you know in this thread. '
Also another user contacted Clavia not knowing of the previous thread and got this response:
'Hi
This is usually not feasible, since we do not sell direct to end users. Theoretically, we then need to find a way to have dealers in various locations (europe and the US e.g.) to take prepaid orders, and this is a huge undertaking, which dealers usually are not up to - it may seem simple enough, but it is quite difficult to administrate.
We do not have the actual PCB anymore, and the smallest run we could possibly manufacture would be 50 units. We are not going to put this expansion in stock, so the only chance would be if e.g. one european webshop and one US based webshop would be interested in purchasing the whole, final production run of these units. The retail price would then be the same as the last retail, before we cut the price for the "last" units that we had in stock, in the realms of approx. 300 euros plus tax per unit.
In short, if we get an order from a distributor (who then probably would have to have an firm order from a retailer/shop) of 50 units, or two orders from 2 distributors equalling to the same number of units, this could be done.
Best regards,
Tomas Johansson
Product Manager - Clavia DMI AB'
So please spread the word - Matrixsynth reaches so many people that I'm sure it will help allot - I need one of these myself!
-James husted"
If you are interested go vote on the electro-music.com thread.
Update via TonyK in the comments: "And the link to the Encore DSP expansion board is: http://www.encoreelectronics.com/cont_dsp1.html"
"There is a tread on electro-music.com that would be of keen interest to all Nord Modular G2 owners who don't have the DSP expansion, It appears that Clavia may do a new run of PCBs if the order numbers are high enough, in this case over 50. Here is the post that started it all:
'Clavia reacted possitively on the request to make a new run of the G2 expansion boards.
There are some restrictions though...
1 Clavia wants to sell at least 50 expansion boards to make it profit able.
2 All the components have to be available still
3 Clavia doesn't sell to private costumers, so there has to be a kind of distributor
4 The price isn't set yet.
So at first a poll how many users want an expansion board.
After 50 positive reaction will be counted in this poll, to which a post must be added containing your name and country (which will give an indication about distributing the boards over the world), Clavia can investigate if production is possible and calculate the price.
electro-music.com will notify everyone by Personal Mail.
Note the prices may not be the same world wide due to distributors and shipping costs.
Maybe it's a good thing to arrange something about 'payments in advance'.
Note Wout Blommers is only the go-between!
This poll is only a first step in the whole process...
If there are any problems or a break down I'll let you know in this thread. '
Also another user contacted Clavia not knowing of the previous thread and got this response:
'Hi
This is usually not feasible, since we do not sell direct to end users. Theoretically, we then need to find a way to have dealers in various locations (europe and the US e.g.) to take prepaid orders, and this is a huge undertaking, which dealers usually are not up to - it may seem simple enough, but it is quite difficult to administrate.
We do not have the actual PCB anymore, and the smallest run we could possibly manufacture would be 50 units. We are not going to put this expansion in stock, so the only chance would be if e.g. one european webshop and one US based webshop would be interested in purchasing the whole, final production run of these units. The retail price would then be the same as the last retail, before we cut the price for the "last" units that we had in stock, in the realms of approx. 300 euros plus tax per unit.
In short, if we get an order from a distributor (who then probably would have to have an firm order from a retailer/shop) of 50 units, or two orders from 2 distributors equalling to the same number of units, this could be done.
Best regards,
Tomas Johansson
Product Manager - Clavia DMI AB'
So please spread the word - Matrixsynth reaches so many people that I'm sure it will help allot - I need one of these myself!
-James husted"
If you are interested go vote on the electro-music.com thread.
Update via TonyK in the comments: "And the link to the Encore DSP expansion board is: http://www.encoreelectronics.com/cont_dsp1.html"
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