MATRIXSYNTH

SX150 stylus mod

YouTube via karenevil
"If you use graphite pencil as a stylus for SX150, you get better playability and long lasting carbon electrode.

For more detail, visit
http://karenevil.blogspot.com/2009/01..."
Gakken SX-150 on Ebay

Gakken SX-150 Analog Synthesizer Demo

YouTube via karenevil
"The controller is not good for serious play but this "Toy" is generating good sound."
You can still find a few of these on Ebay here.

Demonstration of the Gakken SX-150 Synthesizer Part 1

YouTube via lavieenjaune
"Last week we received two Gakken SX-150 Synths from the Make store:-) Looking around Youtube we realized that there were not that many videos that demonstrated full potential of this little synth so we decided to pick a few of our favorite settings and playing methods and post them here. If you do buy one of these don't even bother with the build in speaker plug it straight into an amp with a little reverb and you are in business."

Demonstration of the Gakken SX-150 Synthesizer Part 2

Tesla Coils at SEAMUS - "Let's Go" by The Cars

YouTube via marksmartus
Synth trivia: the lead sync sound is the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. It was a default patch programmed by none other than John Bowen. You can here him talk about it in this post - video 6 at 2:08.

video description
"This was performed as an encore at the SEAMUS (Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States) conference at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 18th, 2009. The Tesla coils were built by Steve Ward, Jeff Larson, and Terry Blake. Steve Ward and I worked out a control system to allow the coils to produce a variey of sounds, and I arranged the song for the coils. The video was posted by jenaber27, then I added some of the original Cars song to the audio and removed the embarrassing false start. :)"

BugBrand Weevils

via BugBrandBlog

Three Weevils
Postcard // SYN1 // Board

Bottom shot is the back of the SYN1

http://bugbrand.co.uk/

The Mixdown

flickr by The Devil in the Detail

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"Jack working on the final mixdown of his electro-pop masterpiece. He was having some trouble with the A&R rep at his indie label but got that sorted with a good music lawyer. Now if only he'd stop trying to chase the backing girls!"

Roland JP-8080 and KORG MicroKONTROL

Synth

flickr by Rinon.sb
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KORG MicroKORG

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Gear

flickr by rocklifter

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KORG Mono/Poly
Electribes EA-1 and ER-1
Electrix Filter Factory

MC09 vs Jomox09 Guitar Bass Sampling MINIMAL ELECTRO SOUL

YouTube via massivebeatzz
"Played a guitar + mini bass track into Roland's MC-09 Mono Synth Analog 303 Modeling with 4 track Looper SAmpler built in. This thing can do more, such as step filtering on the recorded samples which I will explore next time. Linked for some minimal beat-building with the Jomox xBase 09 via MIDI. Unfortunately i only had a mono out cable to get back the sum into the computer - but i wanted to catch this on the fly quickly."