Day Tripper (YMO)

YouTube via denha. via fischek
"yuuki is performing Day Tripper."

Spectralis 2 Teaser 2

YouTube via SCHAAFJOERG
"Radikal Technologies Spectralis 2
It's more fun than compute..."
Note Joerg was the man behind the Quasimidi Polymorph which I own. It's a great machine. Extremely intuitive and just an outright pleasure to work with. Highly, highly recommended. If I were buying today, I'd definitely pick up a Spectralis 2. I love this guys approach to synthesis and UI/design. He's a master at sequencing interfaces.

Ibanez AD80 repair. Documenting a ghost in the machine.

YouTube via sounddoctorin. vox continental
"Bob Weigel of Sound Doctorin' ( http://www.sounddoctorin.com ) shows some of the interesting effects attainable from a classic digital delay unit, the AD80 by Ibanez, during a repair attempt. To clarify what I'm saying about the circuitry in the video, this pedal uses two FET's as alternating switches for the bypass or effect signals. A flip flop circuit turns on one of them at a time and toggles of course when the switch is depressed. I've never seen my breath have quite so much conductivity. I must be eating metal flakes in my diet. Because there are 1M resistors coming from the flip flop voltages (which were quite steady at about 10V on the FET that is supposed to be turned on during the cutting out effect you witness in the video) and attaching to .047uF filter capacitors (grounded on the other side) and to the cathode of a diode, the anode of which attaches to the gate of the FET switch. The voltage at the point where the filter cap is is what was collapsing to a few volts. Even at 8.some volts though there is enough current drain from the gate to shut off the FET switch. But I saw the voltage fall to just a volt or two when I was breathing on it. Well the clear cote (a super low conductive paint basically) seems to have done the job at protecting it from ...conductive air :-). If anyone has studied more into this effect let me know."

swinging clock triggers sent to modular sequencer with the machinedrum

YouTube via capougello

circuit bent alesis hr 16 roland sh1 juno 106 live jam

YouTube via SQUARENOISE

x0xb0x

flickr by henrikgo
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white x0xb0x

PPG Wave 2.2

flickr set by krunkwerke
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Update via Qwave in the comments: "Notice the missprint above the lower right knob:
ENV_F_LOPE

My PPG wave 2.2 had the very same print. And I know of several others. Do all PPG waves 2.2 have this error?
The PPG wave 2.3 does not have this error."

Update via Steamy Vicks in the comments: "Check the parameter list under the display - VELOSITY. Another error.

My 2.2 has the envelope typo too, so yes - from what I've seen, all 2.2 models have these errors. The 2.3 models do not."

See bottom shot.

Baltimore SDIY Group

flickr by anthony mattox
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"The Balitmore SDIY Group playing at Robot Fest.

You can read more about the event in my blog."

Barry Ptolemy's Transcendent Man

"a portrait of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil" see the write-up on comingsoon.net and Tribeca Film.
via https://twitter.com/noisesource

Program Notes via Tribeca Film:
"Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's foremost inventors. At age 15 he was designing programs that were adapted by IBM and soon after machines that allowed the blind to read. Today he is hailed by some as a modern-day Nostradamus and dismissed by others as a crackpot. The "futurist" and best-selling author is a leading theorist on the "technological singularity"—a time when humans and machines will fuse in the next phase of bio-technological evolution, creating superintelligent, godlike beings that could conceivably live forever. The kicker is, Kurzweil claims that this monumental change is destined to happen in just 30 years.

This mind-bending documentary probes the searing questions that have previously only been teased out in science fiction. Kurzweil is as convincing as he is entertaining even when he claims he is drastically extending his own life span and will bring his late father back to life with new technology in the future. First-timer Barry Ptolemy finds a wide range of interview subjects, from evangelists and "brain builders" to William Shatner and Stevie Wonder. Matching the pace of the world it describes, the film moves at breakneck speed, saturating us with ideas and locations and images and theories. Engrossing and at times seemingly absurd, Transcendent Man makes it hard not to wonder if Kurzweil may be splitting a bull's-eye too far away for us to see.
--Genna Terranova"

Depeche Mode: WRONG Cover - GATTOBUS Live Remix -

YouTube via gattobus
"Cover of Depeche Mode single "Wrong"

Played with:

Elektron Monomachine
Elektron Machinedrum
Minimoog Model D
Clavia Nord Modular G2

I included a short "making of" at the beginning of the video...

As you can hear I'm not a singer...
I used distortion to disguise my voice a little...

Please have mercy ;-P"