Metasonix TM-1 Vacuum Tube Waveshaper Ring Modulator

via this auction

"This is one is serial number 21 and has a slight blurring to the silkscreen.(it came from the factory that way)"

via brian c

The Hammond That Never Was

The Laurens Hammond

"The company left the music market and was never afforded the opportunity to showcase the never to be famous Laurens Hammond. The instrument was to have been available in two styles, the 346 and the 350. These products would have topped the fine line of Hammond products available at the time of the demise of the company."

"Located in the upper right end block, Realistic timbre and authentic attack is achieved in the 13 computer-controlled synthesizer voices of the instrumentalist. Actual digital recordings of each instrument are reproduced authentically by a sophisticated digital playback system. The sounds can be activated one at a time and are playable from either the upper, lower or pedal keyboards. Separate volume and delayed vibrato features are available to the player." Click the link above for more images and info. via Organgrinder010

Touch Screen kit for playing music here with Usine

YouTube via tikitpok4Usine
"Just to show you how it's easy to install and use a touch screen kit , here to use with Usine . a music program from http://www.sensomusic.com/usine/
a little demo to show you the great possibilities to built your own graphic interface to play in live situation .
enjoy"

"Usine is a universal audio software especially designed for live or studio utilisation. Usine is made by musicians and audio engineers to respond to their specific problems in a lot of domains like live sampling, effect processing or sound design. Usine is a real musical instrument, flexible and powerful if you like to transform, resample the sound on stage (not only push the play button of your sequencer!), improvise and create unusual effect."

REON driftbox s -01-

YouTube via unyo303.

"made in japan"
Update: images here

Scarborough Fair arr. Gazdatronik

YouTube via Gazdatronik
"The audio quality is not so good. For better, visit:
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S...

Another song I have wanted to do since I was ten. Played from memory by hand, I tried to take this song from its simple English roots and turn it into a landscape. No live version-the production was far too intricate.

Yamaha TX81Z on ostinato
Roland JX-3P on staccato bass
Roland VP-330 choir
Korg DW-8000 as Polymoog harpsichord and Vangelis CS-80 lead
Oberheim Matrix 6 on reverb harmony
Behringer Virtualizer Pro and Alesis Wedge provide effects
Mackie 1202 on Blinking Lights
Emu 6400 as Playback Unit"

DIY laser turntable plays Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples of the Moon"

YouTube via EA78751. Buchla
"An experiment. Actually, the turntable isn't modified at all. The laser pointer beam is focused by a cheap lens, and reflects off the spinning vinyl. The grooves modulate the beam, and the modulations are picked up with a photodiode. Nothing is touching the top side of the record.

http://ericarcher.net/devices/lite2sound

thanks for watching"

Let's Get Lofi 4 - DD10 + Pss-580 + DIY Distortion + DIY Mixer

YouTube via ChrisLody
"The Yamaha DD-10 has got to be one of the most Lofi programmable drum machine ever made. You can program 2 separate 2 bar patterns using 26 different drum sounds with 2 levels of velocity. I used a preset on this vid though as I was feeling a bit lazy. Amazingly it only cost me £2 from a carboot sale. Yeay.

I ran that through a distortion circuit based on Craig Andertons distortion circuit as forund in Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins. I added a touch point I found by accident which feeds the first inverter with the ouput of the second which sounds quite cool. It creates some great squealing and choppy sounds. Nice.

I programmed the Pss-580 with an editor with a nice bass sound.

I ran them both through a passive mixer which was also in Nicolas Collins book.

Yeay, great fun!"

Yamaha QY700 Sequencer/awm2 module

YouTube via hilltree
"Yamaha qy700 test
Music is a Edgar Froese -tangerine dream/stuntman midi impementation test.
Made and recorded at the Hilltree studio netherlands
More at www.groenewoudnet.nl"

Waldorf Blofeld Is Most Definitely Not A Salad

YouTube via gearwire
"For this demo, Bill Holland hooked up the "highly scientific" Waldorf Blofeld syhth to Ableton and let her rip. Its sleek German design puts all controls in their most logical locations, so you can reserve more brainpower for world domination."

Waldorf Blofeld Guises As Ableton Live Controller For Demo

"Bill Holland hooks up the Waldorf Blofeld to Ableton Live to get his old school hardware control on. What he comes up with sounds something like a circus of dolphin song and twittering mantids, which is just what you want on a hot club night. I mean, I do, anyway."

Mellotron for iPhone and iPod touch: Stairway to Heaven

YouTube via ManetronM400S
"Mellotron for iPhone and iPod touch in your pocket. Genuine sound sampled from Mellotron M400S (serial number 714) manufactured in the 70's."
You can find Manetron on iTunes here: