Vintage Jen SX-1000 Analog Synth

via this auction

"Superb little analog synth with its own character and sound, nice clean leads and low bass sounds can be created, very much underated synth but has been widely used by dance music pioners since the late 1980s. Future sound of london used this alot on early tracks. Great way of learning about synth workings and sounds.

Front controls
Tune - Waveform select - Glide - octave select - Pulse width - Vibrato - P.W.M - Wite/Pink noise + volume - LFO speed - and the usual envelope adsr settings"

Changing Postcards - BugBrand Newsletter

via the BugBrand mailing list:

"Hi all,

I know it has been quiet on the BugMailList recently!

Most of my efforts have been going into continuing work on the ever expanding BugModular. (http://bugbrand.co.uk/modular)
Plus ongoing building of the Board & Postcard Weevils.
These have been in- & out- of-stock over the last months and I've chosen not to send updates whenever I restock these items.

But, just to keep people in the loop...
I have just added more BoardWeevils AND PostcardWeevils to the online shop - http://bugbrand.co.uk/shop

This batch of Postcards will now be the last of this design - an updated version should be appearing at the end of the month.
While the old version Postcard has proved really popular, I've felt that some updates were called for.
More details when the new design is ready to go, but briefly it will include:
- similar 3-osc design
- but with improved dials (like on the BoardWeevil) for greatly improved feel
- extra IC to stabilize the output level on the minijack - previously things would get super-loud when the power starvation was turned off.
-- this will maintain similar sounds, but improve their usability!
- improved board design will now have silk-screen legends.
- new box for lovely presentation!
The new design will be slightly larger and the price will have to be increased a bit mainly due to the improved dials used.

So - if you want to get your hands on one of the last old version PWeevils at the pre-rise price, strike now!

***** ***** ***** *****
Background work has also been continuing on a new compact BugCrusher design, but this inches forward at quite a slow pace. Hopefully I can move things in the coming months... so stay tuned!

That is that for now..
Best wishes to you all!
Tom / BugBrand"

SYNTH JAM with Farfisa Syntorchestra, Moog Minimoog, Moog Satellite

YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"That's a spontaneous jam! I played a FARFISA SYNTORCHESTRA, a MINIMOOG and a MOOG SATELLITE through the ELECTRO-HARMONIX ELECTRIC MISTRESS Flanger. Reverb comes from a YAMAHA PRO R3, the delay comes from a ROLAND DEP-5. Enjoy..."

Drumtraks

YouTube via MIxbern

Suzanne Ciani Synth Commercials

GE Dishwasher Production Session

YouTube via SuzanneCiani. NED Synclavier. Note the Buchla in the background.

You might remember this video from this prior post on Suzanne Ciani.
"This video was filmed by Julio Cintron as a documentary about the GE "2800 Dishwasher" at my small studio in 1984."


The following video, just posted by SuzanneCiani, is the finished commercial from 1984.


GE Beeping Dishwasher


"Here is the finished product after spending a lot of time in my production studio putting it together. All that beeping won me a Clio (Awards for Excellence in Advertising) in 1984."


And a few more just posted by SuzanneCiani on YouTube:

Black and Decker Cutter


"How many times have you seen this commercial when you were young?"

Columbia Pictures Introduction Logo


"Now you know where the music came from (me). :-)"

Bull in the China Shop


"This is my award-winning commerical. Amazingly, nothing fell (that's no bull)."

I remember all of these.

BTW, be sure to click here and scroll for some great posts on Suzanne Ciani including more video.

Moog Taurus Bass Pedal Synthesizer

via this auction

Vintage Moog Prodigy

via this auction

"Early version 336A Moog Prodigy dual oscillator monophonic analog synthesizer in great condition. Professionally modded in the 90s with CV & S-Trigger inputs to control the pitch."

WMD Geiger Counter Eurorack Prototype

YouTube via bigcitymusic http://bigcitymusic.com/
"This is one of the craziest Eurorack modules ever. With CV control over sample rate, bit rate and the super-cool wavetable function, this thing is a monster! We're using a Cwejman squarewave oscillator and a Plan B Elf LFO to modulate the sample rate and wavetable. There's a CV amount control for all three CV inputs as well as a knob for gain/distortion amount. These little tiny knobs are awesome too!"

Waveform Permutation Hardware

YouTube via littlescale
"I've made a simple circuit that will generate all possible waveforms that have four bits of amplitude and are four samples long. It's very simple, and follows the same concept as my previous forays into this concept (which were all software based).

Basically, there is a counter that is 16 bits long, and is pulsed by a continuous square wave. This controls the speed of waveform change of the output waveform. Every four bits of the counter are fed into a multiplexer. There is a multiplexer for each bit of the output waveform, and so every first bit out of four from the counter is fed into multiplexer 1, every second bit out of four from the counter is fed into multiplexer two and so on up to multiplexer 4.

The output of the four multiplexers is chosen by a separate binary counter, which is clocked by an independent square wave. This controls the frequency of the output waveform. Thus, the output of the combined four multiplexers essentially "steps through" the waveform, and is then converted into an analog voltage using an R2R DAC.

http://little-scale.blogspot.com"

MFOS Sound Lab with Midi to CV converter

YouTube via PlanetSynth
"www.planetsynth.com
Just a little description of how to use the Sound Lab Synth with a Midi controller.
Thank you all for looking!!"