MATRIXSYNTH

Make Noise QMMG Test

YouTube via thedeepelement
"'m testing out a)Make Noise's Quad Multi Mode Gate (qmmg) module and b)Flip's UltraHD camcorder. I wanted to share a video of how extreme the module can get with normal Tip Top Audio and Cwejman waveforms. I first preview all four channels without activating the gates. Then I turn all the channels to VCA, Both, LP and finally HP modes. After that I manually mangle the sound and return back to VCA mode. Everything is coming out of the summing mixer. So in short you get a Mixer, VCA and multimode filtering. Why don't you have this yet?"

Arp 2600 synthesizer

via this auction

Anyone know what that white box is?

Note the Musicians Service Center sticker.

Folktek Insectarium

TWBLS 013 - The WunderBar Loop Session
by NETWORK-ERROR

via the Folktek Arts blog via The Wonderloop Session where you will find more images and words.
Folktek on Ebay

Fight Like Apes

flickr by by rob evans photography

KORG MicroKORG

korg EMX-1 stripped & reversed. (Set)

flickr set by tremorcore
(click for more)

"Easy Off oven cleaner plus steel wool gets rid of the blue that hurts my eyes.

remove knobs.
remove faceplate with a 2mm allen wrench.
spray with oven cleaner. rinse/repeat.
use steel wool to remove white lettering and reveal reversed blue lettering."

Update via dan kirkhus in the comments: "here's a blog post with a little more info."

The Gakken GMC-4

Gakken is a Japanese magazine that comes with a DIY kit. Prior issues featured a theremin and of course the analog SX-150 mini synth [see the Gakken label below for prior posts including images, videos and mods]. The current issue comes with the GMC-4, a 4-bit computer kit with audio. See the video below.

via Hobby Media
"Gakken is going to release the very first 4bit computer mass produced in the last 30 years: the GMC4. This microcomputer will be covermounted on the issue 24 of the magazine “Otona no Kagaku”. The GMC4 got a 16 keys keyboard, an inbuild speaker an outsanding 7 elements LED display and a 6 LEDs display.

Tennis game, melody software and two other 4bit videogames are preinstalled in the GMC4. This 4bit computer will be released in June and in the coming weeks Gakken shuld updated their website with some mode details about this great retrocomputer."

You can find issues of Gakken with kits on Ebay here.

４ビットマイコン〜自動演奏編〜　大人の科学マガジンvol.24

YouTube via OKM080725

Bob and the Synton Modular

Just a reminder, do not miss this post on the upcoming exhibit.

Note that is the Synton modular. You can read about Bob Moog's involvement with Synton here.

Thanks to eZe for pointing this out in the comments.

Update via Brian in the comments: "Bob did some interesting work that is not highly publicized; all the years between 1978 when he left Moog and the Big Briar era.

This exhibit will show a good amount of that stuff; some bizarre prototypes even from the Moog days and later instruments and designs of the 80/90s too."