Roth Mobot Electronic Saturdays

"A Weekly Symposium
Saturdays, Noon - 3 PM
Lizard's Liquid Lounge
3058 W Irving Park Rd., (773) 463-7599

Starting this Saturday, August 29, 2009, in an effort to nurture the experimental electronics community in Chicago, Tommy Stephenson and Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot will be hosting free weekly electronics meetings at Lizard's Liquid Lounge in Chicago.

Weekly agenda will include soldering, playing, tinkering, Q&A, show-and-tell, bending circuits, an experimental electronics open mic, etc., and $4 Burning River pints.

Stop by and share your thoughts, questions, projects, ears, experience, and advise.

Please pass this email along.

Thank you,

Patrick McCarthy
www.RothMobot.com"

Elka Synthex loves Roland TR 808

YouTube via zaphid
"Elka Synthex sequencer triggered with a tr 808 played along a nice Synthex pad and Synthex squarelead. The thin leadsound that drops in, is the Oberheim Xpander."

THUMP for the iPhone and Mac

THUMP
"Thump is the ultimate pocket groove box for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The intuitive interface allows you to dive in straight away to make music in seconds, then explore the wide array of options and settings to tweak your sound to perfection. Ideal as a musical sketch pad or a live performance tool.

Create huge basslines or warped synth sounds with the two powerful polyphonic synthesizers onboard. Modeled on the classics, these synths offer a wide palette of sounds with its subtractive synthesis engine.

Choose from 9 studio-quality different drumkits, create your own or share and download more. The sample-accurate sequencing engine ensures your beats are as tight as mathematically possible!

Mix up your sound with multi-state filters, echo, distortion and lo-fi effects. Perform your compositions live by switch between different patterns you've created and using the onboard mixer."
Available on iTunes:

Mystery Meat - Circuit Bent FOOD!

YouTube via snorkborgle. via AnalogSuicide
"Join Steven Land-Ree on a expedition into the dark heart of nearly edible circuit bent art."

mOne Open Source Step Sequencer

mOne
• Hardware Step Sequencer
• 8 marks a 8 patterns each with 16 steps
• Each track can have) its own MIDI channel (input, output
• Internal resolution of 24 pulses per 1 / 4 note (PPQN)
• Inclusion of external MIDI devices
• External and internal synchronization (play, stop, resume, clock)
• Modifying the sequence during playback "

via sequencer.de

THE LM13600/LM13700 STORY

You can find the story here. I did a quick search on LM13600 here just to see what might come up. This one post on the KORG MS20 did. I did a search on LM13700 and this one post on the Salamandar synth came up. I'm curious what else used these chips.

"The LM13600 has designed by Bill Gross and myself in less than 5 minutes. At the time the Consumer Linear IC design group was training a new mask designer. We needed something with a few transistors for her to learn how to arrange them in a optimum circuit arrangement while using minimum silicon area."

Hit The Music

YouTube via HarriL

"A normal afternoon rotoscoping and doing stuff live."

Synth Surprise in Morrissey's "Last Of The Famous International Playboys"

This one spotted via Gunner:

"I was just taken aback by some synth content in a Morissey video(!) Synth at about 2:40 and for microseconds in a couple other places. Looks like the [Maplin] ETI 4600 "International", which corresponds too nicely with the song title to be incidental."



ETI 4600 international synthesizer
YouTube via scienceforce
"This is the ETI 4600 intarnational synthesizer, structure based on Matrix patch panel like EMS VCS-3, AKS.
There are two different ETI 4600 versions: one blackface and the other extremly rare Silver face!
Sound like Space Odyssey ;-)"

Adaptation of the timbre circuit from the Buchla Music Easel

YouTube via abovenyquist
"To learn more about these kinds of circuits, check out my lectures for my class on "Electronics for Music Synthesis:" http://users.ece.gatech.edu... I discuss this circuit in Session 11."

Adaptation of the balanced modulator from the Buchla Music Easel, part 1


Adaptation of the balanced modulator from the Buchla Music Easel, Part 2

Yamaha MDF2 Backlit Display Replacement

via wolzow.mindworks where you'll find the full instructions on replacing the display.

"Yamaha MDF2 is an impressive little piece of gear. It doesn't do much, but it does what it's supposed to do, it's pretty robust and has not failed on me yet. The main problem with it (besides 720K DD floppy disks) is that it's impractical on stage - the 1x16 LCD display does not have backlight. Fortunately, backlit LCDs are very similar to the ones without backlight so an improvement here shouldn't be that difficult."