Drums Are Important...

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see the post on Analog Industries

Livid at Decibel Festival in Seattle

Livid Instruments, makers of the OHM64 which has just been officially released will be hosting a workshop and presentation at this years Seattle Decibel Festival.

via the Livid blog where you'll find links to full details:

"We are doing an Ohm64 workshop and presentation from 6pm to 7pm at the Seattle Art Museum on Thursday, Sept 24 as part of the Decibel festival. We’re SUPER happy to be a part of this event. The Decibel festival has grown from a grass-roots effort of volunteers and music lovers into one of the best annual electronic music festivals. For more info, visit the Decibel website. Our presentation is at the Simons Board Room at the Seattle Art Museum, and is FREE."

moonmodular QUAD SEQUENTIAL VOLTAGE SOURCE M569

YouTube via moonmodular. follow-up to this post.
"Goto the http://moonmodular.com site to download a pdf file for all details."
See the moonmodular label directly below for more.

Make Noise Wiard Wogglebug

YouTube via simonsound1
"Just got this today and this is my first play with it. I've wanted one for years and was lucky enough to do a swap. I am using it with a Psycho LFO, Doepfer 149-1 and Minimoog Voyager. The sound is both Voyager and Wogglebug internal VCO and I have it going through a Boss RE-20 Space Echo."

"Wonderfull tonight" - on Böhm Station One

YouTube via organfairy

"After having found out how the plugs on the Böhm is wired up (see the post that came before this one) it is time to convert the old Elka pedal so it can be used with the workstation."

SynthGlove

YouTube via Denkitribe

"SynthGlove is a MIDI controller based on Nintendo Power Glove. It converts finger movements into MIDI messages. It also uses an accelerometer to use arm movements as additional parameters.

In this video, the left one is in MIDI CC mode, which sends the information as MIDI CC messages. The right one is in "note trigger" mode, which sends MIDI note on/off messages when moving the fingers.

More details on this project at http://code.google.com/p/denkitribe/w..."

Monome x Arcade Buttons

Monome x Arcade Buttons from Defcon6 on Vimeo.

"A Monome clone I made using big arcade buttons and really powerful LEDs. I can't get over pushing the arcade buttons, they feel so good. It uses the midibox platform where the midi messages are being translated into OSC to be monome compatible.

Running Max/Msp + Polygome + Ableton Live 8 + Commodore64 VST

Visit my site to see pictures of the build process!
defcon6.com/?cat=15"

Should I remove my blog feed from Facebook?

This is a poll for those of you that have me as a friend on Facebook. I recently added the blog's feed to my Notes in Facebook. Image posts come through fine, but videos do not and Facebook does not link to the posts here. All part of their scheme to keep you on site there. I also post like a mad man, so I've been spamming up your walls. Vote below and based on the outcome I will either leave the feed or remove it. Highest vote wins. If you are not on Facebook and do not receive my updates there, DO NOT VOTE. Note this obviously means you will not see updates on Facebook - only so much time in the day...



Update: the Yeses have it. I will remove it for now. If the Nos surpass the Yeses let me know and I'll add it back.

Update: I found an alternative that will link back to posts. I will give that a try. I have it set for only partial posts so it doesn't clog up people's walls. If that is too much I can set it to the title only.

Tangerine Dream Sequencer EEH + Dynacord Sequencer Big Brain

via hellmusic

These are located in Hamburg Germany and are for sale. If interested send email to the via at yahoo.de.

Update via Qwave in the comments: "This EEH DS500 hybrid sequencer was not commissioned by Tangerine Dream. But the huge EEH CM4 was seen in Chris Franke's rack in the eighties. And Klaus Schulze used the CM2 during the Audentity recordings. Klaus was once pictured with an unconnected DS500 on his mixing board.

Here is some additional information about the EEH DS500: http://till-kopper.de/eeh.html

And the little company EEH came from Wuppertal, Germany. They went off the market (bankrupt?) before releasing their last project: a rack sampler with the transposing wihtout changing the timing like on all other comcercial samplers before. But it was not released. I think this was before the white Akai samplers were released. This was stone age of sampling then. more then 25 years ago."

"Just noticed a modification on the pictured unit in the posting: the original power switch was where the srew near the "PW" is seen on the back. And it appears to be modificated to sit on the very top right of the panel. Right to the bypass switch."

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Vintage PIN - CRUMAR - Synthesizer

via this auction