Early Bob Moog - the "Max Brand Synthesizer"

YouTube via klubmoozak.

"bob moog prototype max brand synthsizer"

via Brian Kehew

"The Bob Moog Foundation have recently connected with the people working with Max Brand's early modular synth. Built in the late '60s, Brand had emigrated to America from Germany and asked Bob to design him a synth. Brand's idea was to make a Moog modular that had features of the Mixturtrautonium he had played in Germany. It took some time, but Bob created a unique synth for Brand.

Soon, there will be a CD compilation of modern artists creating music with the old Max Brand Moog. Also included will be a few of Brand's own works on the synth (1970s). I was not familiar with him before this contact, but I really think his music is among the best of the experimental-side composers of the Eletctronic Music era. It's pretty out-there, but full of good sonic ideas and he had good control of the synth, unlike a lot of early musicians."

MAX BRAND synth


"early synth built by BOB MOOG between 1967-1969 for the austrian composer MAX BRAND (1886-1980). Please note that this video is intended to show the machine - the included audio track does NOT demonstrate it's capabilities - most of the audio being heard on this video is not even from this machine! Video by Ulrich Kühn"

Moog Music introduces the MIDI MuRF Pattern Editor

"8 Analog Filters at your command: Moog Music introduces the MIDI MuRF Pattern Editor

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (September 28, 2009) – Since its launch in the summer of 2009, Moog’s newest Moogerfooger, the MF-105M MIDI MuRF has been an instant success. With eight analog filters under MIDI and CV control, the MIDI MuRF is one of the most powerful and flexible sound design tools around. Now for the icing on an already very sweet cake, Moog is releasing the MIDI MuRF Pattern Editor.

Available as a free download to MIDI MuRF owners, the Pattern Editor software allows players to create, modify and save their own filter sequence patterns. Its point-and-click user interface makes pattern creation a breeze and the on-screen knobs and sliders let users optimize patterns to real-world settings without taking their hand off the mouse.

The MIDI MuRF Pattern Editor provides easy access to parameters only available through MIDI CC commands and saving and storing patterns on a computer allows for an unlimited number of available variations.

“With a possible 64 steps per band and the ability to create polyrhythmic patterns, the MIDI MuRF Pattern Editor lets users tailor their patterns for a sound that’s uniquely their own” said Moog Applications Engineer, Amos Gaynes. “You can store up to 22 custom patterns at a time on the MIDI MuRF itself, so you can take your unique grooves with you anywhere.”

The MIDI MuRF is already being snapped up by guitarists, keyboardists, producers and DJs worldwide. With the new Pattern Editor they’ll be able to take their explorations further; faster and easier than ever before.

Available now as a free download

For more information, visit www.moogmusic.com/moogerfooger

About Moog Music: Moog Music and its customers carry on the legacy of Bob Moog, the inventor of the synthesizer. Moog designs and manufactures electronic musical instruments, including Little Phatty® and Minimoog® Voyager® synthesizers, Moogerfooger® effects modules, Etherwave® theremins and The Moog Guitar. Founded by Bob Moog, Moog Music designs and manufactures its products in Asheville, N.C."

Moog MF-105M MIDI MuRF - a closer look

YouTube via MoogMusicInc. previously posted

24h moozak @ lames parque del sol 2009

YouTube via klubmoozak
"moozak 24h set
Gerald Krist // Benedikt Guschlbauer // Clemens Hausch // Uli Kühn //
@ lames festival 2009 st pölten
guests:
/ lukas scholler // alexandr vatagin /// peter linhart //// florian gruber ///// hui ye ////// david wurth _____video by www.analogs.at"

Jerusalem - M4000 Mellotron Demo Hollywood

YouTube via Sutterjack
"Sept 19, 2009 John Bradley and Martin Smith of Mellotronics (Mellotronics.com) demo their pride and joy the M4000--Michael Gough (michaelgough.com) plays his stirring rendition of the classic 'Jerusalem'"

Jean-Jacques Perrey Life, Laughter, & Loops

http://www.jjpdvd.com/

via Mal in the comments of this post.

RUSH videos with lots-o-synths!

via UniQue Werkx

"The first video is from Grace Under Pressure DVD from 1984. It's called "Red Sector A".
In the video you can see a custom red Mini Moog, PPG Wave 2.3, Moog Taurus pedals, Roland TR 808, Oberheim OB-Xa , Oberheim DSX sequencer, and a Roland JP-8.
Neil is using Simmons electronic drums."

Rush - Red Sector A ( Grace Under Pressure )

YouTube via GraceUnderPressureDV
"Rush performing Red Sector "A" (live) from the Grace Under Pressure tour. Recorded in 1984. This song is originally from the "Grace Under Pressure" album."

UniQue Werkx on the second video: "It's from 1988, "A Show Of Hands" tour. The synths that you can see in the video are a Roland D-50, PPG Wave 2.3, KX 76 Yamaha midi controllers, Prophet VS, modified (by Tony Geranios aka Jack Secret) Moog pedals. Of course, to the side of the stage that you can't see in the video is a bunch of Akai S900 samplers, another prophet VS, Yamaha DX 7 and a Roland Jupiter 8. The majority of the synth parts in the songs are played by triggering samples in the Akai S900 samplers. Also triggering sample from the S900 samplers is Neil's Simmon drum pads and and a KAT percussion unit as well as the modified Moog Taurus pedals by Geddy and Alex."

Rush - Marathon ( A Show Of Hands )

YouTube via AShowOfHandsDVD
"Rush performing Marathon (live) from the Show Of Hands show. Recorded in 1988. This song is originally from the "Power Windows" album.

BUY THE DVD's & CD'S! Support the greatest band on the planet. Better picture and audio quality. Don't be freeloaders!"

Z8000 Matrix Sequencer

via TipTop Audio via the Muff forum
"So here is the panel design, nothing is final, open to suggestion.

My goal, is to try and keep it as small as possible, and affordable.

What you see is a set of analog CV step sequencer with 4 sets of 4 step sequencer rows and columns.

But there are also two 16 step sequencer assignments at the bottom. the first one's sequential stages being A1-A2-A3-A4-B1-B2-B3-B4--C1-etc. the second one being A1-B1-C1-D1-A2-B2-C2-D2-A3-etc. as indicated by the graphic under each 16 stage CV out.

The white circles are bicolor leds, using bicolor LEDs the 4 stage sequencers will be assigned the color red while the 16 stage sequencer will be tracked visually by the color green.

The CVs will output 0-10V, that is good to control any CV input in the system like pitch, Cutoff etc etc but also high enough to fire Envelopes or to patch one sequencer to control the direction of another sequencer, clock it, rest it etc. And those sequencers can be clocked at audio rate.

The real fun will be to surround the Z8000 with a clock divider, Quantizer, and logic gates. It is a lot of fun to have sequencers running at different speeds and different directions using all those logic modules controlling them. I like to call it logic modulation."

test of the dual osc 3U proto RM doing a Wurlitzer Piano etc...

YouTube via macbethsynthesizers. follow-up to this post.
"Funnily enough- I return here to a vid that I did in the Summer- it was one of my first 'musical' experiments with the MC1496RM built into the X-Series Dual Oscillator. The sound for me, is extremely reminiscent of a wurlitzer EP recorded dry. The Filter here is the 5U version of the 'Backen' Filter Combo. I liked it a lot as a recording- I actually recorded this in HI FI audio but I've lost the track somewhere down the line- so you hear it straight from the small mic in my Nikon D90...se what you think. It's also an experiment to see how visually this vid downloads- I have been using VideoStudio 12 with some success- but basic Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is giving me a higher quality result, but alas, less extravagant features..............any comments are of course welcome!
Ken M"

Digitana Micro Punk Robot more examples

YouTube via DigitanaUK
"Some more examples of the MPR, in this video I use it as a processor for external audio, and show it being filtered.

The CV inputs and reset input can also be used for sending audio signals into the MPR, the results are dependant on the source material as well as the amplitude.

In this basic demo I show a few examples, remember that you could try audio into one of the CV inputs and CV into the other. You can try VCO's, synths, samples, drum machines etc as audio sources into the inputs of the MPR.

Later in the clip I show the sequenced MPR output running into a resonant LPF, the unusual output from the MPR results in some nice response from the filter.

Have fun and experiment!"

Silent Way CV Input prototype

YouTube via expertsleepers
"Proof-of-concept demo of a CV Input plug-in, to be an addition to the Expert Sleepers Silent Way suite.
An Analogue Systems RS-60 envelope generator is fed, via a MOTU Ultralite interface, into the computer where its CV is recovered. The CV is then passed back out to control an Analogue Systems RS-95 VCO."