Thomas White Buchla Resonant Lopass Gate PCB's

via Thomas White:
"I am taking orders for the 3rd and likely final batch of the Resonant Lopass Gate PCB's I have produced. They are available for order at my website:

The link is: [here]

Boards are now being ordered and I estimate shipping to be no later than November 1st. You can buy now and ensure your order, or buy later and hope there are boards left. I have an excellent record of delivery so whatever works for you will work for me. I am quite glad to have interest remaining in this project. I will order more than the interested amount to have some extras for those that are not on the web that often (the maybe 1% of the diy community hah ha!).

The boards are going to be $15 each (single PCB in plastic bag for silver board finish protection) this last batch, which is still quite reasonable I hope you will find. Shipping to anywhere in the world is included in that cost. US orders have arrived in as soon as 2 days after (Los Angeles area near me) but have also taken as long as 4 weeks to show up around the world. Orders are shipped out in the order received and everyone should have something to build by the middle to end of November. Panic will not be accepted as I will make sure you are happy. Questions about specific shipping times can be posed to the folks on the E-M Forum for reports on the 1st two batches.

My docs will stay the same for now due to an extreme time shortage on my end. Parts vary anyway due to the different build factors involved. Pot types and Vactrol choices are the big variables. I encourage you to search for the various build reports on the web, in particular that on Dave Brown's www.modularsynthesis.com. He has the best parts list and a neat mod for builders looking to do something different with the onboard mixer section. Bridechamber.com has parts kits and panels that are amazing as usual. I just got 4 from him for my own units. And don't forget that Fonik has the extra super cool gate switching PCB for sale. A new batch of boards may mean a second batch of those.

Off to order the PCBs now. Thanks again guys, you have all made this possible with your expressed interest in a 3rd run of pcbs. Thanks to electro-music. Respectfully,

Thomas White
Natural Rhythm
www.naturalrhythmmusic.com"

Change Player Size Watch this video in a new window Roland 新製品発表会「SP404 SX」

YouTube via musicmasterjp
"Rolandから人気ポータブル・サンプラーSPシリーズの新モデルとなる「SP-4 04SX」がリリースされた。「SP-404SX」では、新たに非圧縮44.1kHz / 16ビットのリニア・サンプリングに対応した他、29種類におよぶDSPエフェクトの搭載、よりスムーズなエフェクト・スイッチング、シャッフル・クオンタイズ付きパター ン・シーケンサー、記録メディアとして大容量SD / SDHCメモリー・カード（最大32GB）の採用など、ミュージシャンやDJのプレイ / 制作ツールとしてより使いやすくパワーアップされているのが特徴だ。"

roland pg-200

flickr by subclub

How to animate a talking skull

YouTube via Division6Labs
"This video gives you step-by-step instructions on how to create an animation sequence for a MIDI-controlled skull.

For more information on the skulls you can go here:
http://www.division-6.com/store/midi-..."
Update: Don't miss last year's video.

Nanoloop 1.5 (Game Boy) Synced to Ableton Live

YouTube via littlescale
"Nanoloop 1.5 (Game Boy) Synced to Ableton Live. Game Boy music by Gutterkisser."

rrrrrr - drone/microtonal music for rocks

YouTube via BrianWilliamGreen
"nfo + full recording, http://www.seeyouinsleep.co..."

elektron monomachine sfx-6

flickr by mostsynth
(click for more)

The Night Terrors

flickr by all that improbable blue

PNW Synthesizer Meeting On Halloween!!!

The next ?? Annual PNW Synthesizer Meeting:

Saturday, October 31st
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, doors open at 9:00 AM

Renton Technical College
Building C, Room 110
3000 NE 4th St
Renton, WA 98056

Theme this year: Haloween Sounds/Music

RSVP
wa7bsr *at* gmail.com
Take care,
John

Waldorf MiniWorks

via this auction
"The MiniWorks is a stand-alone 4-pole resonant analog filter and modulation module. Use it to create those Daft-Punk filter sweeps on entire drum & rhythm loops! Run any sounds, synthesizers or loops through it and filter them with a truly analog-like VCF filter that is not only very flexible but MIDI controllable as well! There are many modulation sources that can be programmed between the extensive VCF, VCA, envelope and LFO sections and these settings can be stored in the (20) user memory patches. The MiniWorks can also be overloaded for a lo-fi crunchy sound too!

The VCA get be set to always open, triggered by a audio threshold or MIDI. All parameters are MIDI CC controlled and the LFO goes up to audio rate - which makes it possible to do some very complex FX.

One of the best 24dB LowPass Filters ever made. It is analog and warm. Originally developed for the synthfreaks, this device is famous for
guitar. A touch wah,via Midi a Wah Wah,via LFO or external input a kind of Monsterstepfilter, an envelope follower, a Noise Gate or a compressor
a panner,a pseudo Ringmodulator, a signal to Midi converter, a panner and so on and on.
The 4Pole can be used and routed in an unbeliveable way. And this in an easy way.
The main function is the Filter.and what a great Filter this is. 24dB LowPass with Resonance.Resonance can be so strong,that the Filter selfoscilates and produces a audible Sinewave."