via Livid Instruments "Block is a compact and programmable MIDI control surface designed for interactive audio performance. Built on the same bi-directional and adaptable platform as the Ohm64, Block provides a powerful interface for creating and interacting with sound in a small easy-to-transport body. Sixty four backlight led buttons provide endless possibilities for visual feedback with the instrument by connecting it to Ableton Live, Max/Msp, our open source sounds apps, or any other software that supports MIDI. The open source blockEditor application lets you reprogram any of the controller's sixty four clip buttons, eight knobs, two faders, and seven function buttons. Block is hand crafted from lightweight wood and aluminum for easy portability."
"Play Live is a multi-touch user interface for Ableton Live. Features: * intuitive Natural User Interface * you can control 32 tracks and 127 scenes, that are 4064 clips * track controls are mute, solo, record, send1, send2, pan, level * display track levelmeter, name * scene feedback name and state * clip feedback color, name and state * Transportcontrol * 2 Returns * Master * support bidirectional communication * easy to setup , just load the “Play” Control Surface"
"I tested it with my mac book pro, “Play Live” and “Ableton Live” is running at the same machine. It should work on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). That Project started with my Diploma Thesis in Applied Computer Science 1 year ago."
Like I said in this post, the tablet pc will be the future of synth hardware.
"I'm doing some research on a physical modeling module. I try to tie this up to my old PM experiments ( http://www.jhaible.de/jh_ana_phys_mod.html ), making a dedicated module that contains all you need for a analogue physical modelling voice. [you'll find samples there]
BBD, Waveshaper, VCA, Envelope Generator.
For accurate tracking, I try the following idea:
The board contains one of my "Living VCO" cores. The BBD, instead of having the usual HF VCO, is locked to that LVCO with a PLL and variable frequency divider.
I'm using low voltage BBDs (3207) because these are easier to come by in the long run, and their noisyness isn't a problem in a PM module, after all.
Unlike previous BBD projects, that's not a "safe" design where I expect "first time right" - I just make a PCB for myself now, to test the concept, and if I like it, I'll think of something more commercial.
YouTube via noystoise. pics and more info here.
"mini keyboard heavily modified to make synthesizer sounds. frequency divider triggers an envelope generator that modulates the vcf with resonance at 1/256? of the vco. the vco is divided in 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and mixed to the vcf. 1/32,1/64, 1/128 of the vco also modulates the frequency of the vco(pitch) and generates some pretty random voices. more info at www.noystoise.com thanks for watching."
circuit bent keyboard
pics and more info here.
"circuit bent keyboard designed off the nutorious hing hon ek001. for more details go to www.noystoise.com"
YouTube via HGFSynthesizer "Demo Video for Swamp XT VSTi Synthesizer with track kindly done by Dimitri Schkoda and video by HG Fortune
have fun HG"
Swamp XT Synthesizer "This synthesizer features 'Timbre-modulation' - now what is it about. Well it is some way difficult to describe as it is processing each oscillator's waveform in a very unique way in changing i.e enriching or limiting the harmonic spectrum making the sound fatter, wider or narrower even til near dissolving it to some way distorted noise depending on the input wave.
While the prior Swamp had an oscillator routing to balance it's output between normal i.e. direct signal and timbre modulated signal which each could be balanced to go to direct out or to filter this has been straightened in Swamp XT: direct und timbre modulated signal can be balance mixed to one signal and the output of both oscillators can be balance mixed too. While the direct and filtered signal can be balanced at the amplifier stage of Swamp XT.
All in all Swamp delivers a wide variety of sounds even to some really strange and weird ones if you want these.
# The basic features are: two digital oscillators running at a time to be selected from # - two PCM wave oscillators powered by 128 different waveforms or # - two additive wavetable generators to create various waves from up to 31 partials # one resonant filter (24db Lowpass) # four ADSR-style envelope generators # X-Torsion, one Spook effect, one Gator (Gater) effect # four LFO (bpm-synced) # one dedicated Pitch LFO (bpm synced) # one Sample & Hold (bpm-synced) # one bpm-synced Delay # XY Supermodulation Pad"
via this auction "Increasingly hard to find, this nearly half-century-old issue of Electronics World contains a fascinating how-to on building that special effects staple of scores of classic sci-fi flicks, the theremin, by none other than electronic music pioneer Robert Moog. The feature article contains a complete schematic and parts list, as well as chassis layout and photos of the completed unit. There are even tips on how to play the ethereal instrument. You get the entire original 1961 magazine, not a couple photocopied pages like you find elsewhere on Ebay.
Also in this issue is a homebrew stereo balancer using 6FG6 magic eye tubes and a look at beam power tubes in VHF oscillators, plus an article on early computer logic circuits, both vacuum tube and transistor-based."
via this auction "So here is a bizarre machine that I bought that makes drones. Called the "Sruthi Manasa - Thala". I've never seen one before and probably won't ever again.
It has 3 tones / oscillators that you can tune and switch that makes all the pitches the same, Auto and non-auto, and then maybe minor and major? says "ma and pa" and I am not sure, but it has something to do with the indian scale. Also a main knob that keeps the master pitch. it is in a specific rhythm that you can speed up / slow down, and you can also vary the "pluck" or attack of the tones. It also has a funny drum machine / rhythm that are just beeps and you can set the tempo for that too, but I don't think they ever sync up."
via Livid Instruments
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