PNW Synthesizer Meeting Reminder

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: Halloween Sounds/Music

click on the PNW Synth Gathering label below for images and video from prior years' events.

Von Bingen Live Sept 27 2009 at the Anza Club

YouTube via magneticring
"Live Sept 27 2009 at the Anza Club
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Record Release Show opening for Wooden Shjips.
Lp Available on Amen Absen Records.
Daniel Presnell - Guitar, Syntorchestra, Maestro USS-1
Jenny Pace Presnell - Flute, Maestro Soundsystem for Woodwinds, Tape Echo
Joshua Stevenson - EMS Synthi AKS, EMS Pitch to CV with Bass, Drumfire"

i9 10.24.2009 --240 from 20-- part 2

YouTube via infinite9ths
"Sweep turned me on to a program named Paulstretch which stretches audio files. I found a vocal bridge I'd always liked from a song I wrote 10 years ago - though only 20 sec. in length, it became a 4+ minute piece after the stretch. What a great program. And free, too.

After one overdub with some incidentals using the Arturia Moog Modular V and 4 notes at the end from the Minimoog Voyager, I thought it had enough. Part 1 is the same piece without the overdubbed tracks. I'm not yet sure if I'll release it.

Thanks, sweep!

Listen to more of my stuff at http://infinite9ths.com
and listen to sweep at http://sweep.infinite9ths.com"

i9 07.15.2009 (Arturia Moog Modular V)

previously posted

Buchla Powered Cabs

Buchla 200e systems

In order (prices as configured):
Model 201e - 12 Powered Cabinet $14,000
Model 201e - 18 Powered Cabinet $19,650
Model 201e - 24 Powered Cabinet $26,800

Not pictured is "the gourmet system, with all but the kitchen sink squeezed into two 18 panel unit cabinets" at $39,800.

Click through above for the modules in each system. via Christian.

The Maplin 5600S analog vintage synthesizer flagship (Video 1)

YouTube via scienceforce

"This is a vintage Maplin 5600s stereosynthesizer. This sequence is based on his two transient trapezoid envelopes. It's a very nice matrix synthesizer with many parameters ...much more than an EMS VCS3. His Matrix has 30 x 30 contact points (900 in total) for complex I/O and control voltages.
It has a built in spring reverb and an amazing cv controlled phaser.
The "kick" come out from a RSF Kobol driven by the Maplin 5600 trigger."

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Structures Sonores Rediffusion

YouTube via JeffreyPlaide
"Structures Senores Rediffusion is an ambient, original music collage experimentation created almost entirely on the Korg R3 synthesizer. The piece explores ring-modulated sequences, non-synchronised rhythms, chords and surreal/ethereal pads placed within a structured framework. Within the multitrack session, a rhythm track created on the Hammerhead Rhythm Station was processed with a heavy reverb. To this an atonal melodic sequence loop was placed. This is a dual-timbre sound whereby each oscillator is ring-modulated by its neighbour. Each timbre is further ring-modulated creating double ring-modulation and sequenced, pitch-transposed and played as a short arpeggiated block whose swing time is skewed to a significant degree. Short "Balinese" ring-modulated variations on the first sequence were added at regular intervals. An additional short ring-modulated sequence was spliced onto an asynchronous synthesized percussive sound and this arrangement was repeated at every third "Balinese" ring-modulated sequence. Next came an organ timbre whose waveforms were not tuned to strict octave intervals. Another ethereal organ-like sequence loops twice. This timbre is a strange and beautiful chord-like shimmering tone created by the Korg R3 DWGS waveforms tuned to non-octave intervals. Finally, a chordal string pad was placed underneath all the other tracks and stereo-panned the full 180 degrees approximately every minute. The piece concludes leaving only a dark pad bass and the original double ring-modulated sequence fading to a dark decay. The music was inspired from listening to atonal Buchla synthesizer sequences and attempting to recreate these using the Korg R3 double ring-modulated possibilities. The background visuals were produced by animated graphic modulations created by Adobe Premier WaveWarp function. Several orders of linear modulation were applied to the first layer backgrounds. Second layer moire imagery was then superimposed over these visuals. A third video layer has been keyed over all of these including symbolic graphics, and a reworking of the Associated Rediffusion television logo for this synthesizer exploration."

Roland Juno 60

YouTube via DIGITALSCREAMS
"I recently bought a mint Juno 60 off Ebay - its boxed and came with the JSQ60. The JSQ has never been used.....boxed for the last 25 years. Needless to say, this little bundle of joy set me back £££.....take a listen to the sounds.....its beautiful. The pad sound at the end....is AMAZING.

Played LIVE and recorded straight into Cubase 5 - ALL sounds/effects programmed by myself - reverb/delay + L3 courtesy of Waves"

Me playing DM "Behind the Wheel" 101

YouTube via DX5

"Upper keyboard: Emu EMAX II HD
Lower: Emu Emax.

Only the crowd background was sampled from the original 101 album(a two seconds only loop).

(I sampled into the EMAXII a Roland JX-8P and a Kurzweil Pc1x for the main lead, a JP8000 for the "submarine" resonant noise, JX-8P for the mid sequence, left hand choir is a library sample)

Bactrack recorded in Pro Tools and Reason rewired. Yamaha DX7, Roland D10 and Emax I also used for the backtrack."

Novation Supernovas

flickr by DeadZone

"Novation Supernova 2 keyboard & Rack"

The Magic Night 1 - Sternenzauber Fireworks

The Magic Night 1 - Sternenzauber Fireworks from Stefan Beckhusen on Vimeo.

"THE MAGIC NIGHT 1 video is recorded in August 2009 in Braunschweig / Germany at Schloss Richmond. The video is 1 of 3 parts of a fireworks contest. The whole video ist taken by handheld my camera without stand.
The music is composed with my Doepfer A100 Analog Modular System and the Korg Kaoss Pad 3."