The Beauty and the Beast

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

'The Beauty and the Beast'

deep bass: Moog Taurus 1 bass pedal
analog strings and human voice sounds: Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus Mk2

This video demo is not a musical statement, only a demonstration of my favorite bass sound and analog strings together. The pure sound..."

DX5 playing Gary Numan "Cars"

YouTube via DX5.

"Rendition to one of the synthpop pioneers.

Gear:
Upper : Roland JP8000
Lower : Roland JX-8P

Backtrack recorded on Pro Tools with Reason rewired"

Doepfer MAQ16/3 Loves Roland Groovebox D2 Vol.1(Only Synth Sound)

YouTube via HentaiSwitch
"Doepfer MAQ16/3 is Midi Analog Sequencer. It is Great Equipment.
Roland Groovebox D2 is Dance Sound Module. But It has GM too.
Have Fun : )"

Doepfer MAQ16/3 Loves Roland Groovebox D2 Vol.2(With Drum Sound)

Doepfer MAQ16/3 meets Midines 1.1.0

YouTube via HentaiSwitch
"Doepfer MAQ16/3 controls Midines 1.1.0. Have Fun ! : )"

Tiptop Audio - Z-DSP

YouTube via thedeepelement
"www.trashaudio.com Gur of Tiptop Audio sent me his very own Z-DSP to show off at the Trash_Audio synth meet and while I have it in my grasp, a lot of time is being spent with the Z-DSP and with permission I am making a video of some of those moments. The sound of this module fits into my setup perfectly and while it does beautiful delays and reverbs, I can only imagine what the future holds for the open source programming."

via Gur on TRASH_Audio:
"The Z-DSP will be supplied with the Dragonfly Delay card. There are several more cards in development, it is theoretically endless as the Z-DSP is an audio microcomputer that like any computer all it needs is different softwares to perform an infinite array of features. Right now the cards I'm developing are reverbs, more types of delays, CV processing, LFOs, DCOs and a few others. I just finished testing a digital ring modulation and it sounds very different from analog. The next card to be available is the Bat Filter, a collection of 8 VCDF (VC digital filters), its a killer set of filters!
There is also a programmer that will be available. It is a USB device that goes into the card slot of the Z-DSP and there is a PC code development environment that connects to it. This programmer allow users to either write their own programs, share with others, or download some free algorithms that are available online. This programmer will be sold separately and will require signing a NDA that is made to protect the IP of both TTA and the user against anyone who might want to take advantage of the 'open source' approach to copy algorithms from the cards and use them for commercial use."

canon EOS 500d - first steps

YouTube via SCHAAFJOERG Jörg Schaaf
" I recently bought a canon EOS 500d (Rebel T1i). Just received it two days ago and started some video shootings. I hope, that gives you an impression how nice the quality of the videomode is - and believe me or not - the photoshooting is even better. All scenes have been filmed through a cheap EF 50mm, f1,8 lense. This lense sells for under 100 euro on ebay. I think it is a good starting point for indoor videos.

I choosed the 720p/30fs mode - that gives better results in my opinion than the 1080p mode with 20 f/s.

Come on canon - give us full control over aperture and iso settings and I am just satisfied. Even some cheap bridge cameras already offer that.

The book I am reading is the german "Das Profi-Handbuch zur Canon EOS 500d" book - it contains some good tips and hints for better videos and workarounds for current firmware restrictions.

The music has been recorded on a Radikal Technologies,Inc Spectralis 2 synthesizer straight from the main audio outputs."

Thingmamgoop 2 Droid Army

flickr by Dr. Bleep
via the Bleep Labs blog:
"X-mas orders are full! Thanks to everyone who made the Thingamagoop 2 pre-launch a success.

You can still make an order for Thingamagoop 2 but all orders placed after November 21st will ship the second week of January.
If you’d like to be notified of any changes, email drbleep@bleeplabs.com to get on the mailing list or follow the Bleep Labs twitter.

You can also purchase our fine wares in stores worldwide."

Cool Son: BarbieWire Live @ Box Salon

YouTube via BarbieWireMusic
"BarbieWire performs Cool Son live at the Box Salon in Toronto on October 21st, 2009. Cinematography by the marvelous Mark Ellam. Special thanks to Zen Film Labs, Louise Bak, and Robin McKenna."

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Legendary Arp Odyssey Lumina with Phil Cirocco / CMS LED Sliders

via this auction

You might recognize this one from this post. ARP Odyssey Lumina modded by Phil Cirocco of CMS

"It may sound hyperbolic, but, I sincerely believe this to be the finest Arp Odyssey on earth.

This Odyssey sat in Phil Cirocco's personal collection, selected by him as the ideal candidate for the nearly obscene LED-slider retrofit, the first ever done, and it is, indeed, beautiful.

A white face Odyssey, it is already among the best. However, Phil took it as far as one can. This is the very same ARP 2800 shown on Phil's site here:

http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/arptronics/arp2800.htm

Upgrades...

The most obvious upgrade to this Odyssey is with the sliders. Every slider has been replaced with a new sort of slider which contains color-coded LEDs appropriate to the Odyssey heritage. These sliders feel incredible, they move beautifully and sit where they're left... it is an entirely different experience using an Odyssey with sliders this clean and precise. It is truly a player's synth, now.

There are some lovely touches with this upgrade: the LFO slider blinks at the LFO rate, as do both envelope slider LED sets, brightening and darkening in time with the envelope. Beautiful.

The CMS audio path and filter upgrades have also been applied. Filter cutoff range is lifted from a mere 11khz to 28khz. The audio path upgrade cleans the entire signal path, the bass clarity is absolutely terrifying, to neighbors, pets and your recording tools.

The power supply has been rebuilt to last another twenty years.

Other upgrades: the turbo switch has been added for incredibly fast envelope response and there are input jacks for CV and gate control of the instrument (shown in the photographs to the right) - wonderful for use with analog sequencers and MIDI to CV converters of all kinds."