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ELECTRONIC 2

YouTube via PXE02321. "electronic EZX DEMO"

Roland JUNO-60

YouTube via sloocer106 "Two juno-60's combined thru DCB."

PROJECT PRESET - Sonic Fiction Kore soundpack by Jeremiah Savage

YouTube via Torley

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YouTube via ChrisLody
"Merry Christmas!

Just a little lofi version of silent night I knocked together a couple of weeks ago whilst I was ill. Nothing too fancy.

My wife Esme recorded the video yesterday while we were driving back from town after a heavy snow fall, it was handheld so its a little shaky. Its basically an xmas version of my video for Parallax but I think it works well.

Also trying out a good bit of free video editing software that can import mp4 directly off my little fuji camera. its called VideoPad video aeditor by NCH software. Well worth a try."

Hexstatic Audio Visual Eigenharp Video

YouTube via eigenlabs
"Hexstatic put on an Eigenharp Audio Visual Performance at The Hospital Club London and excitingly show early signs of what the Eigenharp is capable of http://www.eigenlabs.com"

Waldorf Blofeld Sound on Sound Review

via this auction, posted on MATRIXSYNTH-B. You can find the full June 2008 review on Sound on Sound here.

"In 2004 it looked like game over for Waldorf, but the German company are back, and with a hardware synth that more than lives up to their former reputation...

Named after James Bond's pussy-fondling antagonist, the Blofeld is the first product from a revitalised Waldorf Music GmbH. Unlike Donald Pleasance's portrayal of the sinister Spectre overlord, Waldorf's Blofeld is benign and refreshingly free of cat hairs, thus should be welcome around your house, studio or secret base."
more Blofelds on Ebay

Sold For: GBP 280.00

Korg Prophecy Classic Synthesizer Keyboard

via this auction BIN: GBP 275.00
"The Korg Prophecy is considered one of the earliest (mid-nineties) "virtual analog" (a.k.a. VA) synthesizers, although its synthesis capabilities went beyond many of its VA contemporaries.

Along with the Korg Trinity, this little synth is a direct ancestor of the ill-fated (and sci-fi at the time) OASYS project. It was a small 3-octave monosynth, a pioneer of the late 90's "return-to-analog" trend. Offering assignable knobs, a "log controller" (a mix-up of a modulation wheel and ribbon controller assembled like a "sausage") and many other control sources, it invited players to tweak and shape the sound both easily and quickly. Deep editing, however, wasn't as straightforward, because the sound engine contained no less than 13 DSP-modelled oscillator types, each one offering too many parameters to adjust.

Probably, the most valued and used DSP models were the analog model (based on the classic osc+filter+amp scheme, although with many powerful enhancements), the VPM model (some sort of FM synthesis which cleverly avoided Yamaha's FM patent) and the "physical modeling" algorithms. The latter deserves special mention; in the mid-late 90's, it was believed that physical modeling, which recreated the sound of acoustic instruments (brass, strings, woodwinds, etc.) using DSP algorithms instead of samples, would eventually replace sample-based version of those instruments, because of its unprecedented realism and expressivity. As time passed, physical modelling seemed to lose its appeal to both manufacturers (because of the cost of investigation and implementation) and final users, who complained about the realism of the models and limited polyphony. Also, more complex playing techniques were required to play the models in a convincing way. Nevertheless, the Prophecy's low cost and broad implementation of sound generation techniques earned it a significant place in synthesizer history."

Sold For: GBP 199.00

Monorocket: Mission6, Mission9, and Lexington cases

flickr by Analogue Haven
http://analoguehaven.com/
"Here is a recent photo of a group of Monorocket cases about to be delivered. These are mostly presold but they represent an increase in production from the company. We're getting more and more cases and hopefully soon various colors will ship from stock. The distribution boards will also be available seperately starting this week. See the Rtopia blog for more details. LINK: rtopia.blogspot.com/." http://monorocket.com/
You might recognize the two snakeskins from this post. :)

Make Noise: ¡Access Denied!

flickr by Analogue Haven
http://analoguehaven.com/
"Here's a sneak peak of a forthcoming Make Noise module, a touch sequencer tentatively called ¡Access Denied!. The sequencer aligns its step data in a matrix on the left side of the module and offers further user input on the right side via tactile pads. Obviously they will not be so large in the final version of the module, the user interface will shrink down to make everything more compact. ¡Access Denied! is a work in progress and the features are still being decided. There will be a few other Make Noise modules released before this one. LINK: twitter.com/makenoisemusic." http://makenoisemusic.com/

JH Polymoog Resonator + voltage control and Voice of Saturn

JH Polymoog Resonator + voltage control and Voice of Saturn from Travis Thatcher on Vimeo.

"Quick demo of the JH Polymoog Resonator module. I added voltage control using 6 vactrols, 2 for each frequency band in paralel with the dual pots that control the frequency offset.

Still need to work out a better way to get direct sound."