Before The Flood

via Boele of SCD on the Waldorf list:

"Happy new year and enjoy

http://synthmusic.info/mpdries/Before%20The%20Flood.m4a
or
http://www.synthmusic.info/mpdries/Before%20The%20Flood.mp3

This is 4 Blofelds (except drums).

Boele"

Rare Titan Purple Synton Syrinx

via this auction

"Here is your chance to get your hands on one of the rarest and powerful monophonic analog synthesizer on the planet. There are only 300 made, most are black, 20 are red and blue, but this one have the most extraordinary colour of all, the titan/purple one.
Of these titan/purple one are only 8 (limited edition) ever made, so it is the rarest of all the syrinxes. Cosmeticly like new and in full working order, only been used in a smokefree homestudio. It comes to you with manual and custom made clear hardplastic dustcover (see pic). This is not only a musicinstrument, but also an investment. The reason is simple, its rare and unique and one of the most sought after analog vintage synths. It have 3 filters (two formantbandpass en one 24db lowpass) al work at the same time, all with their own frequency and resonance knobs. 4 possible routings , oscillators with 2 type of hardsync and softsync, and not forget the unique benderpad. This thing can scream, no other synth can make that killersound."

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recording.

flickr by adam_kremer

"the monster goes rawrr recording. myspace.com/themonstergoesrawrr - by adam kremer."

Rhodes Chroma CPU Plus (CC+) Firmware Update Revision 213

Available on the excellent Rhodes Chroma site. The update features "support for transmission of Polyphonic Key Pressure via MIDI (if a pressure sensor is installed)"

monome greyscale 64 now available

available at monome.org

DOEPFER A-100 ANALOGUE MODULAR SYNTHESIZER

flickr set by mono80

"The Doepfer A-100 in my self-made cabinet. Below are a simple keyboard, also in self-made case (to fit the look).
The cabinet includes 22 modules:
A-110 VCO (3x), A-114 Ringmod., A-118 Noise/Random, A-119 Ext.In., A-120 VCF (24dB Lowpass), A-121 VCF (12dB multimode), A-124 VCF (Wasp clone), A-130 VCA (Lin.), A-131 VCA (Exp.), A-138 Mixer (Lin.), A-138 Mixer (Exp.), A-140 ADSR (2x), A-145 LFO (2x), A-148 S&H, A-170 Slew Limiter, A-180 Multiples, A-185 Bus-Access, A-190 MIDI Interface."

Illuminated Sounds monome apps for the Novation Lauchpad

Now available on Illuminated Sounds
Update: the code is Stretta's ported for the launchpad. Note Stretta's code is open source, and this is not.

Roland SH 101+ RE 150 + TR 606 + CR 8000 + Boss DR 550 + Korg KMS 30 + Yamaha RX 11

YouTube via cosmohelectrastudio
"All these machines playing together."

Roland SH 101 + Roland TR 606 + Boss DR 550 + Korg KMS 30

"SH 101 + TR 606 + DR 550 playing together + Yamaha RX 11 as Midi master (no sound).

Midi clock goes to tr 606 and Dr 550 via the Korg KMS 30, SH 101 arpeggio is clocked by the TR 606 trig out."

Casio Cleaning

YouTube via organfairy

"I got this little Casio MT-110 at a charity sale. It works fine but unfortunately somebody had put stickers on the keys which made them all sticky and gooey. On top of that the instrument was quite dusty and greasy - like if a kid had played it immediately after eating a jam sandwich (and yes, that is often the case with second hand toy keyboards). So I took it apart. Cleaned all the parts. And assembled it again.

Again the music is something I made in 1997. It is played on Roland SH-2000, Casio SA-1, Casio SA-3 with Boss OC-2 octaver, Kawai MS-20, and Yamaha PSS-12, and Roland CR-1000."

MIDI retrofit for CR-78 Part 5

YouTube via MusicMiK. follow-up to this post

"A bit tired on the first day of 2010, but enough to do some cleanup in the source tree and implement basic CR-78 hardware interfacing.

The hardware works as desired, the rest of this is just tricky firmware to have all the desired features enabled. Sync/Start/Stop still needs a bit improvement, but the way the machine works in detail is now analyzed and can be handled.

Currently implemented:

MIDI sync in and out
Triggers to/from MIDI, currently with not special handling for the Accent-trigger, which will be mapped to velocity later.

Still some things to change in the main logic to compensate some hardware strangeness of the CR-78 like the VCAs being shut down when the unit is stopped, so it always needs to run to get the triggers from MIDI routed to the hardware.
The handling of the switch between internal and MIDI control can also be improved using the start/stop button to switch off pure MIDI control and return to native machine clock.

Usual disclaimer: I will not build and sell kits and i will not implement your firmware wishes. This is your job, when the finished version of schematics/source go to http://www.mik-music.org/MIDItriggs"