ROLAND 100M ~ VINTAGE MODULAR SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"Modules are:
112: DOUBLE VCO
112: DOUBLE VCO
121: DOUBLE VCF
130: DOUBLE VCA
131: OUTPUT MIXER, 4 CHANNEL WITH PANNING & TUNER OSCILLATOR
Power info: 100 V, 50Hz/60Hz, 30 W."

Sold For: $1,715.00

Sequential Circuits Model 700 Programmer and Model 800 Digital Sequencer Ad

Ad from 1977 featuring Rick Wakemen scanned by Retro Synth Ads, where you'll find the write-up including a couple of google map images of the two Sequential Circuits facility locations.

2x (potencia de dos)

2x (potencia de dos) from h.cosas on Vimeo.

via Califaudio where you'll find a few more vids.
"Jorge Crowe's 2x [Potencia de Dos] is a DJ/VJ electronic instrument made of a simple circuit, a scanner, six speakers, a subwoofer, an overhead projector and an LCD panel from an old laptop.

Placing your hands on the scanner's touch panel triggers seven different frequencies, and each of them is double the bits/beats of the previous (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc.). The pulses excite an LCD screen to create geometric visual compositions."

turning point

YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan
"Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made entirely with Pure Data in only one take, no overdub and no edit. What i play is what you hear. Enjoy !"

Michel Magne - Éléments No.2 'L'Eau' (1980)

on 36 15 Moog

Michel Magne on Amazon

Ensoniq SQ-80 + ARP Odyssey III

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

intro, strings and choir sounds: Ensoniq SQ-80 Hybrid Synthesizer
bassline: ARP Odyssey III, sequenced by the SCI Pro-One internal sequencer
drums: Roland TR-707"

MIDI retrofit for CR-78 Part 6

YouTube via MusicMiK. follow-up to this post.
"This part shows the tight timing i built into the MIDItriggs for the CR-78, while this machine is not the easiest to handle for perfect MIDI sync. There still is one clock offset when recording the internal sequencer data of the CR-78 via MIDI, but this feature might not so interesting anyway.

The write switch is also shown in this video, which has a perfect timing, as long as you don't start in measure 1 of your MIDI sequencer software, this makes trouble due to the startup time of the CR-78. The patterns are 2 measures long, so just use 2 empty measures, then the notes for the write switch.

I found the problem of the strange doubling sound - it was due to "any note" triggering the write switch, so the selected instrument got triggered twice. This is fixed now, it now uses "any unassigned note" for the write switch. This simplifies recording:

BD in measure 3-5, HH in measure 7-9, SD in measure 11-13, Accent in measure 15-17, all as recorded, transposed 12 semitones down (to hit unassigned notes), record off (to not send back triggers received from the CR-78), start, instrument selector to BD, wait until measure 6, instrument selector to HH, wait until 10, select SD, wait until 14, select Accent, wait until 18, stop, done, whole rhythm in the programmable area.
Maybe i create another video about this.

All features seem to work fine now, i will now update the documentation and publish MIDItriggs version 1.0 on http://www.mik-music.org/MIDItriggs today or tomorrow. Ready-to-go for your CR-78 :)

Please keep in mind that i don't have the time to build kits for you or implement more features you might like to see. This project is open source, so you can fit it to your needs on your own. I likely ignore questions about it that are answered in the documentation or source code."

BeatBoxBattle CR-78 versus RM1x

"During the final testing of the MIDItriggs retrofit for the CR-78, i played around with sync in both directions and thought, it is funny enough to create a video. I hope, you like it.

Make your own MIDItriggs for the CR-78 with this: http://www.mik-music.org/MIDItriggs"

circuit bent modular synthesizer

YouTube via spunkytoofers. follow-up to this post
"signal path: circuit bent alesis quadrasynth into moog mf-102 followed by spunkytoofers rabbit hole delay the demo starts with a dry track from the bent quadrasynth and mixes fx in manually. the sine lfo on the ring modulator is gradually mixed in depth through the demo.

spunkytoofers wavescaper: circuit bent alesis modular synthesizer is controlling overall sample rate of the synth, the mf 102, and the rabbit hole delay pedal. control modulation information is coming from the midi out of the dsi evolver merged with the thru out ffrom the alesis and ewi4000s.. dsi is sending evolving sequences to mf 102 and the rabbit hole delay while global tempo is maintained on tap tempo. the ewi is controlling the synth itself as well as sample rate on breath, while keyed pitch is tracked to the rabbit hole for more variance in delay modulation.

midi circuitry is by highlyliquid, precision oscillators by getlofi, and in this demo a circuit bent patch off the patchman s4 plus bank moviestrings2"

Casio SK-1

YouTube via saulocisneros Casio SK-1 on Ebay
"Demo that I made of this specific keyboard so eBayers can see/hear its functions." Nice demo at 2:10.

Casio VL-1

"Demo that I made of this specific keyboard so eBayers can see/hear its functions."
Casio VL-1 on Ebay

u-he ACE Tutorial: Patch Cables 101

YouTube via newechoproductions
"A step-by-step tutorial with a conceptual overview of patch cables and a walkthrough creating two presets using patch cables. The video should shorten your learning curve with ACE and help you make sense of factory presets."