Live Techno Series #3 - MC-909 & Virus - Simon Stokes

YouTube via siedgey

"Hi ho folks!

At last, it is time once again for another live techno video! I've bought myself a shiny new digital camera, and today I set up my old setup, keeping it all hardware for sound mangling. The MC-909 is sequencing everything, with parts 1-8 playing from the Virus TI2 and parts 9-16 playing off the 909 itself. All of that is then running into the Behringer Tweakalizer for some more knob twiddling fun, then into the Alesis 3630 compressor to be squashed. Finally, it is recorded in Ableton Live.

It's a bit rough around the edges - a combination of too many sounds to tweak / mute and too few hands to do it with...so you'll have to excuse the arrangement. All comments are warmly appreciated..

Things have been going well recently - I was Djing with Matthias Tanzmann at New Year in Glasgow, which was excellent; Carl Cox has become my number one fan(!!), dropping tracks from the Rekluse EP all over the place including on his radio show twice; and I am in the process of signing up a load more tracks with some rather awesome labels...watch this space!

Thanks for all the support, it means a whole lot to me. For any bookings, please get in touch with me through the links below.

Cheers!

Simon

www.myspace.com/mrsimonstokes
www.beatport.com/artist/simon%20stokes
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"CROSSING SQUARES" using mlr Monome with Launchpad

YouTube via gattobus
"Little improvvisation (Eno-style) played with Novation Launchpad running mlr monome application.
I used a drum loop and 3 piano loops (one for each chord) playing simultaneously straight and reverse."

Metasonix TM-5

via this auction

"This is for a Metasonix TM-5 guitar preamplifier. I received this directly from Eric Barbour. It has the words "The Evil Maker" written on it in sharpie."

oberheim ob 12 and yamaha cs5

flickr by NTRSN
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There are some great black and white shots in this set.

NOT NAMM: Impressionist Drum Scape III

via the Folktek Arts blog where you'll find more shots.

"A drum scape by Arius Blaze created on co-mission. Sweet drone, huge drum loops and bizarre sounds."

Folktek on Ebay

NOT NAMM!

Hi everyone. As we all know, not everyone goes to NAMM. Some are too busy, some too far away to travel, and some are just not interested enough to justify the cost of the trip, or the booth. However, there are new and exciting products coming out that none of us want to miss. When you click on the NAMM label on the top right you expect see all posts announcing new products around this time. At the same time you probably don't want to be mislead into thinking something will show at NAMM when it will not. So, what should we do? I will have NOT NAMM: in front of these posts instead of NAMM: and I'll keep the NAMM label. When you click on the label, you'll be able to see what was announced at NAMM and what wasn't, although in some cases it's more like shown in NAMM vs. not. Regardless, this is interesting in itself. After this post I will go back and update older posts followed by new ones of course.

Yamaha Custom FB-01 FM Synth With Built-in Foot Pedals

available at Paul's Boutique for $399 Canadian.

saved here for posterity in all it's glory.

via Gord

Huba & Silica y Grant en JazzCafé Escazú

flickr set by hubasilica
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05 de enero 2010.

Technics SL1200
KORG MicroKORG
KORG Electribe ER-1
M-Audio Oxigen

OBERHEIM OB-1 analog vintage synthesizer

via this auction

* Polyphony - Monophonic
* Oscillators - 2 VCOs
* LFO - LFO (Square, Sine, Sample+Hold) w/ delay, rate control
* Filter - 2-pole or 4-pole w/ Cutoff, resonance, key track and cutoff can be driven by LFO or ADSR envelope
* VCA - Standard ADSR envelope
* Keyboard - 32 keys
* Arpeg/Seq - NO
* Control - CV / Gate

PLAN B Model 13 - Dual Timbral Gate

via this auction
"The Model 13 is an enhanced derivative of the infamous Buchla 292 Low Pass Gate.

Like all Lowpass gates, at the heart of the Dual Timbral Gate is a device known as a Vactrol -- a small electro-optical coupler which opens the filter with it's characteristic ringing qualitiy. As sonically compelling as they are, Vactrols however are not perfect. While some of their anomalies are desirable (ringing for instance), others are not. Long story short - Vactrols leak. Not vactrol juice, but sound passed through them, even when you're telling them to be quiet. While it can't be eliminated without jeopardizing the ring, it can be improved upon and the Model 13 does just that, decreasing the nominal leakage associated with other LPGs by a factor of 10, from 3mv to just a under one third of a mv...barely audible even in at very high volumes.

Each gate is fitted with an offset knob which serves two functions: If no VC is applied, they act as manual level controls. Once a VC is patched they act as low threshold offsets, as the gate will not close below the level set on the pot. A three position switch selects the modes of operation: Amplitude only (no filtering), LowPass (high filtering) or Both (a combination of Amplitude and Lowpass settings). The M13 has been further enhanced by a dedicated crossfading sum output, allowing for a sonic mixtures of the information passed through both. One application for this output being when both gates are set to amplitude mode, your DTG becomes a handy 2 in, 1 out mixer!"